Subverting Syria: Dark Histories of US Empire w/ Patrick Higgins
This episode is a release of our sister program The Adnan Husain Show. Adnan discusses a crucial history of US subversion of Syria's sovereignty even before the conclusion of WW2 starting with interference and covert operations by the OSS precursor to the CIA and then through the entire Cold War with Dr. Patrick Higgins, a Middle East historian, co-editor of Liberated Texts and member of the Anti-Imperialist Scholars Collective. His article "Gunning for Damascus: The US War on the Syrian Arab Republic" is mandatory reading and the state of the field on this dark history. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/19436149.2023.2199487?scroll=top&needAccess=true#abstractart Support the show on Patreon if you can (and get early access to episodes)! www.patreon.com/adnanhusain Or make a one-time donation to the show and Buy Me a Coffee: https://buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain Like, subscribe, share! Also available in video on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@adnanhusainshow X: @adnanahusain Substack: adnanahusain.substack.com www.adnanhusain.org
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The Future of Resistance w/ Ali Kadri
In this episode of Guerrilla History, Ali Kadri is back for another installment of our new mini-series with him! This time, a fascinating discussion on The Future of Resistance. If you missed our previous episode with him, Surplus Populations and the Political Economy of Waste, be sure to check that out! Also, stay tuned for more installments of this series! Ali Kadri is an esteemed Professor at various institutions around the world, as well as the author of many important books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment, The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, and please note that Guerrilla History now is uploading on YouTube as well, so do us a favor, subscribe to the show and share some links from there so we can get helped out in the algorithms!! *As mentioned, you will be able to find Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia on YouTube. Adnan Husain Show on YT and audio podcast and they can support patreon.com/adnanhusain and buymeacoffee.com/adnanhusain
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Stories of Resistance + Brazil Update w/ Michael Fox
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we are joined by returning guest Michael Fox (whom you may remember from our episodes The Rise of Fascism, Bolsonaro, & the Brazilian Elections and American Imperialism's Shadow on Latin America w/ Michael Fox) to discuss his fantastic new series Stories of Resistance, a collaboration with The Real News Network and provides short surveys of resistance throughout history and in the contemporary world. Be sure to check this one out! Michael Fox is a Brazil-based journalist, contributor to The World, former Editor of NACLA, and the host of the podcast series Under the Shadow and Brazil on Fire, and now also Stories of Resistance. Michael can be followed on Twitter @mfox_us, you can support his project on his patreon and follow his band Monte Perdido. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, and please note that Guerrilla History now is uploading on YouTube as well, so do us a favor, subscribe to the show and share some links from there so we can get helped out in the algorithms!! *As mentioned, you will be able to find Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia on YouTube.
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Surplus Populations and the Political Economy of Waste w/ Ali Kadri
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we kick off a brilliant new mini-series with our friend, Dr. Ali Kadri! Here, we discuss surplus populations and the political economy of waste. We always hear terrific things about our conversations with Ali, and we are sure you will similarly love this one. Be sure to stay tuned for the next installment of this mini-series, which will be on The Future of Resistance! Ali Kadri is an esteemed Professor at various institutions around the world, as well as the author of many important books including Arab Development Denied: Dynamics of Accumulation by Wars of Encroachment, The Accumulation of Waste: A Political Economy of Systemic Destruction, and The Unmaking of Arab Socialism. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory We also have a (free!) newsletter you can sign up for, and please note that Guerrilla History now is uploading on YouTube as well, so do us a favor, subscribe to the show and share some links from there so we can get helped out in the algorithms!! *As mentioned, you will be able to find Tsars and Commissars: From Rus to Modern Russia on YouTube.
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National Liberation Struggles & the Agrarian Question w/ Max Ajl [REMASTERED]
In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring on a good comrade of ours, Max Ajl (much overdue, we might add)! Here, we get a primer on the agrarian question and discuss its importance to national liberation struggles globally! Max is the perfect guest for this conversation, and we know you'll get a lot out of it. Max Ajl is is an associated researcher with the Tunisian Observatory for Food Sovereignty and the Environment, a researcher on decolonization, post-colonial planning, Arab dependency theory and food sovereignty at Ghent University, and the author of the outstanding A People's Green New Deal. You can follow Max on twitter @maxajl. Help support the show by signing up to our patreon, where you also will get bonus content: https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory
Guerrilla History is the podcast that acts as a reconnaissance report of global history for the activist left, and aims to use the lessons of history to analyze the present.
Your hosts are educators Henry Hakamaki and Professor Adnan Husain, historian and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University.
Follow us on social media! Our podcast can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/guerrilla_pod, and can be supported on patreon at https://www.patreon.com/guerrillahistory. Your contributions will make the show possible to continue and succeed!
Follow the hosts, Henry can be found on twitter at https://twitter.com/huck1995. Adnan can be followed on twitter at https://twitter.com/adnanahusain, and also runs The Majlis Podcast, which can be found at https://anchor.fm/msgp-queens, and the Muslim Societies-Global Perspectives group at Queens University, https://www.facebook.com/MSGPQU/. The other shows of the Revolutionary Left Radio family can be found at revolutionaryleftradio.com.
Thanks to Ryan Hakamaki, who designed and created the podcast's artwork, and Kevin MacLeod, who creates royalty-free music.
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