Podcasts about cultural freedom

LD Interviews ~ March 15, 2025 In this episode of Liberty Dispatch, host Andrew DeBartolo sits down with the President of the Justice Centre for Cultural Freedom (JCCF) to talk about the current state of the Canadian courts. For access to the full conversation, including the full discussion of Canada's crazy taxation and spending, become a paid subscriber over at our Substack: Liberty Dispatch Substack Canadian news, culture, and political analysis from a Christian perspective.   Episode Resources: Justice Centre for Cultural Freedom: https://www.jccf.ca/ SHOW SPONSORS: Invest with Rocklinc: info@rocklinc.com or call them at 905-631-546; Diversify Your Money with Bull Bitcoin: https://mission.bullbitcoin.com/dispatch; BarterPay: https://barterpay.ca/; Barter It: https://www.barterit.ca/; Get freedom from Censorious CRMs by signing up for SalesNexus: https://www.salesnexus.com/; PLEXUS Worldwide: Reboot your health today! email them @ healthandliberty@proton.me or go to http://plexusworldwide.ca/healthandliberty; SUBSCRIBE TO OUR SHOWS/CHANNELS: LIBERTY DISPATCH PODCAST: https://libertydispatch.podbean.com; https://rumble.com/LDshow; CONTACT US: libertydispatch@pm.me STAY UP-TO-DATE ON ALL THINGS LD: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/liberty_dispatch/; Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LibertyDispatchCanada; X: @LDCanada - https://x.com/_LDCanada; Rumble: https://rumble.com/LDshow; YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@libertydispatch Please LIKE, SUBSCRIBE, RATE, & REVIEW, and SHARE it with others!

In this episode of Uncommon Sense with Ginny Robinson, Ginny sits down with Teddy Pierce, a writer, speaker, and political commentator whose educational background in Aristotelian philosophy and Thomistic ethics fuels his advocacy for America's founding principles and the Natural Law.Teddy discusses his book, Dethrone Davos: Save America, and the urgent need to confront the dangers of collectivist ideologies, moral relativism, and communism. Ginny and Teddy unpack how these forces threaten America's God-ordained freedoms and what we, as individuals and a nation, can do to stand firm against them.Tune in to discover why standing on the principles of God's truth is more critical than ever.—https://policecoffee.com/—Order Teddy's book, Dethrone Davos: Save America: https://www.amazon.com/Dethrone-Davos-America-Theodore-Pierce-ebook/dp/B0D5NKGGNC—Order my book, Culture: The Dangers of Herd Mentality and Why We're Headed in the Wrong Direction: https://www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/SLYWFXAB6479S

With Mr. Johnson's artwork now on exhibit, prying eyes come to sneak a peak. Can Mr. Johnson be the man Uncle Sam needs him to be? Jerry & Bouncer Jr. - Omer Barash Jerry Jr., Richard Nixon, & Professor Gilbert - Avi Patel Roger, Tuna, Grace, & Nerd #2- Andie Sheinbaum Mr. Johnson & Ryan - Paul Weir Original Theme - Miles Goldstein Direction & Edit - Corey Brown This Episode also Edited by Stacey Brie This Episode Produced by Kaija Grisham & Isabella Seemann Follow Brandeis Television on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/brandeis_tv/ Consider Supporting the Arts! https://coreybrown.art

Welcome to the fourth episode of The Odd-Minute where I will take a minute to discuss a topic from my own sometimes unique perspective. I hope that each little clip will be a sharable soundbite that might possibly lead others to thinking in a different way. Get ready for some hard truths as we go deep down the rabbit hole, far beyond both the Mainstream and Alt. Media in just 60 seconds.   Cheers and Blessings     Related Episode This full episode covers the history of the Congress for Cultural Freedom in much greater detail. Ep. 138 Their Culture Is Not Our Culture Pt. 1 | The Odd Man Out (podbean.com)   Support My Work  https://www.patreon.com/theoddmanout   Buy Me A Coffee!

Like many topics on our show - this one is real. The Congress for Cultural Freedom helped use money to make America's Modern Artists, Jazz Musicians and other playwrights prove to the world that America had the freedom to express themselves (unlike the Soviet Union). Their great counterpoint was the freedoms of black Americans at the time, but that is a different episode. Aaron Rouska, Videopacalypse on SchrabHomeVideo, friend, Channel 101er and teacher, joins us and has a lot of the details of this crazy but very real situation. We stream live video every sunday at 4 pm pacific only at www.SchrabHomeVideo.com visit RealLifeSciFi.show  The best way to Support us and get more content at Patreon.com/reallifescifi we exist because of you. hit us up at WadeandWilly@gmail.com  As Always - Thank you for listening :) We appreciate you.

[originally published on Patreon Nov 17, 2023] Today I'm rejoined by Comrade Chad to discuss post-Trotsky Trotskyism in the US, especially their penchant for attacking communism 'from the left'. Comrade Chad walks us through some of the theory and vocabulary necessary. Then we zero in on James Cannon, Max Schactman and James Burnham in particular. We attempt to explain the theoretical positions this entailed within both Trotskyism. Marxism, and Cold War geopolitics before explaining their actions in the labor movement. Along the way we discuss Farrell Dobbs, Jimmy Hoffa, Joseph Hansen, Burnham's theoretical works, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, and much more. episode art by Robert Voyvodich @r.voy__ Songs: Teamster Power by Tex Williams After You've Gone by the Toshiko Akiyoshi Trio Moiritat (Mack the Knife) by Sonny Rollins

EPISODE 107 | Traces of Reality: Abstract Art and the CIA (World Is Weird 13) Guest: Mandy Theis, founder and director of the School of Atelier Arts, academic director and professor at the Florence Academy of Art Maybe you've walked into a museum or gallery and seen a big white, blank canvas, or a huge circle, and thought, "So, this is art, eh?". But why is there so much of this abstract stuff around? The answer might be surprising - because the CIA promoted it as part of the Cold War. And then it rather got away from them. Today, the art market is the most unregulated in the world, and aesthetics and skill take a back seat to branding.  Like what we do? Then buy us a beer or three via our page on Buy Me a Coffee. #ConspiracyClearinghouse #sharingiscaring #donations #support #buymeacoffee You can also SUBSCRIBE to this podcast. Review us here or on IMDb! SECTIONS 02:31 - Atelier training, the CIA begins, the cultural Cold War was run by elitists, Julia Child, Realism gets rebranded as Communist, the Springville Museum of Art in Utah, cadmium red as protest, dry brushing technique, techniques follow money, skill list art, technical skills are being lost 12:30 - Social Realism, Czech Functionalism and German Bauhaus, Cubist architecture, art is always in motion, Russians tweaked French Realism, Abstract art eclipses realism, a war of aesthetics and marketing, the French discount the Americans, America pushes Abstract Expressionism, Marshall Plan money becomes a black bag, the Congress of Cultural Freedom, Clement Greenberg, Art criticism as marketing 23:18 - the NCL (Non-Communist Left), Jackson Pollack was a CIA tool, American racial attitudes work against them 28:24 - Abstract Expressionism promoted as ultimate American style because it has no inherent meaning, it's safe; Picasso had atelier training, Truman hated abstract art ("ham and egg men"), George Dondero goes nuts about abstract art on the House floor, Realism is not retrograde, we are losing the artistic skills to make beautiful things 36:06 - the CIA's efforts were very successful, the modern art market is the most unregulated in the world, technique gets separated from art so it all becomes about money, everything is branded,  Warhol critiques all this, fine art feels remote from most of us, the art world is a closed circuit, Thomas Kinkade was successful because at least his work meant something to some people, scribbles are scribbles but branding makes them art 47:51 - Don't know if it's art, but I like it; Realism is still villainized  Music by Fanette Ronjat More Info:  The School of Atelier Arts website Bodyguard of Lies: The Ghost Army & Wartime Deception (World Is Weird 11) The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters by Frances Stonor Saunders Springville Museum of Art -  largest public collection of 20th century Russian and Soviet art in the western United States 15 things to know about Norman Rockwell Why Norman Rockwell Matters Ralph McQuarrie: Star Wars' Concept Artist A Visit to the CIA's “Secret” Abstract Art Collection Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op? Class 8. The CIA and the Cultural Cold War Origins of the Congress of Cultural Freedom, 1949-50 Cultural Cold War on CIA.gov WHEN FREEDOM TOOK THE OFFENSIVE: The Congress for Cultural Freedom and the Power of Ideas Congress for Cultural Freedom on Spartacus Educational  Cold Warrior: The Clement Greenberg Phenomenon CIA Weaponizing Abstract Art and Its Fallout The use of American art in the Cold War How MoMA and the CIA Conspired to Use Unwitting Artists to Promote American Propaganda During the Cold War Ford Foundation - Funding transatlantic exchange between the arts and politics The Ford Foundation and the CIA: A documented case of philanthropic collaboration with the Secret Police Modern art was CIA 'weapon' How the CIA Secretly Used Jackson Pollock & Other Abstract Expressionists to Fight the Cold War Was modern art a weapon of the CIA? Jackson Pollock & the CIA on The Conspiracy of Art website Why did the CIA sponsor Jackson Pollock? Pollock is Bollocks Pollock: genius or charlatan? Jackson Pollock: Separating Man from Myth Viewpoint: Why racism in US is worse than in Europe - BBC Viewpoint “They treated us royally”? Black Americans in Britain during WW2 Why abstract art is not valid Abstract Art Is Not Art and Definitely Not Abstract The Tyranny of Abstract Art in The Atlantic Communist conspiracy in art threatens American museums, Congressional Record, March, 17, 1952 Anticommunism and Modern Art - selection from the George Dondero Papers THE SUPPRESSION OF ART IN THE MCCARTHY DECADE The Shame of the Mural Censors — Why Art and History Matter Between Avant-Garde and Kitsch: Deconstructing Art And/As Ideology on Project MUSE Modern American Art and the Politics of Cultural Diplomacy Abstract Expressionism and the Cold War 'The art trade is the last major unregulated market' A Fascinating, Sexy, Intellectually Compelling, Unregulated Global Market. - Freakonomics ep. 484 The Art Market: Unregulated Unscrupulous And Worth Billions High-end art is one of the most manipulated markets in the world THE ART MARKET: AFFLUENCE AND DEGRADATION on Art Forum Billion Dollar Painter: The Triumph and Tragedy of Thomas Kinkade, Painter of Light book Thomas Kinkade: A Success - 60 Minutes Thomas Kinkade: The Painter Art Critics Hated but America Loved Much to the Chagrin of the Art Establishment, the Numbers Indicate that Thomas Kinkade Is the Most Successful and Relevant Artist in Human History Thomas Kinkade Was the World's Biggest Selling Painter. Art for Everybody Asks Why Follow us on social: Facebook Twitter Other Podcasts by Derek DeWitt DIGITAL SIGNAGE DONE RIGHT - Winner of a 2022 Gold Quill Award, 2022 Gold MarCom Award, 2021 AVA Digital Award Gold, 2021 Silver Davey Award, 2020 Communicator Award of Excellence, and on numerous top 10 podcast lists.  PRAGUE TIMES - A city is more than just a location - it's a kaleidoscope of history, places, people and trends. This podcast looks at Prague, in the center of Europe, from a number of perspectives, including what it is now, what is has been and where it's going. It's Prague THEN, Prague NOW, Prague LATER

