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Weekends: The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan w/ Tariq Ali

Nov 23, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
Week Ends
01:57 • 3min
3
Military Drone Bombing in Syria
04:27 • 5min
4
The New York Times Gets It Right When It Comes to Foreign Policy Issues
09:31 • 2min
5
Afghanistan Is Not Like a Major Threat to American Capitalist Interests
11:24 • 3min
6
Afghanistan
14:25 • 2min
7
Is There a System That Isn't Making AnySense?
16:00 • 2min
8
Verso Book Club - The Biggest Mistake We Can Make
17:58 • 2min
9
Postmaster General Lewis De Joy
20:20 • 4min
10
Postmaster De Joy's Negative Impact on the Postal Service
24:35 • 6min
11
Dozens of Conflicts of Interest in the US Postal Service
30:20 • 2min
12
How Much Longer Are You Planning on Staying in the Postmaster General's Position?
32:17 • 2min
13
Biden Can't Unilaterally Oust De Joy From His Postmaster General Position
34:18 • 4min
14
The Post Office Is Lit
38:22 • 2min
15
Did I Deliver?
40:08 • 2min
16
Is There a Counterweight in American Politics?
42:00 • 2min
17
The Incentives and Disincentives of the Budget Reconciliation Bill
43:46 • 2min
18
The Rise of Crime in America
45:55 • 3min
19
The Root Causes of Crime in the United States
49:06 • 5min
20
The Pendemic in Minneapolis
54:25 • 3min
21
Social Democracy Is Great, but Why?
57:10 • 3min
22
Is There a Real Problem With Social Democracy?
01:00:07 • 2min
23
Is There a Conscious Effort to Fix the Carceral State?
01:02:32 • 2min
24
The Politics of the Joker
01:04:43 • 2min
25
The Four Hundred Year War - A Book Review
01:06:52 • 2min
26
Afghanistan - The Left Wing Party
01:08:33 • 2min
27
What Are a Few Jumped Up Moslems Compared to the Defeat We've Inflicted on the Soviet Union?
01:10:09 • 2min
28
Afganistan - A Crude War of Revenge
01:11:58 • 2min
29
American Casualties Compared to the Civilian Deaths of Afghans
01:13:48 • 2min
30
The Fascism of the Middle East
01:15:29 • 2min
31
Ongola Merkel's Critical Statements About the Afghanistan War
01:17:01 • 2min
32
Afghanistan - Afganistan
01:19:03 • 2min
33
The Condition of Women in South Asia Is Not That Brilliant
01:20:42 • 2min
34
Why the Afghan Army Folded So Quickly
01:22:22 • 2min
35
What Do You Do When You're Occupied?
01:24:01 • 1min
36
We're Not Going to Die to Defend Nature, Why Should We?
01:25:29 • 2min
37
Afghanistan - The Taleban
01:27:03 • 2min
38
Did the Russians Pay the Tolybon Bounties for Us Soldiers?
01:28:47 • 2min
39
Is This a War for Women's Liberation?
01:30:52 • 2min
40
I Agree With the Decision to Pull Troops Out of Afghanistan
01:32:28 • 2min
41
What Else Should We Be Knowing About These Guys?
01:34:32 • 2min
42
The War in the United States
01:36:14 • 2min
43
Why Aren't They Campaigning for Something Positive?
01:37:53 • 1min
44
Ataricoli, Thank You for Being Generous With Your Time for Ah Writing This Incredible Book
01:39:20 • 2min
45
What Is the Context Behind What's Going On?
01:41:03 • 3min
46
Is the Left Trying to Minimize the Crime Wave?
01:43:46 • 3min
47
What Is Socialism?
01:46:17 • 2min
48
Is There a Double Standard?
01:48:36 • 2min
49
The Master's Degree - Is That Really What You Want?
01:50:10 • 2min
50
Does It Perpetuate the Idea of Invasion?
01:51:51 • 4min
51
Isn't Just Raising Awareness a Good Idea?
01:55:23 • 2min
52
What's Your Favorite Thing on the Table?
01:57:26 • 3min