Progressive Commentary Hour

Progressive Commentary Hour – 08.25.15

Guest #1 - Kevin Barry is a former federal attorney in civil law and currently the co-President of the Elizabeth Birt Center for Autism Law and Advocacy and the president of First Freedoms INc, a non profit organization dedicated to advancing the freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution’s First Amendment. Earlier he was the president of Jenny McCarthy’s organization Generation Rescue.  Kevin has three sons, one with autism.  He is also the author of a new book just released – “Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC”  with a preface by Boyd Haley and forward by Bobby Kennedy Jr. which for the first time provides the transcripts of the conversations between the CDC scientist and whistleblower William Thompson and Prof. Brian Hooker.  His website is Ebcala.org. Kevin's book is called: “Vaccine Whistleblower: Exposing Autism Research Fraud at the CDC”  

Guest #2 - Dr. Robert Sears is a board-certified pediatrician who is pioneering the integration of alternative natural practices with and traditional medical care in pediatric preventative and therapeutic health.  He is a co-author of the Sears Parenting Library series, which includes volumes about raising chidren naturally and organically. Bob is also the co-founder of the Immunity Education Group – a non-profit organization dedicated to providing complete and balanced information about infectious diseases and the risks and benefits of vaccines. He is active in efforts opposing the state of California’s vaccine mandate bills and has appeared on many national radio and television programs.  The imunity education group can be followed on Facebook and Twitter, and ihs websites are ImmunityEd.org and AskDrSears.com

Guest #3 - Prof. Mary Holland is a Director of the Graduate Legal Skills Program at New York University School of Law, 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 has degrees in Russian studies from Harvard, and graduate degrees in international relations and a JD from Columbia University, where she has also taught international law at its Law School. Mary is the co-author of “Vaccine Epidemic: How Corporate Greed, Biased Science and Coercive Government Threaten Our Human Rights, Our Health and Our Children.”  Her website is VaccineEpidemic.com

Progressive Commentary Hour – 08.18.15

Guest #1 - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is one of today’s most progressive political and economic writers and commentators on the state of the nation:  governmental dysfunction, political corruption, global and domestic economic threats, the war on terror, Wall Street, and the decline in human values in American society.   He was the chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and a former Assistant Secretary of Treasury during Reagan’s first term.  During his academic career he has taught at many universities and held the William Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.

Dr. Roberts’ blog can be found at PaulCraigRoberts.org and he is a frequent contributor to Global Research, The Trends Journal, Counterpunch, and others.  He was an associate editor at the Wall Street Journal and has published many books and articles during the past 40 years, his latest being “How America Was Lost: From 911 to the Police/Warfare State” 

Guest #2 - Kermit Heartsong is an empirical scientist, political author and the creator of several award wining word games.  For the past 25 years, Kermit has investigated the macroscopic developments of social, economic and political systems to identify disturbing trends in both the US and around the globe.  He is currently the managing editor of Tayen Lane Publishing in San Francisco. He has appeared on CNN International and many radio stations and has been featured in a variety of magazines and publications. Kermit is the author of several books on America’s dystopia and illusions and recently published “Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West was Checkmated.”  His website is  TayneLane.com

Progressive Commentary Hour – 08.11.15

Gary discusses topics like drugs and police, health and nutrition, politics and plays some audio from a YouTube clip. 

Progressive Commentary Hour – 08.04.15

Dr. Richard Smith is an historian specializing in China and its transition to capitalism, and on economics, environmental and ecological issues.  He received his doctorate in history from UCLA and has written on the many penetrating investigative reports and research papers on the capitalism’s failures and threats to the preservation of our planet.  He is the author of “Green Capitalism: The God that Failed” published earlier this year by the World Economics Association. He is currently working two new books addressing China’s environmental threats and another on capitalism and the global environment.

Progressive Commentary Hour – 07.28.15

Gary takes call and discusses Big Pharma and expensive drugs, financial failures, climate change, the U.S.A. are the biggest importers of drugs in the world and Finland shows how the Euro doesn't work. Also some audio from YouTube clips. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - 07.21.15

The Clintons’ legacy and why we should be deeply concerned about a Hillary presidency, with Gary Null and PRN Executive Producer Richard Gale. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - 07.14.15

A look at the history of Zionism, the rise of the Israeli lobby and recent US administrations acting as the servants of Israel - with Alison Weir

Alison Weir is a journalist, author, civil rights and peace activist, and the president of the Council for the National Interest. She is also the founder of the organization If Americans Knew, which analyses and reports on US media coverage of Israel-Palestine.  She has has presented at briefings before Congress on the US and the Israeli-Palestinian crisis,  and has lectured widely at numerous universities including Harvard, Columbia, Stanford, Yale, Berkeley and to academies and institutions overseas. She has received a variety of awards  including the Phi Alpha Literary Society for Courageous Journalism on behalf of human rights.

