MintCast
83 episodes - English - Latest episode: 14 days ago - ★★★★★ - 106 ratingsWelcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast hosted by Mnar Muhawesh. MintCast is an interview podcast featuring dissenting voices, independent researchers and journalists the establishment would rather silence.
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Presidential Candidate Jill Stein On Gaza Genocide, Two Party System and US Militarism
April 05, 2024 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.3 MBGaza is the “key issue of our era,” Green Party presidential hopeful Jill Stein told the MintCast today. “Every international law in the books is being broken,” she said, “This is not something that began on October 7. This is the continuation of ethnic cleansing and displacement that began in 1947 and 1948 with the displacement of 750,000 people.” While Stein condemned Israel for its actions, she placed ultimate responsibility for much of the violence on Washington, telling MintCast host M...
Will the US Intervene in Haiti? With Jake Johnston
March 21, 2024 15:00 - 45 minutes - 31.4 MBHaiti is in crisis. As armed groups come together and storm the island nation’s institutions, leading to mass prison breaks, U.S.-backed Prime Minister Ariel Henry – who was abroad at the time, desperately trying to negotiate some kind of foreign intervention – has resigned. Henry’s departure has left a power vacuum on the island. Will an alliance of armed groups seize power in a revolution? Will factions of the old government hang on? Or will the United States intervene to reassert control...
US Soldier Reveals Why Aaron Bushnell Self-Immolated, with Mike Prysner
March 08, 2024 20:00 - 35 minutes - 24.3 MBOne week after Aaron Bushnell set himself on fire in an extreme act of Protest for Palestine – the world has been awe-struck by his galvanizing act of courage, with his last words being Free Palestine. Across the world, including in Yemen and Gaza, Bushnell is being memorialized as a martyr for Palestine as Israel continues its genocide in Gaza that has left over 30,000 people dead. His protest was not only moving but stood in stark contrast to the empty rhetoric given by so-called liberal...
Why Israel fears the Hadid Family, with Alana Hadid
March 04, 2024 14:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBEven as Israel turns Gaza into dust, few Western celebrities have dared to raise their voices against the genocide – and many have even supported it. One notable exception to this are the Hadids. The family of Palestinian-American fashion designers, influencers and models have been using their considerable platforms to bring attention to the slaughter and to call on the world to act to save innocent civilians. Today, Alana Hadid joins MintCast host Mnar Adley for a frank and insightful discu...
Unraveling Bill Gates’ Global Web of Influence, with Tim Schwab
February 21, 2024 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MBFor all of his power and prestige, Bill Gates is rarely scrutinized in our media. The Seattle native has been careful to cultivate an image of a well-meaning nerd who uses his wealth for good. Our guest today on the “MintCast” is an exception to that rule, being one of the few investigative journalists to critically examine Gates’ power and influence. Tim Schwab is an award-winning investigative journalist based in Washington, D.C. His reporting has been published in outlets such as The Nat...
Yemen's Houthis Speak to MintPress About US Attacks, Their Blockade of Israel
January 30, 2024 13:00 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBThe United States and the United Kingdom recently carried out their eighth round of strikes against targets in Yemen that they claim are being used by Yemen’s Ansar Allah – known in the West as the Houthis – to threaten maritime navigation in the Red Sea. Since Israel began its deadly incursion into Gaza on October 7 of last year, Ansar Allah has carried out a de facto campaign of targeted sanctions against Israeli economic interests, attacking ships traveling through the Red Sea that it sa...
South Korea and Japan Emerge as Key Battlegrounds in the US Strategy Against China, Featuring Tim Shorrock
December 18, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 48.1 MBAs China continues rising and the U.S. attempts to dominate the world, Northeast Asia becomes an increasingly crucial battleground. The United States is trying to encircle China with a network of hundreds of military bases while building a trilateral military alliance with South Korea and Japan. But many in those countries want to be free of U.S. domination. Our guest today is Tim Shorrock, a writer and commentator who has covered the region since the 1970s. Growing up in Japan, Tim has cov...
Immortal Technique on Gaza, the Hip-Hop Industry and More
December 06, 2023 16:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MBIn the wake of the October 7 assault, more than 700 celebrities signed an open letter pledging support to the government of Israel. On the other hand, the hip-hop community has displayed solidarity with Gaza, with over 600 artists joining the Musicians for Palestine movement. Joining MintCast host Alan MacLeod today to talk about Gaza and the music industry is Immortal Technique. Immortal Technique is an independent rapper and activist widely regarded as one of his generation's most respect...
