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Picks And Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaFebruary 18, 2025Newest Podcasts

On the most powerful tool for crime ever invented: The personal computer David Moscrop invited Cory Doctorow and Yanis Varoufakis to a conversation. They discuss how the concentration of wealth and power and surveillance is made possible by the internet where someone like Elon Musk uses digital power to determine the outcome of an election, and then proceeds to dismantle democratic institutions.
Cory Doctorow is a Canadian-British blogger, journalist, science fiction author and activist. Doctorow had just announced that his most recent book: Picks And Shovels was going into distribution. Picks & Shovels is the origin story of the most powerful new tool for crime ever invented: the personal computer.
Yanis Varoufakis is an economist, former Finance Minister of Greece and author [ . . . ]

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Netanyahu and Trump – Who Set a Trap for Whom – with Alastair Crooke

By MariaFebruary 11, 2025Newest Podcasts

Who benefits from a transfer of Gaza to the U.S. and the expulsion of Palestinians When Judge Andrew Napolitano set up this interview with Alastair Crooke on Monday, Feb. 10, 2025, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu had just spent a week in Washington, DC, meeting with donors, Congressional leaders, and military personnel at the Pentagon. When Netanyahu and Trump finally met and had their joint press conference, many observers in the audience wondered who had the upper hand – in other words: “who set a trap for whom”. And when the world heard for the first time of Trump’s plan to take over Gaza and expel the Palestinians it was unclear whose idea that was and who benefits.
Maybe there is nobody [ . . . ]

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What Tariffs & Immigrants Really Mean for the Economy, with Dr. Richard Wolff

By MariaFebruary 4, 2025Newest Podcasts

Thanks to Project Censored Radio and co-host Eleanor Goldfield This program was produced on the day when Donald Trump both threatened and postponed tariffs on Mexico and Canada. The interview with Richard Wolff was held five days earlier in the Project Censored studio by Eleanor Goldfield.
Goldfield asks Richard Wolff how these tariffs might be aimed at you and me rather than at Mexico and Canada. She also elicits an extraordinary explanation of how immigrants have built the wealth of the US – rather than having been a drain.
Richard Wolff is visiting professor at the New School University in New York City; and the founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update.
The Project Censored Show [ . . . ]

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Chief Master Sergeant Dennis Fritz: Why the US Invaded Afghanistan and Iraq

By MariaJanuary 28, 2025Newest Podcasts

Judge Andrew Napolitano interviews Dennis Fritz, the author of the book: Deadly Betrayal This book gives an extraordinary and timely update to the fraudulent claim that Iraq possessed Weapons of Mass Destruction. It’s a detailed insider account of how a Pentagon cabal strategized to manipulate intelligence, pressure the United Nations, forced a Congressional authorization for the use of force, and scared the American people after 9/11 into supporting an attack on Iraq.
Dennis Fritz is a Pentagon insider and senior enlisted leader with nearly three decades standing. He worked directly for – and advised – some of the most senior General Officers in the Department of Defense. They included General Richard B. Myers, who served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs [ . . . ]

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Fred Gray – Civil Rights Attorney for Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Black History Month 2025

By MariaJanuary 21, 2025Newest Podcasts

TUC Archive: Fred Gray, just out of law school, made a commitment to destroy everything segregated in his home state of Alabama Rosa Parks was only Fred Gray’s second case. Gray represented Claudette Colvin, a teenager, who nine months earlier had been the first to refuse to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus – and in turn inspired Rosa Parks.
When Rosa Parks was arrested in 1955 for violating the segregated seating ordinance, 26-year-old Martin Luther King was chosen to lead the Montgomery Bus Boycott, and 24-year-old Fred Gray became his and the movement’s lawyer. Gray’s legal victory in the federal courts ended the boycott 381 days later.
Fred Gray won scores of civil rights cases in education, voting rights, [ . . . ]

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Will Trump Deliver Peace? Professor Jeffrey Sachs says that Israel might prevent it

By MariaJanuary 15, 2025Newest Podcasts

To everybody’s surprise the Trump Camp placed a quote by Sachs, critical of Netanyahu, on his Truth-Social site Sachs is professor and director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. He has been special adviser to three United Nations Secretary Generals and currently serves under Secretary General Antonio Gutierrez.
The quote posted on Trump’s social media came from a talk and debate given by Prof. Sachs on October 22, 2024, at the prestigious Cambridge Union in England. In spite of the extraordinary analysis of causes and pretexts of wars presented by Sachs, and some of his provocative statements, the speech remained unnoticed for 2 1/2 months until Donald Trump brought it to Truth Social and world media discovered it [ . . . ]

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The new cold war that the U.S. unleashed against China – Yanis Varoufakis

By MariaJanuary 7, 2025Newest Podcasts

How China Can Win Yanis Varoufakis is a former finance minister of Greece, university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. A video of this candid and fact filled talk before a Chinese audience has recently surfaced.
How did China, on the flimsiest of pretexts, end up in the crosshairs of both Biden and Trump? Varoufakis reveals the related danger to the U.S. financial system that apparently is so serious that this new Cold War might even turn into a shooting war.
The video of this talk was recorded just before the U.S. November 2024 elections, and it is 12 precious minutes longer than this radio program. I highly recommend you find it on YouTube under the title [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman: America’s Problematic Policies in Syria

By MariaDecember 31, 2024Newest Podcasts

How suddenly Syria’s entanglement with all surrounding states becomes the center of world attention
Chas Freeman’s knowledge of the area and history is personal and professional and detailed. Freeman served in the United States Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years. He was the U.S. Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 1989 to 1992, and dealt with the Gulf War.
On Friday, December 27th, he was interviewed by Nima Alkhorshid, an Iranian-Brazilian university lecturer, on his podcast “Dialogue Works”. The channel is dedicated to peace. These are excerpts from their 53 minute long conversation.
You can watch the full 53 minute long video on the YouTube channel Dialogue Works under the title: Amb. Chas Freeman: America’s Problematic [ . . . ]

