{"podcast":{"title":"Green & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals","slug":"green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","podcast_index_feed_id":359547,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/rss","website_url":"https://greenandredpodcast.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/production/podcast_uploaded_nologo/2717571/2717571-1580334385371-3599dae039cc9.jpg","author":"Green and Red","episode_count":515,"summary":"Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-07T22:17:14.000533+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547"},"episode":{"title":"The Crises in the Middle East, w/ Professor Giuseppe Acconcia (G&R 479)","slug":"the-crises-in-the-middle-east-w-professor-giuseppe-acconcia-g-r-479","published_at":"2026-03-17T08:33:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/the-crises-in-the-middle-east-w-professor-giuseppe-acconcia-g-r-479","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/greenandred/episodes/The-Crises-in-the-Middle-East--w-Professor-Giuseppe-Acconcia-GR-479-e3ghep8","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/10cb45ac/podcast/play/117012712/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-2-16%2Fdd4568ae-32e0-c714-a906-2fad343ad605.mp3","summary":"Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the U.S./Israeli war on the region. We discussed the various states being attacked, the damages done so far to Iran, the decision-making process in Tehran--including the roles of the military, revolutionary guard, and political elite, the economic impact of the war so far, the importance of the Kurds, and much more. Bio// Giuseppe Acconcia, (@stradedellest), professor at Padua University and the University of Milan, has been a journalist in various locations in the Middle East, and is the author of "The Great Iran," and co-authored, with Lorenza Perini, of "The Arab Uprisings: Protests, Gender, and War, 2011-2021." --------------- 🎸 Outro- "Green and Red Blues" by Moody🔗 Links🌐 The Great Iran: The Iranian Civil Society from Qajar Iran to Rouhani (https://bit.ly/46Zwhj9) 🎙️ Follow Green and Red 🔗 Linktree: https://linktr.ee/greenandredpodcast 🌐 Website: https://greenandredpodcast.org 💚 Support the Green and Red Podcast 🎉 Become a Patron: https://www.patreon.com/greenredpodcast ☕ One-time donation: https://bit.ly/DonateGandR 🌍 Our Networks 🎧 Labor Podcast Network: https://www.laborradionetwork.org 📢 Anti-Capitalist Podcast Network: https://linktr.ee/anticapitalistpodcastnetwork 📻 Listen on WAMF (90.3 FM) New Orleans: https://wamf.org🎬 A Green and Red Podcast production 👨‍🏫 Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott (@sparki1969) ✂️ Edited by Scott🔔 Subscribe for more analysis on U.S. politics, leftist strategy, and anti-establishment resistance.","meta_description":"Professor Giuseppe Acconcia has been traveling, studying, and writing about the Middle East for decades and joined me for a great discussion of the U.S./I…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3102,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/episodes/the-crises-in-the-middle-east-w-professor-giuseppe-acconcia-g-r-479/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/green-red-podcasts-for-scrappy-radicals-359547/the-crises-in-the-middle-east-w-professor-giuseppe-acconcia-g-r-479.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}