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Progressive Commentary Hour

Progressive Commentary Hour – 05/20/13

The Sociopathology of Our Oligarchic Elite – a look at abnormal relationship between money, power and influence Prof. Joel Bakan is a lawyer, a professor of constitutional and economic law and an internationally recognized legal scholar at the University of British Columbia. He was a Rhodes scholar and has law …

Progressive Commentary Hour – 05/13/13

The New DSM5 Diagnostic Manual for Mental Disorders: Creating New Illnesses Dr. Charles Gant has practiced integrative,functional medicine and more recently genomics for over 35 years. He is best known for his work in treating mental and substance use disorders. He received his medical degree from the University of Virginia …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Debt Relief and Debt Forgiveness – 05/06/13

Charles Eisenstein is an independent scholar who writes about civilization, economics, transpersonal psychology and the evolution of human cultures.  In the past he has taught at Goddard College, Penn State, and lived and worked as a translator in Mainland China for many years.  Charles has degrees in Mathematics and Philosophy …

Progressive Commentary Hour – The Demise of American Media – 04/29/13

Dr. Robert McChesney is Gutgsell Endowed Professor of communications at the University of Illinois in Urbana.  He specializes in the political economy of communication, the history of 20th century media and communication policy. He is the co-founder of Free Press, a national media reform organization and was the host of the …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Earth Day Special – 04/22/13

Derrick Jensen has become one of the nation’s leading voices of cultural and environmental dissent, who writes on how civilization is devastating the environment and the natural world, and our society’s denial of that fact. In 2008, Utne Reader listed Derrick among the 50 visionaries changing the world. In sharp …

Progressive Commentary Hour – The plight of the honey bee – 04/15/13

Larissa Walker is the Policy and Campaign Coordinator at the Center for Food Safety in Washington DC, a national non profit public interest and advocacy organization promoting the protection of human health, the environment, and to protect the public from harmful food technologies by promoting organic.  She did her post …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Conversations With Great Minds – 04/08/13

Chris Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics, social and political activists and authors. For almost 20 years he was a foreign correspondent in war zones and conflicts in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, having reported for The New York Times, Christian Science …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Deconstructing Obamacare – 04/01/13

Dr. Margaret Flowers is a pediatrician in Maryland who is currently working full time on the reform on America’s health care in favor of a single payer or Medicare for All system.  She is a co-chair of the Maryland chapter of the Physicians for a National Health Program, and one …

Progressive Commentary Hour – 03/25/13

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Progressive Commentary Hour – Understanding the New World Order – 03/18/13

Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is a prominent Canadian economist who is now a professor emeritus at the University of Montreal. In the late 1970s he served as the Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Quebec government. Dr. Tremblay is also the President of the North American Economics and Finance Association …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Special on the plight of American children – 03/11/13

Journalist, investigative reporter Nick Bryant has been writing on the plight of disadvantaged children for over a decade. His writings have appeared in professional publications such as the Journal of Professional Ethics, the Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, the Journal of Social Distress and the publication of School Health. He …

Progressive Commentary Hour – HIV Diagnostics and Drug Therapy – 03/04/13

Steve and Cheryl Nagel are the grandparents of Rico Martinez-Nagel, the son of their daughter Lindsey Nagel who was adopted from Romania. Although testing negative for HIV in Romania, she tested positive upon arriving in the US. In December 2012, Lindsey gave birth a son Rico. Refusing to have him …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Conversations With Great Minds – 02/25/13

Andrew Harvey is an internationally renowned religious scholar, writer, teacher, and author of over thirty books.  He is the founder of the Institute of Sacred Activism, an international organization dedicated to inspiring people to become more involved in challenging our global crises and to commit themselves to peace and sustainability. …

Progressive Commentary Hour – 02/18/13

Paul Levy is a pioneer in the postmodern psycho-spiritual movement. He has an academic background in economics and conducted economic research at Princeton.  Later he was the manager of the C.G. Jung Foundation Book Service, which provided him with the opportunity  toimmerse himself in the psychoanalytics and metaphysics of Carl …

Progressive Commentary Hour – Africa and the new colonialism of the continent – 02/11/13

William Blum is an author, historian and critic of American foreign policy, who has worked and reported from three different continents.  He was one of the founding editors of the Washington Free Press, the first “alternative” newspaper in DC.  His early journalism is best known for exposing CIA misdeeds and …