Progressive Commentary Hour

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Understanding our social and political pathologies from a Global Philosophical perspective

Prof. Ashok Gangaden is a world renowned global philosopher, author and spiritual activist.  He is the Margaret Gest Professor of Global Philosophy at Haverford College in Pennsylvania where he has taught for the past fifty years. Ashok's journey has been to explore the primal integral logic at the heart of human reason that can guide constructive dialogue -- what is called Deep Dialogue -- between diverse worldviews. This involves discovering and communicating common ground between different cultures, ideologies and disciplines.  He holds a doctorate in philosophy from Brandeis and has authored several books on meditative reasoning, including "Meditations of Global First Philosophy" and "Awakening the Global Mind."  Prof Gangadean's websites are AwakeningMind.org and UnumBeing.com

 

The Progressive Commentary Hour - The Covid-19 pandemic narrative - what can we believe? w/ Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi

Dr. Sucharit Bhakdi is an American born physician trained in Germany and has been in the medical field now for five decades. He received his medical degree from the University of Bonn and did his post-doctoral work at the prestigious Max Planck Institute of Immunobiology and Epigenetics before becoming an associate professor at the Institute of Medical Microbiology at Gressen University. Later he was appointed as the chair of Medical Microbiology at the University of Mainz. Dr. Bhakdi has published over 300 articles in the fields of immunology, bacteriology and virology and has received numerous awards including the Order of Merit of Rhineland. His recent book, co-written with his biologist wife Dr. Karina Reiss --  "Corona False Alarm?: Facts and Figures," --- which has been written for the layperson to understand the pandemic clearly -- has already become a national best seller in Germany and is rapidly receiving international attention. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Who is controlling the narrative on democracy, civil rights and race

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 federal 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

 

Mary Holland is the General Counsel and Vice Chair of the Board for the Children's Health Defense, founded by Bobby Kennedy Jr, and a former law scholar at a New York area law school specializing in international human rights, public law and vaccine safety law and injury compensation. She also has a son who regressed into autism following the MMR vaccine. Mary holds a degree in Russian studies from Harvard, and graduate degrees in international relations and a JD from Columbia University. She also co-founded two non-profits: the Elizabeth Birt CEnter for Autism Law and Advocacy and the Center for Personal Rights. Mary is the co-author of “Vaccine Epidemic" about corporate greed and bad science behind the vaccine industry.  And her most recent book is "The HPV Vaccine Trial: Seeking Justice for A Generation Betrayed" -- the most concise book behind the history and adverse effects of HPV vaccines such as Gardasil, with a preface by the Nobel Prize Winner in medicine Dr. Luc Montagnier.  The website for the Childrens Health Defense is ChildrensHealthDefense.org

The Progressive Commentary Hour - Covid-19 Vaccine with Dr. Brian Hooker

This evening on the Progressive Commentary Hour, Gary engages in an in depth conversation with Dr. Brian Hooker about the global rush to bring a Covid-19 vaccine to market, the dangers of this new generation genetically engineered vaccines and the fundamental flaws in governments' handling of the pandemic. Dr. Hooker is an Associate Professor of Biology at Simpson University in California. For years he has been investigating the scientific evidence for a vaccine-autism connection and the flaws in vaccine safety. He has filed many FOIAs with federal health agencies and was in receipt of 1000s of pages of documents from a CDC informant, Dr. William Thompson questioning the efficacy and safety of vaccination.  Brian also has a  son with autism and has been active in autism community for increasing public awareness about this epidemic. Tune into PRN on Tuesday, November 17 at 7:00 pm ET for urgent information about the Covid virus and the flawed efforts to control it. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Guest: Zach Vorhies

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. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Guest Whitney Webb

Whitney Webb has been a professional writer, researcher and journalist since 2016. She has written for several websites and, from 2017 to 2020, was a staff writer and senior investigative reporter for Mint Press News. She currently writes for The Last American Vagabond.  

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - 10.28.20

You’ve all heard by now that The Great Reset is upon us. But what is The Great Reset, exactly, and what does it mean for the future of humanity? Join James for this in-depth exploration of the latest rebranding of the New World Order agenda and its vision of a post-human Fourth Industrial Revolution.

Progressive Commentary Hour - The Search to Discover Some Truth in a Nation Full of Lies

Edward Curtin is a former college professor of sociology and theology at Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts where he taught classes in the classics, philosophy, literature, religion and sociology. Currently he focuses his attention on journalism and writing essays, poetry and novels focused upon the mass media and propaganda, socio-politics and culture. For decades Ed's writings on a wide range of past and contemporary topics have appeared in newspapers, magazines, online sites and academic journals -- including Counterpunch, Oped News, Off-Guardian, . His most recent book is a collection of essays, "Seeking Truth in a Country of Lies," that goes to the very heart of many of the pressing humanitarian issues of our time.  Ed's website is EdwardCurtin.com

Progressive Commentary Hour - Lessons the 17th century philosopher Baruch Spinoza has to offer our modern society and the challenges ahead

Professor Steven Nadler is the William Hay Professor in Humanities at the University of Wisconsin in Madison, where he teaches early modern philosophy - primarily of the 17th century -- and Jewish philosophy. He is regarded as one of the foremost scholars focusing on the life and thought of the Dutch-Portugese philosopher Baruch Spinoza, who died rather young at age 44 in 1677. Prof. Nadler received his doctorate at Columbia, and has held visiting professorships at the University of Amsterdam, universities in Parish, Stanford and the University of Chicago. He has also been elected as a member of the National Academy of Arts and Sciences and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist. Steven has written about a dozen books on Spinoza life and work. His latest is "Think Least of Death: Spinoza on How to Live and How to Die" published by Princeton University Press, which presents Spinoza's philosophy in a contemporary and practical context . 

 

Progressive Commentary Hour - Understanding the clash of worldviews underway, and the need for a new context for constructive communication and dialogue to enact solutions.

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS

Understanding the clash of worldviews underway, and the need for a new context for constructive communication and dialogue to enact solutions.

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris (Sah-toor-is) is an evolution biologist, philosopher, futurist and a former professor specializing in how the principles of nature can be applied as models for organizational and systems change. In addition to having taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Sahtouris currently teaches at Chaminade University in Honolulu. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations on indigenous peoples, has been leading voice in promoting the Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock, is a fellow of the World Business Academy, and has been an adviser for graduate business programs at universities. Elisabet is a frequent  keynote speaker for many conferences focused upon humanity’s future and sustainable economic systems.  She was the primary organizer for the millennium 2000 Earth Celebration in Athens Greece.  Elisabet has authored several important books including “Biology Revisited” (a dialogue with the late Willis Harman -- an American futurist and  a co-founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences), “Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution” and more recently "Gaia Dance: The Story of Earth and Us".  Her website is Sahtouris.com