Tonight we are joined by Dr. Assal Rad, scholar of Middle East History, she works on research and writing related to US Foreign policy issues, the Middle East and contemporary Iran. He writing can bee seen in Newsweek, the National Interest, the Independent, Foreign Policy and more. She has appeared as a commentator on the BBC, CNN, NPR. She comple…

Books keep our heads above water, and also weird animal facts!This week's booksCircling the Sun by Paula McLainMars Colony One by Gerald M KilbyWhen we were real by Daryl GregoryBy 3BookGirls

This week we recorded directly after the "hands off" rallies that took place in all 50 states, so our banter reflects that. We also reviewed 3 excellent books!The Mars Room by Rachel KushnerFlimsy Little Plastic Miracles by Ron Currie, Jr.We Solve Murders by Richard OsmanBy 3BookGirls

Make politics your entire personality. I told y’all the new format would be one geopolitical episode, one social commentary episode, and a possible breaking news episode every week. This is the social commentary one and it is about making politics your entire personality in the face of fascism. To that end we are joined by Davidson Boswell, activis…

Check us out on patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts Hey y’all welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts the anti-imperialist podcast that will try, hopefully with a degree of success, to convince you that it is not Israel itself, or its affiliated political lobbying groups such as AIPAC, that control and …

EPISODE 442 RACE AGAINST PENELOPIAD RETREAT by 3BookGirlsBy 3BookGirls

I almost feel stupid talking about the idiocy of Signalgate. We are going to be discussing the US Navy Vs. the Houthis, why the US strategy won’t work, and we’ll start with the massive Operational Security debacle that is called Signalgate, and what we can learn from it. Yes, Pete Hegseth our stalwart secretary of defense, is a complete idiot. We’r…

Repost from MintPress News: The Press is already calling it Signalgate, harkening back to the infamous political scandal in 1972 under the Nixon administration. On Monday, March 24th the Atlantic broke the story that journalist Jeffery Goldberg had been added to a signal group chat with US national security leaders discussing impending war plans fo…

We discuss our bad guy bracket again, so check Facebook to vote!The Paris Express by Emma DonoghueThe Secretary by Renee KnightThe Outcast Mage by Annabele CampbellBy 3BookGirls

Hello and elcome to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast that needs a vacation, but is unlikely to get one. Today we are going to be doing a round table of the conflicts arising in the West Asia which I am calling the Global War on Terror 2.0 - and we’re doing 2.0 because 1.0 only lasted twenty years, killed millions from Afghanistan to …

An emergency episode with Dr. Altalla of the al-Aqsa Hospital in central Gaza who returns to provide a brief update on the latest influx of casualties as the result of Trump’s continuation of Biden’s blank check policy to supply Israel the tools it needs to “finish the job”. In the past 24 hours an estimated 400+ civilians have been slaughtered alo…

We talk about making a bracket for bad guys in books (and movies) for fun on our book squad page. We also review 3 awesome books!The Scandalous Life of Nancy Randolf by Kate Braithwaite,The Wild Seed by Octavia ButlerThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsBy 3BookGirls

Sign and support Mahmoud here: https://actionnetwork.org/letters/demand-the-immediate-release-of-columbia-student-pro-palestine-advocate-mahmoud-khalil-from-dhs-detentionFollow Nerdeen here for updates: https://x.com/NerdeenKiswaniThis episode is about the disappearing and potential deportation of Mahmoud Khalil - Palestinian activist detained by I…

Emergency Sunday Episode: Hello and Welcome to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcasts that a lot of people are going to hate and no one is going to be happy and the pro-palestine movement will get refractured again because this is an emergency Sunday episode about Syria… probably the messiest battle space in existence with dozens of warri…

We talk this week about a planned trip coming up, plus we also review three awesome books!The Dutch House by Ann PatchettTo Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie WillisCreep; A Love Story by Emma Van StraatenBy 3BookGirls

It will be if insane if this totally reasonable interview gets taken down... We are going to be focusing more on domestic issues today - your healthcare, your declining material conditions, and how both the democrats and republicans will come together to stamp down on any working class dissent. To that end, we are joined by James from Comrade Workw…

So what we are talking about today is the state of the Democratic Party and how much they love to lose. If y’all took a break from the news cycle over the weekend you may have missed the story broken by politico about this DNC operative retreat where a bunch of democratic “strategists” gathered at an east coast resort to talk about how to win mid t…

