CounterVortex Podcast

By Bill Weinberg

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Episode Date
Is the Jewish homeland in outer space?
May 17, 2026
West Africa escalates toward genocide
May 09, 2026
Can we at least 86 the bullshit?
May 02, 2026
Trump to The Hague! III
Apr 29, 2026
Trump to The Hague! II
Apr 22, 2026
Hungary, Peru and the electoral struggle
Apr 19, 2026
Trump to The Hague!
Apr 12, 2026
World revolution and the digital contradiction
Apr 05, 2026
Tolstoy, Komyagin and the Other Russia
Mar 29, 2026
Resist cellular hegemony! II
Mar 22, 2026
Neither MAGA-fascism nor Islamic Republic
Mar 16, 2026
Resist cellular hegemony!
Feb 15, 2026
Lunar hubris and the end of the Earth
Feb 08, 2026
Twilight of Rojava?
Feb 01, 2026
Today Greenland, tomorrow the world
Jan 26, 2026
Iran & Minneapolis: fearful symmetry
Jan 18, 2026
Venezuela and Ukraine: forbidden symmetry
Jan 11, 2026
Somaliland and Western Sahara: forbidden symmetry
Jan 05, 2026
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in Nigeria
Dec 28, 2025
NYC: did socialism really beat fascism?
Dec 21, 2025
Trump Corollary: spheres of influence, white supremacy
Dec 13, 2025
Trump for War-is-Peace Prize III
Dec 07, 2025
Trump for War-is-Peace Prize II
Nov 30, 2025
The new Syria in the Great Game
Nov 24, 2025
NYC turns up the volume! II
Nov 16, 2025
NYC turns up the volume!
Nov 09, 2025
Darfur again —a genocide foretold
Nov 02, 2025
Fascism, socialism and the NYC mayoral race
Oct 26, 2025
Episode 300: the CounterVortex meta-rant
Oct 19, 2025
Bolivia, Syria & the challenge of plurinationalism
Oct 12, 2025
Better anti than fa, thank you II
Oct 05, 2025
Better anti than fa, thank you
Sep 28, 2025
Charlie Kirk = Calvo Sotelo?
Sep 21, 2025
Charlie Kirk = Horst Wessel
Sep 14, 2025
The Twenty-Fifth Hour revisited
Sep 07, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in El Salvador II
Aug 31, 2025
Trump for War-is-Peace Prize
Aug 24, 2025
Alaska 2025 = Munich 1938?
Aug 13, 2025
Meanwhile, the planet is dying....
Aug 11, 2025
MAGA-fascism and anti-Semitic pseudo-anti-anti-Semitism II
Aug 03, 2025
Syria: revolution on the razor’s edge
Jul 27, 2025
Zohran Mamdani and municipal resistance II
Jul 20, 2025
Orwell in Gaza
Jul 13, 2025
Zohran Mamdani and municipal resistance
Jul 06, 2025
Interview with Iranian-American activist Frieda Afary
Jun 26, 2025
Zohran Mamdani and the weaponization of anti-Semitism
Jun 22, 2025
Neither Jewish State nor Islamic Republic II
Jun 15, 2025
In defense of dissident minorities
Jun 08, 2025
Humanitarian intervention for Gaza?
May 30, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the Gulf State tyrannies
May 23, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in Libya
May 18, 2025
MAGA-fascism, Orwell & the cannabis stigma
May 11, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in Canada
May 04, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in El Salvador
Apr 27, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the dark side of 420
Apr 16, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in Greenland
Apr 13, 2025
MAGA-fascism and anti-Semitic pseudo-anti-anti-Semitism
Apr 03, 2025
Down with Bibi, down with Hamas!
Mar 24, 2025
Yet further thoughts on the common toad
Mar 23, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the struggle in South Africa
Mar 16, 2025
Free Syria and the Kurdish question II
Mar 06, 2025
Andrew Jackson and MAGA-fascism
Feb 25, 2025
MAGA-fascism and the future of Europe
Feb 23, 2025
Ukraine, Greenland & the global struggle for lithium
Feb 16, 2025
Cantonese and Toisan language promotion with Kim
Feb 09, 2025
Is it fascism yet?
