The Gary Null Show - 06/15/12

The criminal street gang nature in government – the DemoCrips and ReBloodicans -- the government-global corporate complex, and why third parties won’t help very much
We have as our guest toady one of the nation’s more colorful political and social voices in the progressive community – Jesse Ventura. He was a Navy Seal during the latter phase of the Vietnam War, followed by a career in professional wrestling in the World Wrestling Federation and then a sportscaster. In the early 1990s, Jesse began his political career, first as mayor of Brooklyn Park in Minnesota and later being elected as the governor of the state on the independent Reform Party ticket from 1998 to 2002. Jesse has been an ardent supporter of Main Street Americans – when his state of Minnesota ran a budget surplus, he provided a sales tax rebate since the money belonged to the public. He has been a proponent for gay rights, women’s rights, opposition to trade sanctions and a leading critic of federal policies leading America into morphing into a police surveillance state.
Jesse’s has written several books including “63 Documents the Government Doesn’t’ Want you to Read” and “American Conspiracies”
His most recent publication released this month is “DemoCrips and ReBloodicans: No More Gangs in Government”

The Gary Null Show - 06/14/12

A look at our nation’s “sacrifice zones” as evidence of rapid soci-economic decay across the US.
Chris Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics and authors. For almost 20 years he was a foreign correspondent in war zones and conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, having reported for The New York Times, Christian Science Monitor and other news outlets. While at the Times, Chris received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for reporting on global terrorism. The same year he received Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
Chris’s most recent book, co-written with the renowned cartoonist and author Joe Sacco, is “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” – which takes a hard look at areas in the US that are the “sacrifice zones” – where the well being of people have been most impoverished in the name of profit and progress. He also writes a weekly column for the award winning political blog Truthdig.

The Gary Null Show - 06/13/12

The ugly truth about aspartame
How Wall Street's mutant greed gene marches on
The Obama administration is criminalizing investigative reporting
Hubris as an evil force in history
Plus health and environmental updates, and more.

The Gary Null Show - 06/12/12

Why we need to pay attention to the FDA and its regressive policies
Jonathan Emord is one of the nation’s leading free speech attorneys who has remarkably defeated the Food and Drug Administration in federal court more than any other American attorney, earning him the title, “FDA Dragon Slayer.” In 2007 he received the Cancer Control Society’s Humanitarian Award for “winning and preserving our great civil rights to life, to liberty, and to health freedoms.” Jonathan is the Chair of the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists and a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology. Formerly an attorney in the Reagan Administration’s Federal Communications Commission, Emord has practiced constitutional and administrative law in Washington, D.C. for the past twenty-five years. He is routinely consulted by industry, Congress, and the media on regulatory issues that affect health freedom. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including The Rise of Tyranny (2008); Global Censorship of Health Information (2010) and “Restore the Republic (2012)” and is the American Justice columnist for USA Today Magazine.
Scott Tips has been the General Counsel for the National Health Federation, the world’s oldest health freedom organization protecting citizen health rights since 1989. In 2007 he became its acting president and is the organization’s editor of “Health Freedom News”. He is the sole person representing health freedom to sit on the Codex Alimentarius commission, and has authored the book “Codex Alimentarius: Global Food Imperialism”
Scott is a graduate magna cum laude from UCLA and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Berkeley Law School.

The Gary Null Show - 06/12/12

Why we need to pay attention to the FDA and its regressive policies
Jonathan Emord is one of the nation’s leading free speech attorneys who has remarkably defeated the Food and Drug Administration in federal court more than any other American attorney, earning him the title, “FDA Dragon Slayer.” In 2007 he received the Cancer Control Society’s Humanitarian Award for “winning and preserving our great civil rights to life, to liberty, and to health freedoms.” Jonathan is the Chair of the Certification Board for Nutrition Specialists and a member of the Governing Council of the International Society of Regulatory Toxicology. Formerly an attorney in the Reagan Administration’s Federal Communications Commission, Emord has practiced constitutional and administrative law in Washington, D.C. for the past twenty-five years. He is routinely consulted by industry, Congress, and the media on regulatory issues that affect health freedom. He is the author of several critically acclaimed books including The Rise of Tyranny (2008); Global Censorship of Health Information (2010) and “Restore the Republic (2012)” and is the American Justice columnist for USA Today Magazine.
Scott Tips has been the General Counsel for the National Health Federation, the world’s oldest health freedom organization protecting citizen health rights since 1989. In 2007 he became its acting president and is the organization’s editor of “Health Freedom News”. He is the sole person representing health freedom to sit on the Codex Alimentarius commission, and has authored the book “Codex Alimentarius: Global Food Imperialism”
Scott is a graduate magna cum laude from UCLA and studied at the Sorbonne in Paris, and received his Juris Doctorate from the University of California Berkeley Law School.

