InfoGrenades / 'A State Within A State. A Government Within A Government.' : Mae Brussell breaks down breaking news in May 1981. Her analysis reshapes the way we see the post-WW2 World.

This one is an absolute stunner. It blew our minds, and is likely to blow yours. You may have heard of many of the individal news stories. But did you know they were all interconnected and on such a close timeline, happening within rapid succession?

Just as the biggest international story of the ~80 years hit news in 1981, Mae Brussell broke it all down in real-time. With the precision of a savant she synthesized across multiple news stories and dozens of books, to connect all these events to reveal a great geopolitical tapestry of events.

She connects all the dots for us and the picture that emerges actually reshapes our understanding of the post-World War2 world. The scale and interconnectedness of these events is staggering. This is one for the history books…

(Note: The image in the lower-right corner of the audiogram above is a screencap from “Il Divo”)

If you want to understand the post-World War 2 World, Mae Brussell concisely summarizes what we are dealing with in under 15 minutes.

Some bulleted notes from this broadcast:

“A Fascism that DID NOT end with World War 2 and a peak of it came out just this past week [May 1981]” – Mae Brussell (Tape #495)

Other Interesting bits from this broadcast:

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Joseph Mengele was alive and living in New Jersey and Westchester, NY. Is confirmed to be an American citizen since the 1930s!!!

“The Boys From Brazil” may be the boys from Guyana! The Congressman Leo Holsinger gave me a phone number for a Doctor in Westchester that provided the bulk of the Drugs used in Jonestown.

The entire recording is a Tour De Force and should be required listening in the public school system. It is concise, well-cited and no matter how hard we (here at Infogrenades) try to summarize and break it into bite-sized pieces, this broadcast is really a full 12-course banquet that simply cant be served as “small plate” tapas. Like so much of Mae Brussell’s work, it is perfect as a unique whole and can not be further “compressed” without diminishing it or truncating it. It’s perfect as is. We highly recommend listening to it in full. So, we have a “reduced filesize” version of the full broadcast archived here on this site. But a link to the original recording is here on Internet Archive.

https://archive.org/details/mae-brussell-05.31.81

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A full-resolution version of the collage used in the Audiogram at the top of this post is posted below for zooming and readibility.

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Infogrenade date: 2026-05-07 18:43:12 +0000 UTC

Post updated: 2026-05-07 18:43:12 +0000 UTC