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Multipolarista host Ben Norton speaks with historian Aaron Good about his book 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State,' detailing the breakdown of democracy, the criminality that lies at the heart of US government policy, and the corporate interests driving it.
You can get the book here: 2022-06-24 16:49:17 +0000 UTC
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If want to ask any questions about, say, Watergate or Ukraine or JFK or the US empire--or anything about the book--put your question in the comments.
We will try and answer all of them during the Zoom meeting next week!
2022-06-22 19:34:24 +0000 UTC
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Aaron is joined by Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We speak about his recent GrayZone piece with Max Blumenthal—the first in a series on the Paul Mason email scandal. The piece is entitled, Paul Mason’s covert intelligence-linked plot to destroy The Grayzone exposed...
2022-06-22 16:23:08 +0000 UTC
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In this second episode of our Watergate double feature here on the 50th anniversary of that fateful botched burglary, Aaron talks with Jefferson Morley about his new book, Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate. Therein, Watergate is presented as a tale of two Dicks—Nixon and Helms. On the surface, Watergate was a notorious pre...
2022-06-17 17:33:18 +0000 UTC
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As a happy coincidence, we recorded this around on the 50th anniversary of the Watergate break-in and the arrest of the Plumbers. We talk about the deep politics of Watergate in this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. His work on Watergate ...
2022-06-17 16:29:50 +0000 UTC
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We have some good Watergate material coming out for the 50th anniversary (June 17). As a teaser of sorts, I wanted to share this scene from Oliver Stone's Nixon. Oliver actually cut this scene from the film's theatrical release. Reportedly, this was because of the film's long running time. In fact, Richard Helms' lawyers acted to pressure the filmmakers to remove the scene since Helms was still alive.
As a result, the scene only got released with the Direct...
2022-06-15 20:11:37 +0000 UTC
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Joined by James DiEugenio, Aaron talks with Max Good about his new film, The Assassination and Mrs. Paine. The film features Ruth Paine herself—along with a number of other people that you may be familiar with--including, James DiEugenio, Peter Dale Scott, Max Holland, Gerald Posner, Priscilla Johnson-McMillan, and Vincent Salandria.
Rent the film here on June 14:
2022-06-12 15:21:16 +0000 UTC
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As a teaser for both the film and the upcoming American Exception episode on the subject, we present the trailer for the upcoming documentary film, The Assassination and Mrs. Paine directed by Max Good. Stay tuned for more on this very soon!
Visit the website (link above), and follow the film on
2022-06-10 02:21:11 +0000 UTC
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In this installment of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light, our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott, Peter talks with Ben Howard and me about some legendary figures in the history of American parapolitical research—namely: William Turner, Mae Brussell, and Colonel L. Fletcher Prouty. From there, we start to get into Jack Ruby and the gray alliance, as well as Watergate!
Peter Dale Scott is the prolific poet, historian, and political theor...
2022-06-08 20:37:59 +0000 UTC
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After starting on the road to getting my PhD and writing this book in 2010, I finally got some copies of the book in the mail today!
2022-06-07 21:34:01 +0000 UTC
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Aaron is joined by Lawrence Wilkerson and Peter Kuznick to discuss the Ukraine War in the context of America’s evaporating “unipolar moment.”
Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired US Army Colonel, former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell, and current Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary:
Peter Kuznick is Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. The a...
2022-06-04 13:01:01 +0000 UTC
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This is Part 9 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the poet, historian, and iconoclastic creator of parapolitics and deep politics. We continue talking about key figures of America's parapolitical history, including:
· Donald Freed—prominent activist and co-writer of Executive Action
· Carl Oglesby—major SDS figure and author of The Yankee and Cowboy War
2022-06-01 00:49:36 +0000 UTC
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Here's the audio from Zoom session of Wednesday, May 25. This was a nice discussion featuring Aaron, Seamus and some Light Bringers! As the title suggests, we give some updates and answer listener questions!
2022-05-29 02:10:47 +0000 UTC
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Ben Norton of Multipolarista talks with Aaron about the end of US unipolarity (i.e., global dominance) and the dawn of a new multipolar world. Unlike the previous multipolar eras which led to colonialism and two world wars, the emerging multipolar world is more than just white imperialist powers in competition with each other.
After the discussion with Ben Norton, Aaron talks to 2022-05-26 17:54:25 +0000 UTC
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This is Part 8 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Peter joins Aaron to reflect upon a number of figures in America's parapolitical history including:
- Bill Colby
- Dick Gregory
- Mark Lane
- Robert Blakey
- Allard Lowenstein
Special than...
2022-05-22 21:13:28 +0000 UTC
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Please submit any questions here in the comments that you would like us to answer during this month's Light Bringer Zoom update with Q and A. It will be held next Wednesday night.
Peace!
-Aaron
2022-05-20 21:56:45 +0000 UTC
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Aaron talks with Branko Marcetic and Ben Howard about the recent 9/11 revelations which further implicate the Saudis--including the Saudis' key US deep state operative, Prince Bandar bin Sultan.
Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden
2022-05-18 16:00:26 +0000 UTC
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This is Part 7 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Ben Howard also joins us again as we continue talking about issues related to Peter’s early 1970’s article “The Vietnam War and the CIA-Financial Establishment.” Namely, we discuss what Peter was writing about at the time—the balanc...
2022-05-14 19:56:47 +0000 UTC
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This is Part 6 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and the creator of parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. We are again accompanied by co-host Ben Howard who joins us as Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his 1970 article for Ramparts which has yet to be published after being stolen by...
2022-05-11 00:01:42 +0000 UTC
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Following up on issues raised in the JFK assassination debate episode, James DiEugenio joins us to discuss JFK’s record on civil rights as well as other issues related to the JFK assassination. DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as 2022-05-06 20:54:56 +0000 UTC
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We wrap up our discussion on "biodefense" with Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound enginee...
2022-05-02 21:20:38 +0000 UTC
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Danny Haiphong, Zoya, and I had a discussion on the New Cold War at the International Anti-Imperialist Summit.
FYI: New Episode on Monday featuring Gumby and Robbie Martin! Aaron has beaten the flu and Casey has defeated COVID!
2022-05-01 01:36:25 +0000 UTC
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Joined by John Kiriakou, I gave a presentation for the International Anti-Imperialist Summit on the history of the CIA, and John spoke about his ordeals stemming from his heroic exposure of CIA torture.
2022-04-30 01:05:55 +0000 UTC
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Here's the audio from Zoom session of Wednesday, April 27. This was a nice discussion featuring Aaron, Ben, Casey, Dana, Seamus and some Light Bringers! As the title suggests, we give some updates and answer listener questions!
2022-04-28 13:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Continued discussion of "biodefense" and Ukraine with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ and Robbie Martin of Media Roots Radio!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Da...
2022-04-26 22:30:09 +0000 UTC
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The April Zoom Session for Light Bringers is coming up in a couple days--on Wednesday night to be precise. If you'd like to have us answer a question, please put it in the comments here. This should be fun!
2022-04-25 22:22:31 +0000 UTC
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James DiEugenio joins us again to follow up on issues raised in Episode 34--our JFK Assassination debate featuring Jim and Robert Buzzanco. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as 2022-04-22 16:20:07 +0000 UTC
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Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Fol...
2022-04-18 20:21:44 +0000 UTC
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Aaron talks about "biodefense" with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by
2022-04-13 18:49:47 +0000 UTC
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This is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
