Hello everybody and welcome back to Rev Left Radio.

Today's episode is actually a podcast I did with Ashwin over at the International Solidarity

podcast and we discussed many topics ranging from domestic, neoliberal, Trumpian politics to global hegemonic decline of American

internationalism. We talk about climate collapse, economic collapse, the 5-10, 15, 20-year future

of the United States and the Imperial Corps more broadly, as well as the trajectory of the entire planet over the next 50 to 75 years at this great crossroads of our species known as the 21st century.

In the process, we talk about the faith of Palestinians, the atheism, inherent in Marxism, the despair experience by many young people throughout the world

as they see a world that's offering them very little to any future whatsoever.

Cultural critique, materialist critique, historical materialist analysis of the American project. He also plays clips from

Torkel-Lauson and Vijay Prashad that I then react to on left-wing strategy as well as the

near-term trajectory for the Imperial Corps and much, much more. This is a wonderful interview from a

wonderful host, Ashwin, and I highly, highly encourage people

to go subscribe to International Solidarity Podcast, support the show, give him some Rev Left

love, really, really good principled work that he's doing over there at the International

Solidarity Podcast. I will link to it in the show notes so people can find it easily.

All right, without further ado,

here is my discussion with Ashwin

from the International Solidarity Podcast

on kind of everything.

Enjoy. Okay, Brett, again, thanks for coming on.

Really appreciate it.

So I wanted to start by asking you, you know, we're almost two years now into the Gaza genocide.

You know, these two years in many ways have felt like the opening of a new political era globally,

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