Antony Rotunno
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freethinker75 blog (http://contrafib.blogspot.co.uk/)
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contrafib YouTube channel (http://www.youtube.com/user/contrafib)
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... on Soundcloud (https://soundcloud.com/antonyrotunno)
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Notes from JC
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Just in case anyone is wondering, no, I don't smoke cigars (or anything else!). I do like a glass of port from time to time though. :)
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Also—and I'm quite sure many of you will have picked up on this—Antony and I sometimes do exactly what Adam Curtis does and say "everyone" when we actually mean "many people", etc., but, in our defence, ours is an unscripted conversation in which hyperbole is difficult to avoid, whereas Mr. Curtis is reading from his carefully-crafted script. Just saying...
Items mentioned in / related to the conversation
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Adam Curtis, HyperNormalisation (widely available online)
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Alejandro Rojas, "Ex-Air Force Law Enforcement Agent Says He Hoaxed Major UFO Mythologies", Huffington Post (13 May 2014)
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"Hanoi Jane" (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Fonda)
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Peter Biskind, Easy Riders, Raging Bulls, Bloomsbury (new edn. 1999)
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Ulrich Beck (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulrich_Beck)
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Joseph Weizenbaum (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Weizenbaum)
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TMR 186 : David Greenockle : Homo Technologicus and the Love of Servitude
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Pan Am Flight 103 "Lockerbie" (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pan_Am_Flight_103)
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Survivors (1975 TV series) (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Survivors_(1975_TV_series))
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Rebuilding America's Defenses : Strategy, Forces and Resources for a New Century : A Report of The Project for the New American Century, PNAC (September 2000).
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The PNAC website has terminated. A copy of the report may be available via The Wayback Machine at Archive.org, such as here.
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Which Path to Persia? : Options for a New American Strategy Toward Iran, The Brookings Institution, Analysis Paper (20 June 2009) (https://www.brookings.edu/research/which-path-to-persia-options-for-a-new-american-strategy-toward-iran/)
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Peter Walker, "The Rock movie plot 'may have inspired MI6 source's Iraqi weapons claim' ", The Guardian (6 July 2016)
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Ron Nixon, "US Groups Helped Nurture Arab Uprisings", New York Times (14 April 2011)
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Thomas Harding, "Col Gaddafi killed: convoy bombed by drone flown by pilot in Las Vegas", The Telegraph (20 October 2011)
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Vladislav Surkov (Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vladislav_Surkov)
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"Skripal attack: Bellingcat names second Salisbury suspect", BBC News (08 October 2018)
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Update 2019: Eliot Higgins (of Bellingcat website): Formerly Atlantic Council Nonresident Senior Fellow, Digital Forensic Research Lab, Future Europe Initiative
Acknowledgements
- Episode music: "Same Way" © Dissident Prophet, all rights reserved, used here with kind permission.