US Hegemony In The Middle East Is Over | West Asia Will Define Its Own Future | US Amb. Chas Freeman

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Beginning of Ambassador Freeman's Essay:
Title: The Middle East is Once Again West Asia
Date: August 6, 2023
Names make a difference. Those who confer them reveal their perspectives on the places and peoples they are naming.
Over the course of the 16th to the 19th centuries, Europeans conquered and colonized the world, imposing their self-centered perspectives on its geography. For them, the Ottoman Empire was “the Near East,” a region encompassing West Asia, Southeast Europe, and Northeast Africa. Then, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, when the United States became the preeminent component of the self-styled “West,” a trans-Atlantic perspective supplanted the European one. From the point of view of Americans, the lands within the collapsing Ottoman Empire were an intermediate zone between Europe - the Eurasian subcontinent to the East of the United States - and the Indian subcontinent.[1] That’s why Alfred Thayer Mahan decided they should be called the “Middle East,” not the “Near East.” In time, even the people who lived there began to use this American-minted term. The largest newspaper in the Arab world is الشرق الأوسط - which means “the Middle East.”
The Birth of the Nation-State in West Asia
The name persists, but the people living in the region no longer acquiesce in foreign definitions of their homelands’ place in world affairs. Ottoman cosmopolitanism disappeared when the Ottoman Empire and the Caliphate expired. After flirting with a variety of transnational ideological identities - including pan-Arabism, Ba`athism, Judaism, Sunni, and Shi`ite Islamism - the region’s peoples have redefined themselves as “nation states.” Türkiye[2] and the fragments of the Ottoman Sultanate’s Levantine territories carved into semi-independent, neo-colonially administered countries by British and French bureaucrats have acquired well-defined international personalities. Iran, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria have come to embrace strong national identities that have survived multiple external and internal challenges to their existence.
Iran has broken with its neocolonialist patrons, installed a defiantly independent Shi`ite government, and asserted its own sphere of influence in West Asia. In this century alone, Iraq has experienced a period of governance as a “thugdom,” an anarchy imposed by a botched American effort at hit-and-run democratization, and the slaughter by foreign and domestic forces of at least half a million of its population. Israel has degenerated from the vaguely humanistic vision of early Jewish nationalism to today’s Zionist negation of universal Jewish values. The indigenous people of Palestine have been the continuous object of relentless genocidal dispossession and brutal oppression by the Zionist settler state. Lebanon, once the playground of French confessional politics and Arab hedonism, has become ungovernable. Syria has been isolated, vivisected, and devastated by coalitions of domestic forces supported by external actors, including the Gulf Arabs, Israel, Türkiye, and the United States. Syria continues to be the locus of a variety of proxy wars, including between Israel and Iran, Russia and the United States, and Türkiye and Kurdish separatists.
Meanwhile, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, once proudly pan-Islamist rather than pan-Arabist or nationalist, has embraced nationalism. It celebrates its official founding as a state in 1932 and employs the international - not the Hijra - calendar to do so. Egypt retains its distinctive character and cultural identity under a comprehensive military dictatorship. Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) practice independent foreign policies and exercise influence not just regionally but globally. Kuwait - which is surrounded by Iran, Iraq, and Saudi Arabia - is appropriately cautious. Bahrain defers to Saudi Arabia and serves it as a useful proxy in contacts with Israel and the United States military.
Geopolitical Centrality
What has not changed is West Asia’s geopolitical centrality. It is where Africa, Asia, and Europe and the routes that connect them meet. The region’s cultures cast a deep shadow across northern Africa, Central, South and Southeast Asia, and the Mediterranean. It is the epicenter of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam, the three “Abrahamic religions” that together shape the faiths and moral standards of over three-fifths of humankind. This gives the region global reach......
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[@VickiNikolaidis]

I've learned a lot from Mr. Freeman's talk. He is well-spoken. Thank you for making his talk available to us. ❤

[@UnbeknownToHis]

Same. Wish I knew him a while ago.

[@zeissiez]

America has just 4% of the world’s population, and its isolated from the “world island” Afro-Eurasia where 87% people live. America relentless strive to maintain its hegemony over the world will eventually end in exhaustion.

[@baruasafi5880]

It's leading humanity to destruction. Gosh!

[@tigading2177]

and bankruptcy LOL

[@jillfryer6699]

We fear the exhaustion cant come soon enough to protect Australia from being messed over by them. Australia's own fault.

