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

By MariaJuly 8, 2025Newest 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 MariaJuly 1, 2025Newest 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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Marilyn Waring: War is the biggest growth industry of all – Archive TWO

By MariaJune 24, 2025Newest Podcasts

Killing people, or preparing to kill them, is considered very valuable in the international economic system
Marilyn Waring was only 22 when she was first elected to the New Zealand Parliament. She was shocked and dismayed when she learned that all countries that are members of the UN are forced to keep their books and design their budgets under the system of National Income Accounting. The international trade in arms is the biggest growth industry of all. Killing people, or preparing to kill them, is considered very valuable in the international economic system. The death, homelessness, injury, poverty and starvation caused by the use of these weapons is not even registered as a deficit.
This segment opens with war. Under the GDP [ . . . ]

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Marilyn Waring: Our economic system assigns no value to peace – Archive ONE

By MariaJune 17, 2025Newest Podcasts

Under the GDP accounting system war is the biggest growth industry of all
Marilyn Waring’s work and inspiring life are described in a documentary film by Terre Nash. I’m bringing back the soundtrack of this film to support a debate on the unquestioned need for economic growth at all cost and on what course to take to end the wars.
At age 22 (in 1974) Marilyn Waring became the youngest member of the New Zealand Parliament. She chaired the prestigious Public Expenditures Committee and became familiar with the Gross Domestic Product system and decided to disclose its pathologies in a film, her teachings at AUT University in Auckland and really her life as a feminist economist. The film, “Who’s Counting” traces her [ . . . ]

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Alastair Crooke: Moscow’s Silence and Moscow’s Threats

By MariaJune 10, 2025Newest Podcasts

Is the West underestimating the threat of nuclear retaliation? Judge Andrew Napolitano welcomes former British diplomat and geopolitical analyst Alastair Crooke to discuss Russia’s response to the recent, June 1,2025, NATO-backed drone attacks on strategic Russian airfields.
But before going to Alastair Crooke, here is a brief comment on the same topic by Prof. Jeffrey Sachs. Sachs has worked as an economic adviser to governments in Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union and serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University.
Before he retired Alastair Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. Judge Andrew Napolitano served as Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995 and became a legal [ . . . ]

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Elon Musk Abandons Ship – The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

By MariaJune 3, 2025Newest Podcasts

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich says: “Trump’s tariffs are in turmoil, his big beautiful bill is buckling, and the Muskrat has left his sinking ship. Is this the beginning of the end for Trump 2.0? Heather and I discuss it all on today’s Coffee Klatch”.
Here is a 27 minute excerpt of Robert Reich’s weekly podcast, recorded on May 31st, 2025. He is a professor, author, lawyer, and political commentator and worked in the administrations of presidents Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter; and as Secretary of Labor for President Clinton. His co-host, Heather Lofthouse, is Executive Director of Inequality Media Civic Action.
The full version of this program is 38 minutes long and you can find it for free on YouTube [ . . . ]

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Today is day 585 of genocide. Prof. Noura Erakat’s Urgent Plea at the United Nations

By MariaMay 27, 2025Newest Podcasts

On May 15 Erakat delivered a searing statement at the UN Headquarters in New York to mark the 77th anniversary of the Nakba – better known as The Catastrophe
The United Nations are commemorating the violent expulsion of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes and land in 1948 to make room for the state of Israel.
Noura Erakat is a Palestinian human rights lawyer and Rutgers University professor. In her address she focused on the ongoing campaign of genocide against the Palestinian people in Gaza. As trained lawyer Erakat confronts the narrative that frames this as, quote, War. This is not a legal controversy, she says, there is no question that this is genocide; it is a political controversy. And she urged the [ . . . ]

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Trump’s Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the US–Israel–Gulf Shift

By MariaMay 20, 2025Newest Podcasts

An interview by Jyotishman Mudiar on the channel: India and Global Left
Why did Donald Trump visit the Gulf in May 2025? What does it reveal about shifting US–Israel–Gulf relations? Ambassador Chas Freeman is a veteran U.S. diplomat and Middle East expert. He is being interviewed by Jyotishman Mudiar, a PhD research scholar at the University of Chicago and cofounder of the YouTube channel India and Global Left.
From Saudi Arabia and the UAE to Israel and Iran, Chas Freeman analyzes the power plays, diplomatic deals, and regional tensions shaping today’s geopolitics.
The interview took place on May 15, 2025 and lasted over an hour. You can watch their inspired conversation on YouTube under the title: Trump’s Gulf Visit: Chas Freeman Explains the [ . . . ]

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Prof. Richard Wolff on May Day 2025

By MariaMay 13, 2025Newest Podcasts

On the impact of President Trump’s first 100 days This is the replay of a special, Live, May-Day talk by Professor Richard Wolff on President Trump’s economic policies. Wolff had been invited by Women Building Up in Brooklyn, NY.(WBU). In spite of the serious topic, his presentation was also entertaining and full of surprises.
Richard Wolff is a professor emeritus of economics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and a visiting professor in the graduate program in international affairs of the New School.
Prof. Wolff is the co-founder of Democracy at Work and host of their nationally syndicated show Economic Update. Among his many works are Understanding Capitalism; The Sickness is the System: When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself; [ . . . ]

