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. turbulencepod.substack.com
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Nov 13, 2026 · 4:11
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Trump’s dwindling options in the Iran war, Ansarallah’s strikes on Saudi…
Nov 6, 2026 · 1:25:57
James Crane joins us to discuss how Palestine shaped Deleuze & Guattari’s philosophy, and what their concepts of minoritarian politics, the war machine, and lines of flight mean…
Nov 5, 2026 · 4:32
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss whether the GOP rout signals the end of the Trump era, how it shapes…
Oct 30, 2026 · 2:16:21
Hassan joins us to discuss the making of the modern Ethiopian state, the revolutionary struggles that overthrew the monarchy and the Derg, the rise and fall of TPLF rule, and…
Oct 29, 2026 · 2:51
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 results of the Israeli…
Oct 23, 2026 · 3:36
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 campaigns, the…
Oct 15, 2026 · 4:07
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 to border…
Oct 13, 2026 · 1:13:22
We continue our discussion with Mamyrah Dougé-Prosper on the history of popular resistance in Haiti, the contradictions of the Aristide era, the PetroCaribe protests of 2018, and…
Oct 9, 2026 · 1:18:45
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, and the…
Oct 8, 2026 · 4:25
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, Ansarallah’s continued…
Oct 2, 2026 · 5:45
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, the end of the…
Sep 25, 2026 · 4:24
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 finance of settler…
Sep 22, 2026 · 1:25:08
Nathan Tankus joins us to discuss the monetary foundations of American empire, how sanctions weaponize the global financial system, the possibility of China-led de-dollarization,…
Sep 17, 2026 · 5:50
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 as friend of the…
Sep 16, 2026 · 1:07:16
Hassan Ould Moctar joins us to discuss Europe’s externalized border regime, the colonial history of race and territory in Mauritania, and how migration control,…
Sep 10, 2026 · 5:48
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 advance in Yemen,…
Sep 8, 2026 · 1:23:35
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 the climate…
Sep 3, 2026 · 57:36
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 Cerimedo in Bolivia,…
Sep 2, 2026 · 1:42:31
Josef Burton joins us to discuss the transformation of immigration under Trump, the bureaucrats who administer US machinery of repression, and what intensifying coercion at home…
Aug 27, 2026 · 4:15
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 history of Hamas,…
Aug 25, 2026 · 1:13:51
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 what decades of…
Aug 20, 2026 · 2:57
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 with explosives and…
Aug 18, 2026 · 1:33:19
Mujamma Haraket joins us to discuss negotiations over Hamas’ disarmament, the collaborator militias in Gaza, Khalil al-Hayya’s rise within Hamas, the movement’s evolving…
Aug 11, 2026 · 1:27:11
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 defense agreement, and…
Aug 6, 2026 · 3:24
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 expanding…
Jul 30, 2026 · 4:03
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 and south to the…
Jul 28, 2026 · 1:40:45
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 political thought and…
Jul 23, 2026 · 6:33
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 “pilot zones” in…
Jul 21, 2026 · 1:05:48
Hakim Adi joins us to discuss the Black radicals who shaped the Comintern, the Black Belt Thesis and the national question, Pan-Africanism through decolonization, and whether the…
Jul 16, 2026 · 5:50
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 reopening of the…
Jul 14, 2026 · 1:20:32
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 performance in the…
Jul 12, 2026 · 4:22
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 Hamas’s civilian…
Jul 8, 2026 · 59:24
Nasser Elamine joins us to discuss the framework agreement between Lebanon and Israel, Hezbollah’s military reemergence, the unity of fronts strategy, and how regional states are…
Jul 3, 2026 · 6:05
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 foreign policy since…
Jun 30, 2026 · 1:29:52
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 the War on Terror,…
Jun 26, 2026 · 5:52
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 mechanism in Lebanon,…
Jun 24, 2026 · 1:04:17
