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Jeremy Kuzmarov - Netflix Series on the Octopus Murders Continues Cover-up of Reporter’s Death and CIA Crimes He Threatened to Expose
April 15
Jeremy Kuzmarov has taught at numerous universities and colleges in the field of U.S. history and foreign relations. He has undertaken extensive specialized research on the following topics:
— Covert dimensions of U.S. foreign policy
— The War on Drugs
— U.S. policing and prisons and the internationalization of U.S. criminal justice
— U.S. airpower and its human cost
— American military base networks
— The false manipulations of the public in selling American wars, among other topics.
Kuzmarov has contributed to many progressive publications like The Progressive Magazine, Counterpunch, the LA Progressive, the Huffington Post, Z Magazine, Z Net and has appeared in various media outlets, including on radio and television programs. He is also a contributor to a peace website, developed by historian Roger Peace, that provides comprehensive overviews of major U.S. wars and assesses them from a just war perspective. Kuzmarov has been active in local peace groups, and is a board member of the Tulsa Peace fellowship, a friend of the Asia-Pacific Journal, and on the Steering committee for Historians for Peace and Democracy. He is also part of a network, headquartered at the University of Exeter, that studies colonial history and counterinsurgencies in comparative perspective.
He talks to Ed Opperman about the lack of detail and relevant information and disinformation in the recent Netflix Documentary regarding INSLAW and PROMIS sottware, and the lack of action at the corruption and murders those situations involved.
Website
Covert Action Magazine
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Daniel Hopsicker - The Final Interview on The Opperman Report
Aug 24, 2023
With the sad passing of Daniel Hopsicker yesterday, we thought it might be a good idea to repeat his final interview with the Opperman Report as a tribute.
You can hear the gamut of Daniel's work with The Opperman Report tomorrow night on the Spreaker channel as a tribute.
Daniel Hopsicker was a film producer, director and investigative journalist whose primary focus was the illegal drug trade by the establishment in general, and the US deep state in particular. Hopsicker published The Mad Cow Morning News. Based in Venice, Florida, he carried out a number of investigations, notably exposing Mohammad Atta - whose observed lifestyle contradicted the official narrative that he was a strict Moslem.
You can find out more about Daniel's life here.
Books by Daniel Hopsicker : here
twitter : Daniel Hopsicker
Website : Mad Cow
He made a difference.
He will be missed.
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Mary Knight - Am I Crazy?
May 29
Mary Knight was living her life until she started having flashbacks.
This is her story. This is her youtube Channel.
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Michael Robson - Joe Exotic; The man, the legend and the race for the Presidency
Jul 12, 2023
Spokesman Michael Robson speaks to Ed Opperman about Joe Exotic, his career and his bid, from prison, for the Presidency of the United States in 2024
From Wikipedia
Joseph Allen Maldonado known professionally as Joe Exotic and nicknamed "The Tiger King", is an American media personality, businessman, and convicted felon who operated the Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park (also known as the G.W. Zoo) in Wynnewood, Oklahoma, from 1999 to 2018.
Exotic left the G.W. Zoo in June 2018 and was arrested three months later on suspicion of hiring two men to murder Big Cat Rescue founder Carole Baskin, with whom he had a complicated rivalry. In 2019, Exotic was convicted and sentenced to 22 years in prison on 17 federal charges of animal abuse and two counts of attempted murder for hire for the plot to kill Baskin. In 2021, he worked with attorney John Michael Phillips to file a motion for a new trial, and on July 15, 2021, a U.S. appeals court ruled that the convictions for the two murder attempts were wrongly treated as separate. The trial court reduced his sentence by 1 year, resentencing him to 21 years in late January 2022. In 2023, Exotic announced his candidacy in the 2024 presidential election as a Democrat
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Grant Stern - Trump Organization, CFO Allen Weisselberg & Putin
Sep 5, 2023
Grant Stern returns in this archive show to discuss the tale behind some of the older Trump Indictments.
Trump has long been associated with dark money and machinations, but this came to a head in the early part of his presidency. The delinquent attitude to the law and national interests meant his associations with Putin, his tax problems and the hush money scandal amongst many legal problems are almost too much to keep track of, let alone his current set of indictments.
