Arundhati Roy on Obama's Wars and other

[@im_MHS]

She has always been a person with an undying urge to find & expose the truth...and I always liked the way she presents it with all facts in place and a strong logical reasoning... In a nutshell it portrays a clear understanding of current global developments...we need to know todays democracy (Politics) has nothing to do with a nation or patriotism....its all about money (the corporates vs the masses).

[@blackdiamond8]

"George Bush was so, almost obscene in his stupidity of it..." Oh, Ms. Roy, how you make men fall for your incredible ability to order words with such supreme intelligence...

[@akshayrathore2882]

yea in the process ignoring truth and ground reality

[@topkhani]

So insightful - thanks Amy for bringing in Arundhati Roy.

[@macphallic]

"Resistance with consequences...In order to change something, you gotta take some risk, you gotta come out and lay those dreams on the line." Absolutely!!

[@brucezack]

What a wonderful woman who speaks with such heart, courage, wisdom and clarity.

[@michaelcooper938]

Keep up the good work, Arundhati Roy.

[@GauravJoshiseeker]

Michael Cooper how can you be so sure about her good work.

[@riteshmallik4939]

correct me If I am wrong,..british as well as princely ruled states had the option to join either pakistan or india or remain free..Kashmir had opted for total freedom from both pakistan and India,.Pakistan sent proxy to capture kashmir and then Hari SIngh requested Nehru to save kashmir from pakistani aggression,.Nehru insisted that first he will have to sign accession treaty with India and thats how kashmir merged with India,..Later India agreed to plebiscite under certain conditions of UN and those conditions were never fulfilled,..Dr Roy was very selective in her response,..I dont think thats fair,..

[@parkasharjun3530]

i 100% agree with her .

[@dulbora1977]

but who will agree wid u..idiot

[@chandrashekher7225]

dul Bora she is a pakistan ISI agent.

[@saifmansoorgiki]

Parkash Arjun Well I agree with you

[@NasirZ1964]

+chandra shekher what every you idiot's cant swallow is from Pakistan & ISI. Get out of the sleep, wake up. She is from India and is showing you a mirror. Alas, you can't recognized your own face.

[@dealite24]

She has a loving heart and a truthful clear mind.God bless everyone like her.

[@satindra21]

I don't like to listen to bad stuff about India but when it comes from a sensitive soul like Arundhati Roy, who not only is an incisive thinker but also a basic grass-root researcher and activist, you just have to sit up and take notice. If you listen carefully, her love for the poor of the country shines through and her compassion for the downtrodden and is unmistakeable. If the government is serious about doing something for the poorest and the underprivileged in India they must have her as the advisor and act on her advise; but the governments of the day are sold to the corporates and have no interest in the uplifting the poor. They value corporate profit above human life especially tribal life. That's why Arundhati is an enemy.

[@fasttrack441]

+satindra ahluwalia why does just sit and make some nonsense interviews and conducting many events in public? Why can't she come as AAP - Kejriwal if she really interested to help poor and change policies.. She talk very broadly with every issue, not specific and she doesn't know ideas to solve the probs..then? what she is doing by doing these kind of western shows? She just becoming popular in the world that's it. Its good for her, but as indian i would throw my foot wear on to her.. she is a SHIT. its just my opinion.. and many will agree with me..

[@americandesi5703]

+satindra ahluwalia Or maybe Arundhati Roy is an enemy because she is an apologist for Naxalite terrorists and does not feel compelled to condemn their murderous acts. Because after all, their poor and are fighting against the corporations. So it's ok for them to kill innocent people. What Roy is doing is no different from what other yellow journalists have done in the past, whether it was covering the Bolsheviks in 20th century Russia or the Viet Cong in Southeast Asia. The argument that violence based on collectivist ideology is a must simply does not ring true. Two wrongs don't make a right.

[@dlopez7330]

Fast track u on a fast track to ignorance and delusion.

