An extra large helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Sina, Mikey, Joe, Nick Estes and, in his debut, Adnan Husain, and also two surprise guests! Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Conor McCabe (@CMacCaba) is a research fellow with Queen’s Business School, Queens University Belfast and editor of The Lost & Early Writings James Connolly (2024), published by Iskra Books. Download the book for free or purchase a copy here https://www.iskrabooks.org/lost-and-early-writings Watch the fantastic conversation between Conor and Jay from Millenials are Killing Capitalism https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj6oMP4mMyM&ab_channel=MillennialsAreKillingCapitalismLive%21 Video editi...
Small therapy group convenes with Sina, Joe, and Alex. We talk about denial, shame, fear, historical lies and current ones. Watch the video edition on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
*Audio recording of a panel orgnized by friend of the show Frances Hasso . Video edition coming soon!* Convened by Dr. Frances S. Hasso, Professor of Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, History, and Sociology, as part of The Palestine Seminar at Duke University https://gendersexualityfeminist.duke.edu/literary-gaza-hybrid Speakers “My Age is Thirty-five Years Old and Five Wars" Basman Aldirawi Basman Aldirawi (also Basman Derawi) is a Palestinian and Gazan, a refugee from Bi’r al-Saba`, and ...
Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2022). Check out his latest bombshell on the widespread employment of the "Hannibal Directive" by the Zionist colonial military forces and police on October 7th, 2023. https://www.asawinstanley.com/ Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podc...
Adam Horowitz ( @mondowitz ) is Executive Editor of Mondoweiss (@ Mondoweiss ) Nora Barrows-Friedman ( @norabf) is Associate Editor of The Electronic Intifada ( @intifada ), radio broadcaster, author, co-host of the EI Podcast and @thebriefpod Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss...
Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast
Roqayah Chamseddine (@roqchams) is a journalist and writer based in Lebanon and co-host of Delete Ur Account Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss
**Note 2: Given everything that's happened, I've unlocked this episode for the main feed** *Note: This is the part of my conversation with Karim. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content!* AUB professor and co-host of Makdisi Street Karim Makdisi (@KarimMakdisi) returns to the show after a five-year hiatus(!) to discuss the history of Israeli state terrorism agains...
Louis, Mikey, Nora, Sina, Alex, and Joe join for our usual therapy session. We talk about the developing Israel-Lebanon war, the difficulty performing everyday life, Macklemore's new song, Hinds Hall 2, and the historical changes we're living through. Watch the episode on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss...
*Note: This is the part of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another hour! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon for $5 a month. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on our YouTube channel linked below* Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History. He returns to the show to talk in-d...
Kyle Ferrana ( @KyleTrainEmoji) is a writer, software engineer, and tenant organizer. He is the author of Why the World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosperity (2024) Check out his latest article, "The Occupation of East Asia" Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
Nora, Alex, Sina, Joe, and Mikey join for our normal therapy session just after Hizbollah's response and after a particularly rough week with the RNC and DNC disconnecting with multiple massacres in Gaza. We talk about our narrowing social circles and how we fend off the siren call of nihilism. Watch the episode on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss...
*Note: This is the first hour of my conversation with Adnan. We continued for another 45 mins! To listen to the entire episode, join The East is a Podcast Patreon for $5 a month. Help keep the show going and access hundreds of hours of bonus content. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on our YouTube channel linked below* Adnan Husain (@adnanahusain) is a Medieval European and Middle Eastern historian at Queen's University and co-host of Guerilla History. Watch the video edition on...
The International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures condemns the Israeli assassination of Yasser Adnan Ibrahim al-Derawi, 31 year old attorney from Gaza, Palestine. He served as an expert witness in our Gaza hearing on May 13, 2023. We recently learned of Yasser’s murder after local journalists searched for him to discuss his research on the Israeli blockade and other war crimes in Gaza, Palestine. They informed us that Yasser was targeted d...
The group gets together after two weeks of assassinations, literal mask-off moments, and massacres. The idea of the "single issue voter" arises - but perhaps it's a single-issue empire. Sina, Nora, Alex and Mikey all join for our therapy session. Watch the video edition on the Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=alYojyLDoZE Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss...
Friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) guest hosts a conversation with Fida Jiryis, author of Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2022) Read an excerpt of the book here https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/sep/27/no-place-like-home-my-bitter-return-to-palestine Watch the episode on our YouTube channel https://youtu.be/NIcKWLqQ9iE Date of recording: July 9, 2024 Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out The Anti-Imperiali...
