We discuss trace the development of parapolitics, deep politics, and the deep state in this penultimate episode on the social science of imperial criminality.
This is Part 10 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. 2022-09-10 14:35:29 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Seamus discuss the Security Research Staff (SRS), the inner sanctum of the CIA’s Office of Security. We also discuss James McCord’s friend Lee Pennington and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to 2022-09-06 15:26:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Ben Howard returns to join Aaron and Seamus for our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session!
2022-09-03 17:00:22 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the higher immorality and crackpot realism as described in The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how these concepts can inform the sociology of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 9 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book 2022-08-31 13:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Seamus discuss the deep state personage of James McCord and related issues from Jim Hougan’s masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
Special thanks to Seamus McGuinness for the episode art and <...
2022-08-27 18:47:02 +0000 UTC View PostWe're going to have our monthly Light Bringer Zoom session here in the last days of August. on Wednesday at 9PM Eastern. We'll give some updates and answer patron questions. So...please put your questions in the comments below!
2022-08-26 19:46:55 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss The Power Elite—the scholarly masterpiece of sociologist C. Wright Mills—and how it informs our understandings of the imperial American deep state.
This is Part 8 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book 2022-08-24 00:02:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A supplemental PDF doc that lays out and builds on a Jim Hougan and Peter Dale Scott timeline of Watergate based on Jim's masterpiece, Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA.
2022-08-20 18:17:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Seamus discuss and expand on a Watergate timeline from two critical luminaries—Jim Hougan (author of Secret Agenda: Watergate, Deep Throat, and the CIA) and Peter Dale Scott.
Because this is a unique episode in terms of the minutiae we cover, I creat...
2022-08-20 18:12:11 +0000 UTC View Post
I went on London's TRT World to talk about the deep state and the raid on Trump's home. I feel like I got to talk about the deep state in a serious way that is all too uncommon in "the West."
2022-08-18 21:00:09 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the dual state and Professor Michael Glennon’s double government.
This is Episode 7 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am again joined by series co-host 2022-08-15 21:07:56 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss American scholars and their failure to grapple with US imperialism.
This is Episode 6 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host 2022-08-11 01:52:09 +0000 UTC View Post
The venerable professor has given me the okay to inform you all that he has COVID. It is too early for any prognosis, but needless to say, we are pausing production of the oral history series and everything else until he has recovered.
If you would like to offer any well-wishes to Peter, please put them in the comments below.
-Aaron
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixon’s resignation was effected by forces to the right of Nixon himself.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decisi...
2022-08-08 21:42:39 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the historians and historiography of the US empire.
This is Episode 5 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host 2022-08-06 15:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Released in conjunction with the upcoming publication of Peter's "lost" (read "stolen by the CIA in 1970") article originally intended for Ramparts, we present a 2011 debate between the two top experts on the Postwar Southeast Asian heroin traffic: Professors Peter Dale Scott and Alfred McCoy.
I add some context at the beginning which will hopefully be of interest to everybody!
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics 2022-08-02 21:50:07 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the concepts of hegemony and empire in relation to the USA!
[We updated the file after a slightly incomplete file was missing...basically without the very brief intro]
This is Episode 4 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep S...
2022-07-30 02:05:44 +0000 UTC View Post
We discuss the creation of the US national security state and the rise of US exceptionism!
This is Episode 3 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host 2022-07-26 01:04:57 +0000 UTC View Post
A Brief update from Aaron and Seamus...along with a number of patron questions!
2022-07-22 21:21:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron speaks with Daniel Ellsberg and Peter Dale Scott about key issues on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate arrests. Specifically, they discuss Nixon’s Vietnam strategy, the way these plans were threatened by the leak of the Pentagon Papers, and the mysteries around Watergate which collectively suggest that Nixon’s resignation was effected by forces to the right of Nixon himself.
Daniel Ellsberg was an analyst for the Pentagon and RAND before he made the fateful decisi...
2022-07-20 02:46:38 +0000 UTC View PostWe have a blockbuster double episode scheduled to come out to tomorrow!
Also, since I am going on vacation for the last week of July, we are having our Light Bringer July Zoom session this week--most likely on Wednesday afternoon. Details and link coming soon!
So submit your questions here, and we will do our best to answer them!
We discuss deep politics in the history of the USA. As per Peter Dale Scott, deep politics refers to “all those political practices and arrangements, deliberate or not, which are usually repressed rather than acknowledged.”
This is Part 2 of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and ...
This is the first episode of our Empire and the Deep State series--an in-depth exploration on my new book American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. I am joined by series co-host Ben Norton of 2022-07-10 19:05:41 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is being released in conjunction with the publication of James DiEugenio's and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass--the book of the film. The video features James DiEugenio and Aaron Good discussing issues raised in the JFK assassination debate between DiEugenio and Robert Buzzanco.
There's also about 20 minutes of...
This is Part 4 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are again joined by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. The discussion picks up from the last episode where JFK’s plans for a sovereign West Papua under UN auspices were derailed by the assassination of UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold. We cov...
2022-07-06 13:00:10 +0000 UTC View Post
This video is being released in conjunction with the publication of James DiEugenio's and Oliver Stone's JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass--the book of the film. The video features an American Exception podcast debate on the JFK assassination between James DiEugenio and Robert Buzzanco. DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK...
2022-07-05 18:06:59 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 3 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron and Hailey Rounsaville are joined this time by our own Seamus McGuinness to cover the JFK era of US-Indonesia relations. Most notably, they discuss how American deep statesman Allen Dulles was able to utilize murderous clandestine arts to subvert US and UN policy so that control over Indonesia's vast riches co...
2022-07-01 15:08:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the audio from the Zoom session of Wednesday, June 30. This discussion features Aaron, Ben Norton, and Seamus McGuinness! We talk about the upcoming 'Empire and the Deep State' series and then answer some questions from our patrons.
2022-06-30 16:31:28 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the 12th installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott—the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.
In this episode, we delve further into the confusion surrounding the structural deep event that we refer to simply as Watergate. Peter and I talk about connections between Watergate other deep even...