{"id":403203,"date":"2019-04-16T07:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/max-blumenthal-on-canceled-book-launch-event-rt-usa-news\/"},"modified":"2019-04-16T07:00:13","modified_gmt":"2019-04-16T06:00:13","slug":"max-blumenthal-on-canceled-book-launch-event-rt-usa-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/max-blumenthal-on-canceled-book-launch-event-rt-usa-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Max Blumenthal on canceled book launch event \u2014 RT USA News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5ca5c54bdda4c8184b8b4587.png\" \/><\/p>\n<p>        The anti-Damascus lobby in the US has coerced a bookstore in Washington DC to \u201cpostpone\u201d the launch of investigative journalist Max Blumenthal\u2019s new book, which exposes dirty secrets of US regime-change tactics, he has told RT.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The award-winning author was due to speak at the Politics and Prose bookstore in US capital on Wednesday night, before the organizers abruptly <em>\u201cpostponed\u201d<\/em> the event, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politics-prose.com\/event\/book\/postponed-max-blumenthal-management-of-savagery-how-americas-national-security-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">citing<\/a> possible security and <em>\u201csubstance\u201d<\/em> concerns. The Syrian American Council is to blame for the cancellation, Blumenthal told RT.<\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"media__youtube-frame lazyload\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300px\" data-src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LTjLDM_TwD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe Syrian regime-change lobby has targeted me, tried to silence me. And they targeted Politics and Prose [bookstore],\u201d<\/em> the journalist said.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong><em>What we\u2019re seeing is a censorship campaign to cover up one of the greatest scandals of our time.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div class=\"rtcode\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">I was told by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PoliticsProse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@PoliticsProse<\/a> that <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sa_council?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@sa_council<\/a> led the intimidation campaign to cancel my book talk. This is the group that hosted an open advocate of the genocide of Syrian religious minorities at their gala &amp; which lobbies Trump for war. Moral hypocrisy. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/qnGgNuAYnT\">https:\/\/t.co\/qnGgNuAYnT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Max Blumenthal (@MaxBlumenthal) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MaxBlumenthal\/status\/1113620296794296321?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 4, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p>In his new book \u2018The Management of Savagery: How America&#8217;s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump\u2019, the author exposes how the US has spent billions on training, arming, and guiding extremist insurgents for the last 40 years.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"read-more-big\" href=\"http:\/\/www.rt.com\/news\/455308-guaido-police-caracas-rally-venezuela\/\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n    <span class=\"read-more-big__container\"><br \/>\n        <span class=\"read-more-big__content\"><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__subtitle\">Also on rt.com<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__title\">\u2018What kind of a dictatorship is this?\u2019 Max Blumenthal on Venezuela cops protecting coup leader <\/span><br \/>\n        <\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"read-more-big__cover lazyload\" data-bgset=\"&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxs\/5ca27af1dda4c80d3c8b459a.jpg 280w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xs\/5ca27af1dda4c80d3c8b459b.jpg 320w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/thumbnail\/5ca27af1dda4c80d3c8b4599.jpg 460w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/m\/5ca27af1dda4c80d3c8b459c.jpg 540w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/l\/5ca27af1dda4c80d3c8b459d.jpg 768w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/article\/5ca27af0dda4c80d3c8b4598.jpg 980w,&#10;                            https:\/\/cdni.rt.com\/files\/2019.04\/xxl\/5ca27af2dda4c80d3c8b459e.jpg 1240w&#10;                        \" data-sizes=\"auto\"\/><br \/>\n    <\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Blumenthal also argues that American covert proxy wars, supervised by the CIA, have destabilized entire societies, caused the refugee crisis and spurred the resurgence of xenophobia and ultra-right politics in the Western world, which Donald Trump has <em>\u201cexploited on overdrive.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Think your friends would be interested? Share this story!<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rt.com\/usa\/455503-max-blumenthal-syrian-war-lobby\/?utm_source=rss&#038;utm_medium=rss&#038;utm_campaign=RSS\">RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by <a href=\"http:\/\/rinf.com\">RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The anti-Damascus lobby in the US has coerced a bookstore in Washington DC to \u201cpostpone\u201d the launch of investigative journalist Max Blumenthal\u2019s new book, which exposes dirty secrets of US regime-change tactics, he has told RT. The award-winning author was due to speak at the Politics and Prose bookstore in US capital on Wednesday night, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":403204,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-403203","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403203","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=403203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/403204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=403203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=403203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=403203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}