Fortunately Grant Stern is on the case.
Grant Stern Twitter
Grant Stern Byline Times
Grant Stern Threads
Website
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Sean Howe - AGENTS OF CHAOS - Thomas King Forçade, High Times & the Paranoid End of the 1970s
Oct 4, 2023
Sean Howe joins Ed Opperman to discuss his book, Agents of Chaos, which focusses in on the legendary iconic, revolutionary publication High Times.
The life and times of High Times’ enigmatic founder Thomas King Forçade, an underground newspaper editor and marijuana kingpin who—between police raids, smuggling runs, and outrageous stunts—battled both the US government and fellow radicals.
At the end of the 1960s, the mysterious Tom Forçade suddenly appeared, insinuating himself into the top echelons of countercultural politics and assuming control of the Underground Press Syndicate, a coalition of newspapers across the country. Weathering government surveillance and harassment, he embarked on a landmark court battle to obtain White House press credentials. But his audacious exploits—pieing Congressional panelists, stealing presidential portraits, and picking fights with other activists—led to accusations that he was an agent provocateur.
As the era of protest faded and the dark shadows of Watergate spread, Forçade hoped that marijuana could be the path to cultural and economic revolution. Bankrolled by drug-dealing profits, High Times would be the Playboy of pot, dragging a once-taboo subject into the mainstream. The magazine was a travelogue of globe-trotting adventure, a wellspring of news about “the business,” and an overnight success. But High Times soon threatened to become nothing more than the “hip capitalism” Forçade had railed against for so long, and he felt his enemies closing in.
Assembled from exclusive interviews, archived correspondences, and declassified documents, Agents of Chaos is a tale of attacks on journalism, disinformation campaigns, governmental secrecy, corporatism, and political factionalism. Its triumphs and tragedies mirror the cultural transformations of 1970s America, wrought by forces that continue to clash in the spaces between activism and power.
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Sean Howe is an American journalist and writer. He is a former editor at Entertainment Weekly and The Criterion Collection. In 2012, he published the book Marvel Comics: The Untold Story, after interviewing more than 150 people who worked at or were associated with Marvel Comics. You can meet Sean Howe in person next week. Details: Seanhowe.com
Book : Thomas King Forçade Marvel Comics
You can meet Sean Howe!
oct 6th Changing hands Bookstore Pheonix (300 W Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013-2384)
Oct 10 Diamond Hollow Books, New York (72 MAIN STREET ANDES, NY, U.S.A. 13731)
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Dr Mic Hunter - Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America's Military
Jul 31, 2023
In Honor Betrayed, Dr. Mic Hunter probes beyond the headlines to reveal the reality of sexual abuse in the military. The culture of the military's training is to turn recruits into those who follow orders without question. Honor Betrayed describes in detail the gross realities of the hostile, uber-masculine, dehumanizing environment our young men and women confront. Most vulnerable to sexual abuse are minorities-particularly women and homosexuals. Included are first-person accounts from American servicewomen and men who were sexually abused by their comrades, including one woman whose case was heard before the U.S. Supreme Court. Hunter also explores the tacit acceptance of these incidents in the military to the recent prisoner abuse scandal in Iraq.
Book : Honor Betrayed: Sexual Abuse in America's Military
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One of the biggest experts on Donald Trump is David Cay Johnston. He is the author of many books on the former president, outlining both Trumps' history and his malfeasance in office. His no holds barred and anti-b.s. detector means he is invited on shows on cable and national news as well as interviews in podcasts such as The Opperman Report.
Here he talks about the current travails of the former president, and how they reflect not only on the two tier justice system which affords Trump certain privileges no one else would get, but also how it reflects on a country where almost 30% of the electorate would want a grifter and would be dictator as their leader.
David Cay Johnston is an American investigative journalist and author, a specialist in economics and tax issues, and winner of the 2001 Pulitzer Prize for Beat Reporting.
