2/16/23 Max Blumenthal: Why You Should Come to the Antiwar Rally in DC This Sunday

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Scott Horton

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🗓️ 17 February 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Max Blumenthal joined Scott on Antiwar Radio this week to explain why you should accompany them and an impressive lineup of speakers at the Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington DC this Sunday, February 19th. Scott and Blumenthal run through everyone who will be speaking, and highlight some Sister Rallies that will be held simultaneously for those who cannot make it to DC. They also address some of the sectarianism that threatens this coalition of leftists and libertarians. Finally, Blumenthal discusses some of the investigative projects and articles published recently at The Grayzone. Discussed on the show: RageAgainstWar.com Rage Against the War Machine on Twitter List of Sister Rallies “Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war” (The Grayzone) “Zelensky’s diaspora delegation led by economic hit-woman who led plunder of Ukraine” (The Grayzone) “From the ‘Groyper Wars’ to ‘America First’: Nick Fuentes becomes a ‘somebody’” (The Grayzone) Director and writer of “Killing Gaza,” Max Blumenthal is a senior editor of the Grayzone Project and the author Goliath, Republican Gomorrah and The 51 Day War. Follow him on Twitter @MaxBlumenthal. This episode of the Scott Horton Show is sponsored by: Tom Woods’ Liberty Classroom; ExpandDesigns.com/Scott. Get Scott’s interviews before anyone else! Subscribe to the Substack. Shop Libertarian Institute merch or donate to the show through Patreon, PayPal or Bitcoin: 1DZBZNJrxUhQhEzgDh7k8JXHXRjY Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	For Pacifica Radio, February 16th, 2023.
0:06.0	I'm Scott Horton.
0:07.6	This is anti-war radio. I'm your host, Scott Horton.
0:26.4	Editor of the new book Hotter than the Sun.
0:31.6	Time to abolish nuclear weapons.
0:33.2	You can find my full interview archive, more than 5,800 of them now going back to 2003,
0:39.1	at Scott Horton.org, and you can follow me on Twitter at Scott Horton's show.
0:45.0	All right, and today's guest is Max Blumenthal.
0:48.0	He's the editor of The Greyzone at the Greyzone.com,
0:52.0	and that's a great collection of journalists there and Max my friend you are one of the main reasons I can't wait for the anti-war protest in Washington DC this Sunday my chance to shake your hand again
1:07.4	but also to watch you give a speech and I saw you give a barn burner off the cuff about a year and a half ago at an
1:16.4	anti-war protest that was just great so you know if that kind of energy can set the mood for this event this Sunday at the Lincoln Memorial in DC,
1:26.0	it's going to really be something else man, so really looking forward to that.
1:30.0	Me too, I mean it's going to be me you and like 57 other people so yeah. We'll see how it goes I and you know I like the sound of my own voice but I'm going to try to keep it short and sweet and and I hope everybody else does too, because we also have a march
1:44.7	afterwards, and we just need to send a strong message to change the strategic calculus of the
1:49.8	war state that people actually are fed up with this whole operation and so the more we can
1:56.2	show you know that we're getting offline and showing up at the new Lincoln Memorial I think the more
2:02.2	we can start to get into the heads of the war planners.
2:05.9	Yeah, absolutely. I mean, that's what this is all about and I know that in a sense it's kind of a fool's errand to coin a phrase
2:20.4	to do a radio show in Los Angeles about why people need to spend a bunch of money to get on a plane and go all the way to DC for the weekend But I think this one's really important and I think turnout is everything and we really have to demonstrate to the foreign policy establishment that they don't have a blank check to do what they want here. The American people do not agree.
2:34.7	We want to see at end of this conflict. We want negotiations now on our timetable, not theirs.
2:41.5	Yeah, absolutely.
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