March 31, 2015
The conservatism of climate change assessment and how we might face the potential extinction of western civilization and humanity in an awakened manner, with Guy McPherson.
Dr. Guy McPherson is a professor emeritus of Natural Resources, Ecology and Evolutionary Biology at the University of Arizona. He has specialized in forest resources, energy decline and climate change and their economic consequences. In the past he has also taught at Texas A&M and University of California at Berkeley.
Having become disillusioned with the American university environment and academia, and after attempts by university officials to silence his outspokenness about the human causes of climate change, Guy abandoned his tenured position as a full professor for ethical reasons of conscience. He is the author of several books, the latest co-written with Carolyn Baker entitled “Extinction Dialogs: How to Live with Death in Mind.” He is also the co-host of the radio program Nature Bats Last heard every Tuesday evening at 8 pm Eastern on the Progressive Commentary Hour. His website is GuyMcpherson.com
March 30, 2015
How the global economic cabal, military industrial cartel and our failure to address climate change are creating a perfect storm leading to a tyrannical world order
Our guest today is the Honorable Paul Hellyer. Mr. Hellyer is the former Canadian Liberal party politician who held the position of Minister of National Defense, the Canadian equivalent for our Secretary of Defense in the 1960s. He started his political career in 1949 and in 1969 he was designated as Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister. He has been the longest serving member of the Privy Council just ahead of Prince Philip. Later he sat in Canadian Parliament as an independent and formed the Canadian Action Party in the mid 1990s seeking monetary reform and oppose Canada’s rapid globalization policies. Throughout his life Paul has been opposed to the weaponization of space and during the past decade has become an ardent spokesperson calling upon governments to disclose their knowledge and research into recovered alien technology. He participated in the Citizen Hearing on Disclosure, chaired by six former US Congressmen, to testify on extraterrestrial presence. In addition to Mr. Hellyer’s political activities, he is also an author and commentator who has written over a dozen books dealing with macroeconomics, financial crises, globalization, climate change and extraterrestrial technology. His most recent book is “The Money Mafia: A World in Crisis”. His website is PaulHellyerWeb.com
March 27, 2015
The latest in health and healing, and how we can live a longer and more enlightened life. Then, an environmental study that reveals there are only two intact forests left on earth. Also, a NY bill that would effectively make you a felon if you are arrested at a protest. Information on California’s water crisis and changing our food system. And much more.
March 26, 2015
CONVERSATION WITH REMARKABLE MINDS
Transforming our values and activism to confront humanity’s trajectory towards an uncertain and apocalyptic future
Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, teacher, and author of over thirty books. He is the founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization dedicated to inspiring people to become more involved in challenging our global crises including climate change and to commit themselves to peace and sustainability.
Andrew was born in India, studied at Oxford University where he was a fellow at All Soul’s College, and has taught at Oxford, Cornell, the California Institute for Integral Studies and other institutions over the years. He is perhaps best known for having explored all the different religions in depth, particularly Buddhism, Christianity, Hinduism and Sufism, and interpreting them in a passionate manner that preserves their meaning and significance for our own time.
Andrew has received many awards for his writings including the Benjamin Franklin Award. Among his many books are “The Hope: A Guide To Sacred Activism” which won the Nautilus Silver Award for Social Change. His website is AndrewHarvey.net
March 26, 2015
From a biological and anthropological perspective, are we beginning to witness the waning and possible end of male superiority?
Prof. Melvin Konner is the Samuel Chandler Dobbs Professor of Anthropology and Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology at Emory University in Atlanta Georgia. He received his doctorate in biological anthropology from Harvard, having done field work with the Kalahari Bushmen in Africa and later received an MD from Harvard Medical School. He is the author of 8 books and many peer-reviewed papers, his latest is a particularly controversial yet provocative and important work: “Women After All: Sex, Evolution and the End of Male Supremacy” – which questions our cultural assumptions of maleness and the superior status it has been afforded by our male-dominant society and advocates for the raising of women’s status to bring sanity to our world. His website is MelvinKonner.com
March 25, 2015
CONVERSATIONS WITH REMARKABLE MINDS
Becoming a Conscious Activist by infusing our activism with spiritual values to confront the challenges ahead
James O’Dea is the former president of the Institute of Noetic Sciences, founded in 1973 by astronaut Edgar Mitchell to explore the frontiers of consciousness. He was the Director of Amnesty International’s Washington office having spent much time in dangerous conflict areas where human rights abuses were perpetrated, and has represented human rights to different presidents, Congress and foreign heads of state. He has personally trained over 800 peace ambassadors in over 30 countries
James was also the former the executive Director of Seva, a medical nonprofit organization founded by the spiritual teacher Ram Das, best known for its free eye clinics and optic surgery in developing nations, and is a member of the Global Systems INtitiative, which attempts to bring a whole-systems approach to global challenges.
