Max Blumenthal: Rethinking 'credibility' and dominant environmental narratives (ep298)
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Max Blumenthal joins us in this episode to discuss:
why we should question the dominant notions of ‘credibility’;
how mainstream, corporatized media often sidelines news on U.S. militarism globally;
his article on the “‘Green’ billionaires behind the professional activist network that led the suppression of ‘Planet of the Humans’ documentary”;
and more.
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“The deep green perspective is frozen out of mainstream environmental politics, and I don’t even think it’s represented in the Green New Deal.”
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Here’s Max on the ‘green’ interests that sparked a U.S.-backed coup in Bolivia:
“Bolivia had a right-wing coup (which we covered in 2019) backed by the U.S. to remove the first Indigenous president in Latin America in a majority Indigenous country, Evo Morales.
It was a bloody event that brought in a year of harsh repression, and Evo Morales called it the ‘Lithium Coup’—[intended to] take over [Bolivia’s] supply of lithium and then privatize it for export to companies like Tesla, which was setting up next door in Brazil, a country run by a right-wing nationalist president, Jair Bolsonaro.
Elon Musk had actually gone on Twitter while this coup regime was holding power, repressing the left-wing indigenous social movements and said, ‘We will coup whoever we want! Deal with it.’”
About Max Blumenthal:
The editor-in-chief of The Grayzone, Max Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and the author of several books, including best-selling Republican Gomorrah, Goliath, The Fifty One Day War, and The Management of Savagery. He has produced print articles for an array of publications, many video reports, and several documentaries, including Killing Gaza. Blumenthal founded The Grayzone in 2015 to shine a journalistic light on America's state of perpetual war and its dangerous domestic repercussions.
