Before Iran was America's enemy, it was America's biggest weapons customer. The US sold the Shah billions in advanced fighter jets, destroyers, missiles, and surveillance aircraft — including the F-14 Tomcat, the most powerful interceptor ever built, a jet so exclusive that only the US Navy was allowed to fly it. American technicians flooded into Iranian cities by the thousands. CIA officers trained Iran's secret police. And Nixon personally signed a blank check allowing the Shah to buy any weapon he wanted, no questions asked.

Then, in 1979, a revolution swept the Shah from power — and every last piece of that American military hardware fell into the hands of a government that considered the United States to be the Great Satan.

This is the story of how America armed Iran, how those weapons were turned against American interests, and how the consequences of that decision are still shaping the Middle East today. From the 1953 CIA coup that started it all, to the hostage crisis that ended the alliance, to the nuclear program that America itself helped create — this is a chapter of history that explains more about the current US-Iran standoff than anything you'll hear on the news.

Sources and references used in this video include declassified State Department documents, Brookings Institution research, the National Security Archive at George Washington University, Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) arms transfer data, and reporting from NPR, the National Interest, and the Office of the Historian.

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Leading Scholar Prof. Manu Ampim interviews King Daasebre Kwebu Ewusi VII of the Abeadze Traditional Area in Central Ghana. They discuss the details and protocols of traditional kingship, matrilineal descent, the different between a "paramount chief" versus a king, and the responsibility of royal leadership. In August 2026, King Daasebre will be celebrating the 30th anniversary of his work

The interview was held at Wo'se Community in Oakland, CA on October 7, 2025. A special thanks to Min. Rauna Thurston.

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A corner of the Amazon that had been cleared and used as farmland has been restored to rainforest.Subscribe - https://www.youtube.com/bbcworldserviceThe man who owns it, Omar Tello, gave up his job as an accountant and spent 40 years recreating a patch of pristine forest in Ecuador, stretching just a few hundred metres in each direction.He’s trying to encourage other landowners to do the same, so they can turn the tide of deforestation.

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Williams, Christopher. "Explaining the Great War in Africa: How Conflict in the Congo Became a Continental Crisis." The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 37, no. 2 (2013): 81-100.International Crisis Group, “Congo at War: A Briefing on the Internal and External Players in the Central African Conflict,” November 17, 1998.John F. Clark, “Museveni’s Adventure in the Congo War: Uganda’s Vietnam?” in TheAfrican Stakes of the Congo War, ed. John F. Clark (New York: Palgrave Macmillan,2002) Group of Experts on the Democratic Republic of the Congo, “Report of the Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth of the Democratic Republic of the Congo,” April 12, 2001 Nzongola-Ntalaja, Georges. The Congo from Leopold to Kabila: A Peoples History. London: Zed Books, 2013.Music:Dawn without End by Zach HeydeDance & Electronic by Andrew HuangConsequence - Wonders by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/li....censes/by/4.0/)Sourc http://incompetech.com/music/r....oyalty-free/index.ht http://incompetech.com/Decisions by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/li....censes/by/4.0/)Sourc http://incompetech.com/music/r....oyalty-free/index.ht http://incompetech.com/Exotic Battle by Kevin MacLeod is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution license (https://creativecommons.org/li....censes/by/4.0/)Sourc http://incompetech.com/music/r....oyalty-free/index.ht http://incompetech.com/Antonio Salieri, Twenty six variations on La Folia de SpagnaLondon Mozart PlayersMatthias Bamert, as conductor

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My goal for Ghana was/is to simply live and experience life, not as a tourist (as much as that is possible). The weekend gave me a nice dose of that!
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The Raising Awareness Group interviews and discuss with Dr. Tdka Kilimanjaro his new ground breaking book KA² and the long road that he and the rest of his UKMT Press Team had to travel in order to produce their much heralded catalogue of historical works.

Khufu Akhu Mentuhotep, sbA Olatunji Mwamba and Elder Mkuu Mzee cover a wide range of topics and issues with Dr. Kilimanjaro that effect the African Community from a global perspective.

KA²: Philosophy and Method culminates 33 years of research and praxis in the area of philosophy, theory and methods. There are moments when enough has been analyzed and criticized, and it is time to just clear the intellectual ground of the debris of ages. There are moments when a careful tending of the first beginning of the new, which is growing among the ruins of the old on a soil still badly filled with trash, is more important. This is such a period.

KA²: Philosophy and Method offers in a single book a compendium of ancient and modern enlightenment wisdom on change, strife of opposites and transformation. Our task was to advance this ancient philosophical system (and its many adaptations overtime), to the level of an applied method. Why do you need a central organizing philosophy? Instead of continually stumbling around haphazardly, losing, not knowing with certainty what has happened are what will happen we needed to create and/or unearth and advance ancient philosophy and methodology that guaranteed modern theoretical clarity. Essentially, KA² is a return to the substance and source of ancient African philosophy by recovering the rational kernel of Africa’s ancient scientific and spiritual and ethical traditions and putting it to paper. In so doing, this book serves as a bridge, a portal, a medium for transmitting the transcendental wisdom of our ancestors across centuries.

Some will ask: “Why put so much time and effort to unearth and modernize this ancient science of ideas?” We study the past not merely to feel good about what we did, but to master the lessons of how we did things. Today, most are immune to human suffering, instead finding it acceptable to replace work with a prayer and claims of spirit saving us---as if spirit is not matter or expressed in some material form and activity, i.e., potential then kinetic energy. We must have works along with the faith or prayers or meditation. Keeping alive the tradition of putting knowledge at the service of all members of the community, emancipatory knowledge, material culture, intermediaries affected, a life at the service of a cause: emancipate the continent from the cycles of defeat we offer KA² to another generation.

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Julius Nyerere was the first prime minister of free Tanganyika from 1961 to 1964, later he became the first President of new state Tanzania.
He was very famous among the Africans nationals because of his political journey and struggle. He was known as a "Mwalimu(means teacher)".
He was one of the key person to unite Africans national into a union, Organization of African Unity (OAF), now it known as African Union.
In this interview, he is in conversation with Saeed Naqvi discussing his motivations and vision for Tanzania and the issues concerning the country.

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Captain Ibrahim Traore shares a deep look into the future of the Alliance of Sahel States and the path toward true African sovereignty. Discover how Burkina Faso, Mali, and Niger are reshaping regional security and development through a unique revolutionary lens. 🌍

In this fourth installment of our exclusive five-part series, President Ibrahim Traore evaluates the current health of the AES, emphasizing that the alliance belongs to the people rather than just the political elite. He addresses the progress of the joint military force, the importance of endogenous development projects, and the complexities of military procurement in a global climate of conflict. 🇧🇫

The President also speaks candidly about diplomatic tensions with neighboring states like Benin and Ivory Coast. He explains why military-to-military cooperation often remains strong at the borders even when political leadership faces friction. This interview provides a rare look at the strategic thinking behind the Sahel move away from traditional imperialist structures and toward a self-reliant future. 🛡

Key topics include the establishment of the AES investment bank, the training of joint battalions to fight terrorism, and the intrinsic revolutionary spirit of the Burkinabe people. Join the conversation as we explore what it takes to reclaim land, secure populations, and build a united front in West Africa. ✊🏾

Chapters
0:00 Introduction to Part Four
1:45 Assessing the Health of the AES
3:55 Endogenous Development and the Investment Bank
5:40 Building the Joint Military Force
8:15 Managing Diplomatic Frictions with Neighbors
10:30 Military Cooperation and Border Intelligence
12:20 The Future of the Burkinabe Revolution
13:45 Closing Remarks and Discussion Questions

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