He has written several important books on mind-body medicine, global civilization, and most recently “The Conscious Activist: Where Activism Meets Mysticism” His website is JamesODea.com
March 24, 2015
We begin with the latest on health and healing - what to do if you have prostate cancer, and what to do if you’re without purpose in life. Exercise linked to erectile function in men. Also, today is commentary day on a variety of topics, including readiness for environmental and manmade disasters, and the wasteful government bureaucracy of health care.
March 23, 2015
Today, the latest in health and healing, then a special commentary remembering Danny Schechter. We also cover other topics such as the government withholding documents, financial collapse leading to war, and the US prison system. Plus, a continuation of our series on fascism. And more!
March 20, 2015
The power and control of secretive autonomous and unaccountable national security elites over the nation’s decision-making regarding war and peace, with Scott Horton.
Dr. Scott Horton is an attorney and contributing editor for Harper’s Magazine and lectures at Columbia University Law School with a focus on national security issues, armed conflict, human rights and international law. He is the recipient of the National Magazine Award and continues to practice law privately. Dr. Horton has been a lifetime human rights advocate and served legal the counsel for Andrei Sakharov, Elena Bonner and other human rights activists in the former Soviet Union. He is the former president of the International League for Human Rights and co-founder of the American University in Central Asia. He is the author of several books, his most recently published volume is “Lords of Secrecy: The National Security Elite and America’s Stealth Warfare,” which explores in great depth how government secrecy today assures that decisions about war and peace are not part of American democracy but decided by autonomous and unaccountable national security elites. His investigative reports can be read on Harpers at Harpers.org
March 19, 2015
Thinking of leaving urban or suburban America to homestead – the pros, cons and challenges of making that transition. With Ben Hewitt.
March 17, 2015
The latest on health and healing - good information on vitamin K2 for women. How curcumin has proven effective at combating cancer. Pollution levels related to artery health. And a lot more on health and healing. Also, a scientific rebuttal of a recent article on measles. Plus, USDA whistleblowers tell all.
March 16, 2015
The politics behind the US empire and its consequences for American citizens, with James Petras.
Prof. James Petras is the Bartle Professor Emeritus of Sociology at Binghamton University in New York and an expert in America’s interference in global politics, especially Latin America and the Middle East. He has a long commitment to social justice issues and workers’ rights and was a member of the Bertrand Russell Tribunal on Repression in Latin America. Prof. Petras is also the recipient of many awards including the Distinguished Service Award from the American Sociological Association and the Robert Kenny Award.
He has written over 60 books in 29 languages and published over 600 articles in professional journals. His editorials in major news publications such as the New York Times, The Nation, the Guardian, Le Monde, and several latin American publications and others are in the 1000s. His most recent book is “The Politics of Empire: The US, Israel and the Middle East” He is also the author of Some of his most noted books are “Rulers and Ruled in the US Empire and the “Decline of US Power, and Globalization Unmasked: Imperialism in the 21ist Century.”
March 13, 2015
From the environmental segment: an exploration of why the UN climate talks have wasted years. So you thought it was big tobacco that was the master manipulator? What about big sugar? A look at the sugar industry setting precedent for coverups.
Also, Louise Habakus on a fight in the NJ assembly and senate regarding vaccines. And much more.
March 12, 2015
Today, the latest on health and healing - how toxic are food colorings? If you’re having a baby, beware of baby formula’s ingredients. A look at red meat’s effects on your kidneys. Vitamin D deficiency linked to obesity. Then, information on stimulating better cognition. And much more!
March 11, 2015
The World Health Organization’s Private Vaccine Laboratory – how intentional is the lack of safety in vaccine ingredients? With Christina England
Christina England is an extremely important investigative journalist who has reached and written on the vaccine flaws, pharmaceutical and vaccine industry corruption, and the science supporting the lack of efficacy and safety of vaccines. Her earlier career was as a care giver to the elderly and working with disabled children which earned her the Care Giver of the Year award in the UK. Have adopted two disabled boys in 1990, it was later discovered that one of the boys, who was diagnosed as autistic, had had adverse reactions to the MMR while in foster care. She went on to receive accreditation journalism and media and has been reporting on vaccine dangers for many years, primarily for the website VacTruth.com She is also the co-author with Dr Harold Buttram of “Shaken Baby Syndrome or Vaccine-Induced Encephalitis.” Her website is ParentsAndCarersAgainstInjustice.Weebly.com
March 10, 2015
Curing Diabetes with a focus upon Women’s health, with Dr. Gabriel Cousens.
