KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century

#377 — John Michael Greer blogs at Ecosophia , subtitle, Toward an Ecological Spirituality. JMG has been an astute observer of Western Civ's arduous economic and cultural descent, and is the author of many books, both novels and non-fiction, including Green Wizardry , After Oil , The Wealth of Nature , and Not the Future We Ordered . Star's Reach , is a novel set 400 years ahead in America's neo-m...

Robert F. Kennedy, Jr is a candidate for president running for the Democratic Party nomination.   He's a long-time environmental lawyer, author of the book The Real Anthony Fauci, which has sold over a million copies — and still hasn't made it to the New York Times bestseller list for some mysterious reason. He's the Founder and chairman of the Children's Health Defense organization. His father, R...

Neil Howe is a renowned author and speaker on economic, demographic, and social change in America. He is the nation's leading authority on social generations — who they are, what motivates them, and how they will shape America's future. Howe is the originator of the term "Millennial Generation" and has written over a dozen books on generations and generational research, a field of research he singl...

Dr. Michael Rectenwald is the author of twelve books, including The Great Reset and the Struggle for Liberty: Unraveling the Global Agenda (Jan. 2023), Thought Criminal (Dec. 2020); Beyond Woke (May 2020); Google Archipelago: The Digital Gulag and the Simulation of Freedom (Sept. 2019); Springtime for Snowflakes: "Social Justice" and Its Postmodern Parentage (an academic's memoir, 2018) A former M...

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown . He is also a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. He is the editor of The...

I'm doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin the Founder and Chairman of M·CAM Inc., the international leader in innovation finance, trade, and intangible asset finance. He's been among a select band of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 pandemic, in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of...

#371 — Dmitry Orlov, the author of "Reinventing Collapse", moved to the USA as a boy when his dissident parents managed to get out of the Soviet Union. He spent most of his life here, went through school and college, but ventured back to Russia for a while in the 1990s out of curiosity after the fall of the USSR. He returned to the USA where he worked in IT and eventually moved onto a boat in Bost...

Stephan Sanders-Faes is an historian of Central and Eastern Europe at the University of Bergen, Norway. He received his Ph. D. from the University of Graz in 2011 and obtained the Habilitation in Early Modern and Modern History from the University of Zurich in 2018. Before joining the Bergen faculty in 2020, he taught for ten years at the history departments at the Universities of Zurich and Fribo...

  C. J. Hopkins is an award-winning playwright, novelist, and political satirist, and author at The Consent Factory blog. His plays have been produced and have toured at theaters and festivals including Riverside Studios (London), 59E59 Theaters (New York), Traverse Theatre (Edinburgh), Belvoir St. Theatre (Sydney), the Du Maurier World Stage Festival (Toronto), Needtheater (Los Angeles), 7 Stages...

David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Distinguished Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He moonlights as an Internet gadfly offering commentary on culture, politics, finance, and technology, He publishes a massive Year in Review essay every Christmas season and it's available at Chris Martenson's Peak Prosperity Website . It's a humdinger. In this chat, we reference the Christmas battlefie...

Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. For over three decades, her research interests have always been at the intersection of biology and computation. She has published over 170 refereed articles on these subjects, In recent years, Dr. Seneff has focused her research interests back towards biology, especially the relation...

  The New Revenant Society is the website and blog of the two Christophers —Christopher M and Christopher S, two off-the-grid homesteaders who are founding a tea plantation in rural Virginia. They invite correspondence by US Mail at 44 Kingston Dr. #159 Daleville VA 24083.     Christopher M is an author and former counterintelligence analyst living in the Appalachian mountains. After high school,...

David McAlvany is a thought leader on the global economy and author of The Intentional Legacy, his thoughtful memoir on the power of legacy and what it means to create a meaningful family culture. McAlvany graduated from Biola, served as a wealth manager at Morgan Stanley, and is the second-generation CEO of the McAlvany Financial Group. He has been a featured guest on national television programs...

