Bøker av Aaron Mate

"This penetrating study asks whether the actual evidence concerning alleged Russian interference in the US elections of 2016 justifies the enormous hue and cry it has elicited ... A highly instructive inquiry into our current malaise." - Noam ChomskyCold War, Hot War upends conventional thinking about the defining story of the Trump era-the supposed threat of Russia to American democracy -and offers revelatory insight about the U.S. political and media culture in which it arose. Drawing on his writing for The Nation, Real Clear Investigations, The Grayzone, and original reporting for this book, journalist Aaron Mate offers a rigorous, and mordantly entertaining account of how and why supposed Russian interference in US elections became what Mother Jones described as "the biggest scandal in American history."Russiagate reporting is a densely populated field. But, unlike other accounts, this book sidesteps the inflammatory speculation shared by Democrat and Republican talking points. Instead, Mate raises two questions that no major work has previously addressed: Do the facts about Russiagate match what we have been led to believe? And, if not, why has it become one of the biggest news stories of recent years? Russiagate, Mate argues, is not a genuine "scandal" based on the merits, but a kind of Privilege Protection Racket: a product of the interests-and entrenched dysfunctions- of those in power. This is not some reverse conspiracy theory of "Deep State" subterfuge.  Cold War, Hot War brilliantly exposes the way the Russiagate phenomenon reflects the common elite interests of both liberals and conservative. In short, Russiagate is a pathology of the privileged.

With the invasion of the Ukraine, America's relations with Russia have moved right to the center of global politics. The Russiagate story has engulfed US media and politics since 2016 and Maté one of only a handful of journalists who got it right.Russigate has had massive consequences on US and global politics that continue to play out until this day. Aaron Maté's coverage of Russiagate in the Nation magazine has been honored with an Izzy Award for outstanding achievement in independent media, and International Journalism award from the Club de Periodistas de MexicoThis is a returnable Print To Order Hardcover.

This collection brings together activists and engaged scholars to explore the challenges of Palestinian solidarity activism in Canada.