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More NATO Liberals: From the End of the Cold War to War in Ukraine (G&R 152)

More NATO Liberals: From the End of the Cold War to War in Ukraine (G&R 152)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals


More NATO Liberals: From the End of the Cold War to War in Ukraine (G&R 152)

FromGreen & Red: Podcasts for Scrappy Radicals

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Length:
48 minutes
Released:
Apr 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

Part two of our deep background on the NATO liberals.   
In this episode, we get into the post-Cold War presidencies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama and Joe Biden. The post-Cold War Clinton era is particularly instructive for U.S. foreign policy and empire today. Keeping Europe divided, Russia weak and flexing the military industrial complex muscle (i.e. massive defense budgets) on "teacup wars" in places like the former Yugoslavia and Iraq are all part of the American hegemonic project. They maintained stability and allowed markets to grow.  
The Obama administration continued the Clinton and Bush II policies except with precision drone strikes.  Biden's policies have pulled the U.S. out of Afghanistan, but have been more confrontational with Russia and China.  
Despite the death and misery created by U.S. wars on Yugoslavia, Iraq and Libya, the NATO liberals see it, in the words of the late Secretary of State Madeline Albright, as "worth it." 
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Outro- "Love me, I'm a liberal" by Carly Cosgrove 
Links// 

The War Party: From Bush to Obama, and Trump to Biden, U.S. Militarism Is the Great Unifier (https://bit.ly/3LJQkF0) 
The Nation: The Clinton Doctrine (https://bit.ly/3K7tuH5) 
Chomsky: The Obama Doctrine (https://bit.ly/3uaqp3m) 

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This is a Green and Red Podcast (@PodcastGreenRed) production. Produced by Bob (@bobbuzzanco) and Scott  (@sparki1969).  “Green and Red Blues" by Moody.  Editing by Isaac.
Released:
Apr 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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Welcome to our scrappy podcast. Bob Buzzanco and Scott Parkin co-host a regular podcast to discuss radical environmental and anti-capitalist politics with organizers, academics, artists and more. Bob Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He specializes in, writes about and talks on the Vietnam War era, foreign policy, Vietnam, radical social movements, economics, and other stuff. Scott Parkin is climate organizer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He has organized campaigns against Wall Street banks, mountaintop removal coal mining and the Keystone XL pipeline.