The ‘New Middle East’ wars, 1/2 Tenth presentation in the lecture series: ‘Self Determination in the Post Colonial World’, by Dr Tim Anderson, 2021. Link to video part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVVWc2EMX3s Link to video part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QCBmT2qcxPQ
Patrick Henningsen interviews Tim Anderson at the start of 2018 on the Middle East – Syria, Iraq, Iran, Yemen, Palestine – as well as North Korea, Latin America and related geo-political matters.
Any mature understanding of the history of other peoples, and in particular the former colonies, has to dispense with the absurd fiction of western ‘altruism’ and refocus on both imperial history and its most important anti-thesis, the right of peoples […]