The Vast Majority: "War Is A Racket" with Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare

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🗓️ 1 October 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Our newest print issue is “War Is a Racket,” focused on war and imperialism. At the Chicago issue release party, I spoke with two organizers and writers who appear in the issue: Rory Fanning and Sarah Lazare.

Rory is a former Army Ranger who fought in Afghanistan and became a war resister there. He’s the author of the book ‘Worth Fighting For’ and now works at Haymarket Books. He was profiled by our assistant editor Alex Press in the new issue.

Sarah is a web editor at In These Times. She has an overview of where the top five Democratic candidates stand on the issue of foreign policy and war in the issue.

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1:05.0	Hello. Welcome to the vast majority. I'm Jack up in managing editor Micahutrich.
1:11.0	The question of war and how to oppose it is obviously a central question for
1:17.1	socialists to grapple with. That's why the new print issue of Jacobin is on war in imperialism. It's called War is a racket. The issue
1:25.8	is pretty wide-ranging, covering everything from how socialists have thought about political
1:30.5	strategy and opposing war, the devastating human costs of war, what it means
1:35.2	that the United States has 800 military bases around the world, and the Department of Defense's
1:40.5	history of exchanging use of military equipment for favorable
1:44.3	Hollywood portrayals. For example, did you know that the military helped rewrite the
1:49.5	script of the Adventures of Mary Kate and Ashley, the case of the United States Navy Adventure in 1997.
1:56.7	I did not know this.
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