Progressive Commentary Hour

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

Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.28.15

How the cosmological and physical sciences should inform us about our concept of God and its relevancy in facing future challenges - Part 2 of a discussion with Dr. Nancy Ellen Abrams.

Dr. Nancy Ellen Abrams is a philosopher, historian, musician and attorney who addresses the interconnections between modern cosmology and science and cultural meaning, and areas where traditional myth informs science and vice versa.  She is a graduate of the University of Chicago in the History and Philosophy of Science and received a JD from the University of Michigan Law School. In the past she has worked as an attorney for the International Juridical Association in Rome, an European environmental law think tank, the Ford Foundation, and the US Congress’ Office of Technology Assessment.  Her husband, Prof Joel Primack is a renowned astrophysicist who first co-authored the theory of dark matter and dark energy.  In addition to two volumes co-written with her husband on the social relevance behind the cosmological sciences for transforming the world, she is the recent author of “A God That Could Be Real” which posits that a revisioning of our God concept in light of the new cosmological and physical sciences can have a major impact upon the future of the planet.  Her website is NancyEllenAbrams.com    

Progressive Commentary Hour - 04.14.15

US government negligence in exposing US troops to dangerous chemicals, toxins and bioweapons and the coverup

Dr. Doug Rokke is an expert in depleted uranium and its health risks. Having served in the US armed forces for four decades, including combat duty in Vietnam and Gulf War 1, he is a retired Major who served as the US Army's Depleted Uranium Project Director in the mid-90s, and developed the congressionally mandated education and training materials for handling with depleted uranium incidents.

Dr. Rokke has taught nuclear, biological and chemical warfare and emergency medicine for 25 years and has served as an advisor to the CDC, the US Institute of Medicine, the US Senate, the Department of Defense and other federal agencies and departments. He is also a retired professor at the University of Illinois at Urbana.

Doug is included in Who's Who in America and has been nominated Who's Who in the World. Due to his outspoken concerns and warnings over depleted uranium’s horrible health risks to military personnel, he has been subject to ongoing retaliation by the Department of Defense who have for years denied any adverse health and environmental effects from uranium weapons.

He is the co-host of “Warrior Connection” heard every Sunday evening at 7:00 pm Eastern time on the Progressive Radio Network. 

Major Denise Nichols is a Chairwoman for the National Vietnam and Gulf War Veterans Coalition.  She is retired Major and a registered flight nurse from the US Air Force having served in both the Vietnam and Gulf War campaign. During Operation Desert Storm she served on the border of Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Although her unit was theoretically in the exposure zone where depleted uranium demolition occurred, the Department of Defense did not include Air Force units among those under chemical threat. She has testified before Congress on behalf of veterans and has been interviewed nationally and internationally on issues concerning Gulf War Illness and Agent Orange.  Since retiring from the Air Force she has been a teacher on nursing faculties at several universities. The Coalitions website is Veterans-Coalition.org

Captain David Winnett is a retired captain from the US Marine Corps and had served in the Corps for 20 years both as an enlisted marine and a commissioned officer. During Operation Desert Storm he served as the Transportation officer for multiple troop displacements. Later he was stationed at Guantanamo and assisted with Haitian refugee operations.  Following his retirement David worked for the California municipal services for 15 years and took on veteran advocacy activities full time.  He is a member of the Department of Defense’s Congressional Directed Medical Research Program for Gulf War Illness Research, which is dedicated to identifying effective treatments and diagnosis of conditions that effected upwards to 210,000 veterans during the Gulf War in the early 1990s.  He is also a published poet and administrates the largest closed group on Facebook dealing with Gulf War Illness. The Congressional Medical Research Program’s website is CDMRP.Army.Mil/gwirp

Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.31.15

Clearing up the confusion about Russia and the new Russia-US cold war

Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and author writing on the potential economic, environmental and political decline and collapse of the US and modern industrial culture.  He was an eye witness to the collapse of the Soviet Union and has researched extensively its causes and the reasons for the failure of both the Soviets and the Americans to predict and understand it accurately. Dmirty is very popular among the Peak Oil community such as Richard Heinberg and frequently writes on the looming energy crisis. 

He has written five books, notably “The Five Stages of Collapse: Survivors Toolkit,”  and more recently collections of essays under the titles “Societies that Collapse” and “Communities that Abide.”  He publishes weekly on his popular blog ClubOrlov.com and for the Energy Bulletin. Dmitry and his family currently live on a sailboat fitted with solar panels and the necessities to carry them through for many months.  

Progressive Commentary Hour - 03.24.15

CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS

The politics behind the US empire and its consequences for American citizens

Prof. James Petras is the Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University in New York and an expert in America’s interference in global politics, especially Latin America and the Middle East.  He has a long commitment to social justice issues and workers’ rights and was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. Prof. Petras is also the recipient of many awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association and the Robert Kenny Award. 

He has written over 60 books in 29 languages and published over 600 articles in professional journals.  His editorials in major news publications such as the New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, Le Monde, and several latin American publications and others are in the 1000s.  His most recent book is “The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East”  

Progressive Commentary Hour - 02.24.15

The lack of efficacy and health risks of the HPV Vaccines – Gardasil and Cervarix, with Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic, Dr. Ken Stoller, and Dr. Mark Flannery

Dr. Lucija Tomljenovic is an early career postdoctoral fellow. She received her PhD in Biochemistry, from the Comparative Genomics Centre at James Cook University in Townsville, Australia. In 2010, and  joined the Neural Dynamics Research Group at the University of British Columbia to work on with renowned neuroscientist Prof. Christopher Shaw’s. Her research has focused up the neurotoxic properties of the human papilloma virus vaccines and aluminum vaccine adjuvants. Recently she was a visiting research at the University of Tel Aviv in Israel to discover the HPV vaccine mechanisms leading to autoimmune disorders. Lucija is also an Associate Editor of the Journal of Alzheimer’s Disease. She and her colleagues are among the few courageous university researchers undertaking independent and honest experiments into the causation for adverse vaccine effects.

