2021 in Review, 2022 Anti-Empire Plans
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Hello everyone. I hope this finds you all surviving and preparing for the end of the year tomorrow. Usually around this time of year I send a little review of what the Anti-Empire Project has been up to and some vague thoughts about what we might do next year.
The main thing to report of course is the book that came out from Monthly Review co-authored by Joe Emersberger, Extraordinary Threat: The US Empire, the Media, and Twenty Years of Coup Attempts in Venezuela. I’m really proud to be associated with Monthly Review and with Joe.
Besides that, I noticed that I seem to be averaging about five articles a year for the past few years. The pace can be attributed partly to the Independent Media Institute Globetrotter Project’s exacting standards and editorial process and partly that I’ve gravitated to writing longer and more researched articles, rather than the quick reactions I used to write in the 2010s and earlier. The three Independent Media Institute articles are these:
Canada is Waging an All-Front Legal War Against Indigenous People August 6, 2021
Is Colombia’s Military Displacing Peasants to Protect the Environment or Sell of Natural Resources? May 20, 2021
India’s Right-Wing Government is So Hungry for Profit It Will Risk Famine March 19, 2021
I also wrote my first article for the fantastic Covert Action Magazine, and it was a doozie at 8,000 words: Limited Hangouts: Western Intellectuals Whitewash Horrific Crimes of CIA Asset Paul Kagame – November 11, 2021.
During the war on Gaza earlier in the year I released something I’d been working on for a few years: a resource on anti-Palestinian racism: Anti-Palestinian Racism: A Resource.
On the podcast, I followed a few stories closely on the news/politics side (which I’m going to start calling Anti-Empire Radio starting from now), especially the case of Meng Wanzhou which I was very happy to see concluded with Meng returning safely to China (my coverage of it since 2020 is here: https://podur.org/tag/meng-wanzhou/). We covered India, including the Indian Farmers, as well as some China-India stories with Carl Zha (https://podur.org/category/india-and-pakistan/). We did some really good special broadcasts on the Gaza War with Tarek Loubani as well as Jon Elmer and Nora Barrows-Friedman from The Brief and a 4-part series of short episodes with Dan Freeman-Maloy, all here: https://podur.org/category/palestine/. We continued our many collaborations with the marvelous Sina Rahmani of The East is a Podcast.
But a major confluence that occurred was that on the history side of the podcast (aka the Civilizations Series, with David Power) we covered Afghanistan in depth a few months before the US withdrawal from the country. The result is some deep historical and contemporary material pertinent to the Afghanistan withdrawal (https://podur.org/category/afghanistan-war/).
We’ll be following all of these areas in 2022 as well. At Civilizations, we’ll be concluding the Scramble for Africa and moving on to the 20th Century, World War 1, 2, and beyond. I’m at the research stage for three other big things, two nonfictional and one fictional, and some smaller ones too.
What are your 2022 plans?
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