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Hello and welcome to Behind the News.

My name is Doug Henrywood.

I hardly need to say we've got two guests today, Vincent Bevens.

We'll talk about the Decade of Protests,

2010 to 20, and a guy in Matar will offer an Israeli leftist view

of the horrors in Israel, Palestine.

And now the Decade of Protests.

In May 2020, Vincent Bevens was on this show to discuss the Jakarta method.

His book on the US-sponsored strategy of mass murder

during the Cold War.

Vincent is out with a new book,

if we burn the mass protest decade in the missing revolution

from public affairs books.

It's a study the large protest movements in 10 countries

throughout the decade 2010 to 20 that began with extravagant hopes

and ended up with things little changed or even worse.

For example, an uprising in Brazil that began in 2013

sparked by an increase in bus fares was thrilling,

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