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Aaron Good
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John Kiriakou joins us to discuss the history of the CIA and its evolving relationship with “Israel.” Kirakou is the former CIA officer who famously blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program.
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Check out:
- John Kiriakou
- Remains of the Day: A Guide to Historic Cemeteries of Washington, DC
- Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Moe Tkacik joins us to talk about the absurdly suspicious circumstances surrounding the Charlie Kirk assassination.
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Check out recent articles from Moe:
- “The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations”
- “A Hole in the ‘Open-and-Shut’ Case Against Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin?”
- “Onward Christian Soldier”
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Moe Tkacik joins us to talk about the MeToo takedown of Graham Platner.
Check out recent articles from Moe:
- “The Kleptocrat Nesting Dolls Behind Trump’s Potemkin Gas Stations”
- “A Hole in the ‘Open-and-Shut’ Case Against Charlie Kirk’s Alleged Assassin?”
- “Onward Christian Soldier”
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce discuss the strange demise of Lindsey Graham, the Epstein Regime's resumption of hot war on Iran, Roger Waters on 911, and Graham Platner. Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
In this Episode, Aaron and Tonery discuss wars in West Asia and Ukraine--as well as the Graham Platner affair and its implications for the US Left.
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Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
American Exception followers on Patreon, regardless of the tier, get first access to new episodes! Paid subscribers enjoy access to the entire library of the best historical analysis of deep events on the American Exception podcast, Including the Oral History of Peter Dale Scott series.Subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
Professor James K. Galbraith joins us to talk about the American System, the deep pathologies of the economics discipline in the West, and the need for a revival of economic history.
Recent books by James Galbraith:
- The Power to Destroy: How Bad Economics Drove America’s Decline
- Entropy Economics: The Living Basis of Value and Production
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
American Exception followers on Patreon, regardless of the tier, get first access to new episodes! Paid subscribers enjoy access to the entire library of the best historical analysis of deep events on the American Exception podcast, Including the Oral History of Peter Dale Scott series.Subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
Jeffrey Kaye joins us to discuss his important recently published article, “The Military Intelligence Connections Behind the JFK, Oswald Murders & Cover-up.” A retired psychologist turned blogger and forensic historian, Kaye is the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo and many articles on Korean War-era biowarfare and other subjects at the Hidden Histories Substack page.
Also check out:
- CIA-Connected D.C. Hospital Chief Advised Warren Commission
- Historic CIA "Artichoke" Meeting Reveals Agency Asset Inside Warren Commission
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron is joined by Dr. Gary Aguilar to discuss the JFK assassination medical evidence and its strange history.
Check out:
“Max Holland Rescues the Warren Commission and the Nation”
‘Warren Report: The Garrison Investigation’ (CSPAN debate between Aguilar and Holland)
Special thanks to:
· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Finkelstein, the "Islamic Bomb," and More! (AE252)Aaron and Tonery discuss Norm Finkelstein, conservative anti-zionists, BCCI, A.Q. Khan, and the "Islamic Bomb."
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce discuss recent political developments, including some spectacular examples of tolerated Israeli criminality.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Tonery are joined by Klonny of ParaPower Mapping to discuss Jeffrey Epstein's involvement in the Iran-contra meta-conspiracy. Check his recent article on the subject: "Jeffrey Epstein’s War and the PedoFash International (Pt. II): Iran-Contra and the Year of the Spy"
ParaPower Mapping is an auditory and prosaic cork board mapping the interlocks and hidden passages of the capitalist elite. Moneyed families, secret societies, intel networks, and trafficking rings.
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Music: "Poster Child" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!!
We conclude (for now?) our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconoclastic scholar, Ola Tunander.
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Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
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Special thanks to:
· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Monika Wiesak joins us to discuss her recent article, “JFK: Myth vs. Reality.” We also discuss her book on the King of Pop, Michael Jackson: The Man, the Music, the Controversy.
Monika is also the author of America’s Last President and Echoes of a Lost America: Unraveling the Murder of JFK.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron responds to interview questions for a French-speaking Algerian audience.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We continue with Part 4 of our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconclastic scholar, Ola Tunander.
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Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Subscribe to Ola’s Substack!
Special thanks to:
· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce discuss the current insanity of the flailing US Empire.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Max Arvo returns to discuss his Substack piece, "KKMOUNTAIN and the CIA-Israel Relationship." We also zoom out to discuss related deep political and historical issues. At the end, I add a much longer coda than I expected…
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Music: "Motel Man" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!!
We continue with Part 3 of our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconoclastic scholar, Ola Tunander.
Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Subscribe to Ola’s Substack!
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· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Aaron is joined by Robin Andersen, author of The Complicit Lens: US Media Coverage of Israel’s Genocide in Gaza.
Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University and an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), where she also writes regularly, and is an Izzy Award Judge for the Park Center for Independent Media. Her writing has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, The Progressive, Salon, Common Dreams, and ScheerPost, among others.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We continue our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconoclastic scholar, Ola Tunander. Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Subscribe to Ola’s Substack!
American Exception followers on Patreon, regardless of the tier, get first access to new episodes! Paid subscribers enjoy access to the entire library of the best historical analysis of deep events on the American Exception podcast. Subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
This episode kicks off our series on the Olof Palme assassination with the great and iconclastic scholar, Ola Tunander. Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Subscribe to Ola’s Substack!
American Exception followers on Patreon, regardless of the tier, get first access to new episodes! Paid subscribers enjoy access to the entire library of the best historical analysis of deep events on the American Exception podcast. Subscribe to our Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception
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· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Max Arvo is back to discuss his Substack piece, "George Hunter White: American Heretic, American Missionary." We also talk about the unfolding Iran War debacle.
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Music: "I Can't Seem To Think" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!!
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the Iran War and how the Iran-Contra spectacle functioned as a Watergate 2.0 by effecting a realignment of US politics in which Zionist neoconservatism became hegemonic in the realm of foreign policy.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
IMAGE: Iran-Contra Scandal Trading Cards by Eclipse Enterprises (1988), #35: John Poindexter, National Security Advisor.
Aaron is joined by Sean McCarthy, co-host of the Rocinante podcast, to discuss US Empire and the deep politics approach to understanding and explaining it.
Sean McCarthy is on Substack!
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron is Joined by Luke Peterson to discuss his new book, The US Military in the Print News Media. Peterson is a professor of Arabic and Middle Eastern Studies based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Tonery Rogers returns to discuss her research on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI), including the takedown of BCCI and the Epstein-BCCI links to Southern Air Transport.
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- Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Professor Jeffrey Sachs joins us to talk about his book, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace.
Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on a group of poverty alleviation initiatives called the Millennium Development Goals.
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· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
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Gumby joins Bryce and Aaron to discuss the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein as portrayed in the latest government releases.
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- Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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Music: "I Can't Seem To Think" by Mock Orange
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss One Battle After Another —the 2025 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and based on the 1990 novel, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any real synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!
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Music: “Old Movies” by Mock Orange
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the release horrific new Epstein material.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Mickey Huff joins us to talk about Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2026.
Mickey Huff is the Distinguished Director of PCIM and Professor of Journalism at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Huff continues to serve as the third director of Project Censored and as president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. He has been a professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000, where he was chair of the history and journalism departments, and helped co-found the social justice studies program.
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Tonery Rogers joins us to discuss her research on the Bank of Credit and Commerce International (BCCI).
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Moe Tkacik joins us to talk about her important article, “The Narco-Terrorist Elite: Why is Marco Rubio so hell-bent on making Iran-Contra again?”.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron is joined by Dr. Gary Aguilar to discuss the JFK assassination and, in particular, the work of CIA-friendly lone nut theorist, Max Holland.
Check Out:
- “Max Holland Rescues the Warren Commission and the Nation”
- ‘Warren Report: The Garrison Investigation’ (CSPAN debate between Aguilar and Holland)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron and Bryce try to make sense of things at the end of an insane 2025.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Ola Tunander joins us to discuss his recent article about the end of US military dominance over Northern Europe: “From US Horizontal Escalation to Russian Escalation Dominance: Strategic Naval Thinking and Capabilities in the 1980s and Today.” We also touch upon his series of articles on the assassination of Olaf Palme. See Part 1 here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”
Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Subscribe to Ola’s Substack!
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· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss All the President’s Men—the 1976 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, and based on a 1974 novel (lol) by Washington Post reporters Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!
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Music: "Old Movies" by Mock Orange
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Aaron is joined by Peter and Karim of BettBeat Media to discuss the mind-bending reality of the West’s dying empire.
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· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss The Parallax View—the 1974 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beatty, and based on a 1970 novel by Loren Adelson Singer. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!
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Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the increasingly unraveling spectacle of the late US Empire.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron is joined by Tucker United spokesperson, Nikki Forrester. Tucker United is a coalition of Tucker County, West Virginia residents and allies who have come together to stop the proposed Ridgeline Power Plant between Davis and Thomas. The power plant would provide energy for a massive data center to be run by a shady, out-of-state corporation called Fundamental Data.
Visit: the Tucker United website!
Donate: Help Stop the Proposed Power Plant and Data Center Complex in Tucker County
Check out: Highland Outdoors – West Virginia’s Outdoor Magazine
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- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron is joined by two CIA veterans—John Kiriakou and Barry Eisler—to discuss the late imperial mania of the US deep state. John Kiriakou is the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program. Barry Eisler is also a former CIA officer and a bestselling novelist. His newest book is The System.
Check out:
- Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou
- Deep Focus with John Kiriakou
- The DeProgram Show
- Barry Eisler’s website
- Barry’s Substack
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron is joined by Omar Zahzah, the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, artist, musician, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. An organizer for Palestinian liberation for over ten years, Omar is the former Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine, a role that saw him training delegates to Palestine on Palestinian political history and culture and racial justice. Omar’s writing on Palestine has appeared in outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, The Nation, and the New York Times. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss various aspects of the Gray Alliance, including a special focus on the presidency of John F. Kennedy and, of course, his assassination. Follow and support Max Arvo on Substack!
Music: “Growing Crooked” byMock Orange
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Sarah Kendzior joins us to talk about the central topic of her writing in recent years—the collapse of US politics and society. Sarah’s latest book is The Last American Road Trip. Sarah is the author of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. She is also the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America and The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America.
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In this episode, Jim DeBrosse and Asa Winstanley join us to discuss Jim’s new article, “Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.” Jim DeBrosse (PhD) is a veteran journalist, retired assistant professor of journalism, and the author of See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the US Media. Asa Winstanley provided additional research Jim’s article. Asa is an investigative journalist who lives in London. He is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and co-host of The Electronic Intifada Podcast. Asa is also the author of the bestselling book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.
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Cara MariAnna joins us to discuss Zionist atrocities in Palestine, specifically in the West Bank. Cara is an independent journalist and activist. Follow and support her work on her Substack page, Winter Wheat!
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The Fort Bragg Cartel – Seth Harp (AE212)Journalist Seth Harp joins us to discuss The Fort Bragg Cartel, his trailblazing new book on the endemic drug abuse, murder, mayhem, narcotics trafficking, and legal immunity of the US Special Forces milieu centered at Fort Bragg. The Fort Brag Cartel is currently being adapted into a series for HBO.
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Aaron is joined by Sibel Edmonds—an extremely important FBI whistleblower. Thanks to the Bush administration’s assertion of the state secrets privilege, Edmonds is the most gagged woman in US political history. She was the recipient of the 2006 PEN/Newman’s Own First Amendment Award. Edmonds is also the author of two acclaimed books: Classified Woman: The Sibel Edmonds Story and The Lone Gladio, a political spy thriller.
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Subscribe to the American Exception podcast on Patreon to get access to the entire library of historical research on the deep politics of the United States. Journalist Seth Harp joins us to discuss The Fort Bragg Cartel, his trailblazing new book on the endemic drug abuse, murder, mayhem, narcotics trafficking, and legal immunity of the US Special Forces milieu centered at Fort Bragg. The Fort Brag Cartel is currently being adapted into a series for HBO.
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· Dana Chavarria, production
· Casey Moore, graphics
· Michelle Boley, animated intro
· Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce are joined by Tonery Rogers, a PhD student of history, to discuss the recent 9/11 conference in D.C. which they all attended.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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· Dana Chavarria, production
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· Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss bizarre apparent war over the Gray Alliance--a crucial part of the obscure context behind Watergate.
Music: “The End of the World” byMock Orange
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Lawrence Wilkerson and Gary Vogler join us to discuss and answer the question: Who controls US foreign policy in the Middle East—the US or Israel/Zionism? Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Gary Vogler is a retired US oil executive and served as the senior oil advisor to General Jay Gardner and Paul Bremer after the 2003 Iraq War. Vogler is also the author of the very important book, 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'.
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· Dana Chavarria, production
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· Michelle Boley, animated intro
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James DiEugenio joins us to discuss JFK’s Israel policies—as well as how and why LBJ reversed them! There article series is here: “The Debacle in the Middle East vs JFK”
Also check out:
- Jim’s website: Kennedys and King
- Jim’s latest book (ed.): The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Max Arvo discuss Epstein and some important WASPs: the Colbys, George HW Bush, and his Bush's Secretary of State—James Baker.
Music: “Chrome Alligator” by Mock Orange
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the Trump's Epstein woes and the general insanity of the crumbling US Empire in early August 2025.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter!
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· Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Essayist and journalist Patrick Lawrence joins us to talk about our late imperial horrors. Subscribe to The Floutist (Patrick Lawrence’s substack) and follow Patrick Lawrence on Twitter/X!
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the notable new Washington Post article finally acknowledging the CIA’s now undeniable pre-assassination relationship with patsy Lee Harvey Oswald as well as James Angleton angles!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the late imperial insanity of mid-July 2025.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the MKULTRA extended universe as well as the recent JFK assassination salon in which Max and I both participated.
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" byMock Orange
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Charles Derber joins us to discuss his new book, Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy. Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change.
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This is an expanded version of the presentation I recently delivered (via Zoom) to a group of top JFK assassination researchers.
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Journalist Peter Byrne joins us to discuss Military AI Watch. Hosted by Project Censored, Military AI Watch “exposes the hidden forces behind the AI arms race, the corporations cashing in, and the dire consequences for global security and democracy. Based on two years of extensive research, Byrne’s reporting sheds light on what powerful interests don’t want you to know.”
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Former CIA officer and bestselling author Barry Eisler joins us to discuss his new novel, The System. Here is what I wrote about the book:
The System depicts a fictionalized version of the late US Empire—an economic and military juggernaut now in terminal decline as the regime and its institutions buckle under the weight of their own corrupt and corrupting inertia. With compelling prose, Eisler has written a deep political thriller in which the characters exist in shades of gray. They all must accommodate various governmental and private sector interests in such a way as to become complicit in a system so illegitimate that its true dimensions cannot be candidly discussed or explained in “mainstream” settings. Let us hope that entertaining fiction like this can help snap Americans out of their red/blue partisan trances and unite them against their real enemy—the oligarchic regime itself.
