In Conversation: Vincent Bevins and Vijay Prashad
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2020
- Join author of The Jakarta Method Vincent Bevins and author of Washington Bullets Vijay Prashad for a conversation moderated by Jordan T. Camp about how Washington’s anti-communist wars have shaped our world.
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Vincent Bevins is an award-winning journalist and correspondent. He covered Southeast Asia for the Washington Post, reporting from across the entire region and paying special attention to the legacy of the 1965 massacre in Indonesia. He previously served as the Brazil correspondent for the Los Angeles Times, also covering nearby parts of South America, and before that he worked for the Financial Times in London. Among the other publications he has written for are the New York Times, The Atlantic, The Economist, the Guardian, Foreign Policy, the New York Review of Books, Folha de S.Paulo, The New Republic, The New Inquiry, The Awl, The Baffler, and New York magazine. Vincent was born and raised in California and spent the last few years living in Jakarta.
Vijay Prashad is an Indian historian and journalist. Prashad is the author of thirty books, including Washington Bullets, Red Star Over the Third World, The Darker Nations: A People’s History of the Third World and The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South. He is the Chief Correspondent for Globetrotter and a Columnist for Frontline (India). He is the Director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research and Chief Editor of LeftWord Books (New Delhi). He has appeared in two films - Shadow World (2016) and Two Meetings (2017).
Jordan T. Camp is Director of Research at The People’s Forum, Visiting Scholar in the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the CUNY Graduate Center, and Co-Director of the Racial Capitalism Working Group in the Center for the Study of Social Difference, Columbia University. His books include Incarcerating the Crisis: Freedom Struggles and the Rise of the Neoliberal State (University of California Press, 2016), Policing the Planet: Why the Policing Crisis Led to Black Lives Matter (co-editor with Christina Heatherton, Verso, 2016), and most recently, Futures Held Hostage: Confronting U.S. Hybrid Wars and Sanctions in Venezuela (co-editor with Manu Karuka, Pluto Press, forthcoming).
Vijay as always telling the world ‘lest we forget’. Many thanks Vijay
Vijay you have the voice of truth, it warms my heart to hear conversations in this sphere of history that resonates with justice for the nations who has(and still) suffered from occident suppression. Hope a better world is to come where debt and gold dodn't run the game. thank you so much for this upload.
These same forces are keeping my country poor. Id love to go back home but these economic forces have stripped my home of all opportunity and our political leaders don't have the guts to confront these forces (specifically Chevron and shell).
which country is that?
Same here sadly..for me it’s Iraq..not only the country is set back hundreds of years but iv lost many family members to the imperialist war.
@@eugenedebbs2189 indonesia
If you haven't done so, do check out Panditji Prashad's book The Poorer Nations - a great way to step into an alternative history of the world & the Third World Project!
Great conversation, far-reaching stuff we all need to get our heads around.
Fantastic discussion, I learned a lot. Ordering both books from Another Story in Toronto.
Vijay is brilliant
Thanks for the show. Great conversation.best wishes from indonesia
The Jakarta Method is an amazing book. Buy it.
Both books are outstanding and a must read!
At about 26:00 Vincent amazes me ... he actually correctly describes Liberals in a political context. He depicts them as "Center-Right."
Would only have been better if you'd shown all the participants. Would have loved to see Vijay's and Vincent's reactions to each others' comment
Vijay Prasad - Great intellectual and oratorical genius. Sadly it’s only an intellectual exercise on great governance and dream of utopia
"Back" in the coup business? We never stopped!
31:29 - Hanna Arednt's work on Totalitarianism is nonsense? That's amazing I had no idea but I got an icky feeling when I saw that the reading group under her name as a youtube channel invited Bret Weinstein to lecture.
14:00 - The Rich are Rich first, and whatever else they are second.
The game has
changed. I am waiting for China to establish the rules. Thanks for the information.
"politicide of the left". That's a striking concept.
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The Jakarta Method was a great read, in spite of the presence of the slanderous "anti-Stalin paradigm". But I guess you need that to get the liberals on board.
have you read Professor Richard Spence's book, "Wall Street and the Russian Revolution" yet? He's done a couple great podcast interviews with his publisher, Trineday. thanks
@@voidisyinyangvoidisyinyang885, no, but I'll look into it. Thanks!
Put that in your pipe and smoke it 🦅 49:10
I must admit that as a '73 grad, I only recall the distress caused by the nonsensical war in Vietnam. I appreciate your discussion very much and look forward to reading more of your work. I disagree with your opening. Shooting happens as a result of people being looted. Americans love their 2nd amendment. The tweet had nothing to do with the US military shooting people.
Well, the bankers, usurers, and con men on Wall Street haven't been shot, as of yet, and they've "looted" trillions of dollars from the people of not only the United States but the people of the world too. The opening was precisely on point. The reason that Trump has threatened to have anyone shot, is because it is the sole purpose of the authorities to protect the property rights of the ruling class.
TIME Magazine: The Top 1% of Americans Have Taken $50 Trillion From the Bottom 90%-And That's Made the U.S. Less Secure This is not some back-of-the-napkin approximation. According to a groundbreaking new working paper by Carter C. Price and Kathryn Edwards of the RAND Corporation, had the more equitable income distributions of the three decades following World War II (1945 through 1974) merely held steady, the aggregate annual income of Americans earning below the 90th percentile would have been $2.5 trillion higher in the year 2018 alone. That is an amount equal to nearly 12 percent of GDP-enough to more than double median income-enough to pay every single working American in the bottom nine deciles an additional $1,144 a month. Every month. Every single year.
Prashad denigrates people that don't support Morales's legitimacy for being the president of Bolivia. I am anti imperialism all the way, and I thought it was great that Morales became Bolivia's leader, just as I believe that Hugo Chavez was the best thing that happened to Venezuela in the last century at least. The thing is, I hold truth first. Morales fucked up when he ran for the Presidency the last time. I don't know much about what the political circumstances were in Bolivia. I don't know why there wasn't somebody being groomed by Morales's government to take his place that could have continued the reforms to the country, but the fact that there wasn't is a failure that the people of Bolivia are now paying for. The next time a leader of the people overthrow the parasites that control their country, the new leader should clean house from the moment they gain control. Purge the military of all American trained Officers, seize control of all media, and especially take over all the Banks to gain control of the wealth of the country.
Critical is every country needs to purge any and all US/Wests influence and control. Period. Or they are/were doomed.