Longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinal returns to guesthost an interview with Shirin Saeidi, who was fired from her position at the University of Arkansas for her political positions.  They discuss the failure of Iranian Studies scholars to produce work related to modern Iran,…

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.be/_D_tlo5gZsA Follow…

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 intimidation. Watch…

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

Longtime friend of the show Ali Alizadeh (@jedaal) returns to discuss his latest essay on the assassination of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei    Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtu.be/tEW7BsTj-7o Watch the essay here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEwa6aIZqC4 Support Ali…

Hannah Eid returns to the show after his first appearance got nuked by our digital overlords to speak in broad strokes about the resistance in West Asia. Check out his author page on Al Mayadeen https://english.almayadeen.net/authors/hanna-eid Watch the video edition on The East is…

PressTV reporter Hadi Hoteit reflects on the pain and terror being inflicted on South Lebanon and the complete silence of the mainstream press on the war crimes being committed by ZioAmerican forces. Watch the video edition on  The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Read More

***Adnan Husain invited me to join him and Rabab Abdulhadi for livestream conversation on the 25th anniversary of 9/11 WTC attacks. This is first hour! We continued for another hour plus! To listen to the entire episode subscribe on Patreon or watch the episode…

Friend of the show Kit Klarenberg returns to the podcast to discuss the 25th anniversary of the WTC attacks. Watch the livestream edition on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel https://youtube.com/live/1sgbc8twLgk Check out his article https://thegrayzone.com/2023/04/18/9-11-hijackers-cia-recruits/ Follow Kit on Substack Read More

[Note: This conversation continued for another 30 mins or so. You can listen to the entire episode by becoming a Patron or watch the episode on our YouTube channel linked below] Ammar Ali Jan is a Pakistani political activist, academic, and author. He…