Why China's Rapid Rise is Terrifying the United States, with John Ross
October 03, 2023 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.2 MBThere is no doubt about it: China is rising. Whether it sparks hope and interest or fear and worry, it is impossible to ignore the country’s rapid economic and social transformation. Just a few decades ago, the words “made in China” were a synonym for bad quality junk. But today, China leads the world in all manner of high-tech industries, including photovoltaic cells, semiconductors, 5G communications technologies, and electric vehicles. Joining “MintCast” host today is someone who knows C...
How America Hides the Human Toll of its Forever Wars, with Norman Solomon
September 26, 2023 11:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBAmerica is addicted to war. But its citizens rarely see the brutal realities of the U.S. military-industrial complex up close. That is because our pliant media hides the carnage from the public, refusing to report on the victims of the war machine, and uses euphemisms like “surgical strikes” and “enhanced interrogation techniques” to mask the barbarity meted out by Washington around the world. A recent study from the Costs of War Project at Brown University found that the post-9/11 wars ha...
Latin America Rising, with Ollie Vargas
August 18, 2023 13:00 - 53 minutes - 36.7 MBSouth of the border, an entire region is rising, electing radical governments and moving towards integration and genuine independence. Today, “MintPress News” speaks to Ollie Vargas about Latin America and just what is going on in the region President Joe Biden called the U.S.’ “front yard.” Ollie Vargas is an award-winning journalist based in Bolivia. He is the co-founder of “Kawsachun News,” an outlet reporting in the English language on Bolivia and Latin America. He has also contributed ...
From Wallet to War Machine: The Startling Truth About Your Tax Dollars Revealed, with Lindsay Koshgarian
August 10, 2023 11:00 - 50 minutes - 34.5 MBHave you ever wondered just how much of your hard-earned tax dollars go to funding our bloated war machine? On today’s episode of “The MintCast,” Lindsay Koshgarian lays out the staggering expense that American taxpayers fork out each year to keep the U.S. empire going. “The average person is paying over $2300 per year for our military, plus another $700 for veterans’ [benefits]. So that’s over $3000. To put that in some other perspective, that’s more than twice what the median rent is for ...
Shaking Up the Two-Party System: Cornel West's 2024 Presidential Bid, with Jill Stein
August 04, 2023 13:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MBAmericans want change. A December poll found that only 38% of the country is satisfied with the way the political system is working, with nearly two-thirds expressing their discontent. Despite this, it appears that very little change is on the horizon; the 2024 election is looking increasingly likely that the two parties will select aging relics in Joe Biden and Donald Trump as their candidates. In this situation, half of Americans say they would consider voting for a third party, despite th...
Who Really Blew Up Nord Stream II, with Bryce Greene
July 28, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.3 MBSomebody blew up the Nord Stream II pipeline – that much is certain. Yet, since September last year, when the incident occurred, no one has come forward to take responsibility, and the attack has become the subject of intense international debate. Our guest on “MintCast” is Bryce Greene, a writer, journalist, activist and media critic who has covered the issue extensively in outlets such as “Fairness And Accuracy in Reporting.” Earlier this month, Bryce was invited to speak at the United Na...
Biden's Desperation and the Human Cost of Cluster Munitions in Ukraine, with Medea Benjamin
July 24, 2023 16:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MBAs the war in Ukraine continues to take lives, many people worldwide question its legitimacy and demand an end to the violence. Yet even as calls to cease the conflict grow, the Biden administration has announced that it will up the ante by sending cluster munitions to Ukraine – a weapon banned by more than 100 countries worldwide. Today’s guest, Medea Benjamin, an anti-war activist and co-founder of the peace group CODEPINK, was shocked by the decision. “The world came together in 2008 to...
From TikTok to Taking on the CIA: The Resurgence of Cutting Political Comedy with James Rehwald
July 14, 2023 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBMintPress speaks to James Rehwald. Thanks to his innovative comedy and razor-sharp wit, James has amassed hundreds of thousands of followers across social media platforms, his viral, darkly satirical videos having been seen by tens of millions of people worldwide. James constantly takes aim at the entire power structure to produce explicitly anti-imperialist, radical shorts that cut deep. A frequent target of his is the CIA. "The CIA are basically gangsters for American capitalism,” he tol...
