Progressive Commentary Hour

J.J. Carrell is a US border patrol officer who served for 24 years and retired as a deputy patrol agent in charge. He was a supervisor of the San Diego-Tijuana border unit that had a high rate of violence and supervised Coastal Border Enforcement Team operations to stop maritime narcotic smuggling and human trafficking run by the global Mexican Sinaloa cartel and securing convictions against its leader and the notorious drug lord El Chapo. In recent years there has been an increasing immigration crisis on America's southern borders with undocumented or poorly documented immigrants from around the world entering and being relocated across the nation. Conservative figures according to the Homeland Security statistics record a least 6.3 million migrant encounters at ports of entry since Biden took office in January 2021, and 2.4 million migrants permitted to enter. J.J. has been speaking out against this invasion and putting the facts in order based upon years of first hand eye-witness experiences. He is author of "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of America's Immigration System", which documents the nation's border patrol's narrative. J.J. is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University where he attended on a football scholarship. He also competed in two races around the world on two episodes of CBS's The Amazing Race. His website is JJCarrell.com and J.J. blogs articles at Border Truth on Substack at jjcarrell.substack.com.

Dr. Glenn Diesen is a professor at the Business School of the University of Southeast Norway, where he specializes in Russian foreign policy, geopolitical economics and Eurasia. He is an associate editor of the journal Russia in Global Affairs and sits on the boards of the International Institute for Peace in Vienna, the Center for Nationalism Studies in Sarajevo, Serbia and at the Contemporary World Economy in Moscow. Prof. Diesen has published 11 books dealing with Russia and Eurasia, the European Union, NATO and the clash between East and West, which have been translated into multiple languages. His most recent release is "The Ukraine War and the Eurasian World Order" that looks at the Ukraine conflict as a symptom of the collapsing world order, the decline of US-Western global hegemony, and the rise of a new multipolar order that emphasizes the individual sovereignty of nations. Dr. Diesen was educated in Australia and received his doctorate in international relations jointly from Macquaire University in Australia and Vrije University in the Netherlands. He hosts a talk program on geopolitics, often co-hosted with Alexander Mercouris from The Duran, that can be viewed on the Glenn Diesen Youtube channel.

William Pepper is an international civil and human rights attorney based in New York best known for representing Martin Luther King’s accused assassin, James Earl Ray. In 1967, Dr. King had reached out to Dr. Pepper regarding an essay he had written for Ramparts magazine concerning Vietnamese victims of American napalm missions. He was present at Dr. King’s famous Riverside Church speech. William was the citizens chairman for Robert Kennedy’s run for the Senate in Westchester Country and also a counsel for Robert Kennedy’s assassin Sirhan Sirhan arguing for a second shooter. William received undergraduate and graduate degrees from Columbia, a doctorate in education from the University of Massachusetts, a Juris Doctoral degree from Boston College and also studied at the London School of Economics and Political Science. His book -- “The Plot to Kill King: The Truth Behind the Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr” was the result of 39 years of research and gathering of documentation and sworn testimonies on new confirmed information that will revise the history behind the assassination of Dr. King .

Ken McCarthy has been a lifelong advocate for natural medicine and exposing the corruption of medicine and is currently an author and publisher. Ken was an early pioneer in the movement to commercialize the internet. Time Magazine credits him with being the first to articulate click-through rate as a primary metric for making the internet commercially viable and was instrumental in the development of website banner ads. His work as an environmentalist includes halting the construction of a coal-powered cement plant in the Hudson Valley and proper reconstruction of New Orleans' levees. Among his books are two volumes of "The Covid Con" and the Amazon bestseller "Fauci's First Fraud," which was important for informing Robert Kennedy Jr's The Real Anthony Fauci. His most recent book is "What the Nurses Saw" -- an investigation into the systematic medical murders that took place in hospitals during the Covid pandemic and the stories of nurses who fought back to save patients. Ken's website WhatTheNursesSaw.com has a lot of important information, articles, interviews and videos to inform the public and citizens about the corruption in hospitals and medical facilities.

Dr. Gary Null plays the award winning documentary "The Cost of Denial".

Patrick Bergy is an IT security specialist, a former candidate for Supervisor of Elections, and an army veteran of the Afghanistan war. After leaving the military, he deployed around the world working as a military contractor providing IT support for the Department of Defense. One of Patrick's most notable projects was in pioneering social media psychological warfare, also known in the military as Interactive Internet Activities. This was at a time when social networks and smart phones were just taking off and Patrick understood their potential threat to American democracy and election integrity. IIA is basically the IT infrastructure behind fake news. In 2014, he started to speak out after observing how it was used in relation to the Michael Brown incident which sparked riots in cities. Patrick has written three books including an autobiography of his experiences, "Victim of the Swamp: How the Deep State Destroyed the 40 Year Old Private" and more recently two volumes of "Operation Shadowgate" about the efforts to suppress the banned documentary film Shadowgate and a tell-all about the nefarious collaborations between the government and the military industrial complex, the story behind Hunter Biden's laptop, and election corruption, and events leading up to January 6th.

