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Dmitry Orlov is author of "Reinventing Collapse - The Soviet Example and American Prospects". Dmitry Orlov's repeated travels to Russia throughout the early nineties allowed him to observe the aftermath of the Soviet collapse first-hand. Being both a Russian and an American, Dmitry was able to appreciate both the differences and the similarities between the two superpowers. Eventually he came to t...

Iceland's banking crisis and foreign debt; it's decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown's role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany's foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions.  Aired: August 19, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama's Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage.  Aired: August 26, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

"Anthrax Wars" with investigative journalist, author and filmmaker, Eric Nadler, on the anthrax attacks of September 2001; the Ames Strain of anthrax; dead microbiologists Bruce Ivins and David Kelly; Bioport and the anthrax vaccine; the new vaccine growth industry; private bio labs and the new bio/military industrial complex. Eric Nadler and Bob Coen's new film, Anthrax War, will have its west co...

Dr. Griffin's keynote address at the 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival in Oakland, California, on his new book that examines the official NIST report on the collapse of WTC 7; NIST a political agency overseen by the executive branch; omission and falsification of evidence; scientific fraud; media disinformation; no investigation of explosive evidence; melted steel; the mysterious death of 53-year-old...

Question and answer session with David Ray Griffin on the Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 after his keyote address at the 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival; and Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, on the lack of coverage in the media on critical issues that some people are calling a truth emergency.  Aired: October 21, 2009 David Ray Griffin and Peter Phillips Visit Guns and Butt...

Excerpts from Part Five of Evidence of Revision, Conspiratus Conspicuous. Some of the voices include Professor Alen Scheflin of Santa Clara University Law School; Colin Ross, M.D., author of Mind Control; Linda Macdonald, victim of brainwashing experiments; Martin Lee, author of Acid Dreams; Sirhan Sirhan's mother; Dr. Philip Milansin; Dr. William Bryan; Sirhan Sirhan; Paul McKenna, PhD, Hypnotist...

Former Nebraska State Senator, author and attorney, John DeCamp, discusses his involvement and investigation into financial and child abuse scandals surrounding the seizure of the Omaha, Nebraska based Franklin Community Federal Credit Union during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. He also discusses some of his experience as an Army Captain during the Vietnam War, and his work with fo...

Discussion of Obama's West Point speech; the escalation of the wars in Central Asia, specifically Pakistan and Uzbekistan; what the war policy is and why; who are the Taliban?; Blackwater and black ops; India and Kashmir. Aired: December 9, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the possible civil liberties implications of Obama's West Point speech, and an historic parallel between Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama. Most of the program focuses on the arrests and detention of so-called "homegrown terrorists" including Najibullah Zazi, the Bronx Bombers, the Fort Dix Six, the Liberty City 7 (aka the Miami Haitians), the Toronto 18, etc.; extensive discussion of the...

History professor and author, Dongping Han, talks about his life growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. Discussion of the importance of work; the educational system in Mao's China; the recent riots in Xinjiang Province between ethnic minority Uighurs and Han Chinese; the famine during the Great Leap Forward; the writings of Mao; essential elements of a successful social revolution. Th...

Ann Tomkins talks about her personal experience living and working in Beijing during the first five years of the Cultural Revolution, in which she was first an observer, and then a participant. Robert Weil discusses some of the reasoning that led to the Cultural Revolution, which was a revolution within a revolultion, and some of the enduring ideas about people and society that it spawned. Aired:...

Interview with economist Michael Hudson on Obama's State of the Union Speech and its economic consequences; the reappointment of Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke.  Aired: February 3, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece.  Aired: February 10, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Attorney Barry Kissin discusses the anthrax atacks of September 2001 and the perpetrators; Amerithrax, the FBI's investigation into the anthrax attacks and its cover-up of these events; the FBI case against the late Bruce Ivins of Ft. Detrick; the US biowarfare military industrial intelligence complex; government sponsored bio-weapons research in private military contractor laboratories; Battelle...

We discuss the investigative work behind his book, "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America"; his new internet investigative journalism project, Who What Why; some of the stories he investigated for Family of Secrets, and challenges facing journalists.  Aired: March 31, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http:/...

Live with investigative reporters and authors, Kristina Borjesson, Charlotte Dennett and Peter Dale Scott. Kristina Borjesson is editor of "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose The Myth of a Free Press" and "Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11: Top Journalists Speak Out". Charlotte Dennett is author of "The People v Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the G...

Signs of the coming break-up of Anglo-Saxon financial domination; trends for the second half of 2010; coverage of the Greek problem; the Euro and the Eurozone; bank bailouts; interest rates; money to fund the huge western public debt becoming increasingly difficult to find.  Aired: May 5, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Discussion of the new anthology; the deepening global economic crisis; financial speculation; fiscal crisis; poverty; drug trade; savings and credit crisis; the long war; big brother state.  Aired: June 2, 2010 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks.  Aired: June 9, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter...

Economic crisis in Europe created by predatory lending; European Central Bank stranglehold on the Eurozone; the Euro; foreign banks decimate Greece's social structure; Marx's industrial capital versus fictitious capital; Latvia as a model for the rest of Europe; Hudson's financial and fiscal plan for Latvia; the Cold War and its ruinous effect on progressive economic thought.  Aired: June 16, 2010...

Comparison of the three waves of the depression of the 1930s with the progression of the current depression: the October 1929 New York Stock Market crash; the summer 1931 banking panic and collapse of Europe, including the destruction of the world monetary system which depended on the British pound; and the subsequent banking panic and closure of the banks in the United States.  Aired: June 23, 20...

The Financial Reform Bill, including The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, more popularly known as the White House Deficit Commission, the Austerity Commission, or the Peterson Commission; the G20 meeting in Toronto; the effort to export the depression.  Aired: July 7, 2010 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gun...

The Doomsday Project; Executive Order 12656 of 1988; National Security Presidential Directive 51 and SPD 51 of 2007; the National Emergencies Act; National Security Directive 55 of September 14, 1982 by President Ronald Reagan; counterinsurgency planning called Cable Splicer; the National Preparedness Review of May 2001; Northcom.  Aired: July 14, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandb...

Propaganda model post 9/11 becomes deliberate disinformation; consolidation of media and public relations groups; prison torture across the US; domestic secret detention centers; Operation FALCON mass arrests; suspension of habeas corpus by the Chief Executive; US and NATO as protectors of global capital; structure of inequality maintained by global capital and military empire worldwide; repressio...