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WWI – The Christmas Truce of 1914 – TUC Archive for 2024

By MariaDecember 24, 2024Newest Podcasts

Silent Night in trenches of the Western Front The Christmas Truce was an unofficial cease-fire on parts of the Western Front. Guns fell silent for one to several days. Soldiers emerged from the trenches and talked, exchanged gifts and kicked around a soccer ball. Trenches were close in some places, separated by 50 yards or less.
The Story of the Christmas Truce WWI is a documentary film about this spontaneous cease-fire. Thanks to historians Peter Hart, Taff Gillingham and Robin Schaefer, and their choice of rare documentary photos, footage and archived letters from soldiers of both sides.
This archival TUC Radio program first went into distribution on December 13, 2022. By coincidence on the same day that nearly 1,000 faith leaders called [ . . . ]

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Max Blumenthal: Turkey Invades Syria – December 2024

By MariaDecember 17, 2024Newest Podcasts

What role did the US play in toppling the Assad government? Max Blumenthal is Senior Editor of AlterNet’s Grayzone Project and the author of “The Management of Savagery: How America’s National Security State Fueled the Rise of Al Qaeda, ISIS, and Donald Trump”
Blumenthal is an award-winning journalist and bestselling author. His articles and video documentaries have appeared in the New York Times, Daily Beast, Guardian, Huffington Post, Salon, Al Jazeera English and many other publications.
Blumenthal is also a regular guest on “Judging Freedom”, hosted by Judge Napolitano. Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court Judge and as legal analyst for Fox News. After his career in TV, Napolitano started his own Youtube show – Judging Freedom. In December 2024 [ . . . ]

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Syria Collapses – Ambassador Chas Freeman

By MariaDecember 10, 2024Newest Podcasts

Pascal Lottaz from Neutrality Studies gets comments on the breaking news of December 9, 2024 Lottaz quotes the news of the day: Bashar al-Assad, the long-term leader of the Syrian state, had just arrived with his family in Russia where he has been granted asylum. And Damascus is now in the hands of Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Iran has evacuated its embassy and the Russians are, according to their own statements, in talks with the “rebels” AKA “terrorists”, who are now in control of large swathes of Syria.
Pascal Lottaz discusses what all of this means with Ambassador Chas Freeman. He served in the United States Foreign Service, the State and Defense Departments in many different capacities over the course of [ . . . ]

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Ukraine and Israel in Wars – Comments by former CIA Analysts Larry C. Johnson and Ray McGovern

By MariaDecember 3, 2024Newest Podcasts

Interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano – they comment on unexpected developments caused by the Biden Trump Transition Judge Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court Judge and as legal analyst for Fox News. After his career in TV, Napolitano started his own Youtube show – Judging Freedom. In late 2024 it had almost 500,000 subscribers.
CIA analysts Larry Johnson and Ray McGovern are in the large group of former intelligence analysts who are regular weekly commentators on foreign policy for Judge Napolitano. Here is the Nov 29, 2024, INTEL Roundtable on Judging Freedom, hosted by Andrew Napolitano.
Ray McGovern was a CIA analyst for 27 years, serving seven U.S. presidents – from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. He [ . . . ]

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The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State, Michael Parenti (TWO of TWO)

By MariaNovember 25, 2024Newest Podcasts, Podcasts

TUC Radio Archives re-broadcast on the 61st anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination This talk caused a controversy in the media when it was first aired on the 30th anniversary of the JFK assassination. Parenti saw not just the violent death of an individual but said: “If the truth were known it would call into question the entire state system and the social order it represents”. And that troubling implication is probably the reason why the mainstream press has suppressed the work of those who researched the circumstances of Kennedy’s death. In his investigation Parenti focused on the troubling contradictions In Lee Harvey Oswald’s life to add to the proof that Oswald was at best a “patsy”.
Michael Parenti, since retired, was one [ . . . ]

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The JFK Assassination and the Gangster Nature of the State, Michael Parenti (ONE of TWO)

By MariaNovember 19, 2024Newest Podcasts

TUC Radio Archives re-broadcast on the 61st anniversary of Kennedy’s assassination Parenti criticizes the lone assassin theory, goes over details of the murder and addresses the bitter question that haunts so many, whether government agencies of a democratic country participated in the assassination of an elected President. This is one of Parenti’s most highly acclaimed talks, ending with a standing ovation. He spoke on the 30th anniversary of the assassination in Berkeley, CA.
When Oliver Stone’s movie JFK opened in December 1991 a huge PR campaign was mobilized against the film. Even progressives spoke out. Noam Chomsky wrote in support of the Warren Commission’s lone assassin findings. In contrast Michael Parenti supported Stone and began by examining what he calls “the [ . . . ]

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The World According to Trump with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

By MariaNovember 12, 2024Newest Podcasts

Chris Hedges gets the first take on the November 2024 Election Here are excerpts from an extraordinary 54 minute conversation on the current and future wars coming out of the transition from the Biden to the Trump administration. With his extensive insights and expertise into the Middle East and American foreign policy, Lawrence Wilkerson provides a valuable understanding into what a Trump presidency may look like outside of the borders of America.
It’s hard to imagine two better matched partners in this conversation. Chris Hedges is a former war reporter for the New York Times, Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson was a former war planner and chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Christopher Hedges is an American journalist, author, and Presbyterian [ . . . ]

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