Two US veterans, Matthew Hoh and Daniel Sjursen, explain how the war in Afghanistan was lost, Afghans suffered, and military contractors profited -- all while the American public was kept in the dark.
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Danny Sjursen. Retired US Army officer, senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. He served combat tours in Iraq and Afghanistan and later taught history at West Point. His latest book is "A True History of the United States." https://twitter.com/SkepticalVet
Matthew Hoh. Former Marine and State Department official who resigned in protest from his post in Afghanistan over U.S. policy in September 2009. Now a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy. https://twitter.com/matthewphoh
As the anti-Russia hawks in the Joe Biden administration push for more aggressive policies in Ukraine, Moderate Rebels speak with Russell Bentley, an American from Texas who moved to the Donbas region to fight on behalf of the breakaway Donetsk People's Republic.
Bentley discusses the ultra-nationalist fascists and neo-Nazis in the Ukrainian forces. He also explains the Christian Communist ideology that motivates him and his combat unit.
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A growing number of suspects in the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moïse have US ties. At least one is a former DEA informant and several have received U.S. military training. Scholar Jemima Pierre of The Black Alliance for Peace discusses the unfolding mystery surrounding Moïse's killing and the context of longtime US, foreign intervention and neocolonialism in Haiti.
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Guest: Jemima Pierre. Haiti/Americas Coordinator for The Black Alliance for Peace and Associate Professor at UCLA.
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal and Aaron Mate cover the interruption of regime change-crazed Atlantic Magazine pundit Anne Applebaum by an antiwar student during a NYU event where Applebaum stirred up support for war with Russia. The protester also questioned Applebaum about her husband, former Polish FM Radek Sikorski, publicly thanking the US for bombing the Nordstream pipelines.
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As Donald Trump faces an impeachment trial for allegedly inciting the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, critical questions remain over how the sprawling US national security state failed to stop it. Newsweek reporter William Arkin discuses the lingering questions surrounding the biggest domestic intelligence and security failures in US history.
Guest: William Arkin. Award-winning reporter for Newsweek and author of a dozen books on national security policy.
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In a new four-part series for the Columbia Journalism Review, veteran journalist Jeff Gerth documents US media's journalistic malpractice in covering Russiagate.
Guest: Jeff Gerth, journalist who spent three decades as an investigative reporter at the New York Times, where he won the 1999 Pulitzer Prize. His new four-part series about US media’s Russiagate coverage in the “Columbia Journalism Review” is called “The press versus the president.”
Read “The press versus the president" by Jeff Gerth
https://www.cjr.org/special_report/trumped-up-press-versus-president-part-1.php
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Former CIA officer and longtime antiwar activist Ray McGovern joins Aaron Mate and Max Blumenthal for a livestream on new revelations of Hillary Clinton's direct involvement in Russiagate lies, the demise of DHS Minister of Truth Nina Jankowicz, how Bernie Sanders backed a giant giveaway to the arms industry in the form of Ukraine aid, and the latest on the Russian-Ukrainian war.
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Aaron Mate joins Max Blumenthal to discuss the FBI raid on former President Donald Trump's residence in Mar-a-Lago and place the ongoing investigation in the context of Russiagate. Mate and Blumenthal also cover the FBI's role in manufacturing a far-right plot against Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer and its political impact.
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Juan Orlando Hernandez, the former President of Honduras and once a close US ally, is now accused by US federal prosecutors of being an accessory to weapons and drug smuggling. His brother, Tony, is serving a life sentence in US federal prison.
Politicians, police, and soldiers work as contractors for drug cartels; which have evolved into de facto corporations.
Renowned Honduran political analyst and constitutional lawyer Raúl Pineda discusses the institutionalization of the cartels under the watch of a former president who was once Washington's darling.
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The Grayzone's Max Blumenthal discusses his heated exchange with a former Obama official and a member of Venezuela's far-right opposition over the basis for crippling US sanctions on Venezuela. Max also recounts his recent reporting trip to Venezuela, where he witnessed the impact of US economic warfare and the Venezuelan people's defiant resistance.
Guest: Max Blumenthal, Senior Editor of The Grayzone and author of several books, including his latest, "The Management of Savagery."
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