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"Do concentration camp guards have the right to self-defense?" - Norman Finkelstein "Do the Palestinians have the right to free themselves from the largest open air prision in the world?" - Norman Flinkelstein "If Israelis don't want to be accused of being like the Nazis, they simply need to stop behaving like Nazis.." - Norman Finkelstein
@@fatemehm2949 You don't know what you are talking about. Go back to the cave you crawled from. Being a Jew doesn't mean being religious, being a Jew means your mother and her mother were Jewish. Lots of Jews are socialist and communists; it is our most cherished tradition. Karl Marx. Albert Einstein. Rosa Luxemburg. European Jews have been atheists since the 19th century when the Hapsburgs let us out of the shtetls. We led the struggle against the Injustice in Europe and America because it is in our DNA, and our Holy books.
US never had any standing far as human values are concerned, given their record of mass murders and looting globally. Isreal regime is a terrorist state as it US. Shame on the world for standing by and watching this holocaust.
What do you mean _AFTER_ ? America has always been committing war crimes and crimes against humanity since its inception. This shows what lies at the heart of this wicked nation!
As a Chinese i must say this is an excellent video, i'm surprised to see this. Also the comment section is very different from what i normally see on Indian media.. I should probably be ashamed for being surprised. In any case im happy to have found it. First time i've liked a video from my Indian brothers.
He's being doing this for a long time. He's one of the OG Indian anti-Imperial activist scholars who stays true to the anti-imperial and anti-colonial struggle. He's the real deal. @@shmug1968
Don't feel ashamed. I'm of Indian origin and have been horrified (and disgusted) reading the comments made by Indians for the past 3 months. Vijay Prashad is one of the very few sane and intelligent voices currently
as a physicist and watching your analysis about capitalism is accurate at 73 my last employment was outsourced to Denmark, we need more socialism this is class warfare. thank the fact I have resources
Welcome, better late than never. Industrial capitalism ended with WW1. We now live in financial capitalism - the economic rent seekers have won. Industrialists long ago knew that state provided public services avoided monopoly rent & so were less of a burden on their workers, lowering costs. Industrial capitalism was on the road to socialism. Rich men did not like that so they flipped the script to Neoclassical Neoliberalism, which is now a religion where all non believers are excommunicated from society. Search for videos with Michael Hudson - he has just done a 2hr longform on The DemystifySci Podcast on YT.
Yes China has much bigger ambitions in the Middle East but I think not only economically but a comprehensive future. Various phases of Belt and Road projects ongoing in the world. The Middle East is unique because it holds key portions of oil and gas which China will need until 2050 while rich Arab countries are perfect partners for China to export and develop its technologies. The Saudi Arabia Vision 2030 is a first project to include present Chinese technologies of 5G, solar energy, digital economy, EV, charging stations, trains and subways, logistics, manufacturing. They will be big customers of Chinese planes too. Then there will be future techs of AI, robotics, flying cars and other breakthroughs. One prize of the Ukraine War for the US was sabotaging EU-China trade. They blew up the Nordstream to weaken German industries which have been doing well with China. As the war prolonged they raised interest rates to push German factories to relocate to the US with subsidies. All along the military industrial complex made billions in oil prices, commodities, weapon sales, confiscating Russian assets, and capturing investment funds leaving Europe. It’s highly suspicious that the US has similar purpose in the Israel conflict, to sabotage or at least disrupt to slow down its developments. Even the motive of the Hamas attack is questionable. Was it autonomous or was it staged? With China and Russia already engaged with their Arab friends, they will purposely not give the US some wars that it seeks. So far the only thing the US could do to provoke more wars is genocide even the world condemns it. It’s horrible times but pleasing to watch the US empire as it falls.
7 october was provoked by israel, they lied about everything, killing babies? no. Raping women? No, Human shielding? No. IOF did that, the festival? IDF military was killed, they were soldiers. Hamas killed them. 650 people were killed not 1400. but mainstream media is in the pocket of the zionsts., atheists basically that see israel as their project.
With regard to boycotts, what do you think compels BRICS to sit idle during this time and maintain tens of billions of trade with the "offending" nation without interruption?
Vijay, thank you for supporting the Palestinian cause. Despite being far away from this 75-year tragedy, you have chosen to support and speak the truth. God bless you mate :)
He knows what J3#ws are capable to do. He pointed out actions of another - British Netanyahoo who during WWII starved 3 000 000 Bengalis to death. His name was Churchill and his mother was from same tribe as Netanyahoo...