The Gary Null Show - 06/11/12

Why we need to pay attention to the FDA and its regressive policies
Jim Turner is one of the original Nader Raiders and a principal in the Washington law firm Swankin and Turner where he represents consumer interests concerning food, drugs, health and the environment, produce safety and regulatory issues. He has appeared before every major consumer regulatory agency including the FDA and NIH, the EPA, the Consumer Product Safety Commission and Federal Trade Commission. He has been a special counsel for several Senate committees such as the Committee on Food, Nutrition and Health and the Government Operations Subcommittee on Government Research. www.Swankin-Turner.com
Mike Adams is a leading voice in the generation after mine to have emerged in alternative medicine and public health issues. After embracing alternative medicine and a healthy lifestyle, he cured himself of diabetes in several months and has dedicated his life to mind-body medicine, natural health, preventative medical science and health freedom issues. and researching the underlying causes of disease.
Mike is the founder of NaturalNews.com and has written over 1,600 articles on health and critiques about modern medicine under the title of Health Ranger. His non-profit organization, The Consumer Wellness Center, and publishing company Truth Publishing are important education arms for consumer information and research on the benefits of vegetarian diet, supplements, lifestyle change, exercises. And he also is the founder an host of Natural News Television and frequently hosts Alex Jones program. www.NaturalNews.com

The Gary Null Show - 06/08/12

The Anglo-American coup to topple Iran’s best hopes in a secular progressive nation
Christopher de Bellaigue is British journalist and author with expertise in Iranian and Indian Studies and Persian language. He has lived worked in the Middle East and South Asia, writing for the Economist, Financial Times, the Independent in the UK and other publications. He divides his time between London and Tehran.
Christopher has written several books. His Rebel Land won the 2010 Orwell Award. His most recent book is “Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.”

The Gary Null Show - 06/07/12

News update – Indian Point reactor shutdown – and the Nuclear Regulatory Agency’s crazy ideas for meeting this week
Prof. Karl Grossman is a professor of journalism and communications at SUNY College in Old Westbury on Long Island where he has taught investigative reporting for over 30 years. He is one of the nation’s most prolific investigative writers on the nuclear power, politics in the energy industry and the environment. This year he received the prestigious Pope Award for his many articles written during the past year. You can read his articles on sites such as Alternet, Commondreams and the Huffington Post.
He is the author of several books including “Cover Up: What You are Not Supposed to Know About Nuclear Power”. Karl narrated the award winning TV documentaries “Three Mile Island Revisited” & “The Push to Revive Nuclear Power.”
Kevin Kamps is a specialist in Radioactive Waste Storage and nuclear facility operations for Beyond Nuclear, a non profit organization opposing nuclear power and weapons and advocating for safeguarding our future. For years he was a leader opposing the nuclear industry’s efforts to dump radioactive waste in Yucca Mountain Nevada and to challenge federal subsidies for new reactors and nuclear waste projects. He has traveled to Chernobyl which resulted in his founding a chapter of the International Chernobyl Children’s Project and continues to network with anti-nuclear groups across the nation protesting the relicensing of old decaying reactors and efforts to shut existing ones down. He is among the experts that appear in Knocking on the Devil’s Door.

The Gary Null Show - 06/06/12

The science and methods to use our body to heal our mind
Dr. Henry Grayson is one of our nation’s leading mind/body/spirit psychologists and a pioneer in spiritually based energy psychology. He is the Founder and Chairman emeritus for the National Institute for the Psychotherapies in New York City. He was the founding director of the Institute Spirituality, Science and Psychotherapy and a past president of the Association for Spirituality and Psychotherapy.
Dr. Grayson is also a scholar in east-west approaches to mental health. He has written several important books on alternative mental health therapy and on the spiritual dimensions of love and relationships. His most recent book, just released is “Use Your Body to Heal Your Mind: Revolutionary Tools to Release All Barriers to Health, Healing and Happiness”
Dr. Grayson is also the host of “Mindfulness” aired every Sunday at 6:00 pm here on the Progressive Radio Network.

The Gary Null Show - 06/05/12

Vandana Shiva is a philosopher, environmental activist, author and eco feminist. Shiva, currently based in Delhi, has authored more than 20 books. She was trained as a physicist and received her Ph.D. in philosophy from the University of Western Ontario, Canada, in 1978 with the doctoral dissertation "Hidden variables and locality in quantum theory."
She is one of the leaders and board members of the International Forum on Globalization, (along with Jerry Mander, Edward Goldsmith, Ralph Nader, Jeremy Rifkin, et al.), and a figure of the global solidarity movement known as the alter-globalization movement. She has argued for the wisdom of many traditional practices, as is evident from her interview in the book Vedic Ecology (by Ranchor Prime) that draws upon India's Vedic heritage. She is a member of the scientific committee of the Fundacion IDEAS, Spain's Socialist Party's think tank.
She was awarded the Right Livelihood Award in 1993.