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How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs w/ Elizabeth Thompson

Guerrilla History

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The Importance of Understanding the History of the Arabs

Colonialism has held back the development of the entire world, says co-hosts. "It is not the case that theyre inherently incapable of self governance," argues professor thompson. There's not some genetic hard wiring in them that makes them incapable of selfgovernance, but rather, its external forces,. as well as perhaps kind of chance events that happened internally That have prevented what we would consider liberal self governance for a decade since then.

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