Progressive Commentary Hour

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 06.30.21

How fake news is used as techniques of propaganda as a form of population mind control

 

Prof. Tim Coles is a researcher at the Cognition Institute at Plymouth University in the UK, director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research, and a columnist writing about politics and human rights. His articles have been published in journals and online by Newsweek, the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources. He has frequently co-written essays with Australian investigative journalist John Pilger. Tim has written several books including "The Great Brexit Swindle", "Real Fake News: Techniques of Propaganda and Deception-Based Mind Control" and most recently "We'll Tell You What to Think: Wikipedia, Propaganda and the Making of Liberal Consensus" -- which dives into the role Wikipedia plays to serve power with a mission to influence its users through an Orwellian means of doublethink"

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 06.23.21

A short history of misreporting, story fabrications and corruption at the New York Times

Originally from South Africa, Ashley Rindsberg is a journalist, essayist and novelist who has focused on investigating the media within the contexts of different crises unfolding in the western world.  His writings and articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books, Huffington Post, Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post and Publishers Week. Earlier he was the founding associate editor of The Tower, based in Washington DC.  Ashley is the author of "Tel Aviv Stories" about his 13 years wandering the city, and "In the Heart of the Jungle," based on his personal adventures during political turmoil and violence while searching for a friend who disappeared in Nicaragua. His most recent book is "The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Time's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Altered History," a book of wonderful story telling about how the newspaper got stories categorically wrong from before WW2 to the present. It took Ashley 15 years to get the book published due to threatening backlashes received from people in the mainstream media.  His website is TheGrayLadyWinked.com  

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 06.16.21

The Illusion of Evidence Based Medicine

Prof Leemon McHenry is a bioethicist and emeritus professor of philosophy at California State University at Northridge specializing in medical ethics and the philosophy of metaphysics. In the past he has taught at the University of Edinburgh -- where he received his doctorate --  Old Dominion University, Davidson and Wittenberg University. Among Prof McHenry's deep concerns are the corporate hijacking of modern medicine, the loss of scientific integrity in clinical research and medical journals,  and the corruption that runs throughout the pharmaceutical industry and our federal health agencies. For over 15 years he has been a consultant on medical ethics for the large law firm Baum, Hedlund, Aristei and Goldman, which worked with Bobby Kennedy on winning the case against Monsanto. Leemon has written several books on philosophy and is the co-author with psychiatry professor Jon Jureidini of the recent book, "The Illusion of Evidence-Based Medicine: Exposing the Crisis of Credibility in Clinical Research" which brings to light the history and nefarious behavior to justify why modern medicine and Big Pharma have rapidly been losing public trust.

The Progressive Commentary Hour - What's Wrong with Being Woke - 06.09.21

 What's Wrong with Being Woke: James Lindsay.  The Suzanne Venker Show (podcaster) James Lindsay is a mathematician, an author and cultural critic known for his involvement in the grievance studies affair with two of his colleagues, one of whom he co-authored the book, Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity—and Why This Harms Everybody. The book is Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller!  --

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Tracing the timeline of the Covid pandemic and its role in the Great Reset - 06.01.21

Dr. Michel Chossudovsky is a professor emeritus at the University of Ottawa in Ontario and has been an economic advisor to many developing countries.  He is the founder of the Center for Research on Globalization at the University of Montreal and founding editor of Global Research.ca.  Prof. Chossudovsky is one of our leading visionaries in economic trends associated with free market globalization, having identified over the decades many of the problems in global neoliberal economics that now appear in the headlines:  austerity, economic shock therapy, the association between rising poverty, the pillaging of developing nations due to the structural adjustment policies of the US led World Bank, IMF and WTO, and the criminalization of our banking system. Global Research is now one of the highly recommended sites to find excellent independent articles and analyses of the Coronavirus Pandemic. Michel has written a series of books focused on larger global issues. His most recent publication is an eBook entitled "The 2020-2021 Worldwide Corona Crisis: Destroying Civil Society, Engineered Economic Depression, Global Coup d'Etat and the Great Reset" and can found for free viewing at GlobalResearch.ca