Feb 02, 2025
South Korea and MAGA-fascism
Jan 26, 2025
The Gaza ceasefire and MAGA-fascism
Jan 21, 2025
Nullify the election! VI
Jan 12, 2025
Nullify the election! V
Jan 05, 2025
Rojava and the Rohingya: fearful symmetry
Dec 29, 2024
Nullify the election! IV
Dec 22, 2024
Free Syria and the Kurdish question
Dec 15, 2024
Syria: after the fall of the regime
Dec 08, 2024
Nullify the election! III
Dec 01, 2024
Nullify the election! II
Nov 25, 2024
Nullify the election!
Nov 18, 2024
Mandate for fascism, strategy for resistance
Nov 10, 2024
Vote for 'Killer Kamala.' It's important.
Nov 03, 2024
Neither Jewish State nor Islamic Republic
Oct 27, 2024
Anti-Semitism versus anti-Zionism: beyond parsing III
Oct 20, 2024
Tolstoy would shit II
Oct 13, 2024
Ranting against the apocalypse II
Oct 06, 2024
CounterVortex meta-podcast: ranting against the apocalypse
Sep 29, 2024
Against hippie fascism
Sep 22, 2024
Russian fascism: enemy of Black liberation
Sep 15, 2024
Rage against the technocracy II
Sep 08, 2024
Anti-Semitism versus anti-Zionism: beyond parsing II
Aug 30, 2024
Nuclear power and the struggle in Guangdong
Aug 25, 2024
World war or world revolution?
Aug 18, 2024
Tim Walz and the struggle in Minnesota
Aug 11, 2024
Flashpoint: Golan Heights
Aug 03, 2024
Are we still sleepwalking into fascism?
Jul 28, 2024
Sleepwalking into fascism
Jul 21, 2024
AI, nuclear power and the end of the Earth
Jul 14, 2024
REVOLUTION 9
Jul 06, 2024
From Baghdad to Bialystok —to Pico-Robertson
Jun 30, 2024
Anti-Semitism versus anti-Zionism: beyond parsing
Jun 23, 2024
Mexico's new presidenta and the human rights crisis
Jun 10, 2024
From Palestine to Western Sahara
Jun 05, 2024
A cannabis coup in the Congo?
Jun 02, 2024
New Caledonia in the Great Game
May 23, 2024
The betrayal of Darfur — again
May 17, 2024
Four dead in Ohio. And two in Mississippi.
May 12, 2024
The peace protests in Israel
May 04, 2024
From Warsaw Ghetto to Gaza Strip
Apr 26, 2024
Marek Edelman: Jewish hero, anti-Zionist
Apr 21, 2024
Further thoughts on the common toad
Apr 12, 2024
Against Zionism, toward pro-Semitism
Apr 07, 2024
Conspiracy theory and the Moscow terror
Mar 25, 2024
Blood Libel in a time of genocide
Mar 21, 2024
For Tibet-Palestine solidarity
Mar 13, 2024
Free speech and the Facebook dilemma
Mar 09, 2024
The electoral dilemma in apartheid Jerusalem
Mar 02, 2024
Frontline fighters (and martyrs) for free speech
Feb 24, 2024
For Palestinian-Uyghur solidarity
Feb 17, 2024
Iraq, Palestine, escalation and errata
Feb 10, 2024
Neither US imperialism nor Islamic Republic
Feb 03, 2024
Reformation, Remonstrance, Reaction
Jan 28, 2024
Gaza, Guernica and the Great Game
Jan 21, 2024
Liberatory legacy of heresy
Jan 14, 2024
For a meme moratorium
Jan 07, 2024
The Burmese struggle in the Great Game
Dec 30, 2023
Geopolitics of the Essequibo dispute
Dec 23, 2023
Whither ‘From the River to the Sea’? II
Dec 16, 2023
Argentina gets an anarchist president? Not!
Dec 10, 2023
Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism: parsing the difference II
Dec 02, 2023
Anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism: parsing the difference
Nov 26, 2023
Gaza and Yarmouk: forbidden symmetry
Nov 19, 2023
Whither ‘From the River to the Sea’?
