▶ Naomi Klein and Stephen Zunes “Taking On The Empire”

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Editor’s Note: This is an amazing panel. It draws together what Zunes calls “messianic militarism” in our times and looking back in history to worldwide colonialism/imperialism (and to the Doctrine of Discovery and native rights in this country although they are not mentioned directly) and the “settler states” that withdrew from the Durban conference led by Israel because of a mild statement about Palestinian rights. Global network of empire and the institutions/legal structures that lock in this market fundamentalism such as the WTO, IMF, free-trade agreements.

Published on Jul 17, 2014 Madison, Wisconsin, on 02.05.09.

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Stephen Zunes (born 1956) is an American international relations scholar specializing in the Middle Eastern politics, U.S. foreign policy, and strategic nonviolent action. He is known internationally as a leading critic of United States policy in the Middle East, particularly under the George W. Bush Administration, and an analyst of nonviolent civil insurrections against autocratic regimes. (Wikipedia)

Naomi Klein (born May 8, 1970) is a Canadian author and social activist known for her political analyses andcriticism of corporate globalization.^[1] She is best known for No Logo, a book that went on to become an international bestseller, and The Shock Doctrine, a critical analysis of the history of neoliberal economics. Her latest book is This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate, a New York Times non-fiction bestseller. (Wikipedia)

Matthew Rothschild (panel moderator) is the senior editor of The Progressive magazine (from 1994), which is one of the leading voices for peace and social justice in this country. Rothschild has appeared on Nightline, C-SPAN, The O’Reilly Factor, and NPR, and his newspaper commentaries have run in the Chicago Tribune, the L.A. Times, the Miami Herald, and a host of other newspapers. Rothschild is the host of “Progressive Radio,” a syndicated half-hour weekly interview program. And he does a two-minute daily radio commentary, entitled “Progressive Point of View,” which is also syndicated around the country.