[@bircruz555]

Halford MacKinder, the first to propose the world island thesis over 100 years ago in his "The Geographical Pivot of History".

[@baruasafi5880]

@@bircruz555 Agreed with you.

[@georgeosei269]

Is time for USA to go home and solve their own crisis

[@tigading2177]

sadly that is never gonna happen, you forgot solving domestic problems are not profitable.

[@vintagepearlguitars]

​... and more arduous than making a mess somewhere else and then leave.

[@whoswho7815]

The EAST will have peace without US & WEST🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@JIANGTG]

1. U.S hegemony in the Middle East is over. 2. West Asia will define its own future and is clever. 3. Hegemony has provoked many countries with the mindset of mutual respect , peaceful co-existence , etc . Middle East countries have expressed strongly against any country exerting " long-arm control " which makes many people to suffer.

[@MickZorro]

Very true! and with U.S. authority and power in the Middle East becoming almost meaningless, while Iran's might keeps growing, the days of Israel, as Ahmadinegad sad few years ago - "are numbered".

[@henryneoch7366]

Any credit to China tt all these are happening ? V

[@Cc-qc7fl]

Oversimplification.... many actors in the “Middle East” were/are willing participants in the long-arm politics of the US. It’s a pay to play game there with some of the most cut throat & money hungry bunch of all. & China & Russia are only helping them to drive a harder bargain to line the pockets of a few

[@albrathwaite7074]

Ambassador is hitting every nail on the head with each word coming from his lips.

[@davidotness6199]

I am always more informed after hearing Ambassador Freeman out. Once again, he does not disappoint. Thank you for providing this.

[@basilal-nakeeb7610]

Ambassador Freeman offers a realistic and balanced assessment of the future direction of West Asia, something rare among Western diplomats.

[@denis3208]

Calling USA and EU democracy's is like calling shark a bird ...

[@peterp5889]

Europe is as much democracy as 🐺 is a sheep!

[@hugowilliams1988]

"Democracy" is a weapon ! Don't let US democratize your country.

[@ClericChris]

The US is a Republic. Always has been.

[@vintagepearlguitars]

Yeah, that might be true, but we still have to fight for it with all that we have. To the last Ukrainian, and as long as it takes. Auntie Madlaine says it's worth it.

[@bonito34]

From rubble to bricks😂😂😂😂

[@user-bs9su8gg7f]

The first thoughtful introspective on American foreign policy, that I’ve heard in years. I miss our country having quality diplomats.

[@joehoey6337]

we need more intellectuals to come out, and say what we already know. THANK YOU!!

[@lawrencecheong29]

Brilliant, honest and humble speech. Listen those who have ears!

[@pratahsinnetamby]

WOW! Simply brilliant. Why is it that this gentlemen is not advising the American political class?! The rest of the world would embrace his wisdom. I guess that is the outcome of populist democracies.

[@kamaldaud2782]

The military complex is very powerful in the US..they love and believe in war.

[@exponentzero]

Q: "Why is it that this gentlemen is not advising the American political class?!" A: The Lobby

[@sciagurrato1831]

Freeman is well known to US politicians - and ignored. Are you bright enough to think why that might be? Or do you think our 100 senators, 435 representatives and the White House are looking for the truth?

[@othmanmajid6380]

Did you see the TickTock hearings.......I doubt those imbeciles who were asking the questions would comprehend what this guy is saying....,they are the political class that the world has to deal with.

[@uglaegilsdottir]

I really like the main leader of the channel, Pascal. Such an educated, well-spoken and curious gentleman!

[@Lina-nm6cp]

Thank you once again Pascal for making this comprehensive information of ambassador Chaz Freeman available ; always great people on neutrality studies and a neutral vision featuring always different sides of the story 🕊️👌

[@hughmcdonnell849]

Very coherent and knowledgeable appraisal of the mess we’re in. It’s hard to see a way out of it when we see the calibre of so called western diplomats. I’m convinced that they are all suffering from iodine deficiency.

[@blcheah2672]

uSA does not want their hegemony to be over. Expect the body count to rise before this is over.

[@alrent2992]

WW3 will put a finish to it.

[@reidwhitton6248]

And that body count includes American citizens. Violence and neglect at home is increasing every year. The US needs to give up empire and focus on rebuilding a prosperous Republic or the society and its institutions will collapse.

