The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

A podcast about how today’s Empire works and who is resisting.

Episodes

Interwar 2: The 1919 Strikes!

October 15, 2025 • 80 mins

1919 was the year of strikes in North America. How general strikes in Winnipeg and Seattle shook the North American rulers, even though both were contained.

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AER 152: The Third Ceasefire Begins…

October 12, 2025 • 66 mins

Jon Elmer joins. We discuss the beginning of the third Ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

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Interwar 1919-1931 episode 1:The Looting System

October 11, 2025 • 53 mins

Reading the first two chapters of Michael Hudson’s Superimperialism, we study the transformation of the world financial system after World War I. That transformation is driven by a surprising decision by the US to insist on repayment of its loans to its allies, which in turn leads the allies (UK and France) to insist on … Continue reading

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 14 – Final Roundup of Critics of the Treaty – Dulles, Churchill, Hitler

October 5, 2025 • 62 mins

A final roundup of critics of the Treaty of Versailles, including some big names.

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AER 151: Running for Party Leader as an anti-Genocide candidate

October 4, 2025 • 38 mins

Yves Engler is a lifelong Palestine activist – fighting Canada’s complicity in the Gaza genocide – who is running for leadership of Canada’s New Democratic Party. We talk about the platform of policies that Yves is presenting in the run for the nomination, including Land Back, Anticolonization, Anti-Imperialism, and Socialism.

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 13 – The Economic Consequences of the Peace

September 21, 2025 • 71 mins

The second-last episode on the Treaty of Versailles 1919 is about Keynes’s critique of the treaty, the Economic Consequences of the Peace. What he got right, what he got wrong, critics of him at the time, and the impact of his book on the way the Interwar period unfolded.

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Treaty of Versailles 12: German, English, American critics

September 12, 2025 • 120 mins

Was the treaty too hard on Germany? German, English, and American reactions after 1919.

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Treatyof Versailles 11: Ataturk wins again

September 7, 2025 • 86 mins

Details of how Ataturk foiled the imperialists’ final plans to partition Anatolia. Once he secured Turkey, he modernized it and it became a model that other Central Asian countries tried to emulate (with varying degrees of success). Here’s why this secular leader is still revered in Turkey a century later.

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Civ 1919 – Treaty of Versailles 10: England gives Palestine to the Zionists

August 16, 2025 • 71 mins

On November 2, 1917, England’s foreign secretary sent a letter to an English Baron, declaring that the land of Palestine, which was in the process of being taken militarily from the Ottoman Empire by England, would be given to the Jewish people as their homeland. Known to history as the Balfour Declaration, the first draft … Continue reading

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AER 150: Kung Fu Yoga with Carl Zha on the new Trump Tariffs

August 14, 2025 • 63 mins

Carl Zha joins for our occasional Kung Fu Yoga series where we talk about India and China. Trump’s slapped new tariffs on India and given China another break. We go back to the Independence era, talk about Import Substitution Industrialization vs Export-Led Growth, the Chip War, the short India-Pakistan war a few months ago, and … Continue reading

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 9 – Carving up the Ottoman Empire

August 4, 2025 • 84 mins

Mustafa Kemal foils the Great Powers’ plan to carve up Anatolia, but they do tear up the Arab lands. The fate of Syria, Lebanon, Iraq, Egypt, where local elites’ belief in the Fourteen Points were crushed by the Powers as they set the table for Zionism and neocolonial mandates.

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 8 – Greece negotiates too well

June 18, 2025 • 28 mins

The story of Greece’s negotiator Eleutherios Venizelos, and how his success at negotiating sowed the seeds of future disasters.

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AER 149: SIT REP JUNE 14 2025

June 14, 2025 • 42 mins

Initial reactions to the new war (audio of the regular youtube sit rep).

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 7 – Japan and China

May 24, 2025 • 70 mins

Japan takes a stand on the principle of racial equality, but it’s a non-starter with the white powers. The Japanese insist, and ultimately yield so they can take a piece of China.

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 6: Italy leaves

May 17, 2025 • 45 mins

Italy joined the allies late and wanted a lot of Yugoslavia. The dress rehearsal for Mussolini, Gabriele d’Annunzio, gathers Argonauts and makes a big move. Another seed of the next war planted at the conference in Paris 1919.

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AER 148: The myth of nonviolence

May 5, 2025 • 91 mins

Frederik Soderholm and Mehmet Ali Arslan interviewed me (Justin) for their Fredshetsarna (Swedish) podcast about nonviolence and military matters in West Asia.

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 5 – Eastern Europe

May 3, 2025 • 129 mins

Poland, Czechoslovakia, Austria, and Hungary’s fates are decided at the conference in Paris in 1919.

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AER 147: Sudan Civil War, the RSF, and the UAE’s subimperialism

April 28, 2025 • 36 mins

Hamza from Defund the UAE joins to talk about the Sudan war. How did it start? Who are the belligerents? What makes the RSF the greater evil? What is the UAE doing in this war? What can be done from the West to help? Hamza mentions Sudanfunds.com and SudanNewsEnglish on telegram, to start.

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt4 – Germany

April 26, 2025 • 81 mins

The Anglo-Americans blamed the Germans for World War I, and won. Now they would impose terms. But if they sought too high an indemnity, Germany’s economy would collapse and they would never pay. If they helped Germany rebuild, what kind of punishment would that be? In the end, the Allies chose a path that guaranteed … Continue reading

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Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt3 – the Balkans

April 12, 2025 • 61 mins

The Balkans are where the Great War began; there were two Balkan wars before the Great War and there was a Balkan war in the Great War. In Paris, delegations from the region made their cases, the Great Powers made their dispensations. New countries formed and new borders drawn, which would be changed again in … Continue reading

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Episodes

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Interwar 1919-1931 episode 1:The Looting System

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 14 – Final Roundup of Critics of the Treaty – Dulles, Churchill, Hitler

AER 151: Running for Party Leader as an anti-Genocide candidate

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 13 – The Economic Consequences of the Peace

Treaty of Versailles 12: German, English, American critics

Treatyof Versailles 11: Ataturk wins again

Civ 1919 – Treaty of Versailles 10: England gives Palestine to the Zionists

AER 150: Kung Fu Yoga with Carl Zha on the new Trump Tariffs

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 9 – Carving up the Ottoman Empire

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 8 – Greece negotiates too well

AER 149: SIT REP JUNE 14 2025

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 7 – Japan and China

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 6: Italy leaves

AER 148: The myth of nonviolence

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles 5 – Eastern Europe

AER 147: Sudan Civil War, the RSF, and the UAE’s subimperialism

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt4 – Germany

Civ 1919: Treaty of Versailles pt3 – the Balkans

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