Check out:
- Barry Eisler’s website
- Barry’s Substack
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Aaron and Bryce discuss the outbreak of hot war in Iran, kicked off by a brazenly illegal Zionist assassination spree abetted by the US President.
Check out Bryce Greene's Newsletter
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To hear the full episode and gain access the entire archive of deep historical research, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! Internet pioneer Ken McCarthy joins us to discuss his two books on the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist foreign policies of John and Robert Kennedy.
Check out:
- 'JFK and RFK’s Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism'
- 'John F. Kennedy Anti-Imperialist:
His Character and Intentions Revealed in Five Speeches and One Telegram' - Brasscheck TV
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We are joined again by John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program.
Check out:
- Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou
- Deep Focus with John Kiriakou
- The DeProgram Show
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
To hear the full episode and gain access the entire archive of deep historical research, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! Aaron and Max discuss the 2019 Martin Scorsese film, The Irishman. The film stars Robert DeNiro as an Irish-American hitman and Al Pacino as the notorious Teamster president, Jimmy Hoffa. The film is based on the book, I Heard You Paint Houses, by Charles Brandt. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!
Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
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Aaron is joined by Ben Thomason. Ben recently earned his doctorate in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation is entitled, Making Democracy Safe for Empire: A History and Political Economy of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, and Twenty-First Century Media Imperialism.
In this episode, we discuss two of Ben’s latest articles for CovertAction Magazine, both of which deal with the US dirty war on Syria. The first article is “The U.S.A.’s Longest ‘Democracy’ Project in Syria Has Resulted in the Empowerment of Al-Qaeda.” The second article, soon to be published, is “Western Soft Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria led by al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels.”
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- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron is joined by US Army Colonel (Ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson. Wilkerson was chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell during the first George W. Bush administration.
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- Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Monika Wiesak joins us to give her first interview for her brand new book, Echoes of a Lost America: Unraveling the Murder of JFK.
I previously interviewed Monika about her first book, America’s Last President in American Exception Episode 101.
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
To gain access to the archive of the best historical analysis of deep politics, please subscribe to the American Exception podcast on Patreon! James DiEugenio joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s release of long-withheld JFK-related documents. DiEugenio recently appeared before Congress with friends of the pod, Oliver Stone and Jefferson Morley. The three were there to discuss the JFK case with Representative Luna’s committee.
Check out:
- Jim’s website: Kennedys and King
- Jim’s latest book (ed.): The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the 2010 Martin Scorsese film, Shutter Island. The film stars Leonardo DeCaprio and is based on a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
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Max Parry joins us to speak with us about his new Covert Action Magazine article entitled “Did the CIA Covertly Support Chechen Separatist Terrorism? Of Course They Did.” Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Baltimore. His writing has appeared widely in alternative media and he is a frequent political commentator featured in Sputnik News and Press TV. He also hosts the podcast Captive Minds which is also available on YouTube.
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Jefferson Morley joins us to discuss recent events around the release of many long-withheld or redacted documents pertaining to the JFK assassination—including his appearance in front of Congress with our friends Oliver Stone and James DiEugenio.
Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. He runs the excellent website, JFK Facts. Subscribe to JFK Facts if you want access to some of the very best reporting and analysis on the JFK case!
Jefferson Morley is also the author of:
- Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
- The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.
- Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
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To hear the full episode and gain access the entire archive of deep historical research, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the recent JFK assassination declassification hearings in Washington. Also, Max revisits the Neocon Clean Break Report of 1996!
Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange
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To hear the full episode and gain access the entire archive of deep historical research, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! This is the second half of a two-part discussion with Max Arvo covering the new JFK document releases in the context of our Gray Alliance series as well as my new article which centers on one of these documents.
Check out the article: "James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'"
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode and Casey Moore for the episode art!
This episode features Part 3 of a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” This episode seeks to explore the historical consequences of Zionism’s role in the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
This episode features Part 2 of a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” Specifically, this installment examines the nature of the regime which killed JFK as well as Zionism’s role in the assassination.
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This episode features a presentation based on my recent article, “James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'.” About a year ago I discovered a page in James Angleton’s 1975 Church Committee testimony that the CIA tried to hide by deleting in subsequent releases. The 86ed page—which happened to be page 86—shows that CIA counterintelligence chief James Angleton did not tell CIA director John McCone that, in order to bypass the entire CIA, Angleton was using a Mossad officer as an operational agent for anti-Castro operations in Cuba. The outcome was that there was very little paper trail at the Agency when it came to the details of Angleton’s mobbed-up “Cuban business”—especially the assassination apparatus which many JFK assassination researchers believe was later redirected at President Kennedy. To get access to the complete archive of the best historical research on deep political events and the tripartite state, subscribe to the American Exception podcast on Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception Special thanks to:
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This episode features my recent speaking appearance at Wayne State University. Deep appreciation for to Professor Khari Brown as well as the Wayne State Sociology, African-American Studies, and History departments---and to Wiley Michelle Boley for filming and editing!
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This is the first of a two-part series with Max Arvo covering the new JFK document releases in the context of our Gray Alliance series as well as my new article which centers on one of these documents.
Check out the article: "James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'"
Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode and Casey Moore for the episode art!
Christian Parenti joins us to discuss a number of his recent articles, each of which addresses aspects of the feckless, co-opted US Left. Christian Parenti is Professor of Economics at John Jay College, CUNY. His academic work focuses on: American economic history, environmental history, and the history of capitalism; climate change and sustainable energy; as well as war, policing, and political violence. His most recent bookis 'Radical Hamilton: Economic Lessons from a Misunderstood Founder'.
This discussion is centered around three of his recent articles:
- The Cargo Cult of Woke
- How the Organized Left Got Covid Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost Its Mind: An Autopsy
- The Left-Wing Origins of ‘Deep State’ Theory
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Max Arvo joins Aaron to discuss the disastrous Netflix “adaptation” of Tom O’Neill’s masterpiece, Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA, and the Secret History of the Sixties.
Check out these interviews, any of which are better than Errol Morris’ passive-aggressive Netflix farce: Audio & Video for CHAOS
Music: "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Aaron and Bryce devote the episode to answering patron questions that we couldn't get to in the monthly American Exception Zoom session.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron is joined again by prolific anti-imperialist journalist and forensic historian, Kit Klarenberg. His work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. In the episode, Kit and Aaron discuss Kit's recent article "Britain: Operation Gladio's Secret 'Headquarters'" along with related subjects.
Check out his work at:
- Global Delinquents
- Active Measures
- Grayzone
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Max Arvo and I are back for the fourth and final (?) episode in our series on Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. After he killed Lee Oswald, Jack Ruby’s life became a nightmare from which he could never be allowed to escape...until he died from an extremely aggressive cancer case which progressed so rapidly as to seem almost unnatural.
Check out the articles here:
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Bryce Greene and Aaron discuss unfolding events here at the twilight of the American Century:
- Trump’s “Truth” tweet which turns US policy on Russia and NATO 180 degrees
- Vice President JD Vance’s speech to EU leaders…Will history remember it as the “Munich Massacre”?
- Bernie Sanders 2025 version looking bad
- how the bull market for gold may portend the end of the post-Bretton Woods Rumpelstiltskin dollar
- how a Zionist-on-Zionist mini-crime wave broke out in Florida
- how Canada is jailing people for criticizing genocide advocates on social media
Check out:
- Bryce Greene’s article: “Marco Rubio Is At The State Department To Push US Aggression Around The World”
- Bryce Greene's Newsletter
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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February 18 Max Arvo and I are back for the third of four episodes discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby which were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. Max’s research and articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own legal team, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare. Ultimately, the account reveals the horror show that Ruby’s life became. Now more than ever, the life and death of Jack Ruby are a synecdoche for the American deep state.
Check out the articles here:
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
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Aaron is joined by Ben Thomason. Ben recently earned his doctorate in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation title is Making Democracy Safe for Empire: A History and Political Economy of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, and Twenty-First Century Media Imperialism. In the show, we discuss the subject of his dissertation: the US empire’s so-called “democracy promotion” enterprises.
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Max Arvo and I are back for the second of four episodes covering Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. The articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own defense lawyers, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare—a horror show from which he could never be allowed to escape.
Max's article were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. You can find them here:
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" byMock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
To hear the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! We are joined by John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program. Aaron and John discuss a number of current events pertaining to the state of the US Empire here in the early weeks of Trump’s second term—including Trump’s Gaza takeover plan, Rubio’s strange endorsement of “multipolarity,” the Gabbard and Kennedy nominations, the hopeless state of the Democrats, the prospects for JFK disclosure under Trump, and 9/11 in the context of the Gaza Genocide and the US-backed al Qaeda takeover of Syria.
Check out:
- Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou
- The DeProgram Show
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce discuss a number of significant and/or bizarre recent events, including:
- Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s resistance to Yankee imperialism
- The spectacular release of Hamas’ female IDF hostages
- Trump’s Executive Order on the JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations
- Trump’s conquest of Greenland
- Europe’s rolling implosion
- Elon Musk’s strange nazi tic!
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Max discuss President Trump's executive order to declassify the remaining documents related to the JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Hawks Can Go” by Mock Orange
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Max Arvo and I are pausing the Gray Alliance series for the first of two (or three?) episodes that we are devoting to discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. Max’s account is a very important new and improved narrative explaining what happened to Jack Ruby. These articles were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King.
Check out the articles here:
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
- Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: “Sidewalk” by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
We are joined by Ola Tunander. Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy, European security, submarine warfare, and deception/psychological operations. He currently publishes at Ola’s Substack.
Aaron and Ola discuss the fates of Sweden’s best internationalist statesmen as well as Ola’s currently very relevant seminal work on the US false flag submarine operation in Sweden during the 1980’s.
Please check out Ola’s Substack, especially his brilliant two-part article:
- Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part I
- Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part II
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Max explore the links between the JFK assassination and Operation X—the operationalized symbiosis between the Lansky/Teamster National Crime Syndicate and powerful agencies within the US national security state. Most notable, we’re talking about Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the clandestine inner sanctum of the CIA which was the fiefdom of James Angleton.
This is the sixth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: "Window" by Mock Orange
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We are joined by Adnan Husain, a historian of both Medieval Europe and of the Middle East. Adnan is Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar Graduate Chair, and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also the co-host of the Guerilla History podcast. We discuss a number of topics including the state of the Empire, the absence of an effectual Western Left, the state of the Middle East, and the determinants of US foreign policy.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithica College in New York where he also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media. Additionally, Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored (founded in 1976), and he is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation.
Mickey Huff is the co-editor of Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025.
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Max Discuss how Robert F. Kennedy, by targeting the Teamsters and thus the Lansky Syndicate, was also threatening what Peter Dale Scott has termed Operation X—the institutionalized symbiosis between the drug traffic and national security state entities like Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and James Angleton's clandestine counter-intelligence fiefdom at the CIA.This is the fifth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
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Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music "Chrome Alligator" byMock Orange
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To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Image credit: AFP (via The Cradle)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Max Arvo explore how Jack Ruby’s Syndicate and Teamster connections were covered up and obscured—first by the Warren Commission and then by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
This is the fourth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce discuss various, insane, history-making events we’ve seen in recent days, including the assassination of a health insurance executive (capo?) as well as Biden’s pardon of Hunter, new Russian super missiles, and the West’s new McJihad offensive in Syria--now spearheaded by Erdogan’s Turkey!
Check out:
- Bryce Greene’s article: “As Most Ukrainians Prefer Ceasefire With Russia, Washington Says More Ukrainian Teenagers Should Die”
- Kit Klarenberg’s article, “Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins”
- William Van Wagenen on Twitter
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We are joined again Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years. Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack where you can find the articles we discuss today:
- Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents
- "Russiagate" Was Israelgate
- The Notable Timeline of Kennedy's Remarks on "Ethnic Bioweapons"
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron Good and Max Arvo interrogate the absurdly suspicious life and times of Jack Ruby—the "pimp for all seasons" who assassinated Lee Oswald, the most politically important prisoner in US history. Over the years, many people have come to find it suspicious that a mob-connected figure could murder Oswald in a room full of armed policemen whose one job at the time was to effect an orderly transfer of prisoner Lee Oswald.
Rather than looking exhaustively at the assassination here, we explore what Ruby represents. From that, we may discern why the plotters would have utilized someone like Ruby--given that he was situated within so many sensitive parapolitical networks within the American deep political system.
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange
This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs.
We decided to make a DCC episode which includes the interview, along with extra material before and after the discussion in which I speak about Jeffrey Sachs and then, eventually, about the history and and scholarship behind the concept of the deep state.
I encourage everyone to follow Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs. The Professor is a great interviewer, and his choices of books and authors are excellent. They have a YouTube channel and they are on the major podcasting apps.
The official website is here: Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs
Image: American Exception, by Abby Martin, graphics by Casey Moore--cover art for American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (Skyhorse Publishing: New York, 2022) by Aaron Good
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron Good and Max Arvo continue to explore the evolution of American organized crime. In particular, we discuss the key importance of the racing wire service and the obscured nature of mid-20th century American organized crime: Did mafia or La Cosa Nostra models really apply? Or alternatively, were the ethnic Italian elements, which seem to confirm those theories, merely the lower and thus more visible levels of a larger and more nefarious entity—the Lansky Syndicate?
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, authors of the new book, Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America. Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change. Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is the author/co-author of nine books and 80 articles. His work explores how militaristic capitalism distorts everyday life as it promotes inequality, bullying, environmental devastation, and war.
Image: The Bosses of the Senate, Joseph Keppler, Puck (January 23, 1889)
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- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
This episode kicks off our new Gray Alliance series featuring Aaron and independent researcher Max Arvo. In this introductory episode, we cover the evolution of American organized crime in the 20th century.
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks with Too Black and Rasul Mowatt, authors of 'Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits'.
Check out Too Black's Black Myths podcast!
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce are joined by human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist Daniel Kovalik. His new book is 'The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care'.
Image: Residents and civil defense after an Israeli army strike on Asma School, run by UNRWA, in Gaza City on October 27, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa /Anadolu via Al Jazeera)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Bryce Greene speaks about 9/11 with a special guest, Jon Gold. Independent researcher and activist Jon Gold is the author of We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews--a very useful book for anyone interested in referencing suppressed true facts of 9/11. You can download a free copy of the book at Jon’s We Were Lied to About 9/11 website.
