Delete Your Account Podcast

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined by returning guest Amanda Yee, an independent journalist and organizer based in Brooklyn. Amanda is also the co-host of The China Report on BreakThrough News and the managing editor of Liberation News. Her writing has appeared in Monthly Review Online, The Real News Network, CounterPunch, and Peoples Dispatch. Amanda talks us through the implications of Trump's “Liberation Day” tariff war on the global market as well as its impact on China, which has inflicted a 125% tariff on US products. Amanda discusses China’s defensive economic strategy under the leadership of Xi Jinping's, which has helped prepare China for a market showdown with the United States, and how China will weather potential setbacks. The crew also delves into China's cultural exchange of ideas and the deprogramming of Americans—namely on social media platforms like the Chinese platform RedNote [https://xiaohongshu.com/]—which has undermined the United States’ dissemination of anti-China propaganda. You can follow Amanda on Twitter @radiofreeamanda [https://x.com/radiofreeamanda?lang=en] and you can also follow Amanda's work over at The China Report [https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLwZtBKjGSMzWROz7Dbxc-vZDgVfEhENmN]. If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” you can subscribe on our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount] for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/delete-your-account%21/id1121355704]. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This is just a teaser for today's episode, which is available for Patreon subscribers only!   We can't do the show without your support, so help us keep the lights on over here and access tons of bonus content, including Roqayah's new weekly column "Last Week in Lebanon," by subscribing on our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount] for as little as $5 a month. While you’re at it, we also love it when you subscribe, rate, and review us on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/delete-your-account%21/id1121355704].  This week, Roqayah and Kumars discuss the latest news from Lebanon, Yemen, and Iran, including Israel bombing Beirut for the first time since the November ceasefire with Hezbollah, the real scandal of “Signalgate”, the Trump administration’s continued escalation against Yemen, the prospect of US strikes on Iran, and more signs that Gaza is not alone.

This week, Roqayah and Kumars are joined for the hour by Alexander Aviña, an expert on Mexican history and US imperialism in Latin America and the Caribbean. He is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University, contributor to the newsletter Foreign Exchanges on Substack [http://www.foreignexchanges.news], and author of Specters of Revolution: Peasant Guerrillas in the Cold War Mexican Countryside [http://www.foreignexchanges.news].  Alex shares his perspective on how the second Trump administration has actually changed immigration policy and enforcement, the Democrats’ legacy of border militarization, the high-profile detentions of Mahmoud Khalil and others, Dr. Phil’s deportation ride-along, the Marxist case for “open borders”, and the effectiveness of recent popular mobilizations against ICE.  Follow Alex on Twitter @Alexander_Avina [http://twitter.com/alexander_avina] and stay abreast of his latest analysis at foreignexchanges.news [http://www.foreignexchanges.news].  If you want to support the show and receive access to tons of bonus content, including Roqayah’s new weekly column “Last Week in Lebanon,” you can subscribe on our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount] for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/delete-your-account%21/id1121355704]. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars present a news roundup from Lebanon and Palestine. They preview Roqayah’s on-the-ground coverage of the funeral of Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon, before discussing the current state of the ceasefire in Gaza, the IDF's latest escalation in the West Bank, and Israel’s plans to occupy southern Syria indefinitely.  If you want to support the show and receive access to Roqayah’s “Last Week in Lebanon” column along with tons of other bonus content, subscribe on our Patreon [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount] for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/delete-your-account%21/id1121355704]. We can't do this show without your support!!!

This week, Roqayah and Kumars preview Roqayah’s new weekly column, “Last Week in Lebanon,” available exclusively to Delete Your Account subscribers on Patreon. In her first post [https://www.patreon.com/posts/last-week-in-pro-122415724], Roqayah documents the Lebanese Army’s crackdown on pro-Resistance demonstrations after the new Lebanese government prevented an Iranian plane from carrying mourners to the funeral of Seyyed Hassan Nasrallah. If you want to support the show and receive access to Roqayah’s “Last Week in Lebanon” column along with tons of other bonus content, subscribe on our Patreo [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount]n [https://www.patreon.com/deleteyouraccount] for as little as $5 a month. Also, don't forget to subscribe, rate, and review the show on Apple Podcasts [https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/delete-your-account%21/id1121355704]. We can't do this show without your support!!!