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Chauncey DeVega
The truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.
This is special joint episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.
Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswoman. She is also Donald Trump’s niece.
Mary Trump is the author of the books Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man and The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. Mary Trump’s new book is Who Could Ever Love You: A Family Memoir.
Mary Trump is a friend of the podcast and is always so generous with her teaching and sharing. She reflects on the state of our individual and collective mental and emotional health over these last 8 or so weeks, and the importance of balancing joy and hope about Kamala Harris with the reality that there is so much hard work to be done until (and after) Election Day.
Mary Trump also discusses the personal cost of being a real member of the Resistance and the pro-democracy movement to our relationships and lives. In this expansive conversation, Mary shares her thoughts about why we must imagine a world beyond the Age of Trump and then do everything we can to make it a reality.
Chauncey DeVega provides “proof of life” and shares how he was under attack by the super DNC cooties bug and how that left him discombobulated and delayed the podcast. Chauncey also shares some quick thoughts about the first debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump and how the mainstream news media continues the “sanewashing” of the obviously very dangerous aspiring Dictator Trump.
And Chauncey DeVega honors the titan James Earl Jones who passed away on Monday and is now one with the Force.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Making sense of the post-Trump conviction polls”.
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Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, Democracy Awakening. Richardson’s Substack newsletter “Letters From an American” is essential reading and is subscribed to by 1,400,000 people.
She explains how the study of American history and peoples’ movements to expand real democracy are critical for defeating Trumpism, American neofascism and global illiberalism today. Heather also reflects on how her background as a working-class person helped to prepare her for the intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically demanding work of defending American democracy in her role and responsibility as someone who thinks and writes publicly for a living.
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Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at Boston College. She is the author of numerous books including her most recent, Democracy Awakening. Richardson’s Substack newsletter “Letters From an American” is essential reading and is subscribed to by 1,400,000 people.
She explains how the study of American history and peoples’ movements to expand real democracy are critical for defeating Trumpism, American neofascism and global illiberalism today. Heather also reflects on how her background as a working-class person helped to prepare her for the intellectually, spiritually, emotionally, and physically demanding work of defending American democracy in her role and responsibility as someone who thinks and writes publicly for a living.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “How Professional Wrestling Helps to Explain the Upcoming Debates Between President Biden and Aspiring Dictator Donald Trump”.
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Last Thursday, Donald Trump was found “guilty” in his New York hush-money and election interference trial. He is now the first former or sitting president to be convicted of a felony. Given these historic events, I am sharing my conversation with Glenn Kirschner here on The Truth Report about Trump’s trial(s) and the extreme danger(s) he continues to pose to the country and its democracy. My conversation with Glenn Kirschner was recorded several weeks ago.
Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News/MSNBC on-air legal analyst and teaches criminal justice at George Washington University. He has a YouTube channel and Podcast, “Justice Matters with Glenn Kirschner.” Kirschner is also a former federal prosecutor with 30 years of trial experience. He served in the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia for 24 years, rising to the position of Chief of the Homicide Section. In that capacity, Kirschner supervised 30 homicide prosecutors and oversaw all homicide grand jury investigations and prosecutions in Washington, DC.
He explains why and how Donald Trump (and his confederates) have been able to evade serious accountability for their public crime spree against American democracy and society, including the Jan. 6 coup attempt and lethal terrorist attack on the Capitol.
Kirschner cautions that contrary to the mainstream media’s narrative that the “walls are closing in” on Donald Trump given his multiple criminal and civil trials where he may face hundreds of years in prison and hundreds of millions of dollars in fines and judgements, the reality of the situation is much more perilous and uncertain.
He warns that Donald Trump and the Republican fascists and the larger “conservative” movement are trying to kill American democracy and will not stop until they achieve their goal of unlimited power and putting Dictator Trump in the White House.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Trump trial delays bring focus to crucial Supreme Court case”.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “When Trump gets dark, Biden goes light”.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares a version of his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump is testing out a new campaign strategy: horror politics”.
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Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard.
Dr. Lee is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the problem of dangerous leadership and its contribution to a “mental health pandemic.”
Dr. Lee continues to warn that Trump and his MAGA movement and American neofascism constitute a public health emergency, which as seen on Jan. 6 and with Trump’s escalating threats of massive violence and destruction is only continuing to get worse. She also warns that Trump’s megalomania and the enduring power of the MAGA cult reflects how American society is sick with malignant normality and how that collective state of evil and pathological behavior can only lead to doom and destruction.
Dr. Lee reflects on where the country would now be if the news media, political class, and other elites had responded properly to the warnings issued by mental health professionals more than seven years ago that Donald Trump represented an extreme threat to American society and that his obvious unwellness would spread and infect the nation if he were to become president – and if he wins the 2024 Election Dictator for Life will become a terminal disease for American democracy and society.
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Sgt. Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He’s been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He’s been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Immigrant Award.
Sgt. Gonell’s new book (with co-author Susan Shapiro) is American Shield: The Immigrant Sergeant Who Defended Democracy.
Sgt. Gonell shares what it was like on the ground as he and his fellow officers tried to defend the Capitol on Jan. 6 against Trump’s MAGA terrorist mob and attack force who were trying to end American democracy as part of the coup attempt.
Sgt. Gonell also reflects on his personal trauma, healing, questions of character, and how he became the type of man he is as shown by his service to the country when it would have been much easier to not have shown up to work on that historic Jan. 6.
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
He warns that Donald Trump appears to be a megalomaniac, who as demonstrated by his recent comments at a rally in Iowa, truly does believe that he is some type of Chosen One who has been selected by “god” and “Jesus” to be America’s first dictator.
Dr. Frank also explains how Trump’s obviously diseased mind and severe mental unwellness is rooted in a need to protect himself from reality – and how the pro-democracy forces can perhaps pierce Trump’s defense shield as they try to stop his fascist movement and takeover of the country.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “The secret to Trump's revenge plot: He's making his plans for vengeance public”.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump Dreams of an American Fourth Reich — and He's Not Kidding”.
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump’s mind and how the ex-president’s mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy.
In the end, Dr. Frank warns Trump will become increasingly detached from reality as he exercises even more violent control and power over his MAGA cult followers who view the ex-president as a type of father figure and personal god.
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Rich Logis is a former high ranking Trump MAGA World operative and propagandist who describes himself as "a remorseful ex-Trump, DeSantis and GOP voter."
Logis is the founder of Perfect Our Union, an organization dedicated to healing political traumatization; building diverse, pro-democracy alliances; and perfecting our Union.
He reflects on how he was radicalized by the Trump MAGA fascist movement, how it functions as an alternate reality that provides emotional, intellectual, spiritual, social, familial, and other types of meaning and belonging for its members, and how he escaped it.
Rich Logis also shares how being a member of the MAGA movement and worshipping the Great Leader Donald Trump made him feel like he was a soldier in a revolutionary struggle to defeat the Democrats, “the liberals” and other enemies of “the movement”.
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Mark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times.
He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution’s failings and how it helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism.
Mark Jacob warns that obsolete habits and cultural norms such as “fairness”, “objectivity”, “bothsidesism”, “access journalism”, and “horse race coverage” by the mainstream corporate news media are acts of cowardice and surrender to the Republican fascists and other malign actors.
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Jason Van Tatenhove is the former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee.
His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future Civil War.
In this wide-ranging conversation Jason reflects on his life decisions and mistakes and how he found himself radicalized by the Oath Keepers. He also explains why the Republican-fascists and the larger right-wing media propaganda machine is so effective, and how economic precarity and loneliness are powerful forces that suck too many white people into right-wing paramilitary and other fascist organizations.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His two most recent books are Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison and The Greatest Evil is War.
Chris Hedges reflects on the lessons he learned during his long career as a journalist about the “business” that is the news business, how the “truth” is manufactured, why it pays very well to be a careerist who does not care about confronting Power, and the ways that the limits of the approved public discourse are shaped to serve the interests of the rich and the powerful.
He also offers counsel and advice about enduring difficult times and navigating the personal cost to one’s physical, mental, and emotional health that comes from being a serious journalist who is committed to telling uncomfortable and unpopular truths in dangerous times.
Chris Hedges shares his worries about how Russia’s war against Ukraine, and America and NATO’s response to it, could potentially spiral out of control into a wider war and even worse disaster.
This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show**
On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times.
Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using gratitude and thankfulness as a type of energy and fuel in what will be a long struggle against neofascism and to create a true we the people democracy here in the United States.
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Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy. His forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War.
Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how the American people voted to slow down the Republican fascist assault on their democracy and by doing so won an important reprieve in what will be a very long struggle. He also counsels that hope is very important and a source of strength and fuel in the long war for American democracy.
Sharlet also highlights how writing and community and other forms of creating social capital will be a bulwark and source of resistance and fuel against the Republican fascists, the larger white right, and other forms of civic evil.
Chauncey shares his insights on the 2022 midterms, what the polling data and other evidence really shows about how the American people voted to support “democracy” (or not), and counsels that many countervailing forces were at work on election day. Ultimately, Chauncey warns that the final story about the 2022 midterms is far from being written and that the conventional wisdom will likely be proven wrong again.