This episode marks the third in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music "End of the World" by Mock Orange
Jefferson Morley joins us to discuss the JFK case, including new developments centering around a strange CIA repository with some apparently extremely sensitive JFK assassination-related documents. Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. He runs the excellent website, JFK Facts. Subscribe to JFK Facts if you want access to some of the very best reporting and analysis on the JFK case!
Jefferson Morley is also the author of:
- Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
- The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.
- Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Jim Hougan and Peter Dale Scott join us to discuss the lingering mysteries of Watergate—with reference to Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.This episode is part of the series, Watergate and Secret Agenda.
Image: James McCord testifies to the Senate Select Committee on Watergate, May 22, 1973. (AP Photo, file)
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music "Intake" byMock Orange
Aaron is joined by journalist and forensic historian, Kit Klarenberg. His work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.
Check out his work at:
- Global Delinquents
- Active Measures
- Grayzone
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Peter Dale Scott discuss the ill-fated Watergate break-ins and their historical impacts. They draw from Peter’s unpublished Watergate essay and from a Watergate timeline that Aaron, Peter, and Jim Hougan (author of 'Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA') have been working on.
Image: Nixon and Kissinger meeting with Fritz Kraemer in the Oval Office.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music "Some Say" byMock Orange
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Professor Peter Phillips joins us to talk about his illuminating new book, 'Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity'.
Image: Freedom for Humanity (a temporary mural by the American artist Mear One)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
To see the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon!Aaron and Bryce speak with Dr. Assal Rad. She is the Research Director at the National Iranian American Council and the author of 'The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran'.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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Bryce Greene is back speaking about 9/11 with two guests, John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. They are the authors of 'The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror'. This book was edited by our own David Talbot, who also wrote the foreword.
This episode marks the second in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.
Image Credit: Washington Post
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music "Chrome Alligator" byMock Orange
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Gary Vogler and Lawrence Wilkerson join us to discuss the deep politics of the Iraq War, drawing from their respective insider perspectives. Gary Vogler is the author of 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. Lawrence Wilkerson wrote the foreword to the book. He is a retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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In this episode, Peter Dale Scott reads and discusses a new poem. Published at the American Exception Substack, the poem is entitled “Facing the Limen.”
This is the 30th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Image Credit: Ludlow Group
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
To hear/see the full episode, please subscribe on Patreon at: https://patreon.com/americanexception Aaron and Bryce discuss a number of subjects:
The criminally bad New York Times coverage of the Gaza Genocide
The US presidential debate farce
how Harris picked up the coveted Dick Cheney endorsement
How Russia and Iran are deepening their strategic relationship
The anniversary of 9/11
MAGA’s new strange and conspiracist Resistance spectacle
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music
Subscribe to American Exception on Patreon!We talk with the Iraq Correspondent at the excellent website, The Cradle. He has done outstanding work covering ISIS as the latest entry in a long and sordid Western imperial tradition--the covert use of Islamist terror groups as geopolitical sock puppets.
Two articles from the Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent are particularly relevant to this episode’s discussion:
- "Masoud Barzani: The Butcher of Sinjar"
- "‘Justice is sleeping’: Yezidis struggle to punish Kurds who greenlit genocide"
Follow The Cradle on Twitter, and check out The Cradle website regularly to stay up to date developments in the Middle East.
Image Credit: The Cradle
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange
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Aaron discusses a pair of suppressed recent news articles from The Grayzone:
- "Historic US-Russia prisoner swap exposes CIA support for Chechen jihad"
- "Accused financier of Moise assassination apparently advised by US intelligence"
Then goes into an (overly?) extended discussion of a new academic article that offers a critique of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State:
- 'Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency'
NOTE: The 'I' in BRICS is for India. I likely said "Iran" because Iran is the BRICS member who, along with Russia and China, has done the most to defeat the pnac of late.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
This is the second of Aaron's two-part review and discussion of a new and very important book, 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. The book was written by Gary Vogler, with a foreword from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.
Image: West Qurna 1 Oil Field (Middle East Online)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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In this episode, Aaron is joined by Peter Dale Scott, who finishes reading some of his new politically and biographically inspired poetry from Peter’s recently published poetry collection, 'Dreamcraft'.
This is the 29th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Image: 'The Famous Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Calif.' (Pacific Novelty Co., ca. 1907–January 14, 1910)
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
Bryce and Aaron discuss a number of grim and ridiculous events—including the sinister “genocide pause” ceasefire hoax, the Kursk invasion fiasco, the DNC’s genocide-eliding spectacle in Chicago, RFK’s sad finale, tech monopoly censorship, and Russiagate’s strange Zionist angle.
Image: A view of the destruction in Gaza, February 22, 2024. (Photo credit: AFP/ Said Khatib)
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- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
In this episode, Aaron is joined again by Peter Dale Scott who reads some politically and biographically inspired poetry from Peter’s new poetry collection, Dreamcraft.
This is the 28th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Window” by Mock Orange
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To see/hear the full episode head over to https://www.patreon.com/americanexception to subscribe and support the best historical analysis of the U.S. Empire. Aaron reviews and discusses a new and very important book, 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. The book was written by Gary Vogler with a foreword from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson. This is the first of what will be a two or three part series.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Bryce Greene speaks about 9/11 with two guests. The first is independent researcher Adam Fitzgerald. He runs The Darkened Hour podcast, the Adam Fitgerald YouTube channel, and on Word Press he runs the site 9/11/The Historical Timeline. The second guest is Ben, and he runs the Podcast for a New American Century.
This episode marks the first in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" byMock Orange
Bryce and Aaron speak with Ray Nowosielski and Maria Chappelle-Nadal. They are two of the creators of 'After the Uprising', a true crime podcast which investigates a string of mysterious tragedies among Ferguson activists in St. Louis, years after they helped launch a national movement for Black Lives.
Image: Riot police in Ferguson, Missouri, 2014 (Al Jazeera)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
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In this episode, we get another reading and discussion of some politically and biographically inspired poetry from Peter’s new poetry collection, Dreamcraft. This episode includes poetry about Peter’s friendship with the late Leonard Cohen.
This is the 27th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Image: Leonard Cohen at the Isle of Wight, 1970 (Charles Everest/BBC)
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce discuss a number of recent, momentous events--including the unsuccessful assassination attempt on Trump, the Establishment/deep state coup that ended Biden 2024, the Zionists' assassination of a senior Hamas leader in Iran, and other insanity related to the Gaza Genocide.
Image: Reuters/Yaser Al-Khodor
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We discuss pipeline geopolitics and US imperialism with attorney and historian Charlotte Dennett. Charlotte is the author of:
- 'Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil' (See: American Exception 110)
- "Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil"
- "War in Ukraine Could Be the Mother of All Energy Wars: But the Media Still Misses the Context"
Charlotte Dennett is also the co-author (with Gerard Colby) of 'Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil' (See: American Exception 107)
Image: A US soldier walks towards a burning oil well in Iraq's vast Rumaila oil fields in March of 2003. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
This episode includes my recent interview with John Kiriakou and Michelle Witte as well as some additional commentary on the assassination attempt.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce review and discuss Bryce's recent and brief interview appearance on British television before getting into a longer discussion on the Trump assassination plot and Trump's VP pick.
Image: AP Photo/Evan Vucci
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
In this episode, we get a reading and discussion of politically and biographically inspired poetry from Peter’s new poetry collection, Dreamcraft.
This is the 26th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks to Lawrence Wilkerson about a new book on the Iraq War for which Wilkerson wrote the foreword: 'Deadly Betrayal: The Truth About Why the United States Invaded Iraq'.
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Image: US Marine places flag over statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 2003 (AFP)
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Ben Howard and Aaron to continue our series on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). In this installment, they are joined by Peter Dale Scott who finally breaks his semi-silence on the subject!
For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.
The basis for this series is Peter's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's fourth section, “The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11.”
The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem, “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11,” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.
Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Episode art by Casey Moore!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
On Independence Day, Aaron and Bryce discuss how current events show that the world is incrementally declaring independence from Western imperialism!
Image: The Bidens watch the fireworks from the White House on July 4, 2021. Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
An All-Star line-up pays homage to our founding Devil’s Chess Club co-host, the great journalist and historian, David Talbot, who recently suffered his second near-fatal stroke in seven years.
Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After a Severe Stroke
In this episode, we hear from:
- Glenn Greenwald
- James DiEugenio
- Jefferson Morley
- John Kirby
- Libby Handros
- Oliver Stone
- Peter Dale Scott
- Ben Howard
- Bryce Greene
- Karen Croft
Special thanks to:
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Dana Chavarria, production
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Casey Moore, graphics
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Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Mock Orange, music
Ben Howard joins us to continue our series on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.
The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's fourth section, “The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11.”
The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.
Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Episode art by Casey Moore!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “High Octane Punk Mode” by Mock Orange
Retired US Marine and former UN Weapons Inspector Scott Ritter joins Aaron, Bryce, and guest co-host Wiley Boley to discuss the multiple crises facing the US Empire.
Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After A Severe Stroke
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We continue our series with Ben Howard on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.
The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's third section, “Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West, Ltd.”
The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.
Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Episode art by Casey Moore!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Don't Feel a Thing" by Mock Orange
Aaron breaks down Russia's latest peace overtures and the reported demise of the "petrodollar." Then we explore the strange case of Pete Brewton's important book, 'The Mafia, CIA & George Bush'.
Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After A Severe Stroke
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We continue our series with Ben Howard on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.
The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's second section, “The Meta-Group, Drugs, Salafist Islam, and America.”
The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.
Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Episode art by Casey Moore!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Touch Tone Bell" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce discuss the current and ongoing geopolitical crises that the US empire is facing. Then, they look at the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy here around the 56 anniversary of that unsolved crime.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce speak with Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate for 2024. We discuss how she came to be the 2024 nominee, the Cornel West debacle, the Gaza Genocide, the collapse of the US Empire, and the urgent need for an American Truth & Reconciliation process.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Show lessThis episode kicks off our series with Ben Howard on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.
The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” This article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.
Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Note: This episode was recorded before I learned of the newly less-redacted James Angleton Church Committee testimony. That, to my mind, is very relevant to understanding Far West and the GDMG, as we will discuss in coming episodes.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Vanessa Beeley and Dr. Piers Robinson to discuss issues raised by their 2024 article, “ Understanding Power Dynamics and Moving Beyond Divisions: COVID 19 through to Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.” In particular, we discuss whether our terrible regime is a manifestation of Western capitalist imperialism or, alternatively, if we are ruled by a globalist cabal that secretly commands the governments in Washington, London, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran.
Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East - on the ground in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering the conflict in Yemen since 2015. Vanessa contributes regularly to UK Column News, RT, Press TV and many independent media outlets. You can find her work at her Substack and on Patreon.
Piers Robinson is the founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Aaron and Bryce discuss the latest on the Gaza Genocide and how even The Economist magazine is acknowledging the existential crisis facing the Western imperialism--aka, the "liberal order."
Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Arnaud Bertrand joins us to discuss the reemergence of China on the global stage—a development that has unfolded in the context of a neocon-propelled collapse of US hegemony and Western imperialism on the whole.
Arnaud has a very popular account on Twitter/X where he is an insightful and informed commentator tweeting in English about China—especially about China’s domestic and foreign policies. In this episode, we talk about these issues and their implications for China and the West.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Aaron and Bryce discuss the latest on the Gaza Solidarity Encampments, the Russia-Iran-China alliance converging against the US empire, and the suspiciously convenient rise of ISUS. Aaron discusses his new deep political historical thesis of an Western intelligence mob war going back to the early Cold War.
Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Kit Klarenberg returns to discuss his recent articles on US support for terrorist mafia parastates--Kosovo and ISIS. Kit is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.
Please support Kit's work if you can by subscribing to Active Measures!
Featured in this episode:
- Collapsing Empire: 'How US Broke Kosovo'
- Tony Blair’s Secret Yugoslavia Invasion Plot
- How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce discuss issues related to the campus protests spreading across the US in opposition to the Zionist campaign of genocide in Gaza. Bryce Greene has been a leader of this movement at Indiana University in Bloomington. He was recently arrested and subsequently banished from campus for 5 years by the powers that be. We talk about this along with related issues…like the question: Is Israel a US puppet or is the US controlled by Zionism…or do we have to choose one or the other for some reason?
Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and David speak to Jefferson Morley about the recently released, newly less-redacted version of the James Angleton’s executive session testimony of to the Church Committee in 1975. Morley is a Washington-based author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. Most relevant to today’s discussion, he is the author of 'The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton'.
Please check out Jeff Morley’s excellent website, JFK Facts. Subscribe if are able and would like access to some of the very best reporting and analysis on the JFK case!
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Independent researcher Robert Skvarla joins us to discuss the dreaded so-called Havana Syndrome afflicting American spooks around the world.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "I Can't Seem to Think" by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks to Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Then Aaron gives a detailed rundown on a significant re-declassified JFK assassination document—the executive session testimony of James Angleton to the Church Committee in 1975. Released in December of 2022, the new version has far fewer redactions than the version released in the 1990’s.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Peter Dale Scott reads and discussion his poem “Bob Silvers and the Deep State” (See attachment).
The poem centers around the brief period in the 1970’s where Peter had a toe in the American prestige media. Specifically, he worked with Bob Silvers of the NYRB to publish important articles related to the US in Southeast Asia. Why did this CIA-connected fellow want to publish Peter Dale Scott—and why did he just as abruptly stop? Peter mulled this over in his mind over many decades. This poem is a meditation on that period and on its implications.
This is the 25th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron Speaks with former CIA officer and torture whistleblower, John Kiriakou. We discuss the Ukraine War, the Moscow terror attack, the Gaza Genocide and the Zionists’ recent deadly attacks on Iran’s embassy in Syria and on American aid workers. We then tie this into a larger deep historical context---the CIA’s covert operations and the ways in which the "intelligence community" advanced US imperialism by collaborating with drug traffickers, jihadi terror networks, oil companies, and the intelligence services of US client states.
Check out: Loud and Clear, John’s Substack page!
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
In the context of the ongoing exposure of American state criminality--if not adjudication--Professor Peter Dale Scott reads and discusses his poem “Bob Silvers and the Deep State” (See attachment).
Check out Peter's articles in the 'New York Review of Books'.
This is the 24th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron Good and Bryce Greene discuss the terror attack in Moscow, the US use of al Qaeda during the Iraq War, the brazenly criminal Israeli attack on Iran’s embassy in Syria, the Zionist push to ban TikTok, and the bizarre contradictions of the RFK2024 campaign...
