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Check out his series of articles on the Palme assassination, beginning here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”

Ola 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. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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Robin Andersen is professor emerita of media studies at Fordham University and an award-winning author of a dozen single- and co-authored books. Her work examines film, television, and media coverage of war, the environment, politics, and elections. She edits the Routledge Focus Book Series on Media and Humanitarian Action, serves as a Project Censored Judge, and contributes to the annual State of the Free Press. Andersen is on the Board of Directors of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR), where she also writes regularly, and is an Izzy Award Judge for the Park Center for Independent Media. Her writing has appeared in CounterPunch, LA Progressive, The Progressive, Salon, Common Dreams, and ScheerPost, among others.

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Ola 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. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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Ola 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. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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Sean McCarthy is on Substack!

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Jeffrey Sachs is the Director of The Earth Institute, Quetelet Professor of Sustainable Development, and Professor of Health Policy and Management at Columbia University, and a Research Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He was also Special Advisor to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on a group of poverty alleviation initiatives called the Millennium Development Goals.

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Gumby joins Bryce and Aaron to discuss the life and times of Jeffrey Epstein as portrayed in the latest government releases.

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss One Battle After Another —the 2025 film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and based on the 1990 novel, Vineland by Thomas Pynchon. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any real synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!

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Aaron and Bryce discuss the release horrific new Epstein material.

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Mickey Huff is the Distinguished Director of PCIM and Professor of Journalism at the Roy H. Park School of Communications at Ithaca College. Huff continues to serve as the third director of Project Censored and as president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. He has been a professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College in the San Francisco Bay Area since 2000, where he was chair of the history and journalism departments, and helped co-found the social justice studies program.

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Aaron is joined by Dr. Gary Aguilar to discuss the JFK assassination and, in particular, the work of CIA-friendly lone nut theorist, Max Holland.

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• “Max Holland Rescues the Warren Commission and the Nation”

• ‘Warren Report: The Garrison Investigation’ (CSPAN debate between Aguilar and Holland)

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Aaron and Bryce try to make sense of things at the end of an insane 2025.

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Ola Tunander joins us to discuss his recent article about the end of US military dominance over Northern Europe: “From US Horizontal Escalation to Russian Escalation Dominance: Strategic Naval Thinking and Capabilities in the 1980s and Today.” We also touch upon his series of articles on the assassination of Olaf Palme. See Part 1 here: “The Killing of PM Olof Palme: Part I (DRAFT).”

Ola 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. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy and European security, submarine warfare, and deception operations (aka psychological operations).

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss All the President’s Men—the 1976 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Robert Redford and Dustin Hoffman, and based on a 1974 novel (lol) by Washington Post reporters Robert Woodward and Carl Bernstein. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!

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Aaron is joined by Peter and Karim of BettBeat Media to discuss the mind-bending reality of the West’s dying empire.

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss The Parallax View—the 1974 film directed by Alan J. Pakula, starring Warren Beatty, and based on a 1970 novel by Loren Adelson Singer. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!

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Aaron and Bryce discuss the increasingly unraveling spectacle of the late US Empire. 

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Aaron is joined by two CIA veterans—John Kiriakou and Barry Eisler—to discuss the late imperial mania of the US deep state. John Kiriakou is the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program. Barry Eisler is also a former CIA officer and a bestselling novelist. His newest book is The System.

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• Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou

• Deep Focus with John Kiriakou

• The DeProgram Show

• Barry Eisler’s website

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Aaron is joined by Omar Zahzah, the author of Terms of Servitude: Zionism, Silicon Valley, and Digital/Settler-Colonialism in the Palestinian Liberation Struggle. Omar Zahzah is a writer, poet, artist, musician, freelance journalist, and Assistant Professor of Arab, Muslim, Ethnicities and Diasporas (AMED) Studies in the Department of Race and Resistance Studies at San Francisco State University. An organizer for Palestinian liberation for over ten years, Omar is the former Education and Advocacy Coordinator for Eyewitness Palestine, a role that saw him training delegates to Palestine on Palestinian political history and culture and racial justice. Omar’s writing on Palestine has appeared in outlets such as The Electronic Intifada, Mondoweiss, Al Jazeera, Middle East Eye, The Nation, and the New York Times. Omar holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from UCLA.

