Progressive Commentary Hour

Rick Sterling is a retired engineer in the electronics and aerospace industries and at the University of California at Berkeley. Since then he has been an investigative journalist whose research focuses on international relations and a strong advocate for human rights causes. His writing involves the struggles against imperialism and supporting justice in the Middle East, Latin America and US-Russia relations. Rick is a board member of Task Force for the Americas; he is currently the board president of Mount Diablo Peace and Justice Center and a co-founder of the Syria Solidarity Movement, which opposes imperialist interests in Syria. Rick has visited Syria many times and was an election observer in 2021. He was among the small group of independent journalists who exposed the White Helmets as a faux humanitarian organization with ties to al-Nusra or al-Qaeda, the false accusations of Assad's use of chemical weapons, and western media deceptions about the former Syrian government before its downfall. Rick lives in the San Francisco Bay Area, and his organization's website is SyriaSolidarityMovement.org

Dr. Gary Null plays his documentary "Deadly Deception".

Petr Koenig is a geopolitical analyst and a former senior economist at the World Bank and World Health Organization, who specialized in water and environmental economics for 30 years in countries around the world. He has consulted for the Swiss Development Cooperation, an international agency working with humanitarian aid delivered by the Swiss Confederation as part of its foreign policy to alleviate poverty around the world and promote human rights. Peter lectures at universities in the US, Europe and South America. He is the author of "Implosion: An Economic Thriller about War, Environmental Destruction and Corporate Greed, and is a co-author of Cynthia McKinney's book "When China Sneezes: From Coronavirus Lockdown to the Global Politico-Economic Crisis." His articles are frequently published on Global Research, New Eastern Outlook and other online sites.

Dr. Carol Orsborn is a former professor of religion, history, adult development and intergenerational values, particularly among the Boomer generation. She is a leading voice in the conscious aging movement, and an international best-selling author of over 35 books, many addressing the spirituality of aging, notable "Older, Wiser, Fiercer" and "The Spirituality of Aging: A Seeker's Guide to Growing Older" co-written with Harvard psychologist and theologian Robert Weber. Carol's most recent book released last week is "Spiritual Aging: Weekly Reflections for Embracing Life." She has appeared on many popular programs including NBC Nightly News, the Today Show and is a frequent speaker at professional conferences such as the American Society of Aging, the Positive Aging Conference and the American Academy of Religion. Dr. Orsborn recently launched the Spiritual Aging Study and Support Group (SASS) on Substack, and is the founder of the Conscious Aging Book Club. She has been on the faculties of Pepperdine, Loyola Marymount and Georgetown universities. She holds graduate degrees in Theological Studies and in History and Critical Theory of Religion from Vanderbilt University. Her website and archives can be found at CarolOrsborn.com

Dr. John Martin is a virologist and medical researcher who has greatly contributed to the study of viral infections and their role in chronic diseases. He is the medical director of the Institute for Progressive Medicine at the non-profit charity MI Hope that supports those with mental illness. During his tenure at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Dr. Martin significantly increased our understanding of viruses such as HIV, hepatitis, and herpesviruses. He later worked as Chief of the FDA's Virus Oncology Laboratory evaluating vaccine safety, especially vaccine contamination with adventitious agents, which led to his interest in stealth-adapted viruses -- viruses that are not recognized by our immune system. This research led to his theory that such stealth pathogens, such as simian cytomegalovirus contamination in the polio vaccines, could contribute to a wide range of chronic illnesses including neuropsychiatric disorders such as autism and chronic fatigue. Following his work in government health agencies, John was a professor of pathology at the Keck School of Medicine at the University of Southern California. His current research is focused on Kinetic Energy Limiting Electrostatic Attraction or KELEA, which can aid immune function, suppress stealth viruses, enhance water for crops and for purifying ecological environments. He holds an MD and a separate PhD from the University of Sydney and University of Melbourne respectively.

