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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Aug 17, 2019
Host Chris Hedges talks to author and journalist Max Blumenthal about the intimate connection between the misguided support the United States has given to international Jihadism – starting with over $1billion Washington gave to the Afghan Mujahideen in the 1970s – and the rise of neo-fascists and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe and the US.
Blumenthal’s new book The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump was published in April by Verso Books.
From the archives:
Will Griffin: The Three Main Reasons Why The U.S. Invaded and Occupied Afghanistan
Abolish Terrorist Agencies by David Swanson
CIA: World’s Biggest Terrorist Organization, featuring William Blum
Chris Hedges: The Development and Nature of ISIS
Dr. Najib — A Sketch of A Man and A Country by Gaither Stewart
Interesting read
Thanks, ANTICONQUISTA.
I am not comfortable with the phrase “the rise of neo-fascists and ultra-nationalist movements in Europe and the US”. In modern PC-speak, any degree whatever of pro-national sentiment is labeled ‘ultra-nationalist’ or ‘right-wing extremism’. There are valid conservative positions and I think that needs to be respected by any legitimate leftist critique.