The East is a Podcast

Ljubica (@srecniprinc) is based in Belgrade.  Consider supporting the show. www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Alan MacLeod (@AlanRMacLeod) is a writer with MintPress News. Check out the MintPress News podcast, The Watchdog, hosted by British-Iraqi hip hop artist Lowkey (@Lowkey0nline).   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

I was invited to speak with some comrades at The Cadre Journal, a student-run Journal and Podcast on Anti-Imperialism and Communism, about a section of Edward Said's Culture and Imperialism (1993). Support www.patreon.com/east_podcast    

The podcast discusses the myths of a free press, government censorship, and media bias. It explores the influential ties between government, media, and military. The narrative delves into the control of news content by major organizations and the impact of corporate interests on news coverage. Additionally, it critiques the lack of ideological diversity in the media and the manipulation of information in entertainment.

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.   Ben Norton (@BenjaminNorton) returns to the show to talk about the recent wave of left electoral victories across Latin America. Subscribe to Multipolarista!    

*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.*