Radio War Nerd EP148—Spanish-American War, Neocons & Anti-Interventionists, with Stephen Kinzer

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Guest: Stephen Kinzer , author & Senior Fellow Recorded September 7, 2018 The Spanish-American War was a crummy war by all standards, including most books about that war. Thankfully, Stephen Kinzer wrote a great book about that lousy war: "The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain and the Birth of American Empire". In this RWN episode, Kinzer helps the War Nerd recover the incredible lost history of that war, and of that period. Teddy Roosevelt's gang would be considered fascist psychopaths today, and Twain said as much at the time. But the real lost story is the savage Philippines Insurgency that followed the war, and the incredible debates in the US between imperialists and anti-imperialists that took place at the time. (Spoiler alert: The imperialists won.) At 1:11:00 the War Nerd and Ames discuss current war news: Battle for Idlib means more insane western propaganda about Idlib and the Al Qaeda "rebels" who control the province . . . What about Afrin, where Turkey invaded, occupied & ethnically cleansed . . . Trump regime claims Assad regime preparing chemical weapons attacks on Idlib, with backing from Putin regime . . . Qatar-backed Libyan rebel leader allied with ISIS . . . Simon Tisdall strikes again! . . . Britain charges two scary Russian flatheads with Skripal poisoning . . . Buy Stephen Kinzer's book "True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain & the Birth of American Empire" & read his articles on his blog . Follow Kinzer on Twitter . Stephen Kinzer is Senior Fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University.

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