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Interview with Webster Tarpley on the deepening economic crisis, its systemic causes including fictitious derivatives trading, federal reserve policy, commodity speculation, the Intercontinental Exchange (ICE); the credit crunch, the gutting of 1930's regulation; etc. We discuss an array of possible counter measures. Aired: August 13, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Sander Hicks speaks in Berkeley, CA on his investigations and research into black operations behind the events of September 11, 2001. Aired: August 20, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Speech by David Ray Griffin with an introduction by economist Michel Chossudovsky. Aired: August 27, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Part Two of speech by David Ray Griffin in Montreal, Quebec, Canada on June 21, 2008. Aired: September 3, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.orgeconomics

From a presentation by George Lakoff, Professor of Cognitive Science and Linguistics at the University of California, Berkeley and author of, "The Political Mind: Why You Can't Understand Twenty-First Century Politics With an Eighteenth Century Brain". Aired: September 17, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

"The New Kleptocracy" with economist Dr. Michael Hudson on Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson's "Plan" passed by Congress on October 3, 2008. We discuss what is being purchased, the congressional vote, what this means for the oligarchs, and what this means for the rest of us. Aired: October 8, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Interview with economist and financial historian, Dr. Michael Hudson, discussing the largest financial theft in American history - the evolving giveaway to Wall Street criminals. We talk about the class war leading to depopulation, de-industrialization, poverty, and sharply increasing default and debt. The bailout offers no help to the economy. The only way to resolve the crisis is to write down the debt, and this is not being done. We discuss the IMF/World Bank, the end of foreign investment, Enron-style accounting, and the false cover story promulgated through media deception. The bailout is a gangland operation to pay the pals of Paulson. Aired: October 15, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Interview with Director of Research and Coordinator for the GlobalEurope Anticipation Bulletin, Franck Biancheri. We discuss the global systemic crisis leading to a Very Great Depression in the United States. Each month, the Bulletin brings its unique analyses of the upcoming stages of the collapse of the world order created after 1945, as well as numerous strategic recommendations for decisions in the political, economic and financial fields. Visit their websites at www.leap2020.eu and www.europe2020.org. Aired: December 10, 2008 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Dr. David Ray Griffin who shows that the greatest obstacle to seeing the truth - that 9/11 was an inside job - is not the lack of evidence, but what can be called "nationalist faith" - the belief that America is the "exceptional nation", whose leaders never deliberately do anything truly evil, at least to their own citizens. Aired: January 7, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Israel's broader military-intelligence plan, "Operation Justified Vengeance" (Ariel Sharon 2001) of which "Operation Cast Lead" is part; the assassination of Yaser Arafat; the humanitarian crisis; strategic gas reserves offshore from Gaza; and Israel's energy transport corridor along the coast of the eastern Mediterranean. Aired: January 14, 2009 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Joe Biden's enigmatic Seattle campaign speech; geopolitical strategy of the new administration; war and peace with particular focus on Obama's political appointments of Secretary of Defense, Head of the Joint Chiefs, National Security Advisor, and Ambassador to the United Nations. Aired: January 21, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The causes and consequences of the financial meltdown; the speculative onslaught; financial fraud and the bank bailouts; the impacts on employment, wages and social services; the economic crisis and its relationship to the Middle East war; the centralization of corporate power; the concentration of wealth; and the globalization of poverty. Aired: February 18, 2009 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Today we define the crisis; discuss the Federal Reserve; the steps that ought to be taken; the Troubled Asset Recovery Program or TARP; foreclosures; the administration's Stimulus Package; the "bad bank" concept under Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner, Larry Summers, Paul Volker and Austan Goolsbee; the upcoming budget, the Fiscal Responsibility Summit; and what lies ahead under present policies. Aired: February 25, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