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David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us. His forthcoming book is The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Democracy.
Neiwert warns that there is a high potential for right-wing violence in response to the midterms and beyond.
He also explains how the Republican fascists and larger white right have been planning their attempt to end American democracy in plain sight for decades – and that the Age of Trump and this escalating democracy crisis should not be a surprise.
And he reflects on what it feels like to have been sounding the alarm about American neofascism and the violent extremism of the American right-wing for decades and to not have been listened to.
David Rothkopf is the CEO of The Rothkopf group. He was also a senior official in the Clinton Administration and CEO and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Magazine. He is the author of many books and articles including the new book American Resistance: The Inside Story of How the Deep State Saved the Nation.
Rothkopf is a frequent contributor to such leading news media outlets as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, Time, CNN, and Newsweek.
Rothkopf is also the host of the podcast Deep State Radio.
David Rothkopf explains why being calm and focused is necessary to defeat the Republican fascists and the larger white right’s attempt to end American democracy. In the end, panic is a recipe for disaster – and is exactly what the Republican fascists and their forces want to create among the American people.
He warns that voter turnout and mobilization are one of the few ways to stop the Republican fascists and their campaign against American democracy during the 2022 midterms and beyond.
And Rothkopf reflects on what he learned from his time in the Clinton administration and why there can be no compromise with today’s Republican fascists and why doing so is to surrender and betray American democracy and freedom.
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Shawn Rosenberg is a professor of political science and psychology at UC Irvine and one of the world’s foremost experts in political psychology.
He warns that the average American and other people who live in countries governed by Western-style democracies may be fundamentally unable to follow through on the basic responsibilities of being responsible citizens.
Such a deficiency helps to explain why right-wing fake populism and other forms of authoritarianism and fascism are compelling to so many people – and that saving American and Western-style democracy from the rising fascist tide will require fundamental reforms of the educational system and democratic institutions.
In this wide-ranging conversation Shawn Rosenberg also explains why Trump’s followers and those of other right-wing populists and demagogues are so attracted to violence, conspiracism, nationalism, racism, bigotry, the cult of ignorance, dark charisma and the other anti-social values and beliefs that animate such movements.
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Sudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day.
Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book is The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them.
He reflects upon his 30-year relationship with the South Side of Chicago and how racism and classism distort the complex truth about that community and the people who live there.
Sudhir Venkatesh also explains the importance of listening, respect, and allowing people to tell their own life stories and how sociologists – and people more generally in this moment of democracy crisis and other troubles – can benefit from learning that lesson.
In this wide-ranging conversation, he also grapples with how American higher education and its most elite institutions have failed to rise to the challenge in this moment of ascendant fascism, the coronavirus pandemic, gangster capitalism, and other great crises.
Sudhir Venkatesh also shares his thoughts on the critically acclaimed HBO TV series The Wire, and how contrary to the wishes of many white liberals and others who want easy answers while being entertained, it is not some type of definitive text and the authoritative final word about “urban poverty” and crime in America.
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Brynn Tannehill is a leading trans activist and essayist. She has written for such leading publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Advocate.
Tannehill is a former United States Naval Aviator and officer who also served as a campaign analyst for the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. After leaving the military, she worked as a senior defense research scientist in private industry.
Tannehill is the author of several books including American Fascism: How the GOP is Subverting Democracy.
Tannehill explains that the Republican-fascist movement is in full revolutionary mode and will not stop until America’s pluralistic multiracial democracy is destroyed.
She highlights the need to use the correct moral language to describe the Republican-fascists and Trump-led anti-democracy movement as evil and why the Democratic Party and too many centrist “reasonable” liberal and progressive types are unable to do what is necessary to save American democracy.
Tannehill also separates fact from fiction regarding what is actually known about Donald Trump being investigated by the Department of Justice for allegedly violating the Espionage Act and betraying America’s nuclear and other most closely guarded secrets.
She details a scenario where Donald Trump is (finally) arrested and charged with committing high crimes, then escapes responsibility, and the United States spirals into widespread neofascist violence and other deadly mayhem.
Chauncey DeVega reflects on the pressures of writing “hot takes” about America’s escalating crises, why so many public voices succumb to chasing controversy and “if it bleeds it leads”, and the necessity of being calm, cool, and collected during this national emergency.
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Eddie Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University.
His publications include "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul", "In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America", and his most recent, the New York Times bestseller, "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own".
Professor Glaude has also written for The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and Time and is a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC. He is also the host of the new podcast “History is US”.
Professor Glaude explains how American society is stuck in a state of grieving, loss, death, and pain because of the covid pandemic, neofascism, and the other unresolved and worsening existential crises facing the country.
He also reflects on how Black Americans and their Blues Sensibility has gifted them with a unique insight into and capacity for surviving and triumphing over American fascism and the many related lies and myths that (White) Americans tell themselves about the country
Professor Glaude warns that white racial innocence and an American culture that is infantile, immature, and in profound denial about reality will likely bring the end of the American experiment.
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On this special installment of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the fascist tsunami and escalating disaster that is a rogue Supreme Court that has taken away women’s reproductive rights, the “revelations” that Trump’s coup plot was even more dangerous than most among the chattering class and centrist punditry hope-peddlers wanted to admit, and other happenings that have left so many Americans off balance and in a state of despair.
As part of that reflection, Chauncey offers some advice about what you can do on a day-to-day basis to center yourself and regain your balance and momentum for what will be a very long fight against American and global neofascism.
You can listen to the entire episode 362 of The Chauncey DeVega Show – with guest Jeff Sharlet – where this segment originally appeared at the link below:
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Tim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. His most recent book is "Dispatches From the Race War."
Tim Wise explores the role of white privilege, white racial innocence, and white denial in the Buffalo white supremacist terrorist attack.
He warns that the white supremacist terrorist attack in Buffalo is likely the first of what will be many other such events here in the United States.
Tim Wise also counsels that we must remain persistent in the anti-racism struggle and not surrender to exhaustion or otherwise being worn down by repetition.
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Don Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times.
Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "The Border" (2019). His work has also been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. His new book, the first in a trilogy, is "City on Fire."
He explains that the struggle to save American democracy will be a very long one and that exhaustion, quitting, and surrender are not options. Winslow also warns that Donald Trump and his cabal will escape serious punishment for their crimes and why naïve optimism is the enemy of democracy and the long struggle against the global right.
Don Winslow also offers advice on writing and his vocation, and the lessons about life and being a good father, husband, man, and citizen that he learned from his role-models and mentors.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.
He reflects on the sudden deletion of his popular Emmy-award winning RT Network television show “On Contact” from YouTube in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.
Hedges also explains what that reveals about the new censorship in the 21st century, a time when social media and other corporate actors exercise an almost unrestricted power to shape public opinion and to silence those voices and individuals they deem to be problematic.
And Chris Hedges tries to prepare the American people for a 21st century where Christian fascists, right-wing fake populists, the corporatocracy and other right-wing authoritarians will be in power and the mainstream news media and the Democratic Party with its centrist monied interests (and a desperate yearning to return to “normal”) is going to simultaneously be both crushed and willing agents of the new order.
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Cathy O’Neil is the author of the bestselling book Weapons of Math Destruction. Her new book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation.
O’Neil explains the power of shame and how in today’s society it is amplified in potentially dangerous and life altering ways by algorithms, social media companies, and big data.
She also details the often contradictory and nonsensical relationship between so-called “cancel culture” and shame.
O’Neil also explores the complex dynamics at work surrounding questions of public shaming, resistance, white privilege, white supremacy and the so-called “Karen” and “Barbecue Becky” phenomenon.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "The Republican Party’s violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention”.
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Leonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post.
His essay “The True Story of The Harder They Fall’s Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie” was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, “In the Company of Educated Men”.
Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Rampage of the Rufus Buck Gang”.
He explains how an allegiance to Whiteness and the many big and little lies of white supremacy and racism will bring the ultimate destruction of the United States. Gaiter also warns that American fascism and the attempt by the Jim Crow Republicans and Donald Trump to overthrow America’s multiracial democracy on Jan. 6 (and beyond) highlights a profound cultural and political sickness across the color line here in America.
He also reflects on how White America is fundamentally in denial and possessed by a willful naivete and gross childish thinking about its capacity for and attraction to violence, death, and destruction.
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Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism.
She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Departments of Defense and State.
Her new book is How Civil Wars Start.
Barbara Walter explains how Donald Trump, the Republican fascists, and other right-wing ethnic violence entrepreneurs have pushed the United States to the brink of a second civil war.
She warns that after Trump’s coup attempt and lethal attack on the Capitol by his followers that the United States ceased to be a democracy and is now what experts describe as an anocracy – a failing if not failed democracy exists somewhere between autocracy and authoritarianism.
And Barbara Walter details what a second American civil war would look like and why it would be a very long and bloody struggle.
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On this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this?”
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This is a special New Year’s Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report.
Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.
Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer.
His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.
Elliott and Chauncey reflect on coming of age during the Reagan years and the meaning of such 1980s film classics as Red Dawn and Top Gun.
Elliot also shares his concerns about America’s new “cold war” rivalry with China, Russia’s aggression towards Ukraine, America’s democracy crisis and the frightening possibility of a second civil war or some other calamity.
In the aftermath of Chauncey DeVega’s health emergency, Elliot shares his thoughts on mortality, living a good life, and what it means to die a good death.
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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War.
He explains how white rage and white privilege have combined in the Jim Crow Republican Party’s very successful “critical race theory” bogeyman attacks as seen in Virginia (and soon around the country) against the Democrats, the very idea of public education, and the teaching of America’s real history of racial inequality and injustice.
Wise also highlights how these “critical race theory” attacks are a manifestation of a desire by white parents and others invested in the many big and small lies of Whiteness to create their own white “safe space” where black and brown people’s humanity and pain are marginalized and ultimately ignored.
And Tim Wise explains exactly how the Democrats and others can successfully fight back against the Jim Crow Republicans’ white supremacist “critical race theory” bogeyman attacks.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone.
He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
His most recent book is How Trump Stole 2020.
Greg Palast reflects on how he predicted almost precisely how Donald Trump’s regime, the Republican fascists, and their agents would try to steal the 2020 presidential election.
Greg Palast is now warning that Trump and his Republican fascists are continuing their coup against American democracy, where these fake audits such as in Arizona and the anti-women’s freedom laws in Texas will be used as a blueprint across the country to steal the 2022 midterm and 2024 presidential elections.
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This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Truth Report in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021.
James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns, Teaching What Really Happened, and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader.
Professor Loewen shares his thoughts on the resurrection of the Confederacy in the South and the Republican Party, the Charlottesville white supremacist riot, history memory, "sundown towns" and racial segregation, and resurgent anti-Semitism in the Age of Trump.
In addition, Professor Loewen also reflects on the need to tell the truth about American history in the classroom.
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Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump’s niece.
She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal.
Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump’s enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world.
She also explains that such denials and related fantasies about Donald Trump and his fascist movement somehow just “disappearing” or “going away” are a function of naivete and childish thinking rooted in fear, immaturity, and not reality.
And Mary Trump warns that yes, Donald Trump and his followers do indeed want to physically hurt (and worse) those Americans and others they identify as the enemy.
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Eric Eyre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the book “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic”.
He explains how big pharma flooded vulnerable rural communities in Appalachia and elsewhere with tens of millions of opioid pain pills.
Eyre also shares the human story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the opioid crisis and what is a true David and Goliath story of resistance against corporate malfeasance and the exploitation of literal human pain and suffering.
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Norman Solomon is the author of several books including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death". He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy.
Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country’s military industrial complex, and war profiteering.
Solomon also reflects on the myth of American Exceptionalism and its role in sustaining the American Empire and its forever wars.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor".
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew”.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Biden gave a rousing speech — but is he the wrong president at the wrong time?”
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Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show.
Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including “The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage” and “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People”.
In this wide-ranging conversation Jared and Chauncey ponder why so many rank-and-file Americans as well as the country’s “elites” are in denial about the ongoing and worsening crises that may be the end of the country as they know it.
They also highlight how America is beset by a culture of death and destruction and apocalypse as shown by gangster capitalism, Christian fascism and End Times fantasies, and the Trump-led Republican Party and fascist movement which tried to nullify democracy on Jan 6 – and are continuing to do so.
Jared and Chauncey DeVega reflect on how they have navigated the emotionally challenging task(s) of documenting the ongoing and escalating disaster that is the Age of Trump and ascendant fascism and an American democracy that is on life support.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “In the fight for democracy, Democrats are being outmaneuvered — and time is against them”.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “Guess what? The Trump regime's coup against American democracy never stopped”.
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Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart.
Ackerman is also as an ex–CIA paramilitary officer.
His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War.
Elliot Ackerman explains how the United States and China could sleepwalk into a world war with one another and the disastrous outcomes of such a global battle.
He also reflects on the book’s relationship to Cold War techno thrillers such as Tom Clancy’s novels, the vulnerabilities of America’s high-tech superweapons such as the F35 and F22 fighter planes, and how the country’s 9/11 forever wars in the Middle East and elsewhere have left the U.S. military underprepared to fight a peer competitor such as China.
And Ackerman warns the American people that unlike the conflicts abroad in the aftermath of 9/11 that a war with China may change life as they know it forever.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “America urgently needs a real investigation of the Trump regime — or it will all happen again”.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey shares his new Salon essay “Liz Cheney is an enemy of democracy — just as much as the Trumpers”.
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Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is a primary care physician, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College, and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she formerly served as a Professor of Medicine. She co-chaired The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era.
Dr. Woolhandler explains how the Trump regime and its policies on science, health, the environment, labor, racism, and society as a whole actually shortened the life spans of the American people.
She also highlights how the Trump regime’s response to the coronavirus pandemic led to the unnecessary deaths of many hundreds of thousands of people in America.
And Dr. Woolhandler shares her insights on the so-called “deaths of despair” which supposedly are afflicting the so-called “white working class” and the white poor in Appalachia and other economically depressed parts of The United States.
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On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey shares his new essay “Today's Republicans are cartoon villains — who pose a dire threat to America's health and safety”.
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*Given the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for murdering George Floyd, this week I am revisiting a conversation which took place with Lt. Colonel (ret.) Dave Grossman that originally aired on The Chauncey DeVega Show on April 28, 2016.
Grossman has been prominently featured in these recent discussions of how America’s police are trained to use lethal and other force.***
Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Dave Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and On Combat.
Grossman usually travels approximately 300 days a year, where in seminars and workshops he shares his insights on "killology" with law enforcement personal from around the world.
Lt. Colonel Grossman discusses mass shootings, America's culture of violence, if armed teachers help to prevent school violence, and what he believes is the root cause of bad behavior by America’s police and other law enforcement.
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Chauncey DeVega updates the listeners, friends, and other good folks who support and learn from The Truth Report as to the future direction of the podcast – which in addition to great conversations with leading truth-tellers will now include sharing his political essays and other commentaries as featured at Salon.com.
On this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey shares his new essay “Republicans have a dream: The end of democracy and the return of Jim Crow”.
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Anne Nelson is the author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. She is an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.
Nelson is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, BBC, CBC, NPR and PBS.
Anne Nelson explains how a highly secretive right-wing alliance of Christian fascists, white supremacists, oil lobbyists, gun “rights” operatives, gangster capitalists and others operating under the banner of the Council for National Policy have been actively working to subvert American democracy and freedom for the last four decades.
She also details how the Trump’s regime's coup attempt on Jan. 6th was part of a much larger long-term plan to subvert and overthrow multiracial secular democracy.
And Nelson warns that many of the same Republicans and other members of the anti-democracy right-wing including QAnon cultists will likely gain even more power in the 2022 midterm elections as they work to stop Joe Biden and the Democrats’ efforts to protect democracy and improve American society.
Sarah Chayes is the author of the prize-winning book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. Her most recent book is On Corruption in America.
Chayes is also a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also served at the topmost levels of the U.S. military, including as special adviser to two commanders of the international forces in Kabul and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mullen.
Sarah Chayes warns that the United States is facing overlapping crises, both at home and globally, which may fundamentally change the lives of the American people. She also explains how the country’s democracy is threatened by right-wing radicalization and the enduring power of the corporatocracy over both the Democrats and Republicans.
This conversation is eerily prophetic and took place shortly prior to the attack by Trump’s neo fascist white supremacist forces on the United States Capitol and coup attempt on January 6.
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Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch.
He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis.
Dr. Frank cautions that Donald Trump may want to be the country’s shadow president but the more serious danger at present are his millions of cult members and the likes of Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and others who will follow through on Trump’s campaign of American fascism and white right-wing Christian nationalism.
Dr. Frank also warns that Donald Trump’s political cult members are now experiencing a mass psychological emergency as shown by their coup attempt and attack on the Capitol and other escalating acts of political terrorism and violence around the country.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour.
He explains what Donald Trump’s coup attempt and mob attack on the Capitol reveals about the country’s deep angst and dysfunction.
And Chris Hedges warns that Joe Biden’s presidency will not offer any type of substantive relief from American pathocracy and imminent surrender to corporate totalitarianism.
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Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters, Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire.
Dr. West reflects on what Trump’s fascist white supremacist coup attempt and assault on the Capitol Building reveals (even more) about how America is a sick society experiencing many catastrophes at the same time. West also shares what it means to prepare oneself to survive and triumph in a time of chaos, tumult, sickness, and struggle for a real democracy and humane society.
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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War.
Tim Wise explains how Whiteness and white privilege and white violence enabled Trump’s coup attempt and his fascist mob’s lethal assault on the United States Capitol Building on Wednesday.
He also reflects upon how Whiteness and white privilege empowered Trumpists and other fascists and right-wing street thugs to act with impunity in their coup attempt as well as in other acts of insurrection and treason during the Age of Trump.
