News from Within Podcast: American, Israeli and Iranian Strategies in the Middle East Conflict
On 29 May,
2008, Michael Warschawski, co-founder of the AlternativeInformationCenter,
spoke with Gilbert Achcar at his office in London, England.
Gilbert lived in Lebanon for
many years before moving to France,
where he taught politics and international relations at the University of Paris.
Since 2007, he has been a professor of Development Studies and International
Relations at the School of Oriental and African Studies of the University of London.
He is the author of many books, including, The Clash of Barbarisms: The
Making of the New World Disorder, Eastern Cauldron: Islam,
Afghanistan, Palestine, and Iraq
in a Marxist Mirror and The 33-Day War: Israel's
War on Hezbollah in Lebanon
and Its Consequences, which he co-wrote with Michael Warschawski.
During this
conversation, Achcar and Warschawski discussed the current situation in Lebanon, Iran’s
involvement in Iraq and its
relations with Syria and the
Hezbollah, US foreign policy
in the region in the context of the upcoming presidential elections, and the
possibility of American and Israeli military strikes on Lebanon or Iran.
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