***Note: Jay and I did another fundraiser episode. This time, we used the website Lifeline4Gaza to help lift up some slow-moving campaigns. During the episode, I linked to two other campaigns whose organizers I know and who need your help: consider donating to Ahmed or Mahmoud***

As promised we are back to air more grievances! This week Sina and Jared are combining forces once again! Nora Barrows-Friedman from Electronic Intifada, and our frequent guest and comrade Alexander Aviña will be joining us, and some other special guests will join us as well!

Last week Adnan Husain, Nick Estes, Mtume Gant, Sina Rahmani, and Jared Ware all joined forces for an "airing of the grievances" and to raise money for Mohammed and his siblings in Gaza

For this conversation - in between the airing of the grievances - we will be promoting the work of Lifeline4Gaza.

lifeline4gaza gathers links to existing appeals from families, individuals & grassroots community efforts in Gaza. Appeals are automatically ordered according to urgency, or cumulative donations, using software designed to prioritize those receiving the least donations over the past five days (calculated in real-time & accounting for currency conversions).

Appeals supported by @gazafunds, @radiowatermelon & @palestineasdiqa are tagged as such (when identified).

lifeline4gaza is an ever-evolving, open-source collaborative volunteer initiative to provide a lifeline to people in Gaza, Palestine during the usa-zionist genocide. Volunteers working on developing & maintaining this website met on x/twitter & can be reached at:

@ll4gaza on x/twitter @lifeline4gaza on instagram

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Note: Nick Estes and I have launched a new project called Pod Kapital in which we will be reading canonical Marxist texts for weekly episodes on his Substack. I will be posting the audio editions for all my patrons but if you want to watch the video edition, you will have to sign up behind his paywall! I encourage you to do so anyway for the great content he is posting !

The Red-Brown alliance is finally happening! The American Indian-Iranian alliance, that is. Host of the East Is a Podcast, Sina Rahmani, joins the Red Scare Podcast for the “Pod Kapital” series, where we dissect and discuss classic Marxist texts. We’re aiming for the fences for the first reading, starting with Karl Marx’s magnum opus: Capital: A Critique of Political Economy, Vol. 1 (1867). 

We’re offering this introduction for free, hoping that you will subscribe to the Substack to join our semi-weekly classes.

This eight-week course will meet via livestream on Substack every Tuesday at 1 pm CT. Recordings will be reposted for those who cannot attend the livestreams but still want to follow along.

Here’s the reading and podcast schedule: 

September 9: Introduction: Seeing the Monster

September 16: Part 1: The Commodity and Money

September 23: Part 2: Money and Capital

September 30: No Class

October 7: No Class

October 14: Part 3: Absolute Surplus Value

October 21: Part 4: Relative Surplus Value

October 28: Parts 5 & 6: Surplus Value and Wages

November 4: Part 7: Process of Accumulation

November 11: Part 8: Original Accumulation

November 18: Conclusion: The Secrets of Political Economy

There are several English translations of Capital. For this series, we’ll be using the recent Princeton version, translated and edited by Paul Reitter. We also recommend, and will be referencing, the Ben Fowkes translation and the English version available for free at Marxists.org. Purchasing a copy of the book isn’t a prerequisite for participating in this study group. (If you’re interested in a critical conversation about the Princeton translation, check out the episode of Guerrilla History with Paul North and Paul Reitter.)

Sina will also be referring directly to the original German texts found at the Marx-Engels-Gesamtausgabe (MEGA) archives.

Jonathan Sperber’s Karl Marx: A Nineteenth Century Life (2013) is an excellent intellectual biography of Karl Marx. We will be referring to it throughout the series.

We hope that you read along. But we also want to provide you with enough context and analysis that may inspire you to read or give a foundational overview of Capital. 

Each episode will be structured with an introduction, a summary, and a critical reflection on the reading, concluding with answering subscriber questions about the text. We hope you tune in to the livestream or post your questions in the comments section or chat function. 

Pilamayaye ota!

Many thanks for your continued support.

UPDATE

***Yesterday, Jay from MAKC hosted a livestream for me, Adnan Husain, and Nick Estes partly as a mini-fundraiser for my friend Mohammed in Gaza.  The response has been amazing.  As I mention in the episode, donations started pouring in from listeners/ viewers.  Someone even donated $500!. It was really moving for me--I even shed a tear on the livestream!

