How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oil’s point man on Venezuelan regime change

By Dan Cohen

The US oil cartel has given Florida’s Rick Scott 500 million reasons to be one of the Senate’s most fanatical cheerleaders for toppling Venezuela’s leftist government. Continue reading...

NY Times admits it sends stories to US government for approval before publication - By Ben Norton

The New York Times casually acknowledged that it sends major scoops to the US government before publication, to make sure “national security officials” have “no concerns.” Continue reading...

The Sudan uprising: Geopolitics, economics, and history of the crisis - with Ahmed & Sidgi Kaballo

1 hr. 20 min.
To discuss the overthrow of Sudanese leader Omar al-Bashir, Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton are joined by journalist Ahmed Kaballo and former political prisoner Sidgi Kaballo, a leader of the Sudanese Communist Party who has been imprisoned three times. We discuss the uprising, the origins of the protests, the history of Sudan, the economics and IMF debt, and the larger geopolitics of the situation, analyzing the roles of Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Qatar, Turkey, China, Russia, the US, and EU.

Max Blumenthal interviewed in a two-part episode of the Around the Empire podcast.

Part 1 / Part 2

From the description: This interview became a longer and more wide-ranging discussion than we had anticipated, and a really interesting one at that. Not only did we talk about the book and what we think is one of the biggest scandals in American history, but we also talked about the rise of anti-interventionism both as a generational movement and a general awakening. The current positions taken by Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential election also comes up in the conversation. In Part 2 of the interview, we discussed our own evolutions and how we came to understand the role of the US and the empire in the world. We ventured into what we think are the best practices for helping others who are in varying states of their own awakening. Max then explains how the book, The Management of Savagery, is actually the compilation of his new understanding of the US role in the world.

Gray Zone - How Sen. Rick Scott became Big Oil’s point man on Venezuelan regime change