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The East is a Podcast

Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist)www.eastpodcast.com
A critical lens on the history of the present on West Asia and North Africa. Interviews with experts and archival mashups. Created by Sina Rahmani (twitter: @urorientalist)
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Episodes

Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol - Radio drama starring Ralph Richardson (1965)

Radio Drama starring Sir Ralph Richardson as the Storyteller and Scrooge. Cast: Frederick Treves as Bob Cratchit Mary Wimbush as Mrs Cratchit John Ruddock as Jacob Marley Ralph Truman as the Ghost of Christmas Present Wilfred Carter as the Ghost of Christmas Past Bruce Beeby as Fred Sheila Grant as Tiny Tim Broadcast on 25 December 1965. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oc2J3xq1geQ&ab_channel=RomanStyran...

Dec 25, 202259 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 150 - Sardana Nikolaeva

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Sardana Nikolaeva shares her memories of the Wild 90s following the collapse of the Soviet Union.

Dec 20, 20229 min

We Charge Imperialism: US Sanctions Against the Global Majority

A webinar organized by the Committee of Anti-Imperialists in Solidarity with Iran , leading up to International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Embargoes, Economic Coercive Measures The Tribunal will expose the effects of unilateral and multilateral sanctions on peoples and nations targeted by imperialism — and explore legal and political strategies to challenge these regimes of coercion. Donate to support the Tribunal: https://gofund.me/b67e2378 Watch the video edition on the CA...

Dec 20, 20227 hr 3 min

The end of Europe? w/ Clare Daly and Mick Wallace

Clare Daly (@ClareDalyMEP) and Mick Wallace (@Wallacemick) are Members of European Parliament. Check out their podcast , I4C Trouble with Daly and Wallace Support the podcast https://www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Dec 02, 202250 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 149 - Gaming empire (pt.2)

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Friends of the podcast Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost) and Mo ( @Askari_3 ) dive into the completely bonkers world of American video games.

Nov 26, 202221 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 149 - Gaming empire (pt.1)

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Friends of the podcast Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost) and Mo ( @Askari_3 ) dive into the completely bonkers world of American video games....

Nov 20, 202226 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 148 - What is AFRICOM? w/ Corey

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Corey (@JamaicanJihadi) is a member of LANDS (Left Alliance for National Democracy and Socialism) Check out his interview with the Cadre Journal podcast...

Nov 16, 202212 min

The 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party

DSA International Commitee (@dsa_intl_comm) member Mirah Wood (@snackvampire) guests hosts an interview with friend of the podcast Sun Feiyang (@ moghilemear13 ) about the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Nov 08, 20221 hr 1 min

Happy Birthday, East is a Podcast!

Friend of the show Ian Anderson ( @starsalwayslost ) joins the podcast to celebrate the fourth anniversary of the launch of the show and make a special announcement for an exciting new project. The Anti-Imperialist Archive is an archival podcast dedicated to compiling radical anti-imperialist content from around the world. Subscribe on your podcast app directly by using this link: https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast...

Nov 01, 202258 min

(Preview) The History and Impact of Sanctions on Iran w/ Muhammad Sahimi

A preview of a recent episode by our friends at Guerrilla History. Listen to the entire episode by subscribing on your podcatcher. This episode of Guerrilla History is a continuation of our Sanctions As War miniseries. In this fascinating episode, we have a discussion with Professor Muhammad Sahimi on the history and the impacts of sanctions on Iran, which is both an immensely enlightening and heartbreaking conversation. This episode is particularly timely given the current situation in Iran, wh...

Oct 25, 202222 min

The Alabama prison uprising w/ Jared Ware

Jared Ware ( @jaybeware ) is a journalist and host of Millennials are Killing Capitalism More information on US prisoner resistance https://perilouschronicle.com/list-of-events-by-date/ Check out Jared's episode of Unauthorized Disclosure Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...

Oct 21, 20221 hr 25 min

How Empires Die: The Lesson of the British for the End of the ‘American Century’ w/ Sina Rahmani

*Rania Khalek from BreakThrough News invited me on her show to talk about the absurd media circus surrounded the death of Queen Elizabeth* The British Queen’s death has given rise to conversations about the crimes of colonialism as well as defenses and denials of it. Meanwhile the US can’t impose itself on the Global South the way it used to, it appears both at home and abroad to be an empire in decline. To discuss empires, both dead and dying, why colonialism still matters and the anti-imperial...

Sep 21, 20221 hr 14 min

The treason of the clerics w/ Alan MacLeod

Alan MacLeod ( @AlanRMacLeod ) is a writer with MintPress News . Check out the MintPress News podcast, The Watchdog, hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline) . Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Aug 24, 20221 hr 2 min

On Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1994)

I was invited to speak with some comrades at The Cadre Journal , a student-run Journal and Podcast on Anti-Imperialism and Communism, about a section of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993). Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Aug 15, 20221 hr 41 min

Michael Parenti: "Inventing Reality" (1993)

Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xL3b_QmNV2Y&ab_channel=AmbakisyeDukuzumurenyi https://openlibrary.org/books/OL26643479M/Inventing_reality_the_politics_of_the_mass_media Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)...

Aug 10, 20221 hr 15 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 142 - Another Pink Tide? w/ Ben Norton

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) returns to the show to talk about the recent wave of left electoral victories across Latin America. Subscribe to Multipolarista !...

Aug 10, 202223 min

Wag the Dog (1997) w/ Ben Norton

*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.* The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how sho...

Jul 28, 20221 hr 27 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 141 - The Frankfurt School and the CIA w/ Gabriel Rockhill

A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. Gabriel Rockhill (@GabrielRockhill) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. Check out his earlier episode of the podcast and his recent article: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/...

Jul 26, 202229 min

(Preview) What the Huck?! - Translation, Commodification and Hegemony w/ Sina Rahmani

*I was invited to join What the Huck?! to talk translation, Eurocentrism, and the 3% problem. This is roughly half of the conversation. Check out What the Huck?! on your podcatcher to download the entire episode or watch it on YouTube * Today we're joined by special a very special guest, our friend Sina Rahmani from The East Is A Podcast ! In our interview with Sina, we discussed what gets to be translated and who decides what's worth translating. This has implications in both the literary world...

Jul 14, 202244 min

(Preview) Bonus Episode 139 - The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy w/ Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (Pt.1)

Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe) is Associate Professor of History at California State University, Stanislaus. Friend of the podcast Max Ajl (@maxajl) interviews him about his new book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021) A preview of the latest bonus episode. Get access to it and hours and hours of bonus content by signing up at the $5 level. https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-in-68883667 *You're gonna be noticing more paywalled co...

Jul 10, 202218 min
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