[@SheikhzadaRayees]

unbiased writer...putting conscience well in writing

[@SSparks555]

She is one incredible lady... :)

[@Yourismouter]

when was this originally aired?

[@billmimms]

I'm only mildly interested in this. I find myself gaining more interest in this as I read more on the history about it. Smart woman. I just donated to get the "We" documentary. I'm reading Obama's Wars and The Next 100 years. I can't imagine how long it's going to take me to completely understand all of this.

[@dlopez7330]

well spoken honest lady....

[@andthereisntone1]

Thanks for your channel :)

[@maxbenser5934]

VERY GOOD AUTHOR ARUNDHATI ROY!!!

[@SSparks555]

She is one incredible lady... Someone I aspire to be :).

[@khemparsram8839]

Very enlightening interview...

[@Richard_Parker_Offl]

I support Arundati Roy

[@Richard_Parker_Offl]

dul Bora yeah whatever.. same to you mate..

[@dulbora1977]

sharm toh hai nhi..stupid

[@Richard_Parker_Offl]

dul Bora Oru mayirum puriyala.. Don't know English ?

[@wolfgang7812]

She hit the nail on the on the head with Kashmir.

[@desidude5405]

Just like how the Indians were unified into one peoples and have been living in "peace, harmoney & prosperity" after the British left, I am sure all these different "tribes" will live peacefully among themselves right after they 'get rid' of the high caste Hindus! not.

[@fazalrahmanfazalrahmanahme4966]

I agree with her this is true

[@henasiddiqui9415]

It is not against India.It is about subjugation of weak by the mighty.Let her voice prevail

[@arifkareemkhan2544]

Nothing but facts about the world largest democracy.

[@joeching]

"fire a shot" means something like if china and russia decided to include either north korea or iran in the shanghai cooperation organization. and i m not a nut. i m a former nuclear engineering professor with uc, berkeley, and an authority on optimized computer design in space nuclear reactor, using software automation technology. my career demands accuracy of prediction of software scenarios, and the future.

[@azmiyafaleel2172]

Wise observations

[@abhaykhajuria]

Yes she is a very good writer n story teller. Unfortunately not a fact teller n btw all foreigners commenting just by listening to her facinatng stories r actually very much ignorant of the other side of the coin....

[@AudioPervert1]

Again your wrong in most of your assumptions. Firstly she presents facts. Read BR Ambedkar's annihilation of the caste. Which is based on facts collected by many academics including Arundhuti Roy. Also the large part of people who hate her are the same men who are consumers of bollywood, TV and cricket and utter right-wing fascism. the dumb downed slaves of India's middle class. Across India and many parts of the world she is seen as an intelligent honest Indian Woman.

[@abhaykhajuria]

Samrat Bee Ur referring to something which was written in history. Don't be so overconfident of something u have just read and seen. Sometimes u need to be present and experience the situation understand the facts.

[@abhaykhajuria]

Samrat Bee And btw India is the largest democracy in the world and thanks to the majority of Hindus (80%) due which we accept every religion creed and cast. In India everyone has the right of free speech including Roy. Something which u and ur country can never imagine of in ur life time. Jai Hind.

[@abhaykhajuria]

Samrat Bee Also, to remind u it was UK who actually spread the disease of castism and division of religions in India and left India divided before leaving India. Shame on the same people who now tell us about castism and religion. We have very well over come castism in 80s and 90s and very glad to live happily as one Nation. Btw which country u come from ?

[@AudioPervert1]

Again your making up bullshit or you believe in totally false history. The Caste System or the Varnas exist in India for more than 1000years now. It has been clearly mentioned by Manu and further in the Rig Vedas. The word Varna in Sanskrit itself points to color. Hences the Varnas are based on Color. the roles and duties of castes defined as per the Varnas. A system now seen inside hindu, muslim and even sikh communities. Caste exists in very aspect of Indian life. Caste stands to segregate people and sexes and professions - making millions of Indians as citizens unequal forever.

