Days of Revolt — Season 1, Episode 9: ISIS, the New Israel
Documentary, Talk, War & Politics • 45 min • 2 seasons, 37 episodes
Episode synopsis
Chris Hedges and Sabah Alnasseri discuss how US foreign policy and class struggle created the conditions for the rise of ISIS, and compare ISIS’s colonialist strategies to those of the Israeli independence movement in Palestine.
About Days of Revolt
A platform to dissidents and rebels, both within the United States and abroad, who offer critiques of power not heard within mainstream society or permitted by the corporate press. Host Chris Hedges and his guests lay bare the mechanisms that uphold systems of power, including the role of the military and the internal security apparatus, as well as the elaborate forms of propaganda and corporate-controlled media.
More episodes from Season 1
- E1The Black Prophetic Tradition
- E2The Betrayal by the Black Elite
- E3The Long Distance Revolutionary
- E4State Violence and Counter-Violence
- E5The Revolutionary, Caged
- E6The Making of Global Capitalism
- E7We're All Greeks Now
- E8Israel's War on Children
- E10The Revolutionary Age
- E11The 51-Day War
- E12Prostitution
- E13Neoliberalism as Utopianism