The Edward Said Mixtape (Vol. 9)

In this special bonus episode co-published with Red Scare, I'm joined by longtime collaborator Nick Estes to discuss the strange career trajectory of Ward Churchill and the violence of pretendianism. Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.b ... Show More

Join us for the first round of a new (recurring??) series on the podcast, co-published with Justin Podur's Anti-Empire Project substack. Nora, Justin, Mikey, Sina and Joe discuss the myriad ways opponents of genocide are silenced by Zionist and philosemitic strategies of intimida ... Show More

Dror Dayan returns to the show and is joined by Helena Zohdi, a socialist organizer in Berlin, to discuss the repression of the Palestine Congress. You can access the material from the Congress recorded later here https://palaestinakongress.de/video-documentation Helena Zohdi is ... Show More

Maria Dakake, Andrew March, Hamza Yusuf in Conversation 

Negar Mortazavi in conversation with Steven Simon, Lara Friedman, Nader Hashemi, and Jon Hoffman, discussing US policy in the Middle East under Biden and Trump. This panel was hosted in person by the National Iranian American Council. 

MSNBC’s Mehdi Hasan stops by to talk about his new book Win Every Argument: The Art of Debating. The New York Times Lydia Polgreen talks to us about the political realignments she’s seen across the globe. Plus, Semafor’s Jordan Weissmann explains to us the nuances of what is real ... Show More