The East is a Podcast

Asa Winstanley (@AsaWinstanley) is an investigative journalist with the Electronic Intifada and author of Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn (2022).

Tankie Therapy crew (Nora, Mikey, Alex, Joe, Sina, and Louis) gets together to reflect on one year after Al Aqsa Flood and the Gaza genocide.

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Roqayah Chamseddine (@roqchams) is a journalist and writer based in Lebanon and co-host of Delete Ur Account

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Louis, Mikey, Nora, Sina, Alex, and Joe join for our usual therapy session. We talk about the developing Israel-Lebanon war, the difficulty performing everyday life, Macklemore's new song, Hinds Hall…

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Kyle Ferrana (@KyleTrainEmoji) is a writer, software engineer, and tenant organizer.  He is the author of Why the World Needs China: Development, Environmentalism, Conflict Resolution & Common Prosp…

Nora, Alex, Sina, Joe, and Mikey join for our normal therapy session just after Hizbollah's response and after a particularly rough week with the RNC and DNC disconnecting with multiple massacres in …

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The International People’s Tribunal on US Imperialism: Sanctions, Blockades and Economic Coercive Measures condemns the Israeli assassination of Yasser Adnan Ibrahim al-Derawi, 31 year old attorney…

The group gets together after two weeks of assassinations, literal mask-off moments, and massacres. The idea of the "single issue voter" arises - but perhaps it's a single-issue empire. Sina, Nora, A…

Friend of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) guest hosts a conversation with Fida Jiryis, author of Stranger in My Own Land: Palestine, Israel and One Family's Story of Home (2022)

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Another session of Tankie Group Therapy featuring the old crew: @justinpodur, @norabf, @karaokecomputer, @rosendo_joe,  @alexander_avina, and Urorientalist.The session seemed to revolve mostly around…

Founder of Liberated Texts and longtime supporter of the show Louis Allday (@Louis_Allday) returns to guest host an episode with Mary Turfah (@maryturfah) about her article on Zionist sadism. 

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Friend of the show Alex Aviña guests hosts an episode with geographer Taylor Miller about the intertwined systems of carceral border control policing the US/Mexico border and Palestine. 

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On June 18, The Baffler published an article by Mary Turfah called "Running Amok" in which Mary tried to understand the psychology underlying Israeli troops and citizens' production of trophy videos …

On 10 May 2024, the Early Caribbean Society hosted a virtual, communal, poetry reading noting connections between Haiti, Sudan, DRC, Palestine, and Indigenous people on Turtle Island, facing invasion…

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Friend of the show Alex Aviña (@Alexander_Avina) joined me for an episode on the perennial que…