Peter Levenda is a philosopher and historian, who specializes in the interface between politics and religion and the occult. In the 1960s, for a very brief period he was involved with the American Orthodox Catholic Church, which had served as a front for American intelligence operations and was later implicated in the assassination of JFK.  He has a higher degree in religious studies and has written extensively about Eastern and Western spiritual and occult traditions and their interconnections with political and criminal events. Peter is a member of the American Academy of Religion, TAK (the religious studies honor society), and is a charter member of the Norman Mailer Society.

In addition to his scholarly pursuits, Peter is a veteran of private business, having worked with trade with China for 25 years, and is author of the Mao of Business. He has lived and traveled extensively throughout Asia and other continents.

He is best known for his research and study about Nazi occult beliefs – Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult – with a forward by Norman Mailer.  His tome, Sinister Forces: A Grimoire of American Political Witchcraft is a monumental three volume set that we will touch upon during our conversation . His most recent publication is Ratline: Soviet Spies, Nazi Priests and the Disappearance of Adolf Hitler, a book that continues the research he began in Chile in 1979 about the escape routes for Nazi war criminals and scientists to the US, South America, the Middle East and as far as Indonesia and the far East.

America’s Failed War on Drugs and the need to legalize marijuana.

An in depth articulate investigation into marijuana use in America and its demonization by the government’s war on drugs; how it has increased incarceration in the private prison systems for industry profits, and the benefits for legalizing marijuana for medical use and entertainment.

Judge James Gray has been a trial judge in Orange County, California for 29 years and has been a US candidate for Congress and the Senate for the Republican and later Libertarian Parties. He is one of the nation’s most articulate critics of the failures of our War on Drugs and supporters of the legalization of marijuana.

Michael Ruppert is a former LAPD narcotics investigator and whistleblower who was forced out of the police department while holding its highest ratings. He has been at the forefront of exposing government and intelligence complicity in America’s international and domestic drug trade.

Joseph Pietri is a former drug smuggler before and after Nixon’s declaration of America’s War on Drugs for several decades who operated out of south and southeast Asia. He is currently an active advocate for medical marijuana.

Martha has recently published her first book, “Born with a Junk Food Deficiency: How Flaks, Quacks and Hacks Pimp the Public Health” which includes many interviews with physicians, researchers and insiders willing to come forward to speak about the devious practices of the drug and food industrial complexes.

Dr. Bruce Levine is a clinical psychologist in Cincinnati and an activist, author addressing the societal problems in our corporate healthcare system.  He is regular contributor to Z Magazine, Alternet, Adbusters, the Ecologist and the Huffington Post.  Bruce is a member of Mind Freedom International, and is on the Advisory Council of the International Center for the Study of Psychiatry and Pyschology.

His most recent book, “Get Up Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite” is a thorough investigation into the psychological underpinnings behind the American public’s passivity and aura of powerlessness to stand up against corporate and political powers who are removing the democratic freedoms in the nation.

Ronnie Cummins is the Executive Director of the Organic Consumers Association and author of “Genetically Engineered Foods: A Self Defense Guide for Consumers”. He has been a life-long activist in the human rights, anti-nuclear, labor and agricultural movements. His current goal through the Association is to increase organic agriculture to at least 30 percent by the year 2015 and to further a global moratorium on genetically engineered crops.  www.OrganicConsumers.org

David Murphy is the founder and executive director of Food Democracy Now!, a grassroots movement of more than 250,000 American farmers and citizens dedicated to reforming our food and agriculture. In 2007, he organized the Food and Family Farm Presidential Summit, where 5 of the 6 Democratic candidates pledged their support to help save family farm agriculture and laid out their plans to create a more sustainable future for rural America. www.FoodDemocracyNow.org

Pt 1 DEATH BY MEDICINE

“In 2012, America has become the most overmedicated society in history. Indeed, there is a medication for every condition…We never stop to question why we need all these drugs.  We never even notice that they aren’t making us better, or that we can’t get off them once we start taking them.  Why do we refuse to see that despite all these medications we are nevertheless the sickest industrialized nation on earth?”

Pt 2 THE FDA:  PIMPING FOR BIG PHARMA

“Most Americans misunderstand what FDA drug approval means.  They believe that the FDA only approves drugs that are effective and safe, and that advertising of pharmaceuticals on television and in print has been approved by the FDA as well.  Ironically, this couldn’t be farther from the truth.”

PART III  SCIENTIFIC STUDIES: CLINICAL EVIDENCE OR A LICENSE TO KILL?

“After so many approved drugs and vaccines have later been shown to cause harm, somehow we miraculously wipe the slate clean after every incident and our faith in the pharmaceutical companies and the entire medical profession is restored to 100%”.

