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State of the Exception - December 2024 (Video)

Aaron and Bryce give an update on AE projects and such before answering patron questions!

Art by Anson Stevens-Bollen

Set Up to Fail: The Overmatched Jimmy Carter

On the occasion of Jimmy Carter's death, an excerpt from 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State' (2022) taken from Chapter 8: "Triumph of the Deep State"

Questions?

Submit your questions in the comments for the December Zoom which we are recording on Friday the 27th!

Special Holiday Episode!

It is the Holiday Season and so we are taking one of our first breaks here at the American Exception podcast! In order to give everyone something to listen to, I have uploaded a recent appearance that I made in an academic setting. University of Maryland Professor of Public Policy Mir Usman Ali invited me to speak to his clas...

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 Ithaca 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 2024-12-20 16:13:06 +0000 UTC View Post

The "Free" Press in Crisis (DCC65)

Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithaca 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 2024-12-20 16:09:25 +0000 UTC View Post

Olof Palme – The Murder, the Motive, and the Cover-Up

Swedish experts Ola Tunander and Gunnar Wall recently met to discuss the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

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 ...

The End of Syria – Larry Wilkerson (DCC64)

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 2024-12-12 19:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The End of Syria – Larry Wilkerson (DCC64)

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 2024-12-12 19:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post

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...

Oligarchicide? Plus: McJihad in Syria (DCC63 - Audio)

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!

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!

State of the Exception - November 2024 (Audio)

Aaron and Bryce give an update and answer questions about the Gray Alliance series and more!

State of the Exception - November 2024 (Video)

Aaron and Bryce give an update and answer questions about the Gray Alliance series and more!

Syria/Palestine Discussion

I was a part of this discussion with Guerrilla History's Adnan Husain and friends... Good conversation on McJihad in Syria and how anti-imperialists should understand the Western dirty war on Syria.

Blackmail and Establishment Sense-Making (DCC62 - Audio)

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:

• 2024-11-29 22:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post

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:

• 2024-11-29 22:26:42 +0000 UTC View Post

November Zoom - Questions Please!

It will soon be time for Bryce and I to give the Monthly Zoom update with Q&A...
Please submit questions here in the comments. Please pose any questions you might have re: the Gray Alliance series and I will answer them as best I can!

Jack Ruby as Deep State Functionary (Gray Alliance 3 - AE192)

Aaron Good and Max Arvo interrogate the absurdly suspicious life and times of Jack Ruby—the "pimp for all seasons" who assassinated Lee Oswald, the most politically important prisoner in US history. Over the years, many people have come to find it suspiciou...

Jeffrey Sachs and Aaron Good Discuss ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’ (DCC61 - Audio)

This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs....

Jeffrey Sachs and Aaron Good Discuss ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’ (DCC61)

This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs....

Down to the Wire (Gray Alliance 2 - AE191)

Aaron Good and Max Arvo continue to explore the evolution of American organized crime. In particular, we discuss the key importance of the racing wire service and the obscured nature of mid-20th century American organized crime: Did mafia or La C...