American Exception

In this eleventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed , the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case...

Aaron and Ben talk about the Ukraine War--its larger historical background and looming geopolitical implications. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: "Twelve O'Clock Call" by Mock Orange

This is Part 3 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years at Berkeley, including his experiences with the Berkeley Free Speech Movement and the antiwar movement. The Reichstag Fire and other matters are discuss...

This is Part 2 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon some of the events that led to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley, as well as his early years there. [UPDATE: We remastered this episode to fix the...

This is the first part of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years prior to his arrival at the University of California at Berkeley. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the s...

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Anthony Monteiro. They discuss the Black Radical Tradition in the context of US empire and capitalism. They focus especially on the towering figure of W.E.B. Dubois. After many years as university professor--mostly at Temple University--Monteiro continues to work as a scholar and activist at the Saturday Free School in Philadelphia and at Black Agenda Report . C...

This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno-led victory over the Dutch which established Indonesian independence. They then trace the imperial intrigues which unfolded throughout the  Eisenhower years. Most notably, they discuss how American de...

Aaron is joined by our man in Belgrade, Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We spoke about a number of subjects related to his recent GrayZone piece, " Propagandist for Syria terror proxies compromised Amnesty International, leaked docs show ." The article was a follow-up of sorts to a previous article that Kl...

This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the staggering resource wealth of Indonesia. He is joined by Hailey Rounsaville and Mike Oldfield. This is the video version. The audio only version is here . If there is any problem with...

Aaron talks with Catherine Liu and Dan Kovalik about the Professional Managerial Class, "cancel culture," and US empire. Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California at Irvine and the author of Virtue Hoarders: The Case Against the Professional Managerial Class . Daniel Kovalik is the author of Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture . He is also...

This special episode features Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. About a year ago, on Groundhog Day 2021, Ellsberg came my peace studies class. He was prepared to answer questions from students, which he did, but only after being surprised by a number of luminaries who had previously agreed to join us. The surprise guests included James Galbraith, Peter Kuznick, Katharine Gun, and Pete...

Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone talks about his new JFK assassination documentary with special guest host Abby Martin. Stay tuned after the interview for a postscript detailing how the JFK assassination was an Establishment or deep state production that must be placed in the context of the post-World War II US imperial project for global dominance. Part 9 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK...

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Daniel Bessner to discuss propaganda in the USA. Bessner is co-host of the American Prestige podcast and a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and a Contributing Editor at Jacobin . In 2019-2020, he served as a foreig...

In Part 8 our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with James DiEugenio. They cover Vietnam and other key aspects of President Kennedy's foreign policy.  Collectively, JFK's plans to end the Cold War and his support for Third World nationalism represented a radical break from the imperialist Acheson-Dulles consensus which had prevailed since the end of W...

In this seventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed, the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case an...

Hailey and Aaron are joined by Peter Kuznick, Professor of History and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University. Kuznick is the author numerous books and articles. Perhaps most notably, he is the co-creator (with Oliver Stone) of The Untold History of the United States --a 12-part documentary series that first played on Showtime. There’s also an excellent book version of Th...

In this sixth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power . James Galbraith is the author of a number of books, including The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Sh...

This episode features Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students in conversation with retired CIA officer Ray McGovern. The discussion ranges across Ray’s experiences as a CIA officer from the Kennedy administration to first George Bush administration—as well as his post-CIA work as a peace activist weighing in on Iraq WMD, CIA torture, Julian Assange, and the Russiagate hoax. Sp...

In this fifth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series, Aaron discusses John Kennedy's Vietnam policies with two towering figures in the field--Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of the orthodoxy-shattering JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power . James Galbraith is the author of numerous articles and books including Exit Strategy: In 1963...

In this episode, Oliver Stone talks with Aaron and his Peace Studies of the American Century students about US history, the media, nuclear war, Platoon, JFK, Nixon, and other topics. Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering! Music: " Payroll " by Mock Orange

Aaron and guest co-host Ben Howard are joined by Time magazine's 2002 co-person of the year, FBI whistleblower Coleen Rowley. They discuss the inexplicable FBI failures that surrounding the 9/11 terror spectacle--in particular, Rowley's unsuccessful efforts to obtain a search warrant for the laptop of the extremely suspicious Zacarias Moussaoui, the so-called "20th hijacker."   Special thanks to C...

Aaron continues his discussion with Professor Peter Dale Scott about 'deep politics' and  his 50+ years of historical research into the JFK assassination. In this installment, Professor Scott talks about COG or the "Doomsday Network," JFK's Vietnam withdrawal, The Dallas-Watergate connections, and the commonplace denial of deep events.   Part 4 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassinati...

Aaron talks with Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is also a retired US Army Colonel and currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary. This discussion was recorded around September 11th. We discussed his experiences related to the events of that anniversary along with other im...

Aaron talks with Professor Peter Dale Scott about 'deep politics' and his 50+ years of historical research into the JFK assassination. Part 3 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features a postscript segment with Ben Howard. Peter Dale Scott is the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and Dallas '63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House...

s features a surprise tribute to the great Peter Dale Scott which also includes the iconic Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer! In addition to the segments with Scott, Ellsberg, and Oppenheimer, this episode has an introduction with some historical background--as well as a postscript discussion with Ben Howard. Music by Mock Orange Big thanks to J.G. Michael for audio engine...