[Peace-discuss] DemNow! andTimothy Snyder

[David Green]

We commented on Snyder a couple of weeks ago on NfN, prompted by my hearing an interview with him by the usually perspicacious Chuck Mertz of This is Hell. During that week, Goodman had interviewed a related individual, Ruth Ben-Ghiat, regarding Italian fascism, so this is by now a familiar pattern.
Snyder's pamphlet is downloadable from the Champaign Public Library Cloud, and I assume Urbana as well; it's not exactly Common Sense. But the interview reflects the lack of criticism that Chomsky/Zinn etc. regularly have brought to Democracy Now, and the depths to which Trump has driven what is called the progressive media.
DG 

    On Wednesday, May 31, 2017 9:49 PM, Carl G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
 

 https://www.jacobinmag.com/2014/09/timothy-snyders-lies/


On May 31, 2017, at 4:21 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
Interesting interview with smart guy, Yale prof Timothy Snyder, who talks about how to prevent authoritarianism without ever taking into account what the U.S. has done in its overthrow of governments and its wars to in fact promote authoritarianism (think of Chile, Brazil, Central America, Iran, Egypt, Saudi Arabia,…).
He is also the one who most vociferously defended the coup in Ukraine, the attacks against the separatist Donbas region, and its fascist overtones. What lies behind this is his deep antagonism to Russia.. I found it curious also that he never alluded to American militarism and the consequences it has for authoritarianism.

He’s written a book “On Tyranny”. It might be interesting to parse. 

When I saw that Snyder was featured on DemocracyNow!, I was tempted to ignore it.

—mkb
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