Peter B. Collins: Recent Episodes
Peter B. Collins
After 5 years of inaction, and a cruel last-minute rejection by Senate Republicans, the PACT Act to treat veterans sickened … Continue reading From the Archive: Joe Hickman Blew the Whistle on Burn Pits 5 Years Ago
At the end of May, YouTube sent me a notice that it had removed an interview from my collection on … Continue reading From the Archive: Here’s the Greg Palast Interview That YouTube Just Removed
Russia's invasion of Ukraine has brought Chernobyl back into the news. Reliable reports indicate that the Russian takeover presents some … Continue reading From the Archive: How the Chernobyl Disaster Caused Implosion of Soviet Union
Your humble host has become a regular contributor to the David Feldman podcast, appearing most Mondays at about 9pm EST, … Continue reading Mondays With Feldo
As President Biden announces feeble efforts to address the impact of burn pits on at least 60,000 Iraq war vets on Veterans Day 2021, we repost our interview with Joe Hickman from 2016.
Kiriakou and Hickman detail the real story of Abu Zubaydeh, subject of oral arguments at SCOTUS on 10.6.21 Get more info at peterbcollins.com
On the David Feldman Show taping of September 30, we discussed California wildfires, many of which have been caused by the negligence of our rogue utility, P G & E. This 2012 interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter David Cay Johnston includes his comments on P G & E and its "stranded costs".
Despite the evident failures of foreign and domestic policy triggered by the events of 9/11, disprovable myths of the official … Continue reading Post-Retirement Special: 20 Years On, 9/11 Coverup Is Holding Firm, Protected By Gatekeepers in Government, Media and Academia
At the end of August, 2021, Sirhan Sirhan--convicted for the muder of Bobby Kennedy--was granted parole, subject to review by California's governor. While Sirhan took responsibility for the crime, it appears he didn't actually kill RFK. More at peterbcollins.com
As Americans make a messy exit from Afghanistan after 20 years, our messy entry in 2001 has been largely erased. The distorted official narrative and media coverage of the case of John Lindh has never been corrected, and most Americans falsely believe that Lindh was a traitor who killed a CIA agent. More at peterbcollins.com
Buzzfeed News recently published a detailed investigation of the Wolverine Watchmen, a pro-Trump armed militia group in Michigan busted by the FBI in October 2020 for an alleged plot to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. The report reveals another concocted sting operation by the FBI. This podcast reviews the history of FBI entrapment operations since 9/11. More info at peterbcollins.com
For years, painter Rob Shetterly has been creating portraits of people he sees as truth tellers. His latest is of Daniel Hale, who exposed America's drone warfare program.
Reacting to his induction into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame, PBC shares Mal Sharpe's street interviews regarding the effectiveness of billboards in promoting radio stations and radio personalitites. Get more info at PeterBCollins.com
As Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted as Israeli prime minister and replaced by a potentially more extreme Naftali Bennett, here are two important perspectives from the PBC archive. The audio of the full Miko Peled interview is in this re-post. Get full details, and link to the video interview with Iyad Burnat at peterbcollins.com
As Benjamin Netanyahu is ousted as Israeli prime minister and replaced by a potentially more extreme Naftali Bennett, here are two important perspectives from the PBC archive. Full details at peterbcollins.com
As news breaks of Trump-era surveillance of reporters and elected officials, we remind you that similar skulduggery occurred under Bush and Obama. See more details at peterbcollins.com
After inviting Ai Wei Wei to be a major figure in "The Great Big Art Exhibition", UK organizers refused to include his contribution, which focused on Julian Assange and political prisoners. For the full text explaining this podcast, visit peterbcollins.com
There's a new documentary about our deranged former president, Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump, which prominently features our friend, Washington psychiatrist Justin A. Frank. Here's one of ten podcasts with our favorite shrink. [get more info at peterbcollins.com
Watch the feature film The Mauritanian for a true story about a Guantanamo prisoner who spent 14 years in US … Continue reading From the Archive: Gitmo Coverage, Prompted by ‘The Mauritanian’
Following Nancy MacLean's recent appearance on HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, we repost her interview from 2017.Maher never gives … Continue reading From the Archive: Prof. Nancy MacLean on the Koch Network and GOP Election Rigging
Following Tom Frank's appearance of HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher, here's the most recent of more than 15 interviews … Continue reading From the Archive: Author Thomas Frank Delivers Candid Criticism of Democrats
The January 6 Capitol riot has forced the FBI and Justice Department to focus on armed white extremist groups. But … Continue reading From the Archive: Investigative Reporter A. C. Thompson Exposes Atomwaffen, Armed White Nationalist Group
In reaction to a new column by James Risen that includes a mini-mea-culpa about the role of The Intercept in … Continue reading From the Archive: Whistleblowers Kiriakou and Hickman Finger Serial Informant Matthew Cole of The Intercept
Back in 2013, PBC interviewed Columbia Prof. Carl Hart, an outspoken opponent of drug prohibition. With a new book, Drug … Continue reading From the Archive: Columbia Prof. Carl Hart Fights to End the War on Some Drugs
Author and foreign correspondent Reese Erlich has just revealed he is dying of cancer, in a candid and somewhat amusing … Continue reading From the Archive: Journalist Reese Erlich on Sonic Weapons in Cuba and the War in Syria
As the new film Judas and the Black Messiah has sparked renewed interest in the 1969 FBI/police murder of Chicago … Continue reading From the Archive: Lawyer Flint Taylor on Fred Hampton’s Murder and More Recent Abuses by Chicago Police
The new film, Judas and the Black Messiah has brought renewed interest to the 1969 FBI/police murder of Chicago Black … Continue reading From the Archive: Lawyer Jeffrey Haas on the Assassination of Fred Hampton
Two days after the announcement of the death of conservative shock radio host Rush Limbaugh, PBC offers unscripted comments on … Continue reading PBC Post-Retirement Special: Assessing the Damage Caused by Rush Limbaugh
In a rare interview that the recently departed Rush Limbaugh gave to someone outside the conservative media safe zone, PBC … Continue reading From the Archives; PBC Interviews Rush Limbaugh, 1991
Since the election, I’ve observed that Trump hadn’t hit bottom yet; January 6 was that day, the damage will linger…In this unscheduled outburst, your retired humble host comments on a momentous week in the final days of the Trump error. I have not had time to assemble the email alert list, so please share this with friends and on social media!
