Hello Rhymes Media Group Fam! This is a new edition of RMG's #IndependentMediaMonday w/Dr. Edward Rhymes. Had a wonderful talk w/Joaquin Flores Director of Center for Syncretic Studies. Topic? Serbia. As Director of CSS. Joaquin has developed the scope of the Center’s work, promoted the goals of the Centern and selects relevant works for publication on the website

Mr. Flores is also the Editor-in-Chief of Fort Russ. Fort Russ News is a popular news portal – reaching more than 100,000 readers a day – with a focus primarily on the ‘world-island’ of Eurasia. Founded at the end of 2014, they are 100% independent. 

For more info on Fort Russ, visit their website: https://www.fort-russ.com/

For more info on the Center for Syncretic Studies, visit their website: https://syncreticstudies.com/

Hello RMG Fam. This #IndependentMediaMonday we have as our guest the contributing editor of the Black Agenda Report Margaret Kimberley. We will discuss the "bamboozling" impact that Russiagate has had on recognizing the continued theft of the Black vote - as well as social media's corrosive effect on the Black left

Additionally Dr. Rhymes and Ms. Kimberley will dissect the US economic war on Venezuela. This promises to be an informative and insightful broadcast. So see you there; see you then.

Freedom Rider: Russiagate Covers Up Black Vote Theft: https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-russiagate-covers-black-vote-theft

Freedom Rider: Social Media’s Danger to the Black Left: https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-social-medias-danger-black-left

Freedom Rider: The United States Destroys Venezuela’s Economy: https://www.blackagendareport.com/freedom-rider-united-states-destroys-venezuelas-economy

Hello Rhymes Media Group Fam Adam Garrie, political analyst of The Duran, writes in his latest piece: The United States has an empathy problem which feeds a culture of violence abroad, ignorance at home and tragedy all around, Among many Americans and certainly among those whose narrative is embraced by the mainstream media, the wider world’s cognitive dissonance is somehow lost in an ever pervasive exceptionalist attitude whereby Americans elevate their domestic tragedies to the level of a cataclysm, while the deaths caused by the United States in the wider world, are reduced at best to the level of statistics and at worse, to the level of a macabre achievement.

Dr. Rhymes and Adam have a lively conversation about this dynamic in American society and culture and some of the potential remedies for this "empathy deficit. So tune in to an interesting and captivating conversation here on RMG's Rhymes Reasons. See you there; see you then.

Hello RMG Fam. This is another installment of Rhymes Media Group's World Voices.

"Has your country gotten any better after all these wars?" Sama asks extremely poignant questions an she gives stirring and insightful answers in this newest entry of RMG's World Voices. One can't help being moved by her candor about US foreign policy and compassion for her homeland. Listen and expect to be challenged & enlightened. 

You can hear this only here on Rhymes Media Group. See you there, see you then.

Today is #IndependentMediaMonday and our, very special guest, was the superb, independent journalist, Eva Karene Bartlett.

Eva Bartlett fresh from her journey to the DPRK in North Korea, talks about her insights and discusses w/Edward Rhymes the issues facing that nation. Ed and Eva talk about the provocative war games that US have engaged in on right outside North Korea - and North Korea as the simulated enemy in these war games; the anti-North Korean propaganda machine the West's quashing of North & South Korea's reunification and the desires of the North Korean people.

It is difficult to come away from talking w/Eva without being better informed. She puts it on the line in her travels and she is uncompromisingly honest in her work as an investigative journalist. Join us, here, on #IndependentMediaMonday. See you there; see you then.

Hello Rhymes Media Group Fam. On this episode of Rhymes Reasons, Dr. Rhymes talks with Minnesota-based scholar and theologian Les Lester. We cover the lack of Black studies in our public school curriculums; we discuss the role miseducation has played in the current circumstances of Blacks in America and what can be done to remedy that painful reality.

Join us for this hour of insightful dialogue and discussion. Thanks for stopping by RMG Fam. See you there; see you then.

Hello RMG Fam. Today is #IndependentMediaMonday and our guest is a RMG favorite, Gilbert Mercier, Co-Founder/Co-Editor of News Junkie Post. Gilbert is the author of The Orwellian Empire and has written many compelling pieces over the years.

Today's discusiion will center around two of his most recent esays: New Orleans a Decade after Katrina: ‘Waiting for Godot’ Courtesy of Disaster Capitalism and Mercier and Draitser Discuss Disaster Capitalism in Post Katrina New Orleans. Mercier outlines and details the aims of disaster & vulture capitalism post-Katrina and how the oligrachs have merged climate change with their nefarious takeovers of capital and assests.

This is sure to be an thought-provoking and intellectual stimulating time, so please listen in. The date: August 28, 2017; the time: 1PM CST and the place: RMG's #IndependentMediaMonday. See you there; see you then.

Hello Rhymes Reasons Fam. This is a May 2, 2017 interview of - for a RMG record 3rd time - CIA-whistleblower John Kiriakou.  Former CIA officer and heroic whistleblower - and he just happens to be in my personal Courage Hall of Fame. He was one of the first government officials to reveal the American torture of detainees and prisoners. 

John is an associate fellow with the Institute for Policy Studies, and contributor for Huffington Post. He appears in the 2014 documentary Silenced, a film about three National Security whistleblowers fight to reveal the darkest and illegal secrets regarding America's pseudo-war on terror.

In this broadcast, we talk about John's latest book  Doing Time Like a Spy: How the CIA Taught Me to Survive and Thrive in Prison. In it, he details his experiences in prison, his personal insights into the criminal injustice system and how his training in the CIA was crucial while he was doing time.

John Kiriakou brings a wealth of experience and passion to the program and we are quite sure you will be greatly impacted by what he has to share. 

RMG appreciates your support. if you're not, as of yet, a patron, please consider becoming one. See you there, see you then.

Well, it's been a long time coming, but we have finally nailed down a sit-down with a platinum-standard investigative journalist and host of the Empire Files, Abby Martin, as our guest, here on RMG.. Abby's microphone and camera has traveled to the illegal settlements in Palestine, the US-backed turmoil in Venezuela, as well as the Amazon Rain Forest.

Ms.Martin was also interjected into the 2016 US elections, when a US intelligence report, erroneously, claimed that her work on RT, was part of a Russian propaganda barrage meant to sway the presidency in the direction of Donald Trump. She stands out as an artist, activist and one of the founding spark plugs of the citizen journalism movement.

So be sure to tune in for what promises to be an insightful and engaging time. The date: August 23, 2017; the time: 2pm CST/12pm PST and the place: Rhymes Media Group's Rhymes Reasons. See you there; see you then.

Ben Norton, the brilliant political analyst and investigative reporter for Alternet was our guest for Rhymes Media Group’s #IndependentMediaMonday

Ben joined Dr. Rhymes for an extended interview on US foreign policy. We discussed several issues, including:

*2011 NATO regime change in Libya and the lies that were used to sell the war;

*US policy in Afghanistan from the 1980s to today and the conflict’s role in fueling the opioid epidemic;

*Russia hysteria and the US government and corporate crackdown on independent dissident journalism;

*and the Democratic Party’s inability to engage in self-criticism and American liberals’ seemingly inexorable rightward lurch.

If you can hear Ben speak about the issues of great importance and not come away enlightened, then you really weren't listening. Be sure to add your comments and your voice to this broadcast.