On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Jean Bricmont, Author of ‘Humanitarian Imperialism: Using Human Rights to Sell War’, and Professor of Theoretical Physics, Catholic University of Louvain. He discusses how ‘humanitarian imperialism’ has descended into ongoing genocide in Gaza and nuclear brinkmanship, the ‘astonishing’ lack of any effect of mass protests across the West on the policies of US, UK, and EU governments’ policies towards Israel, France’s posturing as a defender of Christians while doing nothing to defend the Christians of Lebanon, Palestine or Syria from Israeli attacks, the failure of the West to isolate Russia and cripple its economy via sanctions, the West’s bullying through sanctions resulting in the BRICS Summit in Kazan, why the US must accept a multipolar world in which there is no place for the Israeli Zionist project, and why Vladimir Putin’s defeat of the West’s attempts to isolate him has made him appear to be a political genius. In the second half, he discusses how NGOs such as Amnesty International have gone on to support ‘humanitarian imperialism’ and ended up backing Washington’s imperial policies, the pro-Israel lobby’s purchasing of both Donald Trump, Kamala Harris, and Democrats and Republicans in Congress, how Israel’s genocidal actions have increased anti-Semitism around the world, and much more.