Subscribe to the PPM Patreon to access the complete catalog of unabridged #1 critically paranoid hits, including the full 2 & half hours of HANUSSEN (IV): patreon.com/ParaPowerMapping Thanks again to Luke from "Things Observed" for collaborating w/ me on this whirlwind, 4 part exhumation of the Nazi Nostradamus, Brit intel asset, & Z*onist spy Erik Jan Hanussen. Make sure to give him a follow on Twitter at @thingobserver & check out his Patreon, as well. **The time has come to put Hanussen's body back in the earth. Luke & I conclude our exhumation & critically paranoid examination of the life & espionage times of the Nazi Nostradamus & sexual blackmailer. We break down the symmetries b/w Hanussen & his likely fellow anti-communist, Austro-Hungarian Zionist agent/ asset named Arthur Koestler (and the incredibly sus, See-Eye-Aye nexus that he was enmeshed in... Including connections to McCarthy, Nixon, Orwell, Langston Hughes, Vladimir Jabotinsky, Timothy Leary, voluntary euthenasia societies, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a parapsychology department at the University of Edinburgh, the list goes on)... We get to Koestler via his autobiographical account of visiting Hanussen at his lavish Capone-cum-geisha apartment in Berlin—Koestler & a German occult journalist were on assignment & arrived to test their respective susceptibility to Hanussen's "clairvoyant" abilities. The article was never published. So yeah, a Hanussen & Koestler spying for Zion hypothesis is considered. We then turn our attention to Hanussen's Reichstag Fire prophecy & his possible role in the cover-up (realizing I may have forgot to mention this, but Hanussen spoke to the media & helped the Nazis to set the tone for their constructed narrative immediately following the fiery false flag). We conclude w/ a discussion of varying motivations for the Nazis to off him (especially his betrayal during the Mosse publishing empire purchase), the particulars of his unceremonious death, & the discovery of his body in a wooded glade, half gnawed by wild animals. And finally, Luke & I put guns to each others heads to force each other to make a final, fatal assessment re: Hanussen's motivations & allegiance(s).** Songs:  | The Prodigy - "Firestarter" |  | Rammstein - "Benzin" | 

In this episode, Courtenay invites Jay Dyer to the show to discuss the Overton window of classical liberalism and the bifurcation of CIA influence and utilization of libertarianism and Marxist ideologies. Jay outlines the historical and philosophical roots of each ideology, as well as the role they played in America's founding documents and wartime propaganda. They discuss the weaponization of these ideologies, how they threaten our freedoms & the implications for media who's scope of discourse is limited the “safe-dangerous” zone that is the outskirts of the classical liberal Overton window.  Jay is an author, comedian, and TV presenter known for his deep analysis of Hollywood, geopolitics, and culture. His graduate work focused on psychological warfare and film. He is also the author of two books, Esoteric Hollywood 1 & 2 and the co-creator and co-host of the television show Hollywood Decoded. He has been featured on numerous popular shows, podcasts, and debates with some of the world's top debaters.  Episode Resources: The CIA and the Congress for Cultural Freedom in the Early Cold War by Sarah Miller Harris Connect with Jay: Website: https://jaysanalysis.com/  Instagram: @jaysanalysis  Twitter: Jay Dyer  Youtube: Jay Dyer  ————————————————— Disclaimer: this is intended to be inspiration & entertainment. We aim to inform, inspire & empower. Guest opinions/ statements are not a reflection of the host or podcast. Please note these are conversational dialogues. All statements and opinions are not necessarily meant to be taken as fact. Please do your own research. Thanks for watching! ————————————————— Follow & Connect with Courtenay: https://www.courtenayturner.com Twitter: https://twitter.com/KineticCourtz TruthSocial: https://truthsocial.com/@CourtenayTurner Instagram: https://instagram.com/kineticcourtz?utm_medium=copy_link Telegram: https://t.me/courtenayturnerpodcastcommunity Read some of her articles: https://www.truthmatters.biz Listen to &/or watch the podcast here! https://linktr.ee/courtenayturner Support my work & Affiliate links: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/courtzt https://zstacklife.com/?ref=COURTENAYTURNER EXPAT MONEY SUMMIT 2023: https://2023.expatmoneysummit.com MAKE HONEY GREAT AGAIN https://www.makehoneygreatagain.com/  Promo Code: COURTZ FOX N SONS Coffee: https://www.foxnsons.com Promo Code: CTP Richardson Nutritional Center: https://rncstore.com/courtz The wellness company: https://www.twc.health/?ref=UY6YiLPqkwZzUX Enroll link: https://app.sharehealthcare.com/enroll? Referral code: courtz Www.HolyHydrogen.com Discount code: UPRISING144K LMNT: http://drinklmnt.com/CourtenayTurner  Ignite Sales: https://www.universityofreason.com/a/29887/KVR3yvZo Mindset workshop: https://www.universityofreason.com/a/2147526145/KVR3yvZo Critical thinking trivium method: https://www.universityofreason.com/a/2147486641/KVR3yvZo Solutions webinar: https://www.universityofreason.com/a/2147492490/KVR3yvZo Richard's GTW freedom vault: https://www.universityofreason.com/a/2147506649/KVR3yvZo https://www.universityofreason.com/a/29887/KVR3yvZo ©2023 All Rights Reserved  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Greetings Oddities!    This week i finally take the initial dive deep down the rabbit hole on the history of the Cold War era Congress For Cultural Freedom. Talk about culture creators, and influencers. This group of mostly former Communists, and Trotskyites turned Social Democrats were behind various formed of art, literary works including Expressionist Art, Plays, Concerts, Festivals, Conventions, Movies like Dr. Zhivago, and Books From authors like Arthur Koestler, and Hannah Arendt. Odd Man Out Patreon  https://www.patreon.com/theoddmanout   Thank You For Your Continued Support.   Show Notes They had offices in numerous countries, & high-end magazines as well which featured articles written by authors like Bertrand Russell, & George Orwell. Congress For Cultural Freedom Code Name-QKopera Frances Stonor Saunders https://youtu.be/FYLoyyR1qtI Spawned out of group humanist, & Fabian John Dewey formed In 1939 called the "American Committee for Cultural Freedom” which continued on even after the Congress For Cultural Freedom was formed. Founded: 26 June 1950 Dissolved: 1979 (as International Association for Cultural Freedom) The CIA wanted to influence other parts of the world in order to combat the growing sentiment towards Communism, focusing especially on artists, play-writes, musicians as well as intellectuals. Both of whom they knew would go on to influence many others. Many members were former Communist Party members. Trotskyites specifically who'd turned against Stalin, & his totalitarian measures. Most were not pro-American by any means. They were generally Democratic Socialist types. Like modern Libs, they believed America was backwards, & lacked culture. Quite a few top members were of Eastern European Jewish descent. Obviously, they had no intentions of spreading traditional American rugged individualistic, or patriotic ideology. They were all about "dumbocracy" aka, the Liberal World Order. Militant Liberty https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Militant_Liberty:_A_Program_of_Evaluation_and_Assessment_of_Freedom   May 10, 1966 NYT denies Encounter Magazine Funding https://archive.org/details/CIA-RDP68B00432R000500020014-4/mode/1up Abstract Expressionism, Weopon Of The Cold War https://www.scribd.com/document/37676685/Cockcroft-Eva-Abstract-Expressionism-Weapon-of-the-Cold-War CIA Funded Modern Art https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/modern-art-was-cia-weapon-1578808.html The CIA's preferred tactic for spreading American music abroad was festivals; in 1952, the CCF held the Festival of Twentieth-Century Masterpieces of Modern Art in Paris, and in 1961, using a front group known as the American Society of African Culture, it tricked singer Nina Simone into performing at the Lagos Festival in Nigeria. Musicians of the era, knowing or not, benefitted from the financial support of the CIA. https://medium.com/mondo-americana/rock-n-roll-mind-control-the-cia-and-the-1960s-counterculture-53c1f6e52647 “We must organize the intellectuals and use them to make Western civilization stink,” Wili Munzenberg Everywhere men yearn to be misled by magicians.”
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It is 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock. In large part due to developments in the war in Ukraine, the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists  moved the hands of the infamous timepiece forward.Just weeks earlier the Department of Energy announced the first reported controlled fusion reaction that was touted as a breakthrough for national defense and the future of clean energy.Given the history of that lab, there is reason for skepticism.In this episode of Breaking Green we will talk with Dr. Helen Caldicott.Born in Melbourne, Australia in 1938, Dr Caldicott received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School in 1961. She founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide Children's Hospital in 1975 and subsequently was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School and on the staff of the Children's Hospital Medical Center, Boston, Mass., until 1980 when she resigned to work full time on the prevention of nuclear war.In 1971, Dr Caldicott played a major role in Australia's opposition to French atmospheric nuclear testing in the Pacific; in 1975 she worked with the Australian trade unions to educate their members about the medical dangers of the nuclear fuel cycle, with particular reference to uranium mining.While living in the United States from 1977 to 1986, she played a major role in re-invigorating as President,    Physicians for Social Responsibility, an organization of 23,000 doctors committed to educating their colleagues about the dangers of nuclear power, nuclear weapons and nuclear war. On trips abroad she helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries. The international umbrella group (International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War) won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. Dr Caldicott has received many prizes and awards for her work, including the Lannan Foundation's 2003 Prize for Cultural Freedom and twenty one  honorary doctoral degrees. She was personally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Linus Pauling – himself a Nobel Laureate. The Smithsonian has named Dr Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century. Don't miss an episode and subscribe to Breaking Green wherever you get your podcasts.This podcast is produced by Global Justice Ecology Project.Breaking Green is made possible by tax deductible donations from people like you. Please help us lift up the voices of those working to protect forests, defend human rights and expose false solutions.  Simply text GIVE to 716-257-4187.

