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Max Blumenthal: Turkey Invades Syria – December 2024

By MariaDecember 17, 2024Newest Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items, 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 earned an MA [ . . . ]

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

By MariaNovember 25, 2024Newest Catalog Items

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 World According to Trump with Col. Lawrence Wilkerson

By MariaNovember 12, 2024Newest Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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 Catalog Items

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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The Killing of Hassan Nasrallah – Analysis by Alastair Crooke

By MariaOctober 1, 2024Newest Catalog Items

The former British diplomat Alastair Crooke is interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano Hassan Nasrallah led Hezbollah in Lebanon for more than three decades and made it into a military and political force. Nasrallah’s killing in a massive Israeli air attack in a southern suburb of Beirut raises fears of a dangerous expansion of Israel’s wars – even more deeply involving the U.S.
Alastair Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. His specialty is political Islam. He was interviewed by Judge Andrew Napolitano on his channel: Judging Freedom on Sept. 30, 2024.
DATE: – Streamed live on Sep 30, 2024.
CREDIT: Andrew Napolitano’s podcast channel: Judging Freedom
The longer interview is posted on Napolitano’s podcast channel, Judging [ . . . ]

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Nuclear War and the Devastating Power of Nuclear Weapons – Annie Jacobsen and Steven Starr

By MariaSeptember 24, 2024Newest Catalog Items

When Penguin Random House prepared the release of Annie Jacobsen’s most recent book: Nuclear War, A Scenario; for early 2024, they did not anticipate that it would appear at a time of heightened risk of a nuclear war.
The risks include casual threats of the use of nuclear weapons over Ukraine or in the Middle East; as well as the actual attacks or threats to the nuclear plants in Ukraine and Russia.
Annie Jacobsen’s book is based on dozens of exclusive interviews with military and civilian experts who built the modern nuclear weapons and launch systems.
Annie Jacobsen and Professor Steven Starr explain how nuclear weapons and the highly automated systems that set them off, have become so much more deadly than in [ . . . ]

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Missiles to Ukraine – for World War III?

By MariaSeptember 17, 2024Newest Catalog Items

The Grayzone, Col Larry Wilkerson, Miami Herald and the New York Times Print and Internet media in mid September 2024 were filled with speculation whether the U.S. would agree with the UK to allow Ukraine to use long-range missiles to strike deep inside Russia.
The Miami Herald from September 16, 2024, wrote: US may let Ukraine fire missiles deep inside Russia. Here’s why experts say it’s risky.
The leading argument by politicians for an incursion into Russia is the often repeated statement that Putin plans to take over all of Ukraine and move on from there. A secret guarded for over two years now is the fact that the fist meeting to end the war, was held four days after the start [ . . . ]

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Prof. Steven Starr: Radiation Contamination of Japan with Radioactive Cesium from Fukushima, TUC Archive

By MariaSeptember 10, 2024Newest Catalog Items

Replay of the Fukushima Symposium, 2013, the first comprehensive analysis of the health and environmental damage done by one of the worst nuclear accidents of our time Steven Starr says: “Long lived radio-nuclides such as Cesium 137 are something new to us as a species. Although they are invisible to our senses they are millions of times more poisonous than most of the common poisons we are familiar with. They emit radiation, invisible forms of matter and energy, that we might compare to fire. It’s not a fire that can be scattered of suffocated because it burns at the atomic level, it comes from the disintegration of single atoms”.
Starr gives an update as to what people in Japan are facing now [ . . . ]

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Timothy Mousseau: Chernobyl and Fukushima – Biological Implications of radiation – TUC Archives

By MariaSeptember 3, 2024Newest Catalog Items

The team studies birds, insects, microbes, and plants at over 1,000 sites, returning year after year. They found significantly increased rates of genetic damage When the biologist, Professor Tim Mousseau, concluded this talk by showing heartbreaking pictures of the birds of Chernobyl and their tumors and birth defects, the physician and anti nuclear campaigner Dr. Helen Caldicott stepped up to the podium to thank him.
She said: “I want to pay homage to Tim Mousseau, who with his colleagues is actually endangering his life by going into extremely high radioactive areas doing pioneering work, which is going to change the concept of radiation exposure to humans. What is happening to the animals, the insects and the plants is going to happen [ . . . ]

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