[@AshwaniSastry]

all the attempts by western media and liberals like arundhati roy working for them isn't going to stop us. we will prosper and the day indians renounce any religion our pace will increase Atheism is the way.

[@xy5393]

CAN'T STAND THE NASAL VOICE OF MAIN PRESENTER/SPEAKER, WHY ARE 'DEMOCRATIC' NEWS PRESENTERS/INTERVIEWERS SO DEAD FROM SOUL, WHY ISN'T THERE ENERGY IN THEIR VOICE?

[@SSparks555]

I agree :)

[@balpreetjaswal]

i agree

[@Vga-kv8pj]

Very smart woman she knows how stupid politicians are !

[@thewhatorwhy]

5:28 - That face ... politics in general is never about politics mainly. It's projection of any number of personal issues onto the world and others. She is so angry.

[@thewhatorwhy]

Roy Lay That didn't come off the way I intended it. Anger is justified, but I meant to say that she seems angry/frustrated in her attempts to present a one-sided picture where it's one group oppressing the other.

[@vluggejaapie1000]

I can't help noticing that those who dislike her have the tendency to fantasies about torturing and killing her in all kinds of ways. Pathological behavior reigns supreme in authoritarian followers.

[@im_MHS]

I don't how does that matter...any ways I'm from India.

[@desidude5405]

Ms. Roy while critical of the Iraq war, makes a comparison of the 130K troops deployed in Iraq to India's 700K troops in Kashmir (a semi-autonomous province of India) and calls it an "occupation". Let me guess, Ms.Roy's opposition to the Iraq war possibly could be attributed to the fact that the REAL job of the 130K US troops in Iraq was to topple Saddam, "liberate" all areas of OIL production & provide security to corporate oil and construction operations (think Halliburton et al) and local pro US-Govt. The job of the US troops was NOT removal of WMDs or liberation of the civilians, nor peace and stability. A guerrilla war where the ruthless enemy follows no rules and has no accountability & where every building in an urban area is a potential enemy outpost needs WAY more than 130K troops to win. The proof for this argument is clearly evident in the fact that even after 15 years and deaths of more than 150000 civilians there is still no peace or stability in Iraq, nor can we see any end in site for the war. Here is the bunker-buster against Ms.Roy's meaningless argument that went unchallenged by the "fake-news" journalists interviewing her. While the US officially had about 130K troops on the ground, there were at least an additional 200K or more "private contractors". These are ex-army types working (read fighting) for the US defense contractor firms on behalf of the US govt. I am not even talking about the additional 100K or so administrative staff that were part of the US "occupation" force at its peak. This is the kind of brainless arguments leftists make and they are surprised when others don't take them seriously.

[@ANKITPANDEY-vm8kx]

FOR A FAKE NAME LIKE DESI DUDE... You don't even have the guts to openly say your name... Fake Profiles hate Arundhati Roy.. Lol... Desi dude....LOL.

[@WORLD8NSH5KNIGHT1]

Where is her criticism of the Soviet role in producing much of Afghanistan's woes?

[@gospelstreet9367]

what about the Kashmiri Pandits! How come she fails to mention what they did to their Hindu neighbors and how they are suffering right not having been driven out from their homes and lands where they have lived and toiled for centuries!

[@kartik6a]

+Gospel Street What did they do to the Hindus?

[@gurucharan1702]

+Kartik Thopalli nothing much just hanged naked women using iron wires after they were raped...

[@juibappaahmed7297]

at least one homosepien is exist on the land of India who got guts to speak the truth....

[@prabhatsinghparanjape898]

She seems a very nice lady but the basic problem seems with her is that she dreams of living in a hypothetical world called UTOPIA, which has been proved that it cannot exist on base of inherent differences between people, no two people have identical thought process.