In this episode Eli examines the history of Ayatollah Khomeini's fatwa against the author Salman Rushdie in light of his near assassination last week in New York state. The Fatwa and Iran's role in a murderous campaign against the editors, translators and author of the Satanic Verses reveals the truth about a regime that has not reformed or moderated. His guest is Nazenin Ansari, the managing editor of the London based Kayhan newspaper. Time Stamps: 0:18 Monologue 11:44 Interview with Nazenin Ansari www.Kayhan.London www.KayhanLife.com Questions? Comments? Ideas? Contact us at Eli@nebulouspodcasts.com

We're joined by philosopher, cultural critic and political theorist Gabriel Rockhill to discuss: The CIA & Congress for Cultural Freedom, Intellectual commodity fetishism, the distribution of ideas, the compatible left, actually existing socialism, cultural production, the war for hearts and minds, information war on China, petty-bourgeois melancholia (the PMC politics of despair), institutional inertia/uplift, and more! Read Gabriel's recent article The CIA & The Frankfurt School's Anti-Communism: https://thephilosophicalsalon.com/the-cia-the-frankfurt-schools-anti-communism/ Follow on twitter: @GabrielRockhill For more information: https://gabrielrockhill.com

The Magic Camp Manifesto We the head counselors of Magic Camp declare, That a painting is not a painting unless it is made of paint. That the entirety of New York-based abstract expression art is one gigantic op, conceived and carried out by the Congress for Cultural Freedom and Central Intelligence Agency, we name Taos, New Mexico the artistic center of America. That the word moist is fine, you're just stupid. That art is magic and that we need a lot more of it, push comes to shove it, we'll go toe to toe with Jackson Pollock if it's blood you covet. Get it? He bled on his paintings. Or was it piss? We name the following Certified Bald Pimps: Picasso, Michael Jordan, Matt Lucas, Ghandi, Tyrese Gibson, Saul of Tarsus, St. Francis of Assisi, Kelly Slater, and Thomas Merton; and the following Bald Hacks: Jeff Bezos, Vin Diesel, Paul of Tarsus, Damien Hirst, and Martin Luther We the counselors with dreadlocks believe, That churches only want art to say they have it. That pastors in Affliction tees are hot, get over it. That Augustine could turn a phrase now and again but he's not to be trusted, especially considering what he did with those pears. Heretofore it has been regarded that Van Gogh cut his ear off from excessive horniness, whereas the truth is this: that Gauguin broke his heart in the platonic sense, no homo, by ditching him at the Yellow House. He therefore owes Vincent one ear and is a prick, but we forgive him because his paintings are good. We affirm the agenda of those who work in a toll booth all week and paint jungle landscapes on the weekend, of the Sunday painter, the open-minded 90 year old who sketches the bare trees in his backyard and is cool with drag. So long as their art is marketed successfully on instagram or can be segued into a lucrative MLM, it's cool. But actually: we affirm a rigorous and deep art, an art of the earth, of the desert, the jungle, and the cave. We affirm the carnal and the banal, the abstract and academic, the indigenous, the queer, and the bald. The only non-fungible token in life is deez nuts We affirm the merits of productive unemployment, creative truancy, and collaborative disenchantment as prerequisites for new forms. We firmly declare the right to firmly declare, and along with it we acknowledge that to proclaim is to imprison. That if your uncle could have done it he would have done it. Not saying he still can't, though. This is a cult and John Berger is our leader. Immediately after Paris is destroyed in WWIII he will return in a flying saucer and we will all drink a special mixture of absinthe, turpentine and cadmium yellow light and join him in the clouds at his right hand. For more details and a precise timeline of these events, please visit the Sistine chapel. These are the Magic Camp rules for art and life 1. Always paint with a boner; or a semi at leas 2. Make art, not war. Shoot film, not the Taliban 3. Respect the museum 4. Fuck the museum 5. Preach the gospel daily, if necessary, use paint Follow @trevorwelch on twitter and find more of his at: trevor.money and ladyboyrecords.bandcamp/album/onsen

Join 2020 Lannan Prize recipients Angela Y. Davis, Mike Davis, and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a conversation hosted by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor. The Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize for 2020 was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life's work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of constructing an alternative, post-capitalist future in both theory and practice; and Ruth Wilson Gilmore for a lifetime of achievement as a public intellectual working toward the decarceration of California, the United States, and the world. Join all three, along with Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor for a conversation on abolition, cultural freedom, and liberation. Speakers: Mike Davis, professor emeritus of creative writing at UC Riverside, joined the San Diego chapter of the Congress of Racial Equality in 1962 at age 16 and the struggle for racial and social equality has remained the lodestar of his life. His City of Quartz challenged reigning celebrations of Los Angeles from the perspectives of its lost radical past and insurrectionary future. His wide-ranging work has married science, archival research, personal experience, and creative writing with razor-sharp critiques of empires and ruling classes. He embodies the Lannan vision of working at the intersection of art and social justice. Angela Y. Davis is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Dr. Davis grew up in Birmingham, Alabama, and has been an activist and Marxist-Feminist in the Black Power and abolitionist movements since the late 1960s. In the 1980s, her book Women, Race and Class helped to establish the concept of intersectionality. She also helped to develop the concept of prison abolition, especially in her books Are Prisons Obsolete? . Ruth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place, Culture, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project, Critical Resistance, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons, Surplus, Crisis, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Recent publications include, co-edited with Paul Gilroy, Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference. Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition; Abolition Geography: Essays Toward Liberation. Gilmore has lectured in Africa, Asia, Europe, and North America. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor writes and speaks on Black politics, social movements, and racial inequality in the United States. She is author of From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation (a Lannan Cultural Freedom Especially Notable Book Award recipient) and editor of How We Get Free. Her third book, Race for Profit was a finalist for a National Book Award for nonfiction, and a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for History. She is a contributing writer at The New Yorker and professor at Princeton University. This event is a partnership between Lannan Foundation and Haymarket Books. Lannan Foundation's Readings & Conversations series features inspired writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry, as well as cultural freedom advocates with a social, political, and environmental justice focus. Lannan Foundation is a family foundation dedicated to cultural freedom, diversity, and creativity through projects that support exceptional contemporary artists and writers, inspired Native activists in rural communities, and social justice advocates. Watch the live event recording: https://youtu.be/WLO0UuSnPzU Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow us on Soundcloud: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks

