On the "Progressive Commentary Hour,"

Gary speaks with Nicholas Schou and gets deep into the CIA's games and

we learn more about Gary Webb and how the CIA has its claws in

everything. Here is a bio of Nicholas. Enjoy.

Nicholas

Schou is an award winning investigative  journalist whose articles have

resulted in the release from prison of wrongly convicted people.  He is

currently the managing editor of OC Weekly, an alternative news

publication in Southern California.  In the past he has written for LA

Weekly, the San Francisco Bay Guardian and other publications. Nick is

the author of the best seller “Kill the Messenger”

about the CIA’s cocaine operations and the courageous investigative

reporting of Gary Webb.  The book was made into a major movie featuring

Jeremy Renner.  His most recent publication is “Spooked: How the CIA Manipulates the Media and Hoodwinks Hollywood,”

which has received excellent reviews by Peter Dale Scott, whistle

blower John Kiriakou, Oliver Stone and others. His websites are FocusFeatures.com and OCWeekly.com

Guest #1 - Derrick Jensen has

become one of the nation’s leading voices of cultural and environmental

dissent, who writes about civilization devastating impact upon the

environment and the natural world, and our society’s denial of that

fact. Utne Reader listed Derrick among the 50 visionaries changing the

world. In sharp contrast to environmental optimists who believe working

within the corporate system will offset the tenuous planetary balance

threatened by climate change, Derrick has advocated for many years a

“dismantling of civilization” which can include radical dissent as well

as imparting wisdom to our children.  Derrick has written many books

influential books. His recently released “The Myth of Human Supremacy”

may be perhaps be one of his important that goes to heart of the rapid

pace in environmental and ecological degradation. He also hosts a weekly

radio program, Resistance Radio, on the Progressive Radio Network every Sunday evening at 6:00 pm Eastern time. His website is  www.DerrickJensen.org

Guest #2 - Diana

Beresford-Kroeger is an Irish-Canadian researcher, scientist and nature

mystic who perhaps knows more about trees and forests than anyone in

North America. She is an expert botanist  and medical biochemist who has

written extensively on the molecular biology of trees, their medicinal

properties, the social interactions between trees and other life forms

in our forests, sustainable forestry, and the traditional wisdom trees

hold for healing.  Her scientific work has appeared in The American

Heart Journal and the Journal of Microscopy.  In past she has held

science posts at the Canadian Department of Agriculture and the

University of Ottawa School of Medicine.  Diana’s research gardens

outside Ottawa, open to the public, include rare plants from Turkey,

Iran, China, and a hundred rare types of trees from the northern forests

and other countries, many that are endangered.  Her latest book, “The Sweetness of a Simple Life.” And a documentary on Diana’s work across many nations to restore forests, “The Call of the Forest” is scheduled to be released in Fall. More about her work can be found at StuartBernstein.com/DianaBeresford-Kroeger.html 

Abby Martin has rapidly become a leading international voice among young

American journalists and television hosts.  She currently hosts the

weekly investigative news program The Empire Files on the pan-Latin

American network Telesur TV English out of Caracas Venezuela.  The

program features hard hitting investigative history and insights into

subjects ignored by mainstream corporate media. Earlier she was the host

of Breaking the Set on the Russia Today network, better known as RT. 

Abby is a founder of the organization Media Roots that supports citizen

journalism, and serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation

which manages Project Censored, which airs on the PRN network; and she

also co-directed the film “99%: The Occupy Wall Street Collaboration.”

 The Empire Files series can be viewed at TheEmpireFiles.tv, past

Breaking the Set shows can be seen on Youtube, and her personal website

as an accomplished visual artist is AbbyMartin.org

Guest #1 - Kevin Hinchey is a film

directory, professor of cinemaphotography and a director of the Wilhelm

Reich Infant Trust that managers the Wilhelm Reich archives at Harvard

University’s Countway Library of medicine.  He also operates the Wilhelm

Reich museum in Rangeley Maine.  Kevin has a masters from NYU’s

Graduate Film School and has worked as a screenwriter in Los Angeles and

New York City and currently teaches film making and courses about Reich

in Connecticut and Massachusetts.  His lecture series, TheTrue Story of

Government Ordered Bookburning in America, about the destruction of

tons of Reich’s works is a warning of scientific totalitarianism. Kevin

is currently editing a full featured documentary about the life and

thought and research of Wilhelm Reich – the Wilhelm Reich Documentary

Film Project. To help fund the project, visit  https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/wilhelm-reich-documentary-film-project-edit-phase--7#/

Guest #2 - Professor James (Jim) Strick

teaches in the department of earth environment studies at Franklin and

Marshall College in Lancaster Pennsylvania, where is also the Chair of

the Program in Science and Technologhy.  Dr. Strick was trained in

microbiology and has specialized in the history science, the history of

biological ideas and experimentation into life. Jim holds degrees SUNY,

two masters degrees – one in history from Princeton University and

another in environmental sciences from SUNY, and doctorate in history

from Princeton.  He has published volumes about Darwin, Astrobiology and

NASA, the debate about the origins of life and an excellent volume

about Wilhelm Reich – Wilhelm Reich Biologist” – published by Harvard

Press.  He is an advisor of the journal ISIS from the History of Science

Society and has published articles in numerous professional journals.

Charles Ortel is a former Wall

Street banker, having been a Managing Director at Dillon Read and Newport Value

Partners, and private financial investor. In 2007 he became a whistleblower and

was instrumental in bringing down General Electric after revealing GE’s

fraudulently overvaluing its stock by many billions of dollars to mislead its

investors. For the past fifteen months,

Charles has been undertaking a thorough review of the financial records and

collaborations and networks of the Bill, Hillary and Chelsea Clinton

Foundation. His analysis investigated the Foundation’s fundraising practices,

its allies and associates, its so-called charitable interests, and its political

and corporate connections both in Washington and overseas. He received his BA from Yale and an MBA from

Harvard Business School. His weekly blog

exposing the Clinton Foundation can be found at CharlesOrtel.com

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.