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2007-10-24

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Based in New Delhi, Aijaz Ahmad is The Real News Network Senior News Analyst and Senior Editorial Consultant and political commentator for the Indian newsmagazine, Frontline. He has taught Political Science and written widely on South Asia and the Middle East.

Channel: News & Politics
Uploaded: October 25, 2007 at 12:23 am
Author: TheRealNews

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Video Comments:
Persian5life (November 21, 2007 at 8:40 pm)
long live Iran, Turkey, iraq.
InfoJunkieHolland (November 2, 2007 at 1:15 pm)
US power will not decline as long as they can loan money from China and others. As soon as the debt is asked to be repaid, it'll be war. That, or the US attacks Iran, and they inadvertently :P hold up the flow of oil to China and Russia.

Either way, the stage is set for a global cold war, which will eventually end up in HOTTTTT war. 80% of the population will DIE. It will be ugly, and there will be pain. Lots of it.
CloudStrife890727 (October 29, 2007 at 2:59 am)
Long Live Kurdistan!
Mikey34549 (October 28, 2007 at 6:00 am)
Ron Paul 08
Rickdeckard2020 (October 27, 2007 at 7:11 am)
'Democracy is over-rated.'
I disagree, the US is as democratic as a can of valvoline oil with a Pepsi label on it is a soft drink. Its closer to a crypto-fascist plutocracy.
Dreaded88 (October 30, 2007 at 1:53 am)
More like: Crypto-Oligarchic Keresocracy.
Rickdeckard2020 (October 30, 2007 at 3:38 am)
:) whats a Keresocracy?
(its not in my dictionary)
Dreaded88 (October 30, 2007 at 11:05 pm)
Pt 1
Ah, sorry I didn't leave an explanation. Keres is the ancient Greek word for Ghost. I had tried to find the word for Shadow, but I couldn't find it.
Dreaded88 (October 30, 2007 at 11:06 pm)
Pt2
I wanted to find a descriptive word to mean: Shadow-Government. A word to define a government in which the people are not allowed to know who the true controlling powers are, who the membership of that government is, nor where, or when these people meet.
Dreaded88 (October 30, 2007 at 11:07 pm)
Pt3
You're also never allowed to know what the true motivations of this Shadow-Government are. Hence the words: Crypto-Oligarchic Keresocracy.
Since I couldn't find the ancient Greek word for Shadow, I decided to use the word for ghost instead. So in this usage it stands for rule by a mysterious body.