Radio War Nerd EP179 — Max Blumenthal on "The Management Of Savagery"

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Guest: Max Blumenthal, author , journalist , podcaster Recorded: April 26, 2019 Journalist Max Blumenthal (RWN EP 86 , EP 54 ) joins the War Nerd to talk about his controversial new book "The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Donald Trump" — about the US empire's cynical instrumentalization of jihadi extremists beginning in Afghanistan through Syria, and the political blowback from allying with and empowering jihadi extremists: rising Islamophobia, rising Nativism, and the destabilization of both targeted countries around the globe and destabilized democracies in the West. Buy Max Blumenthal's new book "The Management of Savagery" . Read his investigative reporting at The Grayzone . Follow Max on Twitter . And check out Max & Ben Norton's podcast, Moderate Rebels . Total time: 2:26:28 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here Hey War Nerd fans! Buy the new audiobook version of John Dolan's comic novel, "Pleasant Hell" - read by the author himself!

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