In Episode 226 [15] of the CounterVortex podcast [16], Bill Weinberg discusses the alarmingly under-reported humanitarian disaster in Darfur [17]. A generation later, the genocide is back on [18]—but this time there is no global campaign to stop it. Even last time around, elements of the campist pseudo-left portrayed the "Save Darfur" movement as a Zionist conspiracy [19], because atrocities by an Arab-led regime happened to be useful to Israel in the "whataboutery [20]" game. Alas, such cynical voices are at it again [21]. Yet another example of how a global divide-and-rule racket is the essence of the state system [22].
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Book discussed: Darfur's Sorrow: The Forgotten History of a Humanitarian Disaster [26] by MW Daly, Cambridge University Press, 2010
Production by Chris Rywalt [27]
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