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I had actually watched that Yugoslavia documentary years ago but didn't really get it because I was completely ignorant about that area of the world. The latest episode helped put a lot of that conflict into perspective and I'm actually gonna rewatch that doc soon
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Mar 1, 2017 19:19
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ive been working my way through that yugoslavia documentary and its really good, i have no idea if anything better has come a long since it was first shown but it seems like a pretty good introduction to the topic
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Mar 1, 2017 19:49
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I listen to Radio War Nerd to hear Will Menaker's foreign policy takes two weeks before he says them on Chapo. But for real I've been reading Dolan's stuff since high school and enjoy it. I have a mixed view on Ames as a person and a writer, but as a host he does a pretty good job.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:01
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Will's given credit to John Dolan before.Scent of Worf posted:I had actually watched that Yugoslavia documentary years ago but didn't really get it because I was completely ignorant about that area of the world. The latest episode helped put a lot of that conflict into perspective and I'm actually gonna rewatch that doc soon I knew the Croats were dickheads before, but I didn't know that they briefly betrayed Bosnian Muslims and were putting them in concentration camps.
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Mar 1, 2017 20:10
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Yeah he follows Dolan's Brecher account on facebook. I spent a few days in Sarajevo this past summer, but without a lot of knowledge of the conflict besides the broad strokes. As a tourist you're inundated with stuff about the siege. They're still living the consequences of the war and the memories are still fresh. There's not a lot of hope for the future amongst the youth - I heard 65% unemployment while I was there, the internet says 57% as of a couple years ago - and pretty much every building is still pocked with shrapnel. It's such a stark contrast with Croatia-the-EU-member and its polished coastal party-tourist economy. Sausalito may not have been great digs for a farmer 200 years ago, but the Bosnians I spoke to certainly seemed a bit envious of the current situation. There also seemed to be quite a fair amount of nostalgia for communism amongst the older crowd, while a lot of younger people felt that tourism is likely the most realistic chance for economic development. They're right, too. It's a great place to visit.
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Mar 1, 2017 21:15
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
She tweeted this out a few days back and has been getting a surprising amount of flak: https://twitter.com/RaniaKhalek/status/835591377459236865 Somehow I spent 4 years on Twitter without encountering the unironic pro-Wahhabi/Salafist "left," I really wish I could have kept that streak going. MaxxBot has issued a correction as of 22:59 on Mar 1, 2017 |
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Mar 1, 2017 22:38
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MaxxBot posted:Somehow I spent 4 years on Twitter without encountering the unironic pro-Wahhabist/Salafist "left," I really wish I could have kept that streak going. They're all terminally stupid.
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Mar 1, 2017 22:53
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I wonder how many writers there are out there like Dolan who struggle (until recently) to get by because what they say pisses off people with the power to hurt them. I recall he wrote part one of a two part piece about genocide in East Timor but never managed to write part two because someone (an Aussie diplomat I think?) sent people to gently caress with him and he had to leave the country.
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Mar 1, 2017 23:21
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Ames was a genuinely poo poo person. Brave (thanks to massive doses of drugs and not giving a gently caress) A good writer and a decent collector of the types you need for a ragtag band of talented alt-paper guys, but not someone you'd want around in polite company. He's had sex with underage hookers, thrown horse sperm pies in the face of apparatchiks and spent some 5-6 years in a crazy daze trying to one-up Hunter Thompson in a disintegrating former superpower. He's gotten a lot better after Putin closed his paper and kicked him out. Calmed down, gotten married, had a kid, lost the Edgelord-bro vibe. If that is enough for you to heed his opinions, that's up to you. I can understand writing him off as a creep. He is very committed to afflicting the comfortable, picks his targets very well in the current context, and clearly cares a lot for Dr. Dolan. His book 'Going Postal' is a harrowing good read.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:18
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https://twitter.com/vinterflamma/status/835829121259286528
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Mar 2, 2017 03:25
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"I'm not here to educate you" is the most obvious tell on the internet.
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Mar 2, 2017 03:49
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Can someone repost his newsletter rebutting Gutman's article? I wish he would just publish that somewhere but then I'd probably have to shell out for it too.
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Mar 2, 2017 06:48
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The War Nerd elite get a first taste.  They're promising to get it published in public, or else it doesn't really count.
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Mar 2, 2017 09:23
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:
The one thing I came away with from this ep is that everyone is lying about Syria lol
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Mar 2, 2017 11:37
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:"I'm not here to educate you" is the most obvious tell on the internet. it's understandable if brusque if some rando is talking at you but coming at someone with a critique then refusing to answer an elementary question about it is some heroic sloganmongering
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Mar 3, 2017 00:12
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I have managed to get over my initial disappointment that John Dolan did not sound like I imagined Gary Brecher to sound, and I'm liking this podcast a whole hell of a lot. Only on my sixth episode, but I foresee myself working my way back through these things. 
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Mar 22, 2017 23:04
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I have to set aside some time so I can pay full attention to the Robert Parry episode, because I'm not retaining everything but what I do makes me insanely mad.
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Mar 22, 2017 23:35
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Seriously nuts. I'm glad ames and dolan covered a lot of the broad strokes before because it's making the whole picture much clearer when Parry lays it out. Nixon makes so much more sense now. Mega lol that Trump's "but they wiretapped me!" strategy has precedent.
