Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali
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🗓️ 23 November 2021
⏱️ 121 minutes
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Summary
Tariq Ali, author of the new book The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan, discusses how four decades of US intervention in Afghanistan destabilized the country, led to countless civilian deaths, and fueled the global opium trade. Weekends with Ana Kasparian and Nando Vila features free-flowing and humorous commentary on current events and political strategy. This is the podcast version of the show from November 19, 2021, with Cale filling in for Nando.
Tariq's latest book: https://www.versobooks.com/books/3939-the-forty-year-war-in-afghanistan
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| 0:00.0 | What is up everyone you're watching Weekends with Anacasparian Nando's out today but |
| 0:20.7 | Kale Brooks is here live in the flash our super producer but for those of you who are |
| 0:25.8 | like oh man I really love those Nando decodes don't worry he pre-recorded one for you guys |
| 0:30.9 | and he's going to talk about the recent crime wave and how the left needs to take that seriously |
| 0:37.5 | and Kale why don't you give the audience a little taste of what's coming today yeah good to be here |
| 0:44.9 | as always I'm always here you just sometimes see me sometimes you don't but no the show is going to |
| 0:51.0 | be really great the top we're covering Syria and it's actually this quite a bit of American |
| 0:58.9 | militarism informed policy throughout the show so starting with Syria but then later in the |
| 1:06.3 | show we're going to be joined by Tariq Ali who you don't know has been you know one of these |
| 1:12.1 | like giants on the you know the international especially Anglophone left since the new left |
| 1:18.8 | he has an entire book about his experience on the new being a part of the new left in the 60s |
| 1:24.8 | but he's been an important voice and just again figure on the left for the for that duration and |
| 1:33.2 | has written many many books is a new book on the history of the war in Afghanistan and so |
| 1:40.8 | that I think is going to be really great and you shouldn't miss that so if you were thinking |
| 1:46.0 | ham only going to catch like the first couple minutes of weekends and then duck out don't do that |
| 1:49.9 | this is it's worth staying to the end I don't know if I can always say that no we can only say that |
| 1:54.9 | yeah we can always say that I feel like this show um listen it's it's unlike any other show that's |
| 2:00.4 | why I love doing it um I was just telling Kale right before we went live weekends is the only |
| 2:06.4 | program where we're not worried about like any type of click baity topics we just talk about issues |
| 2:14.4 | that actually matter we go in depth um but those are topics that typically don't perform well |
| 2:20.0 | monetarily and I bring that up because the reason why we're able to do the show is because of the |
| 2:24.8 | wonderful subscribers to Jacobin magazine to those of you who are subscribed to the youtube |
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