[@lenuvian]

@@reidwhitton6248 About 100k deaths from overdoses alone each year. Deaths of despair. Arms sales and legal dope, the two profit drivers left. Merchants of death. Capitalisms last breath.

[@jillfryer6699]

@@reidwhitton6248 bit late

[@reidwhitton6248]

@@jillfryer6699 That's the cynical attitude we need!

[@rashmigupta9]

Such a wholesome lecture! That was the best, most clear and objective summary of Middle East that I've ever heard. Thanks a ton for posting this. Sadly but accurately he pointed out that Israel currently finds a partner only in Indian leadership who are even disgustingly adopting Israeli policies of punishment 😐

[@chelovekrazumni9960]

A highly competent, clear and informative analysis, by far overwhelming all the major "news agencies" together.

[@pacoshuman7642]

Thank you for sharing this...its quite wonderful to listen to Mr. Freeman's talks. Always worth the attention, and always something new to learn.

[@jimturpin6503]

That was stunning and brilliant. I wish that I could download this.

[@NewsStripper]

The transcript is available.

[@erolboo2]

Why Chas Freeman is one of the greatest minds on international relations alive today in my view, he is brilliant, and a massive thanks to Neutrality Studies for giving him a decent platform to speak from, well done your both doing fantastic and important work. :)

[@thelonghillreport8398]

A masterful talk, but no matter the conclusion, it is an argument for neutralism.

[@basfinnis]

You'd think after being bombed to smithereens for years that people would get fed up with it after a while? Time for a change and for people who actually build things instead of destroying stuff.

[@tigading2177]

Europeans have always been in love with wars. Why? That is the beauty of western propagan.

[@SM-df9hm]

Insightful speech. Very inclusive and overall accurate description of the geopolitical situation in West Asia.

[@rctube1958]

At last a mature discussion of international affairs from someone from the US. I didn't think such a creature existed.

[@lorenzolalli]

Superb and sincere analysis of current geopolitics. Kudos to Ambassador Chapman!

[@mirba6933]

I hope with my heart and soul that African and Middle Eastern countries will be free on the way that they chose for themselves how they want to live . But not on the way that their own political elite start to exploit them further.

[@anthonyfaulkner5194]

Light from the mountaintop of an old man's vast experience. May God be your strength and guide. Thank you, Chas.

[@1956paterson]

Isreal was born in hope, for whom? Certainly not for the Palestinians the original inhabitants of the Levant. The Jews are safer living outside the Israeli state. The Israeli state must be reformed into a secular state that protects the rights of all the people who live in Palestine.

[@majormoolah5056]

Great lecture, thank you. I am a bit surprised that Ambassador Freeman did not mention how France is selling fighter jets and other weapons to Middle East. It is a big thing in the multi-polarization of the region.

[@deansawich6250]

Thanks. A very wise man. ❤❤❤

[@shahidulislam4636]

Mr. Freeman over here outlines the existing realities existing in West Asia. Let’s hope decision makers would listen to him and act accordingly, and adjust with the new realities other than neglecting them and consequently invites its demise as relevant super power.

[@MichaelMyall]

American citizens like this, and many others who are shunned by western media, have enormous education, experience and wisdom. Most US politicians, including presidents, exhibit only arrogance and ignorance.

[@BCSTS]

All respect to the host of this video....BRAVO ! 😂 Ambassador Freeman is astounding ! Thank you for presenting him here !

[@Law-of-love]

Superb lecture 🫡

[@kamaldaud2782]

While the entire world gradually keeping distant from the US and Israel, India is becoming a close friend of Israel.

[@yaoliang1580]

That incompetent n corrupt Indian leader is now a US puppet

[@nemrutbaba]

The US stopped being a democracy recently, after Covid and the BLM riots. It is a multi-national empire working to put down nationalist resistance. EU not much different, but far weaker. US like the old British Empire, EU more Austro-Hungarian Empire.

[@lenuvian]

It was never democracy in anything but name.

[@aguilayserpiente]

No aspect of the U.S. was ever democratic.

[@sonofwotan]

This analysis shows a common weakness among Americans: the inability to speak of geopolitics without the constant admixture of righteous moral value judgments. This is something you won’t find when the Chinese or Russians speak of such things, and is one reason why their efforts at diplomacy are received so much better than the Americans these days. It’s also part of the explanation for why the Americans’ geopolitical vision seems so clouded, the assessments so off-base.