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Spime Wrangler posted:Seriously nuts. I'm glad ames and dolan covered a lot of the broad strokes before because it's making the whole picture much clearer when Parry lays it out. Nixon makes so much more sense now. I appreciate them confirming what I thought, that LBJ kept Nixon's ratfucking of the peace negotiations under wraps because he thought America couldn't handle it. https://www.patreon.com/posts/preview-radio-ep-8532778 They just posted up a 24-minute preview, which is the first part of the Parry interview. They talk about how he investigated & broke the Iran-Contra story, and go a bit into how journalism began compromising itself in the 80s.
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Mar 23, 2017 01:14
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*puts on tinfoil hat* A lot of the stuff in the episode about why Nixon acted in the brazen way that he did he did and why Johnson protected him 1968 becomes less inexplicable if you entertain the notion that Nixon and Johnson shared a mutual secret, perhaps related to "that bay of pigs thing". 
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Mar 23, 2017 01:36
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I already hated Nixon and Reagan. That interview made me hate them more.
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Mar 23, 2017 03:05
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"Radio War Nerd EP #77—Britain's Collusion With Reactionary Islamism " I can't get enough perfidiouis Albion bashing
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Mar 28, 2017 23:34
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i cant seem to find this podcast on the apple podcast search
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Mar 29, 2017 13:37
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Darkman Fanpage posted:i cant seem to find this podcast on the apple podcast search It's subscriber-only. You get an RSS URL in the newsletter. It's worth it, though. And it might be the only thing keeping the guy alive. 
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Mar 29, 2017 13:40
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Saying it's subscriber only isn't entirely accurate. It's all on Patreon, but they do repost some episodes for free to non-patrons.
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Mar 29, 2017 19:05
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I found the subscriber feed in a podcast app without having to pay anything for it (this also works for the Chapo premium episodes, there's nothing secured about the actual URL) but I like both the shows enough to pay for them anyway
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Mar 29, 2017 19:21
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Maybe I'm just brainwashed by the mainstream media, but Mark Ames seems super-negative towards anyone who says bad things about Russia, including the Bellingcat people.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:24
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mark ames raped a drunk, pregnant 15 year old, and bragged about it in fact when he found out she was 15 he decided he had to have her
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Well yeah, no one's going to argue with that, Mark Ames has a disgusting past, much like you do
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Apr 2, 2017 00:48
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Sun Wu Kampf posted:mark ames raped a drunk, pregnant 15 year old, and bragged about it According to him this was all fiction.
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Apr 2, 2017 00:49
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prefect posted:Maybe I'm just brainwashed by the mainstream media, but Mark Ames seems super-negative towards anyone who says bad things about Russia, including the Bellingcat people. Ames had his business literally shut down by Putin, so it's hard to imagine he's a Kremlin shill. He -does- take issue with neocon war boosters and think-tank kreminologists hyping the latest Russia scandal to get a new Cold War going now that the GWOT is losing steam. Michael Weiss, in particular, but also a few others. Both he and Taibbi have horror stories about the russian government for days, but tend to draw the line at the "We should DO something about these evil soviets" talk, and that's enough to get them both ostracized.
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Sephyr posted:Ames had his business literally shut down by Putin, so it's hard to imagine he's a Kremlin shill. In either the latest RWN episode or the one about the Crimean War (those were the ones I listened to today), he said it was actually Medvedev that shut him down. (He pronounces it "Medvyedev".)
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prefect posted:In either the latest RWN episode or the one about the Crimean War (those were the ones I listened to today), he said it was actually Medvedev that shut him down. (He pronounces it "Medvyedev".) Regardless of how you spell it the guy was an obvious Putin puppet.
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Apr 2, 2017 01:07
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Thug Lessons posted:Regardless of how you spell it the guy was an obvious Putin puppet. Oh, no argument on that point.
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Apr 2, 2017 01:19
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Thug Lessons posted:According to him this was all fiction. im sure the years he spent writing about loving russian prostitutes was all fiction too
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Apr 2, 2017 01:32
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oh hey what do we have here
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Apr 2, 2017 01:35
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Ames treated prostitutes with more humanity than you treat your tenants.
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Apr 2, 2017 02:02
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Sun Wu Kampf posted:oh hey what do we have here That doesn't say she was pregnant when he had sex with her.
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That same page you quote also contains this passage:quote:Children are my worst nightmare-worse than worst. I'd rather wind up in a Hutu death camp than father a child. My aversion to children is religious: I hate the way they look, the gurgling sounds they make, and the time and money that they require, time and money that I don't have. Which is strange coming from a guy who is happily married with a family now. Ames says the book was an exaggeration and and written to be a gonzo HST-style ripoff. You can either take him at his word, or not. In either case, I don't see how it affects his subsequent reporting and analysis. One thing I've always wondered about is the nature of his falling-out with Taibbi. For years, he wouldn't mention him when he was talking about his Exile days in Moscow which was a little weird. Only in the last few months has Taibbi's name come up in his stories. Nothus has issued a correction as of 16:26 on Apr 2, 2017 |
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