Progressive Commentary Hour

Progressive Commentary Hour - CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS Recovering the experience of spiritual wonder in an age of scientific materialism.

Dr. Rupert Sheldrake is a British biochemist and plant physiologist who has experimented with innovative field theories in plants and animals, including humans, to account for the causative formation of the deeper structures of biological development and collective consciousness.  Dr. Sheldrake has been a fellow at Cambridge University, a Frank Knox Fellow at Harvard and a Research Fellow of he British Royal Society. His research has included efforts to reach a greater understanding of memory, perception, cognition and the debate over consciousness.  For two years he lived in a Benedictine Christian ashram in South India under the guidance of the late sage Father Bede Griffiths.  Over the past several decades Rupert developed his theory of morphic resonance and morphogenic fields.  He has written extensively on morphogenic theory since the publication “A New Science in Life “in 1981.  His most recent book is "Ways to Go Beyond and Why They Work," which presents various spiritual practices and ways that for everyday activities to have spiritual meaning for the scientific age we have now entered.  His website is Sheldrake.org

 

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Google's covert operations to undermine democracy, freedom of speech and manipulate our lives

Zach Vorhies is a former Google engineer who worked with the Silicon Valley giant for over 8 years. Much of that time was spent in Google's YouTube division before he discovered Google's artificial intelligence program known as "Machine Learning Fairness." After investigating this program through internal Google documents in his possession, Zach turned whistleblower and delivered 950 pages of company documents to the Department of Justice and released the same to the public. Having departed from Google, Zach is now devoted to helping raise awareness about Google's covert activities.  This includes the likelihood of meddling in the forthcoming elections and collaborating with China by giving that country access to it's "Manhattan" project known as Deep Mind. 

Dr. Robert Epstein is the Senior Research Psychologist at the American Institute for Behavioral Research and Technology.  The institute researches roles of parenting, stress management, maturation and the internet's influence and manipulation of our lives. He is the former editor in chief of Psychology Today and has specialized in the psychology of maturity. Dr. Epstein holds a doctorate in psychology from Harvard, has taught at the University of California at San Diego and was the founder of the Cambridge Center for Behavioral Studies in Massachusetts. He has been a commentator on NPR's Marketplace and has written for the Washington Post, Time, The Sunday Times London, Parenting, and other magazines and newspapers. Robert is the author of 15 books, and his forthcoming book is "How Google and Facebook Ate Your Brain, and How You Can Get a New One."  The Institute also produced a documentary film, "The Creepy Line" which reveals how Google and Facebook impact the behaviors of billions of people worldwide. For more info on his writings about Google, his website is MyGoogleResearch.com

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - What is happening to the Democratic Party?

Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst for 27 years under 7 presidential administrations, from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief, which was a one-on-one to President Ronald Reagan’s most senior national security advisers.  He was responsible for the analysis of Soviet intelligence regarding Vietnam and served as the Assistant National Intelligence Officer for Western Europe. Since retiring, Ray has been a vocal peace activist and journalist and helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was falsified to “justify” war on Iraq and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. He also works with Tell the Word, an ecumenical Catholic publishing house.   Ray’s opinion pieces appear in many leading news sources here and abroad.  He holds degrees in theology and philosophy from Fordham University, an MA in Russian History, is a graduate from Harvard Business School and has a certificate in theology from Georgetown University.   His website is RayMcGovern.com  and more of his writings can be found on ConsortiumNews.com

Progressive Commentary Hour - Clinton Body Count Arkancide Mena Iran Contra Barry Seal Medellin - Railroad Teen Murders

Clinton Body Count Arkancide Mena Iran Contra Barry Seal Medellin PART 2 - Railroad Teen Murders

Progressive Commentary Hour - The Mena Cover-Up - Bill & Hillary Clinton's Arkansas Cocaine Operation Exposé

Bill Clinton and the Mena Arkansas cocaine smuggling operations.

 

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - New Perspectives on Cancer that Explain Why the War on Cancer has Failed

Dr. Thomas Cowan is a long-time holistic and complementary and alternative medical doctor who practices in San Francisco. He is a former vice president of the Physicians' Association for Anthroposophic Medicine based on the teachings of Rudolf Steiner, and was a founding member of the Weston Price Foundation. His practice incorporates nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophic medical theory and botanical herbs. He also operates a family-run biodynamic organic.  Dr Cowan writes the column "Ask the Doctor" for the magazine Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts and has authored several books including "Vaccines, Autoimmunity and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness." His most recent release a couple weeks ago is "Cancer and the New Biology of Water: Why the War on Cancer has Failed and What that Means for More Effective Prevention and Treatment."  We will be speaking with Dr. Cowan about how these new emerging discoveries about certain unusual properties of cellular water may force us to completely rethink the causes for our ongoing epidemic of cancer. His websites are DrCowansGarden.com and HumanHeartCosmicHeart.com

