[audio:http://dissentradio.com/radio/07_07_12_oneill.mp3]
Brendan O’Neill, journalist, columnist, blogger, and editor of Spiked-Online in Merry Old England, discusses the politically correct victim mentality of al Qaeda terrorists like Ayman al Zawahiri and the Manichean view of and support given by Western liberal internationalists in and out of government for the al Qaeda movement in Bosnia and Kosovo in the 1990’s and the terrible consequences.
MP3 here. (39:34)
Brendan O’Neill is the editor of Spiked, the ‘sassy, irreverent, UK-based online magazine of news and opinion’, in the words of the San Francisco Chronicle. (Read the Press Gazette‘s coverage of his becoming editor here.) He started his career in journalism at spiked‘s predecessor, Living Marxism, until it was forced to close in 2000 following a notorious libel action brought by ITN. His personal website is here.
Scott Horton is editorial director of Antiwar.com, director of the Libertarian Institute and host of the Scott Horton Show
from ScottHorton.org. He’s the author of the 2017 book, Fool’s Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, the 2021 book Enough Already: Time to End the War on Terrorism and the 2024 book Provoked: How Washington Started the New Cold War with Russia and the Catastrophe in Ukraine, and editor of The Great Ron Paul: The Scott Horton Show Interviews 2004–2019
and Hotter Than the Sun: Time to Abolish Nuclear Weapons. He’s conducted more than 6,000 interviews since 2003. Scott lives in Austin, Texas with his wife, investigative reporter Larisa Alexandrovna Horton. He is a fan of, but no relation to the lawyer from Harper’s
.
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