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[00:00:00] closer examination of how power, colonial legacies and
[00:00:06] of of impunity continue to shape lives across the border. here is a brief
[00:00:08] of report.
[00:00:13] following the recognition of US independence by great Britain in
[00:00:18] of 1783, American
[00:00:19] of Westward expansion intensified involving the seizure of
[00:00:22] lands,
[00:00:24] of military conquest, massacres and forced displacement. US
[00:00:28] military campaigns against indigenous were extensive,
[00:00:31] of of contributing of to the destruction of communities and suppression of native
[00:00:35] cultures. Estimates
[00:00:36] of the indigenous population before European colonization
[00:00:40] vary, but millions lived across North America. By
[00:00:44] of 1900, the US census recorded around
[00:00:46] 237,000 American Indians,
[00:00:50] although historical census methods had significant
[00:00:54] limitations. The widespread killings, forced removals
[00:00:57] and cultural suppression have. led some historians to
[00:01:01] characterize particular US policy and campaigns as
[00:01:05] genocidal. California
[00:01:07] in was one
[00:01:07] of the most diversely populated areas for native
[00:01:11] Americans, but the 1848 California Gold
[00:01:15] of Rush brought 300 thousand people there who
[00:01:18] enslaved native Americans and used them as
[00:01:21] of a free source of labor. The California
[00:01:24] of governor apologized to the state's native peoples in
[00:01:27] 2019. Nuws said that it's called genocide,
[00:01:31] there is other way to describe it, and that's the way it needs to be
[00:01:35] described in the history books. when it comes to
[00:01:38] genocide,
[00:01:40] of massacker and killing innocent people, the US has a long history of
[00:01:46] of of such crimes. the contemporary Ira is rife with such examples considering Washington's
[00:01:49] approach to enforce its hegemonic policies outside the
[00:01:53] US borders. the country's invasion of Iraq in
[00:01:56] 2003 is one of those examples, the US attacks and the
[00:02:00] subsequent occupation that
[00:02:02] of took place under the false pretext of destroying
[00:02:05] of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction of keys, the
[00:02:08] of US of has never been, the US has never been alone
[00:02:12] its crimes in west Asia, it's ally Israel
[00:02:16] launched a genocidal war on Gaza
[00:02:17] of in October 2023. The war has so far took the
[00:02:21] lives of over 74,300 Palestinians
[00:02:25] and caused devastation in the bessieg
[00:02:28] the strip more. Recently the US and Israel
[00:02:31] imposed two wars in Iran from attacks a school in the southern
[00:02:35] city of Minab that killed 168
[00:02:39] civilians to deadly strike and a sports hall in lamerd
[00:02:42] to
[00:02:43] of attack against Iranian warship deny in international waters there
[00:02:47] are multiple instances of war crimes in the two imposed
[00:02:51] a wars of the genocide and disposition of indigenous peoples
[00:02:54] in in the US did not end with history today the same
[00:02:58] machinery of imperial power projects violence beyond
[00:03:02] US borders
[00:03:05] of of with a wars launched against other nations, including Iran, threatening innocent
[00:03:09] lives. Allow
[00:03:12] me to
[00:03:13] of introduce our guests for this program. Timothy Mas
[00:03:17] is assistant professor of international law, University of
[00:03:20] Nicosia joining us from
[00:03:22] Greece.
[00:03:29] We also join. by Rafiki Morris, artist, activist, writer
[00:03:33] and educator joining us from Washington DC in the
[00:03:37] of US. Welcome to the to the
[00:03:41] program, gentlemen, thank you so much for your time, allow me to
[00:03:44] of start in Greece uh
[00:03:46] of with uh Professor Timas.
[00:03:48] I mean, if we look at the history
[00:03:50] of the US imperialism, it's almost impossible not to
[00:03:53] of connect of it with how the United State is running internally
[00:03:57] its own um citizens from. from the attacks on
[00:04:02] of African-Americans or the attack on migrants and the
[00:04:05] institutionalization of violence that we now see on the US
[00:04:08] streets.