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and David Talbot discuss the terror attack in Moscow, the UNSC ceasefire resolution, and RFK Jr's running mate. Then James DiEugenio joins us to discuss his review of the Four Died Trying prologueas well as the new book he co-wrote and co-edited, The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
James DiEugenio returns to discuss the latest developments in the JFK case—including an important lawsuit. We also discuss more material from Jim’s latest book—co-authored with Paul Bleau, Matt Crumpton, Andrew Iler, and Mark Adamczyk—The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy.
DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.
He also runs the Kennedys and King website.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
David Talbot rejoins Aaron and Bryce to discuss his new article and related topics: "Give Peace a Chance: The Time Is Now for Kennedy to Meet with Pope Francis." Then we are joined again by Jeffrey Kaye—a retired psychologist turned blogger and forensic historian. We discuss his new investigation and article, "Suppressed for Decades: FBI Reports Suggest Japanese WW2 Balloon Attacks on U.S. & Canada Included Biological Agents." Jeffrey Kaye is also the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo and a number of Korean War biowarfare articles.
Special thanks to:
- fourdiedtrying.com
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Professor Peter Dale Scott rejoins us to conclude the reading and discussion of his poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11.” This poem was published in Flashpoints and it followed on the heels of Peter’s 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.”
Highlights of this episode include discussion of the Iran-Contra affair, the Christic Institute, Peter’s tenure in Washington working under Senator John Kerry to investigate BCCI, and a personal tale of intrigue and betrayal from this period.
This is the 23rd installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
Bryce Greene and Aaron are joined again by Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years.
Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack page!
Special thanks to:
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Michelle Boley, animated intro
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Professor Peter Dale Scott rejoins us to continue reading from his poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11.” This poem was published in Flashpoints and it followed on the heels of Peter’s 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.”
In this installment, we cover some fascinating passages of the poem—Peter’s relationships with Allan Francovich and Danny Casolaro at the respective ends of their lives. E also delve into the mysteries of the Doomsday Project, aka Continuity of Government or COG.
This is the 22nd installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Aaron and Bryce talk about 9/11 with independent researcher Adam Fitzgerald.
Adam Fitgerald runs The Darkened Hour podcast, the Adam Fitgerald YouTube channel, and a Word Press site: 9/11: The Historical Timeline.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Touch Tone Bell” by Mock Orange
We deliver some Unreported News about the assassination of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. Then Aaron Good, Bryce Greene, and David Talbot discuss a number of topics related to the politics of US Empire—including new Israeli admissions of wide-scale "friendly fire" deaths seemingly due to the improvised implementation of the so-called "Hannibal directive."
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Having just celebrated his 95th birthday, Professor Peter Dale Scott joins us to recount his experiences working on a documentary back in the 1970’s for the CBC television news show “The Fifth Estate.”
This is the 18th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "I Keep Sayin So Long"by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce deliver an update and answer the remaining Patron questions!
Note: Since Dana is out of the country, this episode is the raw recording.
We cover some Unreported News about Martin Luther King identifying the US government as “the world’s greatest purveyor of violence.” Aaron Good, Bryce Greene, and David Talbot discuss a number of topics related to the politics of US Empire—including the reappearance of the strange McJihad outfit known as ISIS!
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Sam Husseini joins Bryce and Aaron to discuss the genocide case against Israel at the International Court of Justice—a proceeding for which Sam was one of the earliest and loudest advocates.
Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack page!
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron first gives some Unreported News from Four Died Trying about JFK’s call for world peace. Then he delivers the unabridged version of his "Hegemonic Panic" presentation. This was originally prepared for the recent Genocide and Empire symposium---moderated by Piers Robinson and also featuring Richard Falk, Atif Kubursi, Kevin Ryan, and Vanessa Beeley.
Special thanks to:
- fourdiedtrying.com
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
David Talbot and Bryce Greene join Aaron to reflect on the end of what was a brutal year for the American empire/deep state/establishment/oligarchy...whatever we're calling it these days!
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron and Bryce speak with Patrick Lawrence. A commentator, author, essayist, and lecturer, Patrick Lawrence has served as a correspondent and subsequently a columnist overseas for more than twenty years, chiefly for the International Herald Tribune and The New Yorker. He has won two Overseas Press Club Awards as well as other honors and prizes. His work has appeared in a wide variety of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, Business Week, TIME, Salon, and CounterPunch. Lawrence currently writes at The Floutist on Substack and these columns are often carried by Consortium News and ScheerPost.
Find Patrick’s work here:
- The Floutist (Patrick Lawrence’s Substack)
- Journalists and Their Shadows
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron speaks with Dan Kovalik, an American human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer, and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. For many years he taught International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He has written a number of books including:
- No More War
- Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture
- The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care
Special thanks to:
- Four Died Trying
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron speaks with Lawrence Wilkerson about the current debacle in Israel-Palestine and how we got here. Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US Army Colonel, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and current Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary. Later in the episode, Aaron and Bryce discuss Israel, Palestine, and Ukraine.
Check out:
- "Watch the film the Israel lobby didn’t want you to see" (The censored Al Jazeera documentary film, The Lobby - USA)
- “Volodymyr Zelensky and the breadbasket-case of Europe: The deep politics of a hybrid regime” by Garrick Alder
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Aaron is joined again by Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We speak about two of Kit’s recent articles:
- At The GrayZone: “Ukrainian trial demonstrates 2014 Maidan massacre was false flag”
- At MintPress: “Just Like 9/11? Suspicious Israeli Stock Market Activity Hints at Foreknowledge of October 7 Attack”
You can support Kit directly by subscribing to Kit’s Substack!
[NOTE: With apologies, this episode was made using a cloud recording. Kit's computer could not upload his local recording from Belgrade for unknown reasons. We did the best we could with the files we had to work with.]
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Crash and Die” by Mock Orange
David Talbot joins Aaron and Bryce to discuss the media coverage of the JFK assassination 60th anniversary. We also discuss David's new column at the Kennedy Beacon, "How to Argue for RFK Jr.: Ten Things to Tell Your Uncle". Aaron and Bryce also discuss Lee Harvey Oswald impersonators and the question of whether Oswald was debriefed by the CIA upon his return from the Soviet Union.
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
We talk with Jefferson Morley about the outstanding work he has put into the JFK case for several decades.
Check out the recent, excellent NY Mag story on Jeff’s work here: "The Secrets of the JFK Assassination Archive"
Follow and support Jefferson Morley’s work at JFK Facts!Jefferson Morley is also the author of several books, including:
- Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
- The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Old Movies” by Mock Orange
To mark the 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination, James DiEugenio returns to talk about the new book he co-wrote and co-edited, The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy
DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.
He also runs the Kennedys and King website.
Watch Four Died Trying:
- Apple TV
- Google Play
- Vimeo
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “This Nation” by Mock Orange
The special episode commemorates the 60th anniversary of the assassination of President Kennedy on November 22, 1963 in Dallas. To mark the occasion, Aaron Good and Bryce Greene speak with two illustrious JFK assassination critics, Professor Peter Dale Scott and our Devil’s Chess Club co-host David Talbot.
Devil's Chess Club is an American Exception production.
Check out these two new articles discussed in the episode:
- "The JFK Assassination at 60: The Public Knows the Truth - Why Won’t the Media Report It?" by David Talbot
- "Six Decades On, It’s Time to Disclose the Truth about the JFK Assassination" by Aaron Good
Peter Dale Scott's JFK assassination books:
- Deep Politics and the Death of JFK
- Dallas 63
David Talbot's JFK assassination books:
- Brothers The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years
- The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government
Peter Dale Scott's two final (maybe) prose books:
- Ecstatic Pessimist: Czeslaw Milosz, Poet of Catastrophe and Hope
- Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment
Special thanks to:
- Dana Chavarria, production
- Casey Moore, graphics
- Michelle Boley, animated intro
- Mock Orange, music
Journalists Mnar Adley and Alan MacLeod from Mint Press News join Aaron and Bryce to discuss Israel’s brutal siege of Gaza.
Check out some of their recent work:
- The Hannibal Directive: What Really Happened on October 7
- Behind Israel’s Propaganda Campaign, with Alan Macleod
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
World class essayist and journalist Patrick Lawrence joins us to talk about his latest book, Journalists and Their Shadows.
Check out:
- The Floutist (Patrick Lawrence’s substack)
- Patrick Lawrence: Biden’s Frankenstein
- The Banality of Propaganda
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
David, Aaron, and Bryce discuss the deep politics of the US Empire and its current crises—including the issues of assassination, the reorientation of US foreign policy, and Israel’s war against the Palestinian people.
Check out:
- "Dear Joe Biden: Bobby’s Life Is in Your Hands"
- "The World in Crisis: Why We Need Kennedy’s New American Foreign Policy"
- "Israel’s Chance to Turn Carnage into Peace"
- Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor producing the episode!
We are joined by journalist and author Jefferson Morley about the JFK assassination, sixty years later! Then Aaron and Bryce discuss the strange Zionism of Robert Kennedy Jr.’s campaign manager, former CIA officer Amaryllis Fox and support for what was later revealed to be a very serious Israeli plan to drive the Palestinians of Gaza into the Sinai desert.
For Jefferson Morley’s work:
- The JFK Facts Substack
- Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate
- The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton
- Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA
Check out: “‘Option C’ – Israeli Government Policy Paper Lays Out Plan for Ethnic Cleansing of Gaza”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Aaron and Bryce discuss the geopolitics of Israel-Palestine. Then David Talbot joins us to talk about his Kennedy Beacon column, “Mr. Smith's Radical Truth: Why a Hollywood Classic Holds the Secret to Political Success.”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Ben Howard returns for a discussion with Aaron and Bryce on the situation in Palestine.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Relax and Degrade" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce discuss Israel-Palestine. Then David Talbot joins us to talk about Kennedy's announcement in Philadelphia.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Aaron and Bryce are joined by independent journalist Sam Husseini. Sam has some critiques about RFK Jr.’s positions on biowarfare and covid origins as well as Kennedy’s views on Israel-Palestine.
Check out Sam Husseini’s Substack!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Bryce Green and Aaron review the excellent fourth season of Blowback.
Get Blowback Season 4 at the Blowback homepage.
Check out the four classic 9/11 articles from Peter Dale Scott, Aaron Good, and Ben Howard:
- Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?
- The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor producing the episode!
Music: "Feel it Now” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Bryce talk about their recent articles on the the recent Kennedy assassination scare in Los Angeles and Ukraine War propaganda, respectively. Then David Talbot joins us to talk about Robert F. Kennedy's big decision to spurn the hopelessly corrupt Democratic party and run as an independent. This will be an interesting 13 months!
Check out:
- The Kennedy Assassination Scare and its Haunting Resonance
- Hyping Ukraine Counteroffensive, US Press Chose Propaganda Over Journalism
- Bobby Unplugged: Will He or Won’t He?”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor producing the episode!
We talk with Denis Voltaire about three recent Gladio-related articles that Denis has written for CovertAction Magazine. Voltaire is a researcher from France who has studied and worked in Washington, DC.
The three articles are:
- Top French Intelligence Operative Sent to Capture Carlos the Jackal Says that the Jackal Was Protected by Israeli Mossad For Years
- Infamous U.S. Army Counterinsurgency Manual FM 30-31B, Used in False-Flag Terrorist Operations is Authentic, Top Intelligence Insiders and Criminal Investigations Finally Reveal
- Right-Wing Terrorists Trained at NATO Bases Set To Go on Trial in Italy
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Window” by Mock Orange
Professor James K. Galbraith joins us to talk about the present and future of dollar hegemony.
Before that, David Talbot, Bryce Green, and Aaron talk about our current politics in historical context—including a discussion on David’s new article about the prospects of an independent RFK Jr. run for the White House: “Bobby Unplugged: Will He or Won’t He?”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor producing the episode!
Bryce Green joins us to talk about 9/11. Since his two upcoming 9/11 articles have not been published yet, maybe check out some of his past classics:
- US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
- My Briefing to The United Nations Security Council on the Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Does it Show?" by Mock Orange
Noah Kulwin joins us to talk about Afghanistan--the subject of Blowback Season 4!
Before that, David Talbot, Bryce Green, and Aaron talk about the CIA, the media and the JFK assassination--including the strange new write-ups on a new Magic Bullet witness from the JFK's Secret Service detail in Dallas.
Check out:
- Four Died Trying - website
- "Yes, Big Media, JFK and RFK Were the Victims of CIA Plots"
- "J.F.K. Assassination Witness Breaks His Silence and Raises New Questions"
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Brandon Wolfe joins us to talk about his important book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. Wolfe is an associate professor of history at California State University at Stanislaus.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stop and Go" by Mock Orange
We discuss the newly launched International Center for 9/11 Justice with Kevin Ryan and Dr. Piers Robinson.
Kevin Ryan was previously the Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). In 2004, he was fired for publicly questioning and commenting on UL’s testing of World Trade Center construction materials and UL’s involvement in the WTC investigation being conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since 2006, Kevin has been the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and co-author of several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles related to 9/11.
Piers Robinson is the founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
David Talbot and Bryce Green team up with Aaron to launch Devil’s Chess Club, our new show which will be available on Patreon first, then on Rokfin, and then on YouTube.
In this episode, we talk about David Talbot’s two Kennedy assassination classics, Brothers The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode
James DiEugenio returns to talk about two recent articles related to the JFK case:
- The Mystery of Kennedy’s Brain Deepens
- Hoover vs. King: The ARRB Documents
DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
His latest book is JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Mind Is Not Brain" by Mock Orange
Dan Kovalik joins us to talk about the subject of his recent article, “Why We Need RFK, Jr.: Russia, Ukraine & the Slide into Nuclear War.”
Daniel Kovalik is a human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of several books, including his most recent: Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. dana
Check out Dan Kovalik's author page at Amazon
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Poster Child" by Mock Orange
With Sweden officially becoming a NATO member, Ola Tunander returns to discuss the subject, with reference to his landmark article on the NATO deep state in Sweden. Entitled, “Dual State: The Case of Sweden,” this article was published in The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex.
Ola Tunander is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. He has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Also, please subscribe to Ola’s Substack where you can check out these additional excellent articles by Ola Tunander:
- The Concept of the Deep State (This one discusses his recent discussions on American Exception with Peter Dale Scott and Aaron)
- Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part I (His classic article the deep state of the West)
- “An Underwater U-2”: Part I (Important work on the Swedish version of the strategy of tension, psychological operations which in the Swedish case involved submarine warfare)
- After Seymour Hersh’s article (His article on the Nord Stream bombing)
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Hawks Can Go” by Mock Orange
We talk about the “unsolved” Nord Stream bombing with Jeffrey Brodsky and Bryce Green.
Check out Jeff’s Substack articles on the Nord Stream bombing crime scene:
- New Revelations from Nord Stream Expedition
- My Full Remarks before the United Nations Security Council
- Lab Analysis Does Not Detect Explosives Used in Nord Stream Sabotage. Did Someone Clean Up the Crime Scene?
