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Palestine and the Growing Defiance of the Global South - Vijay Prashad
Vijay Prashad and I discuss the fierce defiance of the Global South, from the legacies of leaders like Kwame Nkrumah to the global conversation about neocolonialism. We dive into the new mood of the Global South after October 7th, the fight for dignity in places like the West Bank, and the global power dynamics that continue to shape these battles.
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00:00 Pop Quiz Introduction
03:16 Vijay’s Interest in the Global South
08:19 The Case for Kwame Nkrumah
14:09 Nkrumah and Pan Africanism
19:19 Controlling Resources, Sovereignty, and MultiNational Corporations
25:15 National Liberation and getting Branded a Marxist
27:57 The Difficult First Phase After Gaining “Independence”
39:38 The New Mood of the Global South After October 7th
50:45 Controlling the High Ground and “Air Superiority”
56:14 “You eat. And you want Dignity.” Water in the West Bank
1:04:15 The Reverse of Dignity and the Erasure of Humanity
1:07:21 Utilitarian Progress and Humiliation and Nuclear Weapons
1:12:25 Hiroshima Day
1:19:04 The US Election and do I need a hug?
1:22:54 I do love Jill Stein…
1:25:43 Final Thoughts and References for Further Reading
1:32:52 Tolerances of Freedom Mobutu v Lumumba and Hamas’s “Decision”
1:41:12 An Actual Smile to End
City Population Projections: https://sites.ontariotechu.ca/sustainabilitytoday/urban-and-energy-systems/Worlds-largest-cities/population-projections/city-population-2100.php
Kwame speech to Pan African leaders
https://youtu.be/nrYf97_IUrE?si=KAXfXNCHuwzpjE47
Kwame speech from exile
https://youtu.be/2niDtrZalWc?si=yKyqXTYskeFCHXxT
Patrice Lumumba speech
https://youtu.be/ouXas0XYHxM?si=wJKlh9nW2iPO7Gh5
Qaddafi on the Gold Dinar
https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism
https://thenewamerican.com/us/economy/markets/gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar/
https://millenium-state.com/blog/2019/05/03/the-dinar-gold-the-real-reason-for-gaddafis-murder/
Hilary emails about Gaddafi
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal-true-motive-for-libya-intervention/
The non alignment movement
https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/the-non-aligned-movement-history-relevance-reform
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cold-wars/nonalignment/50C54C20DC60A6DE4F28F44AD2E6B2A2
George Padmore Book
https://dialecticalartist.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/panafricanism-or-communism.-the-coming-struggle-for-africa-by-george-padmore-.pdf
Congo Mine That Build the Atomic Bomb
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mine-that-built-the-atomic-bomb
https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-history-oppenheimer-didnt-show/
Bitter Fruit
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674019300
Fidel Castro speech to the intellectuals June 1961 http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1961/19610630.html
This Way To the Spring
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27774750-the-way-to-the-spring
Curb Your Enthusiasm "Palestinian Chicken"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640882/
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Vijay Prashad and I discuss the fierce defiance of the Global South, from the legacies of leaders like Kwame Nkrumah to the global conversation about neocolonialism. We dive into the new mood of the Global South after October 7th, the fight for dignity in places like the West Bank, and the global power dynamics that continue to shape these battles.
whatjaythinks.com
00:00 Pop Quiz Introduction
03:16 Vijay’s Interest in the Global South
08:19 The Case for Kwame Nkrumah
14:09 Nkrumah and Pan Africanism
19:19 Controlling Resources, Sovereignty, and MultiNational Corporations
25:15 National Liberation and getting Branded a Marxist
27:57 The Difficult First Phase After Gaining “Independence”
39:38 The New Mood of the Global South After October 7th
50:45 Controlling the High Ground and “Air Superiority”
56:14 “You eat. And you want Dignity.” Water in the West Bank
1:04:15 The Reverse of Dignity and the Erasure of Humanity
1:07:21 Utilitarian Progress and Humiliation and Nuclear Weapons
1:12:25 Hiroshima Day
1:19:04 The US Election and do I need a hug?
1:22:54 I do love Jill Stein…
1:25:43 Final Thoughts and References for Further Reading
1:32:52 Tolerances of Freedom Mobutu v Lumumba and Hamas’s “Decision”
1:41:12 An Actual Smile to End
City Population Projections: https://sites.ontariotechu.ca/sustainabilitytoday/urban-and-energy-systems/Worlds-largest-cities/population-projections/city-population-2100.php
Kwame speech to Pan African leaders
https://youtu.be/nrYf97_IUrE?si=KAXfXNCHuwzpjE47
Kwame speech from exile
https://youtu.be/2niDtrZalWc?si=yKyqXTYskeFCHXxT
Patrice Lumumba speech
https://youtu.be/ouXas0XYHxM?si=wJKlh9nW2iPO7Gh5
Qaddafi on the Gold Dinar
https://theecologist.org/2016/mar/14/why-qaddafi-had-go-african-gold-oil-and-challenge-monetary-imperialism
https://thenewamerican.com/us/economy/markets/gadhafi-s-gold-money-plan-would-have-devastated-dollar/
https://millenium-state.com/blog/2019/05/03/the-dinar-gold-the-real-reason-for-gaddafis-murder/
Hilary emails about Gaddafi
https://www.foreignpolicyjournal.com/2016/01/06/new-hillary-emails-reveal-true-motive-for-libya-intervention/
The non alignment movement
https://www.fikerinstitute.org/publications/the-non-aligned-movement-history-relevance-reform
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/abs/cold-wars/nonalignment/50C54C20DC60A6DE4F28F44AD2E6B2A2
George Padmore Book
https://dialecticalartist.files.wordpress.com/2021/03/panafricanism-or-communism.-the-coming-struggle-for-africa-by-george-padmore-.pdf
Congo Mine That Build the Atomic Bomb
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20200803-the-forgotten-mine-that-built-the-atomic-bomb
https://www.wired.com/story/the-dark-history-oppenheimer-didnt-show/
Bitter Fruit
https://www.hup.harvard.edu/books/9780674019300
Fidel Castro speech to the intellectuals June 1961 http://lanic.utexas.edu/project/castro/db/1961/19610630.html
This Way To the Spring
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27774750-the-way-to-the-spring
Curb Your Enthusiasm "Palestinian Chicken"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1640882/
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