How does the US government respond when a foreign government is overthrown by an armed revolt and its leader flees to a neighboring country? That depends – are we talking about Ukraine in 2014 or Yemen in 2015? The U.S. double standard ensures maximum bloodshed and destruction in each case.
Here are 2 of my favorite articles on this, and 2 rather painful images:
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Part 1:
To download right-click and select “Save link as…” : PUNK STUDENTS PT.1
We had a lively argument with some of my students in the studio about current US foreign policy in its economic and historical context. Despite having some fundamental disagreements it was a real pleasure and reminded me why I chose to teach in a liberal arts college!
They were Michael Brunelli, Andrew Basye, and Timur Jabiev.
I hope to have them in the studio again.
Part 2:
To download right-click and select “Save link as…” : PUNK STUDENTS PT.2
We had a lively argument with some of my students in the studio about current US foreign policy in its economic and historical context. Despite having some fundamental disagreements it was a real pleasure and reminded me why I chose to teach in a liberal arts college!
They were Michael Brunelli, Andrew Basye, and Timur Jabiev.
I hope to have them in the studio again.
To download right-click and select “Save link as…” : SANDY’S PUNK REPORT
NICOLAS “Sandy” DAVIES joined us again on the phone to discuss hes recent article linking ISIS and the global crisis in US foreign policy to our government’s belligerent and misguided response to the mass murders of September 11th, including 94,000 air strikes, an opportunistic global military expansion and a doubling of the military budget:
Sandy has been writing on this and related topics for years and his book Blood On Our Hands: the American Invasion and Destruction of Iraq is another horrible but accurate piece of top notch investigative journalism.
I believe this is a critical perspective Punkonomics must address. On a personal level, as a professor teaching economic history, I regularly encounter the problem of having to teach the ugly truth to students who have no clue about their history and thus are, as the saying goes, condemned to repeat it. This shit keeps me up at night–literally :(
Select previous interviews and articles by Nicolas J.S. Davies:
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