Guns and Butter

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Guns and Butter investigates the relationships among capitalism, militarism and politics. Show list: http://gunsandbutter.snappages.com/archived-show-list.htm. Maintaining a radical perspective in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks, Guns and Butter reports on who wins and who loses when the economic resources of civil society are diverted toward global corporatization, war, and the furtherance of a national security state. Subscribe free to the newsletter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org/membership.htm

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Restoring Prosperity With Public Banking - Ellen Brown, #266 08.04.2015 57:27

The Public Banking Institute; public versus private banking; two banking models - sustainable and extractive; the Federal Reserve; the shadow banking system; the repo market; the benefits of a public banking system; debt; the money supply, compound interest; and all things money. Aired: October 24, 2012 http://ellenbrown.com/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

End Corporate Rule: Move To Amend - David Cobb, #267 08.04.2015 57:54

Democracy; Sovereignty; Legal Personhood; Corporation; Move To Amend's proposed 28th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States which would abolish in its entirety the idea that a corporation has constitutional rights, and overturn the idea that money equals speech. Aired: October 31, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The Assassination Of JFK: The Garrison Interview, Part Two - Garrison, Davis, And Stone, #270 07.04.2015 59:54

Former New Oleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison, interviewed by David Mendelsohn about David Ferrie, Lee Harvey Oswald, Guy Bannister, Clay Shaw and his view of Earl Warren, Lyndon Johnson, Allan Dulles and J. Edgar Hoover. John Davis discusses his book, "Mafia Kingfish: Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of JFK". Oliver Stone discusses Clay Shaw and Garrison's investigation. Jim Garrison, J...

The Assassination Of JFK: The Garrison Interview, Part One - Garrison, Davis, And Stone, #269 07.04.2015 1:01:20

In this 1988 radio documentary, you hear the voice of the narrator, Rosco Mercer; co-producer and writer, David Mendelsohn, interviewing former New Orleans District Attorney, Jim Garrison; filmmaker Oliver Stone; Lee Harvey Oswald in a 1963 radio interview; and professor and author, Philip Melanson. The Assassination of JFK: The Garrison Interview was co-produced, edited and directed by Andrew Phi...

Operation Terror - Art Olivier , #271 07.04.2015 58:46

Interview with writer and producer, Art Oliver, about his feature length dramatic film "Operation Terror" with audio clips from the film included. This film is a dramatization of the events of September 11th, and is both factual and fictional. Aired: December 5, 2012 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Sandy Hook: Unanswered Questions - James Tracy, #273 07.04.2015 57:36

Discrepancies in media coverage; coroner's press conference; political fallout. Aired: January 9, 2013 http://memoryholeblog.com/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The War On Mali: Who Are the Major Actors? - Michel Chossudovsky, #274 06.04.2015 59:59

The French intervention in Mali within the broad historical context of post World War II geopolitics; who is really re-colonizing the African continent; the history, economy, and natural resources of Mali; covert war; al Qaeda in the Islamic Magreb; the Tuareg; a pattern of using terrorist organizations to carry out US foreign policy; the 1982 Canadian Study of Mali; IMF and World Bank reforms; th...

Beat Austerity with a 1% Wall Street Sales Tax & a Nationalized Fed - Webster Griffin Tarpley, #275 06.04.2015 59:55

The sequestration and how we got here; the satan sandwich of the Budget Control Act of July/August 2011; the shift to the right by the ruling class, their controlled media and Obama; a 1% Wall Street Sales Tax, and opening a credit window at the Fed to fund the rebuilding of America. Aired: March 13, 2013 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Who Is Pope Francis I? - Michel Chossudovsky, #276 06.04.2015 59:14

Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio becomes Pope Francis I; 1976 coup d'etat in Argentina with the instatement of the structural adjustment program; Bergoglio's complicity with the military dictatorship; Argentina's dirty war; trial in Buenos Aires regarding Operation Condor; broad geopolitical implications of the papal appointment; Michel Chossudovsky's personal experiences in both Argentina and Chile...

The Bubble Economy - Paul Craig Roberts And Michel Chossudovsky, #277 06.04.2015 57:16

The three bubbles in the U.S. economy: the bond market, the stock market, and the dollar; a negative real interest rate; off-shoring of jobs; the Cyprus banking crisis where deposits are now considered risk capital; the effect of austerity measures; economics as taught in academia and as portrayed by the media. Aired: March 27, 2013 http://www.paulcraigroberts.org/ http://www.globalresearch.ca/...

Boston Truth: The Suspects - Who Is Behind al Qaeda - Michel Chossudovsky, #279 05.04.2015 57:56

The Boston Marathon bombings; the Chechen connection; media disinformation; US support of al Qaeda and the Chechen jihad; the consolidation of the American police state; the geopolitical implications of the bombings; home grown terrorism; two brothers accused of being the perpetrators. Aired: April 24, 2013 http://www.globalresearch.ca/

Mobilize Now for Elizabeth Warren's Bill to Cut Student Loan Rates - Webster Griffin Tarpley, #280 05.04.2015 1:00:11

http://tarpley.net/ Aired: May 15, 2013

The Public Banking Antidote - Ellen Brown, #281 05.04.2015 58:46

The looming danger in our current banking system; the Financial Stability Board; securitization; lack of credit; money markets; the MERS System; bail-ins; the 2005 bankruptcy law; Dodd-Frank; compound interest; banking in other countries; sustainable banking models; the Reconstruction Finance Corporation; solutions to the banking crisis. Aired: November 13, 2013