Another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring the old crew: @justinpodur , @norabf , @karaokecomputer , @rosendo_joe , @alexander_avina, and Urorientalist .The session seemed to revolve mostly around Ansarallah ("Houthis") statements after they attacked Tel Aviv and were bombed by Israeli F-35s. The disconnect between their response and Western solidarity. And then we got the news of Biden stepping down, so some quick reactions to that at the end. Watch the video edition on Justin's fantasti...
Founder of Liberated Texts and longtime supporter of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday ) returns to guest host an episode with Mary Turfah ( @maryturfah) about her article on Zionist sadism. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel "Running Amok" https://thebaffler.com/latest/running-amok-turfah Liberated Texts https://liberatedtexts.com/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast Check out The Anti-Imperialist Archive http://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss...
Friend of the show Alex Aviña guests hosts an episode with geographer Taylor Miller about the intertwined systems of carceral border control policing the US/Mexico border and Palestine. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel "A Pause, On Possibility" https://www.averyreview.com/issues/65/a-pause-on-possibility The University of Arizona's Institutionalized Border Violence https://thenewinquiry.com/the-university-of-arizonas-institutionalized-border-violence/ Consider sup...
[Producer's note: My conversation with Louis went on for another 30 minutes so if you are interested in listening sign up for Patreon at $5 a month ] Longtime friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is back to discuss the 52nd anniversary of Ghassan Kanafani's martyrdom. Check out Anni Kanafani's Ghassan Kanafani which features Louis' fantastic introductory text, “A Race Against Time”: The life and death of Ghassan Kanafani Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel...
On June 18, The Baffler published an article by Mary Turfah called "Running Amok" in which Mary tried to understand the psychology underlying Israeli troops and citizens' production of trophy videos and photos we have been seeing during the war. Our therapy group ( @justinpodur , @norabf , @karaokecomputer , @rosendo_joe , @louis_allday , @alexander_avina ), got together with Mary to talk through the article and use it to understand the Israeli mentality that has left us stunned for all these mo...
On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion and genocide. Program available here https://earlycaribbeansociety.org/events/poetry-for-liberation-from-haiti-to-palestine/ Watch the video edition of The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Donate to CareForGaza and to the family of one of our poetry readers Consider supporting the show www.patreon....
This is a preview of the latest bonus episode. Sign up for $5 a month to access the entire conversation. Friend of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) joined me for an episode on the perennial questions of violence and self-defence. CBC Documentary about Palestinian resistance in Gaza https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J__Burgr8qU&t=312s&ab_channel=AnnaBens...
Walaa Alqaisiya (@walqaisiya) is a Palestinian academic born and raised in Hebron in the West Bank. She is a Marie Curie Fellow based at the University of Venice, Italy. Walaa's work draws on anti-imperialist, anti-colonialist, and feminist approaches to highlight the deeply gendered and ecocidal nature of Zionist settler colonialism and US-led imperialism. Madonna Thunder Hawk is a Lakota activist best known as a member and leader in the American Indian Movement (AIM), co-founding Women of All ...
The US regime has spent over 300 million USD constructing a port on the Gaza coast and is calling it a "humanitarian pier". Ahmed Omar (@MENAUnleashed) , a political economist from Gaza based in the UK, explores the darker motivations behind the construction of the port. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
We're back for another round of group therapy talking about the latest developments in the Gaza genocide with a small group of Tankie therapees: Sina (@UrOrientalist) , Rob (@robrousseau) and Mikey (@karaokecomputer ). Sadly, our comrade Joe Emersburger was on the call but his file didn't upload so we sometimes reference his contribution. Please send your complaints to Podcastle.ai for their shitty, unstable platform. Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supp...
[The latest episode of The End of Sport podcast co-hosted by my old friend Nathan Kalman-Lamb , Johanna Mellis , and Derek SIlva .] In this episode, Derek and Nathan are immensely privileged to be joined by UCLA historian Robin D. G. Kelley for a discussion of the remarkable and obscene events that took place at the UCLA anti-genocide encampment and an assessment of the encampment movement in the context of the neoliberal university and racial capitalism more broadly. We also talk about the role...
Our regular therapy session debriefing the events of the week. Rob Rousseau (@robrousseau) , Alex Avina ( @Alexander_Avina ), Joe Emersberger (@rosendo_joe ), Nora Barrows Friedman ( https://x.com/norabf ) all join. Hosted by Justin Podur ( @justinpodur ) Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast...
**The Arabic half of the conversation begins around minute 72** Essam Elkorgle (@elkorgle) guesthosts a special dual-language episode with Tunis-based sociologist Haithem Gasmi (@HaithemGasmii) on the sociocultural dimensions of the Zionist boycott and the wider question of delinking from the neocolonial world system. Check out the short video discussed in the episode. Cover art by Suhaib Tantoush Haithem's recent articles (Arabic) "Disengagement After Boycott: Disengagement From What? (Part One...