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Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswomen. She is also Donald Trump’s niece.
Mary Trump is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man.
She warns that Donald Trump will tear down and assault the United States and the American people in an act of vengeance for his being defeated by Joe Biden on Election Day 2020.
Mary Trump also wants the American people and the country’s news media to understand that mocking Donald Trump and his schemes is false comfort because he is one of the most dangerous people in the world. Ultimately, he knows no limits on his behavior.
Mary Trump also explains how Donald Trump is a type of prisoner of his own pathologies, emptiness and evil – and therefore he is truly incapable of having any care and concern for other human beings.
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On this episode of The Truth Report I am sharing a special New Year’s Eve episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show.
John Feffer is a futurist, foreign policy expert, social theorist, and author of the speculative fiction books Splinterlands and Frostlands. He is also Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies.
His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The American Prospect, Salon, The Progressive, The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe, and many other publications. He is a former associate editor of World Policy Journal.
Feffer shares his predictions, hopes, and worries about how the pandemic and other crises will alter our lives across such areas as a “new” capitalism and other political and economic arrangements, massive unemployment caused by robots and other forms of automation, the expanding power of the corporateocracy, and the disruptions caused by global warming.
He also cautions about how America is on the brink of widescale mob violence and what it actually means to live in our dystopian reality.
Chauncey DeVega reflects on the year 2020 and its season of death and economic misery and plague and fascism – and what it means to struggle and triumph as hope warriors in the years to come in an America that is in many ways an undead country.
And Chauncey offers thanks and sends positive energy and thanks to all of the listeners and other supporters of his podcasts The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report as well as other work.
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Positive energy to all of you. I would also like to thank the kind Patreons and other good people who via Paypal have shown so much love forThe Truth Report.
On this episode of The Truth Report I am sharing a special Christmas holiday episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show. I do hope you enjoy it.
Jonathan Lethem is a best-selling essayist, novelist, and cultural critic. His books include Dissident Gardens, Chronic City, The Fortress of Solitude, The Feral Detective, and Motherless Brooklyn. Lethem is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction.
Lethem’s new book is The Arrest.
Jonathan ponders thinking and writing in the Age of Trumpism and the plague, how Trump may be an evil “gift” for an undead America because he has vanquished so many of the country’s myths and fables, and how “essential workers” are part of a dystopian death cult reality pulled straight from science fiction.
Lethem also reflects on his book Motherless Brooklyn which was adapted into a recent movie featuring Edward Norton.
Chauncey DeVega sends positive Christmas holiday energy to the good people who listen to and support his podcasts and other work. Chauncey also shares his personal list of “Christmas movies” – one that of course does not include Die Hard.
And as a public health service Chauncey warns the world about the various Christmas monsters which are now wandering the Earth.
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Michael D’Antonio is the author of The Truth About Trump. His forthcoming book is High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump.
D’Antonio is also a frequent commentator on CNN where he has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, New Day, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and Reliable Sources. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose essays and other writing have been featured by such leading publications as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and Sports Illustrated.
Michael D’Antonio reflects on our collective rollercoaster of emotions following the 2020 Election, why Trump will never stop menacing the American people, and the instinctive genius and power of Donald Trump as a TV performer and cultural figure.
Michael also shares how Donald Trump told him that he imagines himself to be a comic book superhero in a story that he is the real-time creator of.
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Wajahat Ali is a playwright, attorney, and political analyst. He is also the author of the recent and widely-read New York Times essay, "'Reach Out to Trump Supporters,' They Said. I Tried."
In addition to The New York Times, Ali's essays and other writing have appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post.
Ali shares what he as a Muslim-American learned from his efforts to find common ground and understanding with Trump's supporters. He also reflects on what the 2020 election does or does not signal about the enduring power of white supremacy and Trumpism in America.
And Wajahat Ali explains why even after Joe Biden's apparent victory over Donald Trump the mainstream American news media is still so obsessed with "white working class voters" and their "pain" and "disappointment" while largely ignoring the non-white and other Americans who elevated Joe Biden and Kamala Harris to the White House.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Atlantic.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat's new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.
She explains the real meaning and breadth of the Trump regime’s coup attempt and how societies begin to heal once authoritarian leaders have been removed. And Ben-Ghiat also highlights how “organized forgetting” imperils and undermines a true reckoning with the harm and damage caused to a country and its people by authoritarian leaders such as Donald Trump.
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Thom Hartmann is a national radio show host, New York Times bestselling-author, and leading progressive voice.
His new book is The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream.
Hartmann counsels that the American people -- and liberals and progressives in particular -- should be both optimistic and cautious about Joe Biden's presidency.
He also explains that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the potential to enact a progressive policy agenda if they are sufficiently pressured and held accountable by the American people.
And Hartmann also issues an ominous warning: Joe Biden's presidency may be the last opportunity to save American democracy from the Republican Party and a global right-wing authoritarian movement.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour.
Hedges warns that if Joe Biden fails to rehabilitate America’s social democracy then the country will become even more of a plutocracy dominated by racism and other forms of cruelty.
Even worse, Chris Hedges warns that if Biden does not relieve the deep pain being felt by wide swaths of American society then what follows will be a White Christian Fascist president who is much more dangerous than Donald Trump.
And Hedges explains why the mainstream American news media, many Democrats, and other observers were shocked by the 2020 Election and the large growth in Donald Trump’s support where he would win the second largest number of votes in American history.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States’ and the world’s foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His new book is How Trump Stole 2020.
Greg Palast explains how Donald Trump and his agents are using the courts and other means to steal the presidency away from Joe Biden and the American people in these days and weeks after Election Day.
As the votes are being tallied in battleground states such as Pennsylvania, Palast also details how Trump’s enforcers and other henchmen and henchwomen – as they did in Florida in 2000 – are going to try to interfere with and stop the count.
And Greg Palast assesses Donald Trump and his Republican Party’s strategy for forcing the United States Supreme Court to throw out the votes of the American people so that Trump can steal a second term in office.
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Hello good members of The Truth Report family.
I am sharing my special Election Day episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show will all of you.
Please vote. Please be prepared for whatever may happen. And remember whatever may happen -- including Trump "winning" -- that this is all a battle in a very long war.
On this special Election Day episode, Chauncey DeVega goes solo and reflects on his and our feelings and emotions about America in the Age of Trump, this world historical moment, and what may happen today and in the days and weeks ahead with the election and America's future.
To that end, Chauncey warns that the American people should be very suspicious of anyone in the pundit class and elsewhere who claims to know with a high level of certainty if Joe Biden or Donald Trump will win the presidential election.
Chauncey DeVega also responds to an email from a listener about her feelings of terror, fear, uncertainty, desperation, and a feeling of helplessness about what may happen on Election Day and beyond.
And Chauncey shares some wisdom in the form of two historical examples about failure and planning for the worst and hoping for the best.
David Kilcullen is one of the world’s leading experts on counterinsurgency and military strategy. He is a former diplomat and soldier who served as a counterinsurgency advisor during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where he advised Condoleezza Rice and Gen. David Petraeus.
Kilcullen is also the founding chairman of Caerus Associates
His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year. His new book is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West.
David Kilcullen explores the possible and likely scenarios for political violence and social upheaval on Election Day.
What are the likely tactics and strategies that right-wing extremists, paramilitaries, and other groups would potentially use to disrupt Election Day and American society more broadly?
David Kilcullen also shares his concerns about a possible armed insurgency if not a type of civil war in the United States if political polarization and extremism continue to escalate – especially if Trump somehow steals a second term in office.
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Dr. Dan McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy, at Northwestern University. He is the author of almost 300 articles and chapters as well as seven books including The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By.
Dr. McAdams’ work has been featured in leading media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and elsewhere.
His most recent book is The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A Psychological Reckoning.
McAdams warns that Donald Trump exists only in the present moment, a man without a future or a past, and lacking any sense of a life narrative or ethics beyond winning at all costs. This aspect of Donald Trump is the greatest threat to the country and the world.
McAdams also cautions that Donald Trump is a type of unique and strange person who defies any one singular category of mental diagnosis. Ultimately, leaders like Donald Trump bring ruin and destruction to the countries they lead.
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Ralph Nader is an author, attorney, consumer advocate and activist, as well as five-time presidential candidate who has been fighting for the freedoms and rights of the American people for six decades.
His new book (with co-author Mark Green) is Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All.
Ralph Nader explains how the plutocrats and the corporatocracy are benefitting from the pandemic and why America’s mainstream news media and other voices have largely been silent if not complicit.
Nader also warns that voting for the Democratic Party (what he describes as the “lesser of two evils”) helped to create the disaster that is the Age of Trump and the Republican Party’s war on democracy and the American people.
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Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. His new book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary.
Dr. Snyder explains why America's mainstream news media continues to avoid describing Donald Trump and his regime as fascist and authoritarian – and how such behavior, to this late date, continues to empower and normalize his fascist authoritarian movement.