From July 2011 until September 2012 he was a columnist for Reuters, writing, and producing video commentaries, on worldwide issues of tax, accounting, economics, public finance and business. Johnston is the board president of Investigative Reporters and Editors. He has also written for Al Jazeera Englishand Americain recent years. Johnston is a Distinguished Visiting Lecturer at College of Lawand the Whitman School of Managementat Syracuse University.
Johnston is the author of best-selling books on tax and economic policy. Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill, is about hidden subsidies, rigged markets, and corporate socialism. It follows his earlier book Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich—and Cheat Everybody Else, a New York Times bestseller on the U.S. tax system that won the Investigative Reporters and Editors 2003 Book of the Year award.
Johnston's first book, the 1992 Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business is an account of how the junk-bond kings usurped mob control of the casino industry in the 1980s. The book discusses corruption in the industry and the role of the federal and state governments in that corruption.
In 2014 Johnston released Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality. Cay Johnston shows most Americans, in inflation-adjusted terms, are now back to the average income of 1966. Post-recession (from 2009 to 2011) the top one percent of households took in 121 percent of the income gains while the bottom 99 percent saw their incomes fall.
In 2016, Johnston released The Making of Donald Trump, a journalistic account of the rise of businessperson-turned-presidential candidate Donald Trump. At the time he wrote the book, Johnston had known Trump for 28 years. The book was on the New York Times bestseller list.
Published in 2018 is It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America, an investigative piece that details actions taken by Trump and his appointees at the departmental level, and how these actions affect Americans' rights and civil protections.
Temples of Chance: How America Inc. Bought Out Murder Inc. to Win Control of the Casino Business (1992) ISBN 978-0-385-41920-8
Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super-Rich–and Cheat Everybody Else (2003) ISBN 1-59184-019-8
Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense and Stick You With The Bill (2007) ISBN 978-1-59184-191-3
The Fine Print: How Big Companies Use "Plain English" to Rob You Blind (2012) ISBN 978-1-591-84358-0
Divided: The Perils of Our Growing Inequality (2014) ISBN 9781620970850, 1620970856
The Making of Donald Trump (2016) ISBN 978-1612196329
It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America (2018) ISBN 9781501174162
The Enforcers : How little-known trade reporters exposed the Keating Five and advanced business journalism (2019) ISBN 9780252042942
Social security works for everyone! : protecting and expanding the insurance Americans love and count on (2021) ISBN 9781620976227, 1620976226
The Big Cheat : How Donald Trump Fleeced America and Enriched Himself and His Family (2022) ISBN 9781982187903, 19821879051982187903, 1982187905
Books
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ARCHIVE - Post Solo Show - David Cay Johnston The Making of Donald Trump
April 7
Recently, we posted the 2018 show with David Cae Johnston entitled 'The Making of Donald Trump'. You can find it here.
David was thought to be with us for two hours, but it transpired he was only able to spare an hour; this meant Ed had a good deal of research material which he was unable to confer with David.
This is the post show, solo, where Ed Examines not only the information in the original interview, but the notes he had made that he would have conversed about had David had the time to stay longer.
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David Cay Johnston - The Making of Donald Trump
February 4
We had David in the studio recently talking about his new work detailing the capers of former President Trump, in this archive show from 2018, David provides the background to the entire Trump brand, and it's not pretty.
The Making of Donald Trump gives a short tour of the business career of America’s 45th president. The narrative is episodic and inconsecutive, but it begins at the beginning, with the example set by Fred Trump, the father of Donald: a mid-century real-estate buccaneer, adroit at political manipulation and statute dodging. The book goes on to recount a few of the scandalous details of the construction of Trump Tower and the purchase, mismanagement and financial collapse of Donald’s casino properties in Atlantic City.
Various chapters take in the mob connections that Trump aimed to profit from while keeping at two removes (sometimes with the help of an apartment gratis); there are also free-standing anecdotes about friends and associates, and a chapter on Trump’s bid for the gambling custom of the high-rolling Japanese real-estate investor Akio Kashiwagi. The book bears the marks of having been put together under pressure to stop the election disaster. Pared down to half its length and distributed to every voter in the contested states, it might have helped to produce a different result.
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