It's the Empire, Stupid: Recent Episodes
Phillip Farruggio
Philip had a long conversation with Jim DiEugenio about the JFK assassination and related topics.
Phil has an interesting conversation with Professor Pete Farruggio about Ukraine, Russia, and the surrounding politics.
Philip and Ron had an illuminating conversation covering various topics, especially concerning the 2024 election and its aftermath (no matter who wins).
This is the first of a series of conversations. David Kantorowitz and Phil were childhood buddies, and they're reminiscing about the strange phenomenon of Street Football. It's fascinating to hear the stories and to compare childhood in the '50s and '60s with the experience of youth today.
Philip had an interesting conversation with Alex Constantine, the first of three episodes planned for the near future. They covered the causes and meanings behind assorted historical events, including the formation of the CIA.
A long conversation with social critic Jeremy Kuzmarov, an author of four books on U.S. foreign policy.
Phil and Jeremy covered many topics in a fascinating discussion.
Philip conducted a lively and wide-ranging interview with Ron Jacobs, the author of Daydream Sunset: Sixties Counterculture in the Seventies published by CounterPunch Books. His latest offering, a pamphlet titled Capitalism: Is the Problem, was the focus of the discussion.
Another fascinating interview with Ellen Brown, this time focusing on the recent bailout of two large banks following runs that pushed them beyond solvency. Frightening stuff.
Another great interview as Philip talks with Jeremy Kuzmarov on topics of war and empire.
Philip interviews James DiEugenio on the Kennedy Assassination. This is a followup to the previous episode when they focused on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Philip interviews James DiEugenio on the Kennedy Assassination. This first part is mostly focused on Lee Harvey Oswald.
Philip had an excellent interview with Dr. Jack Rasmus. The topic was Socialism - what is it, why it would be a good direction for the USA, how we can get there.
Philip interviews oncology Dr. K on the topic of Covid. Going beyond the controversial restrictions recently enacted in New York City, Dr. K suggests mandatory vaccination for everyone.
Philip had an interesting discussion on political assassinations with former FBI whistleblower Colleen Rowley.
Philip interviewed Clint Curtiss on the topic of election fraud. Curtiss was asked to create a program that would flip votes on voting machines!
Philip interviewed Cynthia Chung about her research and writings regarding the CIA from its founding through the JFK assassination.
Philip had a lively conversation with Jim DiEugenio focusing on two recent films, "Judas and the Black Messiah" by Shaka King and "MLK/FBI" by Sam Pollard.
Philip interviewed his brother Peter Farruggio and they reminisced about the days when they each drove taxis in the NYC area.
Philip interviewed Cynthia Chung on various topics relating to history. There are significant parallels between our world today and in the days leading up to the Second World War.
CovertAction Magazine says:
A Trump victory would further exacerbate inequality, sexism and the environmental crisis while bringing about more structural racism and the threat of war. A Trump defeat, by contrast, could open up space to build a genuine left-wing movement that is capable of long term political, economic and social transformation.
Four more years or more of Trump will not afford us that space and would yield a horrendous outcome that could bring us back to the dark age of Europe in the 1930s.
Philip interviewed Congressional Candidate Clint Curtis. They discussed his history, his platform, and his beliefs.
Philip interviewed writer David Rosen, author of "Sin, Sex & Subversion: How What Was Taboo in 1950s New York Became America’s New Normal". David has regularly contributed to AlterNet, Black Star News, Brooklyn Rail, CounterPunch, Filmmaker, The Progressive and Salon. See more at https://davidrosenwrites.com.
Philip had an excellent conversation with Ron Jacobs.
Jacobs is the author of "Daydream Sunset: 60s Counterculture in the '70s", "The Way the Wind Blew: A History of the Weather Underground", "Short Order Frame Up", "The Co-Conspirator’s Tale", and a collection of essays titled "Tripping Through the American Night". He is a frequent contributor to Counterpunch. His articles, reviews, and essays have appeared in anthologies and numerous print and online journals, including Jungle World Berlin, Monthly Review, The Sri Lanka Guardian, Vermont Times, Alternative Press Review, and the Olympia, WA based monthly Works In Progress.
He currently lives in Burlington, VT. and works at a library.
Philip's third interview with Ellen Brown focused on the Universal Basic Income, which Philip believes is the ONLY way out of the current economic crisis. The social distancing forced by the Covid-19 epidemic has shut down the country, and one-time stimulus payments are not enough.
Philip interviewed Bruce Lerro, a self-proclaimed "Libertarian Communist" with intriguing ideas on ideologies and their true meanings. Much of the interview focused on Lerro's 2016 article about Obama and the Ultimate Victory of Identity Politics, where diversity is valued over ideas and policies.
Philip and Chuck interviewed Max Parry mainly focusing on his article
https://www.globalresearch.ca/911-truth-under-lockdown-for-nearly-two-decades/5709215
Philip interviewed Matthew Ehret, the Editor-in-Chief of the Canadian Patriot Review, a BRI Expert on Tactical talk, and the author of 3 volumes of the ‘Untold History of Canada’ book series as well as "The Time has Come for Canada to Join the New Silk Road".