The Problem with Environmentalism, and Why a Recession is Definitely Coming, with Second Thought's JT Chapman
July 05, 2023 13:00 - 49 minutes - 34.2 MBIt ain’t easy being a YouTuber—at least, not a political one. The platform is a giant, Byzantine organization filled with secret rules and algorithms that content creators constantly fall afoul of. This is especially true for radical voices, who are incessantly shadowbanned and suppressed by the Google-owned platform. One person who has broken through the algorithmic barriers better than almost anyone is JT Chapman, host of the Second Thought channel. Chapman makes engaging video essays abo...
The CIA, NATO and the US Empire with Aaron Good
June 26, 2023 14:00 - 1 hour - 42.3 MBThe United States is an empire, even if its citizens don’t all realize it. That is the conclusion from historian and political scientist Aaron Good, who joins Alan MacLeod on this week’s edition of “MintCast.” Today, Good walks us through the history of how the United States came to dominate the world and the organizations it uses – especially the CIA and NATO – in order to enforce its control over the planet. He notes that as Europe and Asia were destroying themselves in conflict, the U.S....
Detained and Interrogated by British Counter-Terrorism Police, with Journalist Kit Klarenberg
June 22, 2023 16:00 - 26 minutes - 18 MBLast month, on his way back to Great Britain, MintPress contributor Kit Klarenberg was detained and interrogated. The investigative journalist was met at the airport by six anonymous plainclothes counter-terror officers, who seized his electronic devices, and memory cards and took his fingerprints and DNA. Under Schedule Three, Section Four of the U.K. 2019 Counter-Terrorism and Border Act, they grilled him for over five hours, asking probing questions on everything from his opinions on th...
Thirst Trap Nation: How E-girls Are Luring Young Boys Into Joining Army, with Alan MacLeod
June 05, 2023 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.5 MBAmid an ongoing crisis in recruitment, the military has found a novel way of enticing teens to enlist: thirst traps. “MintCast” co-host Alan MacLeod joins Mnar Adley for an in-house edition of the podcast to describe how the military is using young teens’ horniness against them, utilizing an army of attractive women posting sexually suggestive content on social media – in effect, turning a generation of young men from simps into soldiers. Alan MacLeod is senior staff writer and podcast prod...
Ukraine, Human Rights, and International Law, with Alfred de Zayas
June 01, 2023 11:00 - 1 hour - 48.2 MBYou can indict Vladimir Putin over war crimes in Ukraine. But if you do, you’d better indict Joe Biden as well. That is the message that Professor Alfred de Zayas, world-renowned human rights and international law expert, gave “MintCast” host Alan MacLeod on today’s episode of the series. A Swiss-American lawyer, academic and United Nations official with over 50 years’ experience in the field of human rights, de Zayas joins us for a wide-ranging discussion about international law and Ukra...
Chris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military buildup to China & Pentagon Spending
May 19, 2023 17:00 - 43 minutes - 30.2 MBThe war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into the quagmire that has already seen thousands of lives lost and millions displaced. The U.S. has already approved more than $113 billion in aid to Ukraine, most of which is weaponry. This year, President Biden has earmarked a record-breaking $842 billion on the military. Yet much of this is not even directed towards Europe but at China. Seemingly not content with turning Europe i...
Oil Wars, Weapons and How the US is Fueling the Somalia Crisis, with Ann Garrison
May 19, 2023 16:00 - 48 minutes - 33.6 MBCongress recently voted against pulling American troops out of Somalia. Officially, U.S. forces number 900 and are there in an advisory role to help the government of Hassan Sheikh Mohamud combat terrorist forces such as Al-Shabab. Yet our guest today states that U.S. boots on the ground in Somalia are doing nothing but serving as a recruiting tool for jihadists, their presence provoking widespread resentment among the people of the resource-rich but war-torn African nation. Ann Garrison i...
Africa Rising: Nkosi Mandela on South Africa Resisting Israeli Apartheid
May 16, 2023 13:00 - 24 minutes - 16.5 MBIn 1999, South African anti-apartheid activist and revolutionary leader Nelson Mandela visited Gaza and said, "We know too well our freedom is not complete without the freedom of the Palestinians." Since his death in 2013, Mandela’s unifying message of decolonization reverberated across the globe. The anti-colonial, anti-apartheid struggle that he led to end racial segregation and transform South Africa into a democratic nation has been lauded by Palestinians, who have drawn parallels betwe...
