Progressive Commentary Hour

Dr. Mah-dava Set-tee is a board certified and senior staff anesthesiologist Lawrence General Hospital in the Greater Boston area. He is also a senior science editor for Bobby Kennedy's Children's Health Defense publication The Defender. Madhava received an engineering degree from MIT and later worked for the aerospace and defense industries. This included a research expedition to the Arctic polar cap for US Naval Research. Dissatisfied with the nature and purpose of defense work, he went back to school to receive a medical degree from Baylor University College of Medicine and anesthesiology training at the University of Pennsylvania. With over 20 years experience in the field of anesthesiology, which involves dealing with the most challenging questions about the nature of mind and consciousness, Dr Setty has been challenging modern medicine and neuroscience's fundamental assumptions about the meaning of awareness. He is the author of "Woke: An Anesthesiologist's View", which explores whether we might be living in a dark age of unfounded beliefs rather than real knowledge, a culture unable to distinguish fact from fiction, and how we can better navigate the conflicting narratives that only give rise to more confusion and uncertainty rather than real solutions.  His website is MadhavaSettyMD.com

 

Dr Tim Coles is a former researcher at the Cognition Institute at Plymouth University in the UK where he received his PhD and researched blindness and visual impairment until he was cancelled by the university for his political views and writing. Tim writes about geopolitics, British politics, peace and war, the Covid pandemic and a variety of cultural issues.  His articles have been published in the Grayzone,the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources.  Dr. Coles has authored Tim has written over 15 books including "Voices for Peace" (with Noam Chomsky), "Bioterrorism: The Tech-Pharma Complex", and most recently "Militarizing Cancel Culture: How Censorship and Deplatforming Became a Weapon of the US Empire" -- which takes on the US government's strategies and operations to wage war against journalists and free speech, and how popular cancel culture has been exploited to achieve its goals of conformity and control.  

John Whitehead is a civil attorney and author who has written, debated and practiced widely in the area of constitutional law and human rights for the persecuted and oppressed. In 1982 he founded The Rutherford Institute, a non-profit civil liberties and human rights organization headquartered in Charlottesville, Virginia. The Institute provides legal services to defend civil liberties and programs to educate the public on issues affecting their Constitutional freedoms. John gained international renown for his role as co-counsel in Paula Jones' sexual harassment lawsuit against President Clinton. He has filed numerous amicus briefs before the U.S. Supreme Court and has been co-counsel in several landmark Supreme Court cases.  John has been the subject of many newspaper, magazine and television profiles, ranging from Gentleman's Quarterly to CBS' 60 Minutes.  He is the author of “Battlefield America: The War on the American People," and  "Government of Wolves: The Emerging Government Police State." John's weekly articles and column can be found on his website at Rutherford.org. 

We are being joined by Alex Christoforou in Athens Greece, who along with his colleague Alexander Mercouris, have become an internationally recognized duet known as The Duran -- a leading voice in the alternative media started in 2013.  The Duran provides very eloquent analysis about crucial geopolitical issues such as the Russia-Ukraine conflict, the international order, events in China, the Middle East and Africa, American and European economic and political developments, and deep insights about our very rapidly changing world.  Many of our frequent guests on this program such as Ray McGovern, Dr. Jim Garrison, Scott Ritter and Michael Hudson have acknowledged The Duran as being on the forefront of non-partisan, objective, geopolitical analysis of current events and how these events are shifting our perspectives about the strengths and weaknesses underway within the global community. Alex comes from a diplomatic family in Cyprus, was educated in Canada and has had a career in journalism with a focus on politics, economics and technology.  Alex and the Duran post upwards to 3-4 programs daily and can be found at TheDuran.Locals.com. Their video commentaries can also be found on Youtube, Rumble and Odysee. 

 

Dr. Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician in Maine and prominent medical activist who specializes in treating patients with Gulf War syndrome, adverse reactions from the anthrax vaccine and vaccine safety and efficacy in general.  In the past she has testified on six separate occasions before Congress on behalf of veterans suffering from the causes of Gulf War syndrome. Meryl became a major voice during the Covid pandemic in exposing the failures, contradictions, and untruths in the narratives of the federal health agencies and the orthodox medical establishment. She has opposed vaccine mandates and the false claims and fear mongering about infectious disease epidemics and corruption within the medical industrial military complex.  Last year, due to criticisms of the handling of pandemic, the Maine Medical Board accused her of spreading Covid misinformation by treating patients with HCQ and ivermectin and suspended her medical license.  Hearings are still being conducted in her case. She works closely with Bobby Kennedy's Childrens Health Defense and serves on the Board of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, a non profit organization run by Vera Sharav that advances medical ethics that uphold human rights and protect humans from wrongful medical interventions. Her work is cited in many professional articles and publications. She holds degrees from MIT and her medical degree from the Mississippi School of Medicine.  Dr Nass' website where she blogs is AnthraxVaccine.blogspot.com

