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Watching the West Wing in Baghdad Green Zone w/ Yousef Baker

The East is a Podcast

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The Intentional Fallacy in the Literary Critic

I really don't think the Americans were fighting in the same way that the British used to fight in Iraq. The American state fought on behalf of global capital I mean that's what yeah. That's the shape of neoliberal empire today like that's the that's the goal it's the crack open and to do shock therapy. With Russia this was the goal of 90s Russia they tried to do it through N.G.O.s right so it's the opposite of the Iraq story where they couldn’t do it throughN.G.E.S so they do it through war and then bringing the N.T.O. later whereas with Russia it was the internal collapse

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