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss various aspects of the Gray Alliance, including a special focus on the presidency of John F. Kennedy and, of course, his assassination. Follow and support Max Arvo on Substack!

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Sarah Kendzior joins us to talk about the central topic of her writing in recent years—the collapse of US politics and society. Sarah’s latest book is The Last American Road Trip. Sarah is the author of They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent. She is also the author of Hiding in Plain Sight: The Invention of Donald Trump and the Erosion of America and The View from Flyover Country: Dispatches from the Forgotten America.

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In this episode, Jim DeBrosse and Asa Winstanley join us to discuss Jim’s new article, “Israel was part of the conspiracy to kill JFK.” Jim DeBrosse (PhD) is a veteran journalist, retired assistant professor of journalism, and the author of See No Evil: The JFK Assassination and the US Media. Asa Winstanley provided additional research Jim’s article. Asa is an investigative journalist who lives in London. He is an associate editor of The Electronic Intifada and co-host of The Electronic Intifada Podcast. Asa is also the author of the bestselling book Weaponising Anti-Semitism: How the Israel Lobby Brought Down Jeremy Corbyn.

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Journalist Seth Harp joins us to discuss The Fort Bragg Cartel, his trailblazing new book on the endemic drug abuse, murder, mayhem, narcotics trafficking, and legal immunity of the US Special Forces milieu centered at Fort Bragg. The Fort Brag Cartel is currently being adapted into a series for HBO.

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• Jim’s website: Kennedys and King

• Jim’s latest book (ed.): The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy.

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Image: People rally in Los Angeles, US. [Ringo Chiu/AFP]

This is an expanded version of the presentation I recently delivered (via Zoom) to a group of top JFK assassination researchers.

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Former CIA officer and bestselling author Barry Eisler joins us to discuss his new novel, The System. Here is what I wrote about the book:

The System depicts a fictionalized version of the late US Empire—an economic and military juggernaut now in terminal decline as the regime and its institutions buckle under the weight of their own corrupt and corrupting inertia. With compelling prose, Eisler has written a deep political thriller in which the characters exist in shades of gray. They all must accommodate various governmental and private sector interests in such a way as to become complicit in a system so illegitimate that its true dimensions cannot be candidly discussed or explained in “mainstream” settings. Let us hope that entertaining fiction like this can help snap Americans out of their red/blue partisan trances and unite them against their real enemy—the oligarchic regime itself.

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• Barry Eisler’s website

• Barry’s Substack

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Aaron and Bryce discuss the outbreak of hot war in Iran, kicked off by a brazenly illegal Zionist assassination spree abetted by the US President.

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Internet pioneer Ken McCarthy joins us to discuss his two books on the anti-imperialist and anti-Zionist foreign policies of John and Robert Kennedy.  

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• 'JFK and RFK’s Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism'

• 'John F. Kennedy Anti-Imperialist: His Character and Intentions Revealed in Five Speeches and One Telegram'

• Brasscheck TV

We are joined again by John Kiriakou, the former CIA officer who blew the whistle on the agency’s illegal torture program.

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• Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou

• Deep Focus with John Kiriakou

• The DeProgram Show

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Aaron and Max discuss the 2019 Martin Scorsese film, The Irishman. The film stars Robert DeNiro as an Irish-American hitman and Al Pacino as the notorious Teamster president, Jimmy Hoffa. The film is based on the book, I Heard You Paint Houses, by Charles Brandt. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!

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In this episode, we discuss two of Ben’s latest articles for CovertAction Magazine, both of which deal with the US dirty war on Syria. The first article is “The U.S.A.’s Longest ‘Democracy’ Project in Syria Has Resulted in the Empowerment of Al-Qaeda.” The second article, soon to be published, is “Western Soft Power Agencies Established a Support Front for Armed Insurrection in Syria led by al-Qaeda-Linked Rebels.”

