https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-7z4qr-ed741b On Iran at the End of History. When the US assassinated Iran's 'shadow commander', Qassem Soleimani, everyone thought WW3 would break out. What happened instead? We talk to the author of a new book on Soleimani about the "local…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-u3kid-e37333 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-5sijq-e27fbf This is a sample. For the full episode, sign up at patreon.com/bungacast The three of us discuss some of the themes that emerged from our interview with Krithika Varagur (ep.133) - the entanglement of the US state with Islamism,…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-uyzd7-e24db2 On Saudi religious proselytism. Saudi Arabia has actively sought to export Salafism. How has it done this - and what have been its effects, in countries like Indonesia, Nigeria and Kosovo? Why was fighting against the Soviets in Afghanistan in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-yxyew-daf362 On The Jakarta Method. We're joined by Vincent Bevins to discuss his new book on the 1965-66 mass killings in Indonesia, Cold War anti-communism, and the destruction it wrought around the world. The mid-60s proved pivotal, with US-backed coups in…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-ccqxm-d7a248 Singapore is held up as a free-market utopia: rich, orderly and clean. But the reality is quite different. Why does Singapore exert such a magnetism for neoliberals, when its reality strays from orthodox prescriptions? What and who made this…
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-3ykyc-d31239 On pandemics, panics, and China. The 2019 Novel Coronavirus is yet another new epidemic to appear on the scene this century. What accounts for their increasing frequency, and who decides if an epidemic is classed as a pandemic? More…
Read More /108/ Coronageddon? ft. Mark Honigsbaum / Lee Jones
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-wpwsf-cac164 On the 30 years since 1989. For our 100th episode, we invited our favourite guests to reflect on the question: “What one event, personal or political, most captures for you the past thirty years, since 1989?” Are we still…
Read More /100/ What Was the End of History? ft. Many Guests
https://www.podbean.com/media/share/pb-gud7e-c0ec36 On the Hong Kong rebellion. Four months of protests is forcing a confrontation with the Hong Kong authorities and the Chinese state. The demands are for civil liberties and some more democracy - but what are the social conditions…
Read More /89/ On the Lam: Hong Kong Rebels ft. Toby Carroll
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