Recorded on YouTube on 05 October 2021. The 2020 Lannan Cultural Freedom Prize was awarded to Angela Y. Davis for her lifetime achievements as a public intellectual advocating for racial, gender, and economic justice; to Mike Davis for his life's work as a public intellectual who encourages critical analysis of society in the service of […]

Show Notes (More Show Notes available at ourfaithinwriting.com (https://www.ourfaithinwriting.com/writing-and-faith/our-faith-in-writing-podcast)) Our Faith in Writing explores the intersection of writing and faith through conversations about the writing process, the reading life, contemplative practices, and more. Host Charlotte Donlon is a writer and a spiritual director for writers, and she believes writing and reading help us belong to ourselves, others, God, and the world. Subscribe to Our Faith in Writing wherever you listen to podcasts, and don't forget to rate and review the show letting us know how these conversations are helping you feel less alone in your writing life and your reading life.Our Faith in Writing is a podcast that explores the intersection of writing and faith through conversations about the writing process, the reading life, contemplative practices, and more. In this episode, Charlotte Donlon talks to Delvyn Case about some of the ways Jesus shows up in popular music. They discuss rap, punk, and country music artists and how Jesus is acknowledged in their music. Delvyn wrote an article for Sojourner's magazine in October 2020 titled "JESUS SHOWS UP IN DISCOS, HONKY-TONKS, BLUES BARS, AND STRIP CLUBS." This article was the jumping off point for this podcast episode. If you subscribe to Sojourner's you can read it here, but it's not required reading for you to listen to this episode. Black hip-hop scholars recommend by Delvyn: Ebony Utley, Anthony Pinn, Michael Eric Dyson, Tricia Rose For the history of country music, Delvyn suggests the Ken Burns documentary from a few years ago. For the origins of rock'n'roll, the Rolling Stone History of Rock'n'Roll is a comprehensive resource. It delves deeply into the Black origins of the style. Another great book on the development of 60's rock out of the blues is McNally's "On Highway 61: Race, Music, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom." Delvyn Case is a musician, writer, scholar, and educator based in Boston. He is a composer of classical concert music whose work often explores themes from the Christian tradition, as well as a scholar of popular music. He writes about the intersections of music and religion for both academic and general audiences, including on his Patheos blog “Alleluia: Music and the Christian Life.” He is the founder of Deus Ex Musica, an ecumenical organization that promotes sacred music as a resource for learning and faith formation. He teaches at Wheaton College in Massachusetts – which, ironically, is a secular institution unrelated to the Wheaton College in Illinois. Charlotte Donlon is a writer, a spiritual director for writers, and the founder and host of the Our Faith in Writing podcast and website (https://www.ourfaithinwriting.com/). Charlotte's writing and work are rooted in noticing how art helps us belong to ourselves, others, God, and the world. Her writing has appeared in The Washington Post, The Curator, The Christian Century, Christianity Today, Catapult, The Millions, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book is The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other (https://charlottedonlon.com/the-great-belonging-book). You can subscribe to her newsletter (https://charlottedonlon.substack.com/) and connect with her onTwitter (https://twitter.com/charlottedonlon) and Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/charlottedonlon/).

00:00 - Art, knowledge, CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Chomsky, language, consciousness, genetic-determinism 17:43 - Ray's new newsletter: estrogen, iron, degenerative aging, and progesterone 19:12 - What are common misconceptions that Ray touches upon in the newsletter? 20:09 - Iron overload, anemia, hemoglobin, hematocrit 22:05 - Estrogen promotes the retention of iron 23:00 - How do androgens increase hematocrit and hemoglobin? 23:48 - What is the purpose of fever? 24:38 - How does iron overload relate to calcium metabolism? 28:25 - Gilbert Ling's associate induction hypothesis, lactic acid, intracellular pH, iron 28:33 - CO2 is protective from excess iron 34:28 - What's the primary conductor of the metabolism? CO2, consciousness 35:27 - Is parathyroid hormone the strongest stimulator of lactic acid? Is parathyroid hormone the final common path of metabolic stress? 37:33 - Is there a way to make cells more resistant to PTH? 40:32 - How to obtain Ray's newsletter and books, Progest-E progesterone from Kenogen 41:04 - How does progesterone relate to parathyroid hormone? 42:05 - Anti-serotonin drugs for osteoporosis? 43:11 - Progesterone opposes prostaglandin E, COX-2, aromatase 45:07 - What's the main mechanism activating aromatase? 46:49 - Cell stability and structural integrity, progesterone, estrogen, vitamin C 51:44 - How does lipofuscin impair cellular respiration? 53:42 - How can people think about what's happening right now? Ruling class vs. working class 55:32 - 'The double vaccinated becoming unvaccinated' 57:39 - Marx and Illich predicting medical tyranny 59:48 - Measuring the blood for angiotensin 01:00:38 - China's vaccination campaign 01:02:44 - Measuring the rate of metabolism by collecting the urine 01:03:56 - '50 micrograms of T3 will usually normalize a hypothyroid person' 01:05:26 - Ray's thoughts on Mexico, election fraud 01:08:24 - Ray's thoughts on Afghanistan 01:10:19 - Are any animals evil? Ants, hunting 01:12:21 - Ray's favorite examples of mutual aid in the animal kingdom 01:16:15 - How do ants communicate? 01:18:24 - What's so special about ants? CO2, aging 01:19:35 - Ray's advice for romantic grief (heartbreak) 01:20:48 - Ray's view on ontology? William James's radical empiricism 01:25:12 - Non-toxic ways of oil painting 01:25:53 - What does a typical day look like for Ray? 01:27:37 - Ray's parting thoughts, are the powers that be winning?

This is a conversation with Naji Bakhti, author of the novel Between Beirut and the Moon (2020), published by Influx Press. He is also Project Manager at SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom at the Samir Kassir Foundation. Get early access + more perks at Patreon.com/firethesetimes Blog: https://thefirethisti.me You can follow on Twitter or Instagram @ firethesetimes too. Topics Discussed: Growing up in a ‘postwar' context, Lebanon Writing in English and the distance afforded to us when doing so Thinking about Arabic and creativity Genesis of Between Beirut and the Moon Writing the local, writing the global The Arab world and the impossibility of Space exploration Billionaires are ruining space in addition to planet Earth Joking about sectarianism in Lebanon (and also Balkans, Iraq etc) West Beirut (1998 film) and its impact, watching it (in Joey's case) the day Hariri was assassinated in 2005 Writing about Beirut as a character How do we think about fiction when reality is so overwhelming? Inheriting the silences from one's parents (including postmemory) Friendships versus sectarian politics Recommended Books Guapa by Saleem Haddad De Niro's Game by Rawi Hage Persepolis by Marjie Satrapi Paddy Clarke Ha Ha Ha by Roddy Doyle Music by Tarabeat.

