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🎧NEW EPISODE🎧
Tankie Group Therapy
#15
:
Segregationist Methuselah and the fading US Empire
@norabf
,
@UrOrientalist
,
@robrousseau
, and
@Alexander_Avina
are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy.
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I am gonna hire a voice actor to read some of Refaat's writings and publish it as audio. It is our duty to remember these people and what they stood for in life.
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A preview of the next episode:
@Louis_Allday
on translating Ghassan Kanafani's "On Zionist Literature"
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It's my birthday 🎂
If you like the show and the work I do, consider signing up for the Patreon, donating to my gofundme/cash apps, buying some merch, or even just telling peeps about the pod. Anything and everything helps ❤️
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Episode 173 - "An era of right and justice": The Vietnamese liberation struggle w/ Luna Oi
@LunaOi_VN
is a Vietnamese YouTuber based in Hanoi.
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Episode 196 - Chinese debt trap diplomacy is a lie w/ Amanda Yee
Friend of the podcast
@catcontentonly
deconstructs the myth of Chinese debt trap diplomacy
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Fellow academics!
@east_podcast
is not a credible place you can appear on. Its declared “friends” includes defenders of mass murder like Ben Norton and its openly pro-Assad.
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Episode 109 - Iran is a normal country w/ Zahra Shafei
@shafei_d
studies dentistry in Iran.
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Episode 128 - Imperialism means I can't breathe w/ Andray Domise
@andraydomise
is Contributing Editor at Macleans magazine.
#blackilvesmatter
#GeorgeFloyd
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Starting a podcast is hard. In the Anglophone sphere, there are prob somewhere close to a million *active* podcasts. Beyond the competition, it's simply hard not only to get people's attention but also to keep it for 45 mins--especially if you are talking about serious things
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⚡️Special episode⚡️
Criminalizing solidarity: Germany's ban on Samidoun and the attack on civil activism
@charlottekates
is International Coordinator with Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network (
@SamidounPP
)
Guest hosted by longtime friend of the show
@maxajl
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Episode 125 - Palestine is not a Jewish issue w/
@praisegodbarbon
For Nakba day, a conversation with Seth ("kabbalah bitch"), a Jewish American anti-Zionist Palestine solidarity activist and self-described "Twitter dumbass."
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Episode 222 - Anticipatory self-defense: Hizbullah and the Northern Front w/ Amal Saad
@amalsaad_lb
is Lecturer in the School of Law and Politics at Cardiff University
Guest hosted by long-time friend of the show
@Louis_Allday
, Founding Editor of
@LiberatedTexts
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Episode 134 - Russiagate, Douma, and the failure of the US media class w/Aaron Maté
@aaronjmate
is a journalist based in NYC. Check out his podcast, Pushback.
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Just getting setup to chat with
@anjulifatima
about her very fabulous book which has already been awarded the prize of best academic book cover in history
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My life in academic humanities
-extremely precarious
-after 2008 crisis, the food at most events was drastically reduced/downgraded
-had to bite my tongue around white colleagues
My life in podcasting
-poor but steady, gives me time to hustle
-no longer around white people 👍🏾
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Recorded a bonus episode with
@venanalysis
on the STUPIDEST COUP EVER hatched in Miami and foiled by some Venezuelan fisherman and just noticed the writing on the wall in this picture🤣
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"When I say it's a colonial currency, I am not exaggerating because this currency was born in colonial times in 1945...This was a currency created and controlled by the French treasury at that time to help the metropole which was devastated by the war."
@nssylla
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Episode 74 -"Postcolonialism? Have they left?" w/ Nick Estes
@nick_w_estes
(Kul Wicasa, a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe) is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of New Mexico.
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Episode 188 - "Know your enemy": Ghassan Kanafani's On Zionist Literature (1967) w/ Louis Allday
@Louis_Allday
is a writer, historian and founding editor of
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Episode 9 - Postcoloniality, Marxism, Nasserism w/ Sara Salem
@saramsalem
is Assistant Professor in Sociology at the London School of Economics.
A wide-ranging discussion on the afterlives of European empire and the liberation movements that fought back against them.
