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Moderate Rebels

Apr 27, 2020

Israeli journalist David Sheen discusses how Netanyahu lost three elections and faced corruption charges but still managed to stay in power in his fifth term as prime minister.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton talk about King Bibi's coalition negotiations with rival Benny Gantz (who boasted of killing Palestinians), the...


Apr 23, 2020

Economist Michael Hudson explains how American imperialism has created a global free lunch, where the US makes foreign countries pay for its wars, and even their own military occupation.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the economics of Washington's empire, the role of the IMF and World Bank, attempts to create...


Apr 20, 2020

Facing the Covid-19 pandemic, the US Congress rammed through the CARES Act — which economist Michael Hudson explains is not a "bailout" but a massive, $6 trillion giveaway to Wall Street, banks, large corporations, and stockholders.

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss the systemic financial scam with Hudson, who...


Apr 13, 2020

Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton continue discussing the end of the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign, and how the professional media left, largely based in Brooklyn, opportunistically capitalized on his movement to push a soft-imperialist branding of "democratic socialism" — and to advance their careers in the...


Apr 12, 2020

Bernie Sanders has dropped out of the US presidential race. Max Blumenthal and Ben Norton discuss what went wrong in his campaign, from being unwilling to take on the Democratic Party, treating right-wing war criminal Joe Biden like a friend, refusing to attack a cartoonishly hostile corporate media, recruiting...