In 2019 Ehret co-founded the Montreal-based Rising Tide Foundation. He can be reached at matt.ehret@tutamail.com .
Philip interviewed Ellen Brown about Universal Basic Income and how the latest Covid-19 bailout program differs from her vision.
Philip interviewed Dr. Jack Rasmus to get his take on the South Carolina primary and the Democratic race for President.
Exciting and Finance are not topics that often go together, but in this amazing interview they both apply. Philip interviews Aaron Glantz about the incredible circumstances surrounding the Mortgage Bailout in 2008. The history of mortgage lending is discussed, from the New Deal and It's a Wonderful Life to the 2000s where everything fell apart and shrewd investors bet against the American public only to be made rich by the American government. It's shocking.
Claire Edwards spoke with Philip about the dangers of 5G technology, and in fact of all rf/wireless/microwave technology.
Renee Parsons returned to the show to discuss (among other things) what's wrong with the Democratic Party. Will it self-destruct after the 2020 elections?
Philip interviewed Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who became a whistleblower about some of the FBI's pre 9-11 failures. She testified to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry and to the Senate Judiciary Committee and later was named, along with two other whistleblowers, as TIME Magazine's 2002 "Persons of the Year."
Rowley also publicly warned against launching the U.S. war on Iraq in 2003 explaining that it was not justified and would serve to increase terrorism. She retired from the FBI in 2004 and continues to write and speak about the costs of US "perpetual war" (waged all over the world) and how this "uber militarism" and fool's errand of seeking "full spectrum dominance" over the rest of the world has now "blown back" on Americans.
Philip interviewed Professor Paul Williams on Operation Gladio: The CIA, The Vatican, and the Mob
Philip is pleased to interview George Eliason, an American journalist who lives and works in Donbass, Ukraine. In 2014, he broke many of the stories there starting with Maidan and continuing to the build-up toward civil war.
He wrote the first stories about the war to be published in the west, often scooping Russian publications.
Eliason provided the first documented reports showing the nationality of the combatants on the pro-Russian side by doing wide-ranging invasive passport checks across the region in 2014 and frontline reporting.
He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, OpedNews, the Saker, RT, Global Research, and RINF, Consortium News, Mintpress News, and the Greanville Post.
He has been published and cited in analytical blogs and publications like the Vineyard of the Saker and Foreign Policy Journal
He has been cited and republished by various academic blogs, including Defending History, Michael Hudson, SWEDHR, Counterpunch, and the Justice Integrity Project.
Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
Philip interviews Anton Chaitkin.
Chaitkin has done some sharply original work in American history, in hundreds of articles and two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman -- a 600-page history of the struggle between the American nationalists and the tory-British faction -- and George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography.
Ellen Brown discusses Quantitative Easing, as well as Universal Basic Income, in a very informative interview.
Washington psychiatrist Dr. Alen Salerian was taken down by the FBI. Why? Was it his stance on psychiatric drugs? Or what he believes about the JFK assassination and other government lies?
Phillip Farruggio interviews Paul Edwards for the second time. It's a great talk focusing on Paul's article "The sociopath as hero" which takes on the movie American Sniper.
Did we really go to the moon? Dr. Emanuel Garcia, Philadelphia born but now living in New Zealand, says no. Listen to Phil's interview.
Phil conducts a fascinating interview with a single mom who's working three jobs to get by. This is real. This is what's happening, today, in Florida, in America.
Phil interviews Edward Curtin, discussing the movie "Network".
“ … in the film we see the introduction of what is now called ‘ Realty Television’ taken to its satirical end. Curtin shows us how writer Paddy Chayefsky captures the anger so many felt then, and how his main character, Howard Beale came to represent ‘ Everyman’ when pushed against the wall of this empire. Curtin, a professor of Sociology, has used this film for years as a bridge to understand the how much our media is all about ‘ Ratings’ and Pro Empire propaganda. “
Patrice Greanville was the guest. He is editor of The Greanville Post, an Anti-Imperialist Tool printing only the best articles about our country and our planet.
Jack Rasmus is the guest. He and Philip discuss financial crises: their history, their causes, and why we should expect a bigger and better one in the near future.
A show about 9/11/01, recorded on 9/11/18. Philip interviews Michel Chossudovsky, Canadian author and economist who is president of the Centre for Research on Globalization.
A fascinating interview with Russ Tanner, concerning chemtrails, dentists, vaccinations, and much more.
Are 5G mobile networks hazardous to our health? And more, as Phil interviews Renee Parsons
Ed Curtin returns to the show on the anniversary of the RFK assassination to discuss the circumstances surrounding that death.
Phil interviewed Dr. Margaret Flowers who had interesting insights on health care reform. Single payer is not enough unless it's national. Major changes are needed, not band-aids.