*I was invited to friend of the show Ben Norton's Multipolarista to discuss Wag the Dog, an excellent, somewhat forgotten political satire of US media and war.* The 1997 Hollywood film "Wag the Dog" perfectly predicted the propaganda tactics the US government and media would use decades later in its wars in Ukraine, Iraq, Syria, Libya, and beyond. In this special joint episode, Multipolarista host Benjamin Norton is joined by Sina Rahmani of The East Is a Podcast to discuss the movie and how shockingly relevant it still is today.   Video edition available here   Support The East Is a Podcast at https://patreon.com/east_podcast   Follow Sina at https://twitter.com/urorientalist   || Multipolarista  || Please support Multipolarista at https://multipolarista.com/support Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/multipolarista  Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/multipolarista  Telegram: https://t.me/multipolarista  

Wag the Dog (1997) w/ Ben Norton

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Get out your most painful traumies cause it's that time again.  A smaller helping of Tankie Group Therapy featuring Justin, Joe, and Sina.  Watch the episode on The Anti-Empire Project YouTube channel   Consider supporting the podcast www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Tankie Group Therapy #16: Apocalypse, now!

(A preview of the latest episode of Justin Podur's World War Civ series on his very excellent Anti-Empire Project podcast)  General Allenby, Sharif Hussein and his son Feisal, and their handler TE Lawrence array the forces of the British Empire and the Arab Revolt against the Turco-German forces in Palestine. The battle starts in Gaza and ends with Allenby walking into the Jaffa Gate of Jerusalem. The story of the fateful campaign that brought British imperialism to Palestine (and Lebanon, and Syria…). We note that the British found Gaza to be a “fortress” from which it was impossible to dislodge the Turkish forces; Justin felt TE Lawrence was overrated, just another imperialist; and we compare admiration of the stoicism with which Allenby took news of his son’s death, with an analogous situation today.  https://podur.org/2024/05/13/world-war-civ-40-how-britain-took-palestine-in-1917/    

(Preview) World War Civ 40: How Britain Took Palestine in 1917

Nora (@norabf), Sina (@UrOrientalist), Rob (@robrousseau), and Alex (@Alexander_Avina) are back on the couch for another session of Tankie Group Therapy. Watch the episode on The East is a Podcast YouTube channel Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast

Tankie Group Therapy #15: Segregationist Methuselah and the fading US Empire

An extra large helping of Tankie Therapy featuring a big crowd of patients crammed together on the digital couch: Nora, Rob, Mikey, Arama, Justin, Alex, Joe, and Sina chaotically trying to host. We discussed the very irrational response on the part of the university administrators across the West to the encampments in solidarity with Palestinians sprouting up at dozens of schools.  Watch the video edition on the East is a Podcast YouTube channel   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast     

Tankie Group Therapy #14: Too much democracy!

Guest host and writer Amal Nura (@amaalnuura) interviews Aziz Faarah (@azizfaarah), independent archivist and collector of Somali artifacts. They discuss his auction adventures and encounters with vendors including one who spent a few weeks in Somali jails in the 1970s https://twitter.com/azizfaarah/status/1736547727821943090.   Their conversation touches on the value of material culture, the museum as a colonial invention and Aziz’s mission to reclaim and repatriate pieces to Somalis in the Horn of Africa and across the diaspora. To read more and get a glimpse into Aziz’s collection:  https://africasacountry.com/2024/04/buying-back-our-things   Consider supporting the show www.patreon.com/east_podcast   Check out the Anti-Imperialist Archive https://feeds.libsyn.com/437079/rss

Wag the Dog (1997) w/ Ben Norton

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