Dr. Gabriel Cousens is one of the world’s leading proponents of healthy diet, juice fasting, and an expert in the natural treatment of diabetes. For the past 40 years, Dr Cousens has been investigating diabetic causes and complications and successfully treating and reversing this growing medical condition with diet, nutrition, naturopathy and other alternative healing modalities. He received his medical education at Columbia Medical School and later completed his psychiatric residency. He is the founder and resident physician of the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia Arizona, which educates people in developing their physical, emotional and spiritual health. He has received many professional awards including the World Organization of Natural Medicine lifetime achievement award.
March 9, 2015
A subversive re-evaluation of the history of religion in the US and evidence that it should not be regarded solely as a Christian nation, with Dr. Peter Manseau.
Dr. Peter Manseau is a religious scholar and independent author of ficition and non fiction whose writings have focused in large part upon revisionist interpretations of religious and spiritual history. He has received many awards including the National Jewish Book Award, the Sophie Brody Medal, Ribalow Prize for fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship. He is a co-founding editor of the religious blog KillingTheBuddha.com with Jeff Sharlet, who has appeared on this program. Peter received his doctorate in religion from Georgetown University and is currently curating an exhibit of America’s diverse religious past for the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. His most recent book is “One Nation Under Gods: A New American History” which is like a spiritual biography of the US that deconstructs many of the myths held among Christians that this country was settled and founded solely upon the principles of the Christian Bible and ordained and sanctioned by a Christian God. His website is PeterManseau.com
March 6, 2015
With guest Daniel Estulin, addressing the topic: what is the global elite’s real agenda in allowing economic, social, and political chaos to reign?
Also: The latest on health and healing - a vegetarian diet and/or mediterranean diet cuts heart disease risk by 50 percent, olive oil could be important for helping with cancer, turmeric can help you with stroke, and oxygen may improve tumor-fighting cells, and better mid-life fitness slows your brain’s aging. A short newsmaker segment with Mitchell Cohen on the dangers of allowing genetically engineered trees. And more!
Daniel Estulin is a Russian-Canadian investigative journalist and author currently living in Spain and best known as the independent researcher who has infiltrated the agendas and conversations conducted at the infamous Bilderberg gatherings and meetings among the global elite, such as the Council on Foreign Relations and the Trilateral Commission. He has a background in military intelligence and has been researching the Bilderberg history and its global agenda for over 20 years.
Daniel’s books include the “Shadow Masters” and “TransEvolution: The Coming Age of Human Deconstruction.” He is currently directing a major documentary based on his international best seller “The True Story of the Bilderberg Group.” The film’s funding project can be found at http://www.rockethub.com/projects/52752-bilderberg-documentary-film Daniel also hosts a popular television program on Russian TV’s Spanish channel.
March 5, 2015
Today - as always the latest on health and healing, helping you to live a longer happier life. Continuation of our look at fascism. Also, the real American exceptionalism. Plus the recolonization of Africa, and everything you needed to know about bee die-off. And more!
March 4, 2015
An in-depth look at why we should not be drilling in the arctic ocean. The public comment period on the government’s plan to implement mandatory vaccination ends soon - why you should get involved. Eat at your own risk - FDA and GMOs. And much more in commentaries.
Also, perceiving our world clearly to initiate systematic change, with Professor Glen Martin, professor of philosophy and religious studies at Radford University in Virginia, and the founder of its program in Peace Studies. Glen has received many international peace awards and was nominated for the prestigious Mahatma Gandhi International Peace Award in 2002. He has written numerous articles and books including Triumph of Civilization: Democracy, Nonviolence and the Piloting of Spaceship Earth” and “The Earth Federation Movement.” His latest book is “The Anatomy of a Sustainable World: Our Choice Between Climate Change and System Change.” His website is Radford.edu/~GMartin
March 3, 2015
From today’s health and healing - how do you know if you have a magnesium deficiency? Also today, supplements that could help aging. A monsanto herbicide’s possible effects on children. From the environmental segment, the danger of melting in Antarctica. And much more!