The Fire These Times is a podcast and multimedia project started by scholar, writer, and activist Joey Ayoub in 2020. One of the ways the Antidote Writers Collective interacts with this project is with clerical support like transcription.
Starting in spring 2023, we are expanding this support! We are helping coordinate TFTT’s effort to make transcripts of every podcast episode available. If you are interested in contributing to this effort by transcribing any favorite past or future conversation on the podcast, please email us at antidote[at]riseup[dot]net and we will send you a style guide and instructions to make the whole process easier.
Edited transcripts will appear on the corresponding episode page at TFTT’s website, and Antidote Zine will continue to feature our favorites here as well.
Original audio and links are included in each post below. Support The Fire These Times on their patronage site!
The Assad regime’s open genocidal policies against its own people are enviable to people on the far right. For people whose politics come from identification with the state, this completely unrestrained killing is the highest form of freedom.
The idea of multipolarity needs to be understood & critiqued. The left cannot abandon anti-authoritarianism and internationalism.
Amplifying the voices of those who are in the middle of the fight, those who have suffered; asking people what life they want to live and then helping them to build it: this is what we need to be doing together.
The sectarian narrative is often completely false; this messaging of fear is designed to preserve authoritarian regimes in the face of popular protest movements that have nothing to do with sect.
Joey is from Lebanon; Aida is from Bosnia. They found opportunity to make many interesting comparisons between Lebanon and Bosnia looking at the ongoing impacts of the Taif Agreement and the Dayton Accords through a feminist lens.
It is absolutely necessary, and not a luxury, to support struggles for democracy and human rights wherever they happen in the world. That is part of the struggle for socialism.