[00:04:11] of yes, first of all, thank you for hosting me. it is obvious that there
[00:04:15] is a deeply
[00:04:17] of
[00:04:17] of of rooted of ideologization and of
[00:04:21] violence within the within the US. we
[00:04:24] know that the United States economic system
[00:04:28] is was built. not only industrialization
[00:04:32] and exploitation of workers, but also on
[00:04:36] slavery at a mass scale. we know
[00:04:39] that the colonial practices
[00:04:42] of of
[00:04:42] a the british empire
[00:04:46] of transfer to to the united states as part
[00:04:48] of their fundamental ideology,
[00:04:52] the fundamental ideology is
[00:04:54] in build, of united states fundamental ideology is build on the
[00:04:58] the
[00:04:59] of capacity
[00:04:59] of to exp. band and take the land,
[00:05:03] exploit the natural resources and
[00:05:06] of ethnically cleans the lands, the
[00:05:10] resources and the people of... of other of other origins,
[00:05:14] including the indigenous populations the United
[00:05:17] States, I think that now that the
[00:05:21] US is declining,
[00:05:25] this deep admiration of
[00:05:28] brute force without any moral
[00:05:31] constraint,
[00:05:34] this arrogance of the force, I would say
[00:05:38] is getting ever stronger, it's a... the
[00:05:42] mentality the the establishment in the United
[00:05:46] States sees victory as
[00:05:49] complete humiliation if not
[00:05:53] extermination of anyone who does not
[00:05:57] accept to be subordinate to the
[00:06:00] richest and in particular to the ultra
[00:06:04] rich white people that govern the united states,
[00:06:07] right? i see you shaking your head there, mr.
[00:06:11] rafiki, and I like you to get involved in that conversation as
[00:06:15] well, um, as an African, American, no
[00:06:19] one is more a better position to tell us of how
[00:06:22] this institutionalized um violence against um,
[00:06:26] you know, people who refuse to bow or cower and
[00:06:30] how um imperialism
[00:06:32] and imperialistic um view continue to shape how
[00:06:36] people are being treated in the
[00:06:37] US,
[00:06:40] well... once again thank you for having
[00:06:44] us and I think this is very important uh
[00:06:47] discussion that everybody needs to engage
[00:06:51] it
[00:06:52] um I
[00:06:55] i the opinion that the
[00:06:59] US treats Africans in that country
[00:07:02] today the way they always have
[00:07:05] and and similarly with the
[00:07:09] native Americans and with um
[00:07:43] this capitalist imperialist
[00:07:46] system and the
[00:07:49] violence in military form is
[00:07:53] really just another manifestation the daily
[00:07:56] violence that
[00:08:00] people have to deal with in form of
[00:08:03] economic exploitation and the form of racial oppression
[00:08:07] a form of just downr social
[00:08:11] degradation people. are suffering in this place
[00:08:15] and that's the nature the place is to make us suffer
[00:08:18] so that they can extract money, extract wealth,
[00:08:22] extract resources from the very
[00:08:26] people who are actually doing the work to
[00:08:29] build this culture and this society, so
[00:08:33] I i think it's um, I don't really
[00:08:37] get too excited when it flares up,
[00:08:41] because it's all... has been flaring up
[00:08:44] and and the difference between
[00:08:48] because look the did in gaza was started by
[00:08:51] democrats and
[00:08:53] then accelerated by republicans and this just
[00:08:57] shows that the whole the state apparatus is
[00:09:01] in this enterprise it doesn't
[00:09:04] matter and it's not new the
[00:09:08] question is how we going to resolve it and address it
[00:09:12] so... that the the rights of human beings are being
[00:09:15] protected um everywhere in the world and
[00:09:19] it's not confined to the international scene is
[00:09:22] happening right in the cities the united states and the criminal
[00:09:26] justice system right and uh militarization
[00:09:30] the police, it's all a part of a grand
[00:09:33] design to exploit our
[00:09:36] labor and to eliminate as
[00:09:39] as our previous guest said anybody. who wants to
[00:09:43] stand up for themselves, yeah, that's
[00:09:47] that's the nature of this thing, right? so then the the question
[00:09:51] then is, what is the way out if the United
[00:09:55] States, which was built on you know the genocide the
[00:09:58] indigenous people, the enslavement of Africans, uh,
[00:10:02] the the migrants and Africans who
[00:10:06] then build the US to become the power house that it has
[00:10:10] become, how do we move on? from here, if
[00:10:13] this is the status quo and this status quo is also being
[00:10:17] exported to different parts the world, many of western countries like
[00:10:21] Australia and Canada can also trace their own um
[00:10:25] history to the same genocide, this question is for Dr.