--Trump’s inaugural speech about “carnage” was prophetic. His nonstop mob rallies, as recently as Monday, groomed and conditioned his mob mentality of righteous despot: pro-life, and death to Libtards
--Neocon through leader Max Boot nails McConnell and McCarthy for enabling Trumpism, says they must go
--Peter van Buren did a fair report on Hunter Biden’s laptop
--and at ConsortiumNews, Joe Lauria unpacks the religious rhetoric used to describe the mob action in Washington on January 6
Col. Morris Davis, former Guantanamo chief prosecutor and expert on military justice system, comments on verdicts in Bradley Manning trial; Lori Wallach, director of TradeWatch, updates us on the secret process of the Trans Pacific Partnership trade deal, and efforts to defeat it.
This is the first in a series of re-posts of great interviews from the PBC Archive. Moe Davis ran, unsuccessfully, for Congress from North Carolina in 2020, and was interviewed here on August 28, 2020. Make a note of the unqualified and dangerous young Trumper who won the race, he will likely be a loudmouth in the new Congress. Part 2 is about Obama's failed TPP trade deal, which was a factor in Trump's campaign in 2016.
Davis, who resigned his post at Guantanamo when superiors told him "there will be no acquittals", was a witness at the court martial of Private Manning at Fort Meade. He is "pleasantly surprised" that the judge found Manning not guilty of "aiding the enemy", especially after Col. Lind declined to drop that charge just a week ago. Davis does not consider Manning to be a traitor, but thinks he should be punished for the charges he plead guilty to and that the prosecution over-reached when it used the Espionage Act--which last produced a conviction during the Civil War. Davis comments on inappropriate command influence by President Obama, and thinks the "not guilty" finding shows some indepence by the judge, Col. Denise Lind. He also remarks on the Snowden case, and the heavy hand of ObamaCo with NSA leakers and in his own case. We discuss the need for a new Church commission on surveillance and related matters, and that it's time to update the military justice system.
At 34:30, we talk with Lori Wallach of Public Citizen about the secret negotiations underway for a trade pact called the TransPacific Partnership (TPP). She details examples of the likely impact of this deal on food safety and other issues and explains that members of Congress who are expected to vote on this do not have full access to the negotiations or the current language of the agreement. Like NAFTA and the WTO treaty, this deal will erode wages and working conditions for American workers, and disputes are handled by a small group of corporate lawyers who are accountable to no government or people.
Find out more, including the leaked language of part of the agreement, here and here.
Preview Clip
https://www.peterbcollins.com/wp/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/Palast.final_.mp3 For the absolute final Last Interview, investigative journalist Greg Palast returns to talk about rejected mail-in ballots, Trump's futile legal gambits, and the Palast-supported lawsuit to restore 198,000 purged voters in Georgia.Palast is the author, most recently, of How Trump Stole the 2020 Election, in which he detailed many predictions that have come true.
We open with discussion of the flaws of mail-in voting, as Palast estimates that 4 million ballots nationwide were rejected this year. In states that permit the "curing" of defective ballots, he estimates that only a small number of voters actually did get to fix their errors.
While Palast declares there was not significant voter fraud in this cycle, the claims that it was a "perfect" election, or the most secure ever, do not win his approval. He notes that the efforts to rig the outcome before November 3 are ignored by the corporate media, which got the desired result.
He discusses the lawsuit that he testified about yesterday, December 10, in federal court in Georgia, seeking to restore 198,000 voters who were dropped from the rolls because the secretary of state claimed they had moved; Palast has evidence that 198,000 out of 300,000 purged had provably not moved.
Palast is joining PBC in retiring, in his case after the January 5 Senate runoff in Georgia. We thank him for his tireless efforts for clean American elections.