Ep. 5337 – Gareth Porter on the Journalistic Malpractice of the New York Times – 8/21/2020
Scott and Gareth Porter discuss Charlie Savage’s shameful reporting on the recent Russian bounties story. In this case Savage, whom Scott and Porter actually regard as one of the better journalists at the New York Times, published a story laying out the allegations from the CIA, but without corroborating them. Scott views this as journalistic malpractice of the greatest degree, since the Times story led the way for all the other major outlets to start reporting on it as though the scandal were a well-established fact. In reality, of course, none of America’s intelligence agencies ever really viewed the information as very credible, and the media has slowly been backing off of the story.
Greg Mitchell, author of the Media Fix blog for TheNation.com, discusses why all those people claiming WikiLeaks never released anything noteworthy, need to actually read the cables, or at least follow Greg on Twitter or at TheNation.com, where he has 53 consecutive days of noteworthy WikiLeaks updates; how the mainstream media's disinterest in WikiLeaks is compensated for by region-specific media outlets reporting on significant local events (the revelations of Tunisia's government corruption, for example); and the "cherry-picking" style of journalism, for good or evil.
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Antiwar.com's editorial director Justin Raimondo discusses his assessment of Barack Obama as not-so-bad, the War Party and the media's targeting of Obama with guilt by association for his controversial minister while ignoring John McCain's embrace of minister John Hagee, McCain's conflating of Iran with Osama and irrational militarism, the legacy of the Old Right and the new and how best to fight al Qaeda.
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Peter Van Buren, author of We Meant Well: How I Helped Lose the Battle for the Hearts and Minds of the Iraqi People, discusses the Obama administration’s humanitarian pretext for going back to war in Iraq.
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Joey Lawrence, a portrait photographer and war documentarian, discusses his 2015 trip to the Kurdistan region of Iraq and Syria, where he lived among the hospitable Kurdish people and photographed the men and women who are fighting against ISIS.
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Scott talks to Daniel Davis about his recent Fox News article praising President Biden for standing firm (so far) in his intent to end the war in Afghanistan. Davis explains that although the Taliban takeover and the increase in violence in the wake of the American military's withdrawal is regrettable, it was also predictable. And no matter whether we left ten years ago or if we were to leave in another 20 years, a stable peace in Afghanistan is simply not going to be achieved in the foreseeable future. It's better to leave as soon as possible, cut our losses and stop inflicting harm on the Afghan people who don't want America in their country.
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Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow at the Cato Institute, discusses unconventional solutions to elephant poaching and why it’s time for Washington to tell Saudi Arabia to pound sand.
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Paul Armentano discusses why American popular opinion on medical marijuana isn’t reflected in Washington DC; the DOJ’s crackdown on California’s largest dispensary; how civil asset forfeiture amounts to legalized government theft; the lame excuses of Democratic loyalists who refuse to hold Obama and Eric Holder accountable for their actions; and the states that are fighting back against the feds on medical marijuana laws.
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Jason Ditz, managing news editor at Antiwar.com, discusses Hamid Karzai's complaint about NATO reconstruction funds being re-routed around his notoriously corrupt regime; how the US uses the Afghan army's size as a measure of progress, even though it's comprised of fair-weather soldiers who desert early and often; comparing the costs of a large Afghan army with the country's GDP (it isn't remotely sustainable); how Iraq's Nouri al-Maliki is acting as a one man government, where his official job titles allow him to staff his own cabinet; and how the Egyptian military dominates nearly all facets of the country's economy.
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Scott talks to Elijah Magnier about what’s going on in Syria, with Russian troops now helping to mediate between Syria and Turkey, and where President Trump has announced his intention to seize formerly ISIS-controlled oil fields for America. Scott and Magnier agree that this move is surely illegal, and that it doesn’t even make much economic sense. Magnier also discusses Lebanon, where widespread civil unrest has failed to result in any actual political change as yet.
Elijah Magnier is a Senior Political Risk Analyst with over 32 years’ experience covering Europe & the Middle East. Find him at his website, ejmagnier.com or on Twitter @ejmalrai.
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