2016 Summit on Saudi Arabia: Understanding the Kingdom and it's Global Role

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2016 Summit on Saudi Arabia: Keynote

Vijay Prashad, author and professor at Trinity College - March 5, 2016

Video running time long, 47 minutes approx.

Vijay Prashad is the George and Martha Kellner Chair in South Asian History and Professor of International Studies at Trinity College. He is the author of sixteen books, including The Poorer Nations: A Possible History of the Global South (Verso, 2013), Arab Spring, Libyan Winter (AK, 2012), (co-edited with Paul Amar) Dispatches from the Arab Spring (2013), and No Free Left: The Futures of Indian Communism (Leftward Press, 2015). Vijay's latest book is Letters to Palestine: Writers Respond to War and Occupation. Vijay is the chief editor at Leftward Press, and writes regularly for The Hindu, Frontline, Jadaliyya, Counterpunch, Himal and Bol.


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1. Medea Benjamin just congratulated Bernie!

don't have the exact wording, but she was speaking as an individual and not for code pink

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2. Didn't the Saudis

Just sentence someone to 1000 lashes? The US may not have a more reprehensible ally.

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3. That's pretty much standard for them...and yes, their rulers are horrific. n/t