Podcasts

Hear a discussion with Dr. Sopheap Ly about her recently released memoir, “No Dream Beyond My Reach: One Woman’s Remarkable Journey from Cambodian Refugee to American MD.”

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A discussion with Grassroots Leadership founder, Si Kahn, about his book “Creative Community Organzing: A Guide for Rabble-Rousers, Activists & Quiet Lovers of Justice”

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When greedy “banksters” — still dripping with the blood of taxpayers’ bailout money — try to suck more life force with obscene interest rates on credit card holders, somebody has to take a stand. Meet Ann Minch….

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If you ask most people to name important folk protest records of the sixties, they probably wouldn’t name something by Johnny Cash — or even think of Johnny Cash as a folk protest singer. But Cash did record an album that certainly fits that bill. And those who are aware of it, do acknowledge its power and intensity. It, however, has remained obscure for all these decades. The reasons for that are part of a larger fascinating and compelling story full of controversy and drama. It’s all captured in a wonderful new book called “A Heartbeat and a Guitar: Johnny Cash and the Making of Bitter Tears.” Hear a discussion with the author, Antonino D’Ambrosio.

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A talk with Les Leopold about his book “The Looting of America: How Wall Street’s Game of Fantasy Finance Destroyed Our Jobs, Pensions, and Prosperity — And What We Can Do About It.”

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Hear a discussion with SMiles Lewis (elfis.net, PsiOp Radio, Anomaly Magazine) delving into strange notions about consciousness, dreams, reality, history, the paranormal, and alternate time streams, with a special nod to Terence McKenna’s Fractal Soliton of Improbability “revelation.”

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Greg Bishop (author of “Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California’s Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” and “Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth”) stops by to chat about asemic texts, alien writings and other oddities he’s been blogging about at UFO Mystic.

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In the 1990s, researcher Rick Strassman conducted government-sanctioned experiments where human volunteers were given DMT — one of the most powerful and bizarre hallucinogens known. The data gathered from this study — and its implications for our understanding of consciousness and spirituality — are profound. Strassman’s thoughts and those of other researchers are found in the recent book, “Inner Paths to Outer Space: Journeys to Alien Worlds through Psychedelics and Other Spiritual Technologies.” Hear an interview with Dr. Strassman.

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Hear an interview with quantum theorist, Karl LeMarcs, about his Collapsing The Consciousness Wave theory and its implications for our understanding of birth, life, death, time, and reality in general….

Even though it has been one of the most powerful and disturbing chapters in the history of Western civilization, the Inquisition has been largely ignored by general historians. Bestselling author Jonathan Kirsch seeks to correct that oversight in his new book The Grand Inquisitor's Manual: A History of Terror in the Name of God. In the process of shedding light on this centuries-long, horrific, gruesome, and grotesque absurdity, Kirsch comes to some interesting conclusions, the most important being that the Inquisition served as a sort of blueprint for the machinations of full-spectrum state terror as practiced in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia. Further, some of the ugly episodes of American history such as McCarthyism and the internment of Japanese Americans in World War II also stem from this inquisitorial mindset, he concludes. And because we haven't come to terms with this dark past, we're still at it with our waterboarding, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, CIA secret prsions, etc. Hear an interview with Jonathan Kirsch.

Consciousness, Gnosticism, neuro-science, Philip K. Dick and quantum physics are all discussed in this fascinating interview with Anthony Peake, author of “The Daemon: A Guide to Your Extraordinary Secret Self.”

In case you STILL think the 2004 presidential election was legitimate, researcher Richard Hayes Phillips has painstakingly amassed overwhelming and undeniable evidence of the theft of this highest office in the land. This evidence is being used in a current lawsuit designed to bring the perpetrators to justice. It is all documented in “Witness to a Crime: A Citizen's Audit of an American Election.” Hear an interview with Phillips.

Cliff Arnebeck is the lead attorney in a RICO lawsuit designed to shine light on the conspiracy to subvert our elections, our constitution and our justice department to create an unchallengeable “unitary executive” corporatocracy. Hear an interview with Mr. Arnebeck

If you think Bush stole the election from Gore, and you suspect Bush stole it from Kerry as well, it's actually much MUCH worse than that. In addition to Florida in 2000 and Ohio in 2004, there were other rigged states in 2004. Well beyond that, were SEVERAL rigged races for the U.S. Senate, the U.S. House of Representatives and state governorships in the 2002 and 2006 midterms. Mark Crispin Miller is back with more documentation of these crimes with his latest book on the subject, “Loser Take All: Election Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008.” Hear a new interview with Professor Miller.

