In 2013, I contacted Abby Martin and suggested that she interview my friend and mentor, Professor Lance deHaven-Smith. He had just released his last (fourteenth, iirc) book, Conspiracy Theory in America through the University of Texas Press. Abby invited Lance to come on her show, Breaking the Set. This is the interview!
Thank to Carl Hartung for finding this video after Google's YouTube censorship regime removed the original video!
2022-11-28 17:33:34 +0000 UTC
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In this episode, we start to look at JFK’s presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59th anniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK’s background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted the early months of hi...
2022-11-27 03:47:56 +0000 UTC
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In this video version of the episode, we start to look at JFK’s presidency. Coincidentally, we are able to kick off our exploration of the Kennedy years right after our last episode (#87) on the 59thanniversary of the assassination in Dallas. In this episode, we discuss JFK’s background—his rise from son of privilege to World War II hero to Congressman to Senator to President. We look at the forces he had to accommodate and confront, and we look at how the Bay of Pigs fiasco impacted th...
2022-11-27 03:34:07 +0000 UTC
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In this livestream, Ben Norton and I discuss how and why the world is on the brink of nuclear doomsday. We relate this to potential end of US unipolarity and how the petrodollar/US T-Bill standard (aka the post-Bretton Woods Rumpelstiltskin dollar regime) has been a pillar of US global dominance.
2022-11-24 02:26:37 +0000 UTC
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We're going to have our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session on Monday at 4PM Eastern. We'll give some updates and answer patron questions. And we may spend some time dissecting a certain terrible, pro-empire article. Please put questions for me or Ben in the comments below!
2022-11-24 01:26:41 +0000 UTC
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A special double episode on the 59th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination: Aaron speaks with the venerable James DiEugenio. After the discussion, Aaron looks at JFK’s “Peace Speech” at American University in which JFK called for “not just peace in our time, but peace for all time.” Calling for an end to the Cold War and for moves toward full disarmament, the speech was repeatedly broadcast in the Soviet Union afterward. JFK would not have long to pursue his vision for ...
2022-11-22 02:07:47 +0000 UTC
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Aaron discusses the latest in the world of “biodefense” with journalist Sam Husseini and the illustrious independent researcher who posts as Gumby on Twitter.
Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack page<...
2022-11-16 14:01:01 +0000 UTC
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In this video version of the episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower’s policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike’s was indeed a legacy of Ashes!
This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my ...
2022-11-12 18:33:12 +0000 UTC
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In this episode, we close out the Eisenhower years. Specifically, we look at Eisenhower’s policies in Cuba and Congo—as well as how he made weak, half-hearted attempts to respond to the threats posed by the dangerously unaccountable CIA and the murderously greedy military industrial complex. As you will see, Ike’s was indeed a legacy of Ashes!
This is the 17th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book
2022-11-12 18:10:37 +0000 UTC
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Hello comrades! I just wanted to update everyone on a few things. There is a little delay getting the next episode out, but it should drop tomorrow. Accompanying the podcast version of this Empire and the State episode (the Eisenhower finale), we are planning to also post a video version of the episode, assuming that Patreon's new video hosting works as advertised.
Coming soon, we also have what I think is a great episode featuring Gumby and Sam Husseini on the subject of "biodefense." ...
2022-11-11 22:26:23 +0000 UTC
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Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Poulgrain. In this final part, they discuss how JFK, Dag Hammarskjold, and Sukarno were unable to stop Allen Dulles’ murderous grand strategy to turn Indonesia into world history’s most valuable neocolony—under imperial US auspices.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of 2022-11-07 16:06:25 +0000 UTC
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Aaron talks to the tireless and iconoclastic historian of post-colonial Indonesia, Greg Polugrain. In this first of two episodes, they discuss Allen Dulles' dark influence over US policy in Indonesia up through the Eisenhower administration.
Greg Poulgrain teaches history at the University of the Sunshine Coast in Queensland, Australia. He is the author of
2022-11-02 20:07:07 +0000 UTC
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Aaron and Ben Norton offer an update, answer patron questions, and discuss related historical/political matters!
