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In this episode of Guerrilla History, we bring back Jeremy Kuzmarov (whom you may remember from our episode Trying to Unbalance Russia - Sanctions on Russia) to discuss a piece he recently wrote for CovertAction Magazine - Blackfeet Nation Tries to Overcome Legacy of White Settle ...  Show more

To ring in 2026, we hosted an annual Revolutionary Guerrilla Menace, this time a livestream also on the Adnan Husain Show. Naturally, we discussed the abduction of Maduro, the Trump administration, and imperialism more generally. Be sure to also listen to Rev Left Radio, Red Mena ...  Show more

The "Arab Spring" shook the world in 2011, revealing profound dissatisfaction throughout the Middle East and North Africa, as people throughout the region took to the streets demanding dramatic political change. The uprisings have been analyzed by scholars, journalists, and other ...  Show more

There has been a resurgent global interest in the origins and formation of authoritarian regimes as many states around the world drift away from liberal democracy. Indonesia’s experiences with such an authoritarian turn in the 1950s and 1960s offers many lessons from history. In ...  Show more

This conversation is a rerun of a 2021 episode with Professor Rashid Khalidi author of "The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonialism and Resistance, 1917–2017".  We are rerunning this episode since our team is on a break until after th ...

As the Middle East continues to become more topical to American and European audiences, a need for textbooks to teach the history of the region has become urgent. Some such textbooks take a topical approach, others use a chronological narrative. Betty Anderson‘s A History of the ...  Show more