If you've had concerns with Christian extremists and their attacks on the separation of church and state, you really need to hear this. Whereas you may have seen some holes that have been made in the wall between religion and government, Mikey Weinstein (founder of the Military Religious Freedom Foundation) explains how in one institution — the U.S. military — that wall has been obliterated. In this interview, Weinstein more importantly, discusses how he's leading the charge in fighting back.

Able Danger is a new independent movie that uses a film noir style to tell a dark disturbing story about what really happened on 9/11 and what happens when a researcher gets too close to the truth. It is inspired by the real-life character Sander Hicks and the research he published in “The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers and the Cover-Up.” Hear an interview with the director, writer and producer Paul Krik.

On September 13th and 14th, a conference will be held in Andover, Massachusetts, the purpose of which will be to explore legal grounds for prosecuting President Bush and top members of his administration for war crimes. The convener of this event is Lawrence Velvel, dean of the Massachusetts School of Law. Hear an interview with Dean Velvel.

“Against Happiness: In Praise of Melancholy” is writer Eric G. Wilson's latest philosophical exploration. One of the points of the book is that Americans' unexamined obsession with superficial happiness — and shunning and denial of essential melancholy — leaves us only partial humans and actually is a hindrance to much higher states such as joy, ecstasy and transcendence. Hear an interview with Wilson.

A talk with artist and mystic Myron Dyal about his new book “Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic” and his art showing with Clive Barker: “Two Madmen.”

Lucha VaVoom is a wonderfully wacky and exciting exotic live show. It takes some of the best elements of classic Mexican masked wrestling (lucha libre) and of a classic burlesque show and creates its own updated sci-fi/hot rod/horror flick twist. What?? Well, Lucha VaVoom sort of has to be witnessed to be understood. However, this fun interview with the creators gives a bit of an idea…

Hear an interview with Raj Patel, author of the new book “Stuffed & Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System.” This is a shocking expose' of all the political machinations, social upheavals and murderous horrors involved in the process of how and what food gets from the field to your table. Naomi Klein has referred to this as “one of the most dazzling books I have read in a very long time. The product of a brilliant mind and a gift to a world hungering for justice.”

The new movie Able Danger has caused quite a stir at the Rotterdam International Film Festival and is scheduled to be released soon in the U.S. This dark tale of intrigue deals with the crime of the century and what happens when a young independent publisher and coffee house proprietor is introduced to information that implicates some of the most powerful people on earth. The real-life inspiration for this film is publisher, writer and activist Sander Hicks and his book “The Big Wedding: 9/11, The Whistleblowers, and The Cover-Up.” Hear an interview with Hicks.

Hear a discussion with commentator Thomas Cigango about The Wrecked Economy, Torture, and the Silencing of Watchdog/Whistleblower Spitzer.

Hear an interview with Kelly O'Connor of the Rational Response Squad.

As the saying goes: An informed populace is vital to a thriving democracy. And because the mainstream corporate news media are, for the most part, no longer performing this function, people have been turning elsewhere, such as documentary films and, of course, the internet. In addition to websites and blogsites, there is actually a thriving information exchange occurring on MySpace. For those willing to seek it out, there are some excellent political pages there run by conscientious individuals seeking to educate and be educated. One of the best, one that is daily sharing enormous amounts of information and insights — and actually opening and changing minds — is Corporations Ate My Baby. Hear an interview with the mysterious L.A.-based man behind this page.

The news website RawStory.com is in the midst of a shocking five part story called The Permanent Republican Majority. This series deals with the state of Alabama and allegations and evidence of election fraud, the framing of an innocent man, a kangaroo court, serious corruption and political dirty tricks. Though this story takes place in the heart of the deep South, its connections to Washington and the Bush Administration are also deep. Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and the “U.S. attorneys firing scandal” all figure in to this ugly drama. Hear an interview with the investigative reporter behind The Permanent Republican Majority series and the Managing Editor for Investigative News at Raw Story, Larisa Alexandrovna. Ms. Alexandrovna's work has also been featured at Alternet and The Huffington Post and been referenced at most major news outlets.