Tom Luongo is the voice behind the Gold, Goat's and Guns   blog and podcast, often featured on Zero Hedge and other sites. We venture into the dark backwaters and sidetracks of global intrigue as Western Civ goes off the rails and the US midterm election looms ominously weeks ahead. Tom describes himself as a former research scientist, amateur diary-goat farmer, anarchy-libertarian, and obstrepero...

Jacob Dreizen, a new face on the blogging scene, went to Washington as a young man, worked at a prestigious lobbying organization and briefly on Capitol Hill as well as volunteering for a successful Senate campaign.   A U.S. Army veteran, Jacob is fluent in Russian and has emerged as a leading independent commentator on the origins of the Russia-Ukraine conflict -- and the U.S. role in the conflic...

Ray Jason blogs as the Sea Gypsy Philosopher . He has lived on his sailboat, the Aventura , for nearly thirty years, lately off the coast of Central America. Before that, Ray worked as a street performer, juggling in San Francisco. He's crossed the Pacific solo from California to Hawaii many times, and is the author of Tales of a Sea Gypsy and, of course T he Sea Gypsy Philosopher . I enjoyed disc...

David Collum is the Betty R. Miller Professor of Chemistry at Cornell University. He is the intellectual utility infielder of internet commentary, covering all the bases: culture, politics, finance, and technology, with often surprising views on the the predicaments of our time. Here we attempt to make sense of the fast-moving corona virus story and the increasingly weird and troubling second-orde...

Mattias Desmet is a professor of clinical psychology and Educational Sciences at the Ghent University, Belgium and a practicing psychotherapist. He is the author of The Psychology of Totalitarianism (Chelsea Green Publishing). Since he introduced the concept of "mass formation psychosis" into the arena of public discourse some months ago, his ideas have been discussed widely, especially in relatio...

Larry C Johnson is a veteran of the CIA and the State Department's Office of Counter Terrorism. He is the founder and managing partner of BERG Associates, which was established in 1998. Larry provided training to the US Military's Special Operations community for 24 years. He has been vilified by the right and the left, which means he must be doing something right. He blogs at www. Sonar21.com . T...

Joni McGary is the mother of a college junior and the co-founder of NoCollegeMandates.com , a coalition of more than 2500 college stakeholders working to end college Covid-19 vaccine mandates. She's worked in business development in the food, pharmaceutical and biotech industries, and previously owned LuckyGuy Bakery. She lives in Bloomington, Indiana. Her articles on the subject of college mandat...

Tom Luongo is the voice behind the Gold, Goat's 'n' Guns   blog and podcast, often featured on Zero Hedge and other sites. Tom describes himself as a former research scientist, amateur diary-goat farmer, anarchy-libertarian, and obstreperous Austrian economist. He built the house he lives in and he's a lot of fun.   The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and perform...

#355 —Nick Corbishley is the author of Scanned: Why Vaccine Passports, Mandates, Digital IDs Will Mean the End of Privacy and Personal Freedom . He's been an editor at Wolf Richter's Wolf Street website and currently writes for Naked Capitalism on finance, economics, and politics. He lives in Barcelona, Spain. The KunstlerCast theme music is the beautiful Two Rivers Waltz written and performed by...

Mark Hurst is an early Web pioneer who has become one of Big Tech's sharpest critics. Hurst's Creative Good newsletter and Techtonic radio show chart the spread of Big Tech into all areas of life and work. His GoodReports.com site lists alternatives to Big Tech platforms. Earlier in his career, Hurst founded the Gel ("Good Experience Live") conference, which debuted projects like Wikipedia and Kha...

Jeffrey A. Tucker is Founder and President of the Brownstone Institute and the author of many thousands of articles in the scholarly and popular press and ten books in 5 languages, most recently Liberty or Lockdown . He is also a columnist at Forbes, founder of the Atlanta Bitcoin Embassy, and Senior Distinguished Fellow of the Austrian Economics Center in Vienna, Austria. He is the editor of The...

I'm doing another lap with Dr. David E Martin who is among a select group of international thought-leaders investigating the origins of the Covid-19 Pandemic and in particular the relationships between US public health officials, the pharmaceutical companies, and a number of shadfdowy organizations behind the development of the hugely profitable vaccines, which have a poor record of safety and via...