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Empire, Power & People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 131

- 2014-11-19 - Original post - Cached copy

Chinese Power Politics & Dynastic Intrigue
How is power organized and exercised within China? There are the obvious institutions: the Party, the State, the military, bureaucracy and state-owned enterprises which dominate the economy. But behind this lie the factions and families of the ruling oligarchy, with their descendants known as ‘Princelings’, amassing great wealth from the plunder of the nation, increasingly tied to Western financial and corporate institutions and elites, as well as elite Western universities.

Empire, Power & People with Andrew Gavin Marshall- Episode 118

- 2014-08-06 - Original post - Cached copy

Israel-Palestine 101

This episode provides some background and context to the most recent four-week slaughter of Palestinians by the United States and Israel, including a brief history of the occupation, non-violent and violent resistance to the occupation, the emergence of Hamas, the siege of Gaza, the so-called “peace process” and the Intifadas, up until the formation of a Hamas-Fatah unity government in June of 2014, and the war waged by Israel in response to it.
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