detailing the conversation we spoke to max blumenthal about the claims this is part and parcel of a campaign run by national security hardliners under the guise of civil society groups like the german marshall fund in the atlantic council to impose their control over social media platforms that really represent the digital commons and one of the all places where alternative media sites can get around the mainstream media and disseminate their material. earlier this month facebook and twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users who in their queues of spamming and inauthentic behavior a number of popular pages dedicated to exposing police brutality and u.s. foreign policy abuses were removed also max blumenthal again believes we'll continue to see alternative media being targeted based on the comments from jamie fly this is just the beginning that we will witness a vast expansion of the purging of social media accounts of alternative websites and users who express dissident views on facebook and twitter and other social media outlets and there's very little that can be done abou

activist randy credico thank you grammy for coming on always a pleasure hey it's great and you know max blumenthal'sa tough act to follow you there know that you've got max and credico on the same show you're definitely going to be on the list already speaking of lists what should we make of this latest move by. is this the makings of a pretense to remove from the embassy or is this simply nothing more than a landlord asking attended to be respectful let me let me get the cat litter out of the way i was there last year three times i got a taste of that cat eats better than i do all right cat is running around the cats in great shape so that is a canard to complete garbage and the place is a macula it really is it looks like a five star hotel that the two rooms that are very small like adjoining tollbooths very small and he's that thing is so clean and for them to throw that out and for some of these hack reporters for a.p. to take that and run with it is complete nonsense and so let that's out of the way the question about the lists this ridiculous list you know to get into ike i wouldn't be able to

channel deliberately made him look bad and we discussed the situation with investigative journalist max blumenthal who says americans are being left none the wiser by the news coverage. point worth making about fox and m s n b c is that their formula is to cover a very narrow range of topics so if you watch these networks you probably aren't going to know much about what's happening outside of american horse race politics so no matter which network you're watching you are going to wind up less informed unless you're completely concerned with the different palace intrigues going on in washington that's why a lot of americans are turning to alternative media as well as foreign media and why foreign media is under threat in the u.s. why this network for example has been forced to register as a foreign agent it's pretty apparent that the national security state in the u.s. doesn't want to merican to be particularly well informed about foreign policy and what's happening on the ground in yemen or in palestine or latin america. ecuador has agreed to partially restore internet access for wiki leaks found

nikki haley is due to quit her role as on void to the un in january we heard from journalist max blumenthal who was at the closed door meeting where he was speaking. she revealed that her learning curve was too steep to be secretary of state something we all knew because she had just been governor of south carolina before and had foreign policy experience limited to having lunch at the international house of pancakes maybe she was playing to the crowd but i think you know in a setting like that where she thinks that there is no media present doesn't know that there is a journalist there i think her comments should be taken very seriously and received as her most canned some of her most candid remarks to date. donald trump obviously was not basing his decision to ask nikki haley to be u.n. ambassador on her experience but more on her profile he wanted to diversify his cabinet have an up and coming female republican who was a minority she's of indian descent probably people within the pro israel lobby who are pushing trump's transition team to appoint her so that they could make sure that the

on the current state of the war on terrorism journalist and see the road with his own project max blumenthal and the director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you both for coming on the very interesting interesting story so let me start asking you both were either of you surprised to see the u.s. army going to fail in the fillets its roster so to speak. you know given that the u.s. army is increasing its recruitment goals to half a million by two thousand and twenty four which is really just outlandish i mean i don't know any country that needs an army of five hundred thousand people although we have constantly heard in the ninety's about saddam hussein's million man army it's going to be harder and harder for them to recruit people i don't know how much of this has to do with the economy but there are strong indications of taking a less favorable view on u.s. foreign policy there was a chicago global affairs council poll this august that showed that only fifty one percent of millenniums actually support the u.s. taking a active role in the world that's like it that's in strong con

shortages that the university of california santa barbara in an article he penned with journalist max blumenthal's sprague alleges that jamie fly of the german marshall fund suggested to him at a security conference that he was part of a pushback against alleged fake news the authors of the article believe flies comments show that facebook's purge was not about spam prevention as it claimed but cracking down on subversive views russia china and other foreign states take advantage of our open political system they can invent stories that get repeated and spread through different sites so we're just starting to push back just this last week facebook began starting to take down sites so this is just the beginning . earlier this month facebook and twitter deleted the accounts of hundreds of users who they accused of spamming and in authentic behavior a number of popular alternative media outlets dedicated to exposing police brutality and u.s. foreign policy abuses were also among those removed would be flying he was alleged of taken some credit for the purge is an influential foreign policy figure cur

the current state of the war on terrorism journalist and see the writer the gray zone project max blumenthal and the director of the answer coalition brian becker thank you both for coming on the baby interesting interesting story so let me start asking you both were either of you surprised to see the u.s. army kind of failing to fill its its roster so to speak. you know given that the u.s. army is increasing its recruitment goals to half a million by two thousand and twenty four.

ok we can speak to max blumenthal now he's joining us live from washington he's the author and editor of grey zone project and he is an online news publication now max we just heard anglo-american and i would suggest that she's actually perhaps the most courageous of western leaders she's put her head above the parapet over suggests that the rest of the western world is waiting to follow the lead of the united states. well no one here in town in washington is saying anything like merkel saying at least not anyone of any consequence what we're hearing from the foreign policy mandarins in washington is kind of desperation to preserve the special relationship with saudi arabia for so many reasons while expressing the appropriate concern and outrage over the killing of jamal has shoji we heard from richard haass who is the head of the council on foreign relations the key gathering point of the foreign policy establishment in washington stating that mohammed bin solomon and saudi arabia have to be separated and we have to preserve the relationship with saudi arabia by punishing bin selman

discussed in the end these mercenaries is the one of the only barracks blumenthal journalist and so you wrote of the greys on project max thank you for coming on the day this is a hell of an interesting fascinating story that we're only now kind of getting given the history of mercenary use in the war on terror and the cruelty of the yemeni war does this kind of marriage of the two at all surprised as well i mean this is actually kind of an unusual story given a complex political relationships of the party and the u.a.e. the u.a.e. first of all hired this group through a palestinian figure named mohammed dahlan who is basically a prophet long time project of the cia he was supposed to be the strong man who would rule gaza before hamas won elections in the gaza strip and took a centrally assumed control in two thousand and. it was a rival of hamas and mahmoud abbas who controlled the west bank so he was exiled and became kind of a fixer for the u.a.e. with his great contacts with the cia and the u.s. and he hired the spear operations group to carry out this operation against the al islam party which is not al qaeda they