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Aaron is joined by US Army Colonel (Ret.) Lawrence Wilkerson. Wilkerson was chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell during the first George W. Bush administration.

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Monika Wiesak joins us to give her first interview for her brand new book, Echoes of a Lost America: Unraveling the Murder of JFK.

I previously interviewed Monika about her first book, America’s Last President in American Exception Episode 101.

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• Dana Chavarria, production

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James DiEugenio joins us to discuss the Trump administration’s release of long-withheld JFK-related documents. DiEugenio recently appeared before Congress with friends of the pod, Oliver Stone and Jefferson Morley. The three were there to discuss the JFK case with Representative Luna’s committee.

Check out:

• Jim’s website: Kennedys and King

• Jim’s latest book (ed.): The JFK Assassination Chokeholds: That Inescapably Prove There Was a Conspiracy

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the 2010 Martin Scorsese film, Shutter Island. The film stars Leonardo DeCaprio and is based on a 2003 novel by Dennis Lehane. We recommend that people watch the film before listening since we don’t attempt to give any organized synopsis, nor do we avoid spoilers. Listen at your own risk!

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Max Parry joins us to speak with us about his new Covert Action Magazine article entitled  “Did the CIA Covertly Support Chechen Separatist Terrorism? Of Course They Did.” Max Parry is an independent journalist and geopolitical analyst based in Baltimore. His writing has appeared widely in alternative media and he is a frequent political commentator featured in Sputnik News and Press TV. He also hosts the podcast Captive Minds which is also available on YouTube.

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Jefferson Morley joins us to discuss recent events around the release of many long-withheld or redacted documents pertaining to the JFK assassination—including his appearance in front of Congress with our friends Oliver Stone and James DiEugenio.

Jefferson Morley is a Washington-based author and veteran journalist whose novelistic non-fiction books explore untold chapters in the history of the American nation. He runs the excellent website, JFK Facts. Subscribe to JFK Facts if you want access to some of the very best reporting and analysis on the JFK case!

Jefferson Morley is also the author of:

• Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate

• The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.

• Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

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Aaron and Max Arvo discuss the recent JFK assassination declassification hearings in Washington. Also, Max revisits the Neocon Clean Break Report of 1996!

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This is the second half of a two-part discussion with Max Arvo covering the new JFK document releases in the context of our Gray Alliance series as well as my new article which centers on one of these documents.

Check out the article: "James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'"

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

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Check out the article: "James Angleton, Mossad, the Syndicate, and the CIA’s 'Cuban Business'"

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This discussion is centered around three of his recent articles:

• The Cargo Cult of Woke

• How the Organized Left Got Covid Wrong, Learned to Love Lockdowns and Lost Its Mind: An Autopsy

• The Left-Wing Origins of ‘Deep State’ Theory

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Check out these interviews, any of which are better than Errol Morris’ passive-aggressive Netflix farce: Audio & Video for CHAOS

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• Michelle Boley, animated intro

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Check out his work at:

• Global Delinquents

• Active Measures

• Grayzone

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3

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• Trump’s “Truth” tweet which turns US policy on Russia and NATO 180 degrees

• Vice President JD Vance’s speech to EU leaders…Will history remember it as the “Munich Massacre”?

• Bernie Sanders 2025 version looking bad

• how the bull market for gold may portend the end of the post-Bretton Woods Rumpelstiltskin dollar

• how a Zionist-on-Zionist mini-crime wave broke out in Florida

• how Canada is jailing people for criticizing genocide advocates on social media

Check out:

• Bryce Greene’s article: “Marco Rubio Is At The State Department To Push US Aggression Around The World”

• Bryce Greene's Newsletter

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Max Arvo and I are back for the third of four episodes discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby which were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. Max’s research and articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own legal team, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare. Ultimately, the account reveals the horror show that Ruby’s life became. Now more than ever, the life and death of Jack Ruby are a synecdoche for the American deep state.  