In the end, the shrieking chain-rattling ghost of Henry Kissinger is always right “It may be dangerous to be America enemy, but to be America’s friend is fatal.” He also said “America has no permanent friends or enemies, only interests.” Ukrainians and to a lesser extent Europeans are figuring out what it means to be Kurdish, and they are spiraling…

We have our old lady moments, injuries and are pretty tired of living in unprecedented times. We have 3 books to review as usual though!Brooklyn by Colm TolbinThe Dogs of War by Adrian TchaikovskyThe Last Policeman by Ben H. WintersBy 3BookGirls

I Won’t be recording from this crappy internet location again. Also get ready for run-on sentences. Anyways, hello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts - the anti-Imperialist podcast that that your problematic Uncle will be increasingly confused by… because we are going in pretty deep on this one, discussing the European Union and the rise of fascism i…

Martha turned 60 this weekend and Shona L, who was visiting from Houston, joined the fun!We reviewed The Little Liar, by Mitch AlbomThe New Breadline, by Jean-Martin BauerCrooked Plow, by Itamar Vieira JuniorLost Man's Lane, by Scott CarsonBy 3BookGirls

Check us out of Patreon for more of this content: / colonialoutcasts That bizarre pneumatic human mouth sound you just heard was President Elon Musk shouting with masculine elation while wielding a chain saw gifted to him anarcho-capitalist, officially libertarian, Argentine President Javier Milei in front a cheering sycophantic MAGA horde at the C…

The Gaza ceasefire stands on the edge of a knife. This political and military reality brings back into focus, though it’s never gone away, the humanitarian situation in Gaza in the wake of the Israeli state policy of systematically dismantling medical infrastructure with the use of US weaponry and clumsily orchestrated direct action IDF raids on ho…

Hello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts, the Anti-imperialist podcast that has way too much crap to talk about and not enough time to do it. It is February 18th and we are seeing titanic policy shifts in Europe, and West Asia - East Asia as well, but we won’t have too much time for that as the Trump Administration takes a more aggressive diplomatic …

EPISODE 436 BORN WITH TEETH EMPLOYEES DONT BREAK ON THEIR OWN by 3BookGirlsBy 3BookGirls

We are going to be talking about music, revolutionary ideology, the precarious position of empire within the context of this Dark American Experiment, and whatever else we feel like talking about. Because I am Joined today by Immortal Technique - rapper and activist who you, if you are into rap and have any sort of robust left-wing politics, probab…

For an extended discussion, check us out on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcasts One Health is an integrated, unifying approach that aims to sustainably balance and optimize the health of people, animals and ecosystems. It recognizes that the health of humans, domestic and wild animals, plants, and the wider environment (including ec…

Taylor fills in for Voni this week and as usual we talk a bit of politics and a lot of books!One of the Good Guys by Araminta Hall, The Midnight Bargain by CL Polk, and Blob, A Love Story by Maggie SuBy 3BookGirls

This episode was structured off of the article "Imperialism in Crisis: Gaza, Trade Wars and Trump's Geopolitical Mayhem" by Elina Xenophontos, joining us tonight from London, England. An unstable West Asia security situation has global ramifications and this talk about a voluntary mass exodus of Palestinians from Gaza is unworkable, stilly, and as …

We weren’t going to do an episode today. They take a lot of research and prep, but we felt that we couldn’t not do an episode because President Orange Blob (aka Donal Drumpf) has said some completely asinine things, which he always does, but this instance is about Gaza. I spent a lot of last night talking to people who were rightly terrified by Tru…

"Whiteness” is being used as it always has been: to separate exploited working class white people from intersectional solidarity and serve as buffer between marginalized peoples and the Elites. Today we are going to be talking about the new Trump administration and the driving force behind all their policies, its blitz of executive orders, the perv…

As usual, we have 3 awesome books!Firefly Lane by Kristen Hannah, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Torkarczuk, and Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins!By 3BookGirls

Yeah, we are still venting a bit over political crap, However, our taste in reading will help you find something to read in our newborn dystopia.Yearbook by Seth Rogan, Grave Talk by Nick Spaulding, and Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix are all reviewed this week!By 3BookGirls