Commentary: “The Polite Conference Rooms Where Liberties Are Saved and Lost” [Chris Hedges 26March12 www.truthdig.com]

Derrick Jensen

Derrick Jensen has become one of the nation’s leading voices of cultural and environmental dissent, who writes on how civilization is devastating the environment and the natural world, and our society’s denial of that fact. In 2008, Utne Reader listed Derrick among the 50 visionaries changing the world. In sharp contrast to environmental optimists who believe working within the corporate system will offset the tenuous planetary balance threatened by climate change, Derrick has advocated for many years a “dismantling of civilization” which can include radical dissent as well as imparting wisdom to our children.

He has received many awards for his writings, including the two “Endgame” volumes. His most recent book “Dreams” is a critique against the fundamentalist Christian legalist morality and materialist scientism hat define western civilization and reinforce their disregard and violence against nature.

Has there ever been an environmental movement in America — and the failures of Big Green organizations

Thomas Linzey

Thomas Linzey is an attorney and the Executive Director of the Commnity Environmental Legal Defense Fund - a nonprofit law firm that has provided free legal services to over five hundred local governments and nonprofit organizations since 1995. He is a cum laude graduate of Widener Law School and a three-time recipient of the law school’s public interest law award. He was also a finalist for the Ford foundation’s Leadership for a Changing World Award, and is a recipient of the Pennsylvania Farmers Union’s Golden Triangle Legislative Award. Thomas was admitted to practice in the U.S. Supreme Court, the Third, Fourth, Eighth, and Tenth Circuit Courts of Appeals, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. He is a co-founder of the Daniel Pennock Democracy School - now taught in 24 states across the country to assist groups to create new community campaigns wich elevate the rights of those communities over rights claimed by corporations.

Thomas is also the author of Be The Change: How to Get What You Want in Your Community (Gibbs-Smith, 2009), and co-hosts Democracy Matters, a public affairs radio show broadcast from KYRS in Spokane, Washington.

Website: www.CELDF.org

Clark Baker

Clark Baker is a former officer of the LAPD in Los Angeles, who left after retirement in 2000 to become an independent writer and private investigator. He is now the founder of the Office for Medical and Scientific Justice in Southern California, which spearheads investigations into the politics and fraud of various medical related groups and individuals, including the pro-AIDS industry and academia. Clark serves on the Board of the Semmelweis Society International, a foundation that awards individuals for their scientific independence in innovative research and critical thought in the absence of invested interests. He has written extensively on his investigations into the activities of the pro HIV community.

Website: Office of Medical and Scientific Justice www.OMSJ.org

Liam Scheff

Liam Scheff is an investigative journalist and researcher addresses scientific discoveries, the medical cult and politics of scientism - especially concerning infectious disease, vaccines and prescription drugs - and issues concerning race, class and culture. He has been an activist for children and adolescent rights, and broke the story about government agencies, particularly the NIH, and Big Pharma’s hidden experimental trials with dangerous HIV drugs on New York City orphans.

Liam is a co-host Robert Scott Bell’s program on health, and has been published in the New York Press, LA Citybeat, Salvo, Hustler and others. He is a contributing investigator for the Office of Medical and Scientific Justice and founder of ReduceTheBurden.org

Website: www.LiamScheff.com and www.ReduceTheBurden.org

Celia Farber

Celia Farber is a journalist who covered the HIV wars extensively since 1987, in various magazines. Some of these writings are collected in her book: “Serious Adverse Events: An Uncensored History of AIDS” published by Melville House Press. (now Random House) in 2006.

Activist Michael Callen called Farber “..the best AIDS journalist in the world.” She also has enemies, of course. Her 2006 article for Harper’s magazine detailing the totalitarian corruption of HIV/AIDS research was titled “Out of Control: AIDS And The Corruption of Medical Science.” The attacks from the AIDS industry were predictable and fierce. Nevertheless, she won the 2008 Semmelweis Clean Hands Award for Outstanding Investigative Journalism.

Celia will also be starting to host her own program, entitles Radio Free Science, on the Progressive Radio Network this Friday, March 16th at 3pm Eastern Time.

Joel Hirschhorn is the author of Delusional Democracy: Fixing the Republic without Overthrowing the Government” and is a co-founder of Friends of the Article V Convention. He is a frequent commentator and writer on the need for a second American Revolution to restore American democracy and the need for reform constitutional amendments. Joel is a former senior official at the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment and National Governors Association, and a former full professor at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jim Garrison is the co-founder and president of Wisdom University and President of the State of the World Forum as part of the Gorbachev Foundation, which he co-founded. In 2000, he initiated the launch of the Commission on Globalization which challenged the existing global governance system and gathered leaders together to define viable alternatives. Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities, and is the author of “Civilization and the Transformation of Power” and “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Nation”.

Charlene’s writings encompass a wide range topics from the goddesses of the Greeks, to the role of the feminine in Christianity, and social and historical criticism of modern culture and the environment.  Her most recent book is “Relational Reality: New Discoveries of Interrelatedness that are Transforming the Modern World” which challenges the older mechanistic view of the universe and society that continues to dominate our major dominant institutions.