[@joeching]

well, it's a chess game that amreica thinks that it has checkmated asia. but the game the asians r playing if not chess. it's the stories of mooncake and goujian, in which, with total surprise, the mongol yuan dynasty and an ancient wu dynasty, respectively were demolished overnite. i think japan is leading this asian play, with north korea beating the drums on the side and china is gauging for the right time to make the right move. my role as an america is to warn america when it's behind.

[@andrewwduncan]

reading the comments below you can understand the real problem of the usa: the failure to see the past with any clarity. They made (the british and the americans) huge mistakes in the past which have created these problems. Calling her a "hater" or "bitch" for simply stating history as most historians (the west and the east) are saying doesn't make for good policy. Whatever that may be in the present.

[@chandrasekhar3139]

what can we expect. arundhati roy will only be called on to such shows where the viewership is this low.

[@chrisflasher6814]

She is just promoting her book, how capitalistic

[@Marxist2]

Chris, how stupid of you, do you even read read or have any knowledge of history?

[@melodicnostalgic3823]

She should go to Islamic Nations and teach them civilization and lecture them about Human Rights.

[@ivanpeterjameswavell7480]

Field marshal Archibald Wavell Viceroy of India was replaced by a paedophile who was a cypher to Winston Churchill's churlishness of preventing a possible solution in Cashmere between Jinnah & Nehru which would whereby the area has remained a WAR ZONE owing to straight line delineation still remains in place which was probably on COLONIALIST RACISM that was SO rampant at the time and the British Raj treated the average india populace were at most THIRD PARTY citizens, or subjects of the EMPEROR. As a result of this the largest DEMOCRACY so-called is far from being a genuine DEMOCRACY and which a form of rather esoteric APARTHEID of the British RAJ during which the Amritsar massacre on peaceful demonstrators by General Dyer who ONLY be an INNATE RACIST to have even perpetrated such an act genocide. The international terrorism of today could be the result of this dire terrorist colonial organisation that was the British Empire and of which Church was an upholder. Was it not an example of transient TRANSFERENCE when he chose to confront ADOLF HITLER for trying to perpetrate very similarly hideous torture such as cutting off the fingers of Bengali sewers for rebelling against the RAJ. ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY SEVEN were massacred in the 1920's.

[@debtbully3]

Sorry, i thought of an insurgent as a foriegn fighter. Wrong.

[@wolfgang7812]

She's very intelligent. It's very smoke and mirrors actually.

[@maxbenser5934]

ARUNDHATI ROY: "DIE POLITIK DER MACHT"

[@mazumdar2379]

ওকে

[@ppaul489]

hey!!!!!! r u pakistani?

[@koontakente1808]

I CONCUR

[@boshirmh007]

india is using the same tactic on kashmir as the isrealis are doing on the palistines, turning the country into a prison state. and what happend to palistine? they lost there land, india might play the same tactic. what is the commonality between india, isreal, america. they are all racist nations, at least there government is. which is also part of hindu religon, to descriminate the less fortunate. they are better of worshiping wealth, since this is there goal in life and also part of there dogma.

[@EXTRABINA]

+ThUrT EilNo Dear Sir, Kashmir is a deficit state. It brings less revenue than it consumes. So, economically speaking, Kashmir is a liability for India and not its asset. I am always in favor of plebiscite in Kashmir. If they want to stay with India then welcome. But if they want to leave then goodbye. There is no reason to keep them with us if they are reluctant.

[@dlopez7330]

ThUrT EilNo I beeeen saying that for YEARS. Those fakers are linked!!!!

[@vickygrosse1591]

i think roy wants barry

[@itscooliknowrytyeah4675]

She is fragile not physically but on her viewpoints. My say on her talks? Bullshits! Being different is one thing but one should know what one is talking about...

[@debtbully3]

How come she called natives insurgents?

[@KarthikS-sk6ss]

she can never elaborate the root cause of the problem..whoever likes her opinion would be a separatist or an anti-india element. ..naxalites are trible people with weired demands. .and few kashmiri separatist who r under influence of Pakistan and want kashmir as a separate country. Which later would get merged with Pakistan. .

