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Dr. Yoel Guzansky is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for National Security Studies (INSS) specializing in Gulf politics & security. Dr. Guzansky was a Visiting Fellow at Stanford University’s Hoover Institution, an Israel Institute Postdoctoral Fellow, and a Fulbright Scholar. He served on Israel's National Security Council in the Prime Minister's Office, coordinating the work on Iran and the Gulf under four National Security Advisers and three Prime Ministers. He is c...

by Margaret Flowers / January 19th, 2021 NOTE: Margaret Flowers and Askia Muhammad will co-host an inaugural special on Pacifica Radio on Wednesday, January 20 from 6:30 to 8:00 pm Eastern. It can be heard on WBAI and WPFW. The theme will be Dr. King’s triple evils and what Biden’s cabinet picks tell us about what we can expect from this administration. Guests include Dr. Greg Carr, Abby Martin and Danny Sjursen. Also, on Tuesday, January 26 at 8:00 pm Eastern, Popular Resistance will co-...

>> yes. i think donald trump and ted cruz oversimplified the problem. the root cause is a combination of factors that include isis, whose roots go back to failure to in iraq. but also this raging syrian civil war in its fifth year, 4 million refugees total. so i wanted to hedge against selling a narrative thats too simplistic here. bill: if you take out of assad, isis is still there, correct? if isis is still there, then the people are still on the run. is it that simplistic? >> thats certainly ...

Repressive stability and now is back to a period of pure chaos? >> you no, fareed, this is not about sectarianism or tribalism, its about state failure. its a developmental fate, the post-colonial state, the existing state has basically delivered neither prosperity nor security, nor human security in the last 60 orals 70 years. has bled societies dry, has destroyed even the fragile institutions that existed in colonialism and replaced it with a cult of personality. i mean, people think of them a...

Rippling across the region. >> farwaz, when you have written about it, would you have written that the core reason that this is happening is state failure. the failure of the governments to have built any institution, so when the dictators left, you realize there was almost nothing there. i think the syria, the place that you come from, which had -- what was it, seven or eight coups between the 1940s and 1970s, then 40 years of highly repressive stability and now is back to a period of pure chao...

They were complaining about it. that really set me back. >> john: your mother was going to send you to trinidad, they do well, compared to american schools? >> my mom got to the point she was fed up with the system. the public school system and was really tired of it. their only option was sending me back to trinidad and get an education. that is how she felt. she wasnt going to continue to let the system fail me. she wasnt going to let that happen. >> john: but you did get the voucher. you gott...

They were complaining about it. that really set me back. >> john: your mother was going to send you to trinidad, they do well, compared to american schools? >> my mom got to the point she was fed up with the system. the public school system and was really tired of it. their only option was sending me back to trinidad and get an education. that is how she felt. she wasnt going to continue to let the system fail me. she wasnt going to let that happen. >> john: but you did get the voucher. you gott...

Achievement. >> how state failure when the public school system is failing students. it is failing its students. how can you say that a voucher program is a failure. i continues to understand that. >> john: i dont understand that either. >> we have data on graduation rates. d.c. public schools, 49% graduation rate. now, we put voucher losers and winners on the graph because perhaps people like your mother who apply for the vousmer are a different group. that a pretty basic study. ones who got th...

Insurgency, oppression, state failure. the state in question is unwilling or unable to halt or avert it. the principle of nonintervention yields to the international responsibility to protect. do you have it? there is no such thing as a sovereign border anymore. its your responsibility as a globe to intervene. got it? let me give you numbers here. before we intervened in libya, the death toll was 1,000. thats bad. in syria, theyre screaming. weve got a responsibility. to protect. 400. let me giv...

Did, that this would probably go down. flew over to witness it all. sir, its nice to talk to you. your thoughts tonight? >> thanks for having me. whats happened tonight is something that had bsh building for a long time. there is no doubt that the process through which president morsi was removed was undemocratic. ultimately democracy was not the main thing at stake here in egypt. the state was failing under morsis control and within the past few days, he had essentially become a president in na...