Nov 09, 2023
Gaza: support ‘All for all’
Nov 01, 2023
Ukraine & Palestine: forbidden symmetry III
Oct 25, 2023
Ukraine & Palestine: forbidden symmetry II
Oct 18, 2023
Ukraine & Palestine: forbidden symmetry
Oct 14, 2023
Russia in Africa: imperialist or pretender?
Oct 06, 2023
The fall of Artsakh & the fate of the Armenians
Sep 26, 2023
Niger, Siberia and the global uranium wars
Sep 23, 2023
Orwell & the crisis in Burma
Sep 16, 2023
Solidarity with imprisoned anti-fascists in Russia
Sep 09, 2023
Himalayan fault lines in BRICS
Sep 03, 2023
Against the 'red-baiting' calumny
Aug 26, 2023
Ukraine and Anarchist Internationalism
Aug 19, 2023
Flashpoint Niger
Aug 12, 2023
Oppenheimer and techno-hubris
Aug 05, 2023
From the West Bank to Western Sahara
Jul 30, 2023
Artificial intelligence and the abolition of humanity
Jul 22, 2023
Artificial Intelligence and the abolition of truth
Jul 16, 2023
Geopolitics of the Barbie affair
Jul 09, 2023
Free Puerto Rico, Free Russia
Jul 02, 2023
From Manipur to the West Bank
Jun 24, 2023
The struggle in Northeast India
Jun 17, 2023
Kakhovka: ‘ecocide’ as war crime in Ukraine
Jun 10, 2023
Tankies, ‘false flags’ & the ‘gray zone’
Jun 03, 2023
‘Bad facts’ and the Belgorod incursion
May 27, 2023
Ukraine: against the 'Nazi' calumny — again
May 19, 2023
MENA Jews: Zionism or indigeneity?
May 13, 2023
Russia and the Sudan crisis II
May 07, 2023
Is Russia behind Sudan crisis?
Apr 29, 2023
Propaganda and the de-Finlandization of Finland
Apr 22, 2023
Ukraine and the weaponization of history -- again
Apr 15, 2023
Against global paramilitarism
Apr 09, 2023
Belarus and nuclear escalation
Apr 02, 2023
Mexico and the struggle for the genetic commons
Mar 27, 2023
Libya and Syria, 12 years later
Mar 18, 2023
Against 'progressive' betrayal of Ukraine
Mar 07, 2023
Against Assadist earthquake-exploitation
Feb 17, 2023
Magonismo hits the mainstream
Feb 12, 2023
West Africa’s forgotten wars
Feb 05, 2023
From Palestine to Iran: free the land
Jan 29, 2023
Peru at the precipice
Jan 22, 2023
Against tankie MLK-exploitation
Jan 13, 2023
Paradoxes of Moorish American identity
Jan 09, 2023
The Yazidis, ‘esotericism’ and the global struggle
Jan 01, 2023
Russia, Ukraine and the Reichsbürger cult
Dec 24, 2022
The linguistic struggle in China
Dec 18, 2022
Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine III
Dec 10, 2022
Ukraine: against the ‘Nazi’ calumny
Dec 03, 2022
Climate change and the global struggle III
Nov 28, 2022
Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine II
Nov 20, 2022
State capitalism and the Uyghur genocide
Nov 14, 2022
Against pseudo-pacifist war propaganda II
Nov 07, 2022
Climate change and the global struggle II
Oct 31, 2022
Against space imperialism
Oct 24, 2022
Anarchist voices on Ukraine
Oct 16, 2022
Grozny, Aleppo, Mariupol
Oct 09, 2022
Donbas = Sudetenland
Oct 02, 2022
Against the anti-bicycle backlash
Sep 25, 2022
Political geography of the Lower East Side
Sep 18, 2022
Roger Waters: just another brick in the war propaganda
Sep 11, 2022
Remembering the Daraya massacre
Sep 04, 2022
Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine and Syria
Aug 28, 2022
India's forgotten wars
Aug 22, 2022
Ukraine: debunking Russia's war propaganda
Aug 12, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 135: Can Russia foment civil war in the US?
