Former judge Bill Blum chats with the LA Progressive about the ways in which the Supreme Court has supercharged the nation’s gun violence epidemic. He tells Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive that the Supreme Court has left our schools, streets and communities soaked in blood. He says we'd be wrong if we justed pointed the blame at the National Rifle Association and their lackeys in the Republican Party. Raise another finger.

You can read Bill Blum's article here:

https://www.laprogressive.com/law-and-justice/american-way-of-death

Henry Giroux is an American-Canadian scholar and cultural critic. One of the founding theorists of critical pedagogy in the United States, he is best known for his pioneering work in public pedagogy, cultural studies, youth studies, higher education, media studies, and critical theory. Henry Giroux sits with Dick Price and Sharon Kyle of the LA Progressive and explains how liberal education strengthens democracy. You can read the article Henry wrote on this same topic here:

https://www.laprogressive.com/education-reform/critical-pedagogy-in-dark-times

Today, John Kiriakou is an author and a journalist but not long ago, he was a CIA counterterrorism officer and a senior investigator with the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. It was in this roll that John became the sixth whistleblower indicted by the Obama administration under the Espionage Act – a law designed to punish spies. He served 23 months in prison as a result of his attempts to oppose the Bush administration's torture program. You can find John's writings at http://ConsortiumNews.com, http://johnkiriakou.substack.com and https://www.laprogressive.com/author/john-kiriakou