The Dr. Peter Breggin Hour – 11.08.17

My guest Bonnie Burstow PhD is an amazing researcher and scholar, and one of the world’s leading activists against psychiatric abuse, including electroshock.  Bonnie’s creativity is boundless, and describes the courage it took to write her new novel about ECT called “The Other Mrs. Smith.” She does a reading from her book on the air that is incredibly moving. Bonnie …

The Vinyl Experience – 09.29.17

  VE 144   The Band: King Harvest (Has Surely Come) Neil Young: Harvest Avett Brothers: I And Love And You Rascals: How Can I Be Sure John Lennon: Isolation REM: Feeling Gravity’s Pull Ray LaMontagne: Old Before Your Time Buddy Miles: Them Changes Jayhawks: Two Hearts Rolling Stones: Sitting On A Fence Led Zeppelin: Celebration Day Pete Townshend: Pure …

What Women Must Know – The Health Risks From Our Hair Products with Pierce Sioussat – 08.17.17

Pierce Sioussat is a veteran marketing specialist and entrepreneur with a unique combination of corporate new product development marketing experience and a deep knowledge of the natural products industry.  After holding executive positions with Ogilvy & Mather advertising as well as the Citibank Consumer Banking Division, Pierce entered the natural products industry in 1994 working with his father-in-law Paul Ross …

Alternative Visions – Central Banks on the Ropes, Part 2: Origins & Toxic Legacies of the Federal Reserve – 06.09.17

In the first half of the show, Dr. Rasmus reviews key economic events of the past week, including the collapseof ‘Banco Popular’ bank in Europe and what it might mean in coming weeks to Europe’s fragile banking system, the emerging problems in Junk Bonds and the retail sector in the US, renewed falling oil prices, the US House passing the …

Alternative Visions – How Macron and Trump Economic Policies Are Similar – 05.12.17

Dr. Rasmus reviews early policy directions of newly elected French President, Emmanuel Macron, that focus on anti-labor reform, business tax cuts, and privatization and how that set of policy priorities is similar in many ways to Trump’s.  How recent reports on unemployment in Europe show jobless rates at 18% (not 9.5%) while the US rate is really 9%-12% and not …