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This week, we’re sharing our interview with Elia Ayoub, an anti-authoritarian historian and essayist originally from Lebanon, co-founder of From The Periphery media collective, co-host of The Fire These Times podcast and many more things. We spoke about the US and Israeli war on Iran, it’s escalations into the wider region of west Asia, the Axis of Resistance, nuclear weapons, motivations of the various actors involved and thoughts on where that leaves anti-authoritarians in the imperial core countries like the US.

To hear the full interview, check out our website or the streaming services listed at tfsr.media

Elia links

• You can contact Elia by email at [email protected] or on Signal at @ ayoub.02
• Elia’s blog ( https://www.hauntologies.net/about ) and Ko-Fi account ( https://ko-fi.com/eliaayoub )
• Elia’s Lebanon class: https://thefirethesetimes.com/lebanonclass/
• Where you’ll soon find Elias latest +972 article: https://www.972mag.com/writer/elia-ayoub/
• From The Periphery Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/fromtheperiphery
• FTP website: https://fromtheperiphery.com/
• The Fire These Times Podcast: https://firenexttime.net/why-neutral-anti-imperialism-keeps-losing/

Related Episodes:

• Our recent interview about Iran before the war: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2026/02/15/death-to-the-dictator-uprising-and-repression-in-iran-with-anarchism-perspective/
• Past interviews we’ve done with Elia: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/elia-j-ayoub/

Mutual Aid in Lebanon

• Instagrams featuring info on some mutual aid efforts in Lebanon:
  • https://www.instagram.com/p/DVovwUojIYq/
  • https://www.instagram.com/beirutbydyke/p/DVbTtyciK7m/
• Lebanon Emergency Relief: https://www.chuffed.org/project/171933-lebanon-emergency-relief
• A Queer Lebanese mutual aid project involving Elia’s co-creator, Ayman Makruem: https://www.patreon.com/qmalebanon

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This week, we’re sharing an interview with Julie and Jeremy, two anarchists and participants in the Asheville Community Bail Fund. We speak about the US system of pre-trial incarceration aka bail and bond, the work of the bail fund locally, the overcrowding of the Buncombe County Jail here in Asheville, the ICE holds happening in the local jail, and how local policy choices regarding criminalization are being compounded by recent and new North Carolina legislation. Even if you aren’t in Asheville or North Carolina, it’s likely that much of this conversation will be pertinent to goings-ons in your neck of the woods (though hopefully not).

If you’re listening to the radio edition, you can find a longer edit via streaming services listed at https://tfsr.media or check out the show post here

If you’re a regular listener to The Final Straw Radio, have a passion for enriching the anarchist media environment, feel like your values align with what you’ve heard on the show and want a chance to help out and hone your skills, we’re always looking for help. If you’ve thought of getting a podcast or other media project going but aren’t sure how to start, we can be a good jumping off point. Feel free to reach out via our emails

Links

• https://avlcommunitybail.carrd.co/
• https://www.patreon.com/Ashevillecommunitybailfund
• National Bail Fund Network: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org
• Immigration Resources info: https://www.communityjusticeexchange.org/es/directorio-para-inmigracion
• Emancipate NC: https://emancipatenc.org/
• Lecture on Crime Data: https://www.haymarketbooks.org/blogs/338-counting-crime-a-lecture-on-the-politics-of-crime-data-and-its-uses
• NC Coalition for Alternatives to the Death Penalty: https://nccadp.org/
• Prairieland Case: https://prairielanddefendants.com/trial-support/

North Carolina Laws discussed

• NC SB-153 – Border Protection Act (pending): https://www.acluofnorthcarolina.org/legislation/sb-153-border-protection-act-anti-immigrant/
• NC HB-10: https://www.ncjustice.org/nc-justice-center-statement-on-house-bill-10-veto-override/
• NC HB-318: https://www.carolinajournal.com/nc-senate-passes-criminal-alien-enforcement-act/

Iryna’s Law (HB-307)

• https://southerncoalition.org/justice-system-reform/reframing-public-safety/public-safety-solutions-we-deserve-better-than-this/
• https://lincnc.org/when-tragedy-becomes-a-banner-reflections-on-irynas-law-and-the-politics-of-grief/

Related Past interviews

• The Prairieland Case: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/category/prairieland-case/
• NSPM-7 conversation: https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/09/28/the-implications-of-trumps-war-on-antifa-with-moira-meltzer-cohen/

Asheville politics and police repression

• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2024/05/09/clean-for-who-safe-for-who-asheville-business-improvement-district/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2023/03/19/felony-littering-trials-under-way-in-asheville/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2021/08/01/ashevilles-policing-crisis-with-ursula-wren-of-asheville-free-press/

Public surveillance by ALPR systems like Flock

• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/04/13/pushing-back-on-flock-cameras-with-kate-bertash/
• https://thefinalstrawradio.noblogs.org/post/2025/11/02/southerners-against-surveillance-systems-infrastructure-with-ed/

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