Dr. Snyder also details how Donald Trump and his regime used the coronavirus — and the pain and social injustice it has revealed and made worse — as a weapon against democracy and the American people.
And at the end of this conversation, Timothy Snyder warns that the United States is in the midst of a years-long slow-motion Reichstag Fire emergency that Election Day 2020 may not resolve.
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Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters, Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire.
Dr. West reflects upon questions of right and wrong, karma, and justice as related to how Donald Trump was recently hospitalized because he was infected by the virus. Dr. West also explains how true liberals and progressives should respond to Donald Trump being hospitalized – even though he is evil and cruel.
Dr. West also shares his thoughts on a democracy in crisis and how the American people should best focus their emotions and energies if and when Trump is no longer president.
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James Poniewozik is chief television critic at the New York Times and author of the new book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America.
He explains what type of character Donald Trump is. How does Trump imagine his role? How did Donald Trump master the new rules of television and the media in the 21st century to gain so much power?
James Poniewozik also ponders what would be the perfect ending for Donald Trump the character, and his bizarre epic story.
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Rev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC’s “PoliticsNation” and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, “Keepin’ it Real”. His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads.
Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance.
He also explains how Joe Biden should prepare to debate Donald Trump, a man that has no limits of morality or human decency but who is also a devious master of the television genre and political performance art.
And Rev. Sharpton answers why the Democrats and many members of the news media have been unable to grapple with and accept the moral and political crisis represented by Donald Trump and his movement.
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Holden Thorp is a chemist, biologist, inventor, and now editor-in-chief of Science magazine, which has the largest number of paid subscribers for a peer-reviewed general science publication in the world. He has served as provost at both Washington University and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill.
Holden Thorp is the author of the recent widely read essay at Science magazine, “Trump lied about science”.
Holden Thorp explains why he finally decided to publicly condemn Donald Trump and why America’s scientific community should have spoken out sooner about key questions of politics and society – especially in a time of crisis such as the coronavirus pandemic.
He also details how science is inherently political and that scientists have a profound responsibility to society – a claim which is directly counter to what many Trump-supporters and other reactionary conservatives dishonestly try to assert.
And Holden Thorp shares his deep worry that after the pandemic, deep social inequality will remain unaddressed, which in turn will mean that the next national (or global) health emergency will be even worse and therefore more devastating for the most vulnerable Americans.
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Tim Wise is one of the United States’ and the world’s leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America, White Like Me, Speaking Treason Fluently, and Under the Affluence. His new book is Dispatches from the Race War.
Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America’s multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement.
He also shares how the Trump regime’s move to immediately replace Ginsburg with a white neofascist is but another example of the toxic power of white racism in America and its profoundly negative impact on society as a whole.
And Tim Wise counsels that yes, the loss of Justice Ginsburg should upset and terrify all good people of conscience in America but that now is not the time to surrender to defeatism but rather to rally and fight back.
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Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News’ senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent and in his other professional roles, Sciutto has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries including Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. His new book is “The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World”.
Sciutto explains that there is no strategic logic or so-called “madman theory” guiding Donald Trump and his control over the country’s foreign policy. Sciutto warns that America’s foreign policy is now guided by Donald Trump’s personal whims, delusions, authoritarianism, narcissism, greed, corruption, and personal fealty to Vladimir Putin.
Jim Sciutto also details how Donald Trump has brought the United States to the brink of what could have been a horrible war with North Korea and Iran – but it was only because the country’s senior military officials did not allow Trump to follow through on his worst impulses that disaster was avoided.
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Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by “Never-Trumpers” and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement.
His new book is, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump.
Stuart Stevens explains how the Republican Party became one with Donald Trump and his neo fascist movement and the central role of racism and white supremacy in that union. He also explains how white supremacy has made the Republican Party increasingly obsolete in a more racially diverse United States.
And Stuart Stevens warns that Donald Trump and this version of the Republican Party are traitors who lack core principles and will do anything to stay in power including using any means available, legal and illegal, to steal the 2020 presidential election away from the American people and the Democratic Party.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States’ and the world’s foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His new book is How Trump Stole 2020.
He warns that the Trump regime and its agents are implementing a massive nationwide campaign to challenge the legitimacy of votes cast in support of Joe Biden.
This is part of a plan that may also include intimidation and perhaps even coordinated violence and acts of terrorism by pro-Trump paramilitaries and other forces against post offices, polling stations and other election facilities.
The goal of this chaos is to create a state of emergency where the 2020 presidential election is per the Constitution decided by the House of Representatives -- where the Republicans will put Trump back in the White House.
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Simon Rosenberg is president of the New Democrats Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal think tank based in Washington, DC. He has served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Party at the highest levels and has worked in two presidential campaigns, including a senior role in the 1992 Clinton “War Room”.
Simon Rosenberg shares his thoughts on what issues should be prioritized during the first 100 days of a Joe Biden presidency. Rosenberg also explains how Donald Trump does not intend to win the 2020 presidential election but rather to steal it and then engage in a full-on political crackdown against any American who dares to oppose him.
Rosenberg also suggests that Donald Trump is being mentored by Vladimir Putin and other authoritarians -- and then acting on that tutelage as he unleashes his federal secret police in places such as Portland and conspires in plain sight to keep the American people from voting by various means including interfering with the U.S. mail.
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Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller.
Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for manslaughter and/or negligent homicide because of their response to the pandemic. Kirschner also outlines how he would prosecute the Trump de facto political crime family.
Glenn Kirschner also shares his thoughts on what really happened with Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into the Trump-Russia scandal.
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Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch. He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis.
He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.
Dr. Frank shares his thoughts about Mary Trump’s new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World’s Most Dangerous Man, how Donald Trump’s relationship with both his father and mother led to his embrace of cruelty and lack of human empathy and warmth, and why Donald Trump is incapable of “maturing” or “growing” as so many reporters and journalists have deluded themselves into believing.
Dr. Frank also warns the American people that Donald Trump is a violent and emotionally abusive bully and that they will need to find the moral and personal courage to confront him.
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Ruth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present.
Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Donald Trump’s threats of violence against the American people are very real.
She also explains that the American news media has largely normalized Donald Trump because they are unable to admit that the United States is a failed democracy on the brink of full-on fascism.
And Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains that the American people (including the country’s political elites) remain in denial about the existential dangers of neo-fascism and autocracy because to admit the truth would mean they would have to take action against such forces.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour.
He explains why this perilous moment in America with the pandemic and Trumpism will be looked back upon fondly, compared to what the future holds.
Hedges also shares how he sees little hope in Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, which he believes have no substantive solutions for the social inequality and other institutional problems that spawned Donald Trump and his white neo-fascist movement.
Hedges is also concerned that America is spiraling down into the type of ethno-political violence he personally witnessed in Yugoslavia during that country's civil war in the 1990s.
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Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School.
Dr. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump.
He is a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Dr. Gartner is also featured in the upcoming documentary “Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump”.
Dr. Gartner warns that Donald Trump is actively using the pandemic as a type of biological weapon against the American people.
Dr. Gartner also explains that Donald Trump’s supporters are members of a political death cult where not wearing a mask is an act of loyalty to and love for their personal savior and Great Leader.
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Mike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda’s Wagon, and Planet of Slums. His new book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties.
Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review.
He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award.
Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside.
Mike Davis warns that the pandemic is only the first in a series of disasters which will include food and fresh water shortages, loss of jobs to AI, robotics and other new technologies, global climate change, and growing income and wealth inequality that will change the world as we know it.
Mike Davis also explains how if the Republicans lose control of the United States Congress, presidency, and other ruling bodies that there will likely be civil unrest as right-wing paramilitaries join together with White Americans en masse to fight a low intensity conflict modeled on the Jim Crow South’s “massive resistance” against the civil rights movement.
And Professor Davis warns that the Republican Party in the Age of Trump may represent the single greatest threat to human civilization in the world today.
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Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People’s Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival.
Rev. Dr. Barber is also the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement
He is the author of several books including We Are Called to Be a Movement; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear; and Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation.
Rev. Barber is helping to convene and is a featured speaker at The Mass Poor People’s Assembly and Moral March on Washington which is being held this upcoming Saturday, June 20.
Rev. Barber reflects on America’s culture of death and its connections to the police murder of George Floyd.
Rev. Barber also explains how Donald Trump is a symptom of a much deeper moral crisis in America that is a function of racism, militarism, greed, right-wing religious nationalism, and social inequality and injustice more broadly.
And Rev. Barber offers wisdom and advice about sustaining the long struggle and people’s uprising that was sparked by the police murder of George Floyd and how we can move from outrage to substantive policy reform and societal progress.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States’ and the world’s foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy. His new book is How Trump Stole 2020.
Greg Palast warns that Joe Biden’s chances against Donald Trump are far worse than the polls would suggest because millions of Democrats will have their votes thrown out on Election Day. Moreover, many of these same Democratic Party voters have no idea that their votes were purged and therefore not counted.
