Aaron and Bryce speak with Dr. Jill Stein, the Green Party presidential candidate for 2024. We discuss how she came to be the 2024 nominee, the Cornel West debacle, the Gaza Genocide, the collapse of the US Empire, and the urgent need for an American Truth & Reconciliation process.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This episode kicks off our series with Ben Howard on the post-Cold War global drug meta-group (GDMG). For a time, the GDMG was centered around the milieu at Far West, a private military/intelligence outfit that combined elements of classic deep state outfits like the World Commerce Corporation, Booz Allen, BCCI, etc.

The basis for this series is Peter Dale Scott's epic 2005 Lobster magazine article, “The Global Drug Meta-Group: Drugs, Managed Violence, and the Russian 9/11.” This article and its subject matter were a major part of Peter's poem “A Ballad of Drugs and 9/11” which we discussed in Part 20 of our Peter Dale Scott Oral History series.

Check out the CovertAction Magazine 9/11 trilogy by Good, Howard, Scott:

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: Why Did Key U.S. Officials Protect the Alleged 9/11 Plotters?

• The Twenty Year Shadow of 9/11: U.S. Complicity in the Terror Spectacle and the Urgent Need to End It

Note: This episode was recorded before I learned of the newly less-redacted James Angleton Church Committee testimony. That, to my mind, is very relevant to understanding Far West and the GDMG, as we will discuss in coming episodes.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange

Aaron is joined by Vanessa Beeley and Dr. Piers Robinson to discuss issues raised by their 2024 article, “ Understanding Power Dynamics and Moving Beyond Divisions: COVID 19 through to Ukraine and Israel/Palestine.” In particular, we discuss whether our terrible regime is a manifestation of Western capitalist imperialism or, alternatively, if we are ruled by a globalist cabal that secretly commands the governments in Washington, London, Tel Aviv, Beijing, Moscow, and Tehran.

Vanessa Beeley is an independent journalist and photographer who has worked extensively in the Middle East - on the ground in Syria, Egypt, Iraq and Palestine, while also covering the conflict in Yemen since 2015. Vanessa contributes regularly to UK Column News, RT, Press TV and many independent media outlets. You can find her work at her Substack and on Patreon.

Piers Robinson is the founding editor of Propaganda in Focus. He is also co-director of the Organisation for Propaganda Studies, convenor of the Working Group on Syria, Propaganda and Media, associated researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’, and member of Panda and BerlinGroup21.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Aaron and Bryce discuss the latest on the Gaza Genocide and how even The Economist magazine is acknowledging the existential crisis facing the Western imperialism--aka, the "liberal order."

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Arnaud Bertrand joins us to discuss the reemergence of China on the global stage—a development that has unfolded in the context of a neocon-propelled collapse of US hegemony and Western imperialism on the whole.

Arnaud has a very popular account on Twitter/X where he is an insightful and informed commentator tweeting in English about China—especially about China’s domestic and foreign policies. In this episode, we talk about these issues and their implications for China and the West.

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Aaron and Bryce discuss the latest on the Gaza Solidarity Encampments, the Russia-Iran-China alliance converging against the US empire, and the suspiciously convenient rise of ISUS. Aaron discusses his new deep political historical thesis of an Western intelligence mob war going back to the early Cold War.

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

Kit Klarenberg returns to discuss his recent articles on US support for terrorist mafia parastates--Kosovo and ISIS. Kit is an investigative journalist exploring the role of intelligence services in shaping politics and perceptions. Please support Kit's work if you can by subscribing to Active Measures! Featured in this episode:

• Collapsing Empire: 'How US Broke Kosovo'

• Tony Blair’s Secret Yugoslavia Invasion Plot

• How CIA and MI6 Created ISIS

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode! Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange

Aaron and Bryce discuss issues related to the campus protests spreading across the US in opposition to the Zionist campaign of genocide in Gaza. Bryce Greene has been a leader of this movement at Indiana University in Bloomington. He was recently arrested and subsequently banished from campus for 5 years by the powers that be. We talk about this along with related issues…like the question: Is Israel a US puppet or is the US controlled by Zionism…or do we have to choose one or the other for some reason?

Support Bryce Greene and the movement here: https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/helpourselves

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music