Global Conjuncture w/ Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay

The Dig

Daniel Denvir

News, Politics

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 112 minutes

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Summary

Featuring Ilias Alami and Tim Sahay on a global conjuncture defined by Washington's shredding of the liberal international order’s legitimacy amid a panic over decline: the escalating Cold War with China; Gaza genocide; Trump’s tariff wars and militarism, and his pivot toward Putin on Ukraine; European defense buildup and fiscal revolution; what this all means for the poor majority of the Global South, and more. Part one of a two-part series.

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Transnational Institute reports:
The New Frontline: The US-China Battle for Control of Global Networks tni.org/en/article/the-new-frontline

Geopolitics of Capitalism: State of Power 2025 tni.org/en/publication/geopolitics-of-capitalism

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0:00.0	This episode of The Dig is brought to you by our listeners who support us at patreon.com and by
0:05.4	Haymarket Books, which has loads of great left-wing titles, perfect for dig listeners like you.
0:11.5	One that you might like is perfect victims in the politics of appeal by Muhammad El-Kurd.
0:16.7	Palestine is a microcosm of the world. On fire, stubborn, fragmented, dignified.
0:24.6	While a settler colonial state continues to inflict devastating violence, fundamental truths
0:31.0	are deliberately obscured. The perpetrators are coddled while the victims are blamed and placed on trial.
0:39.1	Why must Palestinians prove their humanity? And what are the implications of such an infuriatingly
0:45.5	impossible task? With fearless prose and lyrical precision, Muhammad al-Kurd refuses a life
0:52.9	spent in cross-examination.
0:55.4	Rather than asking the oppressed to perform a perfect victimhood,
0:59.6	El-Kurd asks friends and foes alike to look Palestinians in the eye,
1:05.1	foregoing both deference and condemnation.
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1:25.5	Welcome to The Dig, a podcast from Jacobin Magazine. My name is Daniel Denver, and I'm broadcasting from Providence, Rhode Island. The crises engulfing the capitalist world system are manifold and massive. Climate change in the geoeconomic flight to control the nodes of an emerging clean energy economy.
1:45.6	A liberal international order shredded to pieces by Biden's full-throttled support for Israel's
1:52.1	genocidal war on Gaza. The war in Ukraine and Trump's pivot toward Putin and the resulting
1:58.7	evisceration of the Atlantisist alliance, the resulting European
2:02.9	push for a defense and infrastructure buildup and the likely jettisoning of the debt rules that a
2:09.5	decade ago crushed southern European economies alongside the region's left-wing political movements.
2:16.7	This, on a continent where the far right is on the
2:19.9	rise everywhere. Trump's terror force across the hemisphere in the world and his militaristic threats
2:26.0	against Gaza, Panama, Greenland, and Canada. All of it wrapped up in the New Cold War with
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