Torkil Lauesen joins us to discuss the political economy of imperialism and trade, Arghiri Emmanuel’s theory of unequal exchange, political action in the imperial core, his years…
Jun 19, 2026 · 6:50
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 the Memorandum of…
Jun 16, 2026 · 1:05:00
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 Suez moment in Iran,…
Jun 12, 2026 · 6:03
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 MOU, “dark…
Jun 9, 2026 · 1:13:39
Lara Sheehi joins us to discuss the legacy of Franz Fanon, what psychoanalysis can offer liberation struggles, Zionism as the denial of Palestinian interiority, and the psychic…
Jun 5, 2026 · 5:42
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 on the global oil…
Jun 3, 2026 · 1:17:37
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 role, and…
May 29, 2026 · 3:49
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 memorandum of…
May 26, 2026 · 1:33:49
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, Honduras, and…
May 22, 2026 · 3:19
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, the perils of…
May 20, 2026 · 1:06:12
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 in the country,…
May 15, 2026 · 4:53
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 Hormuz, the budding…
May 12, 2026 · 59:12
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 Nazis, and the meaning…
May 5, 2026 · 1:02:22
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 prospects of…
Apr 30, 2026 · 3:31
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 oil, the UAE leaving…
Apr 29, 2026 · 1:14:45
Basil Farraj joins us to discuss Israeli carceral violence, the evolution of the Palestinian prisoners’ movement, and the life and thought of Walid Daqqa. Texts mentioned:…
Apr 24, 2026 · 4:27
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 discussion of Trump’s…
Apr 21, 2026 · 1:04:20
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, the economic rise…
Apr 16, 2026 · 4:40
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 discussion of the…
Apr 15, 2026 · 1:16:01
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 regional war, what…
Apr 10, 2026 · 5:49
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 discussion of the…
Apr 7, 2026 · 1:03:35
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 economy, how the trade in…
Apr 3, 2026 · 5:15
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 discussion of the strategic…
Mar 31, 2026 · 1:10:07
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 Gulf Studies at the…
Mar 27, 2026 · 4:50
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 the “foreign…
Mar 25, 2026 · 46:14
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 development of the…
Mar 19, 2026 · 5:22
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 US and Israeli…
Mar 17, 2026 · 1:04:31
Darryl Li joins us to assess the post-October 7 conjuncture, the US-Israel relationship, and the new regional order emerging out of the Iran war. This is the first part of a two…
Mar 12, 2026 · 3:57
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 the new Supreme Leader,…
Mar 11, 2026 · 1:08:48
Helen Yaffe joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s escalating attacks on Cuba, the country’s history of medical internationalism, and Che Guevara’s developmentalist…
Mar 6, 2026 · 4:30
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the rapidly expanding scope, duration, and intensity of the Iran war. Please…
Mar 3, 2026 · 44:59
We discuss the US and Israel’s war of aggression on Iran that has dragged the entire region into chaos. This is a special public release of our News of the Week series, which is…
Feb 27, 2026 · 3:20
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the killing of “El Mencho” in Jalisco, an attempted gusano infiltration of…
Feb 24, 2026 · 1:05:27
In the first installment of our Political Economy of Genocide series, we are joined by Edward Ongweso Jr. to discuss the use of artificial intelligence in war, Silicon Valley’s…
Feb 20, 2026 · 4:56
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the legal troubles of the British royal family, the inaugural Board of Peace…
Feb 17, 2026 · 1:10:21
Stuart Schrader joins us to discuss the Cold War origins of modern policing, the ongoing ICE and CBP deployments, and Zohran Mamdani’s attempts to reform the NYPD. Stuart…
Feb 13, 2026 · 3:57
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the blockade of Cuba, the US-Iran negotiations, an anti-immigration plebiscite…
Feb 10, 2026 · 1:01:27
Andreas Krieg joins us to discuss the United Arab Emirates’ regional rivalry with Saudi Arabia, its cultivation of an ‘Axis of Secessionists,’ and what its network-centric…
