American Misdirection

Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill

• Episode: American Misdirection
• Website: Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill
• Feed URL: http://feeds.megaphone.fm/intercepted
• Duration: 01:17:24
• Published: 2019-03-06 12:00

Journalist and Russiagate critic Aaron Maté presents his dissenting analysis, what he believes is behind the investigation, and how the scandal has distracted from other urgent issues. 

We hear a speech from professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of “The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.”

As the Trump administration intensifies its air war in Somalia, journalist Harun Maruf, author of “Inside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda’s Most Powerful Ally," discusses the war in Somalia and the seldom mentioned history of how the George W. Bush administration helped overthrow the only force that had brought peace to Somalia since the early 1990s.

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