10/01/21 Gareth Porter on the Media’s Misleading Portrayal of the Taliban

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🗓️ 6 October 2021

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Gareth Porter joined Scott on Antiwar Radio to discuss his recent piece at the Gray Zone about the dishonest ways the media has covered the Taliban. Both Scott and Porter agree that the Taliban are not to be considered the good guys, but that the media has a history of pushing a misleading narrative about them to justify war. Scott and Porter reflect on how this has been happening, to some extent, for the Taliban’s entire history, but especially as it relates to the group’s connections with Islamic terrorists. Discussed on the show: “Corporate media stirred global terror hysteria to push postwar hostility toward new Afghan govt” (The Gray Zone) Peril by Bob Woodward and Robert Costa No Good Men Among the Living by Anand Gopal Charlie Wilson’s War by George Crile Gareth Porter is an investigative historian and journalist on the national security state. He is the author of Manufactured Crisis: The Untold Story of the Iran Nuclear Scare and, with John Kiriakou, The CIA Insider’s Guide to the Iran Crisis. Follow him on Twitter @GarethPorter and listen to Gareth’s previous appearances on the Scott Horton Show. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: The War State and Why The Vietnam War?, by Mike Swanson; Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott; EasyShip; Dröm; Free Range Feeder; Thc Hemp Spot; Green Mill Supercritical; Bug-A-Salt; Lorenzotti Coffee and Listen and Think Audio. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjYu5tZiG. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, October the 3rd, 2021.
0:05.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:06.6	This is anti-war radio.
0:23.8	I'm your host, Scott Horton.
0:25.5	I'm editorial director of anti-war.com,
0:28.6	and author of the book Enough Already.
0:31.0	Time to End the War on terrorism. You can find my full
0:34.0	interview archive more than 5,600 of them now going back to 2003 at
0:39.1	Scott Horton.org and at YouTube. YouTube. Scott Horton Show.
0:44.0	All right, introducing this week's guest, my very favorite guest and yours to,
0:50.4	the great Gareth Porter, now writing regularly for the Greyzone Project at the
0:56.0	Greyzone.com. Welcome back to the show. How you doing, Gareth?
0:59.0	I'm doing fine. Thanks, Skye. Glad to be back.
1:02.0	Very happy to have you here and such an important piece that you have for us this week. Corporate
1:06.3	media stirred global terror hysteria. Wait, we could stop right there, right? Oh, corporate media
1:11.8	stirred global terror hysteria to push post-war
1:15.1	hostility toward the new Afghan government. All right, well the new Afghan
1:20.8	government means the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, which is qualitatively
1:25.2	worse than the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan, which it replaced in power two months ago.
1:31.2	I guess.
1:32.2	But so yeah, now the Taliban's back and can we start with everybody knows
1:37.0	that the Taliban are a bunch of horrible SOBs and they always were and they still
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