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To hear the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! February 18   Max Arvo  and I are back for the third of four episodes discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby which were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. Max’s research and articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own legal team, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth...

  Support the work of Aaron Good by subscribing to American Exception on Patreon! Aaron is joined by Ben Thomason . Ben recently earned his doctorate in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation title is Making Democracy Safe for Empire: A History and Political Economy of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development,...

  To hear the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! Max Arvo  and I are back for the second of four episodes covering Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. The articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own defense lawyers, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare—a horror show from which he could never be allowed to esc...

  To hear the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon! We are joined by John Kiriakou , the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program. Aaron and John discuss a number of current events pertaining to the state of the US Empire here in the early weeks of Trump’s second term—including Trump’s Gaza takeover plan, Rubio’s strange endorsement of “mu...

  Aaron and Bryce discuss a number of significant and/or bizarre recent events, including: Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s resistance to Yankee imperialism The spectacular release of Hamas’ female IDF hostages Trump’s Executive Order on the JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations Trump’s conquest of Greenland Europe’s rolling implosion Elon Musk’s strange nazi tic! Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria , produ...

  Aaron and Max discuss President Trump's executive order to declassify the remaining documents related to the JFK, MLK, and RFK assassinations. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria  for the sound engineering! Music: " Hawks Can Go ” by Mock Orange To support our work, please subscribe to American Exception on Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception

  To hear the full episode, subscribe to American Exception on Patreon at https://patreon.com/americanexception Max Arvo  and I are pausing the Gray Alliance series for the first of two (or three?) episodes that we are devoting to discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. Max’s account is a very important new and improved narrative explaining what happened to Jack Ruby....

We are joined by Ola Tunander. Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy, European security, submarine warfare, and deception/psychological operations. He currently publishes at Ola’s Substack . Aaron and Ola discuss...

  Aaron and Max  explore the links between the JFK assassination and Operation X—the operationalized symbiosis between the Lansky/Teamster National Crime Syndicate and powerful agencies within the US national security state. Most notable, we’re talking about Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the clandestine inner sanctum of the CIA which was the fiefdom of James Angleton....

  To have access to the full episode, please subscribe to American Exception on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/americanexception We are joined by Adnan Husain , a historian of both Medieval Europe and of the Middle East. Adnan is Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar Graduate Chair, and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also the co-host...

Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithica College in New York where he also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media.  Additionally, Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored (founded in 1976), and he is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation.  Mickey Huff is th...

Aaron and Max  Discuss how Robert F. Kennedy, by targeting the Teamsters and thus the Lansky Syndicate, was also threatening what Peter Dale Scott has termed Operation X—the institutionalized symbiosis between the drug traffic and national security state entities like Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and James Angleton's clandestine counter-intelligence fiefdom at the CIA. Th...

  Listen to the full episode and join us on Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/americanexeception . To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell. Image credit: AFP (via The Cradle ) Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria , producti...

Aaron and Max Arvo  explore how Jack Ruby’s Syndicate and Teamster connections were covered up and obscured—first by the Warren Commission and then by the House Select Committee on Assassinations. This is the fourth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond! Special thanks Dana Chavarri...

Aaron and Bryce discuss various, insane, history-making events we’ve seen in recent days, including the assassination of a health insurance executive (capo?) as well as Biden’s pardon of Hunter, new Russian super missiles, and the West’s new McJihad offensive in Syria--now spearheaded by Erdogan’s Turkey! Check out: Bryce Greene’s article: “ As Most Ukrainians Prefer Ceasefire With Russia, Washing...

  We are joined again Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years. Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack  where you can find the articles we discuss today: Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents "Russiagate" Was Israelgate The Notable Timeline of Kennedy's Remarks on "Ethnic Bioweapons" Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria , pr...

  Aaron Good and Max Arvo  interrogate the absurdly suspicious life and times of Jack Ruby—the "pimp for all seasons" who assassinated Lee Oswald, the most politically important prisoner in US history. Over the years, many people have come to find it suspicious that a mob-connected figure could murder Oswald in a room full of armed policemen whose one job at the time was to effect an orderly trans...

This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs . We decided to make a DCC episode which includes the interview, along with extra material before and after the discussion in which I speak about Jeffrey Sachs and t...

  Aaron Good and Max Arvo  continue to explore the evolution of American organized crime. In particular, we discuss the key importance of the racing wire service and the obscured nature of mid-20th century American organized crime: Did mafia or La Cosa Nostra models really apply? Or alternatively, were the ethnic Italian elements, which seem to confirm those theories, merely the lower and thus mor...

Aaron speaks with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, authors of the new book, Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America . Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change. Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Pr...

  This episode kicks off our new Gray Alliance series featuring Aaron and independent researcher Max Arvo. In this introductory episode, we cover the evolution of American organized crime in the 20th century. Special thanks Dana Chavarria  for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore  for the episode art! Music: “Nine Times”  by Mock Orange

  Aaron speaks with Too Black  and Rasul Mowatt, authors of ' Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits '. Check out Too Black's Black Myths podcast ! Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria , production Casey Moore , graphics Michelle Boley , animated intro Mock Orange , music

  Aaron and Bryce are joined by human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist Daniel Kovalik . His new book is ' The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care '. Image: Residents and civil defense after an Israeli army strike on Asma School, run by UNRWA, in Gaza City on October 27, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa /Anadolu via Al Jazeera ) Special thanks to: Dana Chavarria , pr...

Bryce Greene speaks about 9/11 with a special guest, Jon Gold . Independent researcher and activist Jon Gold is the author of We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews--a very useful book for anyone interested in referencing suppressed true facts of 9/11. You can download a free copy of the book at Jon’s We Were Lied to About 9/11 website. This episode marks the third in a series of 9/11 episodes...

Jefferson Morley joins us to discuss the JFK case, including new developments centering around a strange CIA repository with some apparently extremely sensitive JFK assassination-related documents. Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. He runs the excellent website, JFK...