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🚨New Episode 🚨
The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 8): Reflections on Exile and Other Essays (2001)
Edward Said interviewed in April 2001 about his book Reflections on Exile and Other Essays, published by��Harvard University Press.
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Episode 94 - Coup in Bolivia w/ Frederico Fuentes
@FredFuentesGLW
is a political analyst and writer based in Australia.
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Guess who has agreed to do an episode 👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾👇🏾
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Episode 198 - The People vs. Slavoj Žižek w/Gabriel Rockhill
@GabrielRockhill
returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.
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Episode 88 - Lebanon revolts! w/ Jana Nakhal
Jana Nakhal is an urban planner, Marxist feminist organizer, and member of the Central Committee of the Lebanese Communist Party.
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Have you ever asked yourself, "How do i communicate my politics through haute couture"
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Episode 170 - The modern history of Korea (pt.1) w/ Ju-Hyun Park
@hermit_hwarang
is a poet and essayist and part of
@nodutdol
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Episode 174 - James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1)
Chris Beausang (
@ilchinealach
) is a writer and critic based in Dublin.
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Radicalizing myself more and more as I edit episodes of my own show
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Walking among giants: an eyewitness report from Rafah/ Dr. Yipeng Ge
Ottawa-based physician
@yipengGe
reflects on being attacked by the Zionist lobby for speaking out on the Gaza genocide and his subsequent trip to Rafah as part of a medical delegation.
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Episode 156 - A third Intifada? w/ Saree Makdisi
My teacher and comrade
@sareemakdisi
returns to the podcast to talk about the rapid transformation in the Palestine liberation struggle.
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🚨 New Episode 🚨
Never trust imperialism w/ Patrick Higgins
Guest hosted by
@Louis_Allday
Patrick Higgins is a Ph.D candidate in the Department of History at the University of Houston.
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Episode 55 - The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 4) - The Nakba
Edward Said sharing his memories of the ethnic cleansing of Palestine (Nakba, catastrophe), marked annually by people around the world on May 15th.
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Episode 136 - The Chinese American Forum (Part 1)
Three previous guests of the show--Amanda Yee
@catcontentonly
, Amy Wong (
@amyrwong
) , and Carl Zha (
@CarlZha
)--return to share their thoughts on Chinese American identity, race, language, and a whole lot more!
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"It's a straight up concentration camp"
@jaybeware
from
@MAKCapitalism
on Alabama's exceptional position in the US prison industrial complex
Episode 190 - The Alabama prison uprising w/ Jared Ware
Jared Ware (
@jaybeware
) is a journalist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism (
@MAKCapitalism
)
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(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 42 - Karim Makdisi on Lebanese politics
Unlocked from behind the paywall! Please enjoy this episode with AUB professor
@KarimMakdisi
originally recorded in November 2019
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!!
One year ago today we launched our first show. It's been a lot of fun.
Thank you to everyone who has listened, promoted, supported, or been on the show.
Asked some listeners and former guests to send in some birthday greetings--check out the feed!
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Had an amazing conversation with
@fbhutto
. We talked about empire, Islam, memory, and the remarkable life/afterlife of Aitzaz Hasan, to whom she dedicates her new novel, The Runaways.
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Podcast is two years old today! Half a million downloads and counting!
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Episode 80 - The Life and Legacies of Walter Rodney
w/ Devyn Springer
@HalfAtlanta
is an Atlanta-based writer, editor, artist, author. He is the host of the
@RodneyProject
's Groundings podcast.
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Happy Birthday, East is a Podcast!
To celebrate four years, hundreds of episodes, and over a million downloads, I have started a new project with
@starsalwayslost
called the Anti-Imperialist Archive, which is dedicated to compiling/curating radical media from around the world.
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(Unlocked) Bonus Episode 63 - A story about my mistakes w/
@NeolithicSheep
Support Shepherd's farm by signing up at
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Episode 78 - Inventory of Traces (pt. 1) w/ Louis Allday
@Louis_Allday
is an academic and researcher based in London.
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Episode 187 - What NATO did to my homeland w/ Ljubica
Ljubica (
@srecniprinc
) is based in Belgrade.
