Paul Rogers returns to PTO to talk about Iran's attack on Israel on the 13th of April - the first such direct operation carried out by Iran. We discussed whether the operation was a failure or a qu...
2024-04-23 05:15:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Since October 7th Israeli politicians, spokespeople, and Israel's supporters have mobilised feminist narratives in defence of the state's genocidal actions in Gaza and sought to portray Palestinian...
2024-04-17 05:10:00 +0000 UTC View Post
In part one of a two-part episode Richard returns to give his thoughts on an apparent turn against Israel on parts of the American right, the significance of the protests against Netanyahu within I...
2024-04-10 15:38:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Yanis Varoufakis joins PTO to discuss his book, Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism. We discussed why Yanis believes capitalism is no longer the appropriate term to describe contempora...
2024-04-04 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning soon to answer more listeners questions. You may like to ask him about the recent episode on Gaza (and on "normie socialist" or "post-left" takes on the situation) but as ...
2024-04-01 19:09:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour returns to discuss the likelihood of Israel launching its assault on Rafah (in the context of Israel's deliberate starvation of the Gazan population). We talked about the position o...
2024-03-25 06:15:01 +0000 UTC View Post
The 1970s is often depicted straightforwardly as the moment when the radical movements of the 1960s fractured, failed, and radicalised in ways that were self-destructive. In The Subversive Seve...
2024-03-13 06:05:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Thirteen years have passed since the Arab Spring and the great hopes aroused in 2011 have been overwhelmed by counter-revolution and civil war. And yet, the region is anything but restabilised: Ins...
2024-03-06 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
In the latest PTO Extra! Richard Seymour returns to answer your questions on the impact of the Gaza protest movement, Israel's eroding international support, what a Trump presidency might lead to i...
2024-02-25 05:00:05 +0000 UTC View PostRichard will be returning to respond to listeners questions once more. Topics you may want to ask Richard about could include the prospect of an Israeli assault on Rafah, the significance (or other...
2024-02-14 11:32:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Naomi Klein joins PTO to talk about her book, Doppelganger: A Trip Into the Mirror World. In the first part of our conversation we talked about why at the height of the Covid-19 pandemic, ...
2024-02-13 04:30:01 +0000 UTC View PostIn today's show Sai Englert, author of Settler Colonialism: An Introduction returns to the show to answer listeners' questions. We talked about whether Zionism is distinct from other forms...
2024-02-03 04:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostYesterday, I was alerted to the fact that on Spotify PTO - which previously had a rating of around 4.5 stars - is now rated an average of just 1.6! There's no way to know for absol...
2024-01-30 16:39:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Palestinian-American legal scholar Noura Erakat joins PTO to discuss South Africa's case at the International Court of Justice and the utility of international law in struggles for global justice. ...
2024-01-24 16:13:47 +0000 UTC View PostSai Englert will be returning to PTO soon to answer your questions regarding the recent episode on his...
2024-01-22 17:32:17 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard returns to answer listener's questions on the history of Yemen and the emergence of the Houthi militia, comparisons made between Israel's actions in Gaza and the Nazi Holocaust, and on the ...
2024-01-20 09:38:49 +0000 UTC View PostLater this week Richard Seymour will be returning to PTO to answer patron's questions. Feel free to ask anything relating to the 2024-01-14 09:56:47 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour on the possibility of Israel's assault on Gaza leading to broader escalation in the Middle East. We talked about the strategic calculations of Iran, Hezbollah, the Houthi militia, a...
2024-01-11 15:34:14 +0000 UTC View Post
Israel's assault on Gaza has led to a huge upsurge in discussion of settler colonialism and the extent to which the term accurately describes the Zionist project in Palestine. In Settler Colonialis...
2024-01-02 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View PostA noted historian of the Holocaust, Omer Bartov is also one of the world's leading authorities on genocide. In our conversation we discussed the history of the idea of genocide as well as its...
2023-12-30 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard returns to answer listener's questions on the situation in Gaza, the extent to which Joe Biden's support for Israel is about electoral calculations, the anti-Deutsch tendency and the pro-Is...
2023-12-14 06:00:03 +0000 UTC View PostRichard Seymour will be returning to respond to your questions once more. You may like to ask him about Israel's expansion of its assault to southern Gaza, or something on our recent episode on lib...
2023-12-05 11:05:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Palestinian writer and academic Leila Farsakh joins the show to talk about the history of the Israel-Palestine conflict and the parallels Leila sees between the current situation and the 1973...
2023-12-05 10:58:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard Seymour responds to the arguments of Jonathan Freedland and other liberal Zionists who, despite the marginalisation of the liberal Zionist tradition within Israel itself, continue to produc...
2023-11-27 10:38:31 +0000 UTC View Post
A 'start-up country', the world's first 'AI superpower', an 'innovation nation', those are some of the breathless descriptions used by Israeli politicians, security officials, journalists and busin...
2023-11-16 06:00:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Palestinian writer Amjad Iraqi joins the show to talk about where Israel's assault on Gaza is going. We talked about Israel's professed goal to wipe out Hamas in the Gaza strip and what Israel inte...
2023-11-08 11:04:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Kevin Ochieng Okoth joins PTO to discuss his new book, Red Africa: Reclaiming Revolutionary Black Politics. We talked about the concept of Afropessimism and why Kevin believes it relies on...
2023-11-01 06:40:00 +0000 UTC View Post
Richard returns to answer questions sent in by listeners on Gaza, Israel and the broader ramifications of the ongoing crisis.
2023-10-23 19:59:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Lara Friedman, President of the Foundation for Middle East Peace joins PTO to discuss the dire situation in Gaza and the West Bank, and the dramatic escalation of islamophobia and anti-Arab racism ...
2023-10-17 18:48:32 +0000 UTC View PostThis Sunday Richard will be returning to answer your questions on the situation in Gaza and the broader regional and international ramifications. If you have a question for him please comment below...
2023-10-17 09:57:38 +0000 UTC View Post