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Ep. 247 – President Xi, my country, the moon, yearns for freedom May 01, 2025

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Amanda Yee, an independent journalist and organizer based in Brooklyn. Amanda is also the co-host of The China Report on BreakThrough News and the managing editor of Liberation News. Her writing has appeared in Monthly Review Online, The Real News Network, CounterPunch, and Peoples Dispatch.

Amanda talks us through the implications of Trump's "Liberation Day" tariff war on the global market as well as its impact on China, which has inflicted a 125% tariff on US products. Amanda discusses China's defensive economic strategy under the leadership of Xi Jinping's, which has helped prepare China for a market showdown with the United States, and how China will weather potential setbacks.

The crew also delves into China's cultural exchange of ideas and the deprogramming of Americans—namely on social media platforms like the Chinese platform RedNote—which has undermined the United States' dissemination of anti-China propaganda.

You can follow Amanda on Twitter @radiofreeamanda and you can also follow Amanda's work over at The China Report.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," you can subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Episode 246.5 – BDS with Rockets (free preview) Apr 10, 2025

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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the latest news from Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, including Israel bombing Beirut for the first time since the November ceasefire with Hezbollah, the real scandal of "Signalgate", the Trump administration's continued escalation against Yemen, the prospect of US strikes on Iran, and more signs that Gaza is not alone.

Episode 246 – Mexico is the Wall Mar 17, 2025

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined for the hour by Alexander Aviña, an expert on Mexican history and US imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside.

Alex shares his perspective on how the second Trump administration has actually changed immigration policy and enforcement, the Democrats' legacy of border militarization, the high-profile detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and others, Dr. Phil's deportation ride-along, the Marxist case for "open borders", and the effectiveness of recent popular mobilizations against ICE.

Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina and stay abreast of his latest analysis at foreignexchanges.news.

Episode 245 – Settler Honeymoon Feb 27, 2025

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars present a news roundup from Lebanon and Palestine. They preview Roqayah's on-the-ground coverage of the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon, before discussing the current state of the ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF's latest escalation in the West Bank, and Israel's plans to occupy southern Syria indefinitely.

If you want to support the show and receive access to Roqayah's "Last Week in Lebanon" column along with tons of other bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Episode 244 – Some Changes Around Here Feb 17, 2025

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This week, Roqayah and Kumars preview Roqayah's new weekly column, "Last Week in Lebanon," available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon. In her first post, Roqayah documents the Lebanese Army's crackdown on pro-Resistance demonstrations after the new Lebanese government prevented an Iranian plane from carrying mourners to the funeral of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah.

If you want to support the show and receive access to Roqayah's "Last Week in Lebanon" column along with tons of other bonus content, subscribe on our Patreo n for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Episode 243.5 – Live from Lebanon (free preview) Jan 28, 2025

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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's upcoming weekly report from Lebanon, by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by journalist Rania Khalek, host of Dispatches and cohost of The Freedom Side at BreakThrough News, to discuss recent developments in Lebanon including the election of a new president and prime minister, Israel's violations of the ceasefire agreement with Hezbollah, the future of the Axis of Resistance, and the triumphant return of South Lebanese people to their villages in defiance of the IDF.

Follow Rania on Twitter @RaniaKhalek and catch her latest interviews and analysis by subscribing to BreakThrough News on YouTube.

Episode 243 – Catch-22 Jan 23, 2025

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined for the hour from Ramallah by writer, translator and returning guest Rawan Masri, cofounder of the online archive and resource hub decolonizepalestine.com. Rawan shares her analysis of the ceasefire in Gaza before turning to the West Bank to break down Israel's unprecedented escalation, what annexation would actually look like, and the curious revival of armed Palestinian resistance.

Follow Rawan on Twitter @RivertoSea48 and check out the wealth of curated information available at your fingertips when you visit decolonizepalestine.com.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts. We can't do this show without your support!!!

Ep. 242 – Get In Loser, We're Making Asian NATO Dec 28, 2024

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Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the hour by Ju-hyun Park, engagement editor at The Real News Network and an organizer with Nodutdol for Korean Community Development.

Ju-hyun discusses the origins of Nodutdol, founded in 1999 by diaspora Koreans in the United States to work for reunification, national liberation and the end of US imperialism on the Korean peninsula, and expands on their latest for People's Dispatch, "Was South Korea's coup an attempt to restart the Korean War?"

Ju-hyun and Kumars situate the recent political crisis in the context of the decades-long popular struggle against colonization and military dictatorship, rounding out the conversation by considering the possible confrontations still to come between US imperial designs in Northeast Asia and the Korean people's fight for sovereignty.

Follow Ju-hyun on Twitter @Hermit_hwarang and find out everything you need to know about how to support and get involved with Nodutdol at USOUTOFKOREA.org.

Episode 241.5 – Hard Target (free preview) Dec 18, 2024

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This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only! We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content by subscribing on our Patreon for as little as $5 a month. While you're at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Asa Winstanley, associate editor with The Electronic Intifada and author of "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn", for a wide-ranging conversation about the police raid on his home in the UK, his reporting on Israel's implementation of the Hannibal Directive on October 7, and the impact of regime change in Syria on the Axis of Resistance.

Follow Asa on Twitter @AsaWinstanley and pick up a copy of "Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn" from OR Books.

Episode 241 – Poetic Justice Nov 20, 2024

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A transcript for this episode is now available to download for free as a pdf on our Patreon.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by Rasha Abdulhadi, writer, organizer, poet and author of several books including The Countermonuments (2024). Rasha discusses a few of their poems including "Your Oysters," "Advice on Love from an Astronaut with a Failing Memory" and "The Dead Palestinian Father", the implications of the US election for Palestinians and solidarity activists, and why left-wing organizers resist disability accommodations.

Rasha is on Twitter @rashaabdulhadi. If you are in NYC, you can join Rasha at launch events for their new book The Countermonuments this Thursday and Friday! A full list of links referenced during the show can be found below.

Podcasts mentioned:

Kali on MAKC podcast: https://millennialsarekillingcapitalism.libsyn.com/where-do-we-go-from-here-featuring-kali-akuno

Ordinary Unhappiness gerontophallocracy series: https://pod.link/1680330412

RFK DP episode: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/teaser-rfk-health-capitalism-and-the-myths-of-wellness-111824

Danya's DP episode: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/public-health-and-palestine-w-danya-qato

Citations Needed December 2020: https://citationsneeded.libsyn.com/ep-125-obama-era-media-failures-we-shouldnt-rehash-under-biden-part-i

Socialism con death panel: Political economy of Covid: https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/the-political-economy-of-covid-dp-x-s24-091224

Refusing Genocide (15min guided writing/planning/organizing reflection at ~44min mark): https://soundcloud.com/deathpanel/refusing-genocide-from-palestine-to-pandemic-w-rasha-abdulhadi-dp-x-s24-092624

Poetry stuff:

Fargo's essay on craft: https://proteanmag.com/2023/12/08/notes-on-craft-writing-in-the-hour-of-genocide/

Palestinian roundtable on writing in a time of genocide: https://electricliterature.com/palestinian-poets-on-the-role-of-art-in-fighting-genocide-gaza-palestine/

Dead Palestinian Father: http://www.anathemamag.com/the-dead-palestinian-father