Aug 07, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 134: Trumpism must be smashed
Jul 31, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 133: The Spanish Revolution revisited
Jul 24, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 132: Tolstoy would shit
Jul 17, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 131: Against pseudo-left disinformation on Ukraine
Jul 10, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 130: Ukrainian self-determination: Bandera or Makhno? II
Jul 04, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 129: Ukraine between East and West II
Jun 27, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 128: The forgotten war in Colombia
Jun 19, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 127: Rojava and Ezidikhan in the Great Game
Jun 12, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 126: Tiananmen Square: '6-4' and 'Xi Jinping Thought'
Jun 03, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 125: Chomsky and Kissinger: paradoxical unity
May 28, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 124: Chomsky and the Orwellian manipulation of Orwell
May 22, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 123: Whither Khazaria?
May 15, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 122: Somalia and the Great Game
May 08, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 121: Chernobyl and nuclear fear in Ukraine
May 02, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 120: Against Chomsky
Apr 24, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 119: Antifa and the Azov Battalion
Apr 17, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 118: The Looming Breakup of Russia
Apr 09, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 117: Is 'Neither East Nor West' still possible?
Apr 02, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 116: The Russian menace to Europe
Mar 27, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 115: Against Putin's Big Lie
Mar 20, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 114: Against pseudo-pacifist war propaganda
Mar 12, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 113: Ukrainian self-determination: Bandera or Makhno?
Mar 06, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 112: Against Putin's czaro-fascism
Feb 28, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 111: Russia and the new fascism
Feb 20, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 110: Nuclear power? No thanks!
Feb 13, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 109: Solidarity with Nagaland
Feb 06, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 108: Ukraine between East and West
Jan 29, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 107: Against 'normalcy' III
Jan 23, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 106: Against 'normalcy' II
Jan 16, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 105: Against 'normalcy'
Jan 09, 2022
CounterVortex Episode 104: Antivax is fascist II
Dec 31, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 103: Antivax is fascist
Dec 23, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 102: China Unbound with Joanna Chiu
Dec 18, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 101: R2P in the 21st Century
Dec 11, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 100: The countervortex of global resistance II
Dec 04, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 99: entheogenic adventures with Peter Gorman
Nov 28, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 98: Thanksgiving and Atonement
Nov 22, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 97: 007 in the New Cold War
Nov 13, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 96: Interview with Ilshat Kokbore
Nov 07, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 95: Anarchism and the Climate Crisis
Oct 31, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 94: the dialectics of cannabis liberation II
Oct 24, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 93: For Pragmatic Anarchism
Oct 17, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 92: Against fascist pseudo-anti-fascism
Oct 10, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 91: CounterVortex at 20
Oct 03, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 90: Anti-Semitism and propaganda -- again
Sep 25, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 89: Rage against the technocracy
Sep 19, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 88: 9-11 and the GWOT at 20
Sep 11, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 87: Against Afghanistan revisionism
Sep 05, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 86: Humanitarian intervention reconsidered II
Aug 30, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 85: Afghanistan and the Great Game
Aug 21, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 84: CounterVortex on CounterVortex
Aug 15, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 83: Hiroshima at 76
Aug 06, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 82: Afghanistan and the politics of withdrawal
Jul 29, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 81: Climate change & the global struggle
Jul 23, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 80: How do we respond to the Cuba protests?
Jul 17, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 79: Against Bosnia revisionism
Jul 11, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 78: China: democracy or separatism?
Jul 03, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 77: Chemwar and pseudoleft disinformation
Jun 27, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 76: George Orwell's wartime dilemma
Jun 19, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 75: Lessons of the Colonial Pipeline disaster
Jun 12, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 74: Roger Waters: just another brick in the wall
Jun 05, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 73: indigenous survival and the crisis in Peru
May 26, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 72: Gaza and genocide
May 18, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 71: Bill Weinberg's oral history
May 09, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 70: Solidarity with Tigray
May 04, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 69: Humanitarian intervention reconsidered
Apr 21, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 68: Requiem for the Yemeni Jews
Apr 13, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 67: Some Thoughts on the Common Toad
Apr 09, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 66: Interview with Alexander Reid Ross
Apr 04, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 65: Syria: Lessons from Kronstadt 1921
Mar 24, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 64: US robo-imperialism hands off Mars!
