Progressive Commentary Hour

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS

What we might expect from a Hillary Clinton White House and a look at truth behind America’s aggression against Vladimir Putin and Russia

Danny Sheehan is one of our nation’s most important and influential Constitutional and public interest lawyers.  During the past 45 years he has handled such public interest cases as the Pentagon Papers, the Watergate Break In, Iran Contra and the Silkwood murder case.  He has represented victims of he Three Mile Island nuclear disaster and fought against the American Nazi Party on hate crimes. He is the founder of the Christic Institute and the Romero Institute, the latter being a nonprofit public policy center in Santa Cruz California. Danny has his law degree from Harvard University and later returned to study at the Harvard Divinity School.. He is the author of “The People’s Advocate: The Life and Legal History of America’s Most Fearless Public Defence Lawyer,”   And his websites are DanielPSheehan.com   AND   RomeroInstitute.org

The Climate Change tipping points and the failure of the US and developed nations to address its full impact and threats to human existence.

Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona.  He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and its economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley. Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience. He is the author of several books, the latest co-written with Carolyn Baker entitled “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind.”  He is also the co-host of the radio program Nature Bats Last heard every Tuesday evening at 3 pm Eastern time on the Progressive Commentary Hour.  His website is  GuyMcpherson.com

The real Syrian Narrative – what is really happening in Aleppo – and cutting through the American mainstream misinformation and lies

Eva Bartlett is an independent Canadian justice activist, freelance journalist and a founding member of the Syria Solidarity Movement, which advocates for a sovereign Syria against foreign intervention.  Since 2008, Eva has been reporting from the war zones in Syria and Gaza. In 2008, she sailed on the third Free Gaza Movement boat from Cyprus and then spent the next 3 years writing about Israeli attacks, accompanying Palestinian medics to report on the use of white phosphorous and other war crimes. Since 2014, Eva has entered Syria four times to report on acts of terrorism on Syrians in different camps, including visiting Aleppo on several occasions and villages such as Zahra, Nubil, Palmyra, Jableh, Massloula and others that have either been under seize by terrorist groups, were scenes of horrific bombing or where massacres have occurred. Her articles appear in Global Research, Russia Today, Signs of the Times, Dissident Voice among others.  Her article Deconstructing the NATO Narrative on Syria is especially noteworthy.  Her website, which includes all her writings, is InGaza.wordpress.com

The real Syrian Narrative -- cutting through the American mainstream misinformation and lies

Dr. Henry Lowendorf is on the Executive Board of the US Peace Council – an pro-worker, anti-imperialist, peace organization founded in 1979 and committed to social justice and the elimination of weapons of mass destruction. The Council is an NGO member of the United Nations under its affiliation with the world’s largest peace organization, The World Peace Council. He is the Chair of the Greater New Haven Peace Council, a position he has held since 1985 and held a career as Associate Director of technology assessment and research at Yale University for over 20 years. Dr. Lowendorf has   He holds degrees in Cell Biology from University of Michigan and a doctorate in Biology from Case Western University.  His organization’s website is USPeaceCouncil.org which has many news announcements and articles about the war and conflicts in the Middle East and elsewhere.

Gerry Condon is the Vice President for the Executive Committee of Veterans for Peace – an international non profit composed of military veterans, their families and allies dedicated to building a culture of peace and to expose the true costs of war and conflict.   He is a Vietnam era veteran and also a war resister who spend six years in Sweden and Canada for refusing orders to fight in Vietnam. Gerry has a long history of veterans peace activism having organized the first veteran delegations to revolutionary Nicaragua in 1983 and 84. From 1993 to 1994 he worked for Pastors for Peace to organize humanitarian aid and political solidarity caravans to Cuba. For the past dozen years, he has been on the front lines supporting war resisters in Canada, Germany, the US and elsewhere from going to Afghanistan and Iraq.  The website if VeteransForPeace.org