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Did the US nearly invade Saudi Arabia over oil? | Real Talk: Explained
Did the US nearly invade Saudi Arabia over oil? | Real Talk: Explained
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Real Talk is a Middle East Eye interview series hosted by Mohamed Hashem that explores the unique stories and experiences of a diverse range of guests — from artists, to musicians, to politicians and more.
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- Did the US nearly invade Saudi Arabia over oil? | Real Talk: Explained · 24 min · Sesong 1 Episode 58'You will lose everything.' That was Saudi King Faisal's warning to American oil executives in 1973. But Washington didn't listen. Months later, Saudi Arabia led an Arab oil…
- How did the pro-Israel lobby shape Obama's Middle East policy? | Eli Clifton · 56 min · Sesong 1 Episode 57'Obama’s first term was sort of a hinge moment. It was when the old bipartisan pro-Israel consensus... began to visibly crack.' How did the pro-Israel lobby shape Obama's Middle…
- 'Iraq had no Jewish problem': As an Arab Jew, Israel made me feel inferior | Avi Shlaim | Real Talk · 1 t 3 min · Sesong 1 Episode 56'Iraq didn't have a Jewish problem.' Avi Shlaim is one of the most celebrated historians on Israel-Palestine. The Oxford Emeritus Professor was born into an Arab Jewish family in…
- He was born into Israeli ‘privilege’. Now his life's work is to abolish it | Eyal Weizman · 59 min · Sesong 1 Episode 55"It's my burden. I was born into it." Eyal Weizman is a leading architect, author, and the founder of Forensic Architecture, whose evidence has fed directly into South Africa's…
- She was asked to defend America's Gaza policy to Arabs. She quit instead | Hala Rharrit · 1 t 7 min · Sesong 1 Episode 54'Nothing for me is worth selling my soul.’ Hala Rharrit spent 18 years as a US diplomat, most recently serving as the State Department's Arabic language spokesperson. In the wake…
- AIPAC spent millions to unseat me. Here’s why they’re now losing: Ex-congressman | Jamaal Bowman · 50 min · Sesong 1 Episode 53'You cannot run in a Democratic primary as a pro-Israel candidate and not get destroyed.’ AIPAC poured nearly $15 million to unseat Jamaal Bowman in 2024, making it the most…
- Why the US pro-Israel lobby wants Trita Parsi out of America | Real Talk · 24 min · Sesong 1 Episode 52'That pro-Netanyahu, pro-Likud crowd have been gunning for me for 25 years’ Trita Parsi, political analyst and executive vice president of the Quincy Institute, joins Mohamed…
- He's one of the world's most celebrated photographers. Then he spoke on Palestine | Misan Harriman · 48 min · Sesong 1 Episode 51"I am now getting death threats from registered Telegraph readers." Misan Harriman is a widely celebrated photographer and activist. He’s also the first Black male photographer…
- I tried cooking for London's top Palestinian chef. And interviewed him in the process | Fadi Kattan · 1 t 5 min · Sesong 1 Episode 50Fadi Kattan is a renowned Palestinian chef from Bethlehem and the co-founder of Akub, one of London's most celebrated Palestinian restaurants. In this conversation on Real Talk…
- I was an Israeli peace negotiator. Here’s what I later realised about Zionism | Daniel Levy · 1 t 23 min · Sesong 1 Episode 49"You got me to talk about things I don't talk about normally." Daniel Levy is a former Israeli negotiator who served under two prime ministers Yitzhak Rabin and Ehud Barak…
- Molly Crabapple spent 7 years recovering the Jewish history Zionism tried to erase · 1 t 7 min · Sesong 1 Episode 48'Hundreds of people are coming to my events, many of them Jewish, and they tell me I gave them their ancestors back' Molly Crabapple is an Emmy Award-winning artist, author and…
- Arsenal fired me on Christmas Eve for opposing Israel | Mark Bonnick · 47 min · Sesong 1 Episode 47‘I regret losing my job. Not what I said’ Mark Bonnick worked at Arsenal for 22 years. Then on Christmas Eve 2024, the former kitman was fired over posts he made on X criticising…
- Why Ana Kasparian is ready to work with the right on Israel · 46 min · Sesong 1 Episode 46"The left loves to lose. They can't get enough of it." Ana Kasparian has been an influential and prominent voice in US independent media for nearly two decades. The co-host and…
- ‘Mom, I’m at our house’: How this war reporter covered the horrors of Sudan’s war | Yousra Elbagir · 1 t 21 min · Sesong 1 Episode 45"Mom, I'm at our house." Yousra Elbagir is Sky News UK's Africa correspondent. She has been highly praised for her reporting on a war that's been largely absent from mainstream…
- Did the US military turn a blind eye to recruiting neo-Nazis? | Matt Kennard · 1 t 13 min · Sesong 1 Episode 44"My commanders liked the fact I was a Nazi. They saw it as making me a better warrior." Matt Kennard is a British investigative journalist who co-founded Declassified UK, and is…
- Why this lifelong Conservative turned on the British establishment | Peter Oborne · 1 t 11 min · Sesong 1 Episode 43Peter Oborne spent decades at the heart of the British establishment. The award-winning journalist and author of ‘Complicit’ sits down with Mohamed Hashem on Real Talk to break…
- She spoke against the Iran War. Her community turned on her | Ariana Jasmine | Real Talk · 1 t 8 min · Sesong 1 Episode 42"I don't feel safe with my own people." Ariana Jasmine is one of the biggest Iranian-American political content creators, whose videos on Iran's history, the US-Israeli war on…
- Hasan Piker: Making sense of a world going to sh*t. Epstein, Israel, & US decline | Real Talk · 1 t 9 min · Sesong 1 Episode 41“Can I curse on this?” Hasan Piker is one of the most influential political streamers in the world, followed by millions across platforms who tune in daily to watch him dissect…
- Inside Jeffrey Epstein’s ties to Israel | Murtaza Hussain | Real Talk · 1 t 3 min · Sesong 1 Episode 40What was Jeffrey Epstein doing for Israeli intelligence? A new series of reports by Drop Site News has been examining this very question. Drop Site journalist Murtaza Hussain…
- She's an insider now exposing OpenAI. Here's why you should be concerned | Karen Hao | Real Talk · 1 t 2 min · Sesong 1 Episode 39If AI is an empire, Karen Hao is saying you can resist it. “We don’t need empires to benefit from AI.” Hao is an investigative journalist and author of Empire of AI, she joined…