 

Alison’s articles frequently appear on Counterpunch and AntiWar.com, Project Censored and the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs. Her most recent book is “Against Our Better Judgment: How the US was Used to Create Israel” which is a thorough, meticulously sourced document bring forth a story barely known about the history of US-Israel relations. Her website is IfAmericansKnew.org

Progressive Commentary Hour - 07.07.15

Wifi, microwaves, and the consequences to our health, with Barrie Trower, speaking on the consequences of radiation in our everyday lives. Then, Chris Hedges explains how we have become a rogue nation, a police state with Imperial ambitions. And more. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - 05.19.15

A three hour special on vaccines featuring insights from multiple experts such as Suzanne Humphries, Sherri Tenpenny, and more. 

Progressive Commentary Hour - 05.05.15

Special broadcast on homeopathy and federal health agencys attempts to limit American access to it - with Drs. Toni Bark,Mitchell Fleisher,Ronald Whitmont, and Christopher Johnson.

Dr. Toni Bark is a pediatric physician and a prestigious homeopathic doctor practicing in the Chicago area. She is the former vice president of the American Institute of Homeopathy and has studied with many of the most famous international homeopathic doctors. In addition to her medical degree from Rush Medical College and pediatric internship at New York University, Dr Bark has degrees in psychology, a masters in Healthcare Emergency Management from Boston University Medical School, and was trained by Dr. Erica Fromm at the American Society for Clinical Hypnosis.Dr. Bark is a regular guest speaker at the University of Chicago and contributed to Mary Hollands and Louise Habakus important book The Vaccine EpidemicShe is also the co-producer of the documentary film Bought which shows how Big Pharma and Big Food have sold out our health.Her website and blog isDisease-Reversal.com

Dr. Mitchell Fleisher is a double board certified family physician who has practiced integrative medicine for over 30 years. He has specialized in classical homeopathy, nutritional and botanical medicine and bio-identical hormone therapy. He has an extraordinary medical academic background having received his medical degree from Stanford University School of Medicine and later serving on the clinical faculties of the National Center for Homeopathy, the University of Virginia Health Sciences Center and the Medical College of Virginia. He is also a graduate of the Hahnemann College of Homeopathy and the New England School of Homeopathy, where he has also served on their faculties. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Family Physicians, the Chief Medical Officer and VP of HRWellness Consultants, which consults for several major health care institutions and corporations on integrative medical practice and alternative health programs. Mitch is the creator and author of Alternative Dr MCare Natural Medical Self-Care protocol and his website isAlternativeMedcare.com

Dr. Ronald Whitmont is a board certified physician in internal medicine and a second generation homeopathic physician -- his father was the well-renowned classical homeopath and Jungian analyst Edward Whitmont. He received degrees from Hampshire College and SUNY Downstate Medical School. In the past he has been on the medical staffs at Sloan Kettering Cancer Center and the Hospital of Special Surgery in New York City and later was a specialist in treating injuries from biological, chemical and nuclear weapons in the US military. Having been raised on the principles of Rudolph Steiner and the Quaker tradition, Ron has lived in a ashram in India while working at a rural health clinic serving the lower castes, and later worked at the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation Hospital. He currently has a practice both in Rhinebeck NY and in Manhattan. His website isHomeopathicMD.com

Dr. Christopher (Chris) Johnson is a naturopathic physician and homeopathic doctor practicing in Arlington Virginia. he is currently the editor in chief of the American Journal of Homeopathic Medicine, a journal of the American institute of Homeopathy which has been in print since 1909. He has degrees from the University of Virginia and received his ND from the Southwest College of Naturopathic Medicine and Health Sciences in Tempe Arizona. He has written numerous papers in peer reviewed publications and is a peer reviewer for the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. In the past he was the vice president of the Viriginia Association of Naturopathic Physicians and lectures widely on homeopathy at universities, hospitals and medical ocnferences. His websites are ThriveNaturopathic.com and his writings can be found atWorldOfHomeopathy.wordpress.com