[@akshayrathore2882]

troop is kashmir also protect it from pakistan insurgents that the main reason form presence of troops dont you know that or you just dont want to bring it up in this interview

[@akshayrathore2882]

rightly called by Prakash Javadekar Ms. Roy is 'prisoner of her own dogma'

[@JustAStoner]

CLAP HARD CHRISTIAN RIGHTISTS!

[@bhootpurvmanusya]

most of the nitwits are either bihar boards or have never known english outside their barahavi kakcha she makes a point which has to be partially true favoring government irrespective of morral accuracy is wrogn she exagerated thats for sure but there is a issue at hand why they are being maoist

[@AudioPervert1]

Calling people who cannot speak a language you can "nitwits" is just downright proud and dumb. The people of Bihar or anywhere english isnt spoken are as good or bad as you or me. Perhaps your just another english speaking slave of a violent state.

[@bhootpurvmanusya]

Samrat Bee mere pyare sehpathio bihar MERE desh ka hissa hai garv hai meko uski mojudi ka. mera point - arnundati ki perspective na samajh pane se hai bihario jaise anparo ke dwara.

[@AkashSingh-mc1wv]

+Samrat Bee Which violent state?

[@wolfgang7812]

I don't agrree with Pakistan "not wanting to resolve the Kashmir problem"; nor is there any propaganda on the part of Pakistan. The problem is India's living in total denial to the fact that they have commited atrocities in Kashmir.

[@anmolmonga1933]

+ANTIJPUG keep believing, pakistan is just like or a worser version of india

[@wolfgang7812]

+Anmol Monga you are going on properganda

[@anmolmonga1933]

she hates pakistan as she hates india, if you actually read her you would have known that

[@wolfgang7812]

+Anmol Monga well hating a country isn't going to help a the situation in the region.

[@need4peace]

Hard to trust what people like Roy have to say, since they are clearly mention just one side of the story. They don't mention how Pakistani tribes killed and raped men and women in Kashmir respectively in their invasion of it in 1947, the brutality of Pakistani forces in Pakistan administered Kashmir where thousands of Shias are butchered each year. They keep mum on Balochistan which is illegally occupied by Pakistanis since 1947. There are a thousand Baloch youth missing from Balochistan. She clearly has some funding from the Pakistanis or ISI to be anti India I feel.

[@polycount]

yeah, incredibly one sided

[@1llanfairbairn]

PAY ATTENTION TO THIS LADY, SHE ANNOUNCES YOUR TOMORROW

[@yonidarshan7608]

Does she smoke pot? ! a choice stimulant for left side thinkers!! or those who like to morn !

[@joydeepchak5130]

wat a hypocrite women she is she critisize the govt and doesnt want to mediate with them

[@ManasMishra]

oh come on , Arundhati.. tell me the solution .. please.. we all know what you are telling here in that English channel..

[@EXTRABINA]

Westerners love to listen bad about India. This is their favorite past time. Arundhati Roy actually en cash this market and makes money by entertaining them. Most of her listeners are Americans and British. She never talk about Pakistan occupied Kashmir, Baluchistan because she always says that Pakistan do not do army operation to its civilians. This one of her favorite lie. I am yet to know what is her relationship with Pakistan.

[@cobaltbomba4310]

her relationship with Pakistan is to speak truth.

[@bipintiwari6249]

She is putting fake data on Kashmir.

[@amalcharudeepam]

Arundadhi Roy is not an Indian Writter / Activist but shes the Taliban Spokes Woman

[@Marxist2]

Amal, you are the Taliban spokesman, learn some humanity & human rights then come back & criticize someone that you know of. You idiot.

[@Marxist2]

Oh yeah & read this get informed & not be such a closed minded hateful man: www.democracynow.org/2014/4/9/is_india_on_a_totalitarian_path

[@markenolamckenney244]

Arundhati is brilliant.