…and Bryce’s articles too:
- US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
- My Briefing to The United Nations Security Council on the Nord Stream Pipeline Attack
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
Professor Peter Dale Scott reads his new poem for Dan Ellsberg. We then discuss the "Reagan Revolution" and how its dawning was the catalyst for a psychic crisis that Peter resolved through poetry—Coming to Jakarta, specifically.
This is the 16th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "I Keep Sayin So Long" by Mock Orange
We discuss the history of UFOs and their recent reemergence in the news with Philadelphia-based independent researcher Robert Skvarla.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
This is the second of two episodes featuring Aaron’s interview with two luminaries of US anti-imperialism—Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decision to leak the Pentagon Papers—a top secret study on the US involvement in Vietnam from Truman to LBJ. Ellsberg is the author of two memoirs—Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He is also the subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, an Oscar-nominated documentary that Edward Snowden credited for inspiring his own act of whistleblowing.
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and retired UC Berkeley Professor of English. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including The War Conspiracy, Coming to Jakarta, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Cocaine Politics (with Jonathan Marshall), Drugs, Oil, and War, The Road to 9/11, American War Machine, and The American Deep State.
This interview was originally recorded in October of 2018 at Marin College during Project Censored’s Media Freedom Summit.
Big thanks to everybody at Project Censored who helped with this, especially Mickey Huff, Anthony Fest, Dennis Murphy and John Bertucci!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
We discuss the newly launched International Center for 9/11 Justice with Kevin Ryan and Dr. Piers Robinson.
Kevin Ryan was previously the Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). In 2004, he was fired for publicly questioning and commenting on UL’s testing of World Trade Center construction materials and UL’s involvement in the WTC investigation being conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since 2006, Kevin has been the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and co-author of several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles related to 9/11.
Piers Robinson is the founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
This is the first of two episodes featuring Aaron’s interview with two luminaries of US anti-imperialism—Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decision to leak the Pentagon Papers—a top secret study on the US involvement in Vietnam from Truman to LBJ. Ellsberg is the author of two memoirs—Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He is also the subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, an Oscar-nominated documentary that Edward Snowden credited for inspiring his own act of whistleblowing.
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and retired UC Berkeley Professor of English. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including The War Conspiracy, Coming to Jakarta, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Cocaine Politics (with Jonathan Marshall), Drugs, Oil, and War, The Road to 9/11, American War Machine, and The American Deep State.
This interview was originally recorded in October of 2018 at Marin College during Project Censored’s Media Freedom Summit.
Big thanks to everybody at Project Censored who helped with this, especially Mickey Huff, Anthony Fest, Dennis Murphy and John Bertucci!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange
Professor Peter Dale Scott discusses the Reagan era and how its dawning was the catalyst for a psychic crisis that Peter resolved through poetry—Coming to Jakarta, specifically.
This is the 16th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "East Side Song" by Mock Orange
Special Guest hosts Robert Skvarla and Hailey Rounsaville give us the second part of a series on Jimmy Carter.
Presented and produced by Seamus McGuinness!
Music: "Feel it Now” by Mock Orange
We look at HBO’s new series, White House Plumbers. Bryce Green and our own Seamus McGuinness join Aaron to review this strange production.
Bryce Green is a graduate student at Indiana University in Bloomington. He also writes for FAIR—Fairnesss and Accuracy in Media. Check out his latest article, “Report Shows How Military Industrial Complex Sets Media Narrative on Ukraine.”
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Professor Peter Dale Scott discusses his Iran-Contra era experiences, including his work on the Kerry committee as well as his involvement with Gary Webb and the film, Kill the Messenger.
This is the 15th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Check out:
- The Secret Government: The Constitution in Crisis
- COVER UP: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "12 O'clock Call" by Mock Orange
Special Guest hosts Robert Skvarla and Hailey Rounsaville give us the first of a two-part series on Jimmy Carter.
(Aaron is away at a family memorial service for his younger sister and will return very soon)
Presented and produced by Seamus McGuinness!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
Dick Russell joins us to talk about his new book, The Real RFK Jr: Trials of a Truth Warrior. Russel is the author of fifteen books including two ground-breaking books on the JFK assassination:
- The Man Who Knew Too Much - about JFK assassination figure Richard Case Nagell
- On the Trail of the JFK Assassins - new edition to be released in November 2023
Russell is currently serving as a researcher and commentator for a 10-part podcast series about the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, hosted by Rob Reiner and Soledad O’Brien to coincide with the sixtieth anniversary. Additionally, he has co-authored five books with former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura, three of which became New York Times Best-Sellers.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Roll Your Eyes” by Mock Orange
Professor Peter Dale Scott discusses his seminal work on Indonesia 1965. He began researching the subject in the 1970’s, with his research culminating in a landmark 1985 academic article, “The United States And The Overthrow Of Sukarno, 1965-1967” as well as a public event in which Peter and dissident ex-CIA officer Ralph McGehee debated the subject with retired CIA director William Colby.
This is the 14th installment of the series with prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Tell Me” by Mock Orange
Kit Klarenberg and Ben Howard join us to discuss new revelations about the CIA’s criminal mischief prior to 9/11.
In particular, we discuss Kit’s recent GrayZone article “Bombshell filing: 9/11 hijackers were CIA recruits.”
Also relevant to this discussion is the article by Ben Howard, Aaron Good, and Peter Dale Scott, “Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?”
Kit Klarenberg is the Editor of Grayzone UK. His work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Ben Howard is an independent researcher and our resident 9/11 expert.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In” by Mock Orange
After nearly a one year hiatus, Professor Peter Dale Scott returns to resume our Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light oral history series. We pick up where we left off, in the aftermath of Watergate. This is the 13th installment of the series with prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Tell Me" by Mock Orange
James DiEugenio returns to talk about the upcoming 60th anniversary of the JFK assassination and the significance of Robert Kennedy Jr.’s presidential run. DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
His latest book is JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. An accompaniment to the documentary film, the book includes a section from me.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Window” by Mock Orange
Asa Winstanley joins us to talk about his new book, Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn. Asa is an investigative journalist at Electronic Intifada.
Check Asa Winstanley’s substack page!
Music: "All You Have" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
We talk with former CIA officer John Kiriakou. We pick up where we left off with John last time—as the Global War on Terror was beginning, setting off a series of events which would lead to John exposing and essentially blowing the whistle on the CIA’s torture program. John is co-host of the Political Misfits radio show on Sputnik International. He also has a Substack in addition to writing for Consortium News and CovertAction Magazine.
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
We are joined by the two academic sages of deep politics, Peter Dale Scott and Ola Tunander. This is Part 4 of our Parafascism and the Deep State series focusing on two seminal essays—Peter Dale Scott’s “Transnationalised Repression” Parafascism and the US” and Ola Tunander’s “Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West.”
Please check out:
- Ola Tunander’s Substack
- Peter Dale Scott’s new book, Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Roll Your Eyes” by Mock Orange
We are joined by two old friends and luminaries--Peter Dale Scott and Ola Tunander. Following up on the previous two episodes in our Parafascism and the Deep State series this series, we discuss two seminal essays—Peter Dale Scott’s “Transnationalised Repression: Parafascism and the US” and Ola Tunander’s “Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West.”
Please check out:
- Ola Tunander’s Substack
- Peter Dale Scott’s new book, Reading the Dream: A Post-Secular History of Enmindment.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Roll Your Eyes” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss Ola Tunander’s seminal essay, “Democratic State vs. Deep State: Approaching the Dual State of the West.” The piece was included in the anthology Government of the Shadows: Parapolitics and Criminal Sovereignty in 2009. This episode is the second part of our Parafascism and the Deep State series focusing on classic works by Peter Dale Scott and Ola Tunander. Future episodes will include Scott and Tunander themselves.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: “Roll Your Eyes” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss Peter Dale Scott’s seminal essay, “Transnationalised Repression” Parafascism and the US.” The piece was written in 1977 and published by Lobster in 1986. This episode is the first part of our Parafascism and the Deep State series focusing on classic works by Peter Dale Scott and Ola Tunander. Future episodes will include Scott and Tunander themselves.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: “Roll Your Eyes” by Mock Orange
We are joined by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. who discusses his presidential campaign and the quest for peace undertaken by his uncle and father.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange
Bryce Green joins us to give a broad rundown on Ukraine-related topics, drawing largley from two articles that Bryce wrote last year for FAIR.
The first is What You Should Really Know About Ukraine
The second is US Media’s Intellectual No-Fly-Zone on US Culpability in Nord Stream Attack
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “I Can Sing” by Mock Orange
Matt from Ghost Stories for the End of the World joins us to talk about Danny Casolaro’s doomed quest to expose “the Octopus.”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Tell Me” by Mock Orange
We look at JFK’s policies toward the Middle East and Israel most specifically. This is the 27th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Gabriel Rockhill joins us again to talk about the F-word…Fascism! Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and the author or editor of nine books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles.
These Rockhill articles are particularly relevant to this discussion:
- “Fascism: Now You See It, Now You Don’t!”
- “Liberalism and Fascism: Partners in Crime.”
- “The U.S. Did Not Defeat Fascism in WWII, It Discretely Internationalized It.”
- “Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism.”
- “Fascist Plots in the US: Contemporary Lessons from the 1934 ‘Business Plot.’”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Bad Things” by Mock Orange
Ola Tunander joins us to talk about his recent article on the Nord Stream bombing. He is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. Ola Tunander earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. He has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy, European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).
Today we focus largely on two of his articles:
- "After Seymour Hersh’s article"
- "'An Underwater U-2': Part I"
Ola Tunander is also the author of the seminal scholarly article on the deep state in the West: “Democratic State v Deep State”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Payroll" by Mock Orange
We are joined by Alan MacLeod, Senior Staff Writer for MintPress News to discuss articles he’s written on the CIA and the US Establishment:
- From Georgetown to Langley: The Controversial Connection Between a Prestigious University and the CIA
- Tucker Carlson: The Elite Pedigree of a Brilliant Cosplaying “Populist”
After completing his PhD in 2017, Alan MacLeod published two books: Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting and Propaganda in the Information Age: Still Manufacturing Consent, as well as a number of academic articles. He has also contributed to FAIR.org, The Guardian, Salon, The Grayzone, Jacobin Magazine, and Common Dreams.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
We look at JFK’s admirable but doomed attempt to repair US-Egyptian relations and stabilize the Middle East by working with Nasser. This is the 26th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
Aaron is joined again by Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We speak about two of Kit’s recent articles:
- At GrayZoneUK: “‘Rigorous’ Maidan massacre exposé suppressed by top academic journal”
- At MintPress: “Dare Call It A Coup? CIA Front Threatens Color Revolution in Georgia”
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away” by Mock Orange
Kevin Gosztola joins us to discuss his new book, Guilty of Journalism: The Political Case Against Julian Assange. Kevin is also the co-host (with Rania Khalek) of the Unauthorized Disclosure podcast.
Thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Motel Man” by Mock Orange
We look at JFK’s admirable but doomed attempt to salvage US-Indonesia relations and avert catastrophe in Sukarno’s Indonesia. This is the 25th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
Gumby returns to talk about the latest developments in the covid origins mystery. Gumby is an independent researcher who often posts on Twitter.
Very special thanks to Bijan Sharifi for the artwork! Bijan is an art teacher and freelance artist in Tokyo. Follow Bijan on Instagram!
Thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Driving Day” by Mock Orange
Gabriel Rockhill joins us to talk about postmodernism and its usefulness to imperial capitalism. We also touch on the subject of fascism. Rockhill is the Founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop, Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University, and the author or editor of nine books, as well as numerous scholarly and general public articles, including:
- “The CIA Reads French Theory: On the Intellectual Labor of Dismantling the Cultural Left”
- “The CIA & the Frankfurt School’s Anti-Communism”
- “Liberalism & Fascism: The Good Cop & Bad Cop of Capitalism”
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange
We talk about oil pipelines and spycraft with Charlotte Dennett, author of Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil.
Along with Gerard Colby, Dennett is also the coauthor of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil—a book we discussed in Episode 107.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “Intake” by Mock Orange
This is the second part of our tribute in support of the GoFundMe campaign for Professor Peter Dale Scott after he incurred major unexpected medical and publishing expenses. In this episode, special co-host Ben Howard and I are joined by Oliver Stone and Peter Dale Scott to discuss themes and subjects related to Peter Dale Scott’s life and work.
Once again, please do donate to the GoFundMe campaign for Peter if you are able!
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: “The End of the World” byMock Orange
A wonderful cast joins us to support the GoFundMe campaign for Professor Peter Dale Scott after he incurred major unexpected medical and publishing expenses. In this first of two parts, special co-host Ben Howard and I are joined by the following guests at the following timestamps:
- 7:19—David Talbot
- 25:20—James Galbraith
- 48:45—Joshua Oppenheimer, Peter Dale Scott, Daniel Ellsberg, and John Kiriakou
- 57:10—Liz Franczak, Brace Belden (and Yung Chomsky!)
- 1:13:00—Noah Kulwin
Once again, please do donate to the GoFundMe campaign for Peter if you are able!
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Artwork by Casey Moore!
Music: “Song in D” and“The End of the World” byMock Orange
We are joined by Gerard Colby and Charlotte Dennett, the authors of Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil.
Gerard Colby is also the author of Du Pont: Behind the Nylon Curtain. Charlotte is also the author of Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus are joined by independent researcher Robert Skvarla to discuss three notorious, interrelated US clandestine operations: Gladio, COINTEL, and CHAOS.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
We talk with John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program. John is co-host of the Political Misfits radio show on Sputnik International. He also has a Substack in addition to writing for Consortium News and CovertAction Magazine.
Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
We talk with Daniele Ganser about his new book, USA: The Ruthless Empire. Ganser is a historian and peace researcher based in Basel, Switzerland. Author of several books in European languages, he is best known in the US as the author of NATO's Secret Armies: Operation GLADIO and Terrorism in Western Europe.
You can follow Daniele Ganser on Twitter, Telegram, and YouTube.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for producing the episode!
Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange
We talk with Seth Harp about the mysterious crime wave around the US military’s special forces headquarters at Ft. Bragg.
Seth Harp is an investigative reporter, foreign correspondent, and magazine writer. He is a contributing editor at Rolling Stone, and has also reported from Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, and Mexico for publications including Harper’s, The New Yorker, The Intercept, The New York Times, The Daily Beast, and the Columbia Journalism Review. Harp is a veteran of the Iraq war, and before becoming a journalist was an assistant attorney general for the state of Texas.
