Moderate Rebels
Summary: Moderate Rebels was a political podcast and video show hosted by journalists Max Blumenthal and Benjamin Norton. It ended in January 2022.
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Podcasts:
Jeremy Corbyn's greatest 'sin' was anti-imperialism: UK Labour centrists seek new pro-war leader
Behind the historic defeat of Jeremy Corbyn's Labour Party: The UK election and Brexit backlash
What was Pete Buttigieg doing in Iraq?: US gov whistleblower on war profiteering and corruption
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton speak with journalist Wyatt Reed, who is reporting on the ground in Bolivia after a US-backed far-right military coup against democratically elected leftist President Evo Morales. He describes the bloody repression of Indigenous protesters and the state of resistance.
Max Blumenthal discusses how corporate media manufactures consent for hybrid warfare and regime-change campaigns, from Russiagate to Libya, Venezuela to Syria. (From the panel "PROPAGANDA: How Propaganda Manufactures Consent," organized by the Big Apple Coffee Party in New York City on November 19.)
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), Mexico's first left-wing leader in five decades, with journalist Alina Duarte, who warns that right-wing forces may be trying to overthrow him in a coup, as Mexican foreign policy increasingly challenges the US and OAS. NOTE: This interview was recorded on November 7, before the US-backed far-right coup in Bolivia.
Ben Norton and Max Blumenthal speak with journalist Alina Duarte, who is in Chile reporting on the enormous protests against right-wing billionaire oligarch President Sebastián Piñera. We discuss his neoliberal capitalist policies, growing poverty and inequality, the brutally violent police and military repression of the demonstrations, the regional implications, and the historical echoes of the Pinochet dictatorship.
Ben Norton continues his discussion with Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil, who traveled to Syria to report on how the brutal regime-change war continues, now through economic siege, sanctions, and psychological warfare. PART 2 OF 2 (Recorded on September 21, 2019)
Ben Norton speaks with Max Blumenthal and Anya Parampil about their week reporting on the ground in Syria, where they saw the hell unleashed on civilians by foreign-backed Salafi-jihadist "rebels." PART 1 OF 2
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue discussing Hong Kong with China expert Carl Zha. We address the US government's role stoking the violent protests, corporate media lies and propaganda, and the new cold war against Beijing. PART 2 OF 2
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the violent protests rocking Hong Kong with China expert Carl Zha, who explains the colonial history with Britain, the anti-Chinese right-wing nativism fueling the protests, the economic conditions, and local oligarchs' leading role in the chaos. PART 1 OF 2
Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue reporting in Honduras with Gerardo Torres of the opposition Libre Party, who explains how the 2009 US-backed right-wing military coup that ousted elected President Manuel Zelaya, overseen by Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, unleashed an immigration crisis that has fueled Trump and the far-right. We also address the hypocrisy of the "war on drugs" and foreign imperialist intervention in Central America. PART 2 OF 2
We report from inside Honduras on the 10th anniversary of the US-backed military coup that overthrew its independent left-wing democracy. Gerardo Torres of the opposition Libre Party discusses how Washington maintains a chokehold on Honduran politics and society to advance its economic and military interests. PART 1 OF 2
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 and Ben Norton discuss India's 2019 general election results with journalist Prabir Purkayastha, addressing the landslide victory of far-right Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Hindu-nationalist party BJP, the collapse of Congress, the global rise of right-wing ultranationalist hate politics, the crisis of neoliberalism, and geopolitics.