[@lenuvian]

That and being clueless on the subject of socialism, because it was removed from the education system at every level.

[@jillfryer6699]

Dunno bout that. I've heard them sound moralistic and finger wagging. Even if I agree more.

[@Arboryas]

Thank you for your excellent analysis and comments Thank you for making it public

[@fabiodeoliveiraribeiro1602]

Americans are just beginning to feel the perverse effects of the perversities the US has committed in the Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Will the broken and divided American society resist the end of the diplomatic privileges that the US enjoyed while it grew rich by crushing and exploiting peoples after the end of World War II? I do not think so. When Roman citizenship ceased to be something valued and politically important, Rome began to decline irreversibly. Something similar will happen in the US in the coming decades.

[@BCSTS]

This is without a doubt the most PROFOUND ANALYSIS of the historical & current state of geopolitics re the Middle East/West Asia....I have ever heard....especially re the USA involvement there ! As far as I am concerned you will never hear anything else that even comes close! It is also very elevated, bipartisan and very much a 'birds eye view' of things! It is respectful of all, not a blame game piece! This man speaks from an essay he has written (see link) with great in depth knowledge & wisdom! It should be shared with all in western countries who care about their future & future of the world ! Imo there must be some Nobel prize that he deserves....This talk/essay is nothing but TRUTH...offered with respect to all !

[@averageamerican6727]

👌

[@davidwatson1513]

Where can I find a transcript of this important video lecture?

[@albertoferreiro4935]

Great analysis, may we hear more from him

[@ralphseverin]

Sadly to conclude , plain and simple , epistemic plausible that changes had set in , that America is no longer the world's hegemonic demagogue...

[@TheSapphire51]

And the popular nonsense comig out of its universities has not helped the USA one bit. Women's rights are being eroded and it is going backwards not forward.

[@mouradbsiri3822]

Thanks Amb FREEMAN for this great historical analysis on the US/ Middle East policiy. You explained so well the dynamics in the whole Region , the current geopolitical changes as well as the consequences on the major regional players and the US. Great job !!!!

[@jdzentrist8711]

Lately, I've been hearing about "West Asia." Thanks to this talk, I now know, that "West Asia" more accurately describes what Western Hegemony has called, "the Middle East."

[@jillfryer6699]

Yes. It depends what direction one is coming from. Too. West of San Francisco. East of Timbuctoo.

[@jimlaughton9978]

Changes are happening and a multipolar world on our doorstep. Hopefully a more peaceful world

[@rubadubsoldier1419]

A real letter from America.

[@JoscelinTrouwborst]

Pfew, comprehensive! Greatly appreciated!

[@stavrosk.2868]

Chas Freeman: this man oozes wisdom

[@delorisd81]

This man is total truth. This is my new favorite channel 🎉

[@richardsayess3606]

Brilliant. Thank you for enabling such clarity on such a chaotic part of the world

[@abdulghani8269]

Danke N. Studies

[@GM9841]

It's unimaginable to see a former ambassador to a Middle Eastern country be so illiterate about that region's history! He is listing Iran (Persia) among colonized countries and also one of the artificially created countries made up after chopping off the Ottoman Empire! I am dumbfounded. This man needs to read a high school level history book!!

[@BCSTS]

Maybe, just maybe your history book is wrong !

[@mirba6933]

We don't call this territory Middle East it is Near East, just like man said.

[@alexhumble7653]

As I could not survive on my poor retirement paycheck I have resettled to Russia several years ago looking for cheaper place to retire. However several months ago payments have been stopped. When I requested the Embassy in Warsaw, Poland, which manages the transactions they replied that because Central Bank of Russia has been sanctioned therefore payments became impossible. I know that Russia supplies the US with titanium along with some other materials and of course those shipments have always been paid. It means payments still possible when authorities want it. Moreover each Embassy has cashier desk where I could come getting cash. It is what I proposed in my communications with the Embassy, but they did not reply anymore. Neither Social Security nor Embassy in Moscow wanted to have any business with me. I am to old and weak to resettle again. They also defrauded me on three Economic Impact Payments that I was illegible for. I wrote to Biden in White House with no result of course. This is how the US government treats its own citizens. I can only go to the street begging in a foreign country. Judge yourself. The US is a country of fraudsters. Watch out of the US!