Under Cover of War, Zelensky is Leading Ukraine’s Massive Privatization Drive
December 14, 2022 15:00 - 1 hour - 50.6 MBAlthough corporate media inundate us with stories of Russian aggression, far fewer people are aware that the Ukrainian government itself has been using the fog of war to move against certain sectors of its own population, settle scores, and attempt to revolutionize society. These attempts have been led by President Volodymyr Zelensky himself, who, in recent months, has banned more than ten political parties (including the main opposition bloc), made trade unions illegal, outlawed Russian la...
Israel Lobby's Attempt to Cancel Revolutionary Antiwar, Pro-Palestine Rapper Lowkey
April 13, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 42.5 MBAfter witnessing the ongoing attack from a coordinated campaign to silence him, tens of thousands of people from around the world have come out in support of hip hop artist, campaigner and host of the MintPress podcast “The Watchdog,” Lowkey. An online petition addressed to music giant Spotify, demanding it refuse to buckle to pressure from the Israel lobby to remove his music from its platform, has garnered over 40,000 signatures from members of the public. Joining the wave of support have...
Michael Tracey on the Refugee Crisis and US Troop Buildup in Poland
April 12, 2022 16:00 - 1 hour - 56.5 MBIn just a few short weeks, Russia’s war on Ukraine has precipitated a massive exodus of refugees. According to the United Nations, more than 4.3 million people have fled the country since February 24, the majority of them – 2.5 million – traveling west to Poland. Media across the world have closely covered the story, and shown a great deal more sympathy for the Ukrainian refugees than for others fleeing from U.S. wars in the Middle East or North Africa. But fewer people are aware of another...
Cancel Culture & Polarization in the Age of COVID: How to Agree to Disagree
April 06, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBIt is becoming increasingly hard, it seems, to have civil conversations. Amid an increasingly polarized political climate, families and friendships are being ruined by intense disagreements. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll, the majority of Americans now believe that their political adversaries pose the greatest threat to democracy and way of life. Many now dread family occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas because of the awkward or heated political topics that will be discussed at th...
Cancel Culture & Polarization in the Age of COVID: How to Agree to Disagree
April 06, 2022 16:00 - 54 minutes - 37.8 MBIt is becoming increasingly hard, it seems, to have civil conversations. Amid an increasingly polarized political climate, families and friendships are being ruined by intense disagreements. According to a CBS News/YouGov poll, the majority of Americans now believe that their political adversaries pose the greatest threat to democracy and way of life. Many now dread family occasions like Thanksgiving and Christmas because of the awkward or heated political topics that will be discussed at th...
USAID, NATO Threaten Intervention as Ethiopia, Eritrea Unite & Form Economic Cooperation with China
January 28, 2022 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.7 MBEthiopia is not a country that is on many Americans’ radar. Yet, since 2020, a brutal civil war has raged, displacing an estimated 4 million people. As the conflict continues, hawks in Washington are beginning to circle, demanding the U.S. intervene militarily. When it comes to Ethiopia – said head of USAID Samantha Power, one of the architects of the U.S. intervention in Libya – “every option is on the table,” using a phrase that has long been understood to be a threat of war. Secretary of...
Seyed Mohammad Marandi on the Iran Deal and the Assassination of Soleimani
January 12, 2022 22:00 - 1 hour - 48 MBWorld leaders have descended upon Austrian capital Vienna to participate in the ongoing nuclear deal being negotiated primarily between the United States and Iran. Today, MintPress spoke to Dr. Seyed Mohammad Marandi, Professor of English Literature and Orientalism at the University of Tehran. Dr. Marandi is currently in Vienna as part of the Iranian delegation. While corporate media often portray Iran as a recalcitrant pariah and the United States as a long-suffering broker in the situatio...
Using the Climate Crisis: Whitney Webb Discusses Global Elites’ Takeover of Nature
November 17, 2021 17:00 - 36 minutes - 24.8 MBAs world leaders, celebrities, business moguls and activists alike descended on Scotland for the COP26 climate summit, behind the scenes powerful financial groups were and are attempting to rewrite the rules of international trade and to privatize nature under the guise of sustainability. While there has been a great deal of finger pointing, the enormous and tangible changes necessary to steer the planet away from devastation are yet to appear. The world is still on course to warm 2.4°C abo...
Syria Rebuilds Relations with Regional Foes Despite Ongoing US Opposition
November 04, 2021 19:00 - 38 minutes - 26.8 MBWelcome to MintCast, the official MintPress News podcast featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence. Today MintCast host Mnar Adley is joined by Vanessa Beeley, an independent investigative journalist and war correspondent based in Damascus, Syria. While the U.S. military occupies a third of Syria -- mostly in the northeast, controlling Syria's vast oil reserves and water supplies -- Syria continues to rebuild after nearly a decade of destabilization efforts by the...
