Iran's History and Geopolitical Relations w/Prof. David N. Yaghoubian
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This is a preview of a recent episode of The Adnan Husain Show. The conversation continued for another full hour! Subscribe to Adnan's show on your podcatcher to listen to the full episode or watch it on YouTube linked below. Prof. Adnan Husain discusses the modern history of Iran from the late nineteenth century to contemporary relations with the US with friend and colleague Prof. David N. Yaghoubian of California State University-San Bernardino. We discuss Iran's traditions of statecraft and geopolitical relations with imperial powers, Russia and Britain, until the Cold War, when Iran became...
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The tallest trees in the forest: Indigenous resistance and martyrdom w/ Nick Estes and Ali Alizadeh
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Longtime friends of the show and host of The Red Nation Podcast Nick Estes and Ali Alizadeh ) from to look at the history of the Party of God and its martyred leaders against the wider backdrop of Indigenous resistance to settler colonialism. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Check out the documentary, and subscribe to Nick's latest piece for his substack, Consider supporting the show
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Canada vs. Mexico: Two models of anti-sovereignty
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*Producer's note: I put the audio of the final 15 mins of this conversation behind the paywall. You can listen to that portion of the conversation by signing up for $5 a month at or you can watch the entire episode for free on the EIAP YouTube channel linked below* A roundtable discussion featuring Tankie Group Therapy stalwarts Alex and Joe as well as Adnan Husain, who recently launched , to discuss the recent trade war threats from the Trump regime to his two largest trading partners. Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Gaza is Unconquered, Palestine is STILL the Issue w/ Sina Rahmani
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*I have been helping friend of the show Adnan Husain with his new media project. This episode we recorded after our previous episode was lost (albeit temporarily) by our recording software. That episode is now available and Adnan's linked below* Professor Adnan Husain and Sina Rahmani discuss the political lessons and implications of the Gaza ceasefire agreement for the cause of Palestine, regional and geopolitics of resistance against US/Western empire, and on the direction of the anti-imperial solidarity movements across Europe and North America. Watch the on our YouTube...
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Refaat Alareer's voice from the archives
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*Friend of the show Nora Barrows-Friedman collected some of Refaat's audio archive.* In a special audio podcast episode dedicated to the voice and the words of Dr. Refaat Alareer, we weave together five separate interviews we conducted between 2014 and 2018. Alareer was a beloved professor, poet and mentor who helped sharpen countless young minds and who still inspires people all over the world. He was murdered by Israel on 6 December, 2023, along with six other members of his family in Gaza. Read more:
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.2)
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**A preview of the latest bonus episode: the with Dror Dayan about Germany's role in the Axis of Genocide. Subscribe on Patreon to access hundreds of bonus episodes and help support the show. Alternatively, you can watch the episode for free on YouTube** is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Make sure to check out the first half of this conversation, posted on the main feed Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #30: They will never break them (or us)
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Lara Sheehi joins as our therapist with Jon Elmer(successfully pressured by your comments on the Day 467 Sit Rep), Nora, Mikey, Alex, and Joe. Hours before the ceasefire is set to go into effect, we debrief our worry, our awe and pride in the Palestinians, our rage at genocide, why we did this series of so-called "tankie therapy" and why some of us had to avoid it sometimes over the past 15 months. Will this be the last one? Watch the on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Tankie Group Therapy #29: No disclaimers necessary
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Two beloved members of the Tankie Group Therapy crew (Joe and Matteo) return after long absences to join Alex, Nora, and Sina to discuss some of the recent (not so very good) news. Watch the on our YouTube channel Check out Joe's essay, Consider supporting the show
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Never again? Germany and the Gaza Holocaust w/ Dror Dayan (pt.1)
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is a filmmaker, political activist and film scholar based in Berlin and Liverpool. Check out "Not Just Your Picture: The Story of the Kilani Family" Watch the on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show
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Imperial Debris: From 1492 to the Gaza pier w/ Taylor Miller
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Alex Axina () returns as guest host to interview Taylor Miller about the meaning of Gaza "humanitarian pier" against the wider historical backdrop of genocidal settler colonialism. Check out Taylor's article, Consider supporting the podcast
info_outlineThe 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.
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