Delete Your Account Podcast

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by historian and returning guest Alexander Aviña. Alex is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack, author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside, and a founding member of the new Anti-Imperial Scholars Collective (AISC).

Alex and Kumars spend the hour digging into Alex's essay for the AISC's The Pen is My Machete blog, "Unity or Submission? The Great Yankee Risk," about the Trump administration's escalating plans for regime change—or regime collapse—in Venezuela.

Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina and find his latest long-form analysis at anti-imperialists.com, foreignexchanges.news, and more.

If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's 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!!!

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.

Kumars is off this week, so Roqayah is joined in Beirut by writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, war correspondent for Press TV and producer of "Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf" along with other programming at Free Palestine TV.

Together, Hadi and Roqayah react to the latest ceasefire agreement in Gaza, reflecting on the regional impact of the genocide, the interconnectedness of the Levant before and despite European colonization, and what Israel's campaign in Lebanon portends for Gaza in the coming months and years.

Hadi and Roqayah also discuss Israel's targeting of construction machinery and efforts to rebuild south Lebanon, the history of Israeli aggression against Lebanon dating back to 1948, how popular support for Hezbollah's refusal to disarm is informed by the longstanding marginalization of the Shia community, and finding hope in the global tradition of indigenous resistance.

You can watch Free Palestine TV on YouTube and follow Hadi Hoteit on Twitter.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Eliza Salamon, anti-Zionist Jewish organizer and recent alumna of Cornell University, whose direct ties to imperial violence she and her coauthor document in their new report released in collaboration with the organization The Antiwar Initiative.

Read Eliza's full report, published on the website Everything is Political, and visit antiwar.io to access all the resources you need to unmask complicity on your campus.

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!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars share some life updates and break down the latest developments in Lebanon as the government ramps up its campaign to disarm the Lebanese resistance and Israel's deadly violations of the November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah exceed the 4000 mark.

They also discuss the relationship between Harekat Amal and Hezbollah as factions of the Lebanese resistance, the separation of powers in Lebanon's model of governance, the military's detention of journalist Laith Marouf, and more before previewing a clip from Kumars's interview on The Colony Archive with friend of the show Navid Zarrinnal.

Check out The Colony Archive on YouTube to watch Kumars's full interview as well as a freshly-released bonus segment.

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!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by Danaka Katovich, Chicago-based organizer and National Co-director of the feminist antiwar group CODEPINK: Women for Peace, where she oversees all of the organization's national advocacy campaigns, from challenging US aggression towards China and Iran to calling for an end to US support for the war in Ukraine and the colonization of Palestine.

Danaka, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the demands placed on antiwar and anti-imperialist solidarity activists in our current moment, thow those demands have been changed by the experience of recent years, particularly the genocide in Gaza, and how CODEPINK is rising to meet them.

Follow Danaka on Twitter @WifeofToast, on Substack at danaka.substack.com, and visit codepink.org to get involved.

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!!!

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 is joined in Beirut by writer and video journalist Hadi Hoteit, war correspondent for Press TV and producer of Wartime Cafe with Laith Marouf along with other programming at Free Palestine TV.

Hadi has been reporting from the frontlines of Israel's ongoing assault on Lebanon where he covers the aftermath of Israeli strikes and their devastating impact on infrastructure and civilian life. They discuss the politics of so-called media "neutrality," the dehumanization of communities in the South, the erasure of Lebanese suffering, and the emotional toll of documenting war. Hadi also reflects on the complicity of mainstream media in Israeli impunity and the silence of the Lebanese state in the face of relentless bombardment.

You can watch Free Palestine TV on YouTube and follow Hadi Hoteit on Twitter.

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 are joined by returning guests Sina Rahmani, historian and creator of The East is a Podcast, and Navid Zarrinnal, professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences and host of The Colony Archive to discuss the latest from the US-Israeli assault on Iran, the effectiveness of Iranian retaliation, the politics of the Iranian diaspora, and the stakes of the Iranian government's survival for a decolonized Middle East.

For more of Sina and Navid, check out The Colony Archive and The East is a Podcast on YouTube.

Roqayah is off this week, so Kumars is joined from the top of the show by fan favorite Marvin Gonzalez and Delete Your Account debutantes Josef Burton and Luke to mark the conclusion of Andor.

NYC-based organizer Marvin, writer and former US diplomat Josef, and Luke, host of the medieval history podcast We're Not So Different, discuss the show's depiction of revolutionary movements, how the Star Wars IP legitimizes armed struggle, why conservatives are rehabilitating the Empire, post-Andor melancholy, and whether space aliens are a good metaphor for racism. In the final segment, Josef and Marvin square off in an all-new edition of the Star Wars quiz game.

Follow Marvin on Twitter @sulliedsubjects, Josef @PinstripeBungle and Luke @lukeisamazing.

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!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by an all-star panel of new and old friends of the show to discuss the growing threat of war against Iran and the challenges of renewed nuclear negotiations as well as the Islamic Republic's commitment to Palestinian liberation and anticolonial solidarity.

Assal Rad is an Iranian American historian, a fellow at DAWN and the author of State of Resistance: Politics, Culture and Identity in Modern Iran.

Sina Toossi is an Iranian American policy analyst and fellow at the Center for International Policy.

Sina Rahmani is an Iranian-Canadian historian as well as the creator and host of The East is a Podcast.

Navid Zarrinnal is an Iranian historian, assistant professor at the Lahore University of Management Sciences, and host of The Colony Archive on YouTube.

Follow Assal on Twitter @AssalRad, Sina Toossi at @SinaToossi, Sina Rahmani at @UrOrientalist and The Colony Archive @ColonyArchive.

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!!!

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!!!