He is currently working on a book about the subject we discuss in this episode: The Ft. Bragg Murders.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: "Nine Times" by Mock Orange
We speak with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
His latest book is JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass. An accompaniment to the documentary film, the book includes a section from me.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
We speak with Monika Wiesak about her excellent new book America’s Last President: What the World Lost When It Lost John F. Kennedy.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away” by Mock Orange
We are is joined by Kit Klarenberg and Tom Secker. As GrayZone UK Editor, Kit Klarenberg is an investigative journalist whose work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Tom Secker is a British-based journalist, author, and podcaster. His specialties include the security services, Hollywood, propaganda, censorship and the history of terrorism. Tom Secker’s writing and research have appeared in The Mirror, RT, Salon, Newsweek, The Atlantic, The Independent, Insurge Intelligence, Shadowproof, TechDirt and elsewhere. He runs the excellent Spy Culture website and the ClandesTime Podcast.
In this episode, we talk about the recent GrayZone UK article by Klarenberg and Secker: Declassified intelligence files expose inconvenient truths of Bosnian war.
Here is the video which I reference during the episode: Michael Parenti - To Kill A Nation.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "High Octane Punk Mode" by Mock Orange
We look at the existential issues raised by the Cuban Missile Crisis. This is the 24th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Note: the audio in the later segment sounds different because for some reason the app switched me from my good microphone to my computer’s factory microphone.
Music: “The End of the World” byMock Orange
We are joined by Dr. Piers Robinson, founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. We discuss a number of topics, including his 2022 article, "Cock-up or Conspiracy? Understanding COVID-19 as a ‘Structural Deep Event" and the recent tribute to Lance DeHaven-Smith published at Propaganda in Focus—a piece which Piers asked me to co-write with Professor Matthew Witt. Piers Robinson is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
We look more at JFK’s Cuba policies—specifically Operation Mongoose—and how these policies led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which we also begin to discuss. This is the 23rd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music: “The End of the World” byMock Orange
We look more at JFK’s Cuba policies—specifically Operation Mongoose—and how these policies led to the Cuban Missile Crisis, which we also begin to discuss. This is the 23rd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Geopolitical Economy as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music: “The End of the World” byMock Orange
Sarah Kendzior joins us to talk about her book, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. She is also the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of Americaand The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America. Sarah is the co-host of the podcast, Gaslit Nation.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Do You Want Out" by Mock Orange
Sarah Kendzior joins us to talk about her book, They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. She is also the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of Americaand The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America. Sarah is the co-host of the podcast, Gaslit Nation.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Do You Want Out" by Mock Orange
We look at JFK’s conflicting Latin America policies—specifically the Alliance for Progress and his Cuba policies in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This is the 22nd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
We look at JFK’s conflicting Latin America policies—specifically the Alliance for Progress and his Cuba policies in the wake of the Bay of Pigs fiasco. This is the 22nd installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
Jeffrey Kaye joins us to discuss a controversial topic—the alleged US use of biological weapons in the Korean War. A retired psychologist turned blogger and forensic historian, Kaye is the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo and a number of Korean War biowarfare articles on medium which we discuss:
- Secret History: U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps Flyers’ Confessions on Use of Biological Weapons in the Korean War
- REVEALED: The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea
- Secret Plan Revealed: CIA Told to “Destroy” Those Supporting Communist Germ Warfare “Myth”
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "East Side Song" by Mock Orange
EDIT: We have replaced the original audio file after repairing the low volume from Aaron's original introduction!
Jeffrey Kaye joins us to discuss a controversial topic—the alleged US use of biological weapons in the Korean War. A retired psychologist turned blogger and forensic historian, Kaye is the author of Cover-up at Guantanamo and a number of Korean War biowarfare articles on medium which we discuss:
- Secret History: U.S. Air Force, Marine Corps Flyers’ Confessions on Use of Biological Weapons in the Korean War
- REVEALED: The long-suppressed official report on US biowarfare in North Korea
- Secret Plan Revealed: CIA Told to “Destroy” Those Supporting Communist Germ Warfare “Myth”
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "East Side Song" by Mock Orange
EDIT: We have replaced the original audio file after repairing the low volume from Aaron's original introduction!
We examine how JFK dealt with Wall Street and the domestic US economy—with a special focus on his showdown with US Steel, aka “The Corporation.” This is the 21st installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
We examine how JFK dealt with Wall Street and the domestic US economy—with a special focus on his showdown with US Steel, aka “The Corporation.” This is the 21st installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
We talk with Jefferson Morley about the latest developments in the JFK assassination—specifically the documents which were released in part yesterday, Thursday the 15th of December. Unsurprisingly, the CIA is still withholding many documents, after 59 years and counting.
Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. His latest book is Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Follow and support Jefferson Morley’s work at JFK Facts.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
We talk with Jefferson Morley about the latest developments in the JFK assassination—specifically the documents which were released in part yesterday, Thursday the 15th of December. Unsurprisingly, the CIA is still withholding many documents, after 59 years and counting.
Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. His latest book is Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Follow and support Jefferson Morley’s work at JFK Facts.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
In this episode, we look at how JFK approached the so-called Third World—examining Rostow’s modernization theory as well as cases in Africa and Indonesia. This is the 20th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
In this episode, we look at how JFK approached the so-called Third World—examining Rostow’s modernization theory as well as cases in Africa and Indonesia. This is the 20th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.Again I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
Aaron is joined by Grayzone UK Editor Kit Klarenberg—an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. They discuss three of Kit’s recent articles:
- EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it
- Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine
- FTX partnership with Ukraine is latest chapter in shady Western aid saga
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Grayzone UK Editor Kit Klarenberg—an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. They discuss three of Kit’s recent articles:
- EXPOSED: Before Ukraine blew up Kerch Bridge, British spies plotted it
- Leaked documents: British spies constructing secret terror army in Ukraine
- FTX partnership with Ukraine is latest chapter in shady Western aid saga
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
In this episode, we look at how JFK approached American policy in SE Asia in 1961—the first year of his presidency. Specifically, we look at how handled Laos and Vietnam during this time—culminating in his November 22, 1963 NSAM which increased military support and training for South Vietnam, even as JFK resisted enormous Pentagon/CIA pressure to commit US ground troops.
This is the 19th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
In this episode, we look at how JFK approached American policy in SE Asia in 1961—the first year of his presidency. Specifically, we look at how handled Laos and Vietnam during this time—culminating in his November 22, 1963 NSAM which increased military support and training for South Vietnam, even as JFK resisted enormous Pentagon/CIA pressure to commit US ground troops.
This is the 19th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
In this episode, we start to look at JFK’s presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK’s background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted the early months of his presidency.
This is the 18th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
In this episode, we start to look at JFK’s presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK’s background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted the early months of his presidency.
This is the 18th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
A special double episode on the 59th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination: Aaron speaks with the venerable James DiEugenio. After the discussion, Aaron looks at JFK’s “Peace Speech” at American University in which JFK called for “not just peace in our time, but peace for all time.” Calling for an end to the Cold War and for moves toward full disarmament, the speech was repeatedly broadcast in the Soviet Union afterward. JFK would not have long to pursue his vision for world peace. The speech was delivered in the Summer of 1963; he would be assassinated in the Fall.DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Captain Love" by Mock Orange
A special double episode on the 59th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination: Aaron speaks with the venerable James DiEugenio. After the discussion, Aaron looks at JFK’s “Peace Speech” at American University in which JFK called for “not just peace in our time, but peace for all time.” Calling for an end to the Cold War and for moves toward full disarmament, the speech was repeatedly broadcast in the Soviet Union afterward. JFK would not have long to pursue his vision for world peace. The speech was delivered in the Summer of 1963; he would be assassinated in the Fall.DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Captain Love" by Mock Orange
Aaron discusses the latest in the world of “biodefense” with journalist Sam Husseini and the illustrious independent researcher who posts as Gumby on Twitter.
Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack page and his recent article “Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?” which he cowrote with virologist Jonathan Latham.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron discusses the latest in the world of “biodefense” with journalist Sam Husseini and the illustrious independent researcher who posts as Gumby on Twitter.
Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack page and his recent article “Did West Africa’s Ebola Outbreak of 2014 Have a Lab Origin?” which he cowrote with virologist Jonathan Latham.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
In this video version of the episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower’s policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike’s was indeed a legacy of Ashes!
This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
In this episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower’s policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike’s was indeed a legacy of Ashes!
This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!
Music:"Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"byMock Orange
Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Poulgrain. In this final part, they discuss how JFK, Dag Hammarskjold, and Sukarno were unable to stop Allen Dulles’ murderous grand strategy to turn Indonesia into world history’s most valuable neocolony—under imperial US auspices.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of The Genesis of Konfrontasi: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, 1945-65, The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesia Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles, as well as the more recent JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Poulgrain. In this final part, they discuss how JFK, Dag Hammarskjold, and Sukarno were unable to stop Allen Dulles’ murderous grand strategy to turn Indonesia into world history’s most valuable neocolony—under imperial US auspices.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of The Genesis of Konfrontasi: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, 1945-65, The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesia Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles, as well as the more recent JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Polugrain. In this first of two episodes, they discuss Allen Dulles' dark influence over US policy in Indonesia up through the Eisenhower administration.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of The Genesis of Konfrontasi: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, 1945-65, The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesia Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles, as well as the more recent JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Artwork: From the cover of TIME, Dec. 23, 1946
Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Polugrain. In this first of two episodes, they discuss Allen Dulles' dark influence over US policy in Indonesia up through the Eisenhower administration.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of The Genesis of Konfrontasi: Malaysia, Brunei and Indonesia, 1945-65, The Incubus of Intervention: Conflicting Indonesia Strategies of John F. Kennedy and Allen Dulles, as well as the more recent JFK vs. Allen Dulles: Battleground Indonesia.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Artwork: From the cover of TIME, Dec. 23, 1946
We look at how Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers handled two geopolitical hot spots of the Cold War: Indonesia and Egypt.
This is the 16th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We look at how Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers handled two geopolitical hot spots of the Cold War: Indonesia and Egypt.
This is the 16th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Nick Bryant discusses his prolific efforts to expose sexual blackmail as, in effect, a deep state institution.
Nick is the author of The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal and co-author of Confessions of a DC Madam The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail. He also has a new book coming out in a few months entitled The Truth About Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars.
Nick’s website is here.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
Nick Bryant discusses his prolific efforts to expose sexual blackmail as, in effect, a deep state institution.
Nick is the author of The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal and co-author of Confessions of a DC Madam The Politics of Sex, Lies, and Blackmail. He also has a new book coming out in a few months entitled The Truth About Watergate: A Tale of Extraordinary Lies & Liars.
Nick’s website is here.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
In this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration’s imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam.
This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
In this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration’s imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam.
This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
In this episode we look at Eisenhower’s ties to Big Oil and how they influenced Operation AJAX--the CIA conspiracy which overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Mohammed Mossedegh in order to install a US puppet, the Shah of Iran.
This is the 14th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
In this episode we look at Eisenhower’s ties to Big Oil and how they influenced Operation AJAX--the CIA conspiracy which overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Mohammed Mossedegh in order to install a US puppet, the Shah of Iran.
This is the 14th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
[Update: We fixed and replaced the original audio file which had a problem around the introduction]
In this episode we look at the history behind NSC-68, the seminal document of the US military industrial complex.
This is the 13th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
The latter portion of this episode was already posted on YouTube because we thought it was so timely after the Nord Stream attack. I hope the larger, book-related portion of the episode also provides good context for this. Strangely enough, I added that extra material to the episode plan because I thought that all of the historical exegesis from the book was really relevant to our current moment. With the Nord Stream bombing, it turned out that I was more correct than I knew.
Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
[Update: We fixed and replaced the original audio file which had a problem around the introduction]
In this episode we look at the history behind NSC-68, the seminal document of the US military industrial complex.
This is the 13th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
The latter portion of this episode was already posted on YouTube because we thought it was so timely after the Nord Stream attack. I hope the larger, book-related portion of the episode also provides good context for this. Strangely enough, I added that extra material to the episode plan because I thought that all of the historical exegesis from the book was really relevant to our current moment. With the Nord Stream bombing, it turned out that I was more correct than I knew.
Check out the attached PDF to see the slides we refer to.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Ben Howard and Aaron continue the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on the history of USUK imperial support for reactionary Islamism.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination.”
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for his editorial work on the article and to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "High Octane Punk Mode" by Mock Orange
The image in the episode art is of the Al-Baqi cemetery before its 1926 demolition by the Saudis.
The episode title is a mishmash of three relevant book titles: Dreyfuss' 'Devil's Game', Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard, and Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard.
Ben Howard and Aaron continue the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on the history of USUK imperial support for reactionary Islamism.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination.”
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for his editorial work on the article and to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "High Octane Punk Mode" by Mock Orange
The image in the episode art is of the Al-Baqi cemetery before its 1926 demolition by the Saudis.
The episode title is a mishmash of three relevant book titles: Dreyfuss' 'Devil's Game', Talbot's The Devil's Chessboard, and Brzezinski's The Grand Chessboard.
In this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state.
This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Check out the attached PDF to see related images.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
[Edit: The original episode file was missing the introduction as well as the final minutes.]
In this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state.
This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Check out the attached PDF to see related images.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Christopher Mott to discuss his recent article, “Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism.”
Christopher Mott is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy and the author of The Formless Empire: A Short History of Diplomacy and Warfare in Central Asia. Follow Christopher on Twitter and check out his personal website: geotrickster.com.
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
In this episode, we wrap up our social science exploration of imperial criminality.
We discuss dark power—i.e., top-down or despotic political power. Dark power is to be contrasted with open or democratic power—power derived from consensus and persuasion.
This is the 11th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
In this episode, we wrap up our social science exploration of imperial criminality.
We discuss dark power—i.e., top-down or despotic political power. Dark power is to be contrasted with open or democratic power—power derived from consensus and persuasion.
This is the 11th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse.
I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles:
Valuing the Deep State, Part I
Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse.
I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles:
Valuing the Deep State, Part I
Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse.
I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles:
Valuing the Deep State, Part I
Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse.
I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does mention some important aspects of the emergence of the state, even as he leaves out many other angles:
Valuing the Deep State, Part I
Valuing the Deep State Part II: The Origin of States
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange
Ben Howard and Aaron kick off the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on their own personal reckonings with the great terror spectacle of 2001.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination.”
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for his editorial work on the article, to Casey Moore for the episode art, and to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "High Octane Punk Mode" by Mock Orange
Ben Howard and Aaron kick off the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on their own personal reckonings with the great terror spectacle of 2001.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination.”
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for his editorial work on the article, to Casey Moore for the episode art, and to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "High Octane Punk Mode" by Mock Orange
We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality.
This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well as our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
[Sorry for initially posting the wrong file--Aaron]
We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality.
