Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy
About this episode
Alfred McCoy discusses the implications of the Iran War on the American Empire and draws parallels with historical events.
Fill in our audience survey: https://novara.media/survey For fifty years, Alfred McCoy has exposed covert operations. In 1972 he uncovered the CIA and French intelligence’s complicity with the heroin trade during the Vietnam War – research that the CIA tried to suppress. He’s the author of many books, most recently Cold War on Five Continents, which gives a comprehensive account of late 20th century geopolitics, decolonisation, and covert operations. But now he’s warning of a New Cold War. Is it over for the US empire? He talked to Richard Hames about the strange parallels between the 1956 Suez Crisis – a turning point in global British influence – and the 2026 war on Iran and the new Chinese World Order. Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make life possible. Music by Iglooghost.
People in this episode
Guest: Alfred McCoy
Topics covered
- geopolitics
- American empire
- Cold War
- Iran War
- covert operations
Keywords
- CIA
- Vietnam War
- Suez Crisis
- Chinese World Order
- decolonisation
Mentioned in this episode
Products: Cold War on Five Continents
Books & works: Cold War on Five Continents, Do Your Own Research
Places: US, Iran
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