[00:10:29] Timas, where is the way forward, because many people are still
[00:10:32] looking to this western country to save whatever is left of Gaza,
[00:10:36] that is the international system, the two
[00:10:40] ways, the first one is resistance from the rest the world, you
[00:10:44] know, just as orientalism is is is
[00:10:48] a colonial fantasy, there is no common
[00:10:51] orient, the same is with the so-called west.
[00:10:55] "the west is invention the colonial forces in order to be
[00:10:59] able to to
[00:11:02] present themselves as something different than colonial
[00:11:06] forces. before the west we had the fantasy the
[00:11:09] christian world or the civilized world or etc. in reality it was
[00:11:13] always the colonial forces, the colonial imperialist
[00:11:17] forces, so there is no west as such,
[00:11:21] there are people oppressed in the west, but obviously people of this in the..." so
[00:11:25] caled ways, but obviously people who suffer
[00:11:28] directly from colonialism and imperialism suffer suffer even worse,
[00:11:32] so the one way is resistance, and
[00:11:36] this hurts
[00:11:38] at the at the heart the whole ideology of
[00:11:41] power, because it diminishes the fantasy of
[00:11:45] power that is so fundamental for the US
[00:11:49] establishment. the other thing that is
[00:11:52] particularly important is:
[00:11:55] internal, i would say revolution, but at
[00:11:59] least opposition within the imperialist
[00:12:03] powers, one the most significant
[00:12:07] events, the the one is obviously the
[00:12:10] the success the resistance from, the other,
[00:12:13] however, is how much hateful is
[00:12:16] Israel and also
[00:12:18] capitalism in the
[00:12:21] younger generations of us citizens?
[00:12:26] and the two them, the resistance
[00:12:29] outside the UN, the the rejection
[00:12:33] the the the rejection of us,
[00:12:37] that would say in general, that would say in general in
[00:12:41] the so-called west are the most two significant events, because
[00:12:45] actually now, although inside the United
[00:12:48] States, as well as in other European as well as in
[00:12:52] European states, it doesn't seem to... the first glance
[00:12:56] very much likely to have revolutionary developments,
[00:13:00] the conditions are actually deeply
[00:13:02] confrontational, both in terms of ideology and
[00:13:06] in terms of class interest, and in this regards the resistance front
[00:13:10] gives lot
[00:13:11] of lot of courage to the people even inside the
[00:13:14] US and European states, because it shows that resistance can be
[00:13:18] successful. okay, i'm going to cross
[00:13:22] over to Mr. rafiqi, resistance can... successful, but
[00:13:26] correct me if I'm wrong, um, many movements that came out
[00:13:30] the liberation for the African-Americans in the United
[00:13:33] States or class action were ultimately
[00:13:37] repressed, it's one the reasons why we are taught
[00:13:41] to love uh Dr. Martin Luther King, Bohr River or not
[00:13:45] really want to be associated with Malcolm X, because his
[00:13:48] version of resistance is translated as violent
[00:13:52] and we're taught to not want to be violent. but to justify the
[00:13:56] institutionalized and government and state
[00:13:59] violence, well
[00:14:02] um, well pose an interesting question,
[00:14:06] resistance is resistance, and for
[00:14:09] anyone to
[00:14:13] put the resistance the civil rights movement
[00:14:17] against the resistance the black nationalism with
[00:14:20] mal x representative is a person who doesn't understand
[00:14:24] resist. "these are two sides the
[00:14:27] same coin, and nobody can say Dr.
[00:14:31] King did not
[00:14:32] purausly
[00:14:36] speak to power in the interest the needs
[00:14:40] the people, just as also spoke to
[00:14:44] power, I think that what the issue
[00:14:47] is which was properly raised is the question of
[00:14:51] power, we we're not oppressed."
