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Behind the News: Israel and the Axis of Resistance w/ Mouin Rabbani

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

Laura Jedeed, author of a recent feature article for Lux, discusses the right’s war on North Idaho College. Mouin Rabbani talks about what’s driving Israel’s multiple wars, and the Axis of Resistance.


Behind the News, hosted by Doug Henwood, covers the worlds of economics and politics and their complex interactions, from the local to the global. Find the archive online.



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0:00.0

The

0:07.0

The Hello and welcome to behind the news.

0:35.3

My name is Doug Hinwood,

0:36.6

as mandated by the high command of forces allied against the dark enlightenment, two guests today.

0:42.1

Laura Jadid will report in the Far Rights War in a community college in northern Idaho, and Mouin Rabani will discuss Israel's aims in its current multi-front war and on the state of the so-called axis of resistance.

0:55.1

The rights war on woke college campuses, as they see them, has gotten a lot of attention, but that's not the

0:59.1

only battle they're fighting in the higher education theater. Lourge, Adide, a journalist who

1:03.6

specializes in covering the lurid outposts of American reaction, has an article co-published

1:08.9

by Lux Magazine and Teen Vogue on the campaign being

1:12.2

conducted by the Idaho Republican Party, a deeply rabid formation, on North Idaho College.

1:18.3

That's a two-year institution with 4,300 students that has nothing woke about it, but they're

1:23.0

trying to dismantle it anyway. Why? Here's Laura Jadid to tell us.

1:29.5

Laura Jadig grew up surrounded by the right.

1:34.5

Her parents were Ayn Rand followers, and she was, as she says, a card-carrying libertarian in her younger days. She threw it all over, but it left her with a lifelong fascination with the

1:39.3

starboard side of the political spectrum. We briefly discussed Curtis Jarvin. Yarvin, who blogged for years under the

1:45.3

nom-denet Mencius moldbug, is one of the founders of what's called the Dark Enlightenment.

1:49.9

Yarvin, who it must be admitted is an engaging writer, believes democracy is a fraud and should be

1:54.8

replaced by monarchy or dictatorship organized in a corporate model. That sounds wacky, but this

2:00.4

worldview has a lot in common with that of

2:02.2

tech mogul Peter Thiel, who is the political patriot and mentor of J.D. Vance. Laura Jadid. What is the

2:09.1

fascination? I mean, I was briefly on the right when I was in college. I left that long behind me,

2:13.0

but I've always started this sort of interest in the way they think because I used to think that way.

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