Palast also explains how -- as recently shown during the Georgia Democratic Primaries -- the Republican Party has refined its strategy of voter suppression, voter intimidation and vote theft. This is the playbook for how Donald Trump and his Republican Party will steal the 2020 presidential election.
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Fintan O’Toole is a historian, literary critic, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications. O'Toole is the author of many books including his most recent The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism.
In a series of recent essays O'Toole has, with rapier sharp devastating prose, described Trump's America as being pitiful and pathetic where the pandemic only further exposed the societal and institutional rot that was already long present in the country.
Fintan O'Toole reflects on the end of American empire, the decline of the country's democracy, and abdication of its preeminent global leadership role. He also explains the appeal of Donald Trump the authoritarian con man to his political cult members and the power of their collective pandemic death cult.
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Jason Stanley is a professor of philosophy at Yale University and author of the bestselling books How Fascism Works: The Politics of Us and Them as well as How Propaganda Works. Stanley’s essays and other writing have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Boston Review, and The Guardian.
Jason Stanley warns that the pandemic is an opportunity for the Trump regime to further advance its campaign against the Constitution, democracy, human rights, human dignity, and freedom across all areas of American society.
He also explains how Trump's fake anti-public health "protests" in Michigan and other parts of the country exemplify the types of forces which helped bring fascist and authoritarian movements such as Hitler and the Nazi regime to power.
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Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. Hedges’s most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour. There Chris Hedges both details the country's many cultural and political crises and what could potentially happen next. The pandemic crisis has shown his analyses to be eerily prescient.
Hedges also warns that the tumult and pain of Trump's coronavirus crisis is but a preview of far worse things in America's future, as social inequality and political failure combine to create a full collapse of the country's already declining standard of living and its ailing democracy.
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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America.
Tim Wise explains how the pandemic and the types of surveillance and changes in personal behavior and freedom it requires are a crisis for white entitlement and white privilege.
Tim Wise also reflects on how only white men such as Donald Trump and his cabal could still be viewed as competent given their gross and willful negligence in how they chose to (not) respond to the pandemic.
And he connects the dots between Donald Trump the human opioid of white rage and the plans by white supremacist terrorists to use the pandemic as an opportunity to engage in acts of violence and other terrorism.
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Don Winslow is one of America and the world’s most widely read and acclaimed crime fiction writers. His books include the New York Times bestsellers “The Cartel”, “The Force”, and “The Border”. His work has been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series.
Winslow’s new book “Broken” is a collection of short novels focusing in on the tragedies and triumphs, and day-to-day lives of people -- cops, bounty hunters, drug addicts, drug dealers, detectives, their loved ones, friends, and community -- who are criminals, those trying to stop them, and the human rubble left along America’s “criminal highway”.
Don Winslow explains how Donald Trump embodies everything wrong with American masculinity. Winslow also shares his belief that the coronavirus pandemic is a perfect metaphor for the pain and harm being caused to the American people and the world by Donald Trump and his movement.
And Winslow also reflects on why he has chosen to be so vocal about Donald Trump and his regime’s many crimes against human decency, the rule of law, and democracy.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone.
He is the author of the bestselling books "Billionaires & Ballot Bandits" and "The Best Democracy Money Can Buy." Palast is one of the country's foremost experts on voter fraud and how elections are rigged to suppress and otherwise interfere with the will of the people in a democracy.
He warns that mail-in voting as it currently exists is likely to guarantee Donald Trump's victory in the 2020 election. Palast also explains how the Supreme Court decision on the Wisconsin primary election was really about purging nonwhite voters in order to maximize Trump's chances of winning that key battleground state.
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Steven Hassan is one of the world's foremost experts on mind control and cults. Hassan is the author of several bestselling books, including Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs.
His new book is The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control.
Steven Hassan details the workings of Donald Trump’s coronavirus death cult and the power the president has over his followers.
Hassan also explains how Trump is like notorious cult leader Jim Jones and why Trump’s followers remain in love with him even as his decisions are literally making them sick.
And Steven Hassan warns that Donald Trump’s followers are capable of committing acts of great violence against their fellow Americans if he, the president-cult leader, was to command it.
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Robert Evans has been a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine. He has also reported extensively on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His investigative reporting is featured at the website Bellingcat.
He is the host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here. His new podcast -- which is available at iHeartRadio -- is The Women's War.
Robert offers suggestions about preparing for crises like the coronavirus and surviving the types of chaos and society-wide disruptions in food, other necessities and daily life that are already happening -- and which will likely get much worse in the United States and around the world.
He also sees an opportunity to create a more humane society and democracy from the types of disruptions caused to global capitalism by this event.
And Robert Evans warns that life after the coronavirus could devolve into a full-on authoritarian surveillance society in the United States and around the world.
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Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville.
He is the author of several books, including Prozac on the Couch and The Protest Psychosis. His new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland.
Dr. Metzl explains how the novel coronavirus pandemic will further expose social inequality in America. He also shares what his contacts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have told him about their frustration and anger at not being allowed by the Trump regime to properly conduct research about the novel coronavirus.
Dr. Metzl is also deeply concerned that the partisanship of Donald Trump and his Republican Party will literally kill people in those states that refused the Medicaid expansion because of racist hostility to Barack Obama and the Affordable Care Act.
Rachel Bitecofer is an Assistant Director of the Wason Center for Public Policy at Christopher Newport University, where she teaches political science
She explains how much of the conventional wisdom about American politics, voting, and elections is incorrect. Bitecofer also highlights how the Democratic Party is wasting time, energy, and resources in a losing effort to win over independent voters and the so-called “white working class” – a group that supports the Republican Party.
Rachel Bitecofer also takes on one of the foundational assumptions of the mainstream news media, political consultants, and the Democratic and Republican Parties: there are not that many so-called swing voters, so why spend so much discussion, time, and energy on them?
And Bitecofer explains how in this political moment Bernie Sanders has a better chance than Joe Biden of defeating Donald Trump…if the Democratic Party’s leaders and voters rally around him.
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Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, The Guardian, the Nation Magazine and Rolling Stone Magazine. He is also the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy.
Palast is one of the country’s foremost experts on voter fraud and the many other ways that elections are rigged – almost always by Republicans -- so as to prevent the American people from having their votes (and political preferences) fully counted.
Palast explains how Donald Trump, his Republican Party and their agents will try to steal the 2020 presidential election from the American people at the ballot box. Palast also warns that the Democratic Party’s leadership will try to stop Senator Bernie Sanders by sabotaging the vote in the upcoming California primary.
He also details the connections between Roger Stone, the 2000 Florida presidential election “recount” fiasco, and Donald Trump.
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Walter Koenig portrayed the character “Pavel Chekov” on the original Star Trek series and in seven of the subsequent canonical films. Generations was Koenig's final appearance in the official Star Trek films.
Koenig shares his deep worries and concerns about the state of the world and American society in the Age of Trump. He also reflects on both the power and dangers of hope in troubled and challenging times.
Koenig also shares how he found acting as his vocation and the ways that he tried to best embody Chekov on Star Trek and the character Bester on Babylon 5.
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. His most recent book is Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President.
Dr. Frank explains how Donald Trump’s non-conviction for his obvious crimes in the Ukraine Scandal will worsen his mental health and other aberrant behavior. Is Donald Trump addicted to rage and anger? Why does Donald Trump’s transgressive, anti-social, violent, and even apparent illegal behavior, make him popular among his followers?
And ultimately are the American people addicted to Donald Trump and his chaos?
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William Cohan is a New York Times bestselling author of three books about finance and Wall Street which include, Money and Power: How Goldman Sachs Came to Rule the World and House of Cards: A Tale of Hubris and Wretched Excess on Wall Street. His most recent book is Why Wall Street Matters.
In a series of articles for Vanity Fair, William Cohan asserts that Donald Trump and his agents appear to be manipulating the stock market for their own personal financial and/or political gain.
Cohan believes that this alleged insider trading may involve hundreds of millions if not billions of dollars.
William Cohan shares his theory and evidence connecting political events such as Trump’s assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani with the purchase of defense industry stocks and futures contracts – hours before said events took place. He also highlights how Trump’s deregulation of oversight and other protections would enable such a scheme and identifies the various people in Trump’s orbit who could facilitate alleged insider trading.
And Cohan explains how a culture of greed and megalomania common to Wall Street encourages and rewards insider trading and other likely illegal behavior.
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Historian Harvey J. Kaye is the Ben & Joyce Rosenberg Professor of Democracy and Justice Studies at the University of Wisconsin Green Bay.
Professor Kaye is the author of many books including The American Radical, Are We Good Citizens?; Thomas Paine and the Promise of America; and The Fight For The Four Freedoms: What Made FDR And The Greatest Generation Truly Great.
Professor Kaye explains how the Democratic Party must embrace the progressive vision and legacy of presidents Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Lyndon B. Johnson if they are to defeat Donald Trump and create a more democratic, free, and just American society with opportunities for all people on both sides of the color line and not the rich.
He also highlights how the best of American democracy is a radical project and the ways which that legacy must be embraced, renewed, and then applied to create a better society.
