The East is a Podcast

*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

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

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 podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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 followed (Mishra's estimate is that the British killed 10 million Indians), and the importance of the so-called "1857 line": the spiritual, cultural, political and economic connection between Hindu and Muslim in South Asia and resistance to Anglo-American imperialism, the recovery of which is the only way for South Asia to take its place in the world. We analyze Modi's politics since 2014 and the continuing weakness of pro-Western ideologies (whether of the Congress or Hindutva variety) when faced with revolutionary politics. https://podur.org/2023/02/28/aer-119-that-time-when-britain-killed-10-million-indian-people-with-amaresh-mishra/ Get the printed transcript of this episode here

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!

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!)

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

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

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."

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

Check out Amanda's latest article, "Why Chinese 'debt trap diplomacy' is a lie" Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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. Justin Podur from the Anti Empire Project returns to the show to talk about the tire fire that was 2022.

Longtime friend of the podcast Ben Norton from Multopolarista returns to the show to discuss the coup in Peru. Consider supporting the show

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. Catherine Liu is Professor of Film & Media Studies in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine and author of Virtue Hoarders The Case against the Professional Managerial Class (2021)

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

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.

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 CASI YouTube Channel https://solidarityiran.org/ Originally recorded: December 18, 2022 Speakers: Dr. Bikrum Gill | Professor in Political Science Department at Virginia Tech University; Dr. Corinna Mullin | Professor in Global Politics and Political Economy at City University of New York (CUNY); David Paul | Sanctions Kill; Eunha Jeong Wood | Nodutdol for Korean Community Development. Moderated by Charlotte Kates | International Coordinator of Samidoun & Member of the Steering Committee of the Tribunal

Sardana Nikolaeva is from Sakha Republic, and is currently a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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

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.

Ndongo Samba Sylla (@nssylla) is a Senegalese development economist. He is the co-author of Africa's Last Colonial Currency: The CFA Franc Story (2021) Guest hosted by Max Ajl Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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.

Vik Sohonie is the Founder of Ostinato Records & Grammy-nominated producer. Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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

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

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

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, which the last question of the interview addresses. Be sure to also stay turned for more installments of our Sanctions As War series! Muhammad Sahimi is a Professor at the University of Southern California, where he analyses Iran's political development, its nuclear program, and its foreign policy. From 2008 to 2012 he was the lead political analyst at E0*/Frontline/Tehran Bureau website. https://guerrillahistory.libsyn.com/the-history-and-impact-of-sanctions-on-iran-w-muhammad-sahimi

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

Ludovic Leroy (@princertitude) is an engineer with the French Petroleum Institute (IFPEN). Check out his very informative thread on the Nord Steam pipelines. Support the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*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-imperialist struggle around the world, Rania Khalek was joined by Sina Rahmani, creator of East Is A Podcast. Video edition available here Listen to every episode of Rania Khalek Dispatches anywhere you get podcasts. Apple: https://apple.co/3zeYpeW Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3za9DRK

Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) is a writer, historian and founding editor of Liberatedtexts.com Get a copy of the book here https://www.ebb-magazine.com/books/p/on-zionist-literature Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Ljubica (@srecniprinc) is based in Belgrade. Consider supporting the show. www.patreon.com/east_podcast

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

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

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)

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!

*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 shockingly relevant it still is today. Video edition available here Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist || Multipolarista || Please support Multipolarista at https://multipolarista.com/support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolarista Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/multipolarista Telegram: https://t.me/multipolarista

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/

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 Amanda Yee returns to talk about Chinese rural social media celebrities. Sign up here to listen https://www.patreon.com/posts/69252658

*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 as well as in the scholarly realm, and it was fascinating to discuss these sorts of questions. We highly recommend checking out Sina's show The East Is A Podcast wherever you get your pods (or at https://eastisapodcast.libsyn.com/). You also should definitely follow Sina on Twitter @UROrientalist. Special shoutouts also go to our dear friend Katya Kazbek, who we wanted to cite in this episode but only got permission to after recording, as well as The Cadre Journal and Louis Allday, who themselves had a very similar conversation together between when we planned this episode with Sina and the time we actually got it recorded. Your hosts are Safie and Henry, and this episode will introduce the show, which aims to wherever the hosts are interested.