Thank you for this gem of an interview. Didn't know they targeted Nehru in the past - says everything about their state. Anything formed in injustice, will cling to it for its existence ... but history is not so kind
Is there any evidence for that? Or it is like the "Palestinian people" history - it is 5000 y. o.? but nobody can name a "Palestinian" figure before 1950s?
I did not know either but it makes sense. Israel successfully drove a wedge between Egypt and US. Nasser really wanted to be in the US camp but then after being rebuffed by the Dulles brothers, Nasser turned to the Soviet Union .
@@peacefulheart1431 DNA is out there, the land of southern Syria which is called Palestine now, is and was inhibited by the Palestinians for 24,000 years, and they also have the real Hebrew genetic vs the foreign zionist occupiers who didn’t come there to just live and practice religion, they eradicated the indigenous peoples and the genocide has been the only tactic , There is a case where Turkey took a quarter of northern Syria , but the people there were not kicked out , it is simply a different name of a country to them and they are striving and well, In Palestine is not the case , the propaganda is extremely dangerous and strong to the point where there are individuals like you who are gravely brainwashed and have facts upside down. Cheers. Ps. Checkout the DNA of who are the true and real people of Isaac and Abraham etc..
As we in the west run around like programmable bots ahead of Christmas, let us all just slow down and spare a thought or a prayer if you are religious, for Gaza, for Palestine. From me, personally, to the Palestinians, I stand with you.
a big question here is how to negotiate and make agreements with an enemy that has demonstrate time and again that it doesn't stick to agreements with the Palestinians doesn't respect international law and deploys all manner of dirty tricks and games....?
And further, they can't take care of themselves. They decided to put all their eggs into decades of bitterness and anger. Self-defeating. They could have learned from the practices of the jews in the european ghettos under A.H.
I can feel the pain. I have lived through the atrocities of the Pakistan Army in East Pakistan. Destruction, suppression and dehumanisation of Bangali intellectual community was one of the main objectives of Punjabi dominated Pakistan Army. They are still doing the same to other ethnic groups in the Indus Valley.
The complicity of the rich Arab nations and the International community is inexcusable and unforgivable. Where is our humanity, they deserve to live to!
@@peacefulheart1431 Garbage. Israel evacuated Gaza in 2005. Palestinians could have built their beloved state. But they don't want a state. They want to kill Jews. End of story.
With the lawfare going on inside the US & the warfare all around the globe, the US can no longer lecture anyone about democratic values, when they themselves have none.
Shame, shame on the arab nations with the exception of the Houtis. The U.S has military bases in gulf arab nations as a first step they have to close the bases but they are not doing it. I guess the mondy is too important.to the gulf nations.
Saying "nations" is shabby. It's the capitalists and their government lackeys. Which Arab nation in their majority supports "Israel"? Please never forget to employ class analysis. Arab "leaders" are just the top kapos.
Why too soon to write off Palestinen’s in Gasa, the entire world is watching. The BRICS and SCO , Arab league haven’t even started their campaign. You can include the Aseon group in that group.
It's the support of Pakistan by Muslim States and Palestine. And in general the disdain Muslims have for Hindus. Not phobia but rather a natural reaction of hate with hate
This is the most disgusting thing i have even seen. I really believe they will not get away with this. This is different this time the world is watching from all over !
The reality of the US position is always made clear by their vetoes at the UN. This is a US war. All wars are US wars now. The preferred method is the proxy war with just a few boots on the ground - the decision to go proxy was made in 2006 after the disaster of Iraq - Hersh wrote about it in 2007. The US provides weapons, ammo, intel, etc, to Ukraine, so Ukraine men fight till the last Ukrainian. US supplies the bombs, Israel drops them. Plausible deniability. Same in Syria, where ISIS, the Kurds & even Hamas were the proxies. Don't be fooled by the proxy, the US is at war with the world.
Vijay you are great! I wish you were here in Australia to give people history lessons. I have been doing my best with factual information, but they seem to stick to conspiracy theories they hear on talk back radio, U S. or BBC backed public news outlets like the A B C. (and even politicians). Just look at what they are doing to Julian Assange.
