Not a particularly enlightening conversation, but interesting nevertheless for the people involved. Syria, with over 10,000 people dead, does not feature at all in this conversation supposedly about activism in the Middle East. But it’s RT, so I suppose that’s to be expected.
A surprise Arab drive for freedom, the West’s structural crisis and new hope coming from Latin America. That’s the modern world in the eyes of Noam Chomsky and Tariq Ali, two prominent thinkers and this week’s guests on Julian Assange’s show on RT.
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These distinguished intellectuals overlook a crucial dynamic of the post-colonial world: Zionism tactfully manipulates the dictatorship of capital and the military might of Euro-America. Sidestepping this stark reality forces the discourse to wastefully spin around tired imaginings about capitalism and democracy.