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Episode 117: CIA Career Day!
🕑 Added 2023-04-11 16:51:47 +0000 UTCWe are joined by Alan MacLeod, Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News to discuss articles he’s written on the CIA and the US Establishment:
- From Georgetown to Langley: The Controversial Connection Between a Prestigious University and the CIA
- Tucker Carlson: The Elite Pedigree of a Brilliant Cosplaying “Populist”
After completing his PhD in 2017, Alan MacLeod published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
Comments
John
I have no idea how a parapolitical expert like aaron doesn’t “get” tucker. Its we clear as day what and who he is. Demonising trans people and immigrants on a regular basis isn’t that confusing to me personally. He’s playing to a crowd.
Jack Shneidman
It's also extremely strange that Glenn Greenwald seemingly allows no nuanced discussion or critique of Tucker Carlson and other newly minted far right "anti-war" figures. It's either Tucker is now 100% good and perfect (as opposed to the "old" bowtie wearing, neocon Tucker that we're supposed to believe had some kind of awakening or transformation) or Greenwald unleashes fire and fury on you and treats you like you're some MSNBC-watching liberal who just wants to go to brunch. When Ben Norton posted a Twitter thread that accurately and factually pointed to the many glaring inconsistencies and massive inauthenticity of several supposed "anti-war" types on the far right, Greenwald scolded Ben like a six-year-old and said, "According to your religion, virtuous ideas only reside on the Left."
