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Nasser Arrabyee is a journalist based in Sana'a. Make sure to check his previous appearances on the show!

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Friend of the show and recurring guest Amanda Yee (@catcontentonly) on th…

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Yousef Baker (@YousefKB) teaches political science at California State University, Long Beach and worked briefly in the Green Zone in the early days of the US occupation. Watch the video edition of …

Brandon Wolfe-Honnecut is the author of The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq (2021).

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Amir Taha is a PhD student at the University of Amsterdam. Check out his earlier episode, "Resisting Saddam."

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Saree Makdisi (@sareemakdisi) is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at UCLA and the author…

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Back by popular demand! Alexander McKay from Red Star Radio returns to continue the conversation about the tragicomical decline of the UK.

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Guest host and friend of the show Shep (@NeolithicSheep) joins me to talk to Madina Matin from ASEEL, an impact-driven tech start-up based in Afghanistan connecting underrepresented communities with …

A preview of the latest episode of Anti Empire Radio by friend of the show Justin Podur.  Listen to the entire conversation by subscribing to Justin's show on your podcatcher or watch it on his YouTu…

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Esha Krishnaswamy (@eshalegal) is the host of the historicly podcast 

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Alexander Mckay is the host of the Red Star Radio Podcast 

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Gabriel Rockhill returns to the show to talk about Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

Check out Gabriel's article, "Capitalism’s Court Jester: Slavoj Žižek"

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Friend of the podcast Ricardo Vaz is a writer and editor with VenezuelAna…

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Friend of the podcast Alexander Aviña takes us deep into the long and dir…

Check out the article, "The role of UK intelligence services in the abduction, murder of James Foley" by William Van Wagenen (@wvanwagenen) 

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Check out Amanda's latest article, "Why Chinese ‘debt trap diplomacy’ is a lie"

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Longtime friend of the podcast Ben Norton from Multopolarista returns to the show to discuss the coup in Peru.

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