Hear an interview with Dean Baker. He is the co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research and author of “The Conservative Nanny State: How the Wealthy Use the Government to Stay Rich and Get Richer.”

Hear Naomi Wolf discuss her extremely important work “The End of America: Letter of Warning to a Young Patriot.” This is the clearest and most concise book, outlining the dangers posed by our current government to the continuance of America as a free democratic republic.

A recent event that has caused quite a stir here on the UC Irvine campus as well as campuses across the country was the Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week. What the hell is Islamo-Fascism? Is it an emotionally-charged term of bigotry as many are claiming? An absurd term as divorced from reality as “the war on terror” as others are claiming? Or is is something real that we need to be concerned about? Listen to a provocative discussion within the context of the attack on Iran that many NeoCons and others within the U.S. are calling for.

This is a charged interview with David Horowitz, editor-in-chief of FrontPage Magazine, and author of many provocative books. He was the initiator of the Islamo-Fascism Awareness program held on campus and made the news recently regarding comments made at Columbia University. He is an articulate voice of the right and staunch defender of Israel.

T R Black also joins the discussion.

John Bowe discusses his shocking new book “Nobodies: Modern American Slavery and the Dark Side of the New Global Economy.” Yes, real slavery — where workers are not free to leave and are not paid — exists in today's America!

Pinchbeck discusses his book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.”

Hear an interview with Graham Hancock, author of “Supernatural: Meetings With the Ancient Teachers of Mankind.” Astonishing notions about human consciousness and evolution in relationship with psychedelic plants and shamanism…

Hear a discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck of his book “2012: The Return of Quetzalcoatl.

Hear a mind-blowing discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism.”

Hear a mind-blowing discussion with Daniel Pinchbeck, author of “Breaking Open the Head: A Psychedelic Journey Into the Heart of Contemporary Shamanism.”

“Is There Life After Death? The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die” is a provocative new book where quantum physics and consciousness research are used to put an interesting spin on the age old question. Hear an interview with the author, Anthony Peake.

“Is There Life After Death? The Extraordinary Science of What Happens When We Die” is a provocative new book where quantum physics and consciousness research are used to put an interesting spin on the age old question. Hear an interview with the author, Anthony Peake. (part 2)

With the release in 2005 of “Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them),” Mark Crispin Miller made the compelling case that Bush/Cheney's “re-election” was even more fraudulent than their “election” in 2000. Though Professor Miller will gladly debate anybody on the facts, he's had a difficult time even getting any response at all from the mainstream media. When any attention has been paid to his thoroughly researched and documented work, it's not uncommon to take the form of a hit piece. In order to answer that, he has a new paperback edition, “Fooled Again: The Case for Electoral Reform,” with a hundred new pages that debunk his critics, as well as offering insights and speculations as to the overall hostility toward the notion that electoral fraud is even occurring. Hear the follow-up interview on the follow-up book.

With the release in 2005 of “Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election & Why They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them),” Mark Crispin Miller made the compelling case that Bush/Cheney's “re-election” was even more fraudulent than their “election” in 2000. Though Professor Miller will gladly debate anybody on the facts, he's had a difficult time even getting any response at all from the mainstream media. When any attention has been paid to his thoroughly researched and documented work, it's not uncommon to take the form of a hit piece. In order to answer that, he has a new paperback edition, “Fooled Again: The Case for Electoral Reform,” with a hundred new pages that debunk his critics, as well as offering insights and speculations as to the overall hostility toward the notion that electoral fraud is even occurring. Hear the follow-up interview on the follow-up book.

When Dr. Catherine Wilkerson offered assistance to a war protester being brutalized by law enforcement and paramedics, she was attacked as well. When she filed a complaint weeks later, she was then charged with a crime. Hear her story.

When Dr. Catherine Wilkerson offered assistance to a war protester being brutalized by law enforcement and paramedics, she was attacked as well. When she filed a complaint weeks later, she was then charged with a crime. Hear her story.