Dr. Michael Hudson is one of our nation’s finest and most important economists and Wall Street financial analysts. Dr. Paul Craig Roberts has called Michael “the world’s best economist.” He is the President of The Institution for the Study of Long-Term Economic Trends, and a distinguished research professor of economics at the University of Missouri. He was the Chief Economic Policy Advisor for the Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s 2008 presidential campaign and has served as an adviser to the White House, State and Defense departments and served as an economic advisor to other governments including Iceland, Latvia and China. Michael has written many books and important papers and articles. His most recent must-read book is "The Destiny of Civilization: Finance Capitalism, Industrial Capitalism or Socialism" which explains the reasons for financial crises in the US and other Western nations due to a drainage of income, indebtedness and a collapse of industrialization. His website is Michael-Hudson.com

Dr. Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician in Maine, a biological warfare epidemiologist and an expert on anthrax. She has specialized in treating patients with Gulf War syndrome, adverse reactions from the anthrax vaccine and vaccine safety and efficacy in general. In the past she has testified on six separate occasions before Congress on behalf of veterans suffering from the causes of Gulf War syndrome. Meryl is also active in opposing vaccine mandates and critiquing the false claims and fear mongering about infectious disease epidemics and corruption within the medical industrial military complex. She serves on the Board of the Alliance for Human Research Protection, a non profit organization run by Vera Sharav that advances medical ethics that uphold human rights and protect humans from wrongful medical interventions. Her work is cited in many professional articles and publications. She holds degrees from MIT and her medical degree from the Mississippi School of Medicine. Dr Nass' website where she blogs is MerylNass.substack.com

Dr. Gary Null Plays the documentary The Great Setup With Dr. David Martin

Dr. Gary Null plays clips form Clare Daly and Victor Davis Hanson on different topics.

Dr. Gary Null Discusses if 2024 will be the last year of free speech and democracy. He also plays a clip from Tucker Carlson to support the idea. The national security state is the main driver of censorship and election interference in the United States. "What I’m describing is military rule," says Mike Benz. "It’s the inversion of democracy."

Dr. Gary Null plays the documentary "Art of Healthy Cooking with David Bouley" https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/pw9pqtujlnpv5umzaz1j6/BOULEY__FINAL_5_24.mp4?rlkey=1k9aswpwjvf4ye2uqttmjosh1&e=1&dl=0

Dani Katz is a communications consultant and the creator of Quantum Languaging, a method to deconstruct the ways words and language shape human experience. She established her reputation as one of Los Angeles’ edgier literary figures having published widely for LA Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Vice, Teen Vogue, Santa Fe Reporter, Reality Sandwich, and many others. She was a lead researcher and writer for the highly censored documentary, Plandemic 2: Indoctornation. Her primary research is investigating the energetic frequency of words and how language programs us and our perception of the world. Dani is the author of several books including Word Up: Little Languaging Hacks for Big Change. Her most recent release is The Language of Betterarchy. Dani's new program on Progressive Radio Network, Word Up, explores the many ways language programs our thinking, our culture and world, and how we can transform ourselves and society through language. In addition to cultural and political criticism, Dani deconstructs cultural events, social movements, conspiracy theory, false propaganda, and the misleading language behind group think. You can hear Dani's new program Word Up every Thursday at 1 pm Eastern Time on PRN.

Dr. Gary Null plays a section from the documentary "Who Rules America?"

Michael Nehls, MD, PhD, is a medical physician with a doctorate in molecular genetics, specializing in immunology. Over the years Dr Nehls has identified the genetic causes of dozens of hereditary diseases, including in collaboration with two Nobel Prize winners. He is one of leading pioneers in Alzheimer Disease and dementia research along with therapeutic means to prevent and treat these neurological illnesses. Michael has received many awards, including the Hanse Prize for Molecular Psychiatry. Earlier he was a vice president of an American genomic research company and the CEO and chief science officer of a German biotechnology firm. He has written several bestsellers in Germany, and his books have been translated in many languages. His most recent book has been translated into English -- The Indoctrinated Brain: How to Successfully Fend Off the Global Attack on Your Mental Freedom. His website in Michael-Nehls.com. Michael also hosts a substack page with his regular articles at MichaelNehls.substack.com.

Dr. Gary Null plays a clip on the topic of January 6th.

Dr. Gary Null plays the video of Drs Ryan Cole, Peter McCullough & Kirk Milhoan in Congress.

Ray McGovern served as an Army intelligence officer and a CIA analyst for 27 years under 7 presidential administrations, from John F. Kennedy to George H. W. Bush. Among his duties was preparing the President’s Daily Brief starting with Ronald Reagan’s administration. He was also responsible for the analysis of Soviet intelligence regarding Vietnam. Since leaving the CIA, Ray has been a vocal peace activist and journalist and helped create Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS) to expose the way intelligence was falsified to “justify” war on Iraq and the Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence. He also works with Tell the Word, an ecumenical Catholic publishing house. Ray’s opinion pieces appear in many leading alternative news sources here and abroad. He holds degrees in theology and philosophy from Fordham University, an MA in Russian History, is a graduate from Harvard Business School and has a certificate in theology from Georgetown University. His website is RayMcGovern.com and more of his writings can be found on AntiWar.com, Scheer Post, Consortium News, among others.

John Papola is a serial media entrepreneur committed to using storytelling for the advancement of human flourishing and individual liberty. He is he co-founder and CEO of Emergent Order Foundation in Austin Texas, and co-created the Keynes vs Hayek and Mises vs Marx economic rap videos that have reached 10s of millions of students and educators worldwide. John is the host of the Dad Saves America video and podcast series. The program is dedicated to exploring the biggest issues facing our next generation through the lens of heroic fatherhood. Before co-founding Emergent Order, he served as a creative executive at various Viacom brands, including MTV, Nickelodeon, and Spike. As a film director and producer, John’s feature documentary At The Fork debuted to critical acclaim. His The Pursuit on Netflix starring NY Times bestseller Arthur Brooks is about the search for happiness and global prosperity. John's newest film To My Father premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this year. For more information, John's is EO.Foundation.com.

Dr Gary Null plays the Rupert Sheldrake v. Michael Shermer debate and has a commentary on it.