The Adnan Husain Show

You loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Aviña, and Nina Farnia

The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciatory of the imperial agents and forces against us, and motivational for action in the struggle for liberation and justice. Join us and let's create a dynamic community for change through political education and psychic discipline.

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Adnan discusses Thomas Piketty's recent paper, "discovering" that colonialism caused uneven development, with critical political economy and development scholar Dr. Ingrid Kvangraven (@ingridharvold). What is data without a conceptual or theoretical framework in which to explain that uneven development and colonialism were integral to capitalist development? Dr. Kvangraven illuminates the necessary contributions of world systems, dependency theory, and Marxist critique to understanding capitalism and the real remedies required.

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Dr. Gerald Horne joins Adnan and Henry in this cross-over episode of Guerrilla History and the Adnan Husain Show to discuss his recent book, Armed Struggle?: Panthers and Communists, black Nationalists and Liberals in Southern California, Through the Sixties and Seventies. As ever, Professor Horne connects the histories of organizing and resistance against racial capitalism to the contemporary situation, including the LA uprisings against ICE raids and developments against neocolonialism and imperialism in West Asia. A wide-ranging conversation with the inimitable Dr. Horne ranged across the histories of class politics, struggles against racism, and geopolitics to consider the prospects for resistance locally and internationally in contemporary movements for justice. Watch the episode on our YouTube channel

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You loved Tankie Group Therapy? You will be inspired by the Struggle Session! This edition features Adnan hosting Nora Barrows Friedman, Alex Avina, and Nina Farnia on Sunday June 29th 3pm ET/12pmPT/8pm UK/9pm Europe/10pm West Asia.

The Struggle Session is not here to make you feel better, but rather to make you more ready for action. This livestream panel series with Adnan and guests will be analytical about the world, self-critical of our movements, denunciatory of the imperial agents and forces against us, and motivational for action in the struggle for liberation and justice. Join us and let’s create a dynamic community for change through political education and psychic discipline.

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**Producer's note: This is the sixth in a 7-part series. All 7 parts are now available to Patrons of the show, and we will release the subsequent parts every Wednesday for the next 6 weeks on the podcast. Support the show on Patreon if you can't wait!**

Part 6 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Adnan and Ariel shift focus from the region to a global perspectives of US geopolitics and empire to understand Israel as a project of the West and to explore the particular dimensions of US political support driving a genocidal policy. Identifying the military industrial/security/surveillance complex, the Christian evangelical movements and their apocalyptic (and anti-semitic) support for Israeli genocide, as well as other factors of US politics and geopolitics like the pro-US regional lobbies helps understand the virulence of anti-Palestinian racism and a new antisemitism against anti-zionist Jews. The episode analyzes the forces which have shaped US-Israeli politics and ideology and fuel the genocide in Gaza.

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Adnan welcomes Palestinian writer, scholar and analyst Abdaljawad Omar to discuss two related recent articles on the meaning of the new "Humanitarian Aid" structure imposed on Gaza and his analysis of the phenomenon of the "gangs" now armed by Israel.

Check out his recent writings "Israel's gangsters in Gaza" "The 'chaos' of aid distribution in Gaza is not a system failure. The system is designed to fail."

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Part 5 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). Dr. Ariel Salzmann and Adnan discuss how the popular uprising of the "first intifada" could only be quelled by the "Oslo Peace Process" and the recruitment of a comprador class formed into the Palestinian Authority to maintain the occupation and dispossession of Palestinians. Such predictable betrayals of the national liberation struggle shaped new forms of resistance to both the compradors and occupation from the "Aqsa intifada" to the blockade and bombardment of Gaza as Israel waged a form of war through "peace." Ariel and Adnan examine the enabling also of new forms of annexation and colonial violence under the expansion of the settler movement and its radical messianic ideology. The conversation widens to consider the politics of the peace and its dispensation in Palestine, the region, in the US-led global order

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Adnan convenes an emergency panel to discuss and analyze the recent Israeli-US attack on Iran, its implications for Iran, the region, and the world. Prof. David Yaghoubian (CSU-San Bernardino) and Sina Rahmani (East is a Podcast) share their insights and reflections along with passionate and deeply committed analysis about the place of Iran as the frontline state fighting for a sovereign future against Western imperial hegemony.

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Part 4 of Palestine and the World: History in a Time of Genocide (Denial). This episode examines the colonial and settler colonial character of the project of zionism and the foundations of the state of Israel. This leads Dr. Ariel Salzmann to reframe the transformation of diasporic Judaism into zionism under the alchemy of the colonizing process (as a project of Western modernity as a "civilizing process". This analysis poses how the new settler colonial state operated in the international system after WW2 in the Cold War to recolonize Palestine despite the global effort at decolonization. In fact, Palestine exposes the limits of that process and its contradictions in the new world system. Adnan and Ariel examine the framework of the Cold War for the Palestinian national movement against settler colonialism and its alignment within a "third world" liberation struggle globally. The episode explores the geopolitics of Palestinian liberation and resistance to occupation up to the popular uprising of the "first intifada".

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Dr. Marchella "Chella" Ward, a scholar of Critical Ancient World Studies joins Adnan to discuss the meaning of "Intifada" in response to the French prosecution of Elias D'Imzalène for his use of the word in a Palestine solidarity protest. Dr. Ward's expertise in philology—the historical study of the meaning of words— allows her to explore the historical range of the meaning and usage of "intifada" in anti-occupation and anticolonial contexts to dispute claims that it inherently carries a violent or antisemitic meaning. She discusses the politics of language under fascism and the importance of using the tools of precise analysis of language in the pro-Palestine solidarity movement and for liberation struggles generally. A fascinating and illuminating conversation with an erudite colleague—enjoy!

To learn more about the case of Elias D'Imzalène, see Rayan Freschi of CAGE's post on ReOrient blog:

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Check out the Society for the Study of the Past

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