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature beyond the Cold War and The Politics of Violence in Post-communist Films. Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/new-books-network

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature beyond the Cold War and The Politics of Violence in Post-communist Films. Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature beyond the Cold War and The Politics of Violence in Post-communist Films. Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/african-studies

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature beyond the Cold War and The Politics of Violence in Post-communist Films. Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/literary-studies

In At Penpoint: African Literatures, Postcolonial Studies, and the Cold War (Duke UP, 2020), Monica Popescu traces the development of African literature during the second half of the twentieth century to address the intertwined effects of the Cold War and decolonization on literary history. Popescu draws on archival materials from the Soviet-sponsored Afro-Asian Writers Association and the CIA-funded Congress for Cultural Freedom alongside considerations of canonical literary works by Ayi Kwei Armah, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Ousmane Sembène, Pepetela, Nadine Gordimer, and others. She outlines how the tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union played out in the aesthetic and political debates among African writers and intellectuals. These writers decolonized aesthetic canons even as superpowers attempted to shape African cultural production in ways that would advance their ideological and geopolitical goals. Placing African literature at the crossroads of postcolonial theory and studies of the Cold War, Popescu provides a new reassessment of African literature, aesthetics, and knowledge production. Monica Popescu is Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of African Literatures in the Department of English at McGill University. She is the author of South African Literature beyond the Cold War and The Politics of Violence in Post-communist Films. Victoria Oana Lupașcu is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature and Asian Studies at University of Montréal. Her areas of interest include medical humanities, visual art, 20th and 21st Chinese, Brazilian and Romanian literature and Global South studies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Support our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/intellectual-history

Abstract Expressionism is a complex art movement from the mid 19th century that requires a fair amount of cognitive dissonance to embrace. Whether you find this movement intriguing or confusing, listen as Klaire Lockheart describes this Modernist art style. She'll also reveal why it makes her salty. Artists and Artwork: Ad Reinhardt, Jackson Pollock (Number 17A, Mural), Mark Rothko (Untitled [Violet, Black, Orange, Yellow on White and Red]), Hilma af Klint, Olga Rozanova (Non-Objective Composition. Color Painting), Barnett Newman, Alma Woodsey Thomas (Orion, A Fantastic Sunset), and Lee Kranser (The Seasons, The Eye of the First Circle) Additional Topics: Sublime, Clement Greenberg, Harold Rosenberg, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Action Painters, and Color Field Painting klairelockheart.com instagram.com/klairelockheart facebook.com/klairealockheart

Ben Norton was invited to give this talk about the fake left and imperialism. He discusses how the CIA's "woke" recruitment ad is not new; it is rooted in an "intersectional imperialist" history going back to the first cold war, in which the CIA poured money into cultivating anti-communist, pro-imperialist progressive groups, using fronts like the Congress for Cultural Freedom and billionaire-funded foundations like Ford and Rockefeller. Ben goes through the book "The Cultural Cold War," and talks about supposed "leftist" CIA assets like feminist leader Gloria Steinem and Trotskyite civil rights activist Bayard Rustin, then analyzes examples of astroturfed, Nonprofit Industrial Complex-backed pseudo-left campaigns in the US, Western Europe, and Latin America. VIDEO: youtube.com/watch?v=rMap-6KxQJI Links and show notes: moderaterebels.com/cia-fake-left-cultural-cold-war

In this freewheeling bonus episode, Kylie and Dan assess Jarett Kobek's claim in I Hate the Internet that "the good novel, as an idea, was created by the Central Intelligence Agency." Kylie summarizes her dissertation research on the relationship between the American intelligence community and American fiction, Dan comes up with some wild metaphors, and they both weigh in on whether the CIA's influence on literary production prevented authors from developing new forms or ideas. Plus, a spontaneous NewlyReads Game and Dan's infamous T.S. Eliot impression!An incomplete bibliography of great books on this topic that Kylie references in the episode: For more information on the Congress of Cultural Freedom, see Frances Stonor Saunders's The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters. For more on the general relationship between American intelligence, literature, and university humanities programs, see Timothy Melley's The Covert Sphere: Secrecy, Fiction, and the National Security State and Robin Winks's Cloak and Gown: Scholars in the Secret War, 1939-1961.For a more focused examination of how Faulkner was promoted as an American asset in the Cold War cultural battle, see Lawrence H. Schwartz's Creating Faulkner's Reputation: The Politics of Modern Literary Criticism. And finally, for more information on the FBI's policing of black writers and thinkers in the twentieth century, see F.B. Eyes: How J. Edgar Hoover's Ghostreaders Framed African American Literature , Barbara Foley's Wrestling with the Left: The Making of Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man, and Richard Gid Powers's G-Men: Hoover's FBI in American Popular Culture. 

Charlotte Donlon talks to Delvyn Case about some of the ways Jesus shows up in popular music. They discuss rap, punk, and country music artists and how Jesus is acknowledged in their music. Delvyn wrote an article for Sojourner's magazine in October 2020 titled "JESUS SHOWS UP IN DISCOS, HONKY-TONKS, BLUES BARS, AND STRIP CLUBS." This article was the jumping off point for this podcast episode. If you subscribe to Sojourner's you can read it here (https://sojo.net/magazine/december-2020/jesus-shows-discos-honky-tonks-blues-bars-and-strip-clubs), but it's not required reading for you to listen to this episode. Black hip-hop scholars recommend by Delvyn: Ebony Utley, Anthony Pinn, Michael Eric Dyson, Tricia Rose For the history of country music, Delvyn suggests the Ken Burns documentary from a few years ago. For the origins of rock'n'roll, the Rolling Stone History of Rock'n'Roll is a comprehensive resource. It delves deeply into the Black origins of the style. Another great book on the development of 60's rock out of the blues is McNally's "On Highway 61: Race, Music, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom." Links to Delvyn's writing are here: https://www.delvyncase.com/writing Recent book with Delvyn's chapter on Jesus in popular music: https://www.scsmusic.org/publications/christian-music-in-the-americas/ Delvyn's recent recording of sacred concert music - along with listening links - can be found here: https://www.deus-ex-musica.com/case-strange-energy More on Deus Ex Musica: https://www.deus-ex-musica.com/ Delvyn Case is a musician, writer, scholar, and educator based in Boston. He is a composer of classical concert music whose work often explores themes from the Christian tradition, as well as a scholar of popular music. He writes about the intersections of music and religion for both academic and general audiences, including on his Patheos blog “Alleluia: Music and the Christian Life.” He is the founder of Deus Ex Musica, an ecumenical organization that promotes sacred music as a resource for learning and faith formation. He teaches at Wheaton College in Massachusetts – which, ironically, is a secular institution unrelated to the Wheaton College in Illinois. Charlotte Donlon is a writer and a certified spiritual director. She holds an MFA in creative writing from Seattle Pacific University where she studied creative nonfiction. Charlotte’s work has appeared in The Washington Post, Catapult, The Millions, The Christian Century, Mockingbird, and elsewhere. Her first book, The Great Belonging: How Loneliness Leads Us to Each Other, was published Broadleaf Books in November 2020. You can connect with Charlotte on Twitter and Instagram at @charlottedonlon.

In a brief addition to the Lasch Files, we discuss his essay, "The Cultural Cold War: A Short History of the Congress for Cultural Freedom (https://www.joelwhitney.net/christopherlasch.html)." We go through the Alger Hiss case, the ACCF, the Korean War as it played out uring McCarthyism, why everything's a psyop, and how Lasch saw psychopolitics coming. Bibliography (https://exhaust.fireside.fm/articles/ep32bib). Patreon (https://www.patreon.com/exhaust). Twitter (https://twitter.com/ex_haustpodcast). Closing Song: "checkin out (https://blasteddiplomats.bandcamp.com/album/blasted-diplomats-self-titled-plustape)" by blasted diplomats.

The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to discuss The Image of Culture and The Importance of Cultural Freedom by Richard M. Weaver.   What is culture?  What holds culture together?  Why is distinction fundamental to the survival of culture?   Bump music: Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain - Kirk Meyer - Kloria Publishing   Suggested reading: The Importance of Cultural Freedom and The Image of Culture by Richard M. Weaver "On Being a Doctor of Culture" by Dr. James Tallmon   _____________   Coming up on Episode 10: Exploring Weaver series conclusion _____________   Learn more about Wittenberg Academy. Register for Tuesdays with Tallmon. Register for Rhetoric class with Dr. Tallmon (2020-21 academic year).

The Wittenberg Hour continues our Exploring Weaver series.  Dr. James Tallmon joins The Wittenberg Hour to continue discussing the The Cultural Role of Rhetoric and The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver.   What is dialectic?  What is rhetoric?  What do dialectic and rhetoric have to do with one another?  What have they to do with culture?   Bump music: Lord, Help Us Ever to Retain - Kirk Meyer - Kloria Publishing   Suggested reading: The Phaedrus and the Nature of Rhetoric and The Cultural Role of Rhetoric by Richard M. Weaver _____________ Coming up on Episode 9: The Importance of Cultural Freedom and The Image of Culture _____________ Learn more about Wittenberg Academy. Register for Tuesdays with Tallmon. Register for Rhetoric class with Dr. Tallmon (2020-21 academic year).

Dennis McNally. Photo courtesy of Getty Images Dennis McNally is former publicist of for the Grateful Dead, a dream job if there ever was one. He has written several books inluding On Highway 61: Music, Race, and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom, Jerry on Jerry: the Unpublished Jerry Garcia Interviews and A Long Strange Trip: the Inside History of the Grateful Dead. Today we discussed life in quarantine, Jerry’s healthy relationship with Bluegrass and his unhealthy relationship with the gym. Dennis even tells a great Donna Jean story. Enjoy!This is the second time Dennis has appeared on the show. The song you heard at the during the interview was “Trouble in Mind” by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garica. It comes off the collection Before the Dead.

