We explore the HORRORS OF NUCLEAR WASTE in Solartopia with two of the world’s great experts: DONNA GILMORE and KEVIN KAMPS. Based in Orange County, California, Donna is one of California’s best-known and most knowledgeable experts. She has been central to the successful movement to shut the remaining two reactors at San Onofre. Donna’s critiques of the insane irresponsibility of …
Moving Forward – 09.25.17
Rob Seimetz and Giorgio Cafiero discuss the inner workings of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) and the GCC’s relationship with countries around the world. Giorgio Cafiero is the CEO of Gulf State Analytics, a Washington DC-based geopolitical risk-consulting firm which assesses risks and opportunities among GCC states. His website is www.gulfstateanalytics.com Link to Rob Seimetz’s website – https://daretobedifferent2017.wordpress.com/ Download this episode …
Meditations and Molotovs – 09.18.17
On today’s program, we’ll listen to Noam Chomsky’s 1985 lecture, ‘Lessons of the Vietnam War’ in response to Ken Burns’ absurd documentary and criminal attempt at white-washing the greatest war crime of the second half of the 20th century. Download this episode (right click and save)
Ann Garrison – Peace Activists Confront Amy Goodman on Biased Syria Coverage
Peace Activists Confront Amy Goodman on Biased Syria Coverage by Ann Garrison Black Agenda Report, May 22, 2017 https://www.blackagendareport.com/activists_confront_amy_goodman_on_syria “Amy has continued — with only rare exceptions — to promote the ‘Assad-did-it-again’ stories, on her show.“ Amy Goodman, host of the Pacifica Network’s flagship news hour “Democracy Now” is on a speaking tour of the country to celebrate the show’s …
Meditations and Molotovs – 02.13.17
On today’s program Vince is joined by former Scout Sniper (USMC), activist, filmmaker and his main compadre, the great Sergio Alexander Kochergin. Sergio and Vince served together in the Marine Corps and have been involved with progressive activism ever since. This is Part I of their two part conversation.
Sarah Lazare – Mothers Incarcerated With Their Children in Obama’s Disgraceful Family Prisons Want Freedom for the Holidays
“We are desperate because this will be the second Christmas that our children have to spend here,” 17 mothers incarcerated at the Berks County Family Detention Center wrote in a recent joint letter to state authorities, publicized by the advocacy organization Grassroots Leadership. “This is in addition to all the other special dates—such as the birthdays of our children and …
Dahr Jamail – James Mattis Is a War Criminal: I Experienced His Attack on Fallujah Firsthand
Retired marine General James Mattis, who retired from being the head of CENTCOM in 2013, has become known recently for his stance against what he calls “political Islam.” “Is political Islam in the best interest of the United States?” Mattis said at the far right-wing Heritage Foundation in 2015. “I suggest the answer is no, but we need to have …
Gary G. Kohls – The 50th Anniversary of the Start of America’s Mass School Shooting Epidemic And the Story of the “Clock Tower Sniper”
It is a fact that 90% of America’s school shooters were on prescription brain-altering psychiatric drugs – drugs that are well known to cause inebriation, intoxication, loss of impulse control, rage, aggression, homicidal ideation, suicidal ideation, and temporary drug-induced mania and/or psychosis. But the well-documented psychiatric drug connections to school shootings and a host of other widely-publicized episodes of …
US seizure of USD 2 billion in Iranian assets highway robbery: Zarif
Iran says the deduction of around USD two billion in frozen Iranian assets recently authorized by a US court ruling is “highway robbery,” vowing that the Islamic Republic will retrieve the sum. According to Press TV, last Wednesday, the US Supreme Court ruled that the money had to be turned over to the American families of the people killed in …
DEEP HISTORY AND THE GLOBAL DRUG CONNECTION, PART 3: A DEADLY BUREAUCRACY
Opium poppies in Helmand Photo credit: U.S. Marines / Wikimedia Introduction by Russ Baker: More musings from Peter Dale Scott, the “father of Deep State analysis.” It’s heady and sometimes difficult material, but no one has gone as deeply as he has in trying to understand the nature of power in America, and ties between the state, the Underworld, and the criminal …