Needs No Introduction

In the season 10 premiere of the Courage My Friends podcast series, we are pleased to welcome back journalist, author and director of the Tricontinental Institute for Social Research, Vijay Prashad and professor of International Relations at St. Thomas University, Shaun Narine.  We discuss the recent US military attack on Venezuela and the abduction of President Nicolas Maduro and First Lady Cilia Flores, the Trump administration's new National Security Strategy (the so-called "Donroe Doctrine") and what this means for Canada, and how all of this is connected to the decline of US hegemony, the rise of Asia and the West's shift into hyper-imperialism. Speaking on the US National Security Strategy or the "Donroe Doctrine", Narine says: "They're actually saying, look, the Western Hemisphere is ours … And I think in a lot of ways, the Venezuela situation was an easy sort of first pass at asserting this …'Let's go in. Let's take out Maduro. And let's send the message to the entire region"... And of course, the mes