Thank you to all who donated. Mohammed was elated to see some money come in, as he has been trying to arrange for transport south for him and his siblings. For a few weeks, donations had dried up, and it was a source of anguish for him.  Seeing him get excited as he watched the donations come in made me really happy.

The happiness was short-lived. This afternoon (Tuesday) Mohammed messaged me to let me know his brother's wife just had a miscarriage. The Zionists have been shelling the north heavily as they accelerate the genocide,  and it caused her to miscarry. Needless to say, they are devastated. Martyred before life!

It goes without saying that there are a lot of really worthy campaigns.  Here are two being run by a friends of mine

https://chuffed.org/project/139183-help-ahmed-and-his-family-start-over-after-losing-everything

https://chuffed.org/project/141277-help-mahmoud-and-his-family-survive-and-stand-again

I once again want to thank all of you who have been donating and sharing/organizing campaigns.  Our ruling class has decided that this starvation war is normal, and it's up to us to do everything we can to support Palestinians fighting to stay alive. I encourage you to adopt your own campaigns. Even if you don't have a large social media following, you can find ways to fundraise. There are a lot of people out there who are not online and would like to show their support.  I have learned this first hand! 

I hope you enjoy this episode. It's a livestream and clocks in at over 2.5 hours.  It was fun and chaoatic and very adhoc. I will endevour to do more in the coming weeks and months!

-Sina

***

The East is a Podcast will host a conversation with multiple friends, airing grievances, covering multiple topics, discussing news and raising funds for Mohammed and his siblings amid evacuation orders. This stream will feature Nick Estes from The Red Nation, Adnan Husain from The Adnan Husain Show, Jared Ware from Millennials Are Killing Capitalism, and possibly other special guests.

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EIAP shadow commander in charge of finding guests Max Ajl returns to the show after a long hiatus to discuss what lessons can be drawn from the 12-day war between Iran and ZioAmerikkan Empire. 

Check out his piece, "Peoples and Regimes: Anti-Imperialism and the Islamic Republic of Iran"

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Tankie Group Therapy is back! This time with an actual licensed therapist! Sina hosts alongside Adnan from  @adnanhusainshow , Jay from  @MAKCapitalism , and Lara Sheehi!

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The first half of a long conversation with longtime friend of the show Navid Zarrinnal about Iran's perpetually tortured relationship with the West and how anti-imperialist resistance shapes attitudes of the population. 

Check out the second half of the conversation on  @TheColonyArchive  or subscribe to The East is a Podcast on Patreon to listen to the audio. 

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**Nick Estes from The Red Nation Podcast invited me on his new project on Substack to talk about John Carpenter's They Live (1988). This is a preview of the episode.  Support Nick on Substack to access this and other great bonus content!**

Nick Estes in conversation with TRN Podcast producer and host of The East is a Podcast Sina Rahmani (@UrOrientalist) exploring what John Carpenter’s They Live (1988) can teach us how the ruling class uses ideaology to govern our daily lives—and how to break free of that control.

Tankie Group Therapy is back! Sina, Alex, Nora, and Jay get together for another session to discuss the latest news from the Gaza Holocaust.

Support Palestinians in Gaza through their fundraisers

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**I put the concluding 20 mins of the conversation behind the paywall on audio. If you want to listen to the entire episode, sign up for Patreon for less than $2 a month or watch it on our YouTube channel (linked below)**

**Note: I managed-yet again-to mess up my audio settings at the last minute before we started recording resulting in me sounding blown out. Apologies!**

Returning guest Alexander Mckay and Kit Klarenberg, co-hosts of the Decline and Fall, discuss the deepening crisis Western imperialism faces as it wages proxy wars against Iran and Russia simultaneously and economic war against China.

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Tankie Group Therapy is back! After a long hiatus, Sina is joined by TGT stalwarts Nora, Alex, Adnan, and Lara.

Video edition coming soon!

Fundraisers

Mohammed's family has been ordered to evacuate for the fourth time. Please consider donating to his campaign https://chuffed.org/project/120676-mohammed-from-gaza

The Sameer Project https://chuffed.org/project/113222-tent-campaign-the-sameer-project

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