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Turbulence
Turbulence is a podcast about the end of the American empire, or the end of the world—whichever comes first. Join Dylan Saba, M Ceniza, and friends as they navigate the geopolitical chaos of a world-system in flux.
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Episodes
TurbulenceBONUS: Voting Booth Terror w/ Alexander Aviña and Salin
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Lula’s victory in Brazil, Flavio’s exile in Miami, the…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Making of a Global Civil War w/ Hassan
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the widening war in Sudan, the UAE’s destabilization…
TurbulenceBONUS: Bombard the Headquarters w/ Alexander Aviña
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Mamdani’s capitulation to the NYPD, Indigenous resistance…
TurbulenceEPISODE 44: Haiti—State Against Nation, Part 2
We continue our discussion with Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper on the history of popular resistance in Haiti, the contradictions of the Aristide era, the PetroCaribe…
TurbulenceEpisode 43: Haiti — State Against Nation, Part 1
Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper joins us to discuss the history of foreign intervention in Haiti, the political and economic origins of the country’s so-called gangs…
TurbulenceBONUS: Ansarallah on the Offensive w/ Barry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the third anniversary of 10/7, the French school riots…
TurbulenceBONUS: October Surprise
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the upcoming Brazilian elections, US plans to invade Cuba…
TurbulenceBONUS: A Financial History of Zionism w/ Nathan Tankus
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com In part two of our conversation with Nathan Tankus, we discuss the…
TurbulenceEpisode 42: Dollar Imperialism w/ Nathan Tankus
Nathan Tankus joins us to discuss the monetary foundations of American empire, how sanctions weaponize the global financial system, the possibility of…
TurbulenceBONUS: Operation Allah is Stronger in Might and More Severe in Punishment w/ Alexander Aviña and Barry
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com This week we’re joined by returning co-host Alexander Aviña, as well…
TurbulenceEpisode 41: Mauritania at Europe’s Frontier w/ Hassan Ould Moctar
Hassan Ould Moctar joins us to discuss Europe’s externalized border regime, the colonial history of race and territory in Mauritania, and how migration…
TurbulenceBONUS: Houthi Takeover w/ Alexander Aviña
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the expanding conflict in Hormuz, Ansarallah’s lightning…
TurbulenceEpisode 40: Counter-Space and the Data Center Revolt w/ Kai Bosworth
Kai Bosworth joins us to discuss the strange politics of the data center revolt, the AI boom’s place in the global energy system, and what the rise and fall of…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Chud International w/ Alexander Aviña
We welcome Alex Aviña to Turbulence and discuss the Battle of Hormuz, Bessent’s economic D-Day for Iran, the US-Venezuela oil deal, the arrest of Fernando…
TurbulenceEpisode 39: The Bureaucracy of Repression w/ Josef Burton
Josef Burton joins us to discuss the transformation of immigration under Trump, the bureaucrats who administer US machinery of repression, and what…
TurbulenceBONUS: Before the Flood w/ Mujamma Haraket
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com In part two of our double episode with Mujamma Haraket, we discuss the…
TurbulenceEpisode 38: Militant Women w/ Arlene Eisen
Arlene Eisen joins us to discuss the transformations in the anti-war movement across the Vietnam War, the interrelation of feminism and anti-imperialism, and…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Pivot From Asia
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Iranian threats to strike Bulgaria, Russia supplying Iran…
TurbulenceEpisode 37: After the Flood w/ Mujamma Haraket
Mujamma Haraket joins us to discuss negotiations over Hamas’ disarmament, the collaborator militias in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya’s rise within Hamas, the…
TurbulenceBONUS: Doing Bad Things to Bad People
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.comWe discuss Trump “low-keying” the Iran war, Israel’s rejection of the…
TurbulenceEpisode 36: The Battle For South Arabia w/ Isa Blumi
Isa Blumi joins us to discuss Ansarallah’s renewed war with Saudi Arabia, whether pipelines can bypass Hormuz and Bab al-Mandab, the Turkey-Saudi-Pakistan…
TurbulenceBONUS: Migration Blackmail
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss an Iran-Oman agreement over the Strait of Hormuz, the UAE’s…
TurbulenceBONUS: Is it a World War?
