American Exception

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Dollar Blues? (Devil’s Chess Club #3) [TRAILER] Oct 04, 2023

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Professor James K. Galbraith joins us to talk about the present and future of dollar hegemony.

Before that, David Talbot, Bryce Green, and Aaron talk about our current politics in historical context—including a discussion on David’s new article about the prospects of an independent RFK Jr. run for the White House: “Bobby Unplugged: Will He or Won’t He?”

Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor producing the episode!

Episode 150: September Memories [TRAILER] Oct 04, 2023

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Bryce Green joins us to talk about 9/11. Since his two upcoming 9/11 articles have not been published yet, maybe check out some of his past classics:

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Does it Show?" by Mock Orange

Afghan Blowback (Devil’s Chess Club #2) [TRAILER] Oct 04, 2023

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Noah Kulwin joins us to talk about Afghanistan--the subject of Blowback Season 4!
Before that, David Talbot, Bryce Green, and Aaron talk about the CIA, the media and the JFK assassination--including the strange new write-ups on a new Magic Bullet witness from the JFK's Secret Service detail in Dallas.

Check out:

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Episode 149: Paranoid Petroleum Politics [TRAILER] Sep 16, 2023

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Brandon Wolfe joins us to talk about his important book, The Paranoid Style in American Diplomacy: Oil and Arab Nationalism in Iraq. Wolfe is an associate professor of history at California State University at Stanislaus.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "Stop and Go" by Mock Orange

UNLOCKED: Episode 141: Justice for 9/11? Sep 11, 2023

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We discuss the newly launched International Center for 9/11 Justice with Kevin Ryan and Dr. Piers Robinson.

Kevin Ryan was previously the Site Manager for the environmental testing division of Underwriters Laboratories (UL). In 2004, he was fired for publicly questioning and commenting on UL’s testing of World Trade Center construction materials and UL’s involvement in the WTC investigation being conducted by the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Since 2006, Kevin has been the co-editor of the Journal of 9/11 Studies, a board director at Architects and Engineers for 9/11 Truth, and co-author of several books and numerous peer-reviewed scientific articles related to 9/11.

Piers Robinson is the founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.

Special thanks toDana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!

Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange

Introducing: Devil’s Chess Club! [AUDIO; video link in description] Sep 09, 2023

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David Talbot and Bryce Green team up with Aaron to launch Devil’s Chess Club, our new show which will be available on Patreon first, then on Rokfin, and then on YouTube.

In this episode, we talk about David Talbot’s two Kennedy assassination classics, Brothers The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years and The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode

Episode 148: Deep State Brain Trust Sep 05, 2023

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James DiEugenio returns to talk about two recent articles related to the JFK case:

DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Caseas well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.

His latest book is JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Mind Is Not Brain" by Mock Orange

Episode 147:The Leftist Case for RFK 2024 Aug 29, 2023

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Dan Kovalik joins us to talk about the subject of his recent article, “Why We Need RFK, Jr.: Russia, Ukraine & the Slide into Nuclear War.”

Daniel Kovalik is a human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist. He has contributed articles to CounterPunch, The Huffington Post, and TeleSUR. He teaches International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law. He is the author of several books, including his most recent: Cancel This Book: The Progressive Case Against Cancel Culture. dana

Check out Dan Kovalik's author page at Amazon

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "Poster Child" by Mock Orange

Episode 146: Sweden, NATO, and Olaf Palme [TRAILER] Aug 27, 2023

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With Sweden officially becoming a NATO member, Ola Tunander returns to discuss the subject, with reference to his landmark article on the NATO deep state in Sweden. Entitled, “Dual State: The Case of Sweden,” this article was published in The Dual State: Parapolitics, Carl Schmitt and the National Security Complex.

Ola Tunander is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. He has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

Also, please subscribe to Ola’s Substack where you can check out these additional excellent articles by Ola Tunander:

The Concept of the Deep State (This one discusses his recent discussions on American Exception with Peter Dale Scott and Aaron)
Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part I (His classic article the deep state of the West)
“An Underwater U-2”: Part I (Important work on the Swedish version of the strategy of tension, psychological operations which in the Swedish case involved submarine warfare)
After Seymour Hersh’s article (His article on the Nord Stream bombing)

Special thanks to Dana Chavarriafor the sound engineering!

Music: "Hawks Can Go” by Mock Orange