The East is a Podcast

*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...

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...

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 lev...

*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 o...

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 cours...

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 paywall...

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      

Francis Boyle is a professor of international law at the University of Illinois College of Law. Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G6uo7hLAq4&ab_channel=UPTV6   Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)

  Chris Beausang (@ilchinealach) returns to the show to discuss the recent elections in Norther Ireland.   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 pushi...

Gabriel Rockhill   (@GabrielRockhill) is Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University.  Check out his episode on Anti-Empire Radio with Justin Podur, titled "Are your favorite academic theorists really CIA spooks?"    Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast    

Aaron Thorpe (@borgposting) is a writer and podcaster with The Trillbillies and Everybody Loves Communism . (Apologies for my poor sound quality! I selected the wrong mic!!!) 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...

Friend of the podcast Tarek Loubani ( @trklou )  returns to the show to discuss the Stop the Bleed campaign.  (Apologies for the sound quality!) Support https://www.launchgood.com/campaign/stop_the_bleed_supply_gaza_with_lifesaving_tourniquets#!/ https://glia.org/

Old friend of the podcast Manu Chander is Associate Professor of English at Rutgers University-Newark. Support  www.patreon.com/east_podcast

*A preview of some of the great bonus content available to patrons of the show.  Over 100 episodes for only $5 a month. patreon.com/east_poodcast  If you can't afford to sign up and want to support the show, please consider writing a review or rating the podcast.*  Sam Yang (@LiberationistMA) runs the Southpaw podcast network.  Check out his article, "Squid Game and the Long Shadow of the American...

A 2003 documentary produced by Journeyman Pictures titled Operation Persuasion : What is the role of the media in modern day war reporting? Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P3GINVv9-9s&ab_channel=JourneymanPictures Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)

*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. ...

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 can also help keep the show going by donating directly via GoFundMe, Paypal, or Venmo.  Links available at  eastpodcast.com Friend of the podcast Max Ajl (@maxajl) is the author of   A People's Green New Deal Sign up directly at Patreon.com/east_podcast

A conversation between Visualizing Palestine and Dr. Salman Abu Sitta, filmed at Dar El-Nimer for Arts & Culture, Beirut on 30 January 2019. The interview took place in the context of the exhibition "A National Monument", a collaboration between Visualizing Palestine and the artist Marwan Rechmaoui. A National Monument: https://visualizingpalestine.org/anm Palestine Land Society (Dr. Salman Abu Si...