The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur


Latest Episodes

Tankie Therapy on Day 163: Do we debate genocide?
March 17, 2024

We didnt have quorum for a tankie therapy session but we got together anyway Matteo and Alex joined for a discussion of several psychological warfare methods being used on us: normalizing crimes, t

World War Civ 35: Agony and Slaughter 1916
March 12, 2024

The battles of Verdun, the Somme, and the Brusilov Offensive. Epic, tragic military errors, horrors of trenches, battles that killed hundreds of thousands and changed the course of history.

AER 140: The Gaza Siege
March 08, 2024

The siege on Gaza and the role of the Palestinian Authority are critical context for the Israels assault on Gaza. On this episode we take a look at the history of the blockade and how Israel has ghet

World War Civ 34: The Armenian Genocide 1915-16
February 20, 2024

Genocides happen in broad daylight it is only afterwards that they are covered up. There are still fewer countries that recognize the Armenian Genocide than countries that do not. We read scholars t

AER 139: Pakistan Election Rigging Fails
February 17, 2024

Waqas Ahmad is back and we recap Pakistan politics since the 2022 coup against Imran Khan. After assassination attempts, vexatious lawsuits, thousands of arrests, torture, and the banning of Imran Kha

World War Civ 33: Colonial Troops
February 09, 2024

In desperation, the European empires turn to the people theyve colonized and press them into sacrificing their lives for their imperial masters, setting off a chain of events that makes decolonizatio

AER 138: October 7 Hannibal
January 21, 2024

Israeli media recently published a minute-by-minute chronology of the morning of October 7th from the Israeli military perspective. Jon and I go over it as part of my youtube series of Gaza Sit Reps (

World War Civ 32: Britain’s plans for Arab lands – Sykes-Picot, 1916
January 20, 2024

Early in the Great War Britain decided to dismantle the Turkish Empire and made promises to Arab leaders of independence if they would rebel against Britains Turkish enemy. While one British leader w

World War Civ 31: Towards Total War
January 13, 2024

By the end the World War had mobilized 65 million troops, killed 20 million people and wounded 21 million more. The money was supposed to run out in a year, the armies were big but never that big. How

AER 137: Gaza War Sit Rep Day 91
January 06, 2024

Solo episode discussing Nasrallahs speech about the war on the Israel-Lebanon border and an analysis of the 2006 war based on a US military analysts paper titled, We Were Caught Unprepared.