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss how the regional war has expanded north to the Caspian Sea…
TurbulenceEpisode 35: All-American Empire w/ Aziz Rana
Aziz Rana joins us to discuss the Trump doctrine of foreign policy, the evolution of US hegemony since WW2, how the concept of freedom has animated American…
TurbulenceBONUS: All Your Base Are Belong To Us
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Iran’s pummeling of US bases in Jordan, the rollout of…
TurbulenceEpisode 34: Black Bolsheviks w/ Hakim Adi
Hakim Adi joins us to discuss the Black radicals who shaped the Comintern, the Black Belt Thesis and the national question, Pan-Africanism through…
TurbulenceBONUS: Strait's Still Closed
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the latest cycle of escalation between the US and Iran, the…
TurbulenceEpisode 33: President Lindsey Graham w/ Matthew Petti
Matthew Petti joins us to discuss the crack-up within the Republican Party’s base over Gaza, Netanyahu’s plan to wind down US military aid, and what the US’s…
TurbulenceBONUS: The 23-State Solution
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the unravelling of the US-Iran MOU, the dissolution of…
TurbulenceEpisode 32: Lebanon's Dance With the Devil w/ Nasser Elamine
Nasser Elamine joins us to discuss the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, Hezbollah’s military reemergence, the unity of fronts strategy, and how…
TurbulenceBONUS: Yankees and Cowboys w/ Blowback
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We are joined by Noah and Brendan to discuss the evolution of US…
TurbulenceEpisode 31: America's Israel w/ Blowback
Noah Kulwin and Brendan James of Blowback join us to discuss their new mini-series on the history of the US-Israel relationship, how the Cold War turned into…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Emiratification of Israel
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the passing of our dear friend Alan, a deconfliction…
TurbulenceEpisode 30: The Wages of Empire w/ Torkil Lauesen
Torkil Lauesen joins us to discuss the political economy of imperialism and trade, Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, political action in the…
TurbulenceBONUS: Iran Won
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com In this special extended bonus episode, we go point by point through…
TurbulenceEpisode 29: American Counterrevolutions w/ Gerald Horne
Gerald Horne joins us to discuss writing history from below, whether the legacy of 1776 can be redeemed, settler colonialism as an analytic frame, the US’s…
TurbulenceBONUS: Memorandum of Misunderstanding
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the return of war to the Persian Gulf, negotiations over an…
TurbulenceEpisode 28: Fanon and Psychic Resistance w/ Lara Sheehi
Lara Sheehi joins us to discuss the legacy of Franz Fanon, what psychoanalysis can offer liberation struggles, Zionism as the denial of Palestinian…
TurbulenceBONUS: Art of the Deal
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the latest flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz, China’s impact…
TurbulenceEpisode 27: Every Time the Media Lies w/ Adam Johnson
Adam Johnson joins us to discuss his work documenting how the mainstream media supported the Gaza genocide by sanitizing Israeli war crimes, obscuring the US’s…
TurbulenceBONUS: Peace Processing
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Netanyahu’s non-strategy in Gaza and Lebanon, the draft…
TurbulenceEpisode 26: The Popular Struggle in Latin America w/ Soberanía
José Luis Granados Ceja and Kurt Hackbarth of Soberanía join us to discuss a potential US military assault on Cuba, updates from Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Ahmadinejad Solution
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the scandalous reporting about a former Iranian president…
TurbulenceEpisode 25: The Bahraini Counterrevolution w/ Aamer
Aamer joins us to discuss the repressive crackdowns in Bahrain amidst the Iran war, the popular uprising in 2011, the history of leftist and Islamist movements…
TurbulenceBONUS: First Person Shooter
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Trump’s visit to Beijing, negotiations over the Strait of…
TurbulenceEpisode 24: A Geography of Palestine, From Nakba to Return w/ Salman Abu Sitta
Salman Abu Sitta joins us to discuss his memories of the Nakba, a practical program for the return of Palestinian refugees, Zionist continuities with the…
TurbulenceEpisode 23: Iran Against the Empire w/ Navid Zarrinnal
Navid Zarrinnal joins us from Tehran to discuss the popular mobilizations in support of the war effort, national resilience in the face of economic siege, the…
TurbulenceBONUS: The Road to $200
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Trump’s most recent “plan” for the Iran war, the price of…
TurbulenceEpisode 22: Palestine's Prisoners w/ Basil Farraj
Basil Farraj joins us to discuss Israeli carceral violence, the evolution of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, and the life and thought of Walid Daqqa…
TurbulenceBONUS: A Crude Awakening
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We continue our coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran with a…
TurbulenceEpisode 21: Oil Wars w/ Adam Hanieh
Adam Hanieh joins us to discuss the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, how the petrodollar system shaped US-Gulf relations, the role of oil in US foreign policy…
TurbulenceBONUS: No Peace, No War, No Oil
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We continue our coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran with a…
TurbulenceEpisode 20: Lebanon on the Brink w/ Karim Makdisi
Karim Makdisi joins us to discuss the recent widespread Israeli attacks on Lebanon, the re-emergence of Hezbollah as an active fighting force in the broader…
TurbulenceBONUS: Finger on the Trigger
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We continue our coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran with a…
TurbulenceEpisode 19: Merchants of Death w/ Tim Barker
In the second installment of our Political Economy of Genocide series, we are joined by Tim Barker to discuss the role of the defense industry in the US…
TurbulenceBONUS: Boots on the Ground
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We continue our coverage of the US-Israeli war on Iran with a…
TurbulenceEpisode 18: Strait Outta Hormuz w/ Laleh Khalili
Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss the mechanics, strategy, and economics of Iran’s wartime closure of the Strait of Hormuz. Laleh Khalili is a professor of…
TurbulenceBONUS: Transnational Jihad w/ Darryl Li
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com Darryl Li joins us to discuss his work deconstructing the concept of…
TurbulenceBONUS: Double or Nothing
We continue our coverage of what’s been called the “The Ramadan War” with a discussion of the strategic landscape, the supposed ceasefire negotiations, Iran’s…
TurbulenceBONUS: Unity of Fronts
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We continue our coverage of the Iran war with a discussion of shifting…