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Michael Parenti: Fascism, The False Revolution, Archive TWO

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How western capitalist states cooperated with Fascism as bulwark against communism    The overwhelming response from those who heard this program was disbelief – how can an analysis of Fascism made in 1995 be so relevant for 2025! This talk was recorded before a standing room audience of 1,200 in Berkeley, CA, on September 23, 1995.
Fascism, as Mussolini allegedly said, should be more properly called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power.” And history, as told by Michael Parenti, shows that in all fascist societies, be it Italy, Germany, Japan, Spain, and into the present, corporate power increased. When the power of capital is untrammeled, Parenti says, all of us are at risk. The environment, the sacred [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive

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A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today      Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ]

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The Assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, Michael Parenti – Archive

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A People’s History of Ancient Rome with Lessons for Today      Who was Julius Caesar, a dictator or a populist? And who really was Brutus, who murdered him on the Ides of March? A young hero or a participant in a deep seated conspiracy? This intriguing lecture by the noted author, speaker, activist and scholar Michael Parenti provides surprising new insights and parallels to today that are both shocking and amusing.
This rebroadcast is part of the very popular and ever expanding series on what Parenti called Real History, a different and intriguing reading of a surprisingly large number all too familiar stories.
Parenti spoke about his Pulitzer Price nominated book: The Assassination of Julius Caesar, a people’s history of ancient Rome. He [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman Explains Why Trump and Zelensky Argued

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Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe     Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions:
Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat??
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years.
Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ]

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Ambassador Chas Freeman Explains Why Trump and Zelensky Argued

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Freeman speaks from 30 years of experience in diplomacy for the U.S. in China, the Middle East, and Europe     Just one day after the world famous fight between Presidents Trump and Zelensky in the oval office on February 28, the podcaster Jyotishman Mudiar asked Ambassador Chas Freeman the following questions:
Why doesn’t Zelensky want a ceasefire? What is the reason for US-Russia normalization and why are there divisions within Europe regarding Russia and NATO. Will the US Deep State survive and are we watching a U.S. Coup d’Etat??
Ambassador Chas Freeman is a retired American diplomat and writer. He served in the U.S. Foreign Service, and the State and Defense Departments over the course of thirty years.
Most notably, he worked as the [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs’ Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament Shakes Europe

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On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace.
His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them:
The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine.
To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ]

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Jeffrey Sachs’ Explosive Speech to the EU Parliament Shakes Europe

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On February 19, 2025, in the middle of an uproar over President Trump’s start of peace negotiations for Ukraine with Russia’s President Putin, Professor Jeffrey Sachs gave a 100 minute long information session to members of the European Parliament about the Geopolitics of Peace.
His candid and personal account made a deep impression. In only 24 minutes Prof. Sachs covered many important flashpoints in the region, among them:
The Nato expansion beginning in 1999 – with the US claiming the right to place missile systems into the new Nato members – including later Ukraine.
To the US decision, in September 2001, that it would launch seven wars in 5 years (according to General Wesley Clark) – beginning with Iraq – and only Iran [ . . . ]

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Picks And Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis

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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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Picks And Shovels by Cory Doctorow, with Yanis Varoufakis

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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

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

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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

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

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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

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

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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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