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - How the Mindfulness Movement has become the New Capitalist Spirituality

Prof Ronald Purser is a professor of management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University, where he teaches mindfulness in organizations and theories of consumer capitalism, social change and transformation. Prof Purser is also a Zen teacher in the Korean Taego (Tay-go) tradition. His essays and cultural criticism have appeared in Salon, Tikkun, Tricycle, the Huffington Post and Alternet.  Ron has authored 8 books; his most recent one which has raised a stir in the American spiritual community is "McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality," which critiques the popular and increasing fad of mindfulness meditation being coopted by neoliberal, corporate and political interests. He holds a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University and his website is RonPurser.com

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Dr. Alvin Moss & Kevin Barry

Dr. Alvin Moss ("Woody") is a professor of medicine and physician-scientist at a major university school of medicine and is the founding director of the university's Center for Health Ethics and Law. He has published over 150 scientific articles in the peer-reviewed medical literature, and serves on the editorial boards of the Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology and the Journal of Pain and Symptom Management. He is also a reviewer for the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, the Annals of Internal Medicine, and multiple other medical journals. He has directed and taught the required course in medical ethics to medical students at my university for 25 years has chaired the statewide network of health ethics committees for 30 years. Dr. Moss' interest in vaccine safety and vaccine injury was first prompted by ethical concerns of conflicts of interest in vaccine research and public policy. As a practicing physician he prescribes vaccines to patients who choose to receive them after an informed consent discussion. Therefore, he is not ideologically pro-vaccine or anti-vaccine, but rather pro-health, pro-ethics, and pro-informed consent in vaccination. He has testified  multiple times before legislative committees as an expert on vaccines. And finally Dr Moss is a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. 

 

 

Kevin Barry is a former federal attorney in civil law at the US Attorney's Southern District of NY office and currently the president of First Freedoms Inc, a non profit organization dedicated to advancing the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution’s First Amendment. He is also a representative of an NGO advancing global health and environmental literacy to the United Nation. Earlier Kevin was the president of Jenny McCarthy’s organization Generation Rescue.  He has three sons, one with autism.  Kevin is the author of “Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC”  with a preface by Boyd Haley and forward by Bobby Kennedy Jr.  The book provides the original transcripts of conversations between the CDC scientist and whistleblower William Thompson and Prof. Brian Hooker about CDC corruption and cover-ups over vaccine safety.  His website is FirstFreedoms.org  

Progressive Commentary Hour - The Plight of Palestinians and American Denialism

Abby Martin is one of our leading international voices among younger American journalists and media activists.  She is the host of the investigative documentary news program The Empire Files that was aired on pan-Latin American network Telesur TV English.  The Empire Files features hard hitting investigative history and insights into subjects ignored by mainstream corporate media. Earlier Abby was the host of Breaking the Set on the Russia Today network. She is a founder of the organization Media Roots that supports citizen journalism, and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation which manages Project Censored, which airs on the PRN network. Recently she released a breathtaking documentary film -- GAZA Fights for Freedom -- which puts viewers on the ground to witness the atrocities committed by Israeli military personnel against Gazans during their Great March of Return.  The full featured film can be viewed on Vimeo, and Empire File episodes can be viewed at TheEmpireFiles.tv and Youtube. Abby's personal website is AbbyMartin.org 

Progressive Commentary Hour - The new Kashmir Crisis and growing tensions between India and Pakistan

Farooq Kathwari is an internationally respected Kashmiri-American business man who has been the Chairman, President and CEO of furniture chain store Ethan Allen Interiors Inc, now with outlets across America, Canada, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.  In 1985, at the age of 41, Farooq was selected as company President; he continues to hold this position and took the firm public in 1993. Aside from his business acumen and reputation for making Ethan Allen one of the most employee-friendly corporations in America, Mr. Kathwari has also been a leading thought-leader in international attempts to simmer India-Pakistan tensions over Kashmir and to restore the original international policies that provided Kashmiris a degree of autonomy. Recently, Kashmir has again reached global headlines after India's Hindu-Nationalist Prime Minister Narendra Modi placed the India-controlled region into a military lockdown, rounding up 400 of Kashmir's democratically elected politicians, aides, officials and separatist intellectuals who continue to sit in Kashmir's overflowing prisons. Besides his diplomatic efforts, Farooq is also a founder of the Kashmir Study Group that created the Livingston Proposal as a peaceful initiative to bring stability to Kashmir's divisions. He is the chair of Refugees International and the co-Chair of the Muslim-Jewish Advisory Council, started during the election of Trump to fight against hate speech and crimes targeting Jews and Muslims. Last week Farooq's personal autobiography, "Trailblazer: From the Mountains of Kashmir to the Summit of Global Business and Beyond," was published which includes the history and political background of the Kashmir crisis and this intermediary activities to bring sanity between India's and Pakistan's government.