With financial economist and historian, Dr. Michael Hudson. We begin with an analysis of the continuing bailout of insurance giant AIG and Monday's stock market selloff; price and debt deflation; the two sectors of the economy; two definitions of 'free markets'; the classical economists; revolution from the right and the former Soviet states; the threat of war; IMF/World Bank resurgence; the dollar versus the euro; analogies to Rome, neo-feudalism. Aired: March 4, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The administration's 2010 budget will entail the most drastic curtailment in public spending in American history, leading to social havoc and the potential impoverishment of millions of people. Defense spending and bank bailouts will consume all government revenue resulting in fiscal collapse that will lead to the privatization of the state. Aired: March 11, 2009 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The myth of free enterprise; the crash of 2008-2009; derivative speculation; the $8.5 trillion corporate bailout with no strings attached; the maximization of profit and the domination of the banks; the crisis of overproduction; the subprime housing, heathcare, and education crisis; the great depression and the permanent war economy; the need for a movement of people to bring about change. Aired: April 8, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss Franck Biancheri's open letter to the G20, "Last Chance Before Global Geopolitical Dislocation", which advocates for three strategic recommendations: 1) the creation of a new international reserve currency, 2) the control of banks on a global scale, and 3) an independent assessment of the three national financial systems at the heart of the current financial crisis - the United States, United Kingdom and Switzerland. If radical action is not taken within six months, it is anticipated that the opportunity to shorten the crisis to a 3 to 5 year duration will no longer be possible, and the world (particularly the U.S.) will be in for a very harsh geopolitical dislocation lasting for a decade or more. Aired: March 25, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Europe; the worsening financial situation and indebtedness; the history of banking and the criminalization of the banking system; tax policy; real estate asset inflation; US imperialism via the monetary system; neoliberal/neofeudal economics; classical political economy; finance capital breaking away from industrial capital; the financial crisis leading to a political crisis; similarities with the Roman Republic; what measures labor should take. Aired: April 15, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Reporter and author Reese Erlich on Cuba's history with the United States; U.S. policy and the future of Cuba; present day realities on the island; and options and challenges facing Cuba. His new book is "Dateline Havana: The Real Story of U.S. Policy and the Future of Cuba. Aired: April 29, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

With Israeli activist Dorothy Naor. The continuous state of war; Israeli government policies of ethnic cleansing and expansionism leading to the devaluation of human life, including the loss of life and limb, socio-economic deterioration, post-traumatic stress and lack of security; boycott, divestment and sanctions as non-violent means to pressure the Israeli government. Aired: May 27, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

With physicist Dr. Steven E. Jones discussing the most recent scientific research into the composition of dust samples collected from the destruction of the World Trade Center buildings on September 11th, 2001. Dr. Jones describes the scientific process of uncovering the mystery of the explosions by examining these dust particles, and the discovery of the red/grey chips and nano thermite. The scientific paper, "Active Thermitic Material Discovered in Dust from the 9/11 World Trade Center Catastrophe", published in "The Open Chemical Physics Journal", can be accessed at http://www.journalof911studies.com. Aired: June 3, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Economic historian and author, Webster Tarpley, discusses his Draft Emergency Action Program For California. The budget crisis in California and most other states are signals that the United States and the world are sinking into an economic depression of awesome destructive power. He offers nine recommendations to head off looming disaster. We also discuss the London Intercontinental Exchange, the London ICE, and its role in commodity speculation; and the Obama Administration's anticipated handling of the health care crisis. Aired: July 1, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Aired: July 8, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

With William Pepper, author of "An Act of State: The Assassination of Martin Luther King", his second book on the King case. William Pepper was a close political associate of Dr. King's in the last year of his life. Pepper represented James Earl Ray on appeal of his conviction for the murder of Dr. King. This presentation was given in Long Beach, California in January 2003, after the publication of the book. Part Two continues Pepper's presentation, and concludes with a 45 minute question and answer session. Aired: June 7, 2006 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Reese Erlich was in Teheran covering the recent elections. He gives a firsthand account of the demonstrations before and after the elections; the politics of the candidates; election fraud; and provides historical context. Aired: July 29, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Dmitry Orlov is author of "Reinventing Collapse - The Soviet Example and American Prospects". Dmitry Orlov's repeated travels to Russia throughout the early nineties allowed him to observe the aftermath of the Soviet collapse first-hand. Being both a Russian and an American, Dmitry was able to appreciate both the differences and the similarities between the two superpowers. Eventually he came to the conclusion that the United States is going the way of the Soviet Union. His emphasis is on all the things that can still be made to work, and he advocates simply ignoring all that will fall by the wayside. Aired: August 5, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Iceland's banking crisis and foreign debt; it's decision to push back against IMF and World Bank austerity; Gordon Brown's role in the Icesave scandal; the capacity to pay principle; similarities with Germany's foreign debt reparations from the 1920s; European Union disarray; media omissions. Aired: August 19, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Why the banks are returning the bailout money; bank fees and penalties; banks prefer default to foreclosure; debt as wealth; Obama's Financial Regulatory Reform Proposal and its six major flaws; the deregulation-by centralization ploy; failure to reform the economy will lead to debt peonage. Aired: August 26, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

