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    How the US Weaponizes Tech in the Middle East w/ Laleh Khalili

    Tech Won't Save Us · Jul 10, 2025 · 54 min

    Paris Marx is joined by Laleh Khalili to discuss how the United States uses its control of key technologies to shift global power dynamics, and how that specifically plays out in the Middle East. Laleh Khalili is Professor of Gulf Studies at the University of Exeter and author of the forthcoming book Extractive Capitalism. Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview…

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