Psychic Militancy - Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance
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***I have been working with Lara Sheehi on her new show. Make sure you subscribe to her and feeds to listen to the rest of this episode**** Ghassan Abu Sittah: Clinic as site of resistance In this episode, I sit down with Dr. Ghassan Abu Sittah to discuss the centrality of the clinic in the genocidal violence perpetrated by the Zionist settler state in Gaza, his concept of the biosphere of genocide, and importantly, the site of the clinic as central to resistance, refusal, and liberation. Dr Ghassan Abu-Sittah is a British-Palestinian Plastic & Reconstructive Surgeon. He...
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AISC #8: The Bolivarian and Iranian Revolutions vs. US Imperialism w/ Carlos Ron and Mohammad Marandi
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[NOTE: This is the first portion of the latest episode of podcast. Lots of great content has already been released on both and feeds and more to come, so please make sure you subscribe to both!] Hosted by AISC co-founder Nina Farnia, this episode features two distinguished guests and friends of AISC, Venezuela's former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs and University of Tehran professor We initially filmed a 2025 anti-imperialist roundup on December 30, 2025, but just a few days later the US invaded Venezuela and abducted President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady...
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Global Dumpster Fire: 2025 in Review w/ Max Ajl
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Producer's note: Apologies for the long absence from the show. As I explain in the first few minutes of this episode, I have been busy launching some new shows in addition to , currently only available on the YouTube channel. More great content for the main feed and bonus feed coming soon! returns to the show to reflect on some of the wider historical contexts that laid the groundwork for the calamity that was 2025. This was recorded 2 days before the flagrant kidnapping of President Nicolas Maduro Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the...
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Struggle Session 6 Live w/Nerdeen Kiswani, Sina Rahmani, Henry Hakamaki & Mehmet Ali Arslan
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The Struggle Session is back for November on Sunday Nov 23rd at 3pmET! This monthly livestream panel program is not convening to make you feel better--the unvarnished analysis and fierce self-criticism may make you feel a bit worse! But, it will inform and, hopefully, spur you to taking action. As Marx said, the point isn't just to understand the world but to change it. This is an activist panel for a much needed Struggle Session: Nerdeen Kiswani, founder of Within our Lifetime; Sina Rahmani, host of East is a Podcast and impressario/producer of the online tankie left; Henry Hakamaki, editor...
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Schrödinger's vassal: Pakistan's contradictory stance w/ Aman Ullah Tariq
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Aman Ullah Tariq is a Pakistani analyst and is one of the hosts of Check out of The Colony Archive Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Pod Kapital #7 : Labour has no value
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***This is a preview of the of Pod Kapital, the new podcast series co-hosted by me and my comrade exploring Marx's Capital. The episodes are paywalled but we livestreaming our recordings, so subscribe to and watch us live for free!*** Nick and Sina return for another episode of Pod Kapital. Today we discuss parts 4+5, chapters 14-21. Subscribe to Nick's Substack to watch the or watch the livestream.
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Office Hours 13-Sudan: Resistance, Compradors, an Existential Fight for Liberation w/Hamza Al-Muqawi
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In this edition of Office Hours, Friday Nov. 7 at a special time, 6pm ET, Adnan hosts Hamza Al-Muqawi a Sudanese writer and activist to talk about Sudan's history as a crucial and continuing front in the struggle against colonialism, imperialism, and capitalist exploitation of Eastern Africa and West Asia. We will learn about Sudan's strategic place on the Red Sea and the geopolitical factors fueling imperial and subimperial designs and interventions as well as the resistance and struggle for liberation by Sudan's people facing terror, deliberate starvation and genocide. Hamza's analysis will...
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No god but God: 20 years later w/ Reza Aslan
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is a religious scholar and bestselling author, including his biography of Jesus of Nazareth, Zealot (2013) and his history of Islam, No god but God: The Origins, Evolution, and Future of Islam (2005). Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Introducing the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective Podcast
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NOTE: I have been helping the great people over at the launch their new show. Lots of great content has already been released on both and feeds and more to come, so please make sure you subscribe to both! Imperialism's Political, Economic, and Military Machinations On this episode of the AISC podcast, members Bikrum Gill and Navid Farnia address the US's ongoing military buildup in the Caribbean and the energy conflict between the US and China. They also provide more analysis of the Gaza "ceasefire" and comment on the flareup between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Follow AISC on X...
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[Unlocked] Pod Kapital #5: Cooperation makes it happen
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**Note: Nick and I have been doing a new show behind our , Pod Kapital, going through the new translation of Marx's Capital published by Princeton University Press. We had originally envisioned it as short-run series but after the tremendous response we have received from listeners, we have decided to make the show permanent. At this point, most of the episodes are locked but we will be figuring out ways to make future episodes accessible to non-Patrons in one way or another.** In this episode, we discuss Marx’s chapter on cooperation. We also change the structure of our reading of Capital,...
info_outlineAsa 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).
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