Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchAER 107: Interviewed by the Cadre Journal about the DR Congo and Rwanda
A new youtube channel, the Cadre Journal, has been publishing hour-long in-depth interviews with Communist party activists and others on and largely …
4 years, 7 months ago
Scramble for Africa 15: France Seizes West Africa
In this episode France seizes the territories of the Tukolors (overthrowing Sultan Ahmadu), battles Samori Toure, and fights a long war with King Ben…
4 years, 7 months ago
Anti-Empire Radio 106: How the US started the war on Syria in 2011, with William van Wagenen
More than a decade later it is well past time to look at how the Syrian Civil War really started – with a US-orchestrated regime change campaign with…
4 years, 7 months ago
Scramble for Africa 14: France saves Sadok Bey of Tunis from a nonexistent threat and steals the country 1881
After a bit of comparing and contrasting French colonialism with the British type, Dave tells us about the French Foreign Legion; Then we’re on to a …
4 years, 7 months ago
AER 105: Are your favorite academic theorists really CIA spooks? With Gabriel Rockhill
Talking to Gabriel Rockhill, professor and director of the Critical Theory Workshop. Ever wonder why the CIA thought it was worthwhile to sponsor Eur…
4 years, 7 months ago
Scramble for Africa 13: France in the Scramble – the Algeria Precedent and Abdelkader’s Resistance
We talked about France’s colonization of Algeria back in Civilizations Episode 15 (in August 2020). We revisit it now, as France’s entry point into t…
4 years, 7 months ago
Scramble for Africa 12b: The British Sack Benin in 1897
Using Dan Hicks’s 2020 book The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution, Justin tells the story of how the Bri…
4 years, 8 months ago
AER 104: Will Ukraine be Putin’s Afghanistan? With Scott Ritter
I interviewed Scott Ritter, former Marine, weapons inspector, and current author and writer about the war in Ukraine. We start with his experiences a…
4 years, 8 months ago
AER 103: Vaccine Mandates and Dispersed Convoys
I’m joined by AER’s favorite doctor Tarek Loubani and by another doctor (this time a doctor of history), Dorotea Gucciardo, a lecturer in the history…
4 years, 8 months ago
Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa
We start this episode with a few minutes of reading reviews – from fans and not-fans! Perhaps this will inspire you to review us too. Then we’re on t…
4 years, 8 months ago