[00:14:56] because we want to be oppressed, we're oppressed
[00:15:00] because we don't have the power to put an end to our
[00:15:04] oppression, so we have
[00:15:07] responsibility to organize
[00:15:10] ourselves to come together, and
[00:15:14] it's it's it's a responsibility that we
[00:15:18] have to ourselves and to humanity,
[00:15:22] right, because that's the other side the point. "there's people
[00:15:25] fighting against capitalism and imperialism and
[00:15:29] colonialism and zionism all over this
[00:15:32] world, these forces have to come together and
[00:15:35] unite and..." form a united front
[00:15:39] is capable of withstanding the
[00:15:42] brutality these
[00:15:43] of these oppressors and exploders the people,
[00:15:47] organization and
[00:15:50] consciousness, understanding
[00:15:54] among the people are the key elements
[00:15:57] to our our future, and we're
[00:16:01] not going to defeat the most
[00:16:05] nastiest econ. political system in the history of
[00:16:09] humankind overnight, okay, so we have the
[00:16:13] long-term plans. okay, allow me to cross back to
[00:16:17] Greece, as a professor yourself, correct me, i'm wrong, but
[00:16:20] there has been this massive change among the young people,
[00:16:24] like you mentioned earlier, especially having watched the live stream
[00:16:28] genocide from Gaza, and you speak about how that has
[00:16:32] brought together this confrontation now with power, is
[00:16:36] there hope that for the future generation who have now
[00:16:40] learned the true meaning of capitalism and how
[00:16:44] the violence that is being perpetrated against the people in the
[00:16:47] west is also the one that is manifesting itself in another
[00:16:51] form in other parts the world with it in Africa, Latin America
[00:16:55] or West Asia, is there hope now in organizing
[00:16:58] around the the valor and the bravery the
[00:17:02] resistance to push back at
[00:17:04] home uh the... level of
[00:17:08] oppression um even
[00:17:11] within
[00:17:12] the US and in European states
[00:17:14] and I'm talking about political oppression
[00:17:18] which is growing, I'm not saying that we are in open
[00:17:22] dictatorships, but there is
[00:17:25] climate of of political
[00:17:28] oppression, and in some cases
[00:17:31] the the even proto-fascist
[00:17:33] movements shows how much fear.
[00:17:38] the establishment is in the US and in
[00:17:41] Europe because the fact that especially
[00:17:45] younger generations and exploited people begin to
[00:17:49] wonder and the major question is
[00:17:52] first of all, why
[00:17:54] do we have to be complicit in such crimes?
[00:17:57] secondly, why must we be get prepared to fight wars?
[00:18:01] we don't even understand against Russia or against Iran, understand
[00:18:05] against Russia or against Iran. and
[00:18:09] potentially is very difficult
[00:18:12] equation for the establishment to maintain
[00:18:16] its ideological hegemony, the ideological
[00:18:20] hegemony which was built first on anti-communism and
[00:18:24] then on the idea that outside the so-called west
[00:18:28] leave barbarians or that if you look
[00:18:31] downstairs
[00:18:32] at at the social scale even within
[00:18:36] within at. capitalist western states, you will
[00:18:39] see marginalized,
[00:18:43] dangerous, ready to commit cs people, all
[00:18:46] this ideological hegemony built on fear
[00:18:50] is disintegrating, of course they have weapons
[00:18:53] and they will most likely try to
[00:18:57] renew the fear against some potential enemy
[00:19:01] again, that's the one way, the other is some kind of
[00:19:05] you know py intellectual mass hacking
[00:19:09] with very sallow
[00:19:12] emotional outbreaks that they know how to
[00:19:16] engineer, they will even
[00:19:19] formulate supposedly anti
[00:19:23] anti-systemic movements which are deeply systemic,
[00:19:27] most likely from the far right, like trump was for example,
[00:19:31] don't forget that Trump was elected as a president of
[00:19:33] peace, among other things, but yes,
[00:19:38] "there is again the sense of struggle being
[00:19:41] transferred within European states and within
[00:19:45] the United States. there is a deeply rooted
[00:19:49] economical, financial, cultural,
[00:19:52] ideological crisis the people who possess
[00:19:56] power in our states.
[00:19:59] okay, um, professor themis mentioned
[00:20:03] something very interesting, which is the ideological hegemony the United
[00:20:07] States?" has and my question then to you, Mr.
