American Exception

Episode 38: Settling the Dust w/James DiEugenio [TRAILER]

 
James DiEugenio joins us again to follow up on issues raised in Episode 34--our JFK Assassination debate featuring Jim and Robert Buzzanco. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. He also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website.Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!  Music: "This Nation" by Mock Orange
James DiEugenio joins us again to follow up on issues raised in Episode 34--our JFK Assassination debate featuring Jim and Robert Buzzanco. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. He also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website.Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!  

Episode 37: Deep Statesman: Allen Dulles and ’The Devil’s Chessboard’ w/David Talbot [TRAILER]

 
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Old Man" by Mock Orange
Aaron and guest cohost Brace Belden talk to David Talbot about his book, The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government.
This episode is dedicated to our dear friend and colleague, Professor Peter Dale Scott.
Peter Dale Scott and Ben Howard also both appear in this episode.
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on the Boston Bombing over at TrueAnon: Episode 220: Marathon Men (Part 1)
And of course, check out Brace at TrueAnon.
This episode is also Part 13 in our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Episode 36: ”Biodefense” w/Gumby4Christ [TRAILER]

Aaron talks about "biodefense" with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Til the Mornin" by Mock Orange
Aaron talks about "biodefense" with the illustrious researcher Gumby4Christ.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Episode 35: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 5) [TRAILER]

 
 
This is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
his early research in to Air America
his friendship with Allen Ginsberg
Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin 
CIA influence at The Nation magazine
the Nugan Hand bank
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away" by Mock Orange
This is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
his early research in to Air America
his friendship with Allen Ginsberg
Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin 
CIA influence at The Nation magazine
the Nugan Hand bank
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Episode 34: JFK Assassination Debate

This episode features a debate on the JFK assassination between Robert Buzzanco and James DiEugenio. Buzzanco is a professor of history at the University of Houston. He is also the author of Masters of War: Military Dissent and Politics in the Vietnam Era, as well as cohost of the Green and Red Podcast. James DiEugenio is the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone’s JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed—the four-hour cut of the film which is now available for digital purchase. Jim also runs the fantastic Kennedys and King website and is the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case as well as The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today.
Future episodes of American Exception will follow-up on the material covered in this debate!
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Too Good Your Dreams Don't Come True" by Mock Orange

Episode 33: Maidan and the Birth of USkraine

Aaron and Branko Marcetic talk about the 2014 Maidan coup and the war in Ukraine. Marcetic is a Jacobin staff writer and the author of Yesterday's Man: The Case Against Joe Biden.
Check out some of Branko Marcetic’s work at Jacobin:
What the Left’s Critics Ignore About Military Solutions to Ukraine
Turning Ukraine Into Another Afghanistan Would Be a Disastrous Idea
A US-Backed, Far Right–Led Revolution in Ukraine Helped Bring Us to the Brink of War
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Motel Man" by Mock Orange
 

Episode 32: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 4) [TRAILER]

This is Part 4 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
 Malcolm X
 the other the post-JFK political assassinations of the 1960’s
 Peter’s involvement with the Pentagon Papers
 the Ellsberg trial and Ellsberg’s parapolitical detractors
 the rise and fall of the counterculture
 the CIA and LSD
 Peter’s important early book, The War Conspiracy
Here is the fascinating Pacifica Radio broadcast over at Our Hidden History that Ben referenced: What the Pentagon Papers Do and Do Not Reveal and JFK & Vietnam w/ Peter Dale Scott (1971)
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!

Episode 31: Project Censored and the Myth of the Free Press w/Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth

Aaron speaks with Mickey Huff and Andy Lee Roth of  Project Censored. They discuss censorship, propaganda, and other subjects covered by Projects Censored's latest book, The State of the Free Press 2022—just released under their new publishing imprint, The Censored Press.
Mickey Huff is the director of Project Censored as well as a professor of social science, history, and journalism at Diablo Valley College where he co-chairs both the History and Journalism Departments. He is also executive producer and host of The Project Censored Show, a weekly syndicated public affairs program he founded with former Project Censored director Peter Phillips in 2010. The program originates from the historic studios of KPFA, Pacifica Radio, in Berkeley CA, airs on 50 stations around the US--and is also now a podcast online.
Andy Lee Roth is the associate director of Project Censored. He coordinates the Project’s Campus Affiliates Program, a news media research network of several hundred students and faculty at two dozen colleges and universities across North America. His research and writing have been published in a variety of outlets, including Index on Censorship, In These Times, YES! Magazine, Media, Culture & Society, and the International Journal of Press/Politics. Roth earned a PhD in sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has taught at a number of universities. He also serves on the board of the Media Freedom Foundation.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Stuck In" by Mock Orange

Episode 30: JFK Propaganda Revisited w/James DiEugenio [TRAILER]

In this eleventh episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with James DiEugenio, the screenwriter and co-creator of Oliver Stone's new documentary JFK Revisited: Through the Looking Glass as well as JFK: Destiny Betrayed, the four-hour cut of the film coming to the US in late February. Jim is also the author of Destiny Betrayed: JFK, Cuba, and the Garrison Case and The JFK Assassination: The Evidence Today. Additionally, he runs the fantastic website Kennedys and King and makes regular appearances on Len Osanic's BlackOp Radio. In this conversation, Aaron and Jim discuss the recent attacks on Oliver Stone's JFK films leveled by people like Tim Weiner, Max Boot, Gerald Posner, and Jamie Kirchick.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Please check out:Aaron's book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State
Project Censored Homepage
The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee
Music by Mock Orange

Episode 29: Ukraine: The Great Finding Out w/Ben Howard

Aaron and Ben talk about the Ukraine War--its larger historical background and looming geopolitical implications.
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Twelve O'Clock Call" by Mock Orange