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5·2 months agoIt was originally called Multipolarista which was a bit cringe, prefer the new name.
I don’t have a steady podcast rotation any more. I like Pascal when he has a good guest like Radhika. One of his best was with Adnan Husain. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JbasAeQZqEA
Those shows were very influential on me. However I feel they were too much on the same page and the discussions would hit the same beats over and over. Ben is at his best when he’s on another person’s podcast and his talk turns into the most incredible information dump.
6·3 months agoThere is nothing wrong with migration in and of itself but this must be seen in context. US imperialism, through its stooges in Israel and Morocco, is encouraging migration for multiple reasons, among them to stoke right wing sentiment in Spain - hence, the talk from some US politicians and pundits about how this wouldn’t have happened if Spain had its own Trump. They are trying to weaken Sanchez and improve the standing of Vox, Spain’s right wing party. They won’t be happy with Spain until it gets its own Milei at the very least.
https://www.ynetnews.com/opinions-analysis/article/bki11ns9tzx
That’s precisely right. It’s colonialism, but you have to read it not in isolation but in context of current events. When has the US ever come out against colonialism? When have they sided, say, with the Sahel states against France, or with the Palestinians against Zionist occupation? The US is simply angry at Spain for not allowing the US to use their airspace against Iran, for openly making modest noise in support of Palestine, as well as for forging closer ties with Algeria, which will never be forgiven for expelling the French (same as Haiti in that regard).
People are skittish about political Islam but this is to ignore the practical dynamics you’re pointing out, the existence of red Shiism a la Ali Shariati, the concept of al mushtarak or the commons in Islam, and even the way Marx and Engels saw religion as a factor in national identity and national liberation (Losurdo discusses Marx and Engels on this topic in an early chapter of Class Struggle).