The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

By Justin Podur

A podcast about how today’s Empire works and who is resisting.... more

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Number 1: Interwar 9 America pt1: Autos, Cinema, Airplanes, Finance, Prohibition, Gangsters
A little bit of everything as we take two hours to start to paint a picture of Interwar America.
April 26, 20262h 22min
Number 2: Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi
After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jails and executes his rivals, plunders the tribes, makes a personal bank, and becomes not only Shah, but in Gholi Majd’s words, “the largest private landowner… in all likelihood in the recorded … Continue reading "Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi"
April 02, 202643min
Number 3: Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921
The 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement made every Persian government that followed unviable. Britain wanted Iran to be a colony, but couldn’t find a viable collaborator in the Qajjar Shahs or the Majlis. So, in 1921, they used one of their favorite moves: they organized a coup to overthrow a government they had installed and supported. The … Continue reading "Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921"
March 12, 202658min
Number 4: Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar Shahs, the British occupation during WWI, and the British imposition of the hated Anglo-Persian agreement of 1919, which no Iranian government can survive…
February 23, 20262h 6min
Number 5: Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition
In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Revolutionaries regrouped. We trace their path through armed struggle against Britain, negotiation, the formation of the Dail and its role. The larger than life characters including Michael Collins and events like Bloody Sunday. How England’s first colony fought the Empire between the world wars.
January 17, 20262h 16min