Check out the articles here:

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3

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Aaron is joined by Ben Thomason. Ben recently earned his doctorate in American Cultural Studies from Bowling Green State University. His dissertation title is Making Democracy Safe for Empire: A History and Political Economy of the National Endowment for Democracy, United States Agency for International Development, and Twenty-First Century Media Imperialism. In the show, we discuss the subject of his dissertation: the US empire’s so-called “democracy promotion” enterprises.

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Max Arvo and I are back for the second of four episodes covering Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. The articles detail how Jack Ruby was cast down, by his own defense lawyers, into a CIA-MKULTRA labyrinth of clandestine lawfare and brain warfare—a horror show from which he could never be allowed to escape.

Max's article were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King. You can find them here:

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3

Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Check out:

• Substack: Loud & Clear with John Kiriakou

• The DeProgram Show

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

• Colombian President Gustavo Petro’s resistance to Yankee imperialism

• The spectacular release of Hamas’ female IDF hostages

• Trump’s Executive Order on the JFK/MLK/RFK assassinations

• Trump’s conquest of Greenland

• Europe’s rolling implosion

• Elon Musk’s strange nazi tic!

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "Hawks Can Go” by Mock Orange

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Max Arvo and I are pausing the Gray Alliance series for the first of two (or three?) episodes that we are devoting to discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. Max’s account is a very important new and improved narrative explaining what happened to Jack Ruby. These articles were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King.

Check out the articles here:

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2

• Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3

Music: “Sidewalk” by Mock Orange

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Aaron and Ola discuss the fates of Sweden’s best internationalist statesmen as well as Ola’s currently very relevant seminal work on the US false flag submarine operation in Sweden during the 1980’s.

Please check out Ola’s Substack, especially his brilliant two-part article:

• Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part I

• Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part II

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the sixth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music: "Window" by Mock Orange

We are joined by Adnan Husain, a historian of both Medieval Europe and of the Middle East. Adnan is Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar Graduate Chair, and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also the co-host of the Guerilla History podcast. We discuss a number of topics including the state of the Empire, the absence of an effectual Western Left, the state of the Middle East, and the determinants of US foreign policy.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the fifth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!

To hear the full episode, subscripe to American Exception on Patreon!

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange

To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Image credit: AFP (via The Cradle)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the fourth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange

Check out:

• Bryce Greene’s article: “As Most Ukrainians Prefer Ceasefire With Russia, Washington Says More Ukrainian Teenagers Should Die”

• Kit Klarenberg’s article, “Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins”

• William Van Wagenen on Twitter

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

• Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents

• "Russiagate" Was Israelgate

• The Notable Timeline of Kennedy's Remarks on "Ethnic Bioweapons"

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Rather than looking exhaustively at the assassination here, we explore what Ruby represents. From that, we may discern why the plotters would have utilized someone like Ruby--given that he was situated within so many sensitive parapolitical networks within the American deep political system.

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music: "Hawks Can Go" by Mock Orange

We decided to make a DCC episode which includes the interview, along with extra material before and after the discussion in which I speak about Jeffrey Sachs and then, eventually, about the history and and scholarship behind the concept of the deep state. 

I encourage everyone to follow Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs. The Professor is a great interviewer, and his choices of books and authors are excellent. They have a YouTube channel and they are on the major podcasting apps.

The official website is here: Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs

Image: American Exception, by Abby Martin, graphics by Casey Moore--cover art for American Exception: Empire and the Deep State (Skyhorse Publishing: New York, 2022) by Aaron Good

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music: "Silent Motion" by Mock Orange

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change. Yale Magrass is a Chancellor Professor of Sociology at University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth. He is the author/co-author of nine books and 80 articles. His work explores how militaristic capitalism distorts everyday life as it promotes inequality, bullying, environmental devastation, and war.

Image: The Bosses of the Senate, Joseph Keppler, Puck (January 23, 1889)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

Check out Too Black's Black Myths podcast!

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Image: Residents and civil defense after an Israeli army strike on Asma School, run by UNRWA, in Gaza City on October 27, 2024 (Omar El Qattaa /Anadolu via Al Jazeera)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Jefferson Morley is also the author of:

• Scorpions' Dance: The President, the Spymaster, and Watergate

• The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton.

• Our Man in Mexico: Winston Scott and the Hidden History of the CIA

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This episode is part of the series, Watergate and Secret Agenda.

Image: James McCord testifies to the Senate Select Committee on Watergate, May 22, 1973. (AP Photo, file)

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music "Intake" by Mock Orange

Check out his work at:

• Global Delinquents

• Active Measures

• Grayzone

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Image: Nixon and Kissinger meeting with Fritz Kraemer in the Oval Office.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music "Some Say" by Mock Orange

Professor Peter Phillips joins us to talk about his illuminating new book, 'Titans of Capital: How Concentrated Wealth Threatens Humanity'.

 Image: Freedom for Humanity (a temporary mural by the American artist Mear One)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Aaron and Bryce speak with Dr. Assal Rad. She is the Research Director at the National Iranian American Council and the author of 'The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran'.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Bryce Greene is back speaking about 9/11 with two guests, John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. They are the authors of 'The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror'. This book was edited by our own David Talbot, who also wrote the foreword.

This episode marks the second in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.

Image Credit: Washington Post

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange

Gary Vogler and Lawrence Wilkerson join us to discuss the deep politics of the Iraq War, drawing from their respective insider perspectives. Gary Vogler is the author of 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. Lawrence Wilkerson wrote the foreword to the book. He is a retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

In this episode, Peter Dale Scott reads and discusses a new poem. Published at the American Exception Substack, the poem is entitled “Facing the Limen.”

This is the 30th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Image Credit: Ludlow Group

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

The US presidential debate farce how Harris picked up the coveted Dick Cheney endorsement

How Russia and Iran are deepening their strategic relationship

The anniversary of 9/11 

MAGA’s new strange and conspiracist Resistance spectacle

Special thanks to:

Dana Chavarria, production

Casey Moore, graphics

Michelle Boley, animated intro

Mock Orange, music

We talk with the Iraq Correspondent at the excellent website, The Cradle.  He has done outstanding work covering ISIS as the latest entry in a long and sordid Western imperial tradition--the covert use of Islamist terror groups as geopolitical sock puppets.

 Two articles from the Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent are particularly relevant to this episode’s discussion:

• "Masoud Barzani: The Butcher of Sinjar"

• "‘Justice is sleeping’: Yezidis struggle to punish Kurds who greenlit genocide"

Follow The Cradle on Twitter, and check out The Cradle website regularly to stay up to date developments in the Middle East.

Image Credit: The Cradle

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange

Aaron discusses a pair of suppressed recent news articles from The Grayzone:

• "Historic US-Russia prisoner swap exposes CIA support for Chechen jihad"

• "Accused financier of Moise assassination apparently advised by US intelligence"

Then goes into an (overly?) extended discussion of a new academic article that offers a critique of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State:

• 'Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency'

NOTE: The 'I' in BRICS is for India. I likely said "Iran" because Iran is the BRICS member who, along with Russia and China, has done the most to defeat the pnac of late.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Image: West Qurna 1 Oil Field (Middle East Online)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

In this episode, Aaron is joined by Peter Dale Scott, who finishes reading some of his new politically and biographically inspired poetry from Peter’s recently published poetry collection, 'Dreamcraft'.

This is the 29th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Image: 'The Famous Greek Theatre, Berkeley, Calif.' (Pacific Novelty Co., ca. 1907–January 14, 1910)

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange

Image: A view of the destruction in Gaza, February 22, 2024. (Photo credit: AFP/ Said Khatib)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the 28th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Window” by Mock Orange

To hear the full episode, join out Patreon! https://www.patreon.com/americanexception/posts

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This episode marks the first in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

Image: Riot police in Ferguson, Missouri, 2014 (Al Jazeera)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Subscribe to the American Exception on Patreon for access to our complete catalogue, including the "Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light" oral history series with Peter Dale Scott

This is the 27th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Image: Leonard Cohen at the Isle of Wight, 1970 (Charles Everest/BBC)

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

Image: Reuters/Yaser Al-Khodor Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

• 'Follow the Pipelines: Uncovering the Mystery of a Lost Spy and the Deadly Politics of the Great Game for Oil' (See: American Exception 110)

• "Israel, Gaza, and the Struggle for Oil"

• "War in Ukraine Could Be the Mother of All Energy Wars: But the Media Still Misses the Context"

Charlotte Dennett is also the co-author (with Gerard Colby) of 'Thy Will Be Done: The Conquest of the Amazon : Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil' (See: American Exception 107)

Image: A US soldier walks towards a burning oil well in Iraq's vast Rumaila oil fields in March of 2003. (Yannis Behrakis/Reuters)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange

Image: AP Photo/Evan Vucci Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the 26th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Some Say" by Mock Orange

Lawrence Wilkerson is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Image: US Marine places flag over statue of Saddam Hussein in Baghdad in 2003 (AFP)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

The basis for this series is Peter's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's fourth section, “The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11.”

The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem, “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11,” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Episode art by Casey Moore!

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange

Image: The Bidens watch the fireworks from the White House on July 4, 2021. Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After a Severe Stroke

In this episode, we hear from:

• Glenn Greenwald

• James DiEugenio

• Jefferson Morley

• John Kirby

• Libby Handros

• Oliver Stone

• Peter Dale Scott

• Ben Howard

• Bryce Greene

• Karen Croft

Special thanks to:

* Dana Chavarria, production

* Casey Moore, graphics

* Michelle Boley, animated intro

* Mock Orange, music

The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's fourth section, “The Meta-Group, the War on Terror, and 9/11.”

The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Episode art by Casey Moore!

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “High Octane Punk Mode” by Mock Orange

Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After A Severe Stroke

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's third section, “Allegations of Drug-Trafficking and Far West, Ltd.”

The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Episode art by Casey Moore!

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Don't Feel a Thing" by Mock Orange

Please contribute here if you can: Help David Talbot After A Severe Stroke

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” In this episode, we focus on the essay's second section, “The Meta-Group, Drugs, Salafist Islam, and America.”

The 2005 article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Episode art by Casey Moore!

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Touch Tone Bell" by Mock Orange

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This episode kicks off our series with Ben Howard on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.

The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” This article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Note: This episode was recorded before I learned of the newly less-redacted James Angleton Church Committee testimony. That, to my mind, is very relevant to understanding Far West and the GDMG, as we will discuss in coming episodes.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange

Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East - on the ground in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering the conflict in Yemen since 2015. Vanessa contributes regularly to UK Column News, RT, Press TV and many independent media outlets. You can find her work at her Substack and on Patreon.

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 to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Arnaud has a very popular account on Twitter/X where he is an insightful and informed commentator tweeting in English about China—especially about China’s domestic and foreign policies. In this episode, we talk about these issues and their implications for China and the West.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

• Collapsing Empire: 'How US Broke Kosovo'

• Tony Blair’s Secret Yugoslavia Invasion Plot

• How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode! Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Please check out Jeff Morley’s excellent website, JFK Facts. Subscribe if are able and would like access to some of the very best reporting and analysis on the JFK case!

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "I Can't Seem to Think" by Mock Orange

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

The poem centers around the brief period in the 1970’s where Peter had a toe in the American prestige media. Specifically, he worked with Bob Silvers of the NYRB to publish important articles related to the US in Southeast Asia. Why did this CIA-connected fellow want to publish Peter Dale Scott—and why did he just as abruptly stop? Peter mulled this over in his mind over many decades. This poem is a meditation on that period and on its implications.

This is the 25th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Check out: Loud and Clear, John’s Substack page!

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Check out Peter's articles in the 'New York Review of Books'.

This is the 24th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

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 Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today and JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass.

He also runs the Kennedys and King website.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Special thanks to:

* fourdiedtrying.com * Dana Chavarria, production * Casey Moore, graphics * Michelle Boley, animated intro * Mock Orange, music

Highlights of this episode include discussion of the Iran-Contra affair, the Christic Institute, Peter’s tenure in Washington working under Senator John Kerry to investigate BCCI, and a personal tale of intrigue and betrayal from this period.

This is the 23rd installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Music: "Only in Dreams" by Mock Orange