Our Broken Media and What To Do About It
October 27, 2021 18:00 - 1 hour - 43.6 MBVirtually nobody trusts what they read any more. The United States ranks dead last among 46 nations surveyed in confidence in the press. Only 29% of Americans say they broadly believe what they read, see or hear in mainstream media. And more than three quarters of the public think that big outlets knowingly publish fake news. The term “fake news” first came into common usage around the 2016 election, where Clinton claimed that Trump was being buoyed by false information shared on sites lik...
Cruel Britannia: Britain's Real Role in the World, with Mark Curtis
October 22, 2021 19:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MBDespite a number of embarrassing political events over the past number of years, Great Britain still likes to regard itself as a forward-thinking, world-leading country and a force for good. Surveys show that the United Kingdom retains a great deal of positive sentiment around the world. One historian whose work has done a great deal to shatter the myths of empire is Mark Curtis, who joins Alan MacLeod on the Mintcast today. Mark Curtis is a historian and journalist, the co-founder of Decl...
Is Brazil About to Face a Military Coup? Brian Mier on Brazil’s March Towards Fascism
September 24, 2021 16:00 - 58 minutes - 40.5 MBBrazil, the world’s fifth-largest country, is at a political crossroads. Heading into next year’s presidential elections, the country’s 211 million people are faced with choosing between social democrat and anti-imperialist Lula Da Silva (president between 2003 and 2010) and far-right populist incumbent Jair Bolsonaro. But many are worried they will not even be allowed to elect anyone. Whispers are turning into shouts about a military-backed coup before next year, as the ailing Bolsonaro --...
Asa Winstanley on the Purging of Socialists from the U.K. Labour Party
September 23, 2021 17:00 - 1 hour - 43.3 MBShocking almost everybody in positions of power, life-long socialist and anti-war activist Jeremy Corbyn was elected leader of the British Labour Party in 2015. There was no honeymoon period for the Londoner, however, as right away the media, the government and even senior members of his own party began attempting to oust him. Defying the critics, Corbyn held on and took Labour to arguably its greatest-ever electoral success in 2017. However, his poor handling of Brexit and an unprecedented...
Want Regime Change with Plausible Deniability? Call Creative Associates International
September 04, 2021 12:00 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MBAfter organizing coups, overthrowing democratically-elected heads of state, and arming death squads all around the world in the 1960s and 1970s, it was clear that the CIA had an image problem. The Reagan administration, therefore, began constructing a network of outsourced private organizations that would do the dirty work of the U.S. empire, shielding the U.S. government from the prying eyes of investigators and journalists. “A lot of what we do today was done covertly 25 years ago by the ...
Decline and Fall of the US Empire: Lawrence Wilkerson Discusses Afghanistan Pull-Out
August 26, 2021 21:00 - 41 minutes - 28.6 MBAfter 20 years of war and occupation that have caused the deaths of almost a quarter of a million people and displaced 5.9 million more, the United States appears to have finally (tacitly) admitted defeat in Afghanistan, pulling its forces and representatives out of the country. The U.S.-installed government fell within days, with President Ashraf Ghani escaping to the United Arab Emirates, reportedly with $169 million in cash stuffed in his suitcases. Ghani’s departure is illustrative of t...
The Finders: Harmless Cult or CIA-Linked Child Traffickers? A Discussion with Elizabeth Vos
August 12, 2021 13:00 - 31 minutes - 21.6 MBIt’s a story that has captivated many for over three decades. In 1987, locals in Tallahassee, Florida alerted police to a strange incident in a local park. Six dirty, hungry and poorly clothed kids — almost resembling feral children — were in the custody of two extremely sharply dressed men. Both men were questioned but later released by police, although when it transpired that the men and the children were members of an obscure cult, situated in Washington, D.C. and called “The Finders,” t...
Calling Sanctions by Their Name: Rania Khalek on US Mideast Genocide
August 06, 2021 14:00 - 1 hour - 47.6 MBAround one quarter of the world lives in countries under unilateral United States sanctions. While American government officials insist that sanctions are targeted at officials committing human rights abuses in foreign countries, the United Nations notes that they always “disproportionately affect the poor and most vulnerable.” In Cuba, U.S. sanctions are causing shortages that led to widespread protests earlier this summer and are slowing the worldwide rollout of Cuba’s domestically produc...
