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In this episode, Whitney is joined by independent journalist Elizabeth Vos, who has recently written a series on the Finders, a cult that ritually and sexually abused children, for MintPress News. Discussed in the depth is the evidence of the CIA’s ties to the Finders and the government cover up that followed the arrests of its leaders.
Originally published 07/20/21 on Rokfin.com

The CIA and The Finders with Elizabeth Vos

In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH assistant and podcast producer Star to discuss key aspects of the AI "revolution" including its short and long term effects and if it is possible to use AI without succumbing to its negative impacts.

Published 02/01/24.
Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/01/resources/show-notes/the-age-of-artificial-intelligence/

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The Age of Artificial Intelligence

A "mercenary Army of the poor"? Right-wing think tanks, as well as some on the left, have sought to disprove that framework. Professor Jodi Dean joins the show to critique the most recent study which portrays the rank-and-file military as a Warrior Aristocracy.


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The Class Composition of the US Military: A Socialist View w/ Prof. Jodi Dean

Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin join Catherine Austin Fitts on the Solari Report to discuss the fast-moving developments in the world of digital money.

Originally published 08/20/24.
Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2024/08/resources/show-notes/using-bitcoin-and-stablecoins-to-expand-dollar-dominance-with-whitney-webb-and-mark-goodwin/

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Using Bitcoin and Stablecoins to Expand Dollar Dominance with Whitney Webb and Mark Goodwin

In this episode, Whitney is joined by UH contributor Max Jones to discuss the influence of the PayPal Mafia's Peter Thiel on Trump's HHS, the likely policies of a RFK-led HHS, and what the expansion of the contracts between HHS and the Thiel-founded Palantir portend for the expansion of the surveillance state.

Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/02/resources/show-notes/the-paypal-presidency-pt-1-biotech-and-biosurveillance-with-max-jones/

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The PayPal Presidency Pt. I: Biotech and Biosurveillance with Max Jones

In this episode, Whitney is joined by Iain Davis to discuss his recent article series on the philosophy and political theories that motivate the PayPal Mafia and their most prominent members like Peter Thiel and Elon Musk.

Show notes: https://unlimitedhangout.com/2025/03/resources/show-notes/the-paypal-presidency-part-ii-building-the-dark-technate-with-iain-davis/

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The PayPal Presidency Part II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis

This week on the Global Research News Hour we mark both the 19th month of Israel’s continued assaults on Gaza since October 7th, and we also mark the 77th anniversary of the NAKBA, the displacement and expulsion of hundreds of thousands of Palestinians which started the Arab-Israeli War. We will first hear from Louay Alghoul, a Winnipeg lawyer with over a hundred relatives killed over the past year and a half and he will inform us regarding the situation as he encountered the fleeing and dying from his trips to Egypt in recent months. Later on we hear from radio station CFCR in Saskatoon regarding their guest Deirdre Nunan an orthopedic surgeon who talks about what she encountered through her practice of medicine in this unending Middle East war.

Death by Impunity: Perspectives on NAKBA 1948 and NAKBA 2023-?

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ].

Journalist Peter Byrne [ https://www.peterbyrne.info/ ] joins us to discuss Military AI Watch [ https://www.projectcensored.org/military-ai-watch/ ].  Hosted by Project Censored, Military AI Watch “exposes the hidden forces behind the AI arms race, the corporations cashing in, and the dire consequences for global security and democracy. Based on two years of extensive research, Byrne’s reporting sheds light on what powerful interests don’t want you to know.”

Special thanks to:
• Dana Chavarria, production
• Casey Moore, graphics
• Michelle Boley, animated intro
• Mock Orange, music

AI and the Deep State – Peter Byrne (DCC89)

Episodes of Devil's Chess Club--and all American Exception podcast episodes--are available first on Patreon [ https://www.patreon.com/americanexception ].

Charles Derber joins us to discuss his new book, 'Bonfire: American Sociocide, Broken Relations, and the Quest for Democracy' [ https://www.routledge.com/Bonfire-American-Sociocide-Broken-Relations-and-the-Quest-for-Democracy/Derber/p/book/9781032793634 ]. Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. He has written 26 books on politics, democracy, fascism, corporations, capitalism, climate change, war, the culture wars, and social change.

Special thanks to:
• Dana Chavarria, production
• Casey Moore, graphics
• Michelle Boley, animated intro
• Mock Orange, music

Image: People rally in Los Angeles, US. [Ringo Chiu/AFP]

USA: A Sociocidal Bonfire? – Charles Derber (DCC91)

On today’s broadcast we will air excerpts from  a webinar held on June 10 and focusing on the theme of how   both NATO and the G7 are vehicles for the imperialist powers to dominate the globe and make the planet a great deal  more dangerous. It was organized by the Canada-Wide  Peace and Justice Network and featured three key voices: Owen Schalk, Tamara Lorincz and Barbara Waldern.

Imperialists Using NATO and G7 to Maintain Global Domination. Canada-Wide Peace and Justice Network Presentation.

Anthropologist Aaron Neiman connects worker pain to the pre-existing conditions of labor under capitalism - as work vanishes under the looming spectre of mass automation, work-induced injury remains an individualized, moralized phenomenon not adjacent to the demands of capital, but at its very center.

Aaron wrote the essay A Pain in the Back for The New Inquiry: https://thenewinquiry.com/a-pain-in-the-back/

Wages for pain: On work, damage and drudgery under capitalism.

Economist Rob Larson explores the tensions between capital, power and freedom in a globalized economy, and explains why conservatism's most influential libertarian economists mostly looked the other way as concentrated wealth and consolidated power arose from their own deeply flawed ideas.

Rob is author of "Capitalism vs. Freedom: The Toll Road to Serfdom" from Zero Books. http://www.zero-books.net/books/capitalism-freedom

Thoughts on capitalism, freedom and the large gap between those two things.

New life in the Anthropocene [28:32] / When Black athletes stand up [1:08:17] / How violence solves inequality [2:09:27] / The triumph of surveillance tech [3:10:02] / Goodbye Schnepp [3:51:59]

Episode 1013: Violent Ends (Full Broadcast - July 21 2018)

Since there's been America, there have been American war crimes, and since there have been American war crimes, there's been a parallel cottage industry of hacks, shills and propagandists willing to not only apologize for, deny and downplay these crimes, but actually spin them as benevolent charity. 

While Karl Rove mastered the art of taking a politician's weakness and projecting it onto one’s opponent, the American political and media class has mastered the art of taking the most blatant crimes and injustices and spinning them as something actually good for the subject being oppressed, cleansed or killed. From family separation to slavery to cutting people off welfare to endless war abroad, step into the Citations Needed Hall of Funhouse Mirrors to see how the most egregious offenses to human decency get turned into evidence of innate American humanitarianism. 

We are joined by friend of the show, The Intercept's Jon Schwarz.

Episode 47: American Magnanimity - Spinning Crimes Against Humanity as Benevolence

Writer Adam Kotsko explains how neoliberalism swallowed the world - selling a compromised version of freedom for the price of isolation and precarity, robbing politics of the promise of collective action or universal ideals, and imposing its own cruel moral logic deep in the brains of its subjects.

Adam is author of "Neoliberalism's Demons: On the Political Theology of Late Capital" from Stanford University Press. 

https://www.sup.org/books/title/?id=29538

We are all trapped in the moral logic of neoliberalism.

Podcast hosted by investigative writer and researcher Whitney Webb.
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The PayPal Presidency Part II: Building the “Dark” Technate with Iain Davis

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