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 content going forward. As much as I want more people to listen for free, recent changes in my life require me to start pushing the Patreon more. Unfortunately, this means the occasional passive aggressive addenda like this one reminding you, dear listener, that I have been doing this show alone for almost 4 years and I get no sponsorships or outside help. I rely on normal people like you to keep going so if you can donate, please do! It will make a big difference for me and let me keep making this content.*

*I was invited by friend of the podcast Justin Podur to discuss the very excellent work of the Mapping Project* In June 2022, a small activist group in Boston created mapliberation.org, a project mapping primarily policing institutions in Massechussetts and their connections to corporations, organizations, and politicians who are implicated in the prison-industry complex, in throwing people out of their homes to create investment opportunities, in grabbing Indigenous land, in colonizing Palestinian land, and other harms. When the website came out, the very institutions discussed in the mapping project unleashed a storm of criticism, bullied them off of two servers, and hurled a wide ranging set of ridiculous accusations. A roundup of the mapping project and the "freakout" about it. Watch the episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyLPioTX-o&t=1378s&ab_channel=JustinPodur https://podur.org/2022/07/02/aer-112-bds-boston-makes-a-map-and-chaos-ensues/

Part 1: An interview with Isaac Saney on the relationship of Cuba, under Castro, and Africa. Isaac Saney is Director and Black Studies Senior Instructor, he holds a PhD in history from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London in the United Kingdom. The SOAS is recognized as one the world's premiere centres for the study of Africa. His teaching has encompassed courses on Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (Zed Books, 2004). Part 2: In this second part of Amandla's look at the life of Fidel Castro and his role on the African continent, Amanda regular Doug Miller talks to Montreal anthropologist, writer, radio broadcaster and filmmaker Ole Gjerstad who was a witness of the Cuban presence in Angola. Gjertad offers a rare first-hand look at the Cuban presence in Africa and how Cubans contributed to the liberation struggles on the continent. Produced by CKUT 90.3 Source https://archive.org/details/TheLegacyOfCastroInAfrica https://archive.org/details/CastrosLegacyInAfricaPart2OleGjerstagRemembersAngolaAndEthiopia Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)

Bikrum Gill (@bikrumsinghgill) teaches in the Department of Political Science at Virginia Tech. Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Robert K. Beshara (@decolonialpsych) in conversation with Dr. Neveen Zewar. To learn more about the Arab Psychoanalytic Group in Cairo: sites.google.com/site/egypsa2 Listen to the entire episode https://soundcloud.com/kmtpodcast/psychoanalysis-in-egypt-an-interview-with-dr-neveen-zewar Watch the conversation on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVerZaP2nZg&feature=youtu.be

Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Supplementary readling: https://analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/the-irish-revolution-in-three-parts/ Listen to Chris's latest bonus by signing up as a $5 patron https://www.patreon.com/posts/66261345

*I was invited to join the comrades at The Red Nation Podcast to discuss Dune (2021)* Red Power Hour host Elena Ortiz (@spiritofpopay) is joined by Sungmanitu (@BandsIsland) and Sina Rahmani (@urorientalist) to discuss Denis Villeneuve's Dune (2021).

Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) is a writer and critic based in Dublin. His novel Tunnel of Toads is forthcoming from Marrowbone Books. Supplementary readling: https://analoguehumanist.wordpress.com/2022/04/11/the-irish-revolution-in-three-parts/ Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Friend of the podcast Zeyad el Nabolsy (@ZNabolsy) returns to guest host this episode with Ayesha Umaña Dajud (@AyeshaUmanaD) on the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia—People's Army (FARC) and the prospects for peace in Colombia. 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. *You're gonna be noticing more paywalled content going forward. As much as I want more people to listen for free, recent changes in my life require me to start pushing the Patreon more. Unfortunately, this means the occasional passive aggressive addenda like this one reminding you, dear listener, that I have been doing this show alone for almost 4 years and I get no sponsorships or outside help. I rely on normal people like you to keep going so if you can donate, please do! It will make a big difference for me and let me keep making this content.*

Friend of the podcast Amanda (@catcontentonly) in conversation with another friend of the podcast, journalist Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton): "The Ukraine war is a government subsidy straight to the military industrial complex...another massive wealth transfer to the US capitalist class" https://www.patreon.com/posts/episode-34-left-66358561