Nobody with real power, anywhere in the world, is worried about inequality. They are only worried when their power centers are surrounded by their angry population. When the rich and powerful are threatened with violence by an overwhelming population, that's when change happens. “There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen.” ― V.I. Lenin
Vijay, and The Tricontinental, should definitely re-publish Nehru's "The Soviet Union," I would love to read it. Especially since it comes from a period of history that has been, not only forgotten, but purposely obfuscated. There were so many great books published in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, which depict a history that has been thrown out, and those books are out of print.
What a wonderful eye opening and brain teasing full of intellectually stimulating interview/presentation! Thanks to IGL and Vijay. Learned a lot. Vijay's depth of knowledge and unbiased opinion is now a days rare. I liked every segment of questions and response. "If Russia did not defeat Nazis in the Eastern front, many like Piquetty (pardon my spelling) in the West/France will be teaching Main Kemp by Hitlar in the universities" 👏
You can take less profit and pay workers better. Aldo cooperatives with workers own.the bussiness or a portion of it, take environmental costs into the cost paradiam really, when profits are calculated, are some ideas.
Vijay Prashad is among my facourite Indian intellectuals like Anand Giridharas who is American Indian and Pankaj M. Unfortunately, so many less educated Imdiams are online posting nonsense.
To dismiss the Soviet experiment as a colossal disaster in history is to welcome Nazism as a legitimate socio-political entity; also, it amounts to belittling the immense contribution the erstwhile the USSR has made to the dismantling of colonialism.
Who knows, how the Sowjet Union, Cuba or other socialist countries would have developed without the permanent threat of the USA including sanctions and the necessitiy to invest in armament.
V.j. your are man of tremendous general knowledge and geopolitical assessments. Am older than you are but my knowledge is of no comparison to yours. This world is full of injustices and historical facts ( attempt to get rid of Nehru ), you put out brilliantly . Thank you V.j. and IGL for putting out this illuminating chat.👍👍👍
The difficult issue that will and does face the West, pertains to inequity...outside the West prosperity in general will prevail, in the West?...stark in your face poverty...growing...for the masses of people...a tiny few in a world removed...letting their corporations rule in their stead...Outside the West is a Human approach called "belt and road" to help themselves and others, as they have been doing, "pull themselves up by their bootstraps"...
Thank you for this very informative and insightful video. However, I would like to point out a historical fact to answer a very important question that was raised. President Biden criticized Israel for the indiscriminate bombing of Gaza but why didn't he threaten to withhold military aid if they did not stop the bombing? He didn't make that threat because he knew it would be political suicide. George Bush Senior, after the first Gulf war had an approval rating in the 90 percentile range and Israel asked him for a ten billion dollar loan guaranty. Because of his popularity President Bush tried to connect the loan guaranty to progress toward the peace process. In spite of President Bush's popularity, he was not reelected for a second term.
Socialism?! Have u noticed that your govt us is socialist when it comes to going in military actions…it’s always a coalition when it comes to expenditures to be spread among vassals😂
It is the second time I am listening to this interview. Wow! Such a profound understanding of the reasons for all that's happening in the conflict areas. I have become a follower of Mr. Prashad's wisdom.
I'm south African of Indian heritage and Palestine cause has always been close to our hearts and feel so disheartened and repulsed by many Indian's support of Isra#l. It's very refreshing to hear this conversation.
Great freakin episode again! Everytime you hear Vijay Prasad it is so illuminating. Now that it looks like Chomsky has left the scene of giving interviews, Vijay Prashad is the voice of analysis, depth, and clarity that I would depend upon. Thanks again for putting this together!
Waw, what an interesting and very insightful program this was. The guest is very well versed on major geopolitical, historical and political events. Really enjoyed it. Thank you.
Mr Prasad is one of the brightest and most transparent geopolitical analysts in the world. His commentary on the horrendous Israeli slaughter of Palestinians supported and funded by the USA is very accurate. Free Palestine 🇵🇸
Thank you for your perspective in this human calamity.and genocide but rest assured that Gaza is winning with all their human heavy losses. Palestinians will rebuild every brick of this destructed land and our women will have more kids and finally this conflict is far from ending and Israel is the looser sooner or later .
The two talking points being used by the USA and Israel will be used again incase of another French Revolution. "The Occupiers and Oppressors have a right to defend themselves"..."The poor peasants are using Vibranium shields". The wider context has nothing to do with Palestinians or Gaza and everything to do with the ruling classes vs the peasants and serfs.
Amazing, amazing. Bears multiple listens....the Piketty v Prashad perspective leaves a pause for thought, no doubt about this. Curious if Anwar Shaikh might have similar thoughts about Piketty too. Masterful.