And Professor Kaye warns that the Democratic Party faces an existential crisis where it may fracture and fall apart if it fails to nominate a true progressive such as Bernie Sanders or Elizabeth Warren in 2020.
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Professor Ruth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. She is the author of several books and her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker, and the Atlantic.
Ben-Ghiat warns that societies often succumb to authoritarianism and fascism not in one dramatic moment – such as a military coup -- but gradually over time.
She also issues an ominous warning: Because Donald Trump is an authoritarian who is waiting for an opportune moment when he can declare a national emergency or other crisis and then suspend the rule of law and the Constitution.
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David Maraniss is an associate editor at the Washington Post and the author of many books, including bestselling biographies of Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, Roberto Clemente and Vince Lombardi.
Maraniss's new book, A Good American Family, is clearly his most personal. It explores the life and experiences of his father, the journalist Elliott Maraniss, who stood up for civil liberties and human rights against the House Un-American Activities Committee (HUAC) and its agents during the McCarthy period of the 1950s. David Maraniss has won the the Pulitzer Prize for journalism twice and was a finalist on three other occasions.
In this conversation, David Maraniss reflects on Donald Trump and the threat he represents to the American presidency as an institution. Maraniss also explains how Barack Obama's idealism and assumptions about the reasonableness and intelligence of other people left him unprepared for the rise of Trump and for the way Republicans have jettisoned norms of political civility and respect for the Constitution and the rule of law.
And Maraniss also shares what he learned from his father's life of principle and courage and its lessons for a United States where truth itself is being assaulted by Fox News and the right-wing disinformation machine.
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Malcolm Nance is a former career United States counter-terrorism and intelligence officer and a frequent guest commentator on MSNBC.
Nance is the author of several books including The Plot to Hack America: How Putin's Cyberspies and WikiLeaks Tried to Steal the 2016 Election and The Plot to Destroy Democracy: How Putin and His Spies Are Undermining America and Dismantling the West. His new book is The Plot to Betray America: How Team Trump Embraced Our Enemies, Compromised Our Security, and How We Can Fix It.
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Malcolm Nance warns that the Ukraine Scandal is part of a much bigger effort by Vladimir Putin and Russia to undermine American democracy through manipulating Donald Trump and the Republican Party.
Nance also explains how Donald Trump and the Republican Party are de facto agents of Russia and Vladimir Putin. Trump and the Republican Party’s disregard for the rule of law and the Constitution are one of the greatest threats to American democracy in the history of the United States.
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Chris Hedges is the author of numerous award-winning and bestselling books including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle," "Death of a Liberal Class," "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." His newest book is "America: The Farewell Tour."
Hedges explains how Trumpism, white right-wing Christian Evangelicals, white supremacists and other right-wing groups are the types of death cults which come into existence when a society is in decline and crisis. He also highlights how Trump’s impeachment is more evidence of a criminal plutocratic class in America and how the “one percent” are engaged in legal theft against the American people.
And Chris Hedges warns that the Democrats’ discussions of a guaranteed minimum income and other “progressive” reforms will in practice only serve the interests of the corporatocracy and not create real systemic change.
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David Cay Johnston has been writing about and observing Donald Trump for more than thirty years. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling book "The Making of Donald Trump." His recent book is "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America."
Johnston explains why the Ukraine scandal should not be a surprise given Donald Trump’s many years of success as a white collar criminal – skills he learned from his father as well as mentor Roy Cohen. He also highlights how the testimony of Ambassador Sondland is key in exposing the tendrils of Trump’s and the Republican Party’s betrayal of America and the rule of law.
David Cay Johnston also details what the articles of impeachment against Donald Trump should include and why the 2020 presidential election is so important if the American people want to protect their democracy and liberties and not be fully conquered by a fascist tyrant in the form of Donald Trump or his much more dangerous Republican successors.
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Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and author of the bestselling book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Professor Snyder is one of the most insightful and bold truth-tellers about Donald Trump’s movement and the dangers of authoritarianism in America and around the world.
Dr. Snyder reflects on the health of American democracy in the third year of Trump’s presidency. He also shares his concerns about how democracy and the rule of law are continually being undermined by Donald Trump and now his consigliere Attorney General William Barr. And Dr. Snyder implores the Resistance and other Americans of conscience to craft a positive narrative of their political vision instead of just opposing Donald Trump’s regime -- because to just oppose Donald Trump is likely to give him another victory in the 2020 presidential election.
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Dr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump. Gartner was a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President." Along with two other mental health professionals, he wrote the recent USA Today op-ed proclaiming that "Trump's rash Syria move looked like a 'hypomanic episode.'"
Dr. Gartner explains how Trump’s mental state and the likelihood of impeachment will force the president to act out in even more dangerous and unpredictable ways.
Gartner also details how Trump’s malignant narcissism manifests itself through sadistic pleasure, which may even be sexual in nature. And Dr. Gartner ponders what will happen to Trump’s followers and their “fascist fever” when Trump is eventually no longer president of the United States.
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Tom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of seven books including “The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters.” He is also a political columnist for USA Today.
Tom Nichols shares what it was like to be targeted by President Donald Trump who slurred him and other “Never Trumper” patriots as “human scum”. Nichols warns that Donald Trump is a mafia-like boss and authoritarian who actually means everything that he says including his threats of violence against his enemies.
And Tom Nichols also has some advice for the Democrats about how they are making decisions which will lead to their defeat by Donald Trump and his cabal in 2020.
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Brian Klaas is an assistant professor at University College London and the author of several books including The Despot's Apprentice: Donald Trump's Attack on Democracy and The Despot's Accomplice: How the West is Aiding and Abetting the Decline of Democracy. His most recent book is How to Rig an Election.
In September 2019, The Washington Post featured Klaas’s widely-read op-ed “Everyone knows the 2020 election will be divisive. But will it also be violent?”
Klaas explains will there be violence if Donald Trump is removed from office? He also explores such questions as how is Donald Trump and his regime weakening the United States abroad and by doing so encouraging global chaos including the possibility of a regional or world war? What types of reforms would prevent a person and group such as Donald Trump and his Republican Party from taking power in the United States again? And if Donald Trump is reelected in 2020 will American democracy survive?
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Steven Hassan is one of the world's foremost experts on mind control and cults. Hassan is the author of several bestselling books, including Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs. His new book is The Cult of Trump.
Hassan explains is it possible to deprogram Trump’s political cult members and return them to normal society? He also explores in what ways does Donald Trump fit the profile of a cult leader? How is Trump’s apparent and very long history of sexually predatory behavior typical of a cult leader? And if Donald Trump is removed from office how will his supporters respond? Will they become violent?
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Philip Zimbardo is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of cruelty, groupthink, and evil. Most famous for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, Dr. Zimbardo has written dozens of books and articles including the powerful and disturbing book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil.
Dr. Zimbardo explains how America under Donald Trump is fully devolving into a state of violence, authoritarianism, and cruelty and the many ways that the Trump regime encourages thuggery against nonwhite immigrants, migrants, and refugees by law enforcement and others. Dr. Zimbardo also highlights the connections between his infamous Stanford Prison Experiment and the evil taking place inside of Donald Trump’s concentration camps.
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch.
His newest book is Trump on the Couch. Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time magazine and the Daily Beast and he has appeared as an expert commentator and guest on MSNBC, CNN, PBS and other outlets.
Dr. Justin Frank explains what does Donald Trump's behavior in response to the Ukraine scandal and his likely impeachment reveal about his core character and psyche?
He also explores if there are any limits on what Donald Trump could potentially do in response to his feeling threatened and afraid by the House Democrats' impeachment investigation and the possibility that -- however slim -- he may be removed from office by the United States Senate? And what are the real reasons why Donald Trump hates and wants to destroy the Ukraine whistleblower?
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Richard Painter was White House chief ethics counsel under George W. Bush and is a frequent political commentator and analyst on CNN, MSNBC and other news networks. Painter is also a professor of corporate law at the University of Minnesota and the author of several books, including "Getting the Government America Deserves." He is also the host of "The Politics Podcast With Richard Painter."
Painter explains why Donald Trump’s machinations with the President of Ukraine are so dangerous.
He also offers insights on how the Democrats should proceed with impeaching Donald Trump and why Nancy Pelosi waited so long to begin this process.
And Richard Painter warns that if Donald Trump is not impeached for his apparent efforts to extort and bribe the President of Ukraine to help defeat Joe Biden how that would further embolden Trump’s assault on American democracy and the rule of law.
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Christopher Leonard is a business reporter whose work has appeared in such publications as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post. He is the author of the bestselling new book Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America.
Leonard explains how Charles Koch and his political network were able amass so much power and influence over American life. He also offers insights into Charles Koch’s “market based management” philosophy and how it enabled him to make so much money and also execute his long-term political strategies.
Christopher Leonard also details the specific public policies that Charles Koch and his political network are advancing to transform the United States fully into a right-wing libertarian dystopia where “survival of the fittest” and unrestrained corporations rule without restriction over every aspect of public and private life.