This wide-ranging & globe-trotting episode begins with a brief look at the successful 1953 expedition to summit Mount Everest, then pivots to some less inspiring international intrigue, as Cold War fears led the USA to meddle in the internal politics of Iran, Guatemala, & Vietnam, among other nations. John Foster Dulles's leadership of the State Department & his brother Allen Dulles's direction of the Central Intelligence Agency pushed forward a newly aggressive approach in US foreign policy, tossing aside the relatively cautious "containment" doctrine of the Truman Administration. American efforts at winning international hearts & minds ranged from persuasion (in the case of Voice of America, Radio Free Europe, & the Congress for Cultural Freedom) to regime change (removing Iranian & Guatemalan leaders) & even outright mind control (in the case of Project MK-Ultra). In domestic politics, Senator Joe McCarthy (& his sidekick Roy Cohn) would finally fall from prominence after unsuccessfully targeting the US Army. President Dwight Eisenhower approved an expansion of existing New Deal economic assistance agencies in the mid-50s, but avoided creating new social programs. Finally, in the 1954 Congressional elections, Democrats regained control of the federal legislative branch, which surprisingly eased political headaches for Republican President Eisenhower, who'd been clashing with GOP conservatives over his moderate agenda.Support the show (https://www.patreon.com/boomertomillennial/posts)

The Congress for Cultural Freedom was anti-communist advocacy group started in 1950 to project western Democratic values in philosophy, art, and culture. Contrary to popular belief, the Cold War was not limited to economic and military supremacy between the U.S. and Soviet Union, but also in values and the systems that were polar opposites in every way. In today's interview with fellow DU student Dylan Fox, we cover the Congress for Cultural Freedom and its impact on the Cold War. Super cool interview and episode about a topic in the Cold War that often gets overlooked.

Joan Cerio welcomes Dr. Helen Caldicott who shares with us her knowledge of how nuclear weapons, nuclear disasters such as Fukushima, and global warming are threatening the existence of our planet. The single most articulate and passionate advocate of citizen action to remedy the nuclear and environmental crises, Dr. Helen Caldicott, has devoted the last 42 years to an international campaign to educate the public about the medical hazards of the nuclear age and the necessary changes in human behavior to stop environmental destruction. Dr. Caldicott received her medical degree from the University of Adelaide Medical School in South Australia in 1961. She founded the Cystic Fibrosis Clinic at the Adelaide's Children's Hospital and subsequently was an instructor in pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. While living in the US, she was the president of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She also helped start similar medical organizations in many other countries. One of these groups, the International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War, won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1985. She also founded the Women's Action for Nuclear Disarmament. Dr. Caldicott has received many prizes and awards for her work, including the Lannan Foundation's 2003 Prize for Cultural Freedom and 21 honorary doctoral degrees. She was personally nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize by Linus Pauling, himself a Nobel Laureate. The Smithsonian has named Dr. Caldicott as one of the most influential women of the 20th Century. She has written for numerous publications and has authored seven books. She has also been the subject of several films, including the documentary If You Love This Planet, which won the Academy Award for best documentary in 1982. Dr. Caldicott is the President of The Helen CaldicottFoundation/NuclearFreePlanet.org. Her website is https://HelenCaldicott.com.

Robert Fisk and Yung Chang and Face2Face host David Peck talk about their new film This Is Not A Movie, fake news and journalism, our addiction to social media, complicity, a “dead language”, and something called, “apparent clarity.” Trailer Synopsis: For more than 40 years, journalist Robert Fisk has reported on some of the most violent and divisive conflicts in the world: Northern Ireland, the Balkans, and Syria. Yong Chang’s This Is Not a Movie captures Fisk in action—feet on the ground, notebook in hand, as he travels into landscapes devastated by war, interviewing both combatants and ordinary folk, ferreting out the facts and firing reports back home to reach an audience of millions. As corporations devour independent media, and language becomes a weapon, another less obvious battle is taking place. In an ever-accelerating 24-hour news cycle, the process of translating raw experience into incisive and passionate dispatches requires the determination to see things first-hand and the tenacity to say what others won’t. In his relentless pursuit of the facts, Fisk has attracted his share of controversy. But in spite of the danger, he has continued to cover stories as they unfold, talking directly to the people involved, whether that’s Osama Bin Laden or a young Palestinians woman whose father was recently murdered. Unlike the glamorous films that fueled Fisk’s early ambitions, justice rarely prevails, villains aren’t punished, and there are no tidy endings. As Fisk says, “the truth is that this is not a movie.” About the Director and Robert: Yung Chang is the director of Up the Yangtze, China heavyweight and The Fruit Hunters. He is currently completing a screenplay for his first dramatic feature, Eggplant. In 2015, Chang was selected to participate in the prestigious Sundance Labs for Eggplant. His award-winning short Gatekeeper is a Vimeo Staff Pick and distributed by Field of Vision, Laura Poitras’ curated online film unit. Chang’s films have screened at international film festivals including Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, and IDFA and have played theatrically in cinemas around the world. Up the Yangtze was one of the top-grossing documentary releases in 2008. In 2013, China Heavyweight became the most widely screened social-issues documentary I Chinese history with an official release in 200 Chinese cinemas. His films have been critically acclaimed, receiving awards in Paris, Milan, Vancouver, San Francisco, the Canadian Screen Award, Taiwan Golden Horse, Cinema Eye Honors, among others and have been nominated at Sundance, the Independent Spirit Awards and the Emmys.​Chang's films have been shown on international broadcasters including PBS, National Geographic, ARTE, ZDF, Channel 4, HBO, TMN, NHK, CBC, Bell Media, TV2, SBS, RTS and EBS. He's received funding from major organizations like Sundance Institute, BRITDOC, Telefilm, SODEC, Hot Docs, National Film Board and Canada Council for the Arts. Chang is the recipient of the Don Haig Award, the Yolande and Pierre Perrault Award, and the Guggenheim Emerging Artist Award. He is a member of the Directors Guild of Canada. In 2013, he was invited to become a member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, the organization behind the Academy Awards. Up the Yangtze and The Fruit Hunters were co-produced by the National Film Board and Eyesteel film. Robert Fisk is the most famous foreign correspondent in Britain, according to The New York Times. He is the Middle East correspondent of the London Independent and has won more than 20 major British and international journalism awards for his reporting from the region. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Pity the Nation, an eyewitness account of the Lebanese Civil War, and the historical volume The Great War for Civilisation: The Conquest of the Middle East. In 2006, he was awarded the prestigious Lifetime Achievement Prize for Cultural Freedom from the Lannan Foundation. First for The Times of London and then for The Independent, Fisk has been reporting from the Middle East for nearly 40 years, covering everything from the Lebanese Civil War in the 1980s to the Israeli invasions of Lebanon. He was among the first Western journalists to report the massacre at the Palestinian refugee camps of Sabra and Shatila. He also witnessed and reported from the Iranian Revolution (1979), the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan (1979), the Iran-Iraq War (1980–1988), the Algerian Civil War (1990–1998), the US-Iraqi Gulf War (1991), the Bosnian and Kosovo conflicts (1992–1995, 1998), the American attack on Afghanistan (2001), and the US invasion of Iraq (2003). He covered many of the 2011 Arab revolutions, especially Egypt, and is today reporting from the civil war in Syria. He is the only journalist to have interviewed Osama bin Laden three times—first in Sudan and then in Al-Qaeda’s secret camps in Afghanistan. Born in England in 1946, Fisk holds a BA in English and Linguistics from Lancaster University in the UK, and a PhD in Politics from Trinity College, University of Dublin. He has received 17 honorary doctorates from British, Canadian, and other universities. He is a frequent broadcaster and lecturer around the world. Fisk is the author of five books, including two works on Irish history, one of them an account of Irish neutrality in the Second World War; it remains a bestseller. Outside of the Middle East, Fisk has written and lectured extensively on the First and Second World Wars. He was the first Englishman to be invited to give a lecture to the families of Irish Catholics killed by British soldiers on Bloody Sunday. He remains based in Beirut as The Independent’s Middle East correspondent and is currently working on a new history of the region called Night of Power. Image Copyright: TINAM Inc. and the NFB. Used with permission. F2F Music and Image Copyright: David Peck and Face2Face. Used with permission. For more information about David Peck’s podcasting, writing and public speaking please visit his site here. With thanks to Josh Snethlage and Mixed Media Sound. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

A in-depth, verse-by-verse, expositional study examining the book of Corinthians.

A in-depth, verse-by-verse, expositional study examining the book of Corinthians.

We're joined by Giselle Khoury for Episode 82 of The Beirut Banyan, and we discuss the October 17 Revolution and calls for a new social contract. Giselle Khoury shares her thoughts on covering the current demonstration, and the role of women front and center during the revolution. Our conversation includes her late husband Samir Kassir's legacy and his dreams coming to life in Martyrs Square. Giselle is an award-winning journalist currently at BBC Arabic. She founded the Samir Kassir Foundation and SKEyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom. If you're enjoying these episodes, help support The Beirut Banyan by contributing via PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/walkbeirut Or donating through our Patreon page: https://www.patreon.com/thebeirutbanyan And subscribe to our podcast from your preferred podcast platform. Follow us on Instagram: thebeirutbanyan Twitter: beirut_banyan Facebook: The Beirut Banyan Website: www.beirutbanyan.com Music by Marc Codsi. Graphics by Sara Tarhini.

