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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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The birth of Israel and the death of Zionism – Israeli Professor Ilan Pappe

By MariaNovember 5, 2024Newest Podcasts

Why the Zionist project embraced settler colonialism and why it will ultimately fail to achieve its goals Here are excerpts from a much longer interview with the Israeli historian Ilan Pappe, first broadcast on the Middle East Eye channel on November first 2024. This program goes into distribution on November 5, 24 – election day in the U.S. – where support for Israel’s bombing of Gaza has an outsized influence on the outcome.
Thanks to Middle East Eye (MEE) for the excerpts. They are a UK-based news website founded in 2014 and cover the Middle East and North Africa. Mohamed Hassan welcomed Ilan Pappe to their studios in London. Pappe is one of Israel’s New Historians. Since the release of British [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs on: BRICS New Currency UNVEILED, Iran-Israel War & WW3

By MariaOctober 29, 2024Newest Podcasts

Danny Haiphong interviews Jeffrey Sachs on the 2024 BRICS Summit The annual BRICS summit was held on Oct. 22–24 in Russia’s southwestern city of Kazan. BRICS stands for Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. The group started in 2006, and has since doubled in numbers. This was the first BRICS summit to include Egypt, Ethiopia, Iran, and the United Arab Emirates as members.
Thirteen nations have now been added as partner countries of BRICS: Algeria, Belarus, Bolivia, Cuba, Indonesia, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, Nigeria, Thailand, Turkey, Uganda, Uzbekistan, and Vietnam.
The aim of the BRICS alliance is to challenge the economic and political monopoly of the West. So-called Western Governments, and analysts and podcasters are now trying to make sense of what this [ . . . ]

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Sea Shepherd Ocean Protectors – Captain Paul Watson, TUC Archives

By MariaOctober 22, 2024Newest Podcasts

With an update on the arrest, on July 21,2024, of Paul Watson on a Japanese warrant This is an archival TUC Radio program from 2016. You will hear Captain Paul Watson describe his extraordinary journey saving whales and life in the oceans. Paul Watson was co-founder of Greenpeace and CEO of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society. He was commander on seven different Sea Shepherd ships since 1978 and now, at age 73, leads vessels under the flag of the Captain Paul Watson Foundation. Thanks to the French Thinkerview collective for the interview.
This archival program has contemporary significance: On October 23, 2024, the day this program is being placed back into distribution, Paul Watson remains in prison in the capital city [ . . . ]

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Nuclear War – Annie Jacobsen’s Reasons for Peace

By MariaOctober 15, 2024Newest Podcasts

Against the Threats of Use of Nuclear Weapons by NATO, the U.S., Russia and Israel The investigative journalist and acclaimed author, specializing in weapons and war, Annie Jacobsen, has come closer than other investigators to the razor edge of secrecy that surrounds the current nuclear war machine. Her book, Nuclear War, is based on hundreds of interviews with war planners and engineers – plus recently declassified documents.
Annie Jacobsen, reminds us that a Doomsday killing machine has been designed, capable of destroying not just two cities but life on this planet – first with fire and heat and then seven to ten years of darkness and ice sheets from nuclear winter.
Annie Jacobsen’s book, Nuclear War, A Scenario, has 373 pages of [ . . . ]

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The Greek economist, scholar and politician Yanis Varoufakis reflects on one year of genocide in Gaza

By MariaOctober 8, 2024Newest Podcasts

On October 2, the French author and film producer Frank Barat invited him to a conversation Yanis Varoufakis comments on the role of global powers, particularly the United States, in perpetuating the war on Gaza. Frank Barat asks him about the unparalleled violence, the media’s portrayal of the situation, and the historical context of Zionism.
These are excerpts from a 35 minute interview of the Greek university lecturer, economist and politician Yanis Varoufakis. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of the Democracy in Europe movement, a left-wing pan-European party he co-founded in 2016. Previously, he was Greece’s Minister of Finance during much of 2015. Varoufakis’ most recent book is Technofeudalism: What Killed Capitalism.
You can find the full 35 minute interview under [ . . . ]

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