Gerald Celente is one of today’s pioneers in trend strategy and identifying domestic and global developments of change occurring in our world. He founded the Trends Research Institute in Kingston NY and is the publisher of the Trends Journal that has an accurate track record in forecasting trends since 1980. Gerald has since become one of the nation’s most sought after diagnosticians and forecasters. In 2015, he founded the Occupy Peace and Freedom initiative -- a grassroots non-profit movement to restore individual freedoms, cease foreign entanglements, reduce the military establishment, and restore the Constitution and Bill of Rights to restore Americans' freedoms. Gerald is a regular guest on Judging Freedom with former Fox host Judge Napolitano and hosts the Youtube channel Gerald Celente. More information and analyses can be found on the Institute's website TrendsJournal.com and war and peace issues at OccupyPeace.com

Neville Hodgkinson is a British journalist who reported about AIDS conventionally in the mid-1980s as a medical correspondent for the London Sunday Times. In a subsequent role as the Times' science correspondent, he wrote a series of articles questioning the HIV theory after hearing about the work of Prof. Peter Duesberg, Joan Shenton and others. In 1996, Neville published his book "AIDS: The Failure of Contemporary Science -- How a Virus that Never Has Deceived the World." The book has recently been republished under the title "How HIV\/AIDS Set the Stage for the Covid Crisis." The book includes recent data from the Australian Perth group of scientists who have argued that HIV has never been proven to exist as a unique infectious entity. Rather this research group claims it is a misinterpretation of signals from a compromised immune system. Due to his journalism, Neville was an early victim of cancel culture from early AIDS activists such as Larry Kramer who was aligned with Anthony Fauci. A seven-part series by Neville be found on the Conservative Woman website at www.conservativewoman.co.uk/author/nevillehodgkinson/ Neville Hodgkinson, Author at The Conservative Woman Neville Hodgkinson is the former Sunday Times medical and science correspondent who created an international storm by reporting a scientific challenge to the ‘HIV’ theory of Aids. www.conservativewoman.co.uk

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

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris (Sah-toor-is) is an evolution biologist, philosopher, futurist and a former professor specializing in how the principles of nature can be applied as models for organizational and systems change. In addition to having taught at MIT and the University of Massachusetts, Dr. Sahtouris currently teaches at Chaminade University in Honolulu. She has served as a consultant to the United Nations on indigenous peoples, has been leading voice in promoting the Gaia Hypothesis of James Lovelock, is a fellow of the World Business Academy, and has been an adviser for graduate business programs at universities. Elisabet is a frequent keynote speaker for many conferences focused upon humanity’s future and sustainable economic systems. She was the primary organizer for the millennium 2000 Earth Celebration in Athens Greece. Elisabet has authored several important books including “Biology Revisited” (a dialogue with the late Willis Harman -- an American futurist and a co-founder of the Institute of Noetic Sciences), “Earth Dance: Living Systems in Evolution” and more recently "Gaia Dance: The Story of Earth and Us". Her website is Sahtouris.com

Hugh Turley is the co-author with David Martin of the first most thoroughly researched books about the assassination of the internationally revered American Catholic monk, pioneer in interfaith dialogue and anti-war and human rights activist Father Thomas Merton. Merton was also a prolific writer and poet, mostly on spiritual subjects-- perhaps the most important Catholic author in the 20th century. For over a decade Hugh has been following the clues leading to the murder of Father Merton 56 years ago in Bangkok Thailand on December 10th 1968 -- the same year as the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and Merton's friend and fellow civil rights activist Martin Luther King. His research has resulted in two publications "The Martyrdom of Thomas Merton" in 2018 and a follow up book last year "Thomas Merton's Betrayers: The case against Abbot James Fox and author John Howard Griffin". He also had a major investigative role in the publication of "The Murder of Vince Foster: America's Would-Be Dreyfus Affair". Hugh is a volunteer columnist for the Hyattsville Life and Times, a winner of the National Newspaper Association award for best serious column, small circulation, and his day job is as a professional stage magician in the Washington DC area. His website is TheMartyrdomOfThomasMerton.com