2022-10-30 13:01:00 +0000 UTC
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I went on CrossTalk to discuss the Ukraine War. We tried to answer three questions: How is the conflict in Ukraine likely to end? Why does the west refuse to negotiate an end to the conflict? And, how will the international order likely to change as a result of the conflict in Ukraine?
2022-10-28 23:33:41 +0000 UTC
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We look at how Eisenhower and the Dulles Brothers handled two geopolitical hot spots of the Cold War: Indonesia and Egypt.
This is the 16th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by seri...
2022-10-26 17:15:41 +0000 UTC
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We're going to have our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session on Friday at 1PM Eastern. We'll give some updates and answer patron questions. Ben Norton will be joining us as well. Please put questions for me or Ben in the comments below!
2022-10-26 16:40:23 +0000 UTC
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Nick Bryant discusses his prolific efforts to expose sexual blackmail as, in effect, a deep state institution.
Nick is the author of The Franklin Scandal: A Story of Powerbrokers, Child Abuse & Betrayal and co-author of 2022-10-23 01:29:49 +0000 UTC
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In this episode we briefly discuss what the deep state is and is not before looking at the Eisenhower administration’s imperial chicanery in Guatemala and Vietnam.
This is the 15th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State.
2022-10-18 19:10:42 +0000 UTC
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In this episode we look at Eisenhower’s ties to Big Oil and how they influenced Operation AJAX--the CIA conspiracy which overthrew Iran’s democratically elected Mohammed Mossedegh in order to install a US puppet, the Shah of Iran.
This is the 14th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book Amer...
2022-10-14 16:36:39 +0000 UTC
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In this episode we look at the history behind NSC-68, the seminal document of the US military industrial complex.
This is the 13th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book 2022-10-10 17:03:35 +0000 UTC
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Ben Howard and Aaron continue the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on the history of USUK imperial support for reactionary Islamism.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assass...
2022-10-06 17:24:03 +0000 UTC
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Joined by Dana and Seamus, Aaron gives an update and answers a number of questions from patrons.
2022-10-03 13:00:10 +0000 UTC
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In this episode, we begin our historical exploration of the post-World War 2 US empire. As explained in the book and in previous episodes of this history, the history of the post-World War 2 US empire is essentially the history of the US deep state.
This is the 12th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration of my new book <...
2022-09-30 17:58:20 +0000 UTC
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This is a segment from an episode we recorded last week but have not released yet. We released this part early because it is very relevant backstory to the recent attack on the Nordstream pipeline. We even talk specifically about the NordStream pipelines...
2022-09-27 22:58:03 +0000 UTC
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[EDIT: date was changed to Thursday 9/29]
We're going to have our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session on Thursday at 1PM Eastern. We'll give some updates and answer patron questions. So...please put your questions in the comments below!
2022-09-26 20:21:34 +0000 UTC
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Aaron is joined by Christopher Mott to discuss his recent article, “Woke Imperium: The Coming Confluence Between Social Justice and Neoconservatism.”
Christopher Mott is a Research Fellow at the Institute for Peace & Diplomacy and the author of 2022-09-26 14:52:20 +0000 UTC
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In this episode, we wrap up our social science exploration of imperial criminality.
We discuss dark power—i.e., top-down or despotic political power. Dark power is to be contrasted with open or democratic power—power derived from consensus and persuasion.
This is the 11th installment of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book
2022-09-22 15:56:03 +0000 UTC
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Aaron and Ben Norton of Multipolarista discuss Establishment scholar Francis Fukuyama and his strange intervention into deep state discourse.
I am hoping that Fukuyama is just building up to addressing the deep state construct in future installments because he does menti...
2022-09-18 18:31:09 +0000 UTC
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Ben Howard and Aaron kick off the Long Shadow of 9/11 series with a discussion on their own personal reckonings with the great terror spectacle of 2001.
The first article in the series is now up at American Exception: “Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massou...
2022-09-14 17:59:08 +0000 UTC
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We are bringing updated versions of our four 9/11 articles to the American Exception website! These articles are by Peter Dale Scott, Ben Howard, and myself.
This article, "Prequel to Terror: The 9/9 Massoud Assassination," is the first part in the series: ...
2022-09-11 17:36:06 +0000 UTC
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