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Priyamvada Gopal is part of a class of elite academics in the imperial core who teach the ruling class, and use woke radlib rhetoric to justify current Western imperial aggression.
She echoes propaganda against Syria, Iran, and China and is silent about Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc
Anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University Professor @PriyamvadaGopal smears opponents of the Western neocolonial war on Syria as "Assadists"
Would she ever call liberal imperialist Obama a "blood-soaked cretin"? He has exponentially more blood on
The CIA spent over a billion dollars per year arming and training "rebels" who massacred and ethnically cleansed Syrian civilians, especially religious minorities.
But anti-anti-imperialist @PriyamvadaGopal insists these CIA-backed contras are
This was elite anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University gatekeeper @PriyamvadaGopal's response right after colonial powers the US, UK, and France bombed Syria in April 2018 on bogus lies that have since been
Of course anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge Professor @PriyamvadaGopal's is also a supporter of the neoliberal imperialist European Union -- one of the key institutions of European necolonialism
She echoes propaganda against Syria, Iran, and China and is silent about Venezuela, Nicaragua, etc
Far too much of the 'left' is into a joke version of "anti-imperialism" which denies state atrocities in the global south.
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) January 14, 2021
Anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University Professor @PriyamvadaGopal smears opponents of the Western neocolonial war on Syria as "Assadists"
Would she ever call liberal imperialist Obama a "blood-soaked cretin"? He has exponentially more blood on
Let us be in no doubt: there is nothing anti-imperialist about supporting a blood-soaked cretin like Assad. https://t.co/nuzJE6xUy5?
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) February 21, 2018
The CIA spent over a billion dollars per year arming and training "rebels" who massacred and ethnically cleansed Syrian civilians, especially religious minorities.
But anti-anti-imperialist @PriyamvadaGopal insists these CIA-backed contras are
Deeming non-ISIS Syrian resistance CIA stooges: embarrassing, insulting and patronising
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 29, 2015
This was elite anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge University gatekeeper @PriyamvadaGopal's response right after colonial powers the US, UK, and France bombed Syria in April 2018 on bogus lies that have since been
Am truly glad that a lot of people are 'holding Syria in their thoughts' since last night. Was there a reason they weren't being 'held in your thoughts' since 2011 when Assad crushed a popular uprising and kept bombing his own people with Russian assistance?
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) April 14, 2018
Of course anti-anti-imperialist Cambridge Professor @PriyamvadaGopal's is also a supporter of the neoliberal imperialist European Union -- one of the key institutions of European necolonialism
Worth your realising that over this, over Syria, over Brexit, you are swiftly losing enthusiastic support we once offered you
— Priyamvada Gopal (@PriyamvadaGopal) November 9, 2016
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Krugman is, of course, right about this. BUT, note that universities can do a lot to revitalize declining and rural regions.
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
One thing I've been noticing about responses to today's column is that many people still don't get how strong the forces behind regional divergence are, and how hard to reverse 1/ https://t.co/Ft2aH1NcQt
— Paul Krugman (@paulkrugman) November 20, 2018
See this thing that @lymanstoneky wrote:
And see this thing that I wrote:
And see this book that @JamesFallows wrote:
And see this other thing that I wrote:
