Episode 20 - 100-year history of US meddling, coups and wars in the Middle East | Roy Casagranda | UNAPOLOGETIC

Professor Roy Casagranda is an expert in history and political science.

He has hosted a series of lectures that are available on YouTube explaining the history of the Americas, the slave trade, colonialism, and the Arab world and the Middle East.

In this extended interview, Casagranda takes us on a history lesson that includes the Sykes-Picot agreement, CIA-orchestrated coups in Syria and Iran, various wars, doctrines, betrayals and policies that show just how damaging and cynical US meddling in the Middle East has been over the last century.

Chapters

• 0:00 Intro
• 2:21 The rationale of the Eisenhower doctrine
• 7:26 How to read history
• 14:30 Who are Arabs and what is the Arab world?
• 21:14 The shockingly non-Muslim nature of the early Arab Empire
• 25:34 Sykes picot and oil
• 33:09 Sykes picot and WWI map
• 38:54 Mohamed Ali Pasha, Egypt and Saudi Arabia
• 44:55 CIA coup in Syria in 1949
• 49:34 CIA coup in Iran in 1953
• 57:30 The genesis of the Saudi-US relationship
• 1:03:55 Nasser's Pan Arab vision
• 1:10:30 The 1967 War
• 1:17:30 Israel's creation and zionism
• 1:30:30 The 1979 Iranian revolution
• 1:37:30 The Iran-Iraq war
• 1:44:50 Gulf war 1991 and sanctions
• 1:53:40 Iraq war 2003 and George Bush
• 1:56:50 Is Israel using the US playbook on war?
• 2:02:50 The Abraham accords
• 2:05:50 Israel's fate