[@Marxist2]

MarkEnola McKenney I agree 100%

[@markenolamckenney244]

"Another world is not only possible,she is on her way.On a quiet day I can hear her breathing."---Arundhati Roy.

[@sanmrita]

Arundhati roy is selective and biased in her reporting of the historical facts and reporting half truths about Indian positions on Kashmir and Naxalite issue.

[@HariSingh-2412]

I this is not fact that india occupied kashmir forcefully .In fact RAJA HARI SINGH SIGNED to go with india. If you are not satisfied with our dicision ,you should take up this issue in india not on international ground . You are going against dignity of our country.

[@moneybahi]

She became rich speaking bad about India...

[@vkitet]

Hippie talking!!

[@wolfgang7812]

Another Gaza found in guess where... INDIA

[@devchandan009]

Another country is going to establish guess .......balucisthan

[@wolfgang7812]

Keep dreaming delisional DONKEY I believe in the will of ALLAH GHAWEHIND bhi ho jaye ga

[@devchandan009]

ANTIJPUG u fucking converted muslim. ..... show up ur self as if u r the son of arabs....who born frm their sperm. ...... again m saying check ur DNA. ......u will get to knw wo is ur real jenetic jack hammer

[@wolfgang7812]

An who is you genetic "Jack hammer" you don't even know better go and checkout your own genepool first. For all you know I may have true arab blood in me but for now I'm speaking your language.

[@devchandan009]

ANTIJPUG goood to hear that u speaking my language. ....after all m ur father. .....son will anf should speak wht father speack. I am proud of u my son Urs Abba Papa Jenetic jack hammer

[@floujee]

Indian reality

[@gurucharan1702]

I find this speech highly biased n one sided

[@AudioPervert1]

thats cause you speak only slave language or do not have the capacity to form your own ideas or thoughts.

[@nikhilmahesh4686]

samrat bee you are idiot

[@nikhilmahesh4686]

how can you be so offensive towards India yar

[@AudioPervert1]

Nikhil Mahesh Its not offensive. its based on facts and evidence. Being critical of our nation leads to debate to empathy and to finding answers to the problems. Also it is clear that India is hardly a real democracy. The dreams of Gandhi and Ambedkar have been destroyed again and again by the elite and the industrialists and further by a violent police and army. What shame is there to talk about it and find a better future for the future generation of Indians. Can you feel the poor man and woman's pain. thats 800 million daily pain.

[@dlopez7330]

charan chand if the shoe fits. then you the culprit.

[@pikachu5647]

I dont know on what basis this women is said to be most acknowledged indian author as i being an student never heard of her. Well, let me give u come clear knowledge that the map of india u just showed was wrong. Its funny that you people talk about a country without even the knowledge of its map. And just to add that armed military being put down by india is what should have been done as they were brutal killers who killed those who belonged to minorities like the kashmiri pandits whose population was reduced from 30 laks to 3 thousand forcing them to flee for their lives, they were kashmiris too, there are more people killed by these militants in kashmir than the whole by indian army. I being a hindu sitting in my house and eating a dish made by my neighbour on eid is what INDIA is. we are much better than what these people think we are, these people who talk about maoists with a smiling face. I know we are not perfect, but we will end racism, poverty, corruption and all this by electing representatives and in a democratic manner, not with arms in our hands.

[@AudioPervert1]

exposing a violent state. be it India, America, Israel, China or many other nations is no crime. Yet your concerns are mostly middle-class and totally redundant in a world where civilians are murdered to please foreign companies and rich people. Your comments / views seem are a copy of the boring buffalo nationalism. Incapable of understanding the need to criticize and expose a violent fascist government is the right of every born citizen of India.

[@AkashSingh-mc1wv]

+Samrat Bee..you seem to be complaining everytime.OK if you feel there no positive side in India...then let us know what is the solution of this "Violent State" according to you?

[@pikachu5647]

Akash Singh he wants us to pick weapons and destroy parliament, and then someone would kill us to regain democracy, illiterate psychos

[@SounakRoy]

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