Dr. Richard Fleming is a cardiologist specializing in nuclear medicine who has proven a direct correlation between inflammation and heart disease.  Dr. Fleming holds a PhD in particle physics, graduated from the University of Iowa College of Medicine and later completed a law degree. He is the inventor of the Fleming Method for Tissue and Vascular Differentiation and Metabolism, a method that quantifies tissue activity due to inflammation and infection. In the past Richard has taught at the University of Texas and conducted cardiological research at Methodist College and Creighton University. Since the declaration of the Covid pandemic, he has put his attention on uncovering the health risks from both the SARS-2 virus and the Covid-19 vaccines, exposing the medical risks, and researching the genetic engineered origins and gain of function research behind the SARS-2 virus.  Dr. Fleming is the author of "Is Covid-19 a Bioweapon: A Scientific and Forensic Investigation," which takes a hard critical look at the available evidence that identifies clear genetic anomalies that could only have occurred through gain of function research.  His Crimes Against Humanity Project is dedicated to gathering the evidence for a genetically engineered coronavirus. Dr Fleming's website is FlemingMethod.com, and a call to action to advance the indictment can be found at 10Letters.org 

Ellen Brown is an economist and attorney in Los Angeles and the founding Chairperson of the Public Banking Institute – a non profit economic venture to develop viable, sustainable solutions to America’s banking crises by promoting people-owned state and community banks. In 2015 she ran as the Green Party candidate for California State’s Treasurer. Ellen has written extensively about the private financial cartels and the Federal Reserve. She is the author of the best-seller "Web of Debt" and her last book, “The Public Bank Solution: From Austerity to Prosperity”, introduces a safe soluble public banking alternative to the credit-based system of the current big banks. Her articles frequently appear on websites such as Scheer Post, Consortium News, and Global Research.  She is the host of the radio program “Its Our Money”, heard every Wednesday at 3 pm Eastern time here on the Progressive Radio Network, and her websites are EllenBrown.com and PublicBankingInstitute.org

The Downfall of the Ivy League | Victor Davis Hanson | EP 325 

 

Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, focusing on classics and military history. He is an accomplished academic, professor, and author. He has taught at Stanford, Hillsdale College, the US Naval Academy, and Pepperdine University. His books include “The Second World Wars,” “The End of Sparta,” “The Soul of Battle, Carnage and Culture,” the most recent being “The Dying Citizen: How Progressive Elites, Tribalism, and Globalization Are Destroying the Idea of America.”

Massive U.S. dollar dump? BRICS to launch new currency causing tsunami of inflation - Andy Schectman

Andy Schectman, President and Owner of Miles Franklin, discusses his thesis that the world is poised for a monetary reset which would result in the BRICS having their own reserve currency, likely backed by gold, and how this goes hand-in-hand with de-dollarization trends that are currently unfolding. He tells Michelle Makori, Editor-in-Chief and Lead Anchor at Kitco News, how a 'tsunami of inflation' would ensue as dollars are repatriated to the United States, which would cause a corresponding 'crash' in asset prices as interest rates rise accordingly.

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s finest and most important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has called Michael “the world’s best economist.” He is the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, and a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and has served as an adviser to the White House, State and Defense departments and served as an economic advisor to other governments including Iceland, Latvia and China.  Michael has written many books and important papers and articles. His most recent must-read book is "The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism" which explains the reasons for financial crises in the US and other Western nations due to a drainage of income, indebtedness and a collapse of industrialization. His website is Michael-Hudson.com

 

Scott Ritter is a former major in the US Marine Corp, intelligence officer and military strategist during the Cold War with the Soviet Union and in the Middle East. He served as a lead analyst for Marine deployment during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and the Iran-Iraq war. During Operation Desert Storm, Scott was the ballistic missile advisor to General Schwarzkopf. Later he assumed the role of the lead United Nations weapons inspector for seven years overseeing Iraq's disarmament of its weapons of mass destruction program. He was one of the most forceful critics of the Bush administration's claims that Sadaam Hussain possessed WMDs. Scott is now an author and lecturer who has been very public about the American media's misinformation campaign about Russia's incursion into Ukraine and the gross failures of the Biden White House foreign affairs policies and actions.  He is the author of about ten books dealing with Iraq, Iran and nuclear arms control. His latest book is "Disarmament in the Time of Perestroika" -- a definitive history of the INF treaty signed by Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan that Scott was intimately involved with.