Dr. Ken Stoller is a board pediatrician medicine and a environmental activist. He is a founder and president of the International Hyperbaric Medical Association, a diplomat of the American Board of Pediatrics and a founder of the Humane Farming Association. Having become frustrated with medical agency and association cover-ups and the corporate medical lobbying powers over the rapid rise in children’s developmental disabilities, Dr. Stoller and other physicians testified before Congress on the role vaccinations have played, particularly mercury, in the rise of autism and other related conditions.  In 2006, he met with environmental scientists at CDC headquarters to discover their concern about mercury but being powerless to affect the agency’s policy. His letter of resignation to the American Pediatric Association, published in a distinguished peer review medical journal, raised quite a storm in the pediatric community.   His website is BodiesInRebellion.com

Dr. Mark Flannery is a Chiropracter physician in southern California and a fellow of the American Association of Integrative Medicine.  He specializes in functional medicine under the guidance of the pioneer functional medical scientist Datis Kharrazian. He became internationally renown for his work treating individuals with Hashimoto hypothyroidism.  More recently he has been observing the serious side effects of the HPV vaccines in young adults and has been investing treatments for vaccine injuries. Dr. Flannery has degrees from University of Southern California and Rochester Institute of Technology, and received Doctor of Chiropractic degree graduating cum laude from Cleveland Chiropractic College, Los Angeles.  His website is DrFlannery.com

Progressive Commentary Hour - 02.17.15

Special Broadcast on HIV and AIDS – The science and censorship

Joan Shenton is a long-time medical documentary film director, who started covering controversies over HIV and AIDS in the late 1980s. Despite winning awards for her films she was eventually censored and for years could not work in the field. More recently she produced the historical documentary, "Positively False" and, most relevant to tonight's discussion, "Positive Hell", the story of former heroin addicts in Northern Spain who have been living with an HIV diagnosis for almost 30 years, almost entirely without drugs and with the exception of one person in the documentary, in health. Joan is also the author of "Positively False". She heads the Immunity Resource Foundation in the UK which has a fantastic collection of archival AIDS documentary footage. Her website is joanshenton.com

Bobby Russell was diagnosed as HIV positive in late 2004. In 2013, he learned that a negative HIV diagnosis on a Western Blot HIV test had been withheld from him. Consequently went off the AIDS drugs and sued for restitution due to the damage from the drugs he had taken for 8 years.  The case was recently thrown out on a technicality and he is appealing.  His story and information can be found at his website bobbywrussell.com

Anne Sono Blumenthal is a German journalist and filmmaker in Berlin who has been engaged in the HIV-AIDS controversy. She is the founder of Blue Bell Media and the director of the film “I will Not Go Quietly, which follows the lives of several HIV positive women who refused AIDS drugs and instead embarked on living a more active, natural and healthy lifestyle.

Prof. Peter Duesberg is professor of Molecular and Cell Biology at the University of California at Berkeley.  He was the first to isolate a cancer gene through his work with retroviruses back in 1970 and mapped the genetic structure of this class of viruses. His work in retrovirus research awarded him an election to the National Academy of Sciences and Outstanding Investigator Grants from the National Institutes of Health.  Based upon his knowledge of retroviruses, he has been at the forefront in challenging the virus-AIDS hypothesis and has published in the world’s leading medical journals.  As a consequence, Dr. Duesberg’s hypothesis has won support from many scientists who have been outcast from publishing their views, including Nobel laureates such Kary Mullis, inventor of PCR technology. 

Prof. Henry Bauer is professor emeritus of chemistry and science studies and a former dean at Virginia Polytechnic Institute and was the dean of the university’s college of Arts and Sciences for a stint.  After his retirement he served as the editor-in-chief of the Journal of Scientific Exploration for seven years. Prof Bauer did his doctorate at the University of Sydney in Australia and post-doctoral work at the University of Michigan.

He is the author of several books including “Dogmatism in Science and Medicine: How Dominant Theories Monopolize Research and Stifle the Search for Truth, and earlier “The Origin, Persistence and Failings of HIV/AIDS Theory,”  which was among the first books to gather together two decades of research on HIV and AIDS and to identify the scientific contradictions. 

Terry Michael is a seasoned political reporter and press secretary who is currently the executive director for the Washington Center for Politics and Journalism, which sponsors the Politics and Journalism Semester to educate future political reporters. In the mid-1980s he was the press secretary for the Democratic National Committee and later the press aide for Congressmen Paul Simon and Robert Matsui. Terry has several journalism awards including the distinguish service award from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Presidential Award of the Association for Education in Journalism.  Although being a journalist and gay man living in Washington DC, the most critical city on the HIV-AIDS agenda, he became active in the controversy 5 years ago, particularly on issues of censorship in the mainstream media.  His website is terrymichael.net

Special broadcast on autism and the vaccine connection - Part 2 - 02.10.15

A continued conversation with Dr. Brian Hooker on a recent CDC cover-up, as well as a conversation with investigative journalist Janine Roberts.