[@mega8621]

Greetings from New Zealand. Thank you for a brilliant and penetrating overview of the real scenario taking shape in West Asia. This is a very valuable essay to help us form a balanced, respectful, and positive view of the nations of that part of the world.

[@bircruz555]

"U.S hegemony in the Middle East is over." Amen!

[@eddiesanon8786]

Bring Chas Freeman back I learned so much

[@brendasmart553]

Thank you so much for introducing me to this man!!! No wonder Israel lobbyist's fought so dirty to refuse his working in our administration long ago. The changes he could have facilitated for our betterment... sad.

[@jeraldsamuel5598]

He welcomed the "flowering of Saudi womens talents" Amen to that brother💋

[@johnsmith1474]

Marxism, for the record and to correct Freeman, is not an ideology. It is a CRITIQUE of Capitalism. This is according to Prof Richard Wolff, who's perhaps America's preeminent educator in the field. The various implementations of the Marxist critique, by demagogues or nationalists or fanatics, are their own species of animal, that have in large poisoned the idea of critiquing capitalism's abuse of it's power. Stalinism is not Marxism, for instance. Subtly or not so subtly invoking Marxism as a negative at the opening of a lecture is a favorite bit of ground work for those who wish to hold the attention of American or European audiences that become uneasy when imperialism is criticized.

[@aguilayserpiente]

Dialectical materialism examines the march of history, economics, and the relationship of thought and economic forces: The production of ideas, of conceptions, of consciousness, is at first directly interwoven with the material activity and the material intercourse of men, the language of real life. Conceiving, thinking, the mental intercourse of men, appear at this stage as the direct efflux of their material behaviour. The same applies to mental production as expressed in the language of politics, *laws, morality,* religion, metaphysics, etc., of a people. Men are the producers of their conceptions, ideas, etc. - real, active men, as they are conditioned by a definite development of their productive forces and of the intercourse corresponding to these, up to its furthest forms. Consciousness can never be anything else than conscious existence, and the existence of men is their actual life-process. If in all ideology men and their circumstances appear upside-down as in a camera obscura, this phenomenon arises just as much from their historical life-process as the inversion of objects on the retina does from their physical life-process. In direct contrast to German philosophy which descends from heaven to earth, here we ascend from earth to heaven. That is to say, we do not set out from what men say, imagine, conceive, nor from men as narrated, thought of, imagined, conceived, in order to arrive at men in the flesh. We set out from real, active men, and on the basis of their real life-process we demonstrate the development of the ideological reflexes and echoes of this life-process. The phantoms formed in the human brain are also, necessarily, sublimates of their material life-process, which is empirically verifiable and bound to material premises. Morality, religion, metaphysics, all the rest of ideology and their corresponding forms of consciousness, thus no longer retain the semblance of independence. They have no history, no development; but men, developing their material production and their material intercourse, alter, along with this their real existence, their thinking and the products of their thinking. Life is not determined by consciousness, but consciousness by life. In the first method of approach the starting-point is consciousness taken as the living individual; in the second method, which conforms to real life, it is the real living individuals themselves, and consciousness is considered solely as their consciousness. Marx, Karl, "The German Ideology," (1845), Part I, 4. The Essence of the Materialist Conception of History, Social Being and Social Consciousness, ¶¶2, 3.

[@davidemmet7343]

It seems pretty convenient that a Marxist professor like Richard Wolfe would want to disassociate Marxism from its numerous dystopian applications and incarnations.

[@matthewk189]

This is one of the best summaries of geopolitics I’ve ever heard.

[@nunoalexandre6408]

Love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@barryshaw5660]

Very informative thanks for your letting us see this

[@ssebitaabawamala6861]

He's brilliant, I mean brilliant

[@thomasthomasphilp4393]

Western hegemony is over. They have to respect other nations and see them as equal. Thats all. We Indians don't believe in domination over others unlike Europeans

[@rhondab9792]

Thank you for this very comprehensive and insightful analysis of the dissolution of Western empire in the Middle East (and global south). Having destroyed its own productivity in the quest for international control, hopefully USA can turn its attention to glaring domestic decay and support of its struggling citizens.