This is a fascinating conversation with Dennis McNally, who tells the inside story of the Grateful Dead as revealed to him during a dozen years on the road with the band, by the members themselves, and from a mountain of research.  Ben Ratliff writes in the New York Times, that Dennis "had more access to his subjects and their trails of paper, recording tape and roach clips than almost all previous rock biographers." With cameos from the Hell's Angels, the CIA, the Beat Poets, the Grateful Dead's adventures encapsulates the story of counter-culture America itself... and depending on your perspective, serves as a cautionary tale.   Dennis is also the author of Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, The Beat Generation & Americaand Highway 61: Music, Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom.     

Greetings, Dead Freaks! Here, in the waning days of Summer, we bring you a chat with Grateful Dead publicist, biographer, and author, Dennis McNally. We discussed his books, Desolate Angel (on Jack Kerouac and the Beats), A Long Strange Trip (on The Grateful Dead, of course), and On Highway 61: Music Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom. Dennis also tells us about his next project before we do what we always do and dig into his history with the Grateful Dead. You can find out more about Dennis' writing on his website DennisMcNally.com. After the interview we spin some serious Grateful Dead music that I hope you will enjoy. Full notes for this episode are at our blog! Let me remind you that the Brokedown Podcast is part of the Osiris Podcast Network. Osiris is creating a community that connects people like you with podcasts and live experiences about artists and topics you love. We'll be doing many live events this Summer around the country, which will include artist interviews, contests, and more. Sign up for the newsletter at OsirisPod.com to stay in the loop. Relix Magazine is a media partner of Osiris -- for music news go to Relix.com. Don't forget to follow the @BrokedownPod twitter account for regular news, live tweetstorms of shows as I listen, and other minutiae. We also have an Instagram account with the same handle. If you like pictures of things, you can find that here: BrokedownPod Instagram. Also, if you use iTunes, please consider posting a review as it really help get the word out.

Dan and Dr. Adrian Mack have a wide-ranging discussion that includes film studies, media studies, cultural studies, fiction writing, the Black Arts Movement, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr., disrupting "business as usual," the co-opting of social change and liberatory movements , and Christianity as a force for liberation. Dr. Adrian Mack is the Director of Business Development for Social Impact at 3C Institute for Social Development and is an adjunct faculty member in Interdisciplinary Studies at Southern New Hampshire University. He has a PhD in Transformative Studies from CIIS, a MA in Christian Ministry from Liberty University, a MA in Christian Studies from Duke University, and a BA in History from the University of Virginia. His research focus is in cultural studies, media studies, and literary studies, and he enjoys writing fiction. *** Adrian Mack's article, "The Black Arts Movement, the Congress for Cultural Freedom, & Cultural Discourse" will be published in a special issue for Comparative American Studies on the Black Arts Movement. We'll add the information on accessing it here once it is released.

The Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs and The Samir Kassir Foundation, in partnership with UNESCO Held a Panel Discussion Democracy and Human Rights in the Digital Age with Claudia Wagner, ICT4Peace, UK Jazem Halioui, Webradar, Tunisia Jonne Catshoek, Elva, The Netherlands Moderator: Ayman Mhanna, Samir Kassir Foundation, Lebanon The Samir Kassir Foundation’s SKeyes Center for Media and Cultural Freedom with the support of UNESCO, launched a year ago “tech4freedom.” This project aims at empowering Arab human rights and development organizations with relevant tech tools that can help advance their causes and objectives. Likewise, the rise in the Lebanese tech scene has been gaining momentum and many of the tech developers are keen to work for human rights and development causes. It was therefore important for the two traditionally separate fields to join their efforts together. The panel gathered international experts who are developing and using tech innovation to support free speech, humanitarian aid and development initiatives, combat terrorism, and promote democratic values.

Why was the CIA involved in literature? Stephanie and Michelle talk to Dr Alys Moody about the Congress for Cultural Freedom, a CIA-funded group that financed a whole range of literary activities in the mid-twentieth century. They ponder shadowy government organisations, cover-ups, and what happens when a bunch of writers find out that the CIA is funding their conferences. 

Arnie Gundersen, a nuclear educator and former nuclear industry senior vice president, has referred to it as “the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind.” [1] Six years ago this week, a tsunami, triggered by a category 9.0 earthquake, slammed into the site of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear facility on the north east coast of the Japanese island of Honshu. The natural disaster resulted in the failure of systems keeping the reactor cores and spent fuel rods cool, leading to core meltdowns in three of the plant's reactors, as well as damage from consequent hydrogen explosions. [2] Enormous quantities of radioactive particles were released into the atmosphere and the water table leading to the Pacific Ocean. Approximately 170,000 people in the vicinity of the plant were immediately evacuated. The World Health Organization downplayed the health risks from the catastrophe, concluding in their 2013 Health Risk Assessment from the nuclear accident that the risks of contracting certain cancers in certain sex and age groups were only “somewhat elevated.” The report also concluded “no discernable increase in health risks from the Fukushima event is expected outside Japan.” [3] Nevertheless, a health management survey examining 38,000 children in Fukushima found three children diagnosed with thyroid cancer. The natural incidence is one in one million. [4] Further, a December 2011 peer-reviewed report in the International Journal of Health Sciences found that in the 14 weeks immediately following the event, there were 14,000 excess deaths in the United States connected with radio-active fall-out from the Fukushima meltdowns. [5] The Japanese government has been so successful in its efforts to assuage the concerns of the wider public that Prime Minister Abe was able to secure Tokyo as the site for the 2020 Olympic Summer Games! As of this month, the Abe government ends its housing subsidies to people evacuated from the area proximate to the nuclear facility, forcing those fearful of the lingering radiation to fend for themselves abroad. [6][7] The nuclear accident may have profound consequences for all humanity, and possibly all life on Earth, yet the severity of the situation doesn't seem to merit major headlines. On this, the sixth anniversary of the start of the Fukushima crisis, we spend the hour with world renowned nuclear watchdog, Dr. Helen Caldicott. In this interview, conducted and recorded on International Women's Day, Dr. Caldicott talks about the high radiation reading recently recorded at Unit 2, efforts to contain the radioactive water spilling out of the facility, projected health risks from the cesium, tritium, strontium and other isotopes spewing from the site and much, much more. Caldicott also extends the discussion to talk about Canada's role in nuclear proliferation and the threats posed by the new Trump Administration and Cold War atmosphere in which it is situated. Dr. Helen Caldicott is a physician and co-founder of Physicians for Social Responsibility. She is a nominee for the Nobel Peace Prize, the recipient of the 2003 Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, and author or editor of several books including Nuclear Madness: What You Can Do (1979), If You Love This Planet: A Plan to Heal The Earth (1992), The New Nuclear Danger: George W. Bush's Military-Industrial Complex(2001), and Crisis Without End -The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe (2014). She is currently the president of the Helen Caldicott Foundation (NuclearFreePlanet.org). Her latest book, Sleepwalking to Armaggedon: The Threat of Nuclear Annihilation will be available in bookstores in July, 2017.

This month, we take a change in direction from previous episodes in reviewing the 2010 documentary film 'Exit Through The Gift Shop', which chronicles the misadventures of UK street-artist 'Banksy'.  Both serious and satirical, the film follows eccentric cameraman Thierry Guetta as he haphazardly makes inroads into the underground street-art scene, eventually taking on the role of Banksy's Documentarian and Personal Assistant. After a high-profile U.S exhibition brings him overnight fame and fortune, Banksy instructs Thierry to start compiling his documentary footage so that the real story behind the media sensation can be told; though he soon learns that Thierry posesses neither creativity nor competence as a filmmaker.  As Banksy takes over the editing himself, he instructs Thierry to go forth and pursue his own artistic visions on the street, only to find that Thierry has bigger plans in mind, and has hired a large staff of artists to start mass-producing his plagiarised pop-art concepts. After conducting a savvy and elaborate public relations campaign as ‘Mr Brainwash’, Thierry opens his new gallery to public applause and highly lucrative profits, much to the chagrin of Banksy and his colleagues.  We discuss the synergistic relationship between the world of modern art and public relations, where the currency of an artist is determined by publicity and networking, and the content of the artwork is less important than its perceived social context. The film appears to be critiquing this paradigm in ‘mockumentary’ style, while still advocating the exploitation of these principals - begging the question as to what sentiment is actually being communicated? We also touch on the history of establishment influences in countercultural art movements, exploring questions of artistic integrity versus commercial opportunity; ultimately interpreting the entire film itself as a cynical exercise in guerrilla marketing. By both exposing and exploiting the frivolous nature of the art world, the film employs a masterful blend of satire, controversy and contradiction to create mystique around the artist.  Is Banksy really a single individual, or simply the brand name used by an underground clique of artists and spin doctors? Was Thierry Guetta a lucky entrepreneur, or was he the cynical face of an elaborate and lucrative publicity stunt? Topics discussed include: Banksy, Shepherd Fairey, Obey, Andre the Giant, Art, PR, Public Relations, Thierry Guetta, Mr Brainwash, Street Art, Pop-Art, Andy Warhol, Mockumentary, Hoax, Space Invader, Disneyland, LA, Cynicism, Publicity, Gallery, Exhibition, CIA, Congress for Cultural Freedom, Cold War, International Operations Division, George Soros, Open Society Institute, Tides Foundation, Adbusters, Occupy, Saatchi, Tate, Modern Art, Shock Value, Context, Rockefeller, Brangelina, Counterculture, Celebrity, Barely Legal, Prank, Occult, Alchemical, Secret Society, Initiation, Neophyte, Ritual, Drama, Promotion, Marketing, Publicity Stunt, Funding, Grants, Leftist Critiques, Anti-Establishment, Capitalism, Exploitation, Satire, Punk, Stencils, Installations, Staff, Crew, Guerrilla Marketing, Perception, Meaning, Hidden Clues, Themes, Memes, Contradictions, Profits, Commercialisation, London, Bristol, Logistics, Jackson Pollock, Post-Modernism, Rip-Offs, Production, Branding, Mystery, Subculture, Social Statements, Secrecy, Resources, Compromise, Group Projects. 