"Anthrax Wars" with investigative journalist, author and filmmaker, Eric Nadler, on the anthrax attacks of September 2001; the Ames Strain of anthrax; dead microbiologists Bruce Ivins and David Kelly; Bioport and the anthrax vaccine; the new vaccine growth industry; private bio labs and the new bio/military industrial complex. Eric Nadler and Bob Coen's new film, Anthrax War, will have its west coast premiere at the 9/11 Film Festival at the Grand Lake Theatre in Oakland on Thursday, September 10th, at 5:50pm. Eric Nadler will speak after the film. Complete film schedule at www.sf911truth.org. Aired: September 9, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Dr. Griffin's keynote address at the 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival in Oakland, California, on his new book that examines the official NIST report on the collapse of WTC 7; NIST a political agency overseen by the executive branch; omission and falsification of evidence; scientific fraud; media disinformation; no investigation of explosive evidence; melted steel; the mysterious death of 53-year-old Barry Jennings, eyewitness to explosions in Building 7 Aired: October 14, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Question and answer session with David Ray Griffin on the Mysterious Collapse of World Trade Center 7 after his keyote address at the 5th Annual 9/11 Film Festival; and Peter Phillips, Director of Project Censored, on the lack of coverage in the media on critical issues that some people are calling a truth emergency. Aired: October 21, 2009 David Ray Griffin and Peter Phillips Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Excerpts from Part Five of Evidence of Revision, Conspiratus Conspicuous. Some of the voices include Professor Alen Scheflin of Santa Clara University Law School; Colin Ross, M.D., author of Mind Control; Linda Macdonald, victim of brainwashing experiments; Martin Lee, author of Acid Dreams; Sirhan Sirhan's mother; Dr. Philip Milansin; Dr. William Bryan; Sirhan Sirhan; Paul McKenna, PhD, Hypnotist; Congressman Leo Ryan; Reverend Jim Jones; Deborah Layton, Jonestown defector; Kit Nasaimento, Minister of Communication, Guyana Government, 1978; Jackie Speier, then Legal Aid to Congressman Ryan; Tim Carter, Jonestown survivor; reporter Bob Jimenez; Captain John Moscatelli, US Air Force; Joseph Holsinger, Legislative Aid to Congressman Leo Ryan from a May 23, 1980 press conference; and researcher, John Judge. Aired: November 18, 2009 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Former Nebraska State Senator, author and attorney, John DeCamp, discusses his involvement and investigation into financial and child abuse scandals surrounding the seizure of the Omaha, Nebraska based Franklin Community Federal Credit Union during the savings and loan crisis of the late 1980s. He also discusses some of his experience as an Army Captain during the Vietnam War, and his work with former CIA Director, William E. Colby. Aired: December 2, 2009 http://franklinscandal.com/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Discussion of Obama's West Point speech; the escalation of the wars in Central Asia, specifically Pakistan and Uzbekistan; what the war policy is and why; who are the Taliban?; Blackwater and black ops; India and Kashmir. Aired: December 9, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the possible civil liberties implications of Obama's West Point speech, and an historic parallel between Woodrow Wilson and Barack Obama. Most of the program focuses on the arrests and detention of so-called "homegrown terrorists" including Najibullah Zazi, the Bronx Bombers, the Fort Dix Six, the Liberty City 7 (aka the Miami Haitians), the Toronto 18, etc.; extensive discussion of the Ft. Hood shooter case and Tarpley's essay, "Nidal Malik Hasan of Virginia Tech, Bethesda and Fort Hood: A Major Patsy in a Drill Gone Live?" Aired: December 16, 2009 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

History professor and author, Dongping Han, talks about his life growing up during the Cultural Revolution in China. Discussion of the importance of work; the educational system in Mao's China; the recent riots in Xinjiang Province between ethnic minority Uighurs and Han Chinese; the famine during the Great Leap Forward; the writings of Mao; essential elements of a successful social revolution. This presentation was part of the Rediscovering China's Cultural Revolution symposium at the University of California at Berkeley sponsored by Revolution Books and Monthly Review Press. Aired: January 13, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Ann Tomkins talks about her personal experience living and working in Beijing during the first five years of the Cultural Revolution, in which she was first an observer, and then a participant. Robert Weil discusses some of the reasoning that led to the Cultural Revolution, which was a revolution within a revolultion, and some of the enduring ideas about people and society that it spawned. Aired: January 27, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Interview with economist Michael Hudson on Obama's State of the Union Speech and its economic consequences; the reappointment of Federal Reserve Chairman, Ben Bernanke. Aired: February 3, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the Federal Reserve; money as debt; Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's misconception of the causes of the great depression of the 1930's; classical political economy versus anti-classical, so-called "neoclassical", economics; the labor theory of value; the dollar carry trade; government deficit spending; Greece. Aired: February 10, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Attorney Barry Kissin discusses the anthrax atacks of September 2001 and the perpetrators; Amerithrax, the FBI's investigation into the anthrax attacks and its cover-up of these events; the FBI case against the late Bruce Ivins of Ft. Detrick; the US biowarfare military industrial intelligence complex; government sponsored bio-weapons research in private military contractor laboratories; Battelle Memorial Institute in Ohio; the Dugway Proving Ground in Utah; the weaponization of anthrax; the new biowarfare arms race. He is the author of a 22-page memorandum to Congressman Rush Holt of New Jersey, "The Truth About the Anthrax Attacks and Its Cover-Up". Aired: March 24, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

