The Chicago Council on Global Affairs (CCGA); the Pritzker Forum on Global Cities; the Global Cities movement; cities doing an end run around the nation state; cities developing their own foreign policy; Rahm Emanuel's "The Nation City: Why Mayors are Now Running the World"; SMART Cities; effect of the global pandemic on cities; issue of governance; violations of the US Constitution; funding of the Chicago Council on Global Affairs; national sovereignty v globalism; Global Parliament of Mayors; World Affairs Councils of America (WACA); implement global locally.

Aired: February 10, 2021

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Global Cities:  Boom or Bust? - Mark Anderson, #431

We discuss Diana Johnstone’s memoir, "Circle in the Darkness"; Yugoslavia under Tito; bombing of Serbia; Camp Bondsteel; spook revelation journalism; Paris in 1968; anti-war movement of the ‘60s; legacy of Charles de Gaulle; Europe occupied since WWII; the Greens; Maastricht and Lisbon Treaties; neoliberal counterrevolution in the 1980s; finance capital; internationalism v nationalism; privatization; financial institutions living off of sovereign debt; austerity; Yellow Vests a revival of an economic left; Antifa enforcing the establishment position; Responsibility to Protect (R2P) a rule to break national sovereignty; destruction of Libya by NATO; new phase of capitalism called ‘green’; censorship of intellectual discussion.

Aired: June 24, 2020

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Memoir of a World Watcher - Diana Johnstone, #423

On this brand new episode of the Global Research News Hour we take a fresh and discerning look at Joe Biden and Kamala Harris on the week when the Democratic party is hosting its 2020 National Convention.

In the first half hour, Mark Robinowitz offers his assessment as a deep political thinker and ecological thinker. His website is oilempire.us. Ajamu Baraka, national organizer for the Black Alliance for Peace and vice president on the Green ticket during the last presidential election, offer his uncompromising view of the Democratic party and leader Biden in our second half hour.

Dissecting the Democrats in 2020

Douglas Valentine explains the 1960s CIA Vietnam torture and extermination program known as "Phoenix" which later went on to be perfected and deployed in war zones around the world after 9/11 and which has come home to roost in the United States through the creation of a permanent surveillance and police state under the auspices of the Department of Homeland Security, Fusion Centers, NSA bulk data collection, and numerous other programs. He explains how both political parties are two sides of the same coin and how the pandemic has advanced the interests of the security state.

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Show Notes
USA Torture Vietnamese Phoenix Program (BBC) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMtD3pCch0s

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About Douglas Valentine
Douglas Valentine is an American journalist and author of four works of historical non-fiction: The Hotel Tacloban, The Phoenix Program, The Strength of the Wolf (winner of the Choice Academic Library Award), and The Strength of the Pack. His articles have appeared regularly in CounterPunch, ConsortiumNews, and elsewhere.

Portions of his research materials are archived at the National Security Archive (both a Vietnam Collection and a separate Drug Enforcement Collection), Texas Tech University’s Vietnam Center, and John Jay College. He provided expert testimony at the King v Jowers trial on the Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination at the request of the King family.

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Doug Valentine: How the CIA's Phoenix Program Gave Birth to the Police State #163

On this week's,Global Research News Hour, we recall aspects of World War II which reveals the sordid aspects of Canada, the U.S. and the UK and their original support for the Nazis. In our first half hour, Richard Sanders discusses the former Prime Minister's high regard for Hitler and the anti soviet Eastern European Emigres who came to Canada. In our second half hour, Canadian Historian Jacques Pauwels explains how US and UK support for the Nazis affected the conference at Yalta and how the US altered its strategy in 1945 and beyond.

The Never Ending War During the Time We Should Never Forget

Three incomparable champions of outstanding service to their fellow human beings in international conflict pass away all within a two month period. Global Research News Hour pays tribute through their own voices and the voices of those who respected and admired them. Saluting Robert Fisk, independent journalist, Andre Vltchek, leading filmmaker, writer and political analyst, and Kevin Zeese, lawyer, activist, and organizer.

A Tribute to Three Great Internationalists. Saluting Robert Fisk, Andre Vltchek and Kevin Zeese

We’re joined by co-host of TrashFuture – and friend of TMK from the start – Riley Quinn as we examine the brain of the Thought Leader. Forged in the fires of the financial crash, driven mad by Internet induced techno-optimism, brains smoothly polished by the infinite growth of a zero interest rate world – the modern day Thought Leader is the charlatan in the court of tech capital. They spend their days promoting Big Ideas Books that contain remarkably little thinking, while asserting all the solutions to complex societal problems. But that’s okay because they aren’t really meant to be read by anybody anyways. Unless, of course, you’re Riley.

Follow Riley (https://twitter.com/raaleh) and listen to TrashFuture (https://trashfuturepodcast.podbean.com/). Of course you’re already doing both, right?

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36. Theory of the Thought Leader (ft. Riley Quinn)

The Global Research News Hour cites instances of severe allergic reactions and even death immediately following the application of the vaccines by Pfizer-BioNtech and Moderna. Internist and epidemic and anthrax expert Meryl Nass M.D. sees instances authorities are not prepared for and exposes the Emergency Use Authorization and instances dire to vaccine injured recipients. Our next guest, Canadian infectious disease expert Allison McGeer explains that despite the relatively small list of deaths, the roll-out should absolutely not be paused given the threat posed by COVID. Our last guest, Mary Holland of Children's Health Defense opposes the roll-out and explains why.

A Life Saving Hope or Death Defying Jab? Three Perspectives on the Experimental COVID Vaccine

Artist, activist and filmmaker, John Parulis, recounts his early mystical attachment to the land; his immersion in the eastern mysticism movement in a San Francisco ashram; his recruitment into Greenspeace’s Rainbow Warrior trawler missions as a videographer; the mission to interfere with Japanese factory boat operations in the Bering Sea; a dangerous mission to Lorino in Soviet Siberia to expose an illegal Soviet whaling operation in order to save endangered whales; the mission to the South Pacific Rongelap Atoll in the Marshall Islands to rescue indigenous people off of their island that had been irradiated by a huge nuclear test on Bikini Atoll; the mission to Moruroa Atoll to help indigenous people fight French underwater nuclear testing; Greenpeace infiltrated by French intelligence; the blowing up of the Rainbow Warrior in Auckland Harbor.


Aired: October 7, 2020

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The Rainbow Warrior:  Early Campaigns - John Parulis, #427

On this week's Global Research News Hour, we dive even deeper down the rabbit hole of the COVID vaccines and the numerous fictions associated with the pandemic in order to effortlessly accomplish the dreaded Great Reset. In our first half hour, Dr Chris Shaw spells out his opposition to the Pfizer-BioNTech and Moderna mRNA vaccines from a neuroscientific perspective. In our second half hour, after a brief review of many of the myths of the pandemic, we get the overview on the Great Reset from author Diana Johnstone author of the November article The Great Pretext...for Dystopia!

The Vaccines, The Plunder, and the Arrival of the Great Reset

Historian Elizabeth Catte on Virginia's forced sterilization campaign in the mid-20th century, the intersection of race, medicine and social control, and her book "Pure America: Eugenics and the Making of Modern Virginia" from Belt Publishing.

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