The Gaza Genocide in World-Historical Perspective / Gilbert Achcar
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🗓️ 14 August 2025
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| 0:00.0 | And we want that freedom that you all have. Yes, we want that freedom that you all last. The Like the morrisone, let it be free to walk. |
| 0:29.6 | Like the wind that blows, let it be free to walk. |
| 0:35.6 | Because we want, there's freedom that you won't. This is This is hell This is hell. |
| 0:56.9 | With our apologies for using the same tagline twice in one week, something that I really don't like to do, but this week it's more than appropriate. |
| 1:08.5 | The old world is dying and the new world struggles to be born. Now is the time |
| 1:14.3 | of monsters. This is hell and the monster that is far too real that lurks the earth and all humanity |
| 1:25.0 | today is the ongoing Israeli genocide in Gaza. |
| 1:30.8 | In the past, we have repeatedly had guests on the show who argued we were seeing the death |
| 1:35.6 | of neoliberalism, and when it did not instantly come, many dismissed such claims as if the |
| 1:40.7 | neoliberal order were impervious, anyone saying otherwise we're nothing more |
| 1:45.6 | than chicken littles warning us about something that cannot and will not ever happen. |
| 1:51.0 | Then last week, the unemployed epidemiologist who got the pandemic right, according to the |
| 1:56.4 | Nation magazine, Rob Wallace, told us that the pandemic was neoliberalism's nail in the coffin as it |
| 2:02.4 | revealed how poorly neoliberalism responds in crisis by undermining any attempt at dealing |
| 2:08.3 | with a widespread public health threat that COVID-19 pandemic was, even though COVID-19 remains, |
| 2:17.0 | and Rob even made reference to COVID-27. |
| 2:22.6 | Today's guest sees a nail in the coffin of liberalism, not neoliberalism, and that nail |
| 2:27.4 | was struck by Israel and all the nations that supported the genocide in Gaza, who were |
| 2:31.7 | complicit, who seemed to have burned the last shreds of whatever |
| 2:36.3 | international humanitarian law regime we ever did have. Even worse than that is the toll of our |
| 2:43.3 | own humanity, having lost it in the name of yet another colonial project, as our world still |
| 2:49.1 | struggles with decolonialism. |
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