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 host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today. Video edition available here  Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist || Multipolarista || Please support Multipolarista at https://multipolarista.com/support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolarista Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/multipolarista Telegram: https://t.me/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 translated and who decides what's worth translating. This has implications in both the literary world as well as in the scholarly realm, and it was fascinating to discuss these sorts of questions. We highly recommend checking out Sina's show The East Is A Podcast wherever you get your pods (or at https://eastisapodcast.libsyn.com/). You also should definitely follow Sina on Twitter @UROrientalist. Special shoutouts also go to our dear friend Katya Kazbek, who we wanted to cite in this episode but only got permission to after recording, as well as The Cadre Journal and Louis Allday, who themselves had a very similar conversation together between when we planned this episode with Sina and the time we actually got it recorded. Your hosts are Safie and Henry, and this episode will introduce the show, which aims to wherever the hosts are interested.

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 level.   https://www.patreon.com/posts/bonus-episode-in-68883667 *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.  I rely on normal people like you to keep going so if you can donate, please do! It will make a big difference for me and let me keep making this content.*    

*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 of their homes to create investment opportunities, in grabbing Indigenous land, in colonizing Palestinian land, and other harms. When the website came out, the very institutions discussed in the mapping project unleashed a storm of criticism, bullied them off of two servers, and hurled a wide ranging set of ridiculous accusations. A roundup of the mapping project and the “freakout” about it. Watch the episode on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=shyLPioTX-o&t=1378s&ab_channel=JustinPodur https://podur.org/2022/07/02/aer-112-bds-boston-makes-a-map-and-chaos-ensues/

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 courses on Africa, the Caribbean, Cuba, and Black Canadian history. He is the author of the widely acclaimed book Cuba: A Revolution in Motion (Zed Books, 2004).   Part 2:   In this second part of Amandla's look at the life of Fidel Castro and his role on the African continent, Amanda regular Doug Miller talks to Montreal anthropologist, writer, radio broadcaster and filmmaker Ole Gjerstad who was a witness of the Cuban presence in Angola.   Gjertad offers a rare first-hand look at the Cuban presence in Africa and how Cubans contributed to the liberation struggles on the continent.   Produced by CKUT 90.3 Source https://archive.org/details/TheLegacyOfCastroInAfrica https://archive.org/details/CastrosLegacyInAfricaPart2OleGjerstagRemembersAngolaAndEthiopia Special thanks to Ian Anderson (@starsalwayslost)

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