Tankie Group Therapy #7: In honor of Ref...

Tankie Group Therapy is back! This time with an actual licensed therapist! Sina hosts alongside Adnan from @adnanhusainshow , Jay from @MAKCapitalism , and Lara Sheehi! Watch the video edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/e ... Show More

The first half of a long conversation with longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinnal about Iran's perpetually tortured relationship with the West and how anti-imperialist resistance shapes attitudes of the population. Check out the second half of the conversation on @TheColonyA ... Show More

**Nick Estes from The Red Nation Podcast invited me on his new project on Substack to talk about John Carpenter's They Live (1988). This is a preview of the episode. Support Nick on Substack to access this and other great bonus content!** Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podca ... Show More

In this week's news summary, Edgar and Sam discuss the latest deadly airstrikes on Gaza, follow up on the Polio vaccine and the conditions for back to school season in Gaza. In other news, a Jordanian truck driver gunned down three Israeli border police and the culture wars in Is ... Show More

It's been a year since Hamas launched its attack on October 7, 2023 prompting Israel to commence what a growing number of legal scholars consider to be a genocide. In today's episode, Edgar and Sam discuss the failure of Israel's war on Gaza since Hamas managed to launch rockets ... Show More

On Thursday, the Israeli military announced it had killed Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in an operation in southern Gaza the day prior. Sinwar was one of the primary architects of Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and was believed to have been hiding in Gaza’s tunnel system since the a ... Show More

The deadliest day since the 1975-1990 civil war in Lebanon - over 500 people have been killed in 24 hours of Israeli bombardment. We dedicate the majority of today's news summary to the ongoing war in Lebanon. What does Israel wish to achieve? What is life like for Lebanese civil ... Show More

What are the politics of Palestine, who can take over a Palestinian state when it is conceived? Aboud Hamayel, also known under his pen name Abdaljawad Omar is a writer and theorist and a Lecturer of Philosophy at Bir Zeit University on the Occupied West Bank. Abdaljawad gives us ... Show More

This is a special edition of Kalam Podcast due to the dramatic events in Lebanon, effectively escalating the already intense regional tensions in the Middle East. In this conversation, Lebanese journalist Ralph Baydoun joins Edgar for a frank conversation about the precarious sta ... Show More

Last week the Secretary General of Hezbollah, Hassan Nasrallah, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. This marks the most high profile political assassination Israel has ever carried out. What does this mean for Lebanon and the broader region?In more news, Israel has launched its g ... Show More

After a delay (Haviv got a bad flu), we're happy to share a great panel with Haviv and Prof. John Spencer that took place at the Woodbury Jewish Center in Woodbury, New York on May 7.Thank you to Rabbi Jason Fruithandler and Rob Dwek for hosting, and to the Malin family for spons ... Show More

This week Ione and Gina are joined for an extra special long episode with writer, actor, producer and all round internet legend Tavi Gevinson! The three centre their conversation around class differences in the dying days of influencer culture, the changing face of fandom, and th ... Show More