Ep. 251 – To the Dispossessed of Lebanon and the World
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars share some life updates and break down the latest developments in Lebanon as the government ramps up its campaign to disarm the Lebanese resistance and Israel’s deadly violations of the November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah exceed the 4000 mark. They also discuss the relationship between Harekat Amal and Hezbollah as factions of the Lebanese resistance, the separation of powers in Lebanon’s model of governance, the military’s detention of journalist Laith Marouf, and more before previewing a clip from Kumars’s interview on The Colony Archive with friend...
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Episode 250 – Think Pink
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Danaka Katovich, Chicago-based organizer and National Co-director of the feminist antiwar group CODEPINK: Women for Peace, where she oversees all of the organization’s national advocacy campaigns, from challenging US aggression towards China and Iran to calling for an end to US support for the war in Ukraine and the colonization of Palestine. Danaka, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the demands placed on antiwar and anti-imperialist solidarity activists in our current moment, thow those demands have been changed by the experience of recent years,...
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Episode 249.5.5 – Wartime Cafe (free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . This week, Roqayah is joined in Beirut by writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, war correspondent for Press TV and producer of Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf along with other programming at . Hadi has...
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Episode 249.5 – Steel your nerves (update + free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guests Sina Rahmani, historian and creator of The East is a Podcast, and Navid Zarrinnal, professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and...
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Episode 249 – Star Wars Theory
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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by fan favorite Marvin Gonzalez and Delete Your Account debutantes Josef Burton and Luke to mark the conclusion of Andor. NYC-based organizer Marvin, writer and former US diplomat Josef, and Luke, host of the medieval history podcast , discuss the show’s depiction of revolutionary movements, how the Star Wars IP legitimizes armed struggle, why conservatives are rehabilitating the Empire, post-Andor melancholy, and whether space aliens are a good metaphor for racism. In the final segment, Josef and Marvin square...
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Episode 248 – Iranian Exceptionalism
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by an all-star panel of new and old friends of the show to discuss the growing threat of war against Iran and the challenges of renewed nuclear negotiations as well as the Islamic Republic’s commitment to Palestinian liberation and anticolonial solidarity. Assal Rad is an Iranian American historian, a fellow at DAWN and the author of . Sina Toossi is an Iranian American policy analyst and fellow at the . Sina Rahmani is an Iranian-Canadian historian as well as the creator and host of . Navid Zarrinnal is an Iranian historian, assistant...
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Ep. 247 – President Xi, my country, the moon, yearns for freedom
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Amanda Yee, an independent journalist and organizer based in Brooklyn. Amanda is also the co-host of The China Report on BreakThrough News and the managing editor of Liberation News. Her writing has appeared in Monthly Review Online, The Real News Network, CounterPunch, and Peoples Dispatch. Amanda talks us through the implications of Trump's “Liberation Day” tariff war on the global market as well as its impact on China, which has inflicted a 125% tariff on US products. Amanda discusses China’s defensive economic strategy under...
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Episode 246.5 – BDS with Rockets (free preview)
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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," by subscribing on our for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you . This week, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the latest news from Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, including Israel bombing Beirut for the first time since the November ceasefire with Hezbollah, the real scandal of...
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Episode 246 – Mexico is the Wall
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined for the hour by Alexander Aviña, an expert on Mexican history and US imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on , and author of . Alex shares his perspective on how the second Trump administration has actually changed immigration policy and enforcement, the Democrats’ legacy of border militarization, the high-profile detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and others, Dr. Phil’s deportation ride-along, the Marxist case for “open...
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Episode 245 – Settler Honeymoon
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This week, Roqayah and Kumars present a news roundup from Lebanon and Palestine. They preview Roqayah’s on-the-ground coverage of the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon, before discussing the current state of the ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF's latest escalation in the West Bank, and Israel’s plans to occupy southern Syria indefinitely. If you want to support the show and receive access to Roqayah’s “Last Week in Lebanon” column along with tons of other bonus content, subscribe on our for as little as $5 a...
info_outlineThis week, Roqayah and Kumars share their thoughts on Israel's ongoing ethnic cleansing of Gaza, including escalating violence and displacement of its population.
They also discuss the Northern front, i.e. Lebanon, where since October 8th Hezballah and Israel have been engaging in a mounting offensive that has achieved a number of objectives for the Lebanese resistance faction while also directing Israel away from engaging to the fullest of its military capabilities in Gaza.
They also highlight the shared history between South Lebanon and Palestine, and why there remains a fervent and unshakeable bond between the two peoples until today.
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