Cary Harrison Files

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. So let’s talk about the grand spectacle currently being sold to you like a late-night miracle tonic—the majestic, patriotic, absolutely bullet-proof idea of a war with Iran. A masterpiece in lipstick and a borrowed tuxedo. The sort of visionary policy that only a Really Stable Genius and the courtiers surr...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. Friends, patriots, media quaffers — lend me your ears, your spinal columns, and whatever gray matter the algorithm hasn’t yet composted into TikTok sludge. I come to you today not with grievance. Not with the usual righteous howl into the void that passes for discourse in these times. No. Today I come bear...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. Alright. Put down whatever you’re doing. Not because I’m asking nicely — I’m not asking nicely — but because what we’re about to discuss is the single most important, most suppressed, most aggressively un-discussed story in the history of the American republic, and if you miss it because you were loading a...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. Well. Well. Pull up a chair, pour something steaming and brown, and let me tell you about the single greatest act of civic clarification this republic has managed since it decided only property-owning white men had the moral bandwidth to vote. We have arrived , finally!. We have crested the hill. The Penta...

From a balcony above the Pacific — where the ocean sparkles and the air carries the faint perfume of gasoline and geopolitics. I was supposed to be on the very flight that was set ablaze in the Puerto Vallarta airport. Dispatch from Puerto Vallarta The Smoke After El Mencho Filed from somewhere between a taco and a burning car The smoke smells different here. Not the good smoke — not the grilled c...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. You ever notice how evil never arrives looking like evil? It doesn’t storm in with a skull on its cap announcing, “Good evening, I am tyranny.” It doesn’t foam at the mouth. It doesn’t carry a pitchfork. It moisturizes. It shakes hands. It brings cake. That’s the detail you’re supposed to remember. It alwa...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. We begin where the wreckage is freshest and the intent is easiest to miss: the newly released Epstein files. Not because they reveal some occult master plan, but because they show—coldly, bureaucratically—how a system processes damage it doesn’t intend to fix . You need to know where everything happening t...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. Same playbook. Bigger blast radius. Oh, you lucky, ungrateful creature—you’re alive for the single greatest invention since fire learned to file patents . Artificial Intelligence. Capital letters mandatory. Kneel accordingly. AI is the finest ideological gift ever lowered onto humanity by Our Leadership, g...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter and/or anger. Read or watch at your own risk. It’s the documentary that has been the talk of the town and the top of the talk shows. Sure, Variety magazine is reporting that we are in the press are now forbidden to be able to see it at the Kennedy Center because a sober analysis might leak out. But, Ladies and gentlemen—no, scratch that— subjects … yo...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter, anger, historical recognition, and sudden distrust of people who say “this is for your own good.” Not approved by wellness gurus, congressional committees, or anyone who believes discomfort equals virtue. Read or watch at your own risk. Let’s get something straight before the civics textbooks start hyperventilating. This isn’t a conspiracy. It’s a su...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter, anger, historical recognition, and sudden distrust of people who say “this is for your own good.” Not approved by wellness gurus, congressional committees, or anyone who believes discomfort equals virtue. Read or watch at your own risk. Speaking to reporters in Davos ahead of the World Economic Forum, CA governor, Gavin Newsom, compared Trump to a T-...

Disclaimer : Side effects may include laughter, anger, historical recognition, and sudden distrust of people who say “this is for your own good.” Not approved by wellness gurus, congressional committees, or anyone who believes discomfort equals virtue. Read or watch at your own risk. Year one of His Imperial Kumquat’s second act was domestic thuggery: a slow, sticky, bureaucratic mugging of the Co...

Disclaimer : These events are told from the viewpoint of this descendant of one of the first American families. One side came over on the Mayflower; the other to colonize for the crown, participate (on both sides) in the Revolutionary War, had Lincoln as an ancestor on one side; slavers on the other, Quakers, quaffers, and a cabal of creatives from TV, movie-making, to radio. WARNING: This book co...

Disclaimer : These events are told from the viewpoint of this descendant of one of the first American families. One side came over on the Mayflower; the other to colonize for the crown, participate (on both sides) in the Revolutionary War, had Lincoln as an ancestor on one side; slavers on the other, Quakers, quaffers, and a cabal of creatives from TV, movie-making to radio. Chapter 10: Founding F...

Disclaimer : These events are told from the viewpoint of this descendent of one of the first American families. We settled in Maryland. I’ve just returned from Holland, where the pilgrims spent 12 little-known years before going back to England to then head to the New World. I spent the summer tracing the deranged footsteps of our ancestor pilgrims. Chapter 1: How to Flee Every Country Until You F...

Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been snipped like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can. You ever wake up, stretch, and realize the nation’s steering wheel is now in the hands of a man I’ll p...

Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been snipped like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can. If Hollywood and Washington DC had a love child during a blackout, it’d still be less chaotic and more...

Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been cut like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Volunteering in our own careers like cockeyed Paul Reveres to get the message out. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can. You wake up to find tha...

Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been cut like a spaniel’s scrotum, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Volunteering in our own careers like cockeyed Paul Reveres to get the message out. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can. You wake up in a countr...

Why Upgrade? Now that government funding has been yanked, many of us public radio vets will continue to provide unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of “why” reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but your subscription can. Welcome to the swamp. Here we are, chest-deep in the digital muck, where everyone’s screaming that artificial intelligence has a...

Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files . First, we look at how history is quite literally repeating itself and asking "what would you do"? Why Upgrade? When government funding dries up, so does journalism that bites back. This weekly Substack is your last stop for unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate coffers can’t buy integrity, but you...

Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files . We look at the conspicuous reboot of the Soviet Union by another name. We feature an exclusive video produced for the Russian Public. Why Upgrade? When government funding dries up, so does journalism that bites back. This weekly Substack is your last stop for unfiltered insight, irony, and the kind of reporting that refuses to kiss power’s ring. Corporate...

Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files . Here we don’t serve comfort food. We serve raw meat. We take the headlines, wring them out like a wet rag, and show you the stains underneath. The politicians, the profiteers, the holy men with dirty hands—they all end up here, dangling in our little gallery of absurdity. Why Upgrade? When government funding dries up, so does journalism that bites back. Th...

Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files —your weekly safari into the madhouse we call civilization. This is where the myths go to die, the spin doctors get their licenses revoked, and the high priests of nonsense are dragged blinking into the light. For many of you it will be the first time you’ve heard the voices of the actual Japan bombardiers plus the creators of the bombs, themselves. These ar...

Welcome back to The Cary Harrison Files , where reason’s still in hiding and truth’s been subpoenaed so many times it now answers to an alias. Today’s episode: a crime so vast, so bureaucratically polite, that it almost passes as democracy. You’re told Washington “won.” Not because of a shining beacon of support from the citizenry, but because millions of ballots—legal, living, breathing, voting h...