Progressive Commentary Hour

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.19.22

Dr. Jim Garrison is the founding President of Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies, an international school of higher education built upon transformational principles of whole brain and whole systems learning. The university operates with partners all over the world. As the co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Jim was instrumental in the founding of the State of the World Forum  to lay a template for a  more sustainable global civilization.  In the late 80s he served as the executive director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange, and founded the International Foreign Policy Association in collaboration with Secretary of State George Schultz and Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. Jim hosts the daily podcast Humanity Rising Summit -- conversations with people at the cutting of cultural change.  Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His websites are UbiquityUniversity.org and WisdomUniversity.org

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.12.22

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, including "Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year" which is about debt forgiveness, and most recently last year “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” which explains how the US economy manages to stay afloat despite all reason that it should not. His website is Michael-Hudson.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.05.22

Dr. Jack Rasmus is a professor of political economics at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University in California.  Prior to teaching, he was an economic analyst for several global corporations and an organizer, negotiator and business representative for several labor unions. At one time he was elected at the National First Vice President of the National Writers Union.  In addition to his economic profession, Dr. Rasmus is a playwright and author of fictional works dealing with social struggles, and the owner of Kyklos Productions. He is the author of many books, most recent being “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump” and “Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed”. Jack also hosts a radio program “Alternative Visions” on the Progressive Radio Network every Friday at 2 pm Eastern time. His website is JackRasmus.com 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.29.22

Dr. Jessica Rose is an immunologist and molecular biologist who has specialized in computational biology and the bio-mechanisms behind pathogenic infections. Her research and publications include investigating hepatitis B, cytomegalovirus, HIV, and anthrax. Dr. Rose is a graduate of the University of Newfoundland and Labrador, and received her doctorate from Bar Illan University in Israel. Dr Rose has now written and co-authored several important papers analyzing the data of Covid-19 vaccine injuries and deaths reported in the Centers for Disease Control's Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System  or VAERS. She also has a paper pending publication co-authored with Dr. Peter McCullough who will be guest on the program on Friday. Jessica is also a surfing instructor and Israel's national champion for women's long-board surfing. She blogs on her site Jessicar.substack.com

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.22.22

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 Grayzone,the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources. He has frequently co-written essays with Australian investigative journalist John Pilger. Tim has written over 15 books including "Capitalism and Coronavirus", "Real Fake News," "Voices for Peace" (with Noam Chomsky), and most recently "Bioterrorism: The Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy" -- which traces the history of bioterrorism aback to its 18th century eugenic roots up to the present with the emergence of surveillance capitalism, transhumanism, a techno-pharma regime and more recently the Great Rest being advanced by the World Economic Forum. 

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.15.22

The Financial Side of the Pandemic that Reveals What May Be Really Going on

My Guest: Leslie Manookian

Leslie Manookian is the founding president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund - a non profit organization committed to the education, protection and advancement of health freedom while advocating for human rights and bodily autonomy for all people. The fund opposes unethical laws such as vaccination mandates. Earlier Leslie was a successful Wall Street business executive. Her career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. Later she was the Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research businesses. While working in global finance she also continued her education in homeopathy. In 2011, she wrote and produced the award winning documentary The Greater Good that explores the vaccine debate and controversies.  She received her batchelor's degree from Middlebury College and later her MBA from the University of Chicago. Leslie's organization's website is HealthFreedomDefense.org

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.08.22

Edward Dowd is a consultant for Symphonic Capital, a US and German financial firm analyzing risk management performance for S&P 500 market opportunities, where he advises on market and risk strategies. He is also a former managing director for large cap growth equities at Blackrock -- one of the world's top three corporate and banking asset holders. Given his extensive background in Wall Street and finance, Ed has observed glaring inconsistencies in between official Covid pandemic reports and the actual on-the-ground data regarding vaccine injuries. The conclusion and message he has been trying bring bring to people's and Wall Street's attention is that we are dealing with enormous vaccine fraud due to a collusion between the government and the Covid vaccine makers, notably Moderna and Pfizer.  Ed earned his bachelor's degree at the University of Notre Dame and an MBA in Finance from Indiana University. 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.01.22

Dr. Naomi Wolf is the CEO of the Daily Clout, a nonprofit that enables people to see, share and affect live legislative bills which otherwise would be largely non-transparent and passed in behind closed doors.  She is perhaps best known as a feminist leader, journalist and author writing about women's rights, abortion, the Occupy Movement, the emerging totalitarianism in the US and more recently the Covid pandemic and creeping institutional tyranny.  Her articles have appeared in The Nation, the Guardian and Huffington Post.  Naomi authored the bestseller "The End of America: A Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot," and her most recent book is "Outrages: Sex, Censorship and the Criminalization of Love," which retells a history of state-sponsored censorship and violations of personal freedoms by recounting the story of John Addington Symonds, a 21 year old Oxford student his struggle for same-sex relationships in the mid-19th century.  She graduated from Yale University as a Rhodes Scholar to atttend Oxford University where she later received her doctorate in English Language and Literature. In the past she has taught at Barnard College, Stoney Brook and George Washington University. Naomi is the host of the weekly program Daily Clout, which can be heard every Saturday at 1 pm on the Progressive Radio Network. Her website is DailyClout.io

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 02.24.22

Whose is Your Daddy Now?  The Great Reset Narrative and Loss of Personal Sovereignty

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 02.22.22

Dr. Mary Bowden is a board certified physician of internal medicine specializing in sleep medicine, allergies and holistic wellness, and the founder of the BreatheMD in Houston, Texas.  Last November, she had her medical privileges suspended by the prestigious Houston Methodist Hospital – followed by her resignation -- on the grounds of stating “misinformation” on her position of advocating early treatment against SARS-2 infections and her criticism of vaccine mandates. This was despite her having treated over 2,000 Covid-19 patients with ivermectin and monoclonal antibodies. None required hospitalization. She is now one of the only doctors providing early treatment in U’S fourth largest city, focusing on unvaccinated patients, through her private clinic. Mary has testified along with Peter McCullough and Robert Malone before congressional committees hosted by Wisconsin senator Ron Johnson  Dr. Bowden is a graduate of the University of North Carolina and received her medical degree summa cum laude from the Medical College of Georgia. She later continued her studies in Otolaryngology at Stanford University Medical Center.  Her website is BreatheMD.org