This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well as our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss the Security Research Staff (SRS), the inner sanctum of the CIA’s Office of Security. We also discuss James McCord’s friend Lee Pennington and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss the Security Research Staff (SRS), the inner sanctum of the CIA’s Office of Security. We also discuss James McCord’s friend Lee Pennington and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Seamus for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss the deep state personage of James McCord and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss the deep state personage of James McCord and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.
Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I created and posted a PDF of the timeline that might be helpful for anyone who is not steeped in this material.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" (live version) by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.
Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I created and posted a PDF of the timeline that might be helpful for anyone who is not steeped in this material.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" (live version) by Mock Orange
We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series--and who did the art for this episode!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series--and who did the art for this episode!
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.
Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I created and posted a PDF of the timeline that might be helpful for anyone who is not steeped in this material.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" (live version) by Mock Orange
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.
Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I created and posted a PDF of the timeline that might be helpful for anyone who is not steeped in this material.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" (live version) by Mock Orange
We discuss the dual state and Professor Michael Glennon’s double government.
This is Episode 7 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
We discuss the dual state and Professor Michael Glennon’s double government.
This is Episode 7 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuinness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True"by Mock Orange
We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism.
This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism.
This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire.
This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire.
This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
Released in conjunction with the upcoming publication of Peter's "lost" (read "stolen by the CIA in 1970") article originally intended for Ramparts, we present a 2011 debate between the two top experts on the Postwar Southeast Asian heroin traffic: Professors Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy.
I add some context at the beginning which will hopefully be of interest to everybody!
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Alfred McCoy is History Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and the author of The Politics of Heroin—now in its third edition.
Apologies for the weird noises during the debate. We have no idea exactly what was making that intermittent whirring and clicking noise.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
Released in conjunction with the upcoming publication of Peter's "lost" (read "stolen by the CIA in 1970") article originally intended for Ramparts, we present a 2011 debate between the two top experts on the Postwar Southeast Asian heroin traffic: Professors Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy.
I add some context at the beginning which will hopefully be of interest to everybody!
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Alfred McCoy is History Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin and the author of The Politics of Heroin—now in its third edition.
Apologies for the weird noises during the debate. We have no idea exactly what was making that intermittent whirring and clicking noise.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!
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This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!
[We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro]
This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism!
This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism!
This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixon’s resignation was effected by forces to the right of Nixon himself.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decision to leak the Pentagon Papers—a top secret study on the US involvement in Vietnam from Truman to LBJ. Ellsberg is the author of two memoirs—Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He is also the subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, an Oscar-nominated documentary that Edward Snowden credited for inspiring his own act of whistleblowing.
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and retired UC Berkeley Professor of English. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including The War Conspiracy, Coming to Jakarta, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Cocaine Politics (with Jonathan Marshall), Drugs, Oil, and War, The Road to 9/11, American War Machine, and The American Deep State.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Seamus McGuinness is producing a video version of this episode which should be coming soon!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixon’s resignation was effected by forces to the right of Nixon himself.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decision to leak the Pentagon Papers—a top secret study on the US involvement in Vietnam from Truman to LBJ. Ellsberg is the author of two memoirs—Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. He is also the subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, an Oscar-nominated documentary that Edward Snowden credited for inspiring his own act of whistleblowing.
Peter Dale Scott is a former Canadian diplomat and retired UC Berkeley Professor of English. He is the author of numerous books of poetry and prose, including The War Conspiracy, Coming to Jakarta, Deep Politics and the Death of JFK, Cocaine Politics (with Jonathan Marshall), Drugs, Oil, and War, The Road to 9/11, American War Machine, and The American Deep State.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Seamus McGuinness is producing a video version of this episode which should be coming soon!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
We discuss deep politics in the history of the USA. As per Peter Dale Scott, deep politics refers to “all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”
This is Part 2 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2?
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2?
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
We discuss deep politics in the history of the USA. As per Peter Dale Scott, deep politics refers to “all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”
This is Part 2 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
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We discuss deep politics in the history of the USA. As per Peter Dale Scott, deep politics refers to “all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”
This is Part 2 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Nortonof Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2?
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of Multipolarista as well our own Seamus McGuiness who is producing the series. We discuss the book's origins and the main research questions that propelled the research and scholarship. Essentially: Why does US foreign policy remain unchanged across administrations and why has US democracy declined with the rise of the US global dominance in era following World War 2?
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
This is Part 4 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are again joined by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. The discussion picks up from the last episode where JFK’s plans for a sovereign West Papua under UN auspices were derailed by the assassination of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. We cover the tale of how Allen Dulles and his allies managed to subvert Sukarno and JFK by sparking Konfrontasi and preventing JFK’s plans to provide aid to stabilize Sukarno’s government. In desperation, JFK planned to visit Indonesia himself in 1964 to solve the problem of Konfrontasi once and for all. Thanks to the dark forces behind events in Dallas, such would not come to pass…
This is the audio version. A video version will be released in the near future and posted here.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Subtropics
This is Part 4 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are again joined by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. The discussion picks up from the last episode where JFK’s plans for a sovereign West Papua under UN auspices were derailed by the assassination of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. We cover the tale of how Allen Dulles and his allies managed to subvert Sukarno and JFK by sparking Konfrontasi and preventing JFK’s plans to provide aid to stabilize Sukarno’s government. In desperation, JFK planned to visit Indonesia himself in 1964 to solve the problem of Konfrontasi once and for all. Thanks to the dark forces behind events in Dallas, such would not come to pass…
This is the audio version. A video version will be released in the near future and posted here.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Subtropics
This is Part 3 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are joined this time by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. Most notably, they discuss how American deep statesman Allen Dulles was able to utilize murderous clandestine arts to subvert US and UN policy so that control over Indonesia's vast riches could eventually be attained by the Rockefeller overworld of private wealth.
This is the audio version. A video version will be released in the near future and posted here.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Subtropics
This is Part 3 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are joined this time by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. Most notably, they discuss how American deep statesman Allen Dulles was able to utilize murderous clandestine arts to subvert US and UN policy so that control over Indonesia's vast riches could eventually be attained by the Rockefeller overworld of private wealth.
This is the audio version. A video version will be released in the near future and posted here.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Subtropics
This is the 12th installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott—the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
In this episode, we delve further into the confusion surrounding the structural deep event that we refer to simply as Watergate. Peter and I talk about connections between Watergate other deep events like the JFK assassination. We even discuss the very suspicious Ruth Paine and the extremely grave issue of COG--Continuity of Government—aka: the Doomsday Network.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
This is the 12th installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott—the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
In this episode, we delve further into the confusion surrounding the structural deep event that we refer to simply as Watergate. Peter and I talk about connections between Watergate other deep events like the JFK assassination. We even discuss the very suspicious Ruth Paine and the extremely grave issue of COG--Continuity of Government—aka: the Doomsday Network.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We speak about his recent GrayZone piece with Max Blumenthal—the first in a series on the Paul Mason email scandal. The piece is entitled, Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed.
A follow-up article was also published at Grayzone: Leaked emails expose Paul Mason’s collusion with senior British intelligence agent
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We speak about his recent GrayZone piece with Max Blumenthal—the first in a series on the Paul Mason email scandal. The piece is entitled, Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed.
A follow-up article was also published at Grayzone: Leaked emails expose Paul Mason’s collusion with senior British intelligence agent
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
In this second episode of our Watergate double feature here on the 50th anniversary of that fateful botched burglary, Aaron talks with Jefferson Morley about his new book, Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Therein, Watergate is presented as a tale of two Dicks—Nixon and Helms. On the surface, Watergate was a notorious presidential scandal. The further one looks into the case, the more the whole affair looks like an Establishment civil war fought over deeper issues of world historic importance.
Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Song in D” by Mock Orange
In this second episode of our Watergate double feature here on the 50th anniversary of that fateful botched burglary, Aaron talks with Jefferson Morley about his new book, Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Therein, Watergate is presented as a tale of two Dicks—Nixon and Helms. On the surface, Watergate was a notorious presidential scandal. The further one looks into the case, the more the whole affair looks like an Establishment civil war fought over deeper issues of world historic importance.
Jefferson Morley is a Washington author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. Some of his other books include The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton and Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Song in D” by Mock Orange
As a happy coincidence, we recorded this around on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the arrest of the Plumbers. We talk about the deep politics of Watergate in this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. His work on Watergate had a big influence on my own view of Watergate, a subject I dedicate two whole chapters to in American Exception--now days away from its official publication!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
As a happy coincidence, we recorded this around on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the arrest of the Plumbers. We talk about the deep politics of Watergate in this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. His work on Watergate had a big influence on my own view of Watergate, a subject I dedicate two whole chapters to in American Exception--now days away from its official publication!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “Payroll” by Mock Orange
Joined by James DiEugenio, Aaron talks with Max Good about his new film, The Assassination and Mrs. Paine. The film features Ruth Paine herself—along with a number of other people that you may be familiar with--including, James DiEugenio, Peter Dale Scott, Max Holland, Gerald Posner, Priscilla Johnson-McMillan, and Vincent Salandria.
Rent the film here on June 14: The Assassination and Mrs. Paine on iTunes
Follow on Twitter: JFK Paine Doc
James DiEugenio's website: Kennedys and King
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "12 O'clock Call" by Mock Orange
In this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott, Peter talks with Ben Howard and me about some legendary figures in the history of American parapolitical research—namely: William Turner, Mae Brussell, and Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty. From there, we start to get into Watergate! Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
Aaron is joined by Lawrence Wilkerson and Peter Kuznick to discuss the Ukraine War in the context of America’s evaporating “unipolar moment.”
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US Army Colonel, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and current Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary:
Peter Kuznick is Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. The author of numerous books and articles, Kuznick is perhaps most notably the cocreator—with Oliver Stone—of The Untold History of the United States. It is a 12-part documentary series that first played on Showtime, and there’s also an excellent book version, now in its second edition.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange
This is Part 9 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the poet, historian, and iconoclastic creator of parapolitics and deep politics. We continue talking about key figures of America's parapolitical history, including:
· Donald Freed—prominent activist and co-writer of Executive Action
· Carl Oglesby—major SDS figure and author of The Yankee and Cowboy War
· Warren Hinkle—publisher of the legendary magazine, Ramparts
· Huey Newton and Jane Fonda also make appearances in this episode
With apologies, this episode was recorded while a team of workers outside Peter’s home were apparently trying to drill to the center of the Earth and/or operate some kind of massive circular saw. We did our best to clean this up as well as we could.
The great Ben Howard should be rejoining us again for the next installment in this series!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art. Extra special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Mind Is Not Brain" by Mock Orange
This is Part 9 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the poet, historian, and iconoclastic creator of parapolitics and deep politics. We continue talking about key figures of America's parapolitical history, including:
· Donald Freed—prominent activist and co-writer of Executive Action
· Carl Oglesby—major SDS figure and author of The Yankee and Cowboy War
· Warren Hinkle—publisher of the legendary magazine, Ramparts
· Huey Newton and Jane Fonda also make appearances in this episode
With apologies, this episode was recorded while a team of workers outside Peter’s home were apparently trying to drill to the center of the Earth and/or operate some kind of massive circular saw. We did our best to clean this up as well as we could.
The great Ben Howard should be rejoining us again for the next installment in this series!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art. Extra special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Ben Norton of Multipolarista talks with Aaron about the end of US unipolarity (i.e., global dominance) and the dawn of a new multipolar world. Unlike the previous multipolar eras which led to colonialism and two world wars, the emerging multipolar world is more than just white imperialist powers in competition with each other.
After the discussion with Ben Norton, Aaron talks to Mike Lesiuk and Seamus McGuiness about the new American Exception website. The first article at the site is Aaron's 2015 piece, "American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State."
Follow Ben Norton on Twitter and visit his excellent website, Multipolarista.com
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange
Ben Norton of Multipolarista talks with Aaron about the end of US unipolarity (i.e., global dominance) and the dawn of a new multipolar world. Unlike the previous multipolar eras which led to colonialism and two world wars, the emerging multipolar world is more than just white imperialist powers in competition with each other.
After the discussion with Ben Norton, Aaron talks to Mike Lesiuk and Seamus McGuiness about the new American Exception website. The first article at the site is Aaron's 2015 piece, "American Exception: Hegemony and the Dissimulation of the State."
Follow Ben Norton on Twitter and visit his excellent website, Multipolarista.com
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: “The End of the World” by Mock Orange
This is Part 8 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Peter joins Aaron to reflect upon a number of figures in America's parapolitical history including:
- Bill Colby
- Dick Gregory
- Mark Lane
- Robert Blakey
- Allard Lowenstein
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Song in D" by Mock Orange
This is Part 8 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Peter joins Aaron to reflect upon a number of figures in America's parapolitical history including:
- Bill Colby
- Dick Gregory
- Mark Lane
- Robert Blakey
- Allard Lowenstein
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron talks with Branko Marcetic and Ben Howard about the recent 9/11 revelations which further implicate the Saudis--including the Saudis' key US deep state operative, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. His recent 9/11 article at Jacobin is We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Tell Me Your Story" by Mock Orange
Aaron talks with Branko Marcetic and Ben Howard about the recent 9/11 revelations which further implicate the Saudis--including the Saudis' key US deep state operative, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden. His recent 9/11 article at Jacobin is We Have New Evidence of Saudi Involvement in 9/11, and Barely Anyone Cares.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron speaks with Dr. Matthew Alford, one of the co-producers of the soon to be released documentary film, Theaters of War. They discuss the film and it main subject--the covert and propagandistic role of the Pentagon and CIA in the entertainment world.
Alford is the co-author with Tom Secker of National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of Government Control in Hollywood. Along with TJ Coles, he is also co-author Union Jackboot: What Your Media and Professors Don't Tell You About British Foreign Policy, as well as author of The Writer with No Hands—a book, I hope to discuss on a future episode.
Here's a trailer for Theaters of War featuring Matthew Alford.
