Podcast Episodes

The Arab Regimes and Israel

Arab regimes across the Middle East have had a long history of comparative disinterest towards the Palestinian cause and apathy towards their emancipation. Israel has found willing collaborators in E…

Published on 5 months, 4 weeks ago

Iran and the Neocons 1979-2025

The neoconservatives were at the apex of their power and influence two decades ago but the project they longed for the most, war against Iran is now underway. This time, despite the changing rhetoric…

Published on 6 months ago

Israel's attack on Iran - a historical context

In this urgent episode, we break down last night’s dramatic Israeli raid on Iran—Operation Rising Lion—which targeted Iran’s nuclear facilities and killed top Iranian military leaders in the largest …

Published on 6 months ago

Thoughts on Civil War

What leads a nation into a civil war? In this podcast we examine the crises of power and contestation of authority that create wars within, not between nations.

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Published on 6 months ago

The fall of communism: An oral history

Oral histories can be very revealing in understanding the beliefs and feelings that people had in particular historical moments. In Svetlana Alexeivich's amazing book Second Hand Time, hundreds of fo…

Published on 6 months ago

Colonial wealth transfers: A New Analysis

Question:What would have happened to Europe in the past two and a half centuries if it hadn't plundered the global south? What would have happened if Europeans had paid for the labour of Africans ins…

Published on 6 months ago

Neoliberalism and the European Economic Community

The post war neoliberals were divided over the European Economic Community, some viewing it as a protected enclave of the world economy that would hold back the global economic integration they hoped…

Published on 6 months ago

Trump, Musk and the end of American Empire

All American presidents since 1945 have been managers of the USA's global economic empire, Trump notionally fulfils the same role but has little or no understanding of the complexities, challenges an…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

The Black American Experience in World War Two

During the Second World War the immense needs for labour and military manpower transformed American society and gave Black Americans an historic opportunity to advance themselves. This podcast explor…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago

Suffrage, Medicine and Murder

In the 1850s a medical revolution was beginning with the discovery of anaesthesia and a political and social revolution was still in its infancy in the guise of the embryonic suffrage movement that w…

Published on 6 months, 1 week ago