This episode features a debate on the JFK assassination between Robert Buzzanco and James DiEugenio. Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is also the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, as well as cohost of the 2022-04-05 18:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Branko Marcetic talk about the 2014 Maidan coup and the war in Ukraine. Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.
Check out some of Branko Marcetic’s work at Jacobin:
Here's the audio from last night's Zoom session...featuring Aaron, Ben, and Seamus. As the title suggests, we give some updates and answer listener questions!
2022-03-31 16:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 4 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:
Correction! The monthly Light Bringer Zoom session is on Wednesday night as my original DM stated. Thursday is when I am doing a show with Robbie and Gumby and somehow I got those days mixed up in my head. :(
We had planned to get the next episode posted today (3/27), but due to a number of factors, it won’t be released until tomorrow in all likelihood. I am hoping that you will find it worth the wait. Just so you kn...
2022-03-27 17:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron speaks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored. They discuss censorship, propaganda, and other subjects covered by Projects Censored's latest book, The State of the Free Press 2022—just released under ...
2022-03-23 20:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this eleventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as 2022-03-19 14:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Ben talk about the Ukraine War--its larger historical background and looming geopolitical implications.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Twelve O'Clock Call" by Mock Orange
2022-03-16 01:00:58 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 3 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years at Berkeley, including his experiences with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the antiwar movement. The Reichstag Fire and other matters are discussed as well.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chava...
2022-03-11 05:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night Oliver Stone emailed me with links to his two essential Ukraine documentaries. This is the second, Revealing Ukraine, in which Oliver Stone interviews Ukrainian politician and opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk--as well as Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The film is also available at:
Last night Oliver Stone emailed me with links to his two essential Ukraine documentaries. This is the first, Ukraine on Fire, which focuses on the 2014 US/Nazi coup which overthrew Ukraine's elected government.
The film is also available at:
https://rumble.com/vw7ykf-ukraine-on-fire-oliver-stone-2016.html
This is Part 2 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon some of the events that led to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as his early years there.
[UPDATE: We remastered this episode to fix the original files... basically we used technology to disguise the fact th...
Things are pretty crazy here; I'm adding the final touched to the book, getting ready for a big interview with Abby tomorrow, and working on the next AE episode slated for Monday. Meantime, I thought some of you might appreciate this discussion I had with my friend John Kiriakou and Michelle Witte a couple of days ago...
2022-03-04 19:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first part of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years prior to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Anthony Monteiro. They discuss the Black Radical Tradition in the context of US empire and capitalism. They focus especially on the towering figure of W.E.B. Dubois.
After many years as university professor--mostly at Temple University--Monteiro continues to work as a scholar and activist at the Saturday Free School in Philadelphia and at 2022-02-27 16:12:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the audio from the February Zoom meeting. Please ignore me saying that it's March right at the beginning. I guess I really want spring to come. Ben and I give some updates and we take some great questions! Apologies to anyone whose question we did not get to. Maybe when we are generating more income I will spring for a Zoom Pro account or something like that because I think these things are worthwhile--especially when Light Bringers are bringing more light to t...
2022-02-25 21:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno-led victory over the Dutch which established Indonesian independence. They then trace the imperial intrigues which unfolded throughout the Eisenhower years. Most notably, they discuss how Ameri...
2022-02-23 22:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno-led victory over the Dutch which established Indonesian independence. They then trace the imperial intrigues which unfolded throughout the Eisenhower years. Most notably, they discuss how Ameri...
2022-02-23 22:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the fantastically produced Empire Files episode featuring the interview from American Exception 18!
2022-02-22 23:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron is joined by our man in Belgrade, Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We spoke about a number of subjects related to his recent GrayZone piece, "Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show." The article w...
2022-02-20 02:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the staggering resource wealth of Indonesia. He is joined by Hailey Rounsaville and Mike Oldfield.
This is the video version. The audio only version is 2022-02-15 16:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the staggering resource wealth of Indonesia. He is joined by Hailey Rounsaville and Mike Oldfield.
Aaron talks with Catherine Liu and Dan Kovalik about the Professional Managerial Class, "cancel culture," and US empire. Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class.
Daniel Kovalik is the author of
2022-02-13 18:26:51 +0000 UTC
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For the tenth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with Lisa Pease. Along with Jim DiEugenio, Lisa Pease was the co-editor of Probe magazine and a book entitled The Assassinations : Probe Magazine on JFK, MLK, RFK and Malcolm X. Among Lisa Pease’s most notable contributions were essays on 2022-02-08 18:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This special episode features Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. About a year ago, on Groundhog Day 2021, Ellsberg came my peace studies class. He was prepared to answer questions from students, which he did, but only after being surprised by a number of luminaries who had previously agreed to join us. The surprise guests included James Galbraith, Peter Kuznick, Katharine Gun, and Peter Dale Scott.
The class—Peace Studies of the American Century—is one that I developed i...
2022-02-04 17:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone talks about his new JFK assassination documentary with special guest host Abby Martin.
Stay tuned after the interview for a postscript detailing how the JFK assassination was an Establishment or deep state production that must be placed in the context of the post-World War II US imperial project for global dominance.
Part 9 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features...
2022-02-01 15:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Daniel Bessner to discuss propaganda in the USA. Bessner is co-host of the American Prestige podcast and a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin 2022-01-27 23:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the audio from the January Zoom meeting. Ben and I give some updates and take a couple of very good questions! Apologies for Zoom kicking me off mid-final sentence...
New episode tomorrow on Propaganda in the USA--with Daniel Bessner and Ben Howard!
In Part 8 our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with James DiEugenio. They cover Vietnam and other key aspects of President Kennedy's foreign policy. Collectively, JFK's plans to end the Cold War and his support for Third World nationalism represented a radical break from the imperialist Acheson-Dulles consensus which had prevailed since the end of World War II. Unfortunately, Kennedy's visionary plans placed him in the cross hairs of the U...
2022-01-24 15:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron speaks with Dr. Matthew Alford, one of the co-producers of the soon to be released documentary film, Theaters of War. They discuss the film and it main subject--the covert and propagandistic role of the Pentagon and CIA in the entertainment world.
Alford is the co-author with Tom Secker of National Security Cinema: The Shocking New Evidence of ...
2022-01-20 05:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post