Only US Enemies Can Be Drug Lords or Terrorists / Laleh Khalili

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🗓️ 11 March 2026

⏱️ 111 minutes

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Laleh Khalili returns to discuss her new piece at the London Review of Books, "Guns, Money and Opium." "The Moment of Truth" with Jeff Dorchen follows the interview. Check out Laleh's article here: https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/thisishell Please rate and review This Is Hell! wherever you get your podcasts. It really helps the show ascend the algorithm to reach new listeners.

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0:00.0	I realize that you tried and tried and are just about ready to give up.
0:09.0	But I got good news for you.
0:12.0	God has spoken to my mind and told me to tell you to get moving in the right direction
0:15.0	where it changed.
0:16.0	I'm going to put you in the first lane.
0:19.0	You need to see me ride away so I can fix this,
0:22.6	you need to see me right away
0:25.6	You need to see me right away so I can fix this,
0:31.6	you need to see me by the bad now
0:35.6	I'm going to put the windows right? You can get there. You're out and get my best. You need to see me by now Now Biggie Man!
0:39.3	Pour out to win your money, that's a man.
0:41.3	Not in this town,
0:43.3	hometown, come down,
0:45.3	and I'm going to get in the This is hell.
1:04.7	Without imperialism, there is no capitalism.
1:10.0	And this is hell.
1:13.1	Why is it that it seems like every time the United States of America announces it is going to war?
1:19.0	The claim is that it is for democracy, yet the government the U.S. installs is always far from being democratic.
1:28.5	Why the insistence it's all about freedom
1:31.1	in helping the people, even when the people,
1:33.8	have already spoken democratically at the ballot box
1:36.5	for their elected leader who was in office
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