Moderate Rebels Episode 1
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the Democratic Party’s obsession with Russia, how this fixation is used to prevent progressive change, the lack of evidence for ambiguous accusations of “Russian interference,” and how the neoliberal Resistance™ actively cheers on Trump when he is bombing the Middle East.
Show Notes
Peter Beinart, “Donald Trump’s Defenders on the Left: Why some progressives are minimizing Russia’s election meddling,” The Atlantic, July 23 2017
Max Blumenthal, “‘Maddow’s Dots May Never Connect’: Left-Wing Author Blasts Trump-Russia Narrative,” Tucker Carlson Tonight, July 17 2017
Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, “Intercepted Podcast: Glenn Greenwald on the New Cold War,” The Intercept, July 26 2017
Peter Beinart, “How the Democrats Lost Their Way on Immigration,” The Atlantic, July/August 2017
US empire
Julia Zorthian, Heather Jones, “This Graphic Shows Where U.S. Troops Are Stationed Around the World,” TIME, October 16 2015
David Vine, “The United States Probably Has More Foreign Military Bases Than Any Other People, Nation, or Empire in HistoryAnd it’s doing us more harm than good,” The Nation, September 14 2015
Russigate and the media
Aaron Maté, “MSNBC’s Rachel Maddow Sees a ‘Russia Connection’ Lurking Around Every Corner,” The Intercept, April 12 2017
Glenn Greenwald, “CNN Journalists Resign: Latest Example of Media Recklessness on the Russia Threat,” The Intercept, June 27 2017
CrowdStrike and DNC
Yasha Levine, “From Russia, with Panic,” The Baffler, March 2017
Atlantic Council and NATO
Ben Norton, “While Turkish Bodyguards Brutalized Protesters, This DC Think Tank Connected Erdogan with Foreign Policy Insiders,” AlterNet’s Grayzone Project, May 19, 2017
French Election and Russia
Associated Press, “France says no trace of Russian hacking Macron,” June 1 2017
CIA and Syria
Ben Norton, “Media Mourn End of CIA Killing Syrians and Strengthening Al Qaeda,” FAIR.org, July 27 2017
Ukraine and the Pentagon
Eric Schmitt, Andrew E. Krameraug, “Pentagon and State Department Said to Propose Arming Ukraine,” New York Times, August 1 2017
Jamie Kirchick smears
Ben Norton, “No, they don’t support Trump: Smeared left-wing writers debunk the myth,” Salon, August 17 2016
