Donald Trump has been in office 16
months. And the majority of media hours and column inches spent on his
administration deal primarily with the Russia investigation, Stormy
Daniels, and Trump’s personnel intrigue. It’s not that there isn’t great
journalism being done on other issues. It’s that this narrow set of
stories consume much of the energy and are on constant repeat pretty
much everywhere in corporate media, except for Fox News, which generally
broadcasts from an alternate reality.
On Intercepted, we have found it useful
to occasionally step back from the daily grind of the Trump presidency
and take stock of where we are and how we got here. My friend and
colleague Allan Nairn is one of the sharpest analysts of the modern
history of the American empire. As a journalist, he has played a
significant role in exposing United States involvement in and
sponsorship of brutal regimes and security forces around the globe. He
survived the Dili massacre in East Timor in the early 1990s; he exposed
the CIA’s financing of right-wing death squads in Haiti and the agency’s
support for brutal military dictators in places like Guatemala and El
Salvador; and he is perhaps the foremost expert in the world on the U.S.
support for the genocidal regime of Suharto in Indonesia.
Allan was one of my heroes and role
models when I first got into journalism in the mid-1990s. Last week was
his second appearance on Intercepted, where we played an excerpt of the
interview.
Click here for the interview.
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