Progressive Commentary Hour

Tonight on the Progressive Commontary Hour. 

Col. Richard Black: U.S. Leading World to Nuclear War

Col. Richard Black. Richard H. Black is a former Republican member of the Virginia State Senate, representing District 13 from 2011 to 2020. Sen. Richard Black, who, after serving 31 years in the Marines and in the Army.

Gary Takes Your Calls. 

1. Why are they hiding this about Ukraine? | Redacted with Natali and Clayton Morris (13:14)

Dr. Jim Garrison is the founding President of Ubiquity University and the Wisdom School of Graduate Studies, an international school of higher education built upon transformational principles of whole brain and whole systems learning. The university operates with partners all over the world. As the co-founder and President of the Gorbachev Foundation, Jim was instrumental in the founding of the State of the World Forum  to lay a template for a  more sustainable global civilization.  In the late 80s he served as the executive director of the Esalen Institute Soviet-American Exchange, and founded the International Foreign Policy Association in collaboration with Secretary of State George Schultz and Georgian President Edward Shevardnadze. Jim hosts the daily podcast Humanity Rising Summit -- conversations with people at the cutting of cultural change.  Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His websites are UbiquityUniversity.org and WisdomUniversity.org

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s finest and most important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has called Michael “the world’s best economist.” He is the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, and a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and has served as an adviser to the White House, State and Defense departments and served as an economic advisor to other governments including Iceland, Latvia and China.  Michael has written many books and important papers and articles, including "Lending, Foreclosure and Redemption from Bronze Age Finance to the Jubilee Year" which is about debt forgiveness, and most recently last year “Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire” which explains how the US economy manages to stay afloat despite all reason that it should not. His website is Michael-Hudson.com

Dr. Jack Rasmus is a professor of political economics at St. Mary’s College and Santa Clara University in California.  Prior to teaching, he was an economic analyst for several global corporations and an organizer, negotiator and business representative for several labor unions. At one time he was elected at the National First Vice President of the National Writers Union.  In addition to his economic profession, Dr. Rasmus is a playwright and author of fictional works dealing with social struggles, and the owner of Kyklos Productions. He is the author of many books, most recent being “The Scourge of Neoliberalism: US Economic Policy from Reagan to Trump” and “Alexander Hamilton and the Origins of the Fed”. Jack also hosts a radio program “Alternative Visions” on the Progressive Radio Network every Friday at 2 pm Eastern time. His website is JackRasmus.com 

Prof. Tim Coles is a researcher at the Cognition Institute at Plymouth University in the UK, director of the Plymouth Institute for Peace Research, and a columnist writing about politics and human rights. His articles have been published in journals and online by Newsweek, the Grayzone,the New Statesmen, Truthout, Counterpunch and other other sources. He has frequently co-written essays with Australian investigative journalist John Pilger. Tim has written over 15 books including "Capitalism and Coronavirus", "Real Fake News," "Voices for Peace" (with Noam Chomsky), and most recently "Bioterrorism: The Tech-Pharma Complex and the End of Democracy" -- which traces the history of bioterrorism aback to its 18th century eugenic roots up to the present with the emergence of surveillance capitalism, transhumanism, a techno-pharma regime and more recently the Great Rest being advanced by the World Economic Forum. 

The Financial Side of the Pandemic that Reveals What May Be Really Going on

Leslie Manookian is the founding president of the Health Freedom Defense Fund - a non profit organization committed to the education, protection and advancement of health freedom while advocating for human rights and bodily autonomy for all people. The fund opposes unethical laws such as vaccination mandates. Earlier Leslie was a successful Wall Street business executive. Her career in finance took her from New York to London with Goldman Sachs. Later she was the Director of Alliance Capital in London running their European Growth Portfolio Management and Research businesses. While working in global finance she also continued her education in homeopathy. In 2011, she wrote and produced the award winning documentary The Greater Good that explores the vaccine debate and controversies.  She received her batchelor's degree from Middlebury College and later her MBA from the University of Chicago. Leslie's organization's website is HealthFreedomDefense.org