{"id":18893,"date":"2019-03-06T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=c5497f696b015242f0f000ffeb0b50e0"},"modified":"2019-03-06T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-06T11:00:00","slug":"american-misdirection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2019\/03\/06\/american-misdirection\/","title":{"rendered":"American Misdirection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n        <p>Journalist and Russiagate critic Aaron Mat\u00e9 presents his dissenting analysis, what he believes is behind the investigation, and how the scandal has distracted from other urgent issues.\u00a0<\/p><p>We hear a speech from professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of \u201cThe Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for a Human Future at the New Frontier of Power.\u201d<\/p><p>As the Trump administration intensifies its air war in Somalia, journalist Harun Maruf, author of \u201cInside Al-Shabaab: The Secret History of Al-Qaeda\u2019s Most Powerful Ally,\" discusses the war in Somalia and the seldom mentioned history of how the George W. Bush administration helped overthrow the only force that had brought peace to Somalia since the early 1990s.<\/p>\n       &#10;&nbsp;<br \/><hr><p style='color: grey; font - size: 0.75em; '>See <a style='color: grey; '  rel='noopener noreferrer' href='https:\/\/acast.com\/privacy'>acast.com\/privacy<\/a> for privacy and opt-out information.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/play.acast.com\/s\/intercepted-with-jeremy-scahill\/americanmisdirection\">Intercepted with Jeremy Scahill<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        Journalist and Russiagate critic Aaron Mat\u00e9 presents his dissenting analysis, what he believes is behind the investigation, and how the scandal has distracted from other urgent issues.\u00a0We hear a speech from professor Shoshana Zuboff, author of&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":192,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/192"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18893"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":798344,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18893\/revisions\/798344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}