[@davidgamble955]

RFK should hear this

[@TheTribeIAm]

Not to mention the value and quality of US weapon systems are seriously in question, do to just in time supply chains, US deindustrialization, and their colossal failure in the conflict in Ukraine. The F-35, George Bush's Texas based colossal white elephant of a useless dysfunctional aircraft, being a prime example. If not for Sept 11 its appropriation would never have made it through congress.

[@hidden.history]

I don’t know why politicians insist to use the phrase Abrahamic religions!!!! ABRAHAM never ever ever had a religion. God just told him that I’ll turn you into a nation through your wife Sarah. Through you I’ll bless the nations. Where is the religion in that promise?!!! Politicians either don’t understand the meaning of religion or they have a different agenda!!!

[@joylarson9040]

Well said, thank you.

[@zoranazanoskar5400]

All Americans, even serious intellectuals luke Ambassador Freeman, seem to be incaoable of conceptualising two premises: 1. Removal from the scene of a permanently destabilising power, USA, whose only interest was always to divide Arab world so as to ensure Israel's freedom to do as they please to Palestinians, may at least significantly diminish, if not completely remove the need for military protection and 2. Whatever residual need for protection may remain, West Asian Arab countries can achieve themselves with some help from Russia and Iran. Both have significantly better force proection capacities than USA - West Asia is their back yard.

[@peterp5889]

Africa, Asia, Russia, how about Pacific? But that is secondary, primary is How to prevent next plandemia=exit WHO..!

[@funbarsolaris2822]

Don't be an idiot, all countries, including countries on the brink of war, all acknowledged the reality of the pandemic. You think Russia and China are planning conspiracies with the EU and USA? Don't be an idiot! Of course they're not, if US did that then Russia and China would simply reveal it was all fake and it would be the biggest propoganda victory ever for them and near on guarantee them an expanse of global influence. Use your brain before talking

[@victorteo4783]

It’s time to rid of the bully, the USA.

[@johnsmith5139]

A very insightful fellow.

[@fehimpasic1875]

Gratsculations!

[@federicoarnoldosarabia974]

Leehy sullivan murky.hell waiting😊😊

[@tarwingrill4531]

There are two types of "middle east", one led by presidential regimes where power is "almost" not inherited, and one by medieval monarchies where the land, resources and the people belong to the royals. The first were all destroyed one way or another by interventions. The second is held in tight hands by engineering animosities with neighbors and becoming their protectors while sucking back the petro$ for gadgets they do not even control. There is a second grip of the royals, just in case engineered animosities did not work: The princes and co have invested all their lifeline in USA and EU. Remember what happened recently to the russian oligarchs. It can happen to the royals too, suddenly. And they know that. How many russian soccer teams or Chinese whatever sport teams are owned by UAE/Qatar?Saudi princes?

[@edwardsmith1060]

Prove it.

[@ChateauBeaufort]

BINGO❣️

[@farahdespeignes4097]

Thank you. learned a lot. But when did part of Africa, Northern Africa specifically become Afro-Asia? If the Arabs who have currently made Africa their home want to become part of Asia, they are welcome to relocate to Asia and West Asia - since relocation or invasion is the way they made their way to Africa in the first place. Secondly, when were the Arab and Western worlds going to inform Africa and Northern Africa that they would be renamed Afro-Asia? I guess the continent of Africa will have nothing to say about this? Business as usual, I suppose? Just different masters? Too incredible!!!

[@ClericChris]

And good riddance.

[@timothygolden5321]

Audio quality is poor but legible

[@PeleSahota]

Why was it ever called The Middle East?

[@magdelyn]

Thanks you,what you means for the external body ?

[@esmaeilheravi4509]

Is this guy a dreamer ?

[@chosk80]

Do you think he is a dreamer now ? ROFL

[@lorenzolalli]

I meant Freeman. Pardon me.

[@aguilayserpiente]

