*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* Matteo Capasso (@capassomat) recently joined me for a two-part episode ("Lessons from the end of the Libyan Arab Jamāhīriyyah") , and I wanted to have him back to elaborate on some of the threads we didn't pick up on in our initial talk. This is roughly 50% of our conversation. Sign up on Patreon for to access the full episode Check out his book, Everyday Politi...
Jul 25, 2023•40 min
Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang ( @ilchinealach ) returns to the show to explore the life and legacy of Roger Casement. Subscribe to Chris' fantastic podcast, Politics and Letters Check out his earlier episodes on the podcast James Connolly and Irish anticolonial resistance (Pt.1) The Troubles and the Irish Question (Pt.1) Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Jul 25, 2023•1 hr 11 min
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* Cindy Li is a DJ based in Toronto. She is currently on tour, and you can check out her recent set in Berlin .
Jul 18, 2023•28 min
*This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation and help keep the show going!* The second half of my conversation with Matteo Capasso ( @capassomat) , author of the new book, Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023) ....
Jul 10, 2023•19 min
**This episode contains roughly 60% of our conversation. To listen to the second half, subscribe to the show on Patreon and help keep the show going** Matteo Capasso ( @capassomat) is the author of Everyday Politics in the Libyan Arab Jamahiriya (2023) Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Jul 07, 2023•1 hr 6 min
Friend of the podcast Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) interviewed Dana Al-Hasan (@cuote32) about how she connects the dots on local and international activism from a socialist, feminist, and anti-imperialist perspective. They discussed Palestine, gentrification, racism, anti-policing, and reproductive rights activism in North Carolina, especially the Raleigh and Durham areas. Learn more here about the campaigns discussed in the interview: https://www.refundraleigh.org/ https://www.heartdrm.com/ Watch...
Jun 28, 2023•42 min
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. Friend of the show Justin Podur (@justinpodur) sits down for yet another installment of "Sina needs to talk about his problems but records it for content." In the episode, Justin and I discuss the question of how to read the news (or not!) If you can't afford $5 you can watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Jun 21, 2023•15 min
My comrade Ian Anderson has been making amazing archival mixtapes and publishing them on the Anti-Imperialist Archive. Subscribe to the show on your podcatcher and check out their work.
Jun 13, 2023•18 min
Friend of the podcast Alex Aviña returns to the podcast to discuss Mexico's populist-nationalist President, Andrés Manuel López Obrador. Check out Alex's recent episode on the Drug War available only to Patrons of the show. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Jun 09, 2023•1 hr 15 min
Frances Hasso (@nasawiyya) is Professor in the Program in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies at Duke University. Check out the open-access edition of Buried in the Red Dirt: Race, Reproduction, and Death in Modern Palestine (2021) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube Channel Consider signing up on Patreon to listen to the bonus episode which contains the rest of our conversation (~20 mins). Also, you can help keep the show going! Hundreds of hours of bonus content are sit...
May 15, 2023•1 hr 12 min
*Note: This episode is pieced together from two different conversations. Kit had some technical problems and disappears in the first half so I interviewed him after* Asa Winstanley writes for The Electronic Intifada . Pre-order his book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2023) from @orbooks. You can subscribe to his newsletter here: http:// asawinstanley.substack.com Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist who focuses on the role of intelligence se...
May 07, 2023•2 hr 16 min
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. Returning guest Fadil Aliriza is a journalist based in Tunis and the founder & editor-in-chief of Meshkal . Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel...
Apr 29, 2023•34 min
Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Make sure to check his previous appearances on the show! Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Apr 23, 2023•31 min
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. Friend of the show and recurring guest Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly) on the absurd (and completely fraudulent) panic around TikTok. Watch a preview on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel....
Apr 14, 2023•33 min
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. The conclusion of my conversation with Brandon Wolfe-Hunnicutt (@HunnicuttWolfe) . Check out his book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy (2021) from Stanford University Press...
Apr 11, 2023•7 min
Yousef Baker ( @YousefKB ) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. Watch the video edition of this episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel . Check out the first half of this conversation with Nick Estes ( @NIckWestes ) on The Red Nation Podcast on your podcatcher to listen to the entire conversation or click the link at the end of this video. Consider supporting the show www.patreon...
Apr 03, 2023•56 min
Brandon Wolfe-Honnecut is the author of The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021). Video edition available on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Please subscribe to the show and like the episodes! Check out his earlier episodes available only to patrons hosted by friend of the show Max Ajl Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Mar 29, 2023•1 hr 1 min
Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam." Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Mar 24, 2023•1 hr 38 min
*Friend of the podcast Chris Beausang has started his own podcast! Subscribe to his show here on Apple Podcasts and listen to the entire episode* An interview with Conor McCarthy about the life and work of the Palestinian literary critic and activist Edward Said. Conor McCarthy is a Senior Lecturer at Maynooth University. His books include The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said , Modernisation, Crisis and Culture in Ireland 1969 - 1992 . He has also edited The Revolutionary and Anti-Imperiali...
Mar 19, 2023•36 min
*Note: This is about 75% of our conversation. The rest is available to patrons for $5 a month* Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author of Tolerance Is a Wasteland: Palestine and the Culture of Denial (2022) Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show...
Mar 19, 2023•1 hr 36 min
Unlocked from behind the paywall! Back by popular demand! Alexander McKay from Red Star Radio returns to continue the conversation about the tragicomical decline of the UK. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Mar 06, 2023•1 hr 51 min
Guest host and friend of the show Shep (@NeolithicSheep) joins me to talk to Madina Matin from ASEEL, an impact-driven tech start-up based in Afghanistan connecting underrepresented communities with global customers and donors Check out ASEEL Website: http://aseelapp.com/ YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCr2tsGFHrXkMZcG_01rJNLQ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/aseelapp/?hl=en TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@aseelapp_ Twitter: https://twitter.com/aseelapp_ Consider supporting the podc...
Mar 02, 2023•36 min
A preview of the latest episode of Anti Empire Radio by friend of the show Justin Podur. Listen to the entire conversation by subscribing to Justin's show on your podcatcher or watch it on his YouTube channel. Talking to Amaresh Mishra, author of the giant book India 1857: War of Civilisations about the immense scale of the Indian revolution against British imperialism that year: the scale of Hindu-Muslim unity, the class aspect of the revoution, the scale of the genocidal British massacres that...
Feb 28, 2023•19 min
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. Esha Krishnaswamy (@eshalegal) is the host of the historicly podcast Check out the unlocked video edition on the nascent The East is a Podcast YouTube channel!...
Feb 28, 2023•20 min
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. Alexander Mckay is the host of the Red Star Radio Podcast (Apologies for my sound; I selected the wrong mic like a complete noob!)...
Feb 15, 2023•31 min
Gabriel Rockhill returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek. Check out Gabriel's article, "Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek" Watch the video edition of this episode on the recently launched The East is a Podcast YouTube channel. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Feb 10, 2023•1 hr 14 min
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. Friend of the podcast Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAnalysis.com Subscribe to their podcast on your podcatcher and donate if you can at https://venezuelanalysis.com/donate...
Jan 27, 2023•16 min
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. Friend of the podcast Alexander Aviña takes us deep into the long and dirty history of so-called "drug wars."
Jan 24, 2023•51 min
Check out the article, "The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley" by William Van Wagenen (@wvanwagenen) Considering support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Jan 24, 2023•1 hr 4 min
Check out Amanda 's latest article, "Why Chinese ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is a lie" Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Jan 15, 2023•1 hr 21 min
