Episodes
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
Progressive Commentary Hour – 06.28.16
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
Tuesday Jun 28, 2016
On the "Progressive Commentary Hour,"
Gary speaks with Nicholas Schou and gets deep into the CIA's games and
we learn more about Gary Webb and how the CIA has its claws in
everything. Here is a bio of Nicholas. Enjoy.
Nicholas Schou is an award winning investigative journalist whose articles have resulted in the release from prison of wrongly convicted people. He is currently the managing editor of OC Weekly, an alternative news publication in Southern California. In the past he has written for LA Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other publications. Nick is the author of the best seller “Kill the Messenger” about the CIA’s cocaine operations and the courageous investigative reporting of Gary Webb. The book was made into a major movie featuring Jeremy Renner. His most recent publication is “Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood,” which has received excellent reviews by Peter Dale Scott, whistle blower John Kiriakou, Oliver Stone and others. His websites are FocusFeatures.com and OCWeekly.com
Tuesday Jun 21, 2016
Progressive Commentary Hour – 06.21.16
Tuesday Jun 21, 2016
Tuesday Jun 21, 2016
Guest #1 - Derrick Jensen has
become one of the nation’s leading voices of cultural and environmental
dissent, who writes about civilization devastating impact upon the
environment and the natural world, and our society’s denial of that
fact. 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. Derrick has written many books
influential books. His recently released “The Myth of Human Supremacy”
may be perhaps be one of his important that goes to heart of the rapid
pace in environmental and ecological degradation. He also hosts a weekly
radio program, Resistance Radio, on the Progressive Radio Network every Sunday evening at 6:00 pm Eastern time. His website is www.DerrickJensen.org
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Progressive Commentary Hour – 06.14.16
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Tuesday Jun 14, 2016
Abby Martin has rapidly become a leading international voice among young American journalists and television hosts. She currently hosts the weekly investigative news program The Empire Files on the pan-Latin American network Telesur TV English out of Caracas Venezuela. The program features hard hitting investigative history and insights into subjects ignored by mainstream corporate media. Earlier she was the host of Breaking the Set on the Russia Today network, better known as RT. Abby is a founder of the organization Media Roots that supports citizen journalism, and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored, which airs on the PRN network; and she also co-directed the film “99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaboration.” The Empire Files series can be viewed at TheEmpireFiles.tv, past Breaking the Set shows can be seen on Youtube, and her personal website as an accomplished visual artist is AbbyMartin.org
Tuesday Jun 07, 2016
Progressive Commentary Hour – 06.07.16
Tuesday Jun 07, 2016
Tuesday Jun 07, 2016
Guest #1 - Kevin Hinchey is a film
directory, professor of cinemaphotography and a director of the Wilhelm
Reich Infant Trust that managers the Wilhelm Reich archives at Harvard
University’s Countway Library of medicine. He also operates the Wilhelm
Reich museum in Rangeley Maine. Kevin has a masters from NYU’s
Graduate Film School and has worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles and
New York City and currently teaches film making and courses about Reich
in Connecticut and Massachusetts. His lecture series, TheTrue Story of
Government Ordered Bookburning in America, about the destruction of
tons of Reich’s works is a warning of scientific totalitarianism. Kevin
is currently editing a full featured documentary about the life and
thought and research of Wilhelm Reich – the Wilhelm Reich Documentary
Film Project. To help fund the project, visit https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wilhelm-reich-documentary-film-project-edit-phase--7#/
Guest #2 - Professor James (Jim) Strick
teaches in the department of earth environment studies at Franklin and
Marshall College in Lancaster Pennsylvania, where is also the Chair of
the Program in Science and Technologhy. Dr. Strick was trained in
microbiology and has specialized in the history science, the history of
biological ideas and experimentation into life. Jim holds degrees SUNY,
two masters degrees – one in history from Princeton University and
another in environmental sciences from SUNY, and doctorate in history
from Princeton. He has published volumes about Darwin, Astrobiology and
NASA, the debate about the origins of life and an excellent volume
about Wilhelm Reich – Wilhelm Reich Biologist” – published by Harvard
Press. He is an advisor of the journal ISIS from the History of Science
Society and has published articles in numerous professional journals.
Tuesday May 31, 2016
Progressive Commentary Hour – 05.31.16
Tuesday May 31, 2016
Tuesday May 31, 2016
Charles Ortel is a former Wall Street banker, having been a Managing Director at Dillon Read and Newport Value Partners, and private financial investor. In 2007 he became a whistleblower and was instrumental in bringing down General Electric after revealing GE’s fraudulently overvaluing its stock by many billions of dollars to mislead its investors. For the past fifteen months, Charles has been undertaking a thorough review of the financial records and collaborations and networks of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton Foundation. His analysis investigated the Foundation’s fundraising practices, its allies and associates, its so-called charitable interests, and its political and corporate connections both in Washington and overseas. He received his BA from Yale and an MBA from Harvard Business School. His weekly blog exposing the Clinton Foundation can be found at CharlesOrtel.com