Category: Transcribed
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Podcast: Why White Nationalists Love Assad w/ Leila Al-Sami and Shon Meckfessel
In which I sat down with my buds Leila Al-Shami and Shon Meckfessel to talk about how and why a bunch of fascists became fans of everyone’s favorite genocidal mass murdering dictator, Bashar (يلعن روحك يا) Assad, who was recently voted most likely to end up like Mussolini by I-just-made-it-up magazine. Leila, a recurring guest,…
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Podcast: Against Multipolar Imperialism: An Internationalist Response w/ Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski
I’m excited to share with you my convo with Kavita Krishnan, Promise Li and Romeo Kokriatski on why the idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued, and why the left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism. You can find the episode wherever you listen to podcasts. Kavita Krishnan is an Indian Marxist and Feminist…
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Podcast: Solarpunk and Post-Capitalist Desires w/ HydroponicTrash
This is a conversation with hacker, gardener and writer Andre, aka HydroponicTrash. You can also find Andre on Substack at AnarchoSolarpunk. The title is taken from one of Andre’s essays. You can listen to it on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro and RSS. Andrew…
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Podcast: The threads that bind us from Syria to Ukraine
This episode is a multilingual online encounter, part of the Post-Extractive Futures series, co-produced by War on Want, Tipping Point UK, JunteGente, and The Fire These Times project. I was the moderator. The Fire These Times is available on Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts, Spotify, Anchor, Breaker, Amazon Music, Audible, Stitcher, Radio Public, Pocket Casts, Castro…
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99/ Inconvenient Findings and Enduring Hierarchies (With Marie Berry and Milli Lake)
This is a conversation with Marie E. Berry and Milli Lake, co-founders and principal investigators of the Women’s Rights After War Project. We primarily spoke about their article “on inconvenient findings” and their paper for Annual Reviews “women’s rights after war: on gender interventions and enduring hierarchies” Dr. Berry is Associate Professor at the Josef Korbel School…
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70/ (Post)Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle East (With Nader Hashemi & Danny Postel)
This is a conversation with Nader Hashemi and Danny Postel. Hashemi is the Director of the Center for Middle East Studies at the University of Denver and Postel is Assistant Director of the Center for International & Area Studies at Northwestern University. We spoke about their book “Sectarianization: Mapping the New Politics of the Middle…
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69/ The Entrenched “Manliness” of Ethnic Power-sharing Peace Agreements (with Aida A. Hozić)
This is a conversation with Aida A. Hozić. She is an Associate Professor of International Relations and Associate Chair of the Department of Political Science at the University of Florida, United States. Her research is situated at the intersection of political economy, cultural studies, and international security. She is the author of Hollyworld: Space, Power…
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59-60/(Anti-)Fascism and the Future of Complex Warfare (with Emmi Bevensee)
This is a two-parts conversation with Emmi Bevensee. They’re a data journalist who utilizes a data storytelling approach to make complexity understandable. We spoke about so many things that I can only write them down as categories. Transcript available below. Part 1, out on January 30th (Patreon supporters) and January 31st (General Public). First section:…
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58/Democracy, Counterrevolution, the Rhetoric of Anti-Imperialism (with Rohini Hensman)
My conversation with Rohini Hensman, India-based Sri Lankan labor activist and feminist and an independent scholar.
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26. The Legacy of Samir Kassir 15 Years On
In-depth conversation with Ziad Majed about Samir Kassir 15 years after his assassination.
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22. Building Mutual Aid in Lebanon
This is a conversation with Ayman Makarem. He’s a Lebanon-based writer and filmmaker who recently wrote essays on mutual aid in Lebanon for The Public Source. Beyond Charity: Our Critical Need for Mutual Aid – Part 1 Beyond Charity: Our Critical Need for Mutual Aid – Part 2 One of the themes of The Fire…
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14. Revolution, disenchantment and the Lebanese New Left (with Fadi Bardawil)
What insights does the 1960s Lebanese New Left offer us today?
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12. Independent Media Versus the Lebanese Oligarchy
How does the Lebanese oligarchy work and how can independent media help defeat it?
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08. Lebanon’s October Uprising, Six Months Later
This is a conversation with Lebanese journalist Timour Azhari of Al Jazeera (previously The Daily Star) about the legacy of the October 17 uprising six months since it began. We spoke about the current state of Lebanese politics, the government’s response to the Covid-19 crisis and its impact on the country’s most vulnerable groups as…