Robert Forte is an independent scholar, international lecturer and is widely recognized as one of the foremost historians and researchers in the field of psychedelic movements and psychedelic plants and drugs healing and transformative potential.  His research also includes psychedelics' darker side and abuse by government agencies and the medical establishment for experimenting on methods of social engineering and mind control. During the past 45 years Robert has collaborated with the most important and influential pioneers in psychedelic research including Stanislav Grof, Albert Hoffman (the scientist who discovered LSD), Timothy Leary, Gordon Wasson, Terence McKenna and many others. He has authored several books including "Entheogens and the Future of Religion" and "Outside Looking In" -- an edited collection of essays by both Leary's friends and foes to better understand Leary's impact on American culture. Bob holds a degree in psychology from the University of California at Santa Cruz and a graduate degree in the History of Religion from the University of Chicago Divinity School.  His website is AlteredStatesOfAmerica.net

The Progressive Commentary Hour 6.20.23

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Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi is a founding member of Jewish Voice for Labour and vice-chair of Chingford and Woodford Green Labour Party constituency. Jewish Voice's mission is to make the Labor more ethnically inclusive and to serve as a voice against all forms of racism and opposes the wrongs and injustices against Palestinians and other oppressed peoples. Naomi was also an elected member of the UK Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC) as part of the pro-Jeremy Corbyn contingent.  However, she was expelled from the Committee in late 2022 due to her outspoken criticisms of antisemitic elements in the Labor Party.  Jewish Voices also challenges that Zionist view that conflates all Jews as being Zionists. There was a video released with Naomi about a week ago that went viral on the internet, titled "the Wrong Kind of Jew" -- Jews who do not support the ideology of Zionism and side with the International Court of Justice's ruling of Israel committing humanitarian crimes against the Palestinians in Gaza.

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Dr. Rick Leskowitz is a board certified and retired Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychiatrist specializing in energy psychology and pain management. For 25 years, Dr. Leskowitz practiced at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, which advocates for a body-mind approach. At Harvard, he directed an Integrative Medicine Task Force, and is a founding member of the Sports, Energy and Consciousness Group - an integrated collective of doctors, psychologists, scientists and world class athletes. While traveling through India in the mid-1970s, Rick became interested in subtle energy and its relation to physical health and mental well being. Since then he has been a leader in energy psychology. He has published 50 peer-reviewed papers and four books, the latest being "The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics and Gaia Consciousness," which examines the scientific evidence to support the reality of the human biofield and its practical applications in healing.

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J.J. Carrell is a US border patrol officer who served for 24 years and retired as a deputy patrol agent in charge. He was a supervisor of the San Diego-Tijuana border unit that had a high rate of violence and supervised Coastal Border Enforcement Team operations to stop maritime narcotic smuggling and human trafficking run by the global Mexican Sinaloa cartel and securing convictions against its leader and the notorious drug lord El Chapo. In recent years there has been an increasing immigration crisis on America's southern borders with undocumented or poorly documented immigrants from around the world entering and being relocated across the nation. Conservative figures according to the Homeland Security statistics record a least 6.3 million migrant encounters at ports of entry since Biden took office in January 2021, and 2.4 million migrants permitted to enter. J.J. has been speaking out against this invasion and putting the facts in order based upon years of first hand eye-witness experiences.  He is author of "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of America's Immigration System", which documents the nation's border patrol's narrative. J.J. is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University where he attended on a football scholarship. He also competed in two races around the world on two episodes of CBS's The Amazing Race. His website is JJCarrell.com and J.J. blogs articles at Border Truth on Substack at jjcarrell.substack.com.

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Dr. Glenn Diesen is a professor at the Business School of the University of Southeast Norway, where he specializes in Russian foreign policy, geopolitical economics and Eurasia. He is an associate editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and sits on the boards of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna, the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo, Serbia and at the Contemporary World Economy in Moscow. Prof. Diesen has published 11 books dealing with Russia and Eurasia, the European Union, NATO and the clash between East and West, which have been translated into multiple languages. His most recent release is "The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order" that looks at the Ukraine conflict as a symptom of the collapsing world order, the decline of US-Western global hegemony, and the rise of a new multipolar order that emphasizes the individual sovereignty of nations. Dr. Diesen was educated in Australia and received his doctorate in international relations jointly from Macquaire University in Australia and Vrije University in the Netherlands. He hosts a talk program on geopolitics, often co-hosted with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran, that can be viewed on the Glenn Diesen Youtube channel.

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William Pepper is an international civil and human rights attorney based in  New York best known for representing Martin Luther King’s accused assassin, James Earl Ray. In 1967, Dr. King had reached out to Dr. Pepper regarding an essay he had written for Ramparts magazine concerning Vietnamese victims of American napalm missions. He  was present at Dr. King’s famous Riverside Church speech.  William was the citizens chairman for Robert Kennedy’s run for the Senate in Westchester Country and also a counsel for Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan arguing for a second shooter. William received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, a Juris Doctoral degree from Boston College and also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  His book -- “The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr” was the result of 39 years of research and gathering of documentation and sworn testimonies on new confirmed information that will revise the history behind the assassination of Dr. King .

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