It's the Empire, Stupid

It's the Empire, Stupid

By Phillip FarruggioNewsPolitics
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It's the Empire, Stupid episodes

  • Empire-Episode48-ColeenRowley
    Philip interviewed Coleen Rowley, a retired FBI agent and former Minneapolis Division Legal Counsel who became a whistleblower about some of the FBI's pre 9-11 failures. She testified to the Joint Intelligence Committee Inquiry and to the Senate Judiciary Committee and later was named, along with two other whistleblowers, as TIME Magazine's 2002 "Persons of the Year."

    Rowley also publicly warned against launching the U.S. war on Iraq in 2003 explaining that it was not justified and would serve to increase terrorism. She retired from the FBI in 2004 and continues to write and speak about the costs of US "perpetual war" (waged all over the world) and how this "uber militarism" and fool's errand of seeking "full spectrum dominance" over the rest of the world has now "blown back" on Americans.
    1 hr 20 min
  • Empire-Episode46-GeorgeEliason
    Philip is pleased to interview George Eliason, an American journalist who lives and works in Donbass, Ukraine. In 2014, he broke many of the stories there starting with Maidan and continuing to the build-up toward civil war.
    He wrote the first stories about the war to be published in the west, often scooping Russian publications.
    Eliason provided the first documented reports showing the nationality of the combatants on the pro-Russian side by doing wide-ranging invasive passport checks across the region in 2014 and frontline reporting.
    He has been interviewed by and provided analysis for RT, the BBC, and Press-TV. His articles have been published in the Security Assistance Monitor, Washingtons Blog, OpedNews, the Saker, RT, Global Research, and RINF, Consortium News, Mintpress News, and the Greanville Post.
    He has been published and cited in analytical blogs and publications like the Vineyard of the Saker and Foreign Policy Journal
    He has been cited and republished by various academic blogs, including Defending History, Michael Hudson, SWEDHR, Counterpunch, and the Justice Integrity Project.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Empire-Episode45-PeterKoenig
    Peter Koenig is an economist and geopolitical analyst. He is also a former World Bank staff and worked extensively around the world in the fields of environment and water resources. He writes regularly for Global Research, ICH, RT, Sputnik, and other internet sites. He is the author of Implosion – An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed – fiction based on facts and on 30 years of World Bank experience around the globe. He is also a co-author of The World Order and Revolution! – Essays from the Resistance.
    1 hr 8 min
  • Empire-Episode44-AntonChaitkin
    Philip interviews Anton Chaitkin.
    Chaitkin has done some sharply original work in American history, in hundreds of articles and two books, Treason in America, from Aaron Burr to Averell Harriman -- a 600-page history of the struggle between the American nationalists and the tory-British faction -- and George Bush, the Unauthorized Biography.
    1 hr 19 min
  • Empire-Episode42-AlenSalerian
    Washington psychiatrist Dr. Alen Salerian was taken down by the FBI. Why? Was it his stance on psychiatric drugs? Or what he believes about the JFK assassination and other government lies?
    51 min
  • Empire-Episode41-PaulEdwards
    Phillip Farruggio interviews Paul Edwards for the second time. It's a great talk focusing on Paul's article "The sociopath as hero" which takes on the movie American Sniper.
    1 hr 6 min