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The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur
Hosted by Justin Podur · EN
A podcast about how today’s Empire works and who is resisting.
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Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919
Feb 2302:05:08Tap to summarizeIran’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…
Transcribe →Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition
Jan 1702:15:26Tap to summarizeIn 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.
Transcribe →AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping
Jan 400:37:14Tap to summarizeIn the early morning of January 3, 2026, the US bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president and its first lady. As of Day 1 of the war, Venezuela’s government is intact and popular mobilizations are calling for their president’s return. Trump has said that the US will run Venezuela and take its oil. Some insights … Continue reading "AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping"
Transcribe →Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence
Dec 2801:06:24Tap to summarizeOur last episode of 2025. Did you know that Amanullah’s decision to wage war for Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire had everything to do with Amritsar and the struggle underway in India in 1919? Some details on this war that you may not have heard, including the British besieging Peshawar, displacing whole towns full … Continue reading "Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence"
Transcribe →Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar…
Nov 2903:28:21Tap to summarizeUsing Anita Anand’s book, The Patient Assassin, among other sources, we tell the story of India from 1919 to the 1920s, including the massacre at Amritsar, the Malabar Uprising of 1921, Bhagat Singh, Gandhi, and of course Udham Singh. Ghadar and the Indian revolutionaries. We won’t be back to India again until the 1930s, so … Continue reading "Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar…"
Transcribe →Interwar 2: The 1919 Strikes!
Oct 1501:20:36Tap to summarize1919 was the year of strikes in North America. How general strikes in Winnipeg and Seattle shook the North American rulers, even though both were contained.
Transcribe →AER 152: The Third Ceasefire Begins…
Oct 1201:06:54Tap to summarizeJon Elmer joins. We discuss the beginning of the third Ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.
Transcribe →Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa
Feb 27, 2022Tap to summarizeWe 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 to the British Scrambling for West Africa. Some of the Africans who fought back, of course, notably Bai Bureh and Yaa Asentewaa. Lord Lugard’s ideas of the … Continue reading "Scramble for Africa 12: The British Scramble for West Africa"
Transcribe →Scramble for Africa 1: Pre-Scramble Africa – the Slave Trade and the Gold Coast
Aug 27, 2021Tap to summarizeA new Civilizations series on the Scramble for Africa. We begin our series on this decisive event in world history with a multi-episode survey of pre-colonial Africa. In this episode we talk about the devastation wrought by the European slave trade and focus on Africa’s West Coast (then known as the Gold Coast) before the … Continue reading "Scramble for Africa 1: Pre-Scramble Africa – the Slave Trade and the Gold Coast"
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