The Anti Empire Project with Justin Podur

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  Interwar 19 Germany pt2: The Uprising of 1919 19.09.2026 1h 8min

  From the SPD perspective, with the Kaiser gone, the German Revolution was complete in 1918. But to the Spartacists, there was still a real revolution to be won – worker’s government and socialism. The agonizing decisions leading up to the Uprising of 1919, concluding with the assassinations of revolutionary leaders Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemberg.
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  Interwar 18 Germany pt1: The German Revolution of November 1918 12.09.2026 53min

  The Kaiser abdicates. The Social Democratic Party arrives to power. Karl Liebknecht stands on a balcony and tells the workers: “The rule of capitalism, which turned Europe into a cemetery, is henceforward broken.” But this is just part 1 of 4.
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  Interwar 17: USA the wrap-up 31.08.2026 2h 27min

  A departure from our normal historical narration: Dave reacts to contemporary USA headlines and politics with a view to American Interwar history. A short review of the whole history of the USA, to wrap up our series on the Interwar US… before we return to form to cover Interwar Germany.
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  Interwar 16: The US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934 28.07.2026 2h 24min

  The sordid and criminal US occupation of Haiti 1915-1934 with resistance heroes like Charlemagne Peralte, occupiers like Smedley Butler, a young FDR who hoped he’d be remembered as a “Haiti man”… US racial obsessions and atrocities. And Haiti’s anomalous and scrupulous payment of the debts imposed on it, making it a paradise of American financial … Continue reading "Interwar 16: The US Occupation of Haiti, 1915-1934"
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  Interwar 15: Gunboat Diplomacy: Interwar USA in Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Costa Rica 18.06.2026 1h 3min

  A roundup of Interwar US imperialism in four Central American countries
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  Interwar 14: Sandino battles the Americans for Nicaragua, 1927-1933 02.06.2026 1h 14min

  We go way back, at first, to the rise and fall of the filibustering William Walker, who wanted to be king of Nicaragua. You’ll meet Smedley Butler as well, but this episode on Interwar Nicaragua focuses on the rebel leader who dared to fight the American occupation, Augusto Sandino, who fought from 1927-1933 and has … Continue reading "Interwar 14: Sandino battles the Americans for Nicaragua, 1927-1933"
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  Interwar 13: America invades the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924 24.05.2026 57min

  In the Interwar years America invaded many Central American and Caribbean countries. The major ones included Haiti, Nicaragua, and the Dominican Republic. We start with the DR, 1916-1924, who nonetheless managed to get the Americans to withdraw.
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  Interwar 12 America: The Scopes Monkey Trial, Sacco & Vanzetti framed 17.05.2026 48min

  A showdown over evolution at the Scopes Monkey Trial. A frame-up of Sacco and Vanzetti. A pair of Interwar trials define America in this period.
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  Interwar 11: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921 14.05.2026 1h 45min

  Back when we covered the US Civil War, we talked about how the US ultimately un-did the Reconstruction. But undoing the Reconstruction went on and on, and the Tulsa Race Massacre (formerly known as the Tulsa Race Riot) was a major moment of the destruction of a prosperous Black community. The history, the aftermath, the … Continue reading "Interwar 11: The Tulsa Race Massacre of 1921"
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  Interwar 10 America pt2: American Racism – Reservations, Black Labor, the KKK 06.05.2026 47min

  Continuing our series on Interwar America including Indian Reservations, Black Labor, the Garveyite Movement, and the KKK.
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  Interwar 9 America pt1: Autos, Cinema, Airplanes, Finance, Prohibition, Gangsters 26.04.2026 2h 21min

  A little bit of everything as we take two hours to start to paint a picture of Interwar America.
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  Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi 02.04.2026 42min

  After the Cossack Coup, a power struggle between rivals leads to Reza Khan rising to the top. He defangs an American financial mission, jails and executes his rivals, plunders the tribes, makes a personal bank, and becomes not only Shah, but in Gholi Majd’s words, “the largest private landowner… in all likelihood in the recorded … Continue reading "Interwar 8: The rise of the first Reza Shah Pahlavi"
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  Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921 12.03.2026 57min

  The 1919 Anglo-Persian Agreement made every Persian government that followed unviable. Britain wanted Iran to be a colony, but couldn’t find a viable collaborator in the Qajjar Shahs or the Majlis. So, in 1921, they used one of their favorite moves: they organized a coup to overthrow a government they had installed and supported. The … Continue reading "Interwar 7: Reza Khan and the Cossack Coup of 1921"
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  Interwar 6: Iran the Semicolony and the Anglo-Persian Agreement of 1919 23.02.2026 2h 5min

  Iran’s Constitutional Revolution was in 1905, but the British are there and bent on colonizing it. The struggles of the last of the Qajjar Shahs, the British occupation during WWI, and the British imposition of the hated Anglo-Persian agreement of 1919, which no Iranian government can survive… 
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  Interwar 5: Ireland from Easter Rising to Partition 17.01.2026 2h 15min

  In the aftermath of the Easter Rising of 1916, the Irish Revolutionaries regrouped. We trace their path through armed struggle against Britain, negotiation, the formation of the Dail and its role. The larger than life characters including Michael Collins and events like Bloody Sunday. How England’s first colony fought the Empire between the world wars.
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  AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping 04.01.2026 37min

  In the early morning of January 3, 2026, the US bombed Venezuela and kidnapped its president and its first lady. As of Day 1 of the war, Venezuela’s government is intact and popular mobilizations are calling for their president’s return. Trump has said that the US will run Venezuela and take its oil. Some insights … Continue reading "AER 153: Venezuela War Begins with Maduro’s Kidnapping"
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  Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence 28.12.2025 1h 6min

  Our last episode of 2025. Did you know that Amanullah’s decision to wage war for Afghanistan’s independence from the British Empire had everything to do with Amritsar and the struggle underway in India in 1919? Some details on this war that you may not have heard, including the British besieging Peshawar, displacing whole towns full … Continue reading "Interwar 4: The Anglo-Afghan War of 1919: Amanullah wins Independence"
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  Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar… 29.11.2025 3h 28min

  Using Anita Anand’s book, The Patient Assassin, among other sources, we tell the story of India from 1919 to the 1920s, including the massacre at Amritsar, the Malabar Uprising of 1921, Bhagat Singh, Gandhi, and of course Udham Singh. Ghadar and the Indian revolutionaries. We won’t be back to India again until the 1930s, so … Continue reading "Interwar 3: India 1919: Massacre at Amritsar, Uprising in Malabar…"
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  Interwar 2: The 1919 Strikes! 15.10.2025 1h 20min

  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… 12.10.2025 1h 6min

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