Feb 23, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 63: Taiwan and Puerto Rico: Forbidden Symmetry
Feb 09, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 62: For Total De-Trumpification
Jan 23, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 61: Stop the Coup! 2
Jan 15, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 60: Stop the Coup!
Jan 07, 2021
CounterVortex Episode 59: Rule of the Strongmen
Dec 29, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 58: What will it take to stop Trump? IV
Dec 12, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 57: What will it take to stop Trump? III
Sep 16, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 56: What will it take to stop Trump? II
Aug 26, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 55: Verizon delenda est II
Aug 13, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 54: Two faces of fascism
Jun 20, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 53: For Minneapolis-Hong Kong solidarity
Jun 03, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 52: Eros and Psyche revisited
May 09, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 51: COVID-19 and conspiracy theory
May 01, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 50: COVID-19 and impending bio-fascism II
Apr 18, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 49: COVID-19 and impending bio-fascism
Mar 08, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 48: The Yip Harburg Legacy
Feb 25, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 47: BorderTalk with Tej Hazarika
Feb 02, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 46: solidarity with Iran — the people, not the state
Jan 12, 2020
CounterVortex Episode 45: against the global detention state
Dec 22, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 44: the struggle for James Bay
Dec 10, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 43: world revolution in 2020?
Nov 17, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 42 Interview: Yoseph Needelman-Ruiz
Nov 05, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 41: Against Arab-Kurdish ethnic war in Syria
Oct 20, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 40: Against Narendra Modi's Gandhi-exploitation
Oct 06, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 39: the politics of separatism in China
Sep 02, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 38: Tulsi Gabbard and the paradox of hippie fascism
Aug 11, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 37: Spain 1939 = Syria 2019
Jul 29, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 36: Against the Left-Fascist Convergence
Jul 16, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 35: Voices of High Mi Madre
Jun 17, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 34: Memories of Tiananmen Square
May 30, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 33: Genocide, propaganda and the Idlib offensive
May 13, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 32: Paradoxes of anarchism and nationalism
Apr 28, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 31: Julian Assange: agent of fascism
Apr 14, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 30: The Mueller Report and impending fascism
Mar 31, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 29: Ilhan Omar, anti-Semitism and propaganda
Mar 17, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 28: Tibet and the struggle for cyberspace
Mar 03, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 27: Independence for Ambazonia
Feb 17, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 26: Strange bedfellows from Crimea to Venezuela
Feb 03, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 25: Fascism and the digital dystopia II
Jan 20, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 24: The Dialectics of Cannabis Liberation
Jan 07, 2019
CounterVortex Episode 23: Solidarity with Idlib and Rojava
Dec 23, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 22: Verizon delenda est
Nov 11, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 21: Looming fascism and the digital dystopia
Oct 28, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 20: Libertarian Socialism: not an oxymoron
Oct 16, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 19: Standing for Idlib
Sep 30, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 18: Legacy of Kazakh-Shoshone solidarity
Sep 16, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 17: Toward Lakota-Tatar solidarity
Sep 03, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 16: Toward Berber-Palestinian solidarity
Aug 20, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 15: The Tibetan uprising 10 years later
Aug 07, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 14: What will it take to stop Trump?
Jul 22, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 13: First they came for the immigrants....
Jul 08, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 12: Homage to Lounès Matoub
Jun 24, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 11: Syria and Nicaragua, Revolutionary Parallels
Jun 12, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 10: Nicaragua and political deja vu
May 29, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 9: Against Red-Brown politics
May 15, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 8: From Guernica to Syria
May 01, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 7: Against Pro-War 'Anti-War' Jive
Apr 17, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 6: The Abolition of (Hu)man(ity)
Apr 03, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 5: Xi Jinping's Totalitarian Capitalism
Mar 20, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 4: Politics of the Second Amendment
Mar 07, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 3: Socialism or Barbarism
Feb 20, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 2: Solidarity with Afrin and Idlib
Jan 28, 2018
CounterVortex Episode 1
Jan 14, 2018