Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy

Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy

Author: Novara Media April 11, 2026 Duration: 1:50:35

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For fifty years, Alfred McCoy has exposed covert operations. In 1972 he uncovered the CIA and French intelligence’s complicity with the heroin trade during the Vietnam War – research that the CIA tried to suppress.

He’s the author of many books, most recently Cold War on Five Continents, which gives a comprehensive account of late 20th century geopolitics, decolonisation, and covert operations.

But now he’s warning of a New Cold War. Is it over for the US empire?

He talked to Richard Hames about the strange parallels between the 1956 Suez Crisis – a turning point in global British influence – and the 2026 war on Iran and the new Chinese World Order.

Do Your Own Research is a new show from Novara Media about the systems that make life possible.

Music by Iglooghost.


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