Radio War Nerd #86—Max Blumenthal on Manchester Bombing + Turkish Goons Stomp DC Protesters
Guests: Max Blumenthal & Flint Arthur
At the top of the show, the War Nerd talks to Flint Arthur, one of the pro-Kurdish protesters violently attacked in Washington DC by Erdogan's goons . . . Afterwards, we talk to journalist and author Max Blumenthal about the Manchester IS bombing and blowback from US and UK regime-change operations using violent jihadists like Salman Abedi . . .
Read Max Blumenthal's article "The Manchester Bombing Is Blowback from the West’s Disastrous Interventions and Covert Proxy Wars" . Max was a guest on Radio War Nerd EP #54 .
Max Blumenthal is editor at The Grayzone Project and author of "The 51 Day War: Ruin and Resistance in Gaza", "Goliath: Life & Loathing in Greater Israel", and "Republican Gomorrah: Inside the Movement That Shattered the Party"
Total time: 1:38:44
Comments (18)
The Turkish goons story is astonishingly foolish. What were they thinking? Excellent show as usual.
This podcast is the best thing I have been introduced to this year. Absolutely enthralled by each episode, keep up the great work.
Big military parade in fact in Rome for 2 of June. None in Turin because everybody is in Rome.
Please bring Blumenthal back on for future episodes!
I can't wait to hear Dolan and Ames's take on the whole Qatar thing.
I made the mistake of reading the comments before listening to the episode, but was delighted to hear a thorough discussion on Kurds, jihadis and the war in Syria with only very brief mentions of "alt-left" and other political terms that commenters here obsess over. Please do not cave for the popular demand to get bogged down in some lame conversation on the nuances of “left” and “right” in American politics and keep delivering excellent analysis of relevant events (past and present) and the broader picture. If you guys want some discussion on the use of terms in contemporary American political discourse, and other non-topics, I suggest you check a gutter called Twitter, or every other podcast ever made.
Here here. I honestly like the twitter left, but I have plenty of other places to go for that content.
The Alt Left label is completely awful
Absolutely. Left and Right are empty, antiquated categories telling us nothing about the world. It's lazy. I asked Mr Dolan about this in one of my comments, hoping he and Mr Ames might explore it on the show. Of course, it's not what RWN is about, so I get they they wouldn't. Still, the more they use these terms the more irrelevant their analysis will become. And nobody wants that. Damn, I would pay money to listen to Mr Dolan talk about the history/etymology of Left and Right: I bet there's a book in it.
Are protests an effective tactic anymore? They are a publicity stunt that may have been effective when there were a handful of media outlets. But now...?
I dislike the first interviewee. He is relevant but not representative. 20 people at a protest...
Can you guys do an episode on the 2nd Congo War?
Great episode! May I suggest reaching out to Abby Martin, fellow alt-lefter, to discuss her recent reporting in Venezuela. I'd be very interested to hear about it. Keep up the great work.
For those interested there's a brilliant article by Adam Curtis about the origins of "humanitarian intervention", Bernard Henri Levy, etc. <a href="https://goo.gl/tGOYx" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://goo.gl/tGOYx</a>
Isn't Alt Left the current standard term for anti liberal lefties ?
What are anti liberal lefties? SJW types?
I hope you guys realize that is Max Blumenthal and John Fucking Dolan start openly calling us alt-left, that's just going to end up being the standard term of art in American political discourse for anti-liberal leftists, whether we like it or not.
Americans really need a thesaurus with a dictionary to describe those horrible lefty communist types, "Your're a liberal" "You're a leftist" "You're a socialist" uhhhhhh