How the radical Left turned America's cities into “slums” | Michael Shellenberger interview

San Francisco is situated at the heart of America’s tech boom. Yet according to this week’s guest, much of the city looks like a slum. Homelessness is rampant. Drug use is soaring and violent crime continues to rise. To find out what is happening to America’s most progressive cities Steven Edgintin is joined by the environmentalist and best-selling author Michael Shellenberger.

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 06.21.22

Gary Null discusses progressive issues with some of the most remarkable minds in the world.

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Dr. Rick Leskowitz is a board certified and retired Harvard Medical School-affiliated psychiatrist specializing in energy psychology and pain management. For 25 years, Dr. Leskowitz practiced at the Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital in Boston, which advocates for a body-mind approach. At Harvard, he directed an Integrative Medicine Task Force, and is a founding member of the Sports, Energy and Consciousness Group - an integrated collective of doctors, psychologists, scientists and world class athletes. While traveling through India in the mid-1970s, Rick became interested in subtle energy and its relation to physical health and mental well being. Since then he has been a leader in energy psychology. He has published 50 peer-reviewed papers and four books, the latest being "The Mystery of Life Energy: Biofield Healing, Phantom Limbs, Group Energetics and Gaia Consciousness," which examines the scientific evidence to support the reality of the human biofield and its practical applications in healing.

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J.J. Carrell is a US border patrol officer who served for 24 years and retired as a deputy patrol agent in charge. He was a supervisor of the San Diego-Tijuana border unit that had a high rate of violence and supervised Coastal Border Enforcement Team operations to stop maritime narcotic smuggling and human trafficking run by the global Mexican Sinaloa cartel and securing convictions against its leader and the notorious drug lord El Chapo. In recent years there has been an increasing immigration crisis on America's southern borders with undocumented or poorly documented immigrants from around the world entering and being relocated across the nation. Conservative figures according to the Homeland Security statistics record a least 6.3 million migrant encounters at ports of entry since Biden took office in January 2021, and 2.4 million migrants permitted to enter. J.J. has been speaking out against this invasion and putting the facts in order based upon years of first hand eye-witness experiences.  He is author of "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of America's Immigration System", which documents the nation's border patrol's narrative. J.J. is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University where he attended on a football scholarship. He also competed in two races around the world on two episodes of CBS's The Amazing Race. His website is JJCarrell.com and J.J. blogs articles at Border Truth on Substack at jjcarrell.substack.com.

The Progressive Commentary Hour 5.7.24

Dr. Glenn Diesen is a professor at the Business School of the University of Southeast Norway, where he specializes in Russian foreign policy, geopolitical economics and Eurasia. He is an associate editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and sits on the boards of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna, the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo, Serbia and at the Contemporary World Economy in Moscow. Prof. Diesen has published 11 books dealing with Russia and Eurasia, the European Union, NATO and the clash between East and West, which have been translated into multiple languages. His most recent release is "The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order" that looks at the Ukraine conflict as a symptom of the collapsing world order, the decline of US-Western global hegemony, and the rise of a new multipolar order that emphasizes the individual sovereignty of nations. Dr. Diesen was educated in Australia and received his doctorate in international relations jointly from Macquaire University in Australia and Vrije University in the Netherlands. He hosts a talk program on geopolitics, often co-hosted with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran, that can be viewed on the Glenn Diesen Youtube channel.

The Progressive Commentary Hour 4.30.24

William Pepper is an international civil and human rights attorney based in  New York best known for representing Martin Luther King’s accused assassin, James Earl Ray. In 1967, Dr. King had reached out to Dr. Pepper regarding an essay he had written for Ramparts magazine concerning Vietnamese victims of American napalm missions. He  was present at Dr. King’s famous Riverside Church speech.  William was the citizens chairman for Robert Kennedy’s run for the Senate in Westchester Country and also a counsel for Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan arguing for a second shooter. William received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, a Juris Doctoral degree from Boston College and also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science.  His book -- “The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr” was the result of 39 years of research and gathering of documentation and sworn testimonies on new confirmed information that will revise the history behind the assassination of Dr. King .

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Ken McCarthy has been a lifelong advocate for natural medicine and exposing the corruption of medicine and is currently an author and publisher. Ken was an early pioneer in the movement to commercialize the internet. Time Magazine credits him with being the first to articulate click-through rate as a primary metric for making the internet commercially viable and was instrumental in the development of website banner ads.  His work as an environmentalist includes halting the construction of a coal-powered cement plant in the Hudson Valley and proper reconstruction of New Orleans' levees. Among his books are two volumes of "The Covid Con" and the Amazon bestseller "Fauci's First Fraud," which was important for informing Robert Kennedy Jr's The Real Anthony Fauci. His most recent book is "What the Nurses Saw" -- an investigation into the systematic medical murders that took place in hospitals during the Covid pandemic and the stories of nurses who fought back to save patients.   Ken's website WhatTheNursesSaw.com has a lot of important information, articles, interviews and videos to inform the public and citizens about the corruption in hospitals and medical facilities.

The Progressive Commentary Hour - 06.21.22

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