Pegasus is Just the Tip of the Israeli Cyber Spying Iceberg, with Whitney Webb
July 23, 2021 15:00 - 50 minutes - 34.8 MBEdward Snowden has called it “the story of the year.” An Israeli spying company has been caught selling software to authoritarian regimes that have used it to surveil more than 50,000 people worldwide. That company is NSO, founded in 2010 by former members of Unit 8200, the Israeli military’s notorious intelligence squad. Their product is called Pegasus, and it was sold to military, law enforcement, and intelligence agencies in 40 countries, among them some of the world’s worst human rights...
Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests
July 19, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWelcome to the MintCast Podcast — an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence. I’m your host Mnar Adley. A string of spontaneous protests in Cuba became the unlikely focus of worldwide media attention earlier this week, the story dominating headlines for two straight days. Political and media figures across the spectrum weighed in, including the President of the United States. Joining me to discuss the protests, their causes, and the relationship ...
Breaking through the Western Media Propaganda Coverage of Cuba Protests
July 19, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 52.4 MBWelcome to the MintCast Podcast — an interview series featuring dissenting voices the establishment would rather silence. I’m your host Mnar Adley. A string of spontaneous protests in Cuba became the unlikely focus of worldwide media attention earlier this week, the story dominating headlines for two straight days. Political and media figures across the spectrum weighed in, including the President of the United States. Joining me to discuss the protests, their causes, and the relationship ...
PalAction: Shutting Down the British Arms Trade to Israel
June 30, 2021 14:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MBDespite the official ceasefire, Sheikh Jarrah in Jerusalem continues to be a flashpoint of violence. Last week, Israeli forces fired stun grenades and sprayed skunk water on worshippers and protesters gathering near the Al-Aqsa Mosque, the third holiest site in Islam. Evidently, new Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is willing to be as aggressive and provocative as his predecessor, Benjamin Netanyahu. While the attacks on the Sheikh Jarrah neighborhood are new, the tactics and the violence aga...
The Deep State and The Fourth Estate: Spies in Our Media, with Alan MacLeod
June 28, 2021 18:00 - 49 minutes - 34.1 MBIn recent years, the big networks have hired a wide range of “former” agency veterans and officers, supposedly to give independent and expert commentary and analysis on all matters national security. These have included former CIA Directors John Brennan (NBC, MSNBC) and Michael Hayden (CNN), ex-Director of National Intelligence James Clapper (CNN), and former Homeland Security Advisor Frances Townsend (CBS). News for so many Americans comes delivered through ex-CIA interns like Anderson Co...
Dan Cohen on the Israeli Operatives Behind some of Colombia’s Most Violent Death Squads
June 08, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBColombia is regularly described as the Israel of Latin America. Although on opposite sides of the world from each other, the two countries share many similarities. They are both key outposts of U.S. power in their regions, helping make their neighborhood safe for American businesses and American profits. Both governments are carrying out wars against indigenous populations. Both talk of a “peace process” with their enemies but neither seems to get any closer to a lasting agreement. And both ...
Dan Cohen on the Israeli Operatives Behind some of Colombia’s Most Violent Death Squads
June 08, 2021 18:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MBColombia is regularly described as the Israel of Latin America. Although on opposite sides of the world from each other, the two countries share many similarities. They are both key outposts of U.S. power in their regions, helping make their neighborhood safe for American businesses and American profits. Both governments are carrying out wars against indigenous populations. Both talk of a “peace process” with their enemies but neither seems to get any closer to a lasting agreement. And both ...
Chronicling Barbarism with Political Cartoonist Carlos Latuff
June 04, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBIt is often said that a picture paints a thousand words; images have the ability to move people in ways that words alone cannot. Iconic pictures from war zones, such as those of a dead Syrian child on the beach, of Vietnamese girls covered in Napalm or American soldiers planting their flag at Iwo Jima, become anchors around which people understand conflicts, and the world more generally. Cartoons as well have the power to challenge and change people’s minds, satirizing the powerful and reve...
Chronicling Barbarism with Political Cartoonist Carlos Latuff
June 04, 2021 13:00 - 1 hour - 46.3 MBIt is often said that a picture paints a thousand words; images have the ability to move people in ways that words alone cannot. Iconic pictures from war zones, such as those of a dead Syrian child on the beach, of Vietnamese girls covered in Napalm or American soldiers planting their flag at Iwo Jima, become anchors around which people understand conflicts, and the world more generally. Cartoons as well have the power to challenge and change people’s minds, satirizing the powerful and reve...