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Trump in Panic: Yemen Sinks a U.S. Fighter Jet

By MariaMay 6, 2025Newest Podcasts

Larry Johnson & Col. Lawrence Wilkerson discuss the incident with Danny Haiphong The shocking status of U.S. military power has been exposed by Yemen forcing an F-18 to sink off the USS Harry Truman to the bottom of the Red Sea. Former CIA analyst Larry Johnson and former Chief of Staff Col. Lawrence Wilkerson call this the crisis facing America’s waning empire – and here are their comments – recorded on April 30.
Only four days later their discussion another incident confirmed their analysis: The NY Times reported on May 4 that a ballistic missile launched from Yemen struck near the main terminal of Israel’s international Ben Gurion Airport close to Tel Aviv, after the military failed to intercept the projectile.
These [ . . . ]

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How to bring peace to Ukraine – a war between two versions of history

By MariaApril 29, 2025Newest Podcasts

Professor Jeffrey Sachs is being challenged by Professor Klaus Larres In April/May 2025 the possible end to the war in Ukraine has world attention. But the peace agreement requires an accepted reading of history – and the two sides are still far apart. Here is an amazing debate over the end of the Soviet Union, the expansion of NATO, nuclear weapons, prior attempts to end the invasion, and even the reminder that Crimea has been the home of Russia’s naval base since 1783.
Professor Klaus Larres teaches at the University of North Carolina. Professor Sachs is the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University. In spite of their differences of opinion, Professor Larres introduces Jeffrey Sachs as a [ . . . ]

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Our Common Future Under Climate Change, Honoring Pope Francis’ Laudato Si

By MariaApril 22, 2025Newest Podcasts

Hans Joachim Schellnhuber recorded in Paris and at the Vatican in 2015
(Archival TUC Radio program from 2015) At 3am today, April 21, 2025, news services in California announced the death of Pope Francis. Among the many memories of his extraordinary life, his Encyclical on Climate Change, Laudato Si, on the urgently needed care of our common home, came to my mind.
Only nine days ago Pope Francis had announced the celebration, in September 2025, of the 10th anniversary of Laudato Si. Now we need to create the conditions for peace to prevent the destruction of our home without his help.
But Laudato Si has dual roots. Maybe for the first time in the history of papal encyclicals, Pope Francis invited scientists to [ . . . ]

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Alastair Crooke: Trump and Chaos

By MariaApril 15, 2025Newest Podcasts

Judge Andrew Napolitano brings you the sources of Chaos from Ukraine to Iran to Gaza to Tariffs to the first deep splits inside the Trump Administration
This interview of Alastair Crooke was streamed live on April 14, 2025. Before he retired Crooke was a ranking figure in both British Intelligence with MI6 and European Union diplomacy. He is founder and director of the Beirut-based Conflicts Forum. They promote engagement between political Islam and the West.
Judge Andrew Napolitano served as a New Jersey Superior Court judge from 1987 to 1995. Two years after retiring the Judge became a legal and political analyst for Fox News. He now runs a very popular podcast channel under the title “Judging Freedom”
This conversation was streamed Live [ . . . ]

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Yanis Varoufakis Dissects Trump’s Tariffs

By MariaApril 8, 2025Newest Podcasts

The former Greek Finance Minister in conversation with Novara Media’s Michael Walker They spoke on April 8, 2025, when Donald Trump’s tariff’s had just collapsed the global stock markets and governments around the world were searching for a response.
Yanis Varoufakis is a university teacher, author in economics and technology, and engaged in European politics. Since 2018, he has been Secretary-General of DiEM25, that’s Democracy in Europe Movement 2025 a left-wing pan-European political party that he co-founded in 2016.
Varoufakis is being interviewed by Michael Walker, contributing editor at Novara Media. That’s an independent, non-profit media organization based in the United Kingdom.
Walker brings up questions not raised by many analysts in this extraordinary crisis in April 2025 – and Varoufakis answers are [ . . . ]

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How the demonstrations in Turkey and the US bombing of Yemen affect the fate of Gaza – and will Iran be next

By MariaApril 1, 2025Newest Podcasts

Mohammad Marandi from the University of Teheran gives a close-up portrait of the countries surrounding Israel/Palestine Marandi was interviewed by Nima on the podcast channel Dialogue Works. They spoke on Monday, March 24, 2025.
The bombing of Yemen, that the U.S. Trump administration had launched, was continuing as they spoke. Analysts describe it as one of the largest bombing attacks on Yemen in years.
There also have been ongoing demonstrations in the streets of Istanbul, Turkey. Hundreds of thousands of pro-democracy demonstrators show support for the city’s jailed mayor. He is seen as the main rival of President Erdogan in the upcoming elections.
Nima’s guest, Mohammad Marandi, is an Iranian-American academic and political analyst. He is currently a professor of English Literature and [ . . . ]

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