Also check out Tom Secker's site, Spy Culture.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "World of Machines" by Mock Orange
This is Part 7 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Ben Howard also joins us again as we continue talking about issues related to Peter’s early 1970’s article “The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment.” Namely, we discuss what Peter was writing about at the time—the balance of payments issue as it related to the Vietnam War, the titans of American high finance, and the CIA. We also get deeper into the historical implications of all this, taking us right up to the present day as US dollar hegemony seems to be tottering under pressure from Russia, China, and the Global South.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "I Keep Saying So Long" by Mock Orange
This is Part 7 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Ben Howard also joins us again as we continue talking about issues related to Peter’s early 1970’s article “The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment.” Namely, we discuss what Peter was writing about at the time—the balance of payments issue as it related to the Vietnam War, the titans of American high finance, and the CIA. We also get deeper into the historical implications of all this, taking us right up to the present day as US dollar hegemony seems to be tottering under pressure from Russia, China, and the Global South.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
This is Part 6 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. We are again accompanied by co-host Ben Howard who joins us as Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his 1970 article for Ramparts which has yet to be published after being stolen by the CIA in 1970 as part of Operation Chaos: "Private War Enterprise in Asia: Air America, the Brook Club, and the Kuomintang"
- his 1973 or 1974 article (we mistakenly dated it at 1971, but that is not quite right) about the the CIA, high finance, and the Vietnam War: "The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment"
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stop and Go" by Mock Orange
This is Part 6 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. We are again accompanied by co-host Ben Howard who joins us as Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his 1970 article for Ramparts which has yet to be published after being stolen by the CIA in 1970 as part of Operation Chaos: "Private War Enterprise in Asia: Air America, the Brook Club, and the Kuomintang"
- his 1973 or 1974 article (we mistakenly dated it at 1971, but that is not quite right) about the the CIA, high finance, and the Vietnam War: "The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment"
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Following up on issues raised in the JFK assassination debate episode, James DiEugenio joins us to discuss JFK’s record on civil rights as well as other issues related to the JFK assassination. DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Majestic Raincoat" by Mock Orange
Following up on issues raised in the JFK assassination debate episode, James DiEugenio joins us to discuss JFK’s record on civil rights as well as other issues related to the JFK assassination. DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
We wrap up our discussion on "biodefense" with Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
We wrap up our discussion on "biodefense" with Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Continued discussion of "biodefense" and Ukraine with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Continued discussion of "biodefense" and Ukraine with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
James DiEugenio joins us again to follow up on issues raised in Episode 34--our JFK Assassination debate featuring Jim and Robert Buzzanco. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. He also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
James DiEugenio joins us again to follow up on issues raised in Episode 34--our JFK Assassination debate featuring Jim and Robert Buzzanco. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. He also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron talks about "biodefense" with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron talks about "biodefense" with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
This is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his early research in to Air America
- his friendship with Allen Ginsberg
- Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin
- CIA influence at The Nation magazine
- the Nugan Hand bank
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away" by Mock Orange
This is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his early research in to Air America
- his friendship with Allen Ginsberg
- Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin
- CIA influence at The Nation magazine
- the Nugan Hand bank
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
This episode features a debate on the JFK assassination between Robert Buzzanco and James DiEugenio. Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is also the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, as well as cohost of the Green and Red Podcast. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Future episodes of American Exception will follow-up on the material covered in this debate! Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
Aaron and Branko Marcetic talk about the 2014 Maidan coup and the war in Ukraine. Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.
Check out some of Branko Marcetic’s work at Jacobin:
- What the Left’s Critics Ignore About Military Solutions to Ukraine
- Turning Ukraine Into Another Afghanistan Would Be a Disastrous Idea
- A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Motel Man" by Mock Orange
This is Part 4 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- Malcolm X
- the other the post-JFK political assassinations of the 1960’s
- Peter’s involvement with the Pentagon Papers
- the Ellsberg trial and Ellsberg’s parapolitical detractors
- the rise and fall of the counterculture
- the CIA and LSD
- Peter’s important early book, The War Conspiracy
Here is the fascinating Pacifica Radio broadcast over at Our Hidden History that Ben referenced: What the Pentagon Papers Do and Do Not Reveal and JFK & Vietnam w/ Peter Dale Scott (1971)
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Aaron speaks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored. They discuss censorship, propaganda, and other subjects covered by Projects Censored's latest book, The State of the Free Press 2022—just released under their new publishing imprint, The Censored Press.
Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored as well as a professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College where he co-chairs both the History and Journalism Departments. He is also executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program he founded with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips in 2010. The program originates from the historic studios of KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, airs on 50 stations around the US--and is also now a podcast online.
Andy Lee Roth is the associate director of Project Censored. He coordinates the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program, a news media research network of several hundred students and faculty at two dozen colleges and universities across North America. His research and writing have been published in a variety of outlets, including Index on Censorship, In These Times, YES! Magazine, Media, Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Press/Politics. Roth earned a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has taught at a number of universities. He also serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange
In this eleventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed, the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. Additionally, he runs the fantastic website Kennedys and King and makes regular appearances on Len Osanic's BlackOp Radio. In this conversation, Aaron and Jim discuss the recent attacks on Oliver Stone's JFK films leveled by people like Tim Weiner, Max Boot, Gerald Posner, and Jamie Kirchick.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Please check out:
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange
Aaron and Ben talk about the Ukraine War--its larger historical background and looming geopolitical implications.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Twelve O'Clock Call" by Mock Orange
This is Part 3 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years at Berkeley, including his experiences with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the antiwar movement. The Reichstag Fire and other matters are discussed as well.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
This is Part 2 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon some of the events that led to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as his early years there.
[UPDATE: We remastered this episode to fix the original files... basically we used technology to disguise the fact that I did too many whippets before and during the recording.]
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "I Can't Seem to Think" by Mock Orange
This is the first part of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years prior to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Mind Is Not Brain" by Mock Orange
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Anthony Monteiro. They discuss the Black Radical Tradition in the context of US empire and capitalism. They focus especially on the towering figure of W.E.B. Dubois.
After many years as university professor--mostly at Temple University--Monteiro continues to work as a scholar and activist at the Saturday Free School in Philadelphia and at Black Agenda Report.
Check out Abby Martin's Empire Files episode: The Black Radical Tradition with Cornel West, Mumia Abu-Jamal
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "East Side Song" by Mock Orange
This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno-led victory over the Dutch which established Indonesian independence. They then trace the imperial intrigues which unfolded throughout the Eisenhower years. Most notably, they discuss how American deep statesman Allen Dulles played the long game to seize control over the Indonesia's vast resource wealth.
This is the audio version. The episode was produced as a video which you can watch here.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Subtropics
Aaron is joined by our man in Belgrade, Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We spoke about a number of subjects related to his recent GrayZone piece, "Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show." The article was a follow-up of sorts to a previous article that Klarenberg co-authored with Max Blumenthal, "Leaked files expose Syria psyops veteran astroturfing BreadTube star to counter Covid restriction critics."
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Payroll" by Mock Orange
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the staggering resource wealth of Indonesia. He is joined by Hailey Rounsaville and Mike Oldfield.
This is the video version. The audio only version is here.
If there is any problem with the Patreon video player, this link should let you download the file: "A Mountain of Gold on the Moon"
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the staggering resource wealth of Indonesia. He is joined by Hailey Rounsaville and Mike Oldfield.
Watch the video at our Patreon for free!
Aaron talks with Catherine Liu and Dan Kovalik about the Professional Managerial Class, "cancel culture," and US empire. Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Daniel Kovalik is the author of Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. He is also a human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
Follow Catherine Liu on Twitter: @bureaucatliu
Check out Dan Kovalik's author page at Amazon
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Song in D" by Mock Orange
This special episode features Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. About a year ago, on Groundhog Day 2021, Ellsberg came my peace studies class. He was prepared to answer questions from students, which he did, but only after being surprised by a number of luminaries who had previously agreed to join us. The surprise guests included James Galbraith, Peter Kuznick, Katharine Gun, and Peter Dale Scott.
The class—Peace Studies of the American Century—is one that I developed in collaboration with American University history professor Peter Kuznick and filmmaker Oliver Stone.
Daniel Ellsberg is the author of Secrets: A Memoir of Vietnam and the Pentagon Papers, and The Doomsday Machine: Confessions of a Nuclear War Planner. His life story is the subject of The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers, the Oscar-nominated documentary that Edward Snowden credited for inspiring his own act of whistleblowing.
Lastly, we are joined by former CIA officer John Kiriakou, the heroic individual who went to jail for blowing the whistle on CIA torture. He was kind enough to offer his own very memorable tribute to Daniel Ellsberg.
Special thanks to Mickey Huff and Anthony Fest of Project Censored, Casey Moore for the episode art, and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "End of the World" by Mock Orange
Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone talks about his new JFK assassination documentary with special guest host Abby Martin.
Stay tuned after the interview for a postscript detailing how the JFK assassination was an Establishment or deep state production that must be placed in the context of the post-World War II US imperial project for global dominance.
Part 9 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features Hailey Rounsaville of TheKultureDotTV.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Please check out:
Abby Martin at The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Episode Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Daniel Bessner to discuss propaganda in the USA. Bessner is co-host of the American Prestige podcast and a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin. In 2019-2020, he served as a foreign policy advisor to Bernie Sanders’ presidential campaign. Daniel is an intellectual historian of U.S. foreign relations and the author of Democracy in Exile: Hans Speier and the Rise of the Defense Intellectual.
After the interview, this episode also features a discussion on materialism, ideology, and propaganda with Our Man in Boston, Ben Howard!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
In Part 8 our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with James DiEugenio. They cover Vietnam and other key aspects of President Kennedy's foreign policy. Collectively, JFK's plans to end the Cold War and his support for Third World nationalism represented a radical break from the imperialist Acheson-Dulles consensus which had prevailed since the end of World War II. Unfortunately, Kennedy's visionary plans placed him in the cross hairs of the US Empire's beneficiaries. These amoral members of the American power elite commanded the world's leading corporate, military, and political organizations.
James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed, the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. Additionally, he runs the fantastic website Kennedys and King and makes regular appearances on Len Osanic's BlackOp Radio.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Please check out:
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange
In this seventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed, the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. Additionally, he runs the fantastic website Kennedys and King and makes regular appearances on Len Osanic's BlackOp Radio. In this conversation, Aaron and Jim discuss JFK's Vietnam policies, including a deeper look at the November 1963 coup that resulted in the assassination of South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem.
This episode also features Hailey Rounsaville (@roun_sa_ville) of TheKultureDotTV
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Please check out:
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange
Hailey and Aaron are joined by Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Kuznick is the author numerous books and articles. Perhaps most notably, he is the co-creator (with Oliver Stone) of The Untold History of the United States--a 12-part documentary series that first played on Showtime. There’s also an excellent book version of The Untold History of the United States, now in its second edition.
Hailey and Aaron discuss Kuznick's American University history course, Oliver Stone's America, with the professor.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Movies" by Mock Orange
In this sixth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. James Galbraith is the author of a number of books, including The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. His longest article on JFK and Vietnam is Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam.
Please check out:
Abby Martin's The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music by Mock Orange
This episode features Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students in conversation with retired CIA officer Ray McGovern. The discussion ranges across Ray’s experiences as a CIA officer from the Kennedy administration to first George Bush administration—as well as his post-CIA work as a peace activist weighing in on Iraq WMD, CIA torture, Julian Assange, and the Russiagate hoax.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away" by Mock Orange
In this fifth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series, Aaron discusses John Kennedy's Vietnam policies with two towering figures in the field--Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of the orthodoxy-shattering JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. James Galbraith is the author of numerous articles and books including Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam and The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. This episode also features the incomparable Abby Martin.
Please check out:
Abby Martin's The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange
Big thanks to to Anthony Fest for engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!
In this fifth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series, Aaron discusses John Kennedy's Vietnam policies with two towering figures in the field--Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of the orthodoxy-shattering JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. James Galbraith is the author of numerous articles and books including Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam and The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. This episode also features the incomparable Abby Martin.
Please check out:
Abby Martin's The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange
Big thanks to to Anthony Fest for engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!
In this episode, Oliver Stone talks with Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students about US history, the media, nuclear war, Platoon, JFK, Nixon, and other topics.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Payroll" by Mock Orange
Aaron and guest co-host Ben Howard are joined by Time magazine's 2002 co-person of the year, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley. They discuss the inexplicable FBI failures that surrounding the 9/11 terror spectacle--in particular, Rowley's unsuccessful efforts to obtain a search warrant for the laptop of the extremely suspicious Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker."
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and J.G. Michael for the sound engineering!
Music by Mock Orange
Aaron continues his discussion with Professor Peter Dale Scott about 'deep politics' and his 50+ years of historical research into the JFK assassination. In this installment, Professor Scott talks about COG or the "Doomsday Network," JFK's Vietnam withdrawal, The Dallas-Watergate connections, and the commonplace denial of deep events.
Part 4 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features a postscript segment with Ben Howard.
Peter Dale Scott is the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Anthony Fest for the sound engineering!
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Aaron talks with Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is also a retired US Army Colonel and currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary. This discussion was recorded around September 11th. We discussed his experiences related to the events of that anniversary along with other important issues. After that, Aaron is joined by the insightful and entertaining Hailey Rounsaville. The two of them discuss Lawrence Wilkerson’s recently departed former boss, Colin Powell and the media coverage around his death.
Aaron talks with Professor Peter Dale Scott about 'deep politics' and his 50+ years of historical research into the JFK assassination. Part 3 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features a postscript segment with Ben Howard. Peter Dale Scott is the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House.
Please check out:
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
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Big thanks to to Anthony Fest for engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!
s features a surprise tribute to the great Peter Dale Scott which also includes the iconic Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer! In addition to the segments with Scott, Ellsberg, and Oppenheimer, this episode has an introduction with some historical background--as well as a postscript discussion with Ben Howard.
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Big thanks to J.G. Michael for audio engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!
This features a surprise tribute to the great Peter Dale Scott which also includes the iconic Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer! In addition to the segments with Scott, Ellsberg, and Oppenheimer, this episode has an introduction with some historical background--as well as a postscript discussion with Ben Howard.
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Big thanks to J.G. Michael for audio engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!
This episode has now been remastered for American Exception!
In this second episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with journalist and historian David Talbot about his masterpiece, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Based on dozens of interviews with virtually all the surviving key members of the Kennedy administration, Brothers traces the history of JFK's presidency, as well as RFK's tragic quest to bring his brother's killers to justice.
This episode also includes contributions from the great Abby Martin of The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.
Please check out:
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
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Big thanks to Dana Chavarria for remastering and Casey Moore for the episode art!
This episode has now been remastered for American Exception!
Peter Dale Scott, Pepe Escobar, John Kiriakou, and Aaron Good discuss the September 9, 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud assassination, an event that paved the way for the long-planned US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan. Other topics covered include the US deployment of jihadis in the Central Asian "Great Game" as well as the significance of Xinjiang and China's New Silk Road.
Here are the articles that were discussed in this episode:
"Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?" by Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good
"9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later" by Pepe Escobar
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Newly remastered, this episode is the first of the Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination. It features a discussion with Zachary Sklar, co-screenwriter of Oliver Stone's 1991 masterpiece, JFK.
This episode also includes contributions from the great Abby Martin of The Empire Files.
Please check out:
James DiEugenio's fantastic website: Kennedys and King
Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
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