Progressive Commentary Hour

The Progressive Commentary Hour 2.25.25

Dr. Mah-dava Set-tee is a board certified and senior staff anesthesiologist at a major hospital in the Greater Boston area. He is also a science advisor for the International Center for 911 Justice, and earlier served as a senior science editor for Bobby Kennedy's Children's Health Defense. Madhava received an engineering degree from MIT and later worked for the aerospace and defense industries. This included a research expedition to the Arctic polar cap for US Naval Research. He later returned to school and received a medical degree from Baylor University College of Medicine and anesthesiology training at the University of Pennsylvania. With over 20 years experience in the field of anesthesiology, which involves dealing with the most challenging questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, Dr Setty has been challenging modern medicine and neuroscience's fundamental assumptions about the meaning of awareness. He is the author of "Woke: An Anesthesiologist's View", which explores whether we might be living in a dark age of unfounded beliefs rather than real knowledge, and a culture unable to distinguish fact from fiction. Madhava's hosts a substack newsletter An Insult to Intuition, which offers his thoughts on politics, science, consciousness and various social issues. His website is MadhavaSettyMD.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour 2.18.25

Dr. Jack Rasmus is a professor of political economics at St. Mary’s College in California. Prior to teaching, he spent 18 years as an economic analyst for several global corporations and an organizer, negotiator and business representative for several labor unions. At one time he was elected as the National First Vice President of the National Writers Union.  In addition to his economic profession, Dr. Rasmus is a playwright and author of fictional works dealing with social struggles, and the owner of Kyklos Productions. His journalist writing appears in various economic, political and labor magazines, including the European Financial Review, World Financial Review, Z Magazine and others. He is the author of many books, most recent being “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump” and “Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed”. Jack also hosts a radio program “Alternative Visions” on the Progressive Radio Network every Friday at 2 pm Eastern time. His website is JackRasmus.com 

The Progressive Commentary Hour 2.11.25

Rick Sterling is a retired engineer in the electronics and aerospace industries and at the University of California at Berkeley. Since then he has been an investigative journalist whose research focuses on international relations and a strong advocate for human rights causes.  His writing involves  the struggles against imperialism and supporting justice in the Middle East, Latin America and US-Russia relations.  Rick is a board member of Task Force for the Americas; he is currently the board president of Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center and a co-founder of the Syria Solidarity Movement, which opposes imperialist interests in Syria.  Rick has visited Syria many times and was an election observer in 2021. He was among the small group of independent journalists who exposed the White Helmets as a faux humanitarian organization with ties to al-Nusra or al-Qaeda, the false accusations of Assad's use of chemical weapons, and western media deceptions about the former Syrian government before its downfall. Rick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his organization's website is SyriaSolidarityMovement.org

The Progressive Commentary Hour 2.4.25

Dr. Gary Null plays his documentary "Deadly Deception". 

The Progressive Commentary Hour 1.28.25

Petr Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former senior economist at the World Bank and World Health Organization, who specialized in water and environmental economics for 30 years in countries around the world. He has consulted for the Swiss Development Cooperation, an international agency working with humanitarian aid delivered by the Swiss Confederation as part of its foreign policy to alleviate poverty around the world and promote human rights. Peter lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He is the author of "Implosion: An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed, and is a co-author of Cynthia McKinney's book "When China Sneezes: From Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis."  His articles are frequently published on Global Research, New Eastern Outlook and other online sites. 

