Carlos
@agent_of_change • 90,016 subscribers
Writer, reader, musician, Marxist, anti-imperialist. Author, 'The East is Still Red – Chinese Socialism in the 21st Century' Co-editor @socialist_china
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Chinese academic and foreign policy expert Victor Gao: “The war launched by Israel and the United States against Iran is a war of aggression and a war of injustice. Iran is being attacked, and I would say Iran has the full right to exercise self-defense. “Iran, in my view, has the full right to strike at any military bases, facilities, installations, or military personnel of the United States in other regions in that part of the world—including, for example, in Qatar, the UAE, Bahrain, and so on. “Otherwise, it would be completely odd for Iran to be attacked in such an aggressive manner by the United States and Israel, and yet be expected to sit like a sitting duck under such military attacks—attempts to overthrow its government, probably also to destroy its civilization—while being bound by the futility of not striking at the military facilities and installations in its neighborhood, which most likely have been used one way or another in launching this ongoing attack against Iran.”
Carlos194,646 views • 4 months ago
Very important from Jeffrey Sachs, interviewed by Glenn Diesen. A number of people have made the facile point that Trump's actions in Venezuela mirror Putin's actions in Ukraine, and that people should be consistent and condemn both. This ignores the basic class content of global politics. Sachs points out that both Venezuela and Ukraine are cases of the US attempting to impose its domination; both are instances of McDonalds not being able to flourish without McDonnell Douglas (to use Thomas Friedman's memorable expression); both are microcosms of a global struggle between imperialism and an emerging multipolarity. "In the case of Ukraine, it was a 30-year project to bring Ukraine into the American military orbit... One should not glibly say that the US is doing in Venezuela what Putin did in Ukraine. It's actually that the US is doing in Venezuela what the US did in Ukraine. Both are US-provoked. These are both projects of the US and I hope people can come to understand how US foreign policy works and what a military-industrial state really means. What a military-industrial complex without constitutional bounds means. What the CIA means in such operations. If they did, they would understand that when we view Ukraine and Venezuela, we're viewing the same phenomenon as long-term projects of the would-be global hegemon carried out in different ways." The full interview is well worth watching:
Carlos144,833 views • 6 months ago
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