Feb 6, 2026 · 4:48
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the US-Iran negotiations in Muscat, the end of nuclear non-proliferation, the…
Feb 3, 2026 · 1:19:25
Abby Martin of Empire Files joins us to discuss the devastating environmental impacts of US militarism, the murder-suicide pact embraced by our ruling class, and Israel’s ecocide…
Jan 30, 2026 · 5:39
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com In part two of our conversation with Jake Romm, we discuss October 7th and its aftermath,…
Jan 27, 2026 · 1:17:55
Jake Romm joins us to discuss the construction of the liberal international order, the latent imperialism of just war theory, and the legal infrastructure of the war on terror.…
Jan 23, 2026 · 5:21
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the state of the world order as seen from Davos, Ahmed al-Sharaa’s campaign…
Jan 20, 2026 · 1:26:42
Abdaljawad Omar joins us to discuss life under occupation in the West Bank, Israel’s strategy of permanence through crisis, and what Palestinian resistance represents from the…
Jan 16, 2026 · 5:41
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the Tony Dokoupil Century of Humiliation, NATO’s troop buildup in Greenland,…
Jan 13, 2026 · 1:23:31
José Luis Granados Ceja joins us to discuss the abduction of Venezuelan president Nicolás Maduro, the US’s long war on the Bolivarian Revolution, and what to expect next from the…
Jan 9, 2026 · 4:24
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the abduction of Nicolás Maduro, the murder of Renee Nicole Good by an ICE…
Jan 6, 2026 · 1:19:22
Samar Al-Bulushi joins us to discuss Israel’s recognition of Somaliland, US intervention in the Horn of Africa, and why the Red Sea corridor has become such a hotspot in the…
Dec 19, 2025 · 3:03
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Trump’s threatened blockade of Venezuelan oil, the expanded Muslim ban, Bari…
Dec 16, 2025 · 1:19:02
Adom Getachew joins us to discuss self-determination, pan-Africanism, and the life and thought of Marcus Garvey. Check out Getachew’s book, Worldmaking After Empire , here . Adom…
Dec 14, 2025 · 3:56
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com In our first Q&A livestream, we were joined by Hassan from Episode 4: Sudan in the World…
Dec 9, 2025 · 1:24:24
Rania Khalek joins us to discuss the history of Hezbollah, Lebanon’s struggle for sovereignty in the face of US interference and Israeli aggression, and the country’s current…
Dec 5, 2025 · 3:13
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the death of Yasser Abu Shabab, Netanyahu’s corruption charges, the upcoming…
Dec 2, 2025 · 1:15:27
Our friend Rob Ashlar joins us to discuss the myths and realities of the Axis of Resistance, Iranian grand strategy, and the unifying power of the Palestinian cause. Rob Ashlar…
Nov 26, 2025 · 4:01
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss Jair Bolsonaro’s failed attempt to escape from house arrest, former Obama…
Nov 21, 2025 · 1:51
This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com We discuss the McDonald’s Summit, the Donroe Doctrine, Mohammad bin Salman at the White…
Nov 18, 2025 · 1:41:13
Our friend Hassan joins us to discuss the devastating civil war in Sudan, the geopolitical strategy of the United Arab Emirates, and US counter-rationality as a hegemon in…
Nov 14, 2025 · 2:28
We discuss Kazakhstan joining the Abraham Accords, the absurd failure of Saudi Arabia’s Neom, Jolani’s White House visit, and offer a critical assessment of the Mamdani mayoral…
Nov 11, 2025 · 1:14:24
Orisanmi Burton joins us to discuss the legacy of Assata Shakur, the prison as a form of warfare, and transnational solidarity between Black and Palestinian revolutionary…
Nov 4, 2025 · 1:12:57
Alexander Aviña joins us to discuss Israel’s Cold War involvement in Latin America, the invention of “narcoterrorism,” and the potential for solidarity between the pro-Palestine…
Oct 28, 2025 · 1:32:24
Laleh Khalili joins us to discuss Ansarallah’s naval blockade in support of Palestine, the politics and history of the commodities trade in the Arabian Peninsula, and…
Oct 24, 2025 · 13:44
Audio: George Habash speaks on U.S. role in Palestine and Lebanon, January 1979. Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman The American Century is ending. So…
Oct 18, 2025 · 1:46
Audio: George Habash speaks on U.S. role in Palestine and Lebanon, January 1979. Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) The American Century is ending. So far, the world order…
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