Has the Empire Already Lost West Asia? | Laith Marouf @boganintel

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On Episode 79 of Bogan Intelligentsia, Lebanese-Canadian journalist and Free Palestine TV founder Laith Marouf returns for a unique discussion on resistance, the United States empire, and the last Western outpost in the Levant.

Marouf also speaks on the untold story of the fully colonised states like Australia: conquest so complete that the settlers themselves became the most captured subjects of a new empire, rear bases with votes, weapons, and the feeling of freedom because the chain does not look like a checkpoint.

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