Democracy Now! and The Intercept exposed!

This is taken from a very interesting, for a variety of reasons, Grayzone livestream featuring Aaron Mate, Max Blumenthal, Ben Norton and Rania Khalek. I may use it in a blog post I'm working on, "Pogressives - part 5." (*edit, Feb 3, 2020 - I didn't use the above clip but I mostly talked about Max's recent book, "The Management Of Savagery." / https://arrby.wordpress.com/2020/02/01/progressives-part-5/) I'm not sure. I wanted this excerpt not originally for that post, but because the commentators' take-down of fake progressive orgs Democracy Now! and The Intercept is priceless. But I'm also finishing up Max Blumenthal's book, "The Management Of Savagery," and am disappointed with some of what Max does here. He calls the multi-national assault on Syria a "civil war" and he he spouts the establishment line about Assad's "brutal" crackdown on protesters in Syria in 2011, which is a fact that has been debunked by Stephen Gowans and others.

Interestingly, in this excerpt, both Max and Aaron don't call the assault on Syria a civil war. Why call it a civil war in you book but not in this video Max? And Ben Norton, who has spouted the very worst establishment talking points about Syria in the early stages of the assault calls the multi-nation assault on Syria a world war, going on to list all of the countries arrayed against Syria! (Barbara McKenzie looks at Max's and Ben's awful anti Syria rants in the early days of the multi-nation assault on Syria on her blog, which she seems to have abandoned.) What's more striking is that Ben then goes into a spiel about how progressive outlets that spout establishment lines about countries targetted for regime change by great powers do so much damage by empowering the imperial forces and their operations which they also critique. Okay, Maybe Max and Ben have learned some things and now possess a different opinion about the above subjects; But why can't they they clearly state that they were wrong? We aren't sure what they are up to.