What if there was a private corporate army in America whose owners were Christian extremists with a far right political agenda, and they had some of the same firepower as the U.S. army but almost none of the accounability? What if they were unleashed in Iraq, Afghanistan — and even America? There IS such an army, and they have been unleashed (even here at home) by the Bush Administration — with billions of OUR tax dollars. This serious threat to our democratic republic has been frighteningly documented in the new book, “Blackwater: The Rise of the World's Most Powerful Mercenary Army.” Hear an interview with the author, Jeremy Scahill.

Because we have a news media with a pro-war, pro-corporate bias, and it's not always easy to get people to your anti-war website, you have to get creative to get your message out there. That's where freeway blogging comes in. What's freeway blogging, you may ask? To answer that for us is THE Freeway Blogger. Hear an interview with the person most associated with this communication/art form — Scarlet from northern California.

After blowing minds with his previous book, “Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film,” Eric G. Wilson is back with an equally fascinating outgrowth of that: “The Strange World of David Lynch: Transcendental Irony from Eraserhead to Mulholland Dr.” Whether you've been baffled by or thought you understood Lynch's work, this is a fresh look that previous commentators, for the most part, have missed. Hear this follow-up interview on this follow-up book.

Great art can move, inspire, cause fear and trembling, induce awe, and communicate that which words alone cannot. The art of Myron Conan Dyal certainly does ALL of that. One notion that is being communicated by his sculptures, paintings and drawings (recently on display at the CSUF Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana as “Primordial Images of a Modern Mystic”) is that he is a man who has struggled through a “dark night of the soul,” peered into another world, and brought back images of transformative power. The bizarre nature of the alien (and arguably dark and disturbing) visions creates a serious curiosity as to the details of the story of this man's journey. Those blanks are filled in by his autobiography “The Boy Nobody Wanted: Visionary Experiences Behind the Art.” Hear the artist discuss his work and the tragedy, horror, disintegration, re-integration and ultimate transcendence that inspired it all.

Gnosticism, the early Christian sect that was driven underground centuries ago, was until recently barely known outside of academia. Though the reality-slamming religion has of late been overtly featured in a couple of pop culture offerings, Gnostic themes have been slyly and regularly appearing in Hollywood movies for about thirty years now. Why have so many studio directors and producers been drawn to examine a belief system that questions ALL OF REALITY, that suggests that everything you know is wrong?

English professor Eric Wilson ponders this question and many other mind-bending queries in his book, “Secret Cinema: Gnostic Vision in Film.” He examines the genre he refers to as Gnostic Cinema and how the experience of partaking in this ritual can be transformative. The related traditions of Cabbala and alchemy are also considered as Wilson discusses the films The Matrix, The Truman Show, A.I., Dead Man, Vanilla Sky, Blade Runner, Dark City, Jacob's Ladder, eXistenZ, Thirteenth Floor, Donnie Darko and many others.

Hear an interview with Professor Wilson.

Interview with Victoria Byers about her rock opera, “Holy Whores and Heretics: The Secret Life of Mary Magdalene”

Greg Bishop, author of “Project Beta: The Story of Paul Bennewitz, National Security, and the Creation of a Modern UFO Myth” and “Weird California: Your Travel Guide to California's Local Legends and Best Kept Secrets” discusses his latest work at UFOmystic.com

Jonathan Hutto discusses the Appeal for Redress movement whereby active duty military personnel can legally voice (to their elected representatives in Washington) their opposition to the War in Iraq.

Hear a discussion with director Chris Hume, regarding his documentaries “Voices of Katrina” and “Red State Road Trip.”

If you've read Greg Palast, Mark Crispin Miller, The Conyers Report, Robert Kennedy, Jr., Bob Fitrakis, etc., you know that there is overwhelming evidence that the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections in the United States were fraudulent. Since most of the mechanisms that make the election process vulnerable are still in place, there's no reason to believe that next week's affair will be any different. (Vote anyway. If they're going to steal it, make them work for it.) In other countries, they use exit polls to indicate if there has been fraud. In the U.S., we have a compliant media who (with little or no evidence) just say the exit polls are flawed. What is needed are scientifically-pristine exit polls. That is what will be conducted as part of “The 2006 Election Verification Exit Poll Project Plan.” Hear a discussion of this with Stephanie Singer of ElectionIntegrity.org and Director of Campaign Scientific. Election attorney Paul Lehto also joins in

Interview with A.C. Thompson, co-author of “Torture Taxi: On the Trail of the C.I.A.'s Rendition Flights”

Is there a reason so many of the actions of the Bush regime have such a darkly surreal quality? Is there a message trying to be communicated to us? The answers to both questions would be yes, according to Paul Levy in his book, “The Madness of George W. Bush: A Reflection of Our Collective Psychosis.” Using a Jungian lens and a concept he calls “malignant egophrenia,” Levy asks us to look at the last few years as if it were a dream and President Bush was coughed up by the collective unconscious in order for us to wake up and evolve our consciousness .

