foreign policy

EXCELLENT talk on China with historical summary and instructive vignettes, some humour and a Q&A session, 1 hour 15 minutes, edited, compressed and adapted for radio by (please appreciate the work by donating for a non-profit, political-educational and lectures FM radio station)

Tariq Ali born 21 October 1943, is a British Pakistani military historian, intellectual, novelist, filmmaker, political campaigner, and commentator.

Excellent speech on the United States empire, with historical background,
held in Auckland, New Zealand 21 March 2011

Original lecture title: US power today: The global hegemon (Sir Douglas Robb Lectures)

Auckland university introductory text:

Weekly radio show from WRFU-LP, Urbana, IL. This edition was recorded the morning of 27 November, using Skype, and edited for broadcast that evening.

Content:
We started with a detailed discussion of the state of the agreement between the "Iraq security agreement" between the USA and Iraq. We move on to discussion of calls for diplomacy with Iran. We progress to examine Obama's appointments, so far, dealing with foreign policy and economics.

The original audio contains some digital artifacts at points, due to being recorded on Skype, but is suitable for broadcast.

Catching up on archived editions of A Critical Ear. This one's from 29 May.

I fell behind in uploading episodes of A Critical Ear to this site - attached are 2 recent episodes (8 and 22 May).