Impressed is inadequate to describe the historical depth that Jeffery Sachs shares. Eloquent, factual, and passionate. In this one interview Sachs brings us up to date on the often-hidden maneuverings of the United States Government, its immense, often suicidal hubris and policy failures, and why Sachs believes, without question, that WWIII has been and will be caused by the United States. Essential.
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TC: The most dramatic current event from my perspective, is the unexpected thing that just happened, all of a sudden, the government in Syria changed. There was regime change in Syria. Who did that? Why? And what does it mean?
Jeffrey Sachs Obama ordered the CIA to overthrow Assad in 2011…Seven wars in five years has been the policy… It doesn’t really matter who’s president. This is long term, deep state policy. It’s part of a 30 year effort. This is Netanyahu’s war to remake the Middle East. It’s been a disaster. It continues to be a disaster. But as Netanyahu himself said, after Assad left, “we have remade the Middle East.” And so it has to be understood as something that didn’t just happen in a week, but has been an ongoing war throughout the Middle East for decades.
Sachs is widely recognized for bold and effective strategies to address complex challenges including the escape from extreme poverty, the global battle against human-induced climate change, international debt and financial crises, national economic reforms, and the control of pandemic and epidemic diseases.
He was twice named among Time magazine’s 100 most influential world leaders. Sachs has received 42 honorary doctorates. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016. He is President of the UN Sustainable Development Solutions Network, Co-Chair of the Council of Engineers for the Energy Transition, academician of the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences at the Vatican, Commissioner of the UN Broadband Commission for Development, Tan Sri Jeffrey Cheah Honorary Distinguished Professor at Sunway University, and SDG Advocate for UN Secretary General António Guterres. From 2001-18, Sachs served as Special Advisor to UN Secretaries-General Kofi Annan (2001-7), Ban Ki-moon (2008-16), and António Guterres (2017-18).