This is good.Your commentary.Not the usual Indian commentary that begs to be included as Brown Whites.So good that have decided not to embarrass India with this Colonial Longing to be Play Whites.
THY SHALL NOT STEAL THY SHALL NOT MURDER THEY SHALL NOT USE THY GOD'S NAME IN VAIN *THE DISCIPLE PETER ASKED THE LORD JESUS FOR WHICH OF THE COMMANDMENTS IS THE MOST SINFUL. JESUS ANSWERED, NONE MORE THEN PRIDE BECAUSE IT MAKES YOU FAIL ALL THE COMMANDMENTS... 《This is the word of the Lord..praise be the Lord..Amen》
unfortunately, not all Indians share Prashad's views. Modi has declared India's support for Israel, which means Modi supports the genocide. Perhaps Modi awaits the outcome as a lesson to apply to the Indian Muslims? Modi has also ordered his navy into waters far away from India, thus attempting to become another imperialistic power. I'm sure Ghandi never intended India to emulate its vile former oppressors.
Gandhi was human waste, and nothing said here could warrant the insulting comparison. Also, what country is in lock step on any issue? The whole basis for your comment seems to be "Indian guy? Uh...India bad!" Shut up, Rob.
@@banksterkid5930 Superficial Comments like yours just betray immaturity & ignorance, lack of perspective, in historical matters & in understanding complex times 130-110 yrs ago.. globally, choices etc that people made, had to make. What people had to do to make a living during the colonial age of empires.. in Asia & Africa.. And why they left native shores to pursue a vocation overseas.. Quote After two uncertain years in India, where he was unable to start a successful law practice, he moved to South Africa in 1893 to represent an Indian merchant in a lawsuit. He went on to live in South Africa for 21 years. en.m.wikipedia.org › wiki Mahatma Gandhi - Wikipedia __ Mahatma Gandhi spent about 21 years in South Africa. It was during his tenure there where he would get his honorific 'Mahatma'. He also first employed nonviolent resistance in a campaign for civil rights. ... What was the first movement of Gandhiji in Africa? The first non-violent Satyagraha campaign of Mahatma Gandhi was organised in September 1906 to protest against the Transvaal Asiatic ordinance which was constituted against the local Indians. After that, he also held Satyagraha against the Black Act in June 1907.30 Jan 2022 ___ Gandhi arrived in SA in 1893. He led his countrymen in successfully opposition against legislation against them. He became known as the leader of the nationalist movement which gained a good deal of strength after the end of WW1. The legislation was in the hands of the then governors of SA, the United Kingdom. __ role of Gandhi in the Boer War? AFRICA YEARS Gandhi and his South African friends. Gandhi served in and lead an Ambulance Corps Unit in both the Boer War 1899-1892 and the Zulu War of 1906. By supporting the British government, Gandhi hoped to gain full citizenship for Indians in South Africa, a goal he did not achieve. .... Having spent more than 20 years in South Africa, Gandhi decided that his remaining life's work awaited him in India. As he left South Africa in 1914, the leader of the Boer government remarked, The saint has left our shores, I sincerely hope forever." ____ He was instrumental in the formation of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) on 22 August 1894, which marked the birth of the first permanent political organisation to strive to maintain and protect the rights of Indians in South Africa. By 1896 Gandhi had established himself as a political leader in South Africa.5 Oct 2023 ___ Do something of significance yourself, FIRST create a mass social political movement - yourself - against colonial type forces - before barking those puerile comments.. that you made.. You would realise that armchair criticism 130 years after the FACT .. is easier said than doing what you so shallowly criticize..Gandhi 'hanging out' with the colonial masters.. etc etc.. Based on a photo that you interpret.❗ Grow up .. kid ❗
Vijay, your allowance for social democracy as a way to possibly make things better surprisingly ignores the fact that European and American social democracy always improved the lives of Europeans and Americans at the drastic expense of the black and brown peoples of the “developing world,”which is the best capitalism can do. I don’t understand your equivocation on capitalism.
Magnificent interview. The first one I saw from your channel was the Piketty one. Loved Vijay's comments on Piketty's views, specially on #Socialism. Piketty's data also show a very high level of Inequality in #China. Maybe Xi Jinping is attacking this malaise with the "Prosperity for All". Vijay's point on the fact that REAL social revolutions have happened in the under developed periphery of #Capitalism is SPOT on.
