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Jan 2025
1h 12m

"Both the US and Israel are delusional" ...

Makdisi Bros.
About this episode

The brothers welcome the world-renowned economics professor and bestselling author, and Professor Jeffrey D. Sachs of Columbia University. They discuss the nature of U.S. global hegemony, idealism vs. realism, the possibility of de-dollarization, BRICS, the delusional notions of perpetual US and Israel hegemony, and why their killing lots of civilians does not translate into political victory, the influence of the Israel lobby in pushing for wars in the Middle East that goes against US interests, money in American politics, Arab state inaction given their leverage, what a "two state" solution actually means in the context of the genocide in Gaza and the end of the Biden administration. 

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Date of recording: January 7, 2025.

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