The Trans Pacific Partnership Forum - Kelly, Stamoulis, Flowers, And Zeese, #282 05.04.2015 57:10

Four person panel from the Public Banking Institute's Public Banking 2013: Funding the New Economy conference. Georgia Kelly talks about Fast Track; Arthur Stamoulis about what the TPP is; Margaret Flowers on healthcare; and Kevin Zeese on how to fight back. Georgia Kelly, Arthur Stamoulis, Margaret Flowers, and Kevin Zeese Aired: June 12, 2013

Art In The New Deal Post Offices And Postal Banking In The USA - Brechin, Lee, and Stauber, #283 05.04.2015 58:22

How not to finance public infrastructure: public-private partnerships; self-liquidating loans to fund infrastructure; analysis of the Federal Reserve System; QE1, QE2, QE3; Operation Twist; outcome of a private central bank; the Fed as a captured agency; nationalizing the Fed; Reconstruction Finance Corporation; alternative paradigm. Gray Brechin, Ying Lee and Jim Stauber Aired: June 19, 2013

The Bay Bridge Retrofit and the Federal Reserve - Paul and Canova, #284 05.04.2015 59:51

Debt Jubilee, Strike Debt and Germany's Energy Transformation - Lerner, Costanzo, and Seuser, #285 05.04.2015 59:11

A new vision; the sabbatical year; debt cancellation; redistribution of means of production every 50 years; Hurricane Sandy Disaster Recovery; Debt Resisters Manual; the Rolling Jubilee; mutual aid; public bank funding of renewable energy in Germany; feed-in tariffs. Michael Lerner, Jim Costanzo, and Steve Seuser Aired: July 10, 2013

The Commons, Banking In the Ivory Tower - Hogue, Eaton, and Graham, #286 05.04.2015 59:10

Ethan Allen on The Commons; Wall Street profits vs public capital at the University of California; conflicts of interest on the Board of Regents; interest rate swaps; privatization of of public finance system; Transportation Infrastructure Finance & Innovation Act; securitization; Port of Oakland; Doyle Drive, Presidio Parkway. Jim Hogue, Charlie Eaton, Darwin Bond Graham Aired: July 10, 2013

Another Nineteen, Part One - Kevin Ryan, #287 04.04.2015 56:52

September 11th, 2001; Donald Rumsfeld; Dick Cheney; Frank Carlucci; Carlyle Group; BDM Corporation; Stratesec; Richard Armitage; the deep state; SAIC; Richard Clarke; Continuity of Government; the War on Terror; United Arab Emirates; rendition; Rwandan genocide. Aired: August 7, 2013 http://digwithin.net/

Another Nineteen, Part Two - Kevin Ryan, #288 04.04.2015 59:48

Benedict Sliney, NA Operations Manager, FAA Command Center; Michael Canavan, FAA Hijack Coordinator; Joint Special Operations Command, JSOC; Special Operations Soldiers; Training Exercises; Principal s Committee; Anteon Corporation; Ralph Eberhart & NORAD; Military Exercises on 9/11; SPADEs; Twin Star; E-4Bs; Sim-Over-Live; Max-Subsonic Order. Aired: August 14, 2013 http://digwithin.net/

Another Nineteen, Part Three - Kevin Ryan, #289 04.04.2015 58:39

Former Director of Central Intelligence, George Tenet; Oklahoma City connections to 9/11; terrorist motel; Bandar Bush; Viisage Corporation; Worldwide Attack Matrix; obstruction of 9/11 investigations; Secret Service; parallel command system, Tiger Wall; WTC 7 meetings; Pentagon; renovation project; explosives; AMEC Construction; planes? hijackers? Aired: August 21, 2013 http://digwithin.net/

Another Nineteen, Part Four - Kevin Ryan, #290 04.04.2015 59:40

Islamic terrorism replaces the Soviet Union as the new threat; parallel CIA; Brian Michael Jenkins; L. Paul Bremer; terrorist propaganda; Wirt Walker; Kuwait American Corporation; Barry McDaniel; BDM International; Vinnell Corporation; Stratesec and its investors, board and clients; Marsh & McLennan; Kroll Associates; WTC impact floors upgrade; unusual fire dynamics; Timely Alert II. Aired: Augus...

Another Nineteen, Part Five - Kevin Ryan, #291 04.04.2015 58:18

Rudy Giuliani & the WTC; Organized Crime; PROMIS Software; BCCI; Foreknowledge of Collapses; Destruction of Evidence; Tomasetti; AMEC; Turner Construction; Duane Andrews & SAIC; DIA; Defense Information Systems; Outsourcing of Intelligence; Joint Intelligence Operations Centers; QinetiQ; Porter Goss & the Cover-Up; Blocking of Investigations. Aired: September 11, 2013 http://digwithin.net/

Dress Rehearsal Government Privatization - Michel Chossudovsky, #292 04.04.2015 58:18

Privatization of government operating through the process of fiscal collapse; black budgets; war and Wall Street; the Federal Reserve Bank; shock and awe economics; IMF structural adjustment; the Washington consensus; extreme austerity measures; the proxy state; speculative onslaught, regulatory capture; financial warfare against the American public. Aired: October 23, 2013 http://www.globalresear...

Water Fluoridation - Paul Connett, #293 04.04.2015 57:24

Twelve arguments against the fluoridation of drinking water; fluoride not a nutrient; fluoridation not pharmaceutical grade, but toxic waste product from industry; harmful effects to human tissue, including, but not limited to, bones, joints, thyroid, brain, pineal gland; fluoridation not effective in fighting tooth decay; concentration versus dose; no adequate margin of safety to known health eff...