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“They won’t leave us alone”: Organized chaos and hybrid war in Iran w/ Navid Zarrinnal

***Note: Navid’s internet has been very unreliable for weeks now, so when I managed to get hold of him with a stable VPN, we decided to hurriedly record. In...

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Tankie Group Therapy #36: Empire of Lulz

Tankie Group Therapy is back after a long, long hiatus!  Lara Sheehi from Psychic Militancy hosts this special, extra-super-duper-sized edition featuring all your TGT faves: Justin Podur, Nora Barrows-Friedman,...

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Michael Parenti: “US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR” (1986)

***RIP Michael Parenti*** Michael Parenti speaks at the University of Colorado, Boulder: “US interventionism, the 3rd world, and the USSR” April 15, 1986 Source https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xP8CzlFhc14 Check out the 

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“Listen to the Iranians”: Sina Rahmani (The East is a Podcast)

**Note: When stuff in Iran goes down, my natural inclination is to avoid doing content and stay above the fray, at least until the media hysteria dies down.  Not...

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Sina Rahmani: “This is hybrid warfare” (The Freedom Side, Jan 15th)

I have been on the road and unable to do a proper episode on what’s happening on Iran, so I decided to post this quick spot I did with...

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Sina Rahmani

The Host

Sina Rahmani completed his Ph.D. in Comparative Literature at UCLA. He is a translator, scholar, and writer. His work has been published in the PMLA, Iranian Studies, boundary 2, Radical History Review, and Public Books.

He does this podcast in his spare time, of which he has plenty. He has never gone fishing.

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