Progressive Commentary Hour

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 12.30.20

SARS-CoV2 and the Rise of Medical Technocracy. Lee Merritt, M.D.

Dr. Merritt is a classically trained physician and obtained her medical degree from the University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry. After graduation, she did her internship at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda Maryland in Internal Medicine and completed a residency in Orthopaedic Surgery at San Diego Naval Medical Center. She has spent additional years providing care to active duty marines in Iwakuni, Japan and Quantico, Virginia. She was awarded the Louis A. Goldstein Fellowship in Spinal Surgery at Rochester String Memorial Hospital– the only female to have done so. Her life long interest has been in wellness and in 2006 she completed the American Academy of Anti-aging and Integrative Medicine fellowship.  

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Guest Alison McDowell

Alison McDowell is a mother and independent researcher currently investigating the background and specifics of the World Economic Forum's strategies behind the Great Reset.  She blogs about the intersection of race, technology, finance and nature.  Alison has a strong history in educational activism and opposition to high-stakes testing and the standardized curriculum.  Her research later expanded into the military origins of educational technology, blockchain identity and financing, and global poverty management.  Alison's website is WrenchInTheGears.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Capitalism, the Pandemic and the Great Reset Richard Wolff

Richard Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts and currently a visiting professor at New York City's New School University's Graduate Program in International Affairs. His focus has been on the history of economic crises, the Marxian economic theory, and class and worker struggles.  In the past he has taught at Yale and the University of Paris. He holds degrees in economics and history from Havard, Standord and Yale universities.  Richard has authored almost 20 books, his latest is "The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself." Prof Wolff hosts the syndicated program Economic Update, which can be heard every Saturday at 12:30 pm on Progressive Radio Network

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Understanding our social and political pathologies from a Global Philosophical perspective

Prof. Ashok Gangaden is a world renowned global philosopher, author and spiritual activist.  He is the Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where he has taught for the past fifty years. Ashok's journey has been to explore the primal integral logic at the heart of human reason that can guide constructive dialogue -- what is called Deep Dialogue -- between diverse worldviews. This involves discovering and communicating common ground between different cultures, ideologies and disciplines.  He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Brandeis and has authored several books on meditative reasoning, including "Meditations of Global First Philosophy" and "Awakening the Global Mind."  Prof Gangadean's websites are AwakeningMind.org and UnumBeing.com

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - The Covid-19 pandemic narrative - what can we believe? w/ Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi is an American born physician trained in Germany and has been in the medical field now for five decades. He received his medical degree from the University of Bonn and did his post-doctoral work at the prestigious Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics before becoming an associate professor at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Gressen University. Later he was appointed as the chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz. Dr. Bhakdi has published over 300 articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology and virology and has received numerous awards including the Order of Merit of Rhineland. His recent book, co-written with his biologist wife Dr. Karina Reiss --  "Corona False Alarm?: Facts and Figures," --- which has been written for the layperson to understand the pandemic clearly -- has already become a national best seller in Germany and is rapidly receiving international attention.