Can War Really Be Abolished? David Swanson on Ending America’s Permanent War Machine
Can a lifelong anti-war organizer change the mind of a country that has normalized permanent warfare? David Swanson, co-founder of World Beyond War and a veteran peace activist and author,
Tim Anderson’s Deep Dive Into the Dirty War on Syria and the Axis of Resistance
In this expansive return visit to Kianistan Podcast, Tim Anderson, the Sydney-based journalist and academic and author of The Dirty War on Syria, offers one of the most comprehensive conversations
Sarah Flounders on the Fight for Aafia Siddiqui, the Anti-War Movement and the Human Cost of Sanctions
Sarah Flounders has spent decades at the heart of America’s anti-war movement, co-directing the International Action Center and serving as a contributing editor to Workers World newspaper. In this conversation
Professor Eric Kaufmann on White Shift, Falling Birth Rates and the Roots of the Populist Wave
Recorded on the morning after Donald Trump’s decisive 2024 election victory, this conversation reunites host Tafhim Kiani with Professor Eric Kaufmann, his former professor at Birkbeck College, University of London,
Rick Sterling on Syria’s Color Revolution, Ukraine’s Avoidable War and Firsthand Views from Xinjiang
Rick Sterling brings an unusual résumé to geopolitical commentary: a retired electronics engineer with a 25-year career at UC Berkeley, who has spent his post-retirement years travelling to Syria, Russia,
Kamel Hawwash on Leaving Labour, Standing for Parliament and the Fight for Palestinian Rights
In this episode of Kianistan Podcast, host Tafhim Kiani speaks with Kamel Hawwash, a professor of engineering at the University of Birmingham and the outgoing chair of the Palestine Solidarity
Professor Berk Esen on Turkey’s Competitive Authoritarianism and the Rapid Fall of Assad’s Syria
As Syrian rebel forces swept from Aleppo to Hama in a matter of days in December 2024, Kianistan Podcast turned to Professor Berk Esen, a renowned Istanbul-based expert on the
Tim Anderson: Inside the Fall of Damascus and What It Means for the Axis of Resistance
Barely a week after Bashar al-Assad’s government collapsed, Kianistan Podcast turned to one of its most trusted voices on Syria, Tim Anderson, for an urgent, on-the-ground assessment of what had
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer on Syria’s Collapse and the Global Rise of Authoritarian Nationalism
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer has spent a career studying religion, nationalism and political violence across South Asia and beyond, from years of fieldwork in India to decades on the faculty at
Professor John Esposito on a Lifetime Studying Islam and the Roots of Western Islamophobia
Few scholars have shaped Western understanding of Islam over the past four decades as profoundly as Professor John Esposito. The founding director of Georgetown University’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and