Afghanistan: Pipelines, minerals, and CIA opium ratline
We continue our discussion with geopolitical analyst Pepe Escobar of the end of the 20-year US/NATO war in Afghanistan, the opium ratline the CIA used to fund dirty covert ops, the fight over pipeline...
21 Aug 20211h 13min
Historic US defeat in Afghanistan: Is it 'most important geopolitical event of 21st century'?
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the end to the 20-year US/NATO war in Afghanistan with journalist Pepe Escobar, who has extensive experience reporting in the country and was even arrested by the...
20 Aug 202152min
Meet US govt-backed regime-change guru Gene Sharp, mastermind of soft coups
Max Blumenthal discusses US government-backed regime-change guru Gene Sharp with scholar Marcie Smith Parenti. They talk about Sharp's NED-funded Albert Einstein Institution; his explicitly neoliberal...
16 Aug 202147min
US-funded cultural counter-revolution in Cuba: How CIA cutouts use musicians to stir unrest
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss how the US government laid the groundwork for unrest in Cuba, the Biden administration's escalation of the economic war, and how CIA cutouts like USAID and the NE...
6 Aug 202150min
US eviction catastrophe and cynical Democrat photo ops
Max Blumenthal discusses his reporting at the US Capitol on the protests demanding an eviction moratorium, the huge impending economic crisis, the opportunism of the Squad, and how Democratic Party wa...
6 Aug 202118min
US govt, celebrities, bots fuel astroturfed Cuba protests to push regime change
We briefly discuss how the US government and corporate media are heavily amplifying small protests in Cuba to destabilize the country. While Washington suffocates the Cuban people with an illegal, 60-...
13 Jul 202143min
Inside Haiti crisis: Who killed president, and what is role of Colombian mercenaries?
We discuss the assassination of President Jovenel Moïse with Haitian journalist Nazaire St. Fort and scholar Jeb Sprague. We talk about the "interim" presidency of US asset Claude Joseph, his request ...
13 Jul 20211h 15min
Judge throws out millionaire's frivolous lawsuit aimed at bankrupting us
We recount the insane story of how a pampered heiress and journalistic wannabe, enriched by millions of dollars seized from Iran by the US government, sued us for exposing her bogus Hezbollah sources,...
2 Jul 20212h 22min
