Christopher Hitchens at Mario Savio Memorial lecture part 1
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- Опубліковано 20 вер 2024
- november 21, 2002
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The Mario Savio Memorial Lecture features Christopher Hitchens in a free-wheeling discussion with author-journalist Adam Hochschild.
The topic of the lecture is "Fault Lines: Rights, Wrongs & Responsibilities in Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel, Palestine, and The Nation".
Hitchens is absolutely correct about Kissinger. Yet until his dying day he defended the actions of the Bush white house in Afghanistan and Iraq. Hitchens himself shares responsibility for the atrocious crimes of US imperialism in the early 21st century.
Brilliant upload. Thank you.
Thanks for sharing this, haven't seen it before.
his argument for iraq & afghanistan isn't that it was faultless, but that an intervention was necessary, and that the outcome (despite disasters in due course) was successful for many reasons.
@Giovannisenzaterra He was one of the leaders of the Free Speech Movement at the University of California, Berkeley in the 1960s.
Finally, Trotsky's revolutionary internationalism is not a parallel but a polar opposite of imperialism. To the destructive conflict between rival nation-states for military domination over the resources of the globe for the benefit of their respective ruling elites is counterposed the revolutionary overthrow of imperialist and capitalist systems, the unification of the world under the leadership of the world's working people and reorganization of world economy to meet the common needs of all.
@surelady i figured i should put it on youtube before the berkeley website, through accident or intention, makes it unavailable.
As for Al-Qaeda they were created by the CIA as a proxy army against the Soviet army in Afghanistan in the 80s. They were hostile to Saddam's secularist regime and didn't appear until after US invasion. But it is acknowledged in US military circles that Al Qaeda is once again a useful asset in both last years war on Libya and the current operations for regime change in Syria - a conflict which is reinvigorating their activities across the border in Iraq.
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@shrapn0 Right on. Please share around.
@stronghurst1 .in a perfect Ted Haggart and catholic bishop's style
@gulshabbo Thanks
@JoshuaCromarty I didn't get ur point about me being israeli? On trotsky, communism is always used as a guise for a kind of imperialism, better defined as fascistic expansionism.
An intervention by imperialism was necessary? For someone who considered himself a Trotskyist at one stage this is an abysmal conclusion to reach. But in what ways were the assaults on Iraq and Afghanistan successful and for who? Certainly not the million-odd dead or the millions more wounded, orphaned, driven from their homes by ethnic terror or those who remain and must try to scratch a living from the shell of societies they once inhabited. And certainly not the troops sent to do the dirty.
Kick ass Hitchens :D
well u cud argue trotsky's agenda of making the whole world communist, can be paralleled to imperialism. the iraqi&afghan people wanted regime change, fought&risked their lives for it, its not imperialist to help them, not to mention the overwhelming evidence of al qaeda's presence in hussein's iraq, & pakistani 'imperialist' conquest of afghanistan. the way it was carried out is different to the point that an intervention by the west was Needed, that's his point & mine.
@JoshuaCromarty I dont like labels like trotskyist bcoz of identity politics like "the blood all lies in the hands of US imperialism". This insults the ppl of iraq & afghanistan whose victims of islamofascist tyranny remain voiceless by ur imbalance.
@JoshuaCromarty hh Where do u get ur info? Who's hostile to the west there aside from islamists? Welcoming regime change are all who suffered under it. Out of these, many wanted our help e.g. the kurds, marsh arabs, afghan hazaras etc. Wrong, al qaeda was in iraq before the US.
who's Mario Savio?