The thing I appreciated about the IOF is that they name their operations after their actual objectives: Operation Iron Wall = Operation increase apartheid. Today we discuss the new West Bank operation and the Palestinian Authority, which is neither Palestinian nor an Authority. Also we mention tech oligarchs. Cheers!…

It's 2025 and Imperialism will now turn localize in the American continent and turn in on its own citizens, boomerang style. Today we are gonna be talking about oligarchy, Corporate liberal media enabling far-right politics, and the potential resurrection of the global war on terror in this new American Dark age. Gonna be fun!…

This was recorded on Saturday, so for the record a lot happened after we finished. Anyway, we talked some smack and reviewed 3 awesome books!Speak No Evil by Uzodinma Iweala, Disclaimer by Renee Knight, and We Lived on the Horizon by Erika Swyler.By 3BookGirls

Welcome to Colonial Outcasts for an impromptu Ceasefire episode. We may repost segments of this to MintPress News but for right now we are going to dive right in because there is a lot to talk about. What is this ceasefire? Is it viable? Why is it happening now? I know a lot of people are confused right now, and we also need to talk about how this …

Check us out on Patreon for exclusive content: https://www.patreon.com/c/ColonialOutcastsHello and welcome to Colonial Outcasts the bi-weekly podcast where we demonstrate that the next fifty years are fixing to be really stupid… eh hopefully its only 20, but regardless it is Monday January 13th and we are only two weeks into 2025 - we’ve got distur…

The beginning portion of the conversation is about crochet elephants, in case you are wondering why Voni is making the ass in two pieces! We had 3 great books as usual. Stolen Beauty by Laurie Albanese, The Elder Race by Adrian Tchaikovsky, and The Knockout Queen by Rufi Thorpe!By 3BookGirls

Cops, war, the climate crisis, capitalism... Basically here’s the scoop: The general public still hasn’t grasped the climate crisis that is now upon us and we are nearing the brink of complete societal collapse is certain areas of the country, perhaps even the whole country within the next years - hopefully its at least ten because I am still tryin…

Shona L fills in for Pat this week and we talk about lots of books, the main reviews were...The Storm We Made by Vanessa Chan, All the Colors of the Dark by Chris Whitaker, and Yours for the Taking by Gabrielle KornBy 3BookGirls

Hello and welcome to a new year with Colonial Outcasts. It is 2025 and as I’ve been saying, if you loved 2024 you’re absolutely going to love 2025, and boy are we starting out with a bang. Literally. George Orwell’s 1984 warned of a future where big brother watches every move. Today, modern technology is making that vision a reality, and Oracle fou…

There are simply too many books we talk about in this episode to list them all. Grab a note pad and get ready to make a list!!By 3BookGirls

This week we review The Banned Books Club by Brenda NovakThe Road to Roswell by Connie Willis and So Thirsty by Rachel Harrison!By 3BookGirls

Hello and welcome to or welcome back to Colonial Outcasts, the anti-imperialist podcast where we generally discuss the dirty work our governments are doing overseas. However, today we are bringing it back to the homefront, Imperial Boomerang style, to talk about this stupid drone media frenzy and how the real threat isn’t an Independence Day-esque …

I guess the intense emotions swirling around are a mixture of elation that Assad is deposed and despondency that the Axis of Resistance and the state of the Palestinian cause look to be in a pretty bleak state right now. Things looked like they were going well in terms of the Israeli state destroying itself and the US losing massive influence in th…

We talked about a few filthy things and then talked about three awesome books!My Three Dogs by Bruce Cameron, The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones andMurder Mindfully by Karsten Dusse.By 3BookGirls

Repost from my @MintPressNews episode. Last time I will b e dual posting, so follow us there if interested!Following its new attacks on Syria, Israel’s leaders and much of its media tout the creation of a new Middle East. Is this possible? Israel and the collective West have had little success in controlling the region. Join us Tonight on State of …

We platform different voices and perspectives on this Podcast. This is a repost from the MintPress Show "State of Play." Hope you enjoy. It will be controversial... No one predicted the rapid pace of events in the most recent iteration of the Syrian Civil war, beginning with the rapid advance of HTS and other forces from Idlib province into the to …

This week we talk about gift ideas, NSFW , plus we review three fantastic books!Lost in Shangri la by Mitchell Zuckoff. Orbital by Samantha Harvey, and Real Americans by Rachael KhongBy 3BookGirls