The Fragility of US Power w/ Noam Chomsky & Vijay Prashad

Guerrilla History

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History, Education

4.8 • 622 Ratings

🗓️ 19 August 2022

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

In this tremendous episode, we talk with Professor Noam Chomsky and Vijay Prashad about the topics in their brand new book The Withdrawal: Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan, and the Fragility of U.S. Power. An absolutely wonderful conversation with two great guests! The book will be released in 10 days, so be sure to sign up for your copy!

Professor Noam Chomsky is a world-renowned linguist and political activist, and is author of numerous books. Whether you are already familiar with his work or not, check out his website https://chomsky.info/.

Vijay Prashad is director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research, editor of LeftWord Books, and the chief correspondent for Globetrotter, author of numerous books, and is a multiple-time guest of Guerrilla History. Check out his previous appearances on the show wherever you get your podcasts, and follow him on twitter @VijayPrashad.

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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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