BONUS: A Plot to Take Kharg Island

BONUS: A Plot to Take Kharg Island

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com [https://turbulencepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] We discuss the return of war to the Persian Gulf, negotiations over an MOU, “dark transits” through Hormuz, a proposed Syrian invasion of Lebanon, Graham Platner’s whole deal, and what the trainwreck at CBS News says about the US-Israel relationship. We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world. Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week. Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com [http://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe] Follow along on Twitter/X [https://x.com/turbulence_pod?s=21&t=obRvY2ti0ejk3QaOjBE8ug] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/turbulence_pod?igsh=OTVzaDhmaW40dndj&utm_source=qr] @turbulence_pod Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman

Episode 28: Fanon and Psychic Resistance w/ Lara Sheehi

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 dimensions of occupation and resistance. Please consider donating to the Lebanon Emergency Relief Fund, here: Tanseqeye Shaabeye Lebanon [https://www.chuffed.org/project/171933-lebanon-emergency-relief?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&utm_id=97760_v0_s00_e0_tv3]. Works mentioned: Black Skin, White Masks [https://groveatlantic.com/book/black-skin-white-masks/], Wretched of the Earth [https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-wretched-of-the-earth/], Psychoanalysis Under Occupation [https://www.routledge.com/Psychoanalysis-Under-Occupation-Practicing-Resistance-in-Palestine/Sheehi-Sheehi/p/book/9781032078694], From the Clinic to the Streets [https://www.plutobooks.com/product/from-the-clinic-to-the-streets/], Molding Consciousness [https://manifold.umn.edu/read/ces0901-08/section/ff5ab363-50a8-47aa-b2a6-7000ddec4c9d]. Lara Sheehi is a Research Fellow at the University of South Africa’s Institute for Social and Health Sciences, a licensed clinical psychologist, and the host of the Psychic Militancy [https://www.youtube.com/@PsychicMilitancy] podcast. Lara’s work focuses on psychoanalysis, the psychic refusals central to liberation struggles and life-making in the Global South, the psychic dimensions of resistance and revolution, and critical Zionism studies. She is the author of From Clinic to the Streets: Psychoanalysis for Revolutionary Futures (Pluto, 2026) and co-author with Stephen Sheehi of Psychoanalysis Under Occupation: Practicing Resistance in Palestine (Routledge, 2022). Lara is a member of the founding collective for the Institute for the Critical Study of Zionism [https://criticalzionismstudies.org/] and is on the advisory board for Forensic Architecture. Patreon: www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy [http://www.patreon.com/psychicmilitancy] IG: @psychicmilitancypod [https://www.instagram.com/psychicmilitancypod/] & @psychoanalystactivist [https://www.instagram.com/psychoanalystactivist/] Website: larasheehi.com [http://larasheehi.com/] We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world. Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week. Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com [http://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe] Follow along on Twitter/X [https://x.com/turbulence_pod?s=21&t=obRvY2ti0ejk3QaOjBE8ug] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/turbulence_pod?igsh=OTVzaDhmaW40dndj&utm_source=qr] @turbulence_pod Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe [https://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

BONUS: Art of the Deal

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com [https://turbulencepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] We discuss the latest flare-up in the Strait of Hormuz, China’s impact on the global oil market, the new “ceasefire” in Lebanon, the disarmament of militant groups in Iraq, a new plan to militarily integrate the US and Israel, and America’s 250th birthday. We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world. Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week. Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com [http://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe] Follow along on Twitter/X [https://x.com/turbulence_pod?s=21&t=obRvY2ti0ejk3QaOjBE8ug] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/turbulence_pod?igsh=OTVzaDhmaW40dndj&utm_source=qr] @turbulence_pod Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman

Episode 27: Every Time the Media Lies w/ Adam Johnson

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 systematically dehumanizing Palestinians. Works mentioned: Why Did the Heavens Not Darken? [https://www.versobooks.com/products/1296-why-did-the-heavens-not-darken], How to Sell a Genocide [https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/]. Adam Johnson is co-host of the Citations Needed [https://www.patreon.com/citationsneededpodcast] podcast and author of How to Sell a Genocide: The Media’s Complicity in the Destruction of Gaza [https://www.plutobooks.com/product/how-to-sell-a-genocide/] which is now out from Pluto Press. We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world. Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week. Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com [http://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe] Follow along on Twitter/X [https://x.com/turbulence_pod?s=21&t=obRvY2ti0ejk3QaOjBE8ug] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/turbulence_pod?igsh=OTVzaDhmaW40dndj&utm_source=qr] @turbulence_pod Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman This is a public episode. If you'd like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe [https://turbulencepod.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_2]

BONUS: Peace Processing

This is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit turbulencepod.substack.com [https://turbulencepod.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_7] We discuss Netanyahu’s non-strategy in Gaza and Lebanon, the draft memorandum of understanding between the US and Iran, Trump’s last-ditch Abraham Accords push, and what’s going on with JD Vance. We’re committed to independence and will never run ads or take money from institutions. That means Turbulence is entirely listener-funded. For $5 a month, paid subscribers gain access to weekly news analysis bonus episodes, where we respond to events as they unfold, follow up on previous discussions, and draw connections across the conflicts shaping our world. Most importantly, paid subscriptions make it possible for us to keep doing this work independently, week after week. Subscribe today at turbulencepod.substack.com [http://turbulencepod.substack.com] Follow along on Twitter/X [https://x.com/turbulence_pod?s=21&t=obRvY2ti0ejk3QaOjBE8ug] and Instagram [https://www.instagram.com/turbulence_pod?igsh=OTVzaDhmaW40dndj&utm_source=qr] @turbulence_pod Theme: Eye for an Eye, Haram (2017) Art: Vivek Venkatraman