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Showing videos filed under: foreign policy
Phyllis Bennis: The US and Egypt: Our Role in the Uprising
February 1, 2011"Who do you think you are, telling Egyptians what they should be doing?" Phyllis Bennis would like to ask Hillary Clinton. The Obama administration has made some good steps in its policy toward the ongoing uprising in Egypt, she notes, mentioning a willingness to rethink military aid and calling the Egyptian people's demands legitimate. But Phyllis calls for the US to go further in its support and actually stop funding the military and police in Egypt--currently the second largest recipient of US foreign aid, after Israel.Philip Rizk, Phyllis Bennis, Uncloaking Koch & Inequality
January 31, 2011"People are sick and tired of the way things have been for the past 30 years," says Philip Rizk, a blogger and filmmaker based in Cairo. In 2009, Philip was detained by state security after taking part in a protest in support of Gaza, and so has intimate awareness of the control and terror inflicted by the state on its people--who are only escalating, with a general strike called for today and a "Million March" for Tuesday.Dick Cheney's Dead Wrong: Juan Cole
March 18, 2009Dick Cheney says the U.S. has accomplished "nearly everything" it set out to do in Iraq. Juan Cole differs, just a bit.The F Word: Security at any Cost
October 29, 2008And so it ends where it began. The front page of Tuesday’s Wall St. Journal reports that “The U.S. is actively considering talks with elements of the Taliban, the armed Islamist group that once ruled Afghanistan and sheltered al Qaeda.”According to the story, Senior White House and military officials believe that when it comes to Afghanistan and neighboring Pakistan, engaging some levels of the Taliban could help improve security.It's a familiarAfghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan: Judith Miller and Tariq Ali
September 19, 2008Judith Miller and Tariq Ali on US foreign policy in the Middle East.The F Word: Do As We Say, Not As We Do
August 14, 2008US companies are in the lead driving down Chinese wages. The drill is familiar: U.S. managers arrive on the scene at some remote factory to deliver a low-ball offer. Low wages, poor labor conditions... there are implications. The production of the drug heparin in China captured headlines when the US subsidiary of a multinational pharmaceutical company paid so little that production left the factory entered the back alleys... and people, here in the US, died from a tainted product.The F Word: Obama and McCain Agree on Afghanistan
July 21, 2008Clash, spar, duel, compete… Read the headlines and you’d think the two candidates for President had duelling Afghanistan policies. Sadly not. What’s wanted isn’t just a new President but new policies.Whose now gets to be urgent, anyway?
June 12, 2008In late May Sweden was host to a huge UN conference on a thing called the International Compact with Iraq. 600 delegates from countries (and countries unto themselves, the IMF and World Bank) came to put their two cents into the future of Iraq. Separately, a Swedish organization hosted a panel event with Iraq women because they'd not been invited to sit or be heard in this global conclave on their futures.
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