The U.S. Seeks Global Supremacy Through New Middle East War w/ Vijay Prashad
The Socialist Program with Brian Becker
The Socialist Program
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🗓️ 17 October 2024
⏱️ 68 minutes
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Summary
The western capitalist media is deliberately misleading people about the US-Israeli aggression against Palestine and Lebanon and the looming possibility of a war with Iran. Vijay Prashad and Brian discuss the true relationship between the U.S. and Israel, what lessons from history tell us about U.S. foreign policy goals, and the nature of imperialist expansion.
Brian Becker is joined by renowned journalist and author Vijay Prashad, the Executive Director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books.
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| 0:00.0 | The Western capitalist media, also known as the mainstream media, is deliberately misleading |
| 0:07.4 | people about the U.S.-Israeli aggression against the people of Gaza, the people of the West Bank, |
| 0:14.4 | the people of Lebanon, and about the danger of a wider regional war in the Middle East, including Iran. |
| 1:03.2 | We need a new system. We need a new society. We need to demand that which may have sounded impossible even a few weeks ago, but is not only realizable, but an imperative necessity. Welcome to this week's episode of the Socialist Program. I'm your host, Brian Becker. |
| 1:09.9 | Today we're talking with journalist and author Vijay Prashad. VJ. is the executive director of the Tri-Continental Institute for Social Research. |
| 1:13.6 | He's the chief editor of Leftward Books, and he is a prolific author most recently publishing |
| 1:19.6 | a new book with Noam Chomsky called On Cuba, Reflections of 70 Years of revolution and struggle. |
| 1:27.6 | BJ Prashad, welcome back. |
| 1:29.7 | Yeah, thanks a lot, Brian. |
| 1:31.1 | Thanks. Nice to be with you. |
| 1:32.8 | Great, great, great to have you. |
| 1:35.0 | Vijay, we have a lot to cover. |
| 1:36.6 | We're going to talk about the Middle East War. |
| 1:38.4 | We're going to talk about, as I mentioned in the intro, |
| 1:40.8 | the lying media, the capitalist media, the so-called mainstream media. |
| 1:45.8 | I want to talk about the danger of a regional war. You're following the danger very closely. |
| 1:50.9 | You've been to the Middle East frequently. You know what's going on. But then as we go on, |
| 1:56.2 | I also want to talk to you about the Ukraine War, about the U.S. military buildup against China. |
| 2:01.2 | There's a lot to talk about here. But let's get started with the capitalist media, |
| 2:05.2 | the so-called mainstream media. The New York Times famous for the cliche, the slogan, |
| 2:10.7 | all the news that's fit to print. Well, I was looking at headlines in the New York Times. |
| 2:15.7 | They were really amazing, VJ. One said, one stated, |
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