Author and Philip K. Dick expert Brad Schreiber discusses the recently-released film “A Scanner Darkly,” Phil Dick's work in general, how it has influnced cinema, and how it foresaw the emerging police state that is present-day America.

The “9/11 Truth Movement” (those who do not accept the “official” version of what occurred on September 11th, 2001) has been growing by leaps and bounds and is concretizing into a full blown conference this weekend in Los Angeles. “The American Scholars Smposium: 9/11 + The Neo-Con Agenda” is being presented by alt. media icon and parapolitical researcher Alex Jones. Hear an interview with one of the conference presenters, Webster Tarpley. Mr. Tarpley has written several books on geo-political matters and international fascism, including an unauthorized biography of George H. W. Bush. His latest work “9/11 Synthetic Terror: Made In USA” asks many distrubing questions and comes to even more disturbing conclusions. Gonzo alt. media proprietor and informationalist SMiles Lewis will also join in the discussion.

In these days of religious extremism and attacks on women's self-determination, it would be instructive to look at where that can lead to if unchecked. The most dreadful and horrific example from history is The Inquisition. Hear an interview with leading feminist thinker, Robin Morgan, as she discusses her historical novel, The Burning Time, which looks at the pogrom's incursion into Ireland and constructs a narrative surrounding the real life character Lady Alyce Kyteler's fight against it and an defense of The Old Ways and The Craft.

Why worry about global warming or any other environmental concerns when it's all going to end soon? In fact, if we quicken the pace of the environmental destruction, it could hasten the return of the Lord. This arguably insane notion of certain Christians who call themselves “Dominionists,” in conjunction with a faux environmental, corporate front movement known as “Wise Use,” is a driving force in Bush Administration policy. Stephenie Hendricks outlines this disturbing and destructive trend in her book, “Divine Destruction.” Hear an interview with this Emmy-winning broadcast journalist.

Tens of thousands of Gulf War I veterans are suffering and dying from what many have labeled Gulf War Syndrome. Though the Department of Defense still calls it a “mystery illness,” many experts believe it is caused by some combination of battlefield exposure to depleted uranium munitions, chemical and biological agents, and experimental vaccines. Hear an interview with Joyce Riley. She is a spokesperson for the American Gulf War Veterans Association and producer of the documentary “Beyond Treason: The U.S. Government's Long History of Conducting Deadly Military Experiments.” This film looks at the horror of past U.S. Government programs as well as the ongoing use in Iraq of banned and phenomenally dangerous weapons. The apparent results of these actions are staggering and crying for justice.

“It was entirely predictable, in this context, that the [9/11] Commission would fail to pursue a meaningful investigation that might expose the alarming extent to which powerful political, military, and economic interests connected to the government are reciprocally conjoined to the vital arteries of terrorism, in the form of the international al-Qaeda terrorist network. On the contrary, in accordance with the same interests, the Commission has instead produced a compilation of disjointed, illogical, and unsubstantiated narratives with the aim of burying the truth.” This is one of the conclusions reached by Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed in his recent book, “The War on Truth: 9/11, Disinformation, and the Anatomy of Terrorism.” Hear a discussion with Mr. Ahmed about the many alarming facts documented in this well-researched work. Nafeez Ahmed is executive director of the Institute for Policy Research & Development in Brighton, U.K. and also wrote the first book in the 9/11 Truth Movement, “The War on Freedom: How and Why America was Attacked: September 11, 2001.”

An interview with Mark Crispin Miller, professor of media studies at New York University and author of “Fooled Again: How the Right Stole the 2004 Election and How They'll Steal the Next One Too (Unless We Stop Them)”

An interview with Norman G. Finkelstein author of Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History.