We discuss the investigative work behind his book, "Family of Secrets: The Bush Dynasty, The Powerful Forces That Put It In the White House, and What Their Influence Means for America"; his new internet investigative journalism project, Who What Why; some of the stories he investigated for Family of Secrets, and challenges facing journalists. Aired: March 31, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Live with investigative reporters and authors, Kristina Borjesson, Charlotte Dennett and Peter Dale Scott. Kristina Borjesson is editor of "Into the Buzzsaw: Leading Journalists Expose The Myth of a Free Press" and "Feet to the Fire: The Media After 9/11: Top Journalists Speak Out". Charlotte Dennett is author of "The People v Bush: One Lawyer's Campaign to Bring the President to Justice and the Grassroots Movement She Encountered Along the Way" and co-author with her husband, Gerard Colby, of "Thy Will Be Done: Nelson Rockefeller and Evangelism in the Age of Oil". Peter Dale Scott is author of "The War Conspiracy: JFK, 9/11 and the Deep Politics of War", "The Road to 9/11: Wealth, Empire and the Future of America", "Deep Politics and the Death of JFK", and Crime and Cover-Up: The CIA, the Mafia and the Dallas-Watergate Connection" among many other books. Aired: April 7, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Signs of the coming break-up of Anglo-Saxon financial domination; trends for the second half of 2010; coverage of the Greek problem; the Euro and the Eurozone; bank bailouts; interest rates; money to fund the huge western public debt becoming increasingly difficult to find. Aired: May 5, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Discussion of the new anthology; the deepening global economic crisis; financial speculation; fiscal crisis; poverty; drug trade; savings and credit crisis; the long war; big brother state. Aired: June 2, 2010 http://www.globalresearch.ca/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Brief history of banking; two ways to create money, either publicly or privately; credit creates money and debt; the Federal Reserve; bubbles and crashes; market manipulation; recent changes in banking and accounting rules; securitization; Bank of International Settlements in Basel, Switzerland; the need for state owned banks. Aired: June 9, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Economic crisis in Europe created by predatory lending; European Central Bank stranglehold on the Eurozone; the Euro; foreign banks decimate Greece's social structure; Marx's industrial capital versus fictitious capital; Latvia as a model for the rest of Europe; Hudson's financial and fiscal plan for Latvia; the Cold War and its ruinous effect on progressive economic thought. Aired: June 16, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Comparison of the three waves of the depression of the 1930s with the progression of the current depression: the October 1929 New York Stock Market crash; the summer 1931 banking panic and collapse of Europe, including the destruction of the world monetary system which depended on the British pound; and the subsequent banking panic and closure of the banks in the United States. Aired: June 23, 2010 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The Financial Reform Bill, including The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau; The National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform, more popularly known as the White House Deficit Commission, the Austerity Commission, or the Peterson Commission; the G20 meeting in Toronto; the effort to export the depression. Aired: July 7, 2010 http://tarpley.net/ Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

The Doomsday Project; Executive Order 12656 of 1988; National Security Presidential Directive 51 and SPD 51 of 2007; the National Emergencies Act; National Security Directive 55 of September 14, 1982 by President Ronald Reagan; counterinsurgency planning called Cable Splicer; the National Preparedness Review of May 2001; Northcom. Aired: July 14, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org

Propaganda model post 9/11 becomes deliberate disinformation; consolidation of media and public relations groups; prison torture across the US; domestic secret detention centers; Operation FALCON mass arrests; suspension of habeas corpus by the Chief Executive; US and NATO as protectors of global capital; structure of inequality maintained by global capital and military empire worldwide; repression that addresses us all; the 1948 Declaration of Human Rights. Aired: August 4, 2010 Visit Guns and Butter at: http://www.gunsandbutter.org