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🎙️NEW EPISODE 🎙️
The Martyrdom of Walid Daqqa w/ Rana Barakat and Abdaljawad Omar
Rana Barakat is an associate professor of history at Birzeit University in Palestine and director of the Birzeit University Museum.
@HHamayel2
is a lecturer at Birzeit University.
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Episode 143 - Yemen can't wait w/ Shireen Al-Adeimi
@shireen818
is Assistant Professor at Michigan State University
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Episode 29 - C. L. R. James in conversation with Stuart Hall (1984)
(Dir. Mike Gibb, produced for Channel 4)
In this wide ranging conversation with the late cultural theorist Stuart Hall, James discusses his childhood, his love of the novel Vanity Fair, cricket, and more.
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got him
In the “should I start a podcast” phase of my depression
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Episode 151 - The OG Moderate Rebels: Iran-Contra and the violent legacies of US foreign policy w/ Alexander Aviña
@Alexander_Avina
is Associate Professor of History in the School of Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies at Arizona State University.
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It's been officially three years!!!!!
So many episodes! So many conversations! So much stolen content! So many typos!
Thank you to everyone who has helped the show over the years!
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Episode 129 - The Century of Humiliation w/Carl Zha
@CarlZha
is the host of the Silk and Steel podcast (
@SteelSilkn
).
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Episode 34 - Walter Rodney on Race and Class in Guyanese Politics (1978)
Walter Rodney was a prominent Guyanese historian, political activist and academic.
This is a recording of a lecture he gave in 1978, lightly edited for sound quality.
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Episode 195 - Another coup in Latin America w/ Ben Norton
Longtime friend of the podcast
@BenjaminNorton
from
@Multipolarista
returns to the show to discuss the coup in Peru.
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Tired of the US elections? Listen to Michael Parenti's 2009 lecture, "Reflections on the Overthrow of Communism"
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Episode 216 - The Hundred Years' War on Palestine w/ Rashid Khalidi (pt.1)
Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (
@nasawiyya
) guest hosts an extra-long conversation with Professor Rashid Khalidi, Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies at Columbia University.
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Just wrapped up a 75 min+ conversation with
@aaronjmate
on the failures of the US media class, the catastrophic stupidity of Russiagate, and the careerist goons who made their names on the Syria war.
Thank you, Aaron!! Listen to his amazing podcast
@PushbackShow
if you haven't
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Episode 141: Wagging the Dog in Syria w/ Ben Norton
Friend of the podcast
@BenjaminNorton
returns to talk about the recent leaks exposing the media's role in the Syria war.
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Episode 38- Yuri Kochiyama on internment, radical activism, racism, and her relationship with Malcolm X.
Yuri Kochiyama was a Japanese-American human rights activist, and is notable as one of the few prominent non-black Black separatists.
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Episode 158 - The meaning of missiles w/ Arash Joblaghi
@irmilitaryvlog
returns to the podcast to talk about rocketry, missiles, and hegemony.
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Instagram just deleted
@Ali7adeh
's account. Ali had a huge following numbering in the hundreds of thousands and provided an important analytuc counterbalance.
Reminder: everyone gets to have an opinion on politics except for Iranians who aren't regime change hacks.
اینستا صبح ۱۲ پست من را حذف کرد. با اینکه اشارهای به اسم سردار_شهید نداشتند. و بالاخره یکساعت پیش اکانتم با ۲۴۴هزار فالوئر را کلا حذف کرد.
آقای آذری جهرمی. مقصر شمایید. اگر فروردین۹۸ که اینستا صفحات سپاه را حذف کرد مقابلش ایستاده بودید امروز چنین وقیحانه یک ملت را تحقیر نمیکرد
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@Louis_Allday
has waged a relentless campaign of harassment and bullying for me to unlock his recent bonus episode. After heroically resisting him for weeks, I hereby throw the towel and give in!
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Episode 189 - Europe's jugular: the Nord Stream pipeline attacks w/Ludovic Leroy
Ludovic Leroy (
@princertitude
) is an engineer with the French Petroleum Institute (IFPEN)
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Episode 31 - Regime Change Inc. w/ Ben Norton and Ali Alizadeh (pt.1)
@BenjaminNorton
is a journalist based in New York. He is the co-host of Moderate Rebels.
