Radio War Nerd EP179 — Max Blumenthal on "The Management Of Savagery"

Guest: Max Blumenthal, author, journalist, podcaster Recorded: April 26, 2019 Journalist Max Blumenthal (RWN EP 86, EP 54) joins the War Nerd to talk about his controversial new book "The Management of Savagery: How America's National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS and Donald Trump" — about the US empire's cynical instrumentalization of jihadi extremists beginning in Afghanistan through Syria, and the political blowback from allying with and empowering jihadi extremists: rising Islamophobia, rising Nativism, and the destabilization of both targeted countries around the globe and destabilized democracies in the West. Buy Max Blumenthal's new book "The Management of Savagery". Read his investigative reporting at The Grayzone. Follow Max on Twitter. And check out Max & Ben Norton's podcast, Moderate Rebels. Total time: 2:26:28 Direct link to this episode's mp3 here Hey War Nerd fans! Buy the new audiobook version of John Dolan's comic novel, "Pleasant Hell" - read by the author himself!