[00:20:11] Rafiki,
[00:20:12] is are we nearing a point where this hideological
[00:20:16] supremacy is dying um under the weight the
[00:20:20] bombardment in Gaza, under the illegal um attack in
[00:20:23] Iran and the murder of 168 school children
[00:20:27] under the um attack by ice on the street the United
[00:20:31] State where people have been murdered without um you know any
[00:20:35] investigation or justification. Maybe we may be
[00:20:38] nearing an end to that um ideological
[00:20:42] hegemony and supremacy, do you think we are there or no, there's still
[00:20:46] a long way to go?
[00:20:50] i think there is some different times and i think
[00:20:53] that um the the process of coming to
[00:20:57] understand was happening in the world has been
[00:21:00] accelerated in the minds of of many young
[00:21:04] people um i was
[00:21:07] privy to work with some the palestinians who was
[00:21:10] incamping at George Washington
[00:21:13] university and we saw freshman
[00:21:17] students who barely knew the word
[00:21:21] through their engagement in that activity and their
[00:21:25] interaction with other militants and
[00:21:28] organizations
[00:21:31] accelerated their level of
[00:21:33] understanding
[00:21:41] capitalism and imperialism,
[00:21:43] the their relationship to it, the relationship, the
[00:21:46] necessity for organization, these are things. usually take
[00:21:50] quite some time for people to grass, so I think that the
[00:21:54] times that
[00:21:55] we are in and the
[00:21:59] access to information, even the bad
[00:22:02] information accelerates or at least creates the
[00:22:06] possibility of accelerating the
[00:22:09] collective understanding the world that we give
[00:22:13] and
[00:22:15] the development of
[00:22:17] development of.
[00:22:28] to any kind of change that we want to make, so i do
[00:22:32] agree, i capitalism and imperialism is desperate, that's why
[00:22:36] they pushing this reactionary propaganda out here so hard
[00:22:40] every every minute or every day, but that just shows that they
[00:22:43] got to keep us confused in order to keep us
[00:22:46] exploited, and and people are learning and growing and... "I'm
[00:22:50] always enthusiastic about the
[00:22:53] future. Okay, Professor Temas, we
[00:22:57] we see current administration in the United
[00:23:00] States um that is very bold
[00:23:04] when it comes to how it disregards even the laws
[00:23:07] the US and the US states has always tried to
[00:23:11] um cover um from the the the
[00:23:15] abduction of seating president in Venezuela um you know
[00:23:19] to..." all of this pivot up and down the United States president
[00:23:23] has been doing, do you think we like a previous guest
[00:23:27] said that there is acceleration especially among the youth in seeing the true
[00:23:31] face of imperialism and the rejection of it? um, is
[00:23:35] that also reaction to why the US is taken
[00:23:38] off some of this cover and just gone straight
[00:23:42] to the imperialistic core and the way imperialism behave
[00:23:46] with power? the U.S.
[00:23:50] establishment is deeply anxious to catch
[00:23:54] up with
[00:23:55] the with its with the power that
[00:23:59] it loses by accelerating its aggression against
[00:24:02] its potential rivalries
[00:24:06] um the US establishment will do
[00:24:08] anything and will use any
[00:24:11] potential weapon,
[00:24:13] i think um to
[00:24:15] to try and maintain its dominance and
[00:24:19] hegem. exactly because it
[00:24:22] cannot persuade even its own
[00:24:25] people, one the things that that
[00:24:29] came out as accident is
[00:24:33] that because the massiveness of social media, although
[00:24:37] despite the fact that they're controlled by big tech or by a handful of
[00:24:40] companies, they need to have
[00:24:44] massive amounts of of
[00:24:46] users, makes it even for the... is not
[00:24:50] more than four or five big companies to
[00:24:54] control the whole of content, they need more and more
[00:24:58] content, and that make creates gaps, holes
[00:25:02] through which some aspects of reality
[00:25:05] pass to to to massive audiences
[00:25:08] and don't forget that it's been
[00:25:12] 35 years since the soviet union
[00:25:16] is gone, since then the united states tried to find the...
