This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs.

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

Special thanks to:

Dana Chavarria, production

Casey Moore, graphics

Michelle Boley, animated intro

Mock Orange, music

Aaron Good and Max Arvo continue to explore the evolution of American organized crime. In particular, we discuss the key importance of the racing wire service and the obscured nature of mid-20th century American organized crime: Did mafia or La Cosa Nostra models really apply? Or alternatively, were the ethnic Italian elements, which seem to confirm those theories, merely the lower and thus more visible levels of a larger and more nefarious entity—the Lansky Syndicate?

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

This episode kicks off our new Gray Alliance series featuring Aaron and independent researcher Max Arvo. In this introductory episode, we cover the evolution of American organized crime in the 20th century.

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

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

Aaron speaks with Too Black and Rasul Mowatt, authors of 'Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits'.

Check out Too Black's Black Myths podcast!

Special thanks to:

Dana Chavarria, production

Casey Moore, graphics

Michelle Boley, animated intro

Mock Orange, music

Aaron and Bryce are joined by human rights lawyer, labor rights lawyer and peace activist Daniel Kovalik. His new book is 'The Case for Palestine: Why It Matters and Why You Should Care'.

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

Bryce Greene speaks about 9/11 with a special guest, Jon Gold. Independent researcher and activist Jon Gold is the author of We Were Lied to About 9/11: The Interviews--a very useful book for anyone interested in referencing suppressed true facts of 9/11. You can download a free copy of the book at Jon’s We Were Lied to About 9/11 website.

Jefferson Morley joins us to discuss the JFK case, including new developments centering around a strange CIA repository with some apparently extremely sensitive JFK assassination-related documents. 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

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

Aaron is joined by journalist and forensic historian, Kit Klarenberg. His work explores the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions.

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