Dr. Naomi Wolf is the CEO of the Daily Clout, a nonprofit that enables people to see, share and affect legislative bills which otherwise would be largely non-transparent and get passed behind closed doors. She is perhaps best known as a feminist leader, journalist and author writing about women's rights, the emerging totalitarianism in the US and more recently the Covid pandemic and institutional tyranny. Her articles have appeared in The Nation, the Guardian and Huffington Post. Last month she released a most timely and monumental book "The Pfizer Papers: Pfizer's Crimes Against Humanity", which analyzes the most nefarious findings within 450,000 pages of Pfizer documents regarding their mRNA Covid-19 vaccine, which a court had earlier forced the company to release. The book has already become a NY Times bestseller. Naomi's previous book is "The Bodies of Others: The New Authoritarians, Covid-19 and the War Against the Human" which unveils the forces of Big Tech, Big Pharma and an oligarchic elite to use the Covid-19 pandemic as an opportunity to revision our civilization against the will and freedoms of the people. Naomi graduated from Yale University and attended Oxford University as a Rhodes scholar where she later received a doctorate in English Language and Literature. In the past she has taught at Barnard College, Stoney Brook and George Washington University. She hosts a weekly program Daily Clout, which can be heard every Wednesday and Saturday at 1 pm Eastern Time on the Progressive Radio Network. Her website is DailyClout.io and her blog is NaomiWolf.substack.com

John Potash is a psychotherapist specializing in addictions and trauma therapy, author, human rights activist and film director. His work has been featured on CSPAN’s American History TV, Reelz Channel, RT and has contributed extensively to the Covert Action Quarterly and other publications. John did his graduate degree at Columbia University and has published extensively on the intelligence agencies' war on African American leaders and Black activist celebrities. He is the author of the celebrated book “Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon and Other Activists” which has been made into a documentary. Last month, John released a new documentary sequel "CIA Drugs R Us!" which -- with some dark humor -- continues his investigation into US intelligence operations' employing hallucinogenic drugs as a psychological weapon to disrupt civil rights, anti-war resistance and other democratic movements. More information about John's work and his new documentary can be found at JohnPotash.com

J.J. Carrell is a former US border patrol officer who served for 24 years and retired as a deputy patrol agent in charge. He was a supervisor of the San Diego-Tijuana border unit that had a high rate of violence and supervised Coastal Border Enforcement Team operations to stop maritime narcotic smuggling and human trafficking run by the global Mexican Sinaloa cartel and securing convictions against its leader and the notorious drug lord El Chapo. JJ has made it his mission to research and document the increasing immigration crisis and the culture of crime including child sex and drug trafficking, organ harvesting and gang activity as a consequence of the Biden-Harris administration's immigration and refugee relocation policies. The US is now among the top nations in sex trafficking and organized pedophilia. J.J. has been speaking out against this invasion and putting the facts in order based upon years of first hand eye-witness experiences. He recently released his documentary film "This is Treason" that presents this crisis in harrowing detail with testimonies of many whistleblowers who are first hand observers and players. He is also the author of "Invaded: The Intentional Destruction of America's Immigration System", which documents the nation's border patrol's narrative. J.J. is a graduate of Southern Arkansas University where he attended on a football scholarship. He also competed in two races around the world on two episodes of CBS's The Amazing Race. His website is JJCarrell.com and J.J. blogs articles at Border Truth on Substack at jjcarrell.substack.com.

John Potash is a psychotherapist specializing in addictions and trauma therapy, author, human rights activist and film director. His work has been featured on CSPAN’s American History TV, Reelz Channel, RT and has contributed extensively to the Covert Action Quarterly and other publications. John did his graduate degree at Columbia University and has published extensively on the intelligence agencies' war on African American leaders and Black activist celebrities. He is the author of the celebrated book “Drugs as Weapons Against Us: The CIA’s Murderous Targeting of SDS, Panthers, Hendrix, Lennon and Other Activists” which has been made into a documentary. Last month, John released a new documentary sequel "CIA Drugs R Us!" which -- with some dark humor -- continues his investigation into US intelligence operations' employing hallucinogenic drugs as a psychological weapon to disrupt civil rights, anti-war resistance and other democratic movements. More information about John's work and his new documentary can be found at JohnPotash.com

Jeremy Kuzmarov is Managing Editor of Covert Action Magazine, a 40-plus year old publication that hosts a number of extraordinary writers and journalists covering current events. He is the author of four books on U.S. foreign policy, including Obama’s Unending Wars (Clarity Press, 2019) and The Russians Are Coming, Again, with John Marciano. Jeremy recently researched an article, published in the journal Class, Race and Corporate Power -- entitled "The Liberal Savior as Conservative: JFK's Foreign Policy" -- that investigates the legacy of President John F Kennedy showing that the president was not the peace advocate as he is so frequently portrayed. As a consequence, JFK's legacy as the stalwart hero of global peace and being a non-interventionist is perhaps very flawed. The Magazine's website is CovertActionMagazine.com.