The Progressive Commentary Hour 1.21.25

Dr. Carol Orsborn is a former professor of religion, history, adult development and intergenerational values, particularly among the Boomer generation. She is a leading voice in the conscious aging movement, and an international best-selling author of over 35 books, many addressing the spirituality of aging, notable "Older, Wiser, Fiercer" and "The Spirituality of Aging: A Seeker's Guide to Growing Older" co-written with Harvard psychologist and theologian Robert Weber. Carol's most recent book released last week is "Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life." She has appeared on many popular programs including NBC Nightly News, the Today Show and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the American Society of Aging, the Positive Aging Conference and the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Orsborn recently launched the Spiritual Aging Study and Support Group (SASS) on Substack, and is the founder of the Conscious Aging Book Club. She has been on the faculties of Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and Georgetown universities. She holds graduate degrees in Theological Studies and in History and Critical Theory of Religion from Vanderbilt University. Her website and archives can be found at CarolOrsborn.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour 1.14.25

Dr. John Martin is a virologist and medical researcher who has greatly contributed to the study of viral infections and their role in chronic diseases. He is the medical director of the Institute for Progressive Medicine at the non-profit charity MI Hope that supports those with mental illness. During his tenure at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Martin significantly increased our understanding of viruses such as HIV, hepatitis, and herpesviruses. He later worked as Chief of the FDA's Virus Oncology Laboratory evaluating vaccine safety, especially vaccine contamination with adventitious agents, which led to his interest in stealth-adapted viruses -- viruses that are not recognized by our immune system. This research led to his theory that such stealth pathogens, such as simian cytomegalovirus contamination in the polio vaccines, could contribute to a wide range of chronic illnesses including neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and chronic fatigue. Following his work in government health agencies, John was a professor of pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His current research is focused on Kinetic Energy Limiting Electrostatic Attraction or KELEA, which can aid immune function, suppress stealth viruses, enhance water for crops and for purifying ecological environments. He holds an MD and a separate PhD from the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne respectively. 

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour 1.7.25

Gerald Celente is one of today’s pioneers in trend strategy and identifying domestic and global developments of change occurring in our world. He founded the Trends Research Institute in Kingston NY and is the publisher of the Trends Journal that has an accurate track record in forecasting trends since 1980. Gerald has since become one of the nation’s most sought after diagnosticians and forecasters.   In 2015, he founded the Occupy Peace and Freedom initiative -- a grassroots non-profit movement to restore individual freedoms, cease foreign entanglements, reduce the military establishment, and restore the Constitution and Bill of Rights to restore Americans' freedoms. Gerald is a regular guest on Judging Freedom with former Fox host Judge Napolitano and hosts the Youtube channel Gerald Celente.  More information and analyses can be found on the Institute's website TrendsJournal.com and war and peace issues at OccupyPeace.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour 12.31.24

Neville Hodgkinson is a British journalist who reported about AIDS conventionally in the mid-1980s as a medical correspondent for the London Sunday Times.  In a subsequent role as the Times' science correspondent, he wrote a series of articles questioning the HIV theory after hearing about the work of Prof. Peter Duesberg, Joan Shenton and others. In 1996, Neville published his book "AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science -- How a Virus that Never Has Deceived the World." The book has recently been republished under the title "How HIV\/AIDS Set the Stage for the Covid Crisis." The book includes recent data from the Australian Perth group of scientists who have argued that HIV has never been proven to exist as a unique infectious entity. Rather this research group claims it is a misinterpretation of signals from a compromised immune system. Due to his journalism, Neville was an early victim of cancel culture from early AIDS activists such as Larry Kramer who was aligned with Anthony Fauci. A seven-part series by Neville be found on the Conservative Woman website at www.conservativewoman.co.uk/author/nevillehodgkinson/

Neville Hodgkinson, Author at The Conservative Woman Neville Hodgkinson is the former Sunday Times medical and science correspondent who created an international storm by reporting a scientific challenge to the ‘HIV’ theory of Aids. www.conservativewoman.co.uk

The Progressive Commentary Hour 12.24.24

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s finest and most important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has called Michael “the world’s best economist.” He is the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, and a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and has served as an adviser to the White House, State and Defense departments and served as an economic advisor to other governments including Iceland, Latvia and China. He is currently advising Jill Stein's campaign on economic policy. Michael has written many books and important papers and articles. His most recent must-read book is "The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism" which explains the reasons for financial crises in the US and other Western nations due to a drainage of income, indebtedness and a collapse of industrialization. His website is Michael-Hudson.com