Matt Taibbi

4 days ago | floppingaces.net | Matt Taibbi

Ukraine’s 18-month plan to execute “Russia’s Pearl Harbor” leaves humanity at the edge of extinction, and Western analysts are giddyIn a segment titled, “Ukraine burns Putin, but also schools Trump with surprise drone attack,” MSNBC hosts Nicolle Wallace and Rachel Maddow chatted giddily after a paradigm-shifting operation by Volodymyr Zelensky that left the world on the edge of nuclear exchange.

4 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi

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5 days ago | propertychronicle.com | Matt Taibbi

In Chapter Two of The Quiet American narrator Thomas Fowler, like author Graham Greene a war-weary British journalist, watches in horror as young CIA agent Thomas Pyle orchestrates a disaster. Pyle has just arrived in Vietnam from Harvard and follows an anti-communist playbook in backing the dubious General Thé, who blows up a street full of women and children instead of soldiers:“He said, ‘Thé wouldn’t have done this. I’m sure he wouldn’t. Somebody deceived him.

6 days ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Listen to this episode with a 7-day free trialSubscribe to Racket News to listen to this post and get 7 days of free access to the full post archives. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading. Welcome to America This Week, with Matt Taibbi and Walter Kirn, the national news wrap-up so true, we recommend you stow all sharp objects before reading.

1 week ago | racket.news | Matt Taibbi |Walter Kirn

Matt Taibbi: All right. Welcome to America This Week. I’m Matt Taibbi. Walter Kirn: And I’m Walter Kirn. Matt Taibbi: And we have an amusing show. We’re probably going to have some fiery responses about this material. Walter, you’re in Vegas, right? You relocated last night? Walter Kirn: Yeah, late last night I left the East Coast. Which is leaving a pressure cooker at this point. I mean, I can’t tell you how many conversations of ultimate fear about the coming fascist regime that I had in New York.