Ali Alizadeh is an independent political analyst based in London.
@Jedaaal
@Ali7adeh
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⚡️⚡️New Episode⚡️⚡️
The Paul Robeson Mixtape (Vol. 2)
Paul Robeson was a singer, activist, and open Communist during the heyday of McCarthyite America.
Great thanks to
@bahadori1
for putting this amazing mix together.
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Episode 86 - Arsonists don't put out fires: Turkey invades Syria w/ Babylonian Bolshevik
@AssyrianSR
returns to discuss the invasion of Syria by Turkish armed forces.
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@arash_tehran
You are a Saudi-funded loser and the only people who listen to you are other pathetic hacks i would never have on my show. But by all means, you ugly hamster, please keep promoting my podcast
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🔥🔥 New episode of the podcast🔥🔥
The Bruce Lee Mixtape
Bruce Lee gave relatively few interviews in English during his lifetime. I've compiled a few of them into an episode.
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Recorded another episode with friend of the podcast
@catcontentonly
on the absurd US political theatre surrounding the entire manufactured and nonsensical panic around TikTok
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Episode 190 - The Alabama prison uprising w/ Jared Ware
Jared Ware (
@jaybeware
) is a journalist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism (
@MAKCapitalism
)
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Bonus Episode 65 - Nick Estes on settler monuments
@nick_w_estes
returns to the podcast to talk about something really good: tearing down settler monuments.
Sign up for the patreon at the $5 level to get access to this episode and other great content.
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Episode 90 - They're not gonna give it up that easily: Lebanon's revolt continues w/
@Ali_Kourani
Ali Kourani is a grad student and political analyst based in Lebanon.
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Exciting episodes coming up in the next few weeks:
-an episode on Yemen with
@shireen818
- history of Iraqi Baathism with
@Amir__Taha
-conversation around sanctions in Zimbabwe
-interview with
@alaashehabi
on Bahrain
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This was a great episode. Thanks to
@Alexander_Avina
and
@Louis_Allday
for a great conversation. Gonna release this to Patrons soon but you can watch on YouTube.
Expect more live episodes in the future!
Join us tomorrow for a special live episode with friend of the show
@Alexander_Avina
tomorrow at 12 PST/3 EST.
We're going to plug our noses and analyze some of the worst articles on the Gaza genocide.
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Episode 194 - An Other's view of Russia w/ Sardana Nikolaeva
Sardana Nikolaeva is from Sakha Republic, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto.
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Episode 159 - National sovereignty in the era of multinational capital w/ Mick Wallace and Clare Daly
@wallacemick
and
@ClareDalyMEP
are Members of European Parliament.
Check out their podcast
@i4ctrouble
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Episode 96 - On Hybrid War and riots in Iran w/ Ali Alizadeh
Ali Alizadeh (
@Ali7adeh
) is a political analyst and media activist based in London
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Are you sick of taarofing? Taarofing hurts everyone: yourself, your family, your colleagues, local fishmongers, petty bourgeois shopkeepers, call center employees...
We here at the East is a Podcast Design Centre have come up with an elegant solution
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Did a joint episode with friend of the show
@BenjaminNorton
for
@Multipolarista
on the brilliant satire Wag the Dog (1997).
Listen on the podcast feed or watch it on YouTube
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Next episode of the show is available to all patrons--on Salha, a Palestinian Shia village ethnically cleansed by Zionists beginning on October 30, 1948.
Truly heartbreaking stuff
@maryturfah
interviewed her dad, Dr. Fuad Turfah, who spoke to his own dad about the massacre.
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Episode 148 - Epidemic Empire w/ Anjuli Raza Kolb
@anjulifatima
teaches at the University of Toronto
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🚨 New Episode🚨
Arab Spring, Ten Years On: Tunisian Perspectives
Featuring Amayed Aymen (
@AmayedAymen
) and Heythem Guesmi (
@HeythemGuesmi
) and guest hosted by friend of the show
@maxajl
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