Conchita Sarnoff is the executive director of the Alliance to Rescue Victims of Trafficking,

a non profit organization based in Washington DC with a mission to

increase political and public awareness about human trafficking and

child sex trafficking in particular. A large part of the organization’s

work is rescue girls between the ages of 6 and 12 in North America. She

broke the story in 2010 about billionaire Jeffrey Epstein’s pedophilia

ring. She has been a contributor to the Financial Times, Latin America

Herald Tribune, the Huffington Post, Daily Beast and other publications

and has appeared as a television commentator on NBC, Fox, ABC, Russia TV

among others. Conchita graduated from Columbia University with a degree

in political science and received additional credentials from the

Harvard Business School.  This month she published her book “Trafficking”

– which takes a hard look at the underground of child sex trafficking

and highlights the case of Jeffrey Epstein, a close confidante of Bill

Clinton.  Her websites are ConchitaSarnoff.com and  ATRVT.org

On the "Progressive Commentary Hour," Gary talks about the European Union and what will happen if the TIPP comes to exist.

Here is the full video for you to enjoy: BREXIT - The Full Movie. BREXIT, the movie is a feature-length documentary film to inspire as many people as possible to vote to LEAVE the EU in the June 23rd referendum.

Gary plays two great clips from Noam Chosky and Yanis Varoufakis. Here is the info and links for them:

VIDEO: Noam Chomsky on why TIPP is not a trade agreement - "Highly protectionist" and "for the benefit of private powers"

VIDEO: Yanis Varoufakis on Hillary Clinton - Ex-Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis had a few choice things to say about Hillary Clinton. Video from Business Insider.

Lastly on today's show, Gary talks to the great Greg Palast. Here is a brief bio of Greg:

Greg Palast is a journalist’s journalist whose news breaking stories and investigations have appeared on BBC, the Guardian, Al-Jazeera, now Rolling Stone and others.  The Tribune in the UK has called Greg “the most important investigative journalist in our time.” Greg broke the stories of voter theft in Florida districts during the 2000 Bush-Gore election, BP’s corruption over the Deep Horizon catastrophe in the Gulf, the Bush administration’s secret pre-invasion plans to capture Iraq’s oil fields, and US’s attempted coups against Hugo Chavez. He has won many awards including the George Orwell award for Courage in Journalism. He holds an MBA in Finance from the University of Chicago and authored several books including “Billionaires and Ballot Bandits” and “Armed Madhouse” and “Vulture’s Picnic." He is currently making a new full feature documentary – the Best Democracy Money Can Buy. You can read Greg’s reports at GregPalast.com

On today's Progressive Commentary Hour, Gary spoke about these articles and spoke with Dr.Jim Garrison,

The collapse of the middle-class job

Sadistic capitalism: Six urgent matters for humanity in global crisis

Gary went to his guest now and here is his bio:

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 innovative principles of whole brain and whole system learning. The

university operates on four continents with partners in the EU, India,

Mexico, South Africa, Russia, Vietnam and others. 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. He is the author of “America as Empire: Global Leader or Rogue Power? and “Civilization and the Transformation of Power”  Jim has graduate degrees in religion and theology from Harvard and Cambridge universities. His websites are WisdomUniversity.org and UbiquityUniversity.org

This is article Jim Garrison spoke about:

Democracies end when they are too democratic.