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Terry Heaton was a television news executive for The Christian Broadcasting Network during the 1980s where he worked primarily on "The 700 Club". Heaton also served as one of Pat Robertson's advisers during his 1988 presidential campaign.
Terry Heaton is the author of several books including his most recent, "The Gospel of Self: How Jesus Joined the GOP".
Heaton explains how right-wing Christian Evangelicals have come to worship and love Donald Trump, a man who is an unapologetic sinner. Heaton also offers insights on how there is a direct connection between the Christian Broadcasting Network and Christian Nationalists such as Pat Robertson (who ran for president in 1988) and Fox News and Donald Trump’s rise to power and their taking over the Republican Party and its voters. Heaton also warns about the power and influence of Pat Robertson and his “shadow government” of right-wing Christian Evangelicals and their decades-long campaign to overthrow secular democracy in America.
Tim Alberta is Politico Magazine’s chief political correspondent. He is also the author of the bestselling new book American Carnage: On the Front Lines of the Republican Civil War and the Rise of President Trump.
Alberta explains how the American fascist Donald Trump took over a very willing and eager Republican Party, what it was like to interview Donald Trump, and is the president a political genius, an idiot, or something all together different?
Alberta also explains how and why the wicked sinner Donald Trump is viewed with such adoration and love by white right-wing Christian evangelicals-Christian Nationalists and the role of Michael Pence in nurturing and cementing that relationship. Alberta also offers his thoughts on if Donald Trump is a "sincere" racist and white supremacist or if such values and behavior are just a means to an end for him to secure and expand his political power.
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Laurence Tribe is a leading scholar of constitutional law and the Carl M. Loeb University Professor at Harvard University. He is the author of several books including his most recent (co-written with Joshua Matz), To End a Presidency: The Power of Impeachment.
Professor Tribe explains if Special Counsel Robert Mueller's testimony before the United States Congress helped or hurt the Democrats and their efforts to impeach Donald Trump -- and are the Democrats approaching the impeachment of Donald Trump in a tactically and strategically sound manner.
Professor Tribe also sounds the alarm that a true patriot inside of the United States intelligence or law enforcement community should reveal the appropriate redacted portions of Mueller's Report -- and thus the true scale of Trump and his cabal's treachery -- to the American people and the world if the country's democracy is to be saved.
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Dr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. His newest book is Trump on the Couch. Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time magazine and the Daily Beast and he has appeared as an expert commentator and guest on MSNBC, CNN, PBS and other outlets.
Dr. Frank explains how Donald Trump's many mental pathologies give permission for the violence, hatred and terrorism of his supporters and why the massacres in El Paso and Dayton -- and his reactions to them -- reveal Trump's lack of empathy for other human beings and how the president is likely a sociopath.
Dr. Frank also warns that Donald Trump hates to see happy families and this is why he does not care about seeing nonwhite children and their families suffering in his concentration camps. Dr. Frank also sounds the alarm about how the right-wing terrorism and other political violence that Trump has encouraged and commanded will spread across the country like an epidemic.
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Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America.
Tim Wise explains why three years into Trump's presidency there are still so many journalists, reporters and other political observers who are "shocked" and "surprised" by his blatant racism and authoritarian behavior. Is Republican strategist Rick Wilson correct in his assessment that Donald Trump wants a "race war" in America? And in what ways is the recent mass shooting in California by an apparent Nazi -- as well as a very large increase in right-wing political violence more generally in America -- the expected outcome of Donald Trump's presidency?
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Dr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence at the Yale School of Medicine. She is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President.
Dr. Lee and other leading mental health professionals working in conjunction with the World Mental Health Organization, convened an online town hall meeting in anticipation of Mueller's congressional testimony. During that meeting they shared five questions which they believe that Mueller should be asked regarding Trump's mental health and by implication his ability to properly serve as president.
Dr. Lee explains how Donald Trump's behavior, both in public and private, is continuing to spiral out of control. Why are Donald Trump, his regime and their supporters so sadistic and cruel against nonwhite migrants and refugees? And why have most Americans either surrendered to Trump and his regime's sadism or in the worst cases even decided to support it?
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Seymour Hersh is one of America's greatest investigative reporters. In his more than fifty year career he exposed the My Lai massacre during the Vietnam War in which 109 unarmed Vietnamese civilians were killed. Writing for The New York Times he helped to bring more public attention to the Watergate cover-up.
Hersh has also shined a light on America's "War on Terror" and its related program(s) of extraordinary rendition and other violations of human rights. He was also one of the first public voices to warn that George W. Bush and Dick Cheney's second Iraq War was based on false pretenses and outright lies.
Hersh has written for The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Associated Press and other publications. In addition to many other prestigious awards, Hersh earned the Pulitzer Prize in 1970 for International Reporting. He is also the author of many books including "The Dark Side of Camelot", "The Price of Power", and "Chain of Command". Hersh's most recent book is "Reporter: A Memoir".
In this wide-ranging conversation, Seymour Hersh reflects on the current health of the American news media, why they are so easily distracted by Donald Trump's use of social media, and why so many reporters and journalists are afraid of telling the truth and instead are willing slaves to weak standards of "balance" instead of stating plain facts and clear truths.
Hersh also shares his thoughts on Robert Mueller's investigation into Russia, how Joe Biden will lose the Democratic presidential nomination, why Trump may likely win in 2020, and the ways that the Democratic National Committee sabotaged Bernie Sanders in 2016 and why this may be the party's undoing in the 2020 presidential race.
Joy-Ann Reid is the host of "AM Joy" on MSNBC. She is the author of several books including Fracture: Barack Obama, the Clintons and the Racial Divide as well as We Are the Change We Seek: The Speeches of Barack Obama. Her new book is The Man Who Sold America: Trump and the Unraveling of the American Story.
Reid explains how Donald Trump has betrayed American democracy, why his violence, racism and other vile behavior is appealing to his supporters, and how he is the human embodiment of America's cultural and social ills.
Joy-Ann Reid also reflects on how best to make sense of this confusing and disorienting moment in American history and a Republican Party and Donald Trump which are committed to restoring American Apartheid and total white rule over an increasingly diverse country.
Eve Ensler is an author, Tony Award-winner, playwright and activist. Her award-winning play The Vagina Monologues ran for more than 10 years and has been performed in more than 140 countries. Ensler's new book The Apology is a meditation on the decades of sexual abuse and other violence she endured from her father and on how she finally purged his power over her life through creative confrontation and forgiveness.
Ensler reflects on the rise of Donald Trump and America's moral crisis, privilege and responsibility, healthy masculinity, why only certain groups in America are forced to forgive the transgressions against them, and how women who dare to publicly speak out against rapists and abusers are often made to suffer more trauma.
Ensler also explains the power of righteous anger, her own choice to forgive her abusive father, and what she gained and sacrificed through the process of writing The Apology.
Hope Frye is a human rights attorney who leads teams of lawyers and doctors into Border Patrol and ICE detention centers to monitor their treatment of unaccompanied migrant and refugee children. The 1997 Flores decision has governed the care of these children until Trump's vile regime circumvented that agreement.
Most recently she has lead teams to McAllen, Texas; Homestead, Florida; and several facilities in the Rio Grande Valley. She is the attorney who discovered the premature newborn and recovering young mother at an overcrowded processing facility in McAllen, Texas last month.
Hope Frye explains how Donald Trump's regime is violating American and international law in its treatment of migrants and refugees and why the culture of the Border Patrol and ICE encourages cruelty towards non-white immigrants, refugees, and migrants. Frye also shares her experiences documenting the horrible conditions inside of Trump's concentration camps and what it was like to discover a young mother and her premature baby who were suffering at the hands of Trump's Border Patrol enforcers.
Jared Diamond is a professor of geography at the University of California, Los Angeles. He is the author of numerous books including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies. Dr. Diamond's new book is Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis. In addition to many other honors, Dr. Diamond is the recipient of a MacArthur Foundation genius award.
Dr. Diamond highlights the four factors that could end America's global dominance, how societies and their leaders choose to succeed or fail, the importance of national character and national identity, the need for countries to be honest with themselves if they are to thrive and prosper, the perils of the Age of Trump, and why government is a force for good if used properly and not the bogeyman of "socialism" that Republicans howl about in the United States.
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Dr. John Gartner is a former professor of psychiatry at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump.
He was a contributor to the 2017 bestselling book The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Gartner along with two other expert mental health professionals, is the author of the recent and widely-read USA Today op-ed "President Donald Trump's poor mental health is grounds for impeachment".
Dr. Gartner explains why there is no mass resistance to Donald Trump's movement and his assault on American democracy and freedom. He also answers the following questions.
Why have so many Americans chosen to surrender? How can psychology help to explain Donald Trump and his movement's assault on reality and why so many Americans have been seduced by this malignant reality? How has the Mueller Report empowered Donald Trump and fueled his apparent public mental illness and other dangerous behavior? What must be done to force Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party to impeach Donald Trump? Will there be violence from Trump's supporters if he is forced to leave office?
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