We have a fine discussion with Pearse Redmond of http://porkinspolicyreview.com. Topics include, The CIA and Hollywood, Culture Creation, Chase Brandon,George Orwell, 1984, Animal Farm,The Congress for Cultural Freedom, Peter Wright, Spy Catcher, Ben Afleck, George Clooney, Angelina Jolie The Quiet American, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, Chuck Barris, Operation Mockingbird, CBS, The Social Network, Hill and Knowlton, Wag the Dog, Weaponized Culture,Judd Apatow, Modern Art, Presidential Elections, Shepard Fairey, Paul Begala, K Street, Pro Wrestling, The Clintons, Boston Bombing, Sandy Hook, Reality Television, The OJ Simpson Trial,Duck Dynasty,Libertarianism, Anarchism, The Gold Standard, Ron Paul, the Constitution, John Bush,September 11...............................hoaxbusterscall.com

The Courts, The System, Manson Murder Hoax,Arnold Schoenberg,Congress for Cultural Freedom, CIA, Cultural Cold War, Margret Sanger, Planned Parenthood, Eugenics,Neocons, Fabian Socialists, NRA, Black Genocide,Disgenics, Virginia Tech Shooting, Columbine,Plane Crashes, New York City Gas Explosion.......hoaxbusterscall.com

Dennis McNally, PhD The Long, Strange Trip of American Music, Race, and Freedom ~Co-presented with Point Reyes Books~ Join TNS Host Steve Heilig for a conversation with Dennis McNally—historian, author, and longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead. Read Steve’s interview with Dennis in the November issue of the Pacific Sun. Dennis McNally, PhD Dennis was born to an Army counter-intelligence operative and a legal secretary in 1949 at Fort Meade, Maryland. He holds a doctoral degree in history from the University of Massachusetts and has written about Kerouac and the Beats for many scholarly journals. He is perhaps best known as the longtime publicist for the Grateful Dead. His first book, Desolate Angel: Jack Kerouac, the Beat Generation and America, so impressed Jerry Garcia that he was hired for the job with no relevant experience. Years later, his second book, A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead, became the definitive band biography. His new book is On Highway 61: Race and the Evolution of Cultural Freedom. About this one, he says “Why did America turn itself inside out in the 1960s, get so nuts that the culture wars that started then are still being fought in 2014? One of the major reasons was the long relationship of white (mostly young) people and black culture (mostly music), going back from minstrelsy (the 1840s) and on up to the 1960s, where you can see it revealed in the music of Bob Dylan.” And many others, for that matter. Photo credits: top, Liz Hafalia; bottom, Susana Millman Find out more about The New School at tns.commonweal.org.

Under 1950-60-talets Kalla krig, utkämpas ett hemligt propagandakrig i Sverige. USA ville vinna den svenska vänstern, som i deras ögon riskerade att bli kommunistisk. 1952 bildas en kulturkommitté i Stockholm; en underavdelning till Congress for Cultural Freedom i Paris - allt finansierat av CIA. Drygt hundra av Sveriges främsta intellektuella värvas till den svenska underavdelning. Samtidigt går den öppna propagandan från USA på högvarv i Sverige och får tidningar att ta märkliga beslut. I P3 Dokumentär berättar vi den hittills okända historien om CIAs propagandakrig i Sverige. Producenter: Henrik Arnstad och Lovisa Lamm Nordenskiöld

Join MsBlue and Dr Alim Bey   Dr Alim El Bey will be LIVE in The Remix~"I AM A MU'UR-ISH (MOORISH) SCIENTIST (WAAW)" All about Healing,PRANIC HEALING, CHI KUNG, TAI CHI, MEDITATION, BREATHING EXERCISES, METAPHYSICS and much more ... Contact: Dr Alim Bey http://cultural-freedom.com/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ For Readings Contact : question4blue@gmail.com KYM Oracle Deck: www.msblueblast.com/cards KYM Audio Work Book:www.msblueblast.com    

--{ CFR, RIIA, IPR, CIA and Global Culture: (Continued from Yesterday) "Lots of Old Books, Dry Dusty Pages, Following a System Down through Ages, Chameleon-like, Adapt! Then Conflagration, With Tentacle Arms Reaching Each Nation, Out of Each Conflict, Create Closer Ties, Low-Level Workers Fed Idealism, Lies, Old Wealthy Families at the Top, of Course, Now Own Every Animal, Mineral, Human Resource, Front-Men Leaders, Scriptwriters Play Sage, Announcing the Birth of This New Age, Equality and Unity, All Sounds So Nice, The Rich Own the World, Rest are Church Mice" © Alan Watt }-- Knowledge is Never Lost - Government Run by Secrecy - OSS, CIA, Culture Creation - Communist Regimes - Predictive Programming. Novelists, Writers, Publication, Guaranteed Sales - Congress for Cultural Freedom, PEN, Funding - Movies, Fiction, Shaping Opinion, "Sin Cities". Hollywood Films, Bolshevism, Russia, Germany - Changing Enemies, Orwell's "1984"- War in Iraq - RIIA-CFR Meeting, Creation of World Culture. Movie Exports, Foreign Policy, "American Values" - Pentagon-Funded War Movies - All Groups Used - Youth, "Antique" History - Folk and Rock Music. Laurel Canyon, Military Families - Communism Funded by Canada and U.S. - Degeneracy, Cold War, Reece Commission. Chatham House (WWII OSS Headquarters), RIIA, Cecil Rhodes, Alfred Milner, LON, UN - Professor Carroll Quigley, Alfred Zimmerman. Britain, British Commonwealth - Lord Lothian, Hess - Royal Institute for International Affairs, Council on Foreign Relations. (Books: [Continued: "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" by Frances Stonor Saunders.] ["Tragedy and Hope" by Carroll Quigley.]) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 20, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)

--{ The CIA's Dream Machine---Still Dreamin': " 'It's One, Two, Three, What're We Fighting For?' Read about CIA in 'The Cultural Cold War,' Where Sons of the Rich were Given Free Hand To Take Over Culture, Be In Command, Creating New Culture for World Federation, Payrolled by the 'Charitable' Foundations, They Worked Alongside Britain's MI6, Which Taught Them All Subversive Tricks, Whole Countries Saw Old Culture Leave 'em, New Ones Courtesy 'Congress for Cultural Freedom,' Cold War is Over, Cultural Leaders Remain, Still Paid by Foundations, Never Losing the Aim Of a New World Order, States Federated, Where We're All Numbered, Watched, Regulated" © Alan Watt }-- Communism, Cold War, Organization Ability - Transition Phase, Surveillance - OSS, CIA, World War II - "Organizational Weapon". East-West Dialectic, "Foundations: Their Power and Influence" book - Culture Industry, Promotion of "Decadence" - Truth and Propaganda. Novelists, Arts, Nihilism, Apathy Creation - Lend-Lease Program, United Europe - Henry Kissinger - Elite Families' Profiteering. Philanthropic Foundations, CIA Funding, Fronts - Control of Technology - Thousand Points of Light - Congress for Cultural Freedom. Council on Foreign Relations, RIIA, World Government - (John D., Nelson, David) Rockefeller Foundation, Covert Intelligence Operations. (Recommended Read: "The Cultural Cold War: The CIA and the World of Arts and Letters" by Frances Stonor Saunders.) *Title/Poem and Dialogue Copyrighted Alan Watt - Jan. 19, 2009 (Exempting Music, Literary Quotes, and Callers' Comments)