Freeman's claim that "Marxism is dead as an ideology* is a mistaken assertion that history no longer exists. There is no such thing as Marxism but rather Marx's study of thought, history, exonomics, and power called dialectical materialism, as ancient as Plato's work. All social history is moved by the tension between the owning and laboring classes. The process is inevitable: The serf, in the period of serfdom, raised himself to membership in the commune, just as the petty bourgeois, under the yoke of the feudal absolutism, managed to develop into a bourgeois. The modern labourer, on the contrary, instead of rising with the process of industry, sinks deeper and deeper below the conditions of existence of his own class. He becomes a pauper, and pauperism develops more rapidly than population and wealth. And here it becomes evident, that the bourgeoisie is unfit any longer to be the ruling class in society, and to impose its conditions of existence upon society as an over-riding law. It is unfit to rule because it is incompetent to assure an existence to its slave within his slavery, because it cannot help letting him sink into such a state, that it has to feed him, instead of being fed by him. Society can no longer live under this bourgeoisie, in other words, its existence is no longer compatible with society. The essential conditions for the existence and for the sway of the bourgeois class is the formation and augmentation of capital; the condition for capital is wage-labour. Wage-labour rests exclusively on competition between the labourers. The advance of industry, whose involuntary promoter is the bourgeoisie, replaces the isolation of the labourers, due to competition, by the revolutionary combination, due to association. The development of Modern Industry, therefore, cuts from under its feet the very foundation on which the bourgeoisie produces and appropriates products. What the bourgeoisie therefore produces, above all, are its own grave-diggers. Its fall and the victory of the proletariat are equally inevitable. Karl Marx, "The Communist Manifesto," Ch. 1. Our friend Freeman is less honest, when making reference to Marx.

[@sciagurrato1831]

You’ve dodged down the wrong alley. Freeman is absolutely correct - Marxism as a catchall term for economic rejuvenation is over for the West Asia. Marxism was, in fact, only seriously studied by China and the Soviet Union. The embrace of Sartre and other intellectuals was like the advocacy for pedophilia by Foucault.

[@KalanYore]

Hopefully Iraq will be released from the E.O. 13303 and restablish their true value of their currency that is more than Kuwait's current value.

[@jillfryer6699]

It was good till he started repeating verbatim about 30mins in things said before. Usually learn a lot from this gentleman though.

[@esmaeilheravi4509]

There is only one Islam . Shiaisim is not in Quran . It is Man made .

[@svetlana7904]

And in Africa S well:)))

[@johnsmith1474]

Freeman is the anti-Mercouris - ie a man who actually has been there and done that, rather than a blow-hard swag peddler (Mercouris). Pascal diminished this channel putting Mercouris on.

[@fehimpasic1875]

WHY IS SMOG UDER HOLOKAUST FOREVER. BUT SMOG UNDER GAZA VAGINE SMOG?!

[@charleskristiansson1296]

The Abrahamic religions did not instil go moral values in the world. That's for sure!

[@aubadthe2750]

All this talk sir with respect. What would happen if America moved all their navy to protect only the American shores. Pulling all the military in every base around the world. Would piracy not substantially increase? Would global trading be able to move by merchant ships? What countries would immediately break out into war? A safe bet is the middle east and Europe would war heavily within 1 decade. Asia would almost immediately look to war with the middle east. What countries governments would immediately collapse? Sir America may not have any world respect anymore. Mainly do to our outrageous banana republic government that was literally just over taken by a election coo. Exactly like all banana republics of our southern border. Being said.. if America packed up and pulled out of all world trade. Pulled all of its navy and military from around the world. And decided f the world we only protect ourselves and live of off what we can produce. Yes Americans would suffer a decade or 2. But the world trade immediately ends as merchant ships are no longer safe especially in the red and Persian seas. And no American military bases in Asia would immediately begin wars there. People should thank America and Americans should fight back against this horrible illegitimate government of corruption.

[@najibsahely1585]

YOU ARE A DREAMER-UNITED STATES HAS BEEN THE PROBLEM ALL ALONG-AMERICAN HEGEMONY HAS ONLY CAUSED MISERY AND CHAOS-THE CRIMES COMMITTED BY CRUSHING AND EXPLOITING OTHER PEOPLE-I WOULD SAY TO YOU GOOD GO HOME AND SOLVE YOUR OWN PROBLEMS OF HOMELESSNESS-YOUR GOVERNMENT RUN BY NEO-CONS THEY WANT BRING DEMOCRACY TO THE WORLD-HAVE ONLY BROUGHT DESTRUCTION AND DEATH TO MANY-WERE EVER THE U.S,N.A.T.O GO ONLY -MISERY FOLLOWS.

[@nbru3532]

What a completely ignorant, uneducated, arrogant, brainwashed, hawkish statement however atypical for an ideological so called American exceptionalist. What a joke and how sad. Enjoy China and BRICS ruling the world including the satanic ancient empire for now and forever.

[@jeraldsamuel5598]

Pensioned off diplomat spouting BANALITIES.