[00:25:20] an enemy capable of
[00:25:22] you know somehow creating some sense of unity
[00:25:25] that the the its establishment could exploit, but
[00:25:29] it has failed to do so. when you present yourself
[00:25:33] as so strong that you have no
[00:25:36] competitors, it becomes very difficult to find an enemy
[00:25:40] that can persuade right, that be fearful for your own
[00:25:44] people, so a way the united states are
[00:25:47] feeling the outcome the...
[00:25:50] on declared victory against the Soviet
[00:25:53] Union, okay, and because of
[00:25:57] communication roads that they opened themselves, right? I'm really
[00:26:01] sorry, we would have enjoyed. to keep that conversation going, but we
[00:26:04] are smack out of time. i like to thank both
[00:26:08] gentleman uh, professor timmes seams, assistant
[00:26:11] professor of international law, university of Nicosia, joining us from
[00:26:15] Greece, we're also joined by Rafiki Morrice, artist,
[00:26:19] activist, writer and educator joining us from Washington
[00:26:23] DC, and to you our beloved viewer, thank you so much for
[00:26:27] joining us on this section, goodbye for
[00:26:29] now.
[00:26:42] A story of Iran's resilience today, a US-Israel strike
[00:26:46] during the 40-day war on Iran hit a laser and plasma
[00:26:50] research facility in Tehran, and most people would assume that
[00:26:54] means shut down, silence, damage, end of work, but
[00:26:58] that's not what happened in the Islamic Republic of Iran, because within
[00:27:01] days the... labs were running again, researchers back in
[00:27:05] the building, equipment being cleared and experiments
[00:27:09] restarting, so the first question writes itself, what
[00:27:13] exactly was the US Israel strike supposed to stop? the
[00:27:17] answer is quite clear, it was attempt to attack Iran
[00:27:20] scientific infrastructure itself. many of you may
[00:27:24] ask, but why? let's on foot that the facility is
[00:27:28] a working research center focused on plasma physics,
[00:27:31] photonic. mix, biomedical imaging and industrial
[00:27:35] applications, the kind of science that moves between
[00:27:38] medicine, energy and materials, and hey, it is not
[00:27:42] just theory, the inventions are being applied in Eurons
[00:27:46] hospitals, industry, pharmaceuticals, even for
[00:27:50] gemstones. so if the goal was disruption, did the US and
[00:27:54] Israel succeed? the clear answer is no. another question
[00:27:58] pops up, how is the work already continuing? because Iranian
[00:28:01] scientists are: framing this as deeper than physical
[00:28:05] damage, they believe it reflects pattern, pressure on
[00:28:08] Iran's scientific infrastructure, something the US
[00:28:12] and Israel have been doing for decades, remember the target
[00:28:16] killings of Iran's nuclear scientists and cyber attacks on
[00:28:20] peaceful nuclear plants. Anyways, this attack was another
[00:28:24] desperate attempt to disrupt years of research, expertise and
[00:28:28] technology of research, expertise and technological
[00:28:31] progress. Instead of allowing the strike to define the
[00:28:35] institute's future, Iranian scientists returned and
[00:28:38] restart projects at the center. The damage equipment
[00:28:42] is already being replaced and in some cases upgraded within
[00:28:46] domestically developed systems, so instead of shutting the work
[00:28:50] down, the US is really strike appears to have accelerated
[00:28:53] rebuild cycle, and that's how the Islamic Republic
[00:28:57] works.
[00:29:58] ما بچه های خلیج فارسیم اینجا برای ما
[00:30:02] فقط. فقط یه دریا نیست
[00:30:04] هویتمونه جایی که
[00:30:07] کنارش بازی می
[00:30:08] کنیم
[00:30:13] روزیمونو ازش می
[00:30:14] گیریم باهاش شادی می
[00:30:18] کنیم و با صداش آروم
[00:30:19] میشیم جاییه که
[00:30:23] اجازه نزدیک شدن دشمنامون رو بهش
[00:30:27] نمیدیم و تا همیشه ازش محافظت می
[00:30:31] کنیم خلیل. فارس ما انگار یه کتاب
[00:30:34] تاریخه هر کدوم از موجاش قصه های
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[00:30:40] داره خلیج
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[00:30:46] ایرانیاست.