
A podcast about the end of the American empire, or the end of the world—whichever comes first.
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Dear Listeners,
As some of you may have already heard on this week’s bonus episode, Séamus has made the difficult decision to step away from Turbulence. We couldn’t be more grateful for everything he has helped build over the past year. F...
News Roundup
We discuss an Iran-Oman agreement over the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE’s expanding footprint across the African continent, a horrific crisis at the Morocco-Spain border, and Trump’s saga with the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool...
News Roundup
We discuss how the regional war has expanded north to the Caspian Sea and south to the Horn of Africa, Trump’s effort to break the oil market, a new Saudi coalition, Netanyahu’s visit to the US, and Lindsey Graham’s funeral.
Aziz Rana joins us to discuss the Trump doctrine of foreign policy, the evolution of US hegemony since WW2, how the concept of freedom has animated American political thought and identity, and the challenge of political subjectivity.
Works...
News Roundup
We discuss Iran’s pummeling of US bases in Jordan, the rollout of “pilot zones” in southern Lebanon, Ansarallah’s blockade of Saudi oil transits in the Red Sea, the US-Saudi nuclear agreement, and the status of Venezuela’s oil...
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The writers behind this newsletter.
A podcast about the end of the American empire, or the end of the world—whichever comes first. With Séamus Malekafzali, Dylan Saba, and M Ceniza
Assistant editor at Reason Magazine, among other hats. The views on this Substack are strictly my own.
Freelance journalist writing about the Middle East and obscure film.
writer, journalist, co-host of blowback podcast
Journalist, Photographer, Anti-Imperialist | Writing, Podcasting, and Editing
‘a net whose fibres pass imperceptibly beneath the world’ // lawyer, writer, third worldist
Political theory at The Graduate Center | Critical adoption studies | Producer @turbulencepod
Senior Editor at Al-Quds Al-Arabi, researcher and analyst thinking about Middle East geopolitics and economics with a focus on Lebanon, Iran, and the Gulf. Bylines in NLR's Sidecar, Phenomenal World, Jacobin, Asia Times, and Al-Quds Al-Arabi.
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