American Exception

Ruby's Run (AE196) [TRAILER]

 
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Max Arvo and I are pausing the Gray Alliance series for the first of two (or three?) episodes that we are devoting to discussing Max’s important and groundbreaking articles on Jack Ruby. Max’s account is a very important new and improved narrative explaining what happened to Jack Ruby. These articles were published by our friend Jim DiEugenio over at Kennedys and King.
Check out the articles here:
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 1
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 2
Jack Ruby: A Review and Reassessment - Part 3
Music: “Sidewalk” by Mock Orange
Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Killing Peace: Empire vs. Internationalism (DCC67 - Audio)

We are joined by Ola Tunander. Ola is Research Professor Emeritus with the Peace Research Institute in Oslo. He earned his doctoral degree in 1989 with a thesis on US Maritime Strategy. Ola has written and edited 15 books on geopolitics, military strategy, European security, submarine warfare, and deception/psychological operations. He currently publishes at Ola’s Substack.
Aaron and Ola discuss the fates of Sweden’s best internationalist statesmen as well as Ola’s currently very relevant seminal work on the US false flag submarine operation in Sweden during the 1980’s.
Please check out Ola’s Substack, especially his brilliant two-part article:
Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part I
Democratic State vs. Deep State: Part II
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Operation X and the JFK Assassination - Gray Alliance Part 6 (AE195)

 
Aaron and Max explore the links between the JFK assassination and Operation X—the operationalized symbiosis between the Lansky/Teamster National Crime Syndicate and powerful agencies within the US national security state. Most notable, we’re talking about Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and the clandestine inner sanctum of the CIA which was the fiefdom of James Angleton.
This is the sixth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: "Window" by Mock Orange

Empire and the Missing Western Left – Adnan Husain (DCC66 - Audio)

 
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We are joined by Adnan Husain, a historian of both Medieval Europe and of the Middle East. Adnan is Associate Professor, Queen's National Scholar Graduate Chair, and Director of the School of Religion at Queens University in Kingston, Ontario. He is also the co-host of the Guerilla History podcast. We discuss a number of topics including the state of the Empire, the absence of an effectual Western Left, the state of the Middle East, and the determinants of US foreign policy.
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

The “Free Press” in Crisis (DCC65 - Audio)

Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithica College in New York where he also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media.  Additionally, Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored (founded in 1976), and he is the president of the nonprofit Media Freedom Foundation. Mickey Huff is the co-editor of Project Censored’s State of the Free Press 2025. Special thanks to:Dana Chavarria, productionCasey Moore, graphicsMichelle Boley, animated introMock Orange, music

RFK vs. ‘Operation X’ (Gray Alliance 5 - AE194)

Aaron and Max Discuss how Robert F. Kennedy, by targeting the Teamsters and thus the Lansky Syndicate, was also threatening what Peter Dale Scott has termed Operation X—the institutionalized symbiosis between the drug traffic and national security state entities like Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Narcotics, and James Angleton's clandestine counter-intelligence fiefdom at the CIA.
This is the fifth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
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Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange

The End of Syria – Larry Wilkerson (DCC64)

 
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To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Image credit: AFP (via The Cradle)
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Taking One for the Teamsters (Gray Alliance 4 - AE193)

Aaron and Max Arvo explore how Jack Ruby’s Syndicate and Teamster connections were covered up and obscured—first by the Warren Commission and then by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.
This is the fourth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad threads running through the JFK assassination, Watergate, and beyond!
Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to Casey Moore for the episode art!
Music: “I’m Leaving” by Mock Orange

Oligarchicide? Plus: McJihad in Syria (DCC63)

Aaron and Bryce discuss various, insane, history-making events we’ve seen in recent days, including the assassination of a health insurance executive (capo?) as well as Biden’s pardon of Hunter, new Russian super missiles, and the West’s new McJihad offensive in Syria--now spearheaded by Erdogan’s Turkey!
Check out:
Bryce Greene’s article: “As Most Ukrainians Prefer Ceasefire With Russia, Washington Says More Ukrainian Teenagers Should Die”
Kit Klarenberg’s article, “Syrian Dirty War's Secret Origins”
William Van Wagenen on Twitter
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music

Blackmail and Establishment Sense-Making (DCC62)

 
We are joined again Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years. Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack where you can find the articles we discuss today:
Israel, Blackmail and the Presidents
"Russiagate" Was Israelgate
The Notable Timeline of Kennedy's Remarks on "Ethnic Bioweapons"
Special thanks to:
Dana Chavarria, production
Casey Moore, graphics
Michelle Boley, animated intro
Mock Orange, music