Sayer Ji is the Founder of GreenMedInfo, the internet's most widely referenced open access natural health resource websites. The site's Natural Medicine Database contains over 94,000 peer-reviewed publications supporting natural health science. Sayer is the author of the best seller "Regenerate: Unlocking Your Body's Radical Resilience Through the New Biology." He is also the co-founder of Stand for Health Freedom, a non profit organization dedicated to protecting citizen's basic medical and parental rights. In addition to writing on natural remedies for a wide variety of diseases and illnesses, Sayer has also been dedicated to investigating the regressive politics of healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry and human rights violations. His website is GreenMedInfo.com.

Dr. Gary Null continues his discussion on the AIDS virus.

Dr. Ana Maria Mihalcea is an integrative medical physician who also has a strong background in biophysics. She is the founding president of AM Medical, an integrative and anti-aging clinic in Yelm, Washington. During the course of the Covid-19 pandemic Dr. Mihalcea has been treating patients suffering Covid vaccine injuries and from long Covid symptoms following infection. Her current work has been largely devoted to a deep investigation into identifying various ingredients found in the mRNA vaccines, notably self-assembling nanoparticles and nanobots. Ana is also a pioneer in the "medicine of the future" and is author of the book "Light Medicine: A New Paradigm -- the Science of Light, Spirit and Longevity." She received both her medical degree and a separate PhD from Rheinian Westfallian University School of Medicine in Germany. One of her later mentors was Dr. Mitch Ghen, who the American Academy of Anti-Aging Medicine named one of world's top experts in anti-aging regenerative medicine. Ana's clinic's website is AmMedicalMD.com and her blog for her articles is called Unite Humanity Now on substack at AnaMihalceaMDPhD.substack.com. She also has a video channel that interviews many of the independent researchers into the Covid vaccines and other subjects on Rumble and Clouthub called Truth, Science, Spirit

Ken McCarthy is a prolific author, social and political critic, and one of the early pioneers of the movement to commercialize the Internet. Time Magazine credits him with being the first person to articulate the importance of the click-through rate as a key metric for making the Internet commercially viable. He played an important role in the development of the Internet publishing landscape. In addition to his business accomplishments, Ken’s lifelong interests in health, science, and political injustice have led him to study the corruption of medicine and science, as well as undertake substantial projects as a citizen journalist. His activism has included empowering disadvantaged communities in the Hudson Valley, New York and New Orleans. He has authored books dealing with entrepreneuralship and internet marketing, and more controversial topics such as the Covid pandemic, Anthony Fauci and medical totalitarianism, the genocide in Israel, and Kennedys. Ken's most recent book is "JFK and RFK's Secret Battle Against Zionist Extremism: The Documentary Evidence", co-authored with Rick Sterling who has appeared as a guest on this program in the past. His website is JFKAntiwar.com

Dr. Brian Hooker is the senior director of science and research at the Children's Health Defense founded by Robert Kennedy Jr, and sits on the organization's Advisory Council. Dr. Hooker is also a former Professor of Biology at Simpson University in California. He has been active in vaccine safety since 2001 and has a vaccine injured son with autism. His analysis of the CDCs data about the Measle-Mumps-Rubella vaccine and autism was published in the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons. For a few decades Brian has been investigating the scientific evidence for a vaccine-autism connection and the flaws in vaccine safety. Brian also has a son with autism and has been active in the autism community for increasing public awareness about this epidemic. Over the years Brian has filed many FOIAs with federal health agencies and was in receipt of 1000s of pages of documents from a CDC informant, Dr. William Thompson who questioned the efficacy and safety of vaccination. Dr Hooker is the co-author with Bobby Kennedy of the recent New York Times bestseller "Vax-UnVax: Let the Science Speak", which undertakes a task our federal health