This episode features a debate on the JFK assassination between Robert Buzzanco and James DiEugenio. Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is also the author of 2022-04-05 18:24:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Branko Marcetic talk about the 2014 Maidan coup and the war in Ukraine. Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of 2022-04-02 00:16:35 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the audio from last night's Zoom session...featuring Aaron, Ben, and Seamus. As the title suggests, we give some updates and answer listener questions!
2022-03-31 16:08:33 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 4 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by specia...
2022-03-28 21:19:28 +0000 UTC View PostCorrection! The monthly Light Bringer Zoom session is on Wednesday night as my original DM stated. Thursday is when I am doing a show with Robbie and Gumby and somehow I got those days mixed up in my head. :(
We had planne...
2022-03-27 17:33:24 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron speaks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of Project Censored. They discuss censorship, propaganda, and other subjects covered by Projects Censored's latest book, 2022-03-23 20:37:05 +0000 UTC View Post
In this eleventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary ...
2022-03-19 14:31:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron and Ben talk about the Ukraine War--its larger historical background and looming geopolitical implications.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
This is Part 3 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years at Berkeley, including his experiences...
2022-03-11 05:01:04 +0000 UTC View Post
Last night Oliver Stone emailed me with links to his two essential Ukraine documentaries. This is the second, Revealing Ukraine, in which Oliver Stone interviews Ukrainian politician and opposition leader Viktor Medvedchuk--as well as Russian president Vladimir Putin.
The f...
2022-03-10 21:46:18 +0000 UTC View PostLast night Oliver Stone emailed me with links to his two essential Ukraine documentaries. This is the first, Ukraine on Fire, which focuses on the 2014 US/Nazi coup which overthrew Ukraine's elected government.
The film is also available at:
This is Part 2 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon some of the events that led to his arrival at the Univ...
2022-03-07 16:50:24 +0000 UTC View PostThings are pretty crazy here; I'm adding the final touched to the book, getting ready for a big interview with Abby tomorrow, and working on the next AE episode slated for Monday. Meantime, I thought some of you might appreciate this discussion I had with my friend John Kiriakou and Michell...
2022-03-04 19:44:25 +0000 UTC View Post
This is the first part of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with the brilliant historian, political theorist, and poet--Professor Peter Dale Scott. Accompanied by Ben Howard and Aaron Good, Peter reflects upon his early years prior to his arrival at the Un...
2022-03-02 20:22:31 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Anthony Monteiro. They discuss the Black Radical Tradition in the context of US empire and capitalism. They focus especially on the towering figure of W.E.B. Dubois.
After many years as university professor--mostly at Temple University--Monteiro continues...
2022-02-27 16:12:06 +0000 UTC View PostHere is the audio from the February Zoom meeting. Please ignore me saying that it's March right at the beginning. I guess I really want spring to come. Ben and I give some updates and we take some great questions! Apologies to anyone whose question we did not get to. Maybe...
2022-02-25 21:55:07 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno...
2022-02-23 22:57:35 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 2 of our Battleground Indonesia collaboration with TheKultureDotTV. Aaron, Hailey Rounsaville, and Mike Oldfield cover the tumultuous period from the end of World War II and the Sukarno...
2022-02-23 22:54:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's the fantastically produced Empire Files episode featuring the interview from American Exception 18!
2022-02-22 23:55:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron is joined by our man in Belgrade, Kit Klarenberg--an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. We spoke about a number of subjects related to his recent GrayZone piece, "2022-02-20 02:40:42 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great ...
2022-02-15 16:35:54 +0000 UTC View Post
This is Part 1 of our Battleground Indonesia series--a special project produced in collaboration with TheKultureDotTV . In this episode, Aaron delivers the first part of a presentation on the Great Game to seize the...
2022-02-15 16:20:32 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron talks with Catherine Liu and Dan Kovalik about the Professional Managerial Class, "cancel culture," and US empire. Liu is a professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of California at Irvine and the author of 2022-02-13 18:26:51 +0000 UTC View Post
For the tenth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with Lisa Pease. Along with Jim DiEugenio, Lisa Pease was the co-editor of Probe magazine and a book entitled 2022-02-08 18:18:27 +0000 UTC View Post
This special episode features Pentagon Papers whistleblower Daniel Ellsberg. About a year ago, on Groundhog Day 2021, Ellsberg came my peace studies class. He was prepared to answer questions from students, which he did, but only after being surprised by a number of luminaries who had previously ...
2022-02-04 17:26:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Legendary filmmaker Oliver Stone talks about his new JFK assassination documentary with special guest host Abby Martin.
Stay tuned after the interview for a postscript detailing how the JFK assassination was an Establishment or deep state productio...
2022-02-01 15:03:57 +0000 UTC View Post
In this episode, Aaron is joined by Daniel Bessner to discuss propaganda in the USA. Bessner is co-host of the American Prestige podcast and a professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. He is also a Non-Resident Fellow at the 2022-01-27 23:19:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Here is the audio from the January Zoom meeting. Ben and I give some updates and take a couple of very good questions! Apologies for Zoom kicking me off mid-final sentence...
New episode tomorrow on Propaganda in the USA--with Daniel Bessner and Ben Howard!
In Part 8 our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron continues his discussion with James DiEugenio. They cover Vietnam and other key aspects of President Kennedy's foreign policy. Collectively, JFK's plans to end the Cold War and his support for Third World nationalism repr...
2022-01-24 15:22:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Aaron speaks with Dr. Matthew Alford, one of the co-producers of the soon to be released documentary film, Theaters of War. They discuss the film and it main subject--the covert and propagandistic role of the Pentagon and CIA in the entertainment world.
Alford is the co-autho...
2022-01-20 05:12:40 +0000 UTC View Post