[BEST OF] The Noam Chomsky Interview: Fragility of US Power w/ Vijay Prashad

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🗓️ 21 May 2025

⏱️ 117 minutes

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ORIGINALLY RELEASED Aug 19, 2022

In this landmark episode, we sit down with the legendary Noam Chomsky and renowned historian Vijay Prashad to discuss their insightful new book, The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power. Exploring the aftermath of America's military engagements, Chomsky and Prashad illuminate the complexities of U.S. imperial ambitions, the consequences - moral and material - of foreign interventions, and the growing cracks in America's global dominance.

Noam Chomsky, widely celebrated as one of the greatest intellectual figures of our time, brings his sharp analytical mind and decades of political activism to this conversation. Vijay Prashad, director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and chief correspondent for Globetrotter, adds his deep historical expertise and critical insights into global politics.

Don't miss this extraordinary dialogue, unpacking profound geopolitical questions with two influential thinkers who have shaped how we understand power and resistance in our world today.

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0:00.8	Hello, guerrilla history listeners.
0:02.6	Today for you, we have an excellent episode, one that features two fantastic guests.
0:08.7	And as a result of having some time constraints with our guests, we weren't able to give a proper introduction to them.
0:15.8	So we are going to do that briefly now before we get into the episode itself.
0:20.1	The guests that we have are
0:21.8	Professor Noam Chomsky and our friend Vijay Prashad, who together wrote the forthcoming book,
0:28.0	The Withdrawal, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the fragility of U.S. power, which is coming out
0:33.7	next week from the new press. So keep your eyes peeled for that. Pre-order now.
0:38.6	Highly recommend everybody get that book. The book is talking about the weaknesses of the
0:43.8	American state as well as kind of a history of American imperialism. It's a fascinating conversation
0:49.6	that we have and it actually worked out in a very interesting way. We planned on them coming on
0:54.0	together to talk simultaneously with us. But we actually had to... have and it actually worked out in a very interesting way. We planned on them coming on together
0:54.4	to talk simultaneously with us, but we actually had it work out so that Professor Chomsky
1:00.0	came on first and Vijay joined us right at the end of that and we had a little bit of a supplemental
1:04.7	discussion with Vijay after Professor Chomsky had to leave. It's a fascinating episode.
1:10.5	I know that you're all really going to love it.
1:12.9	And I highly recommend that you share this episode widely because regardless of where you
1:18.1	stand ideologically, I think that there is a lot of really valuable information in this
1:23.0	episode.
1:23.7	And I highly recommend that you listen to it in its entirety from beginning to end because you'll learn a lot.
1:30.0	I guarantee it.
1:31.4	So without further ado, let's turn to our episode on the withdrawal with Professor Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad.
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