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

Fill in our audience survey: 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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Do Your Own Research: The Iran War Will Collapse the American Empire w/ Alfred McCoy is an episode from Novara Audio: Radio for a Different Politics by Novara Media.

This episode is 1:50:35 long.

This episode was published on Apr 11, 2026.

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