Episodes
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Progressive Commentary Hour - 08.26.20
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 26, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Progressive Commentary Hour - Why Wokeness? Who does it serve? with Brendan O'Neill
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Wednesday Aug 19, 2020
Brendan O'Neill is a British columnist and the editor of Spiked Online, an internet magazine that focuses on politics, culture and society. He is a columnist for The Australian ad London's The Big Issue, the latter being a a socially conscious street newspaper printed in four continents and serving as a source of income for the homeless. Brendan has also contributed to The Spectator, BBC News, The Christian Science Monitor, Salon and occasionally blogged for the Guardian and the Daily Telegraph. Earlier, he was a writer for British magazine Living Marxism. He is the host of the Brendan O'Neill Show, a podcast aired on Spike's website Spiked-Online.com that investigates the left-right divide, failures of globalization and more recently the cancel and woke culture and the coronavirus pandemic.
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Progressive Commentary Hour - Our failed Mental Health Industry
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Wednesday Aug 12, 2020
Jim Gottstein is an attorney in Alaska, with a law degree from Harvard Law School who has been representing and advocating for sane psychiatric treatment for individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. In 2002 he founded the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights to mount a strategic litigation campaign against forced psychiatric drugging and electroshock therapy. The Project is committed to informing the public about the counterproductive and harmful effects of conventional psychiatric treatments. He is the author of the book "The Zyprexa Papers" which recounts the story and first-hand account of corruption about one of the most prescribed psychiatric drugs for mental disorders. The drug's maker, Eli Lilly intentionally concealed that its top selling drug caused diabetes and other life-shortening metabolic conditions; it also illegally promoted Zyprexa on children and the elderly. Upon receipt of documents, Eli Lilly threatened Jim with criminal contempt charges. More about the Zyprexa Papers can be found at TheZyprexaPapers.com, and the website for the Law Project for Psychiatric Rights is PsychRights.org
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Progressive Commentary Hour - Gary on The Left.
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
Wednesday Aug 05, 2020
In this episode of Progressive Commentary Hour Gary goes to some audio clips.
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
Wednesday Jul 29, 2020
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. He is the author of “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power?" and 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
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
The Progressive Commentary Hour - How to Strengthen Your Immune System From Covid 19
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 22, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
Wednesday Jul 15, 2020
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 has been a lead attorney on behalf of the Native nations at Standing Rock and handling the dismissal of a case against Chase Iron Eyes for inciting a riot and felony trespassing. Danny is the founder of the Romero Institute, a nonprofit public policy center in Santa Cruz California. And more recently he founded the New Paradigm Institute which explores new pathways to world peace. He holds a law degree and divinity degrees from Harvard University. Danny 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
Wednesday Jul 08, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
The Progressive Commentary Hour - Guest Celia Farber
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jul 01, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Wednesday Jun 24, 2020
Dr. Alan Wallace is one of our leading voices exploring the interface between modern science, meditation, Buddhism and spirituality and Tibetan medicine. He is the founding director of the Santa Barbara Institute for Consciousness Studies that has a mission to apply rigorous scientific methodology and inquiry into contemplative practices, and teaches and lectures worldwide. While studying at the University of Gottingen in Germany, Alan left for India and was ordained by the Dalai Lama as a monk of 14 years. He holds degrees in physics and the philosophy of science at Amherst College and a doctorate in religious studies at Stanford University. He later taught at the University of California at Santa Barbara for several years. For the past 33 years, Alan has been a frequent translator and contributor for meetings between the Dalai Lama and world renowned scientists. He has written and translated over 40 books dealing with the science of mind and consciousness, Western scientific philosophy, lucid dreaming and many commentaries and translations of Tibetan Buddhist texts. Some of his research on meditation has been published in peer-reviewed scientific journals. Among some of this noteworthy publications are "Mind in the Balance: Meditation in Science, Buddhism and Christianity," "Fathoming the Mind: Inquiry and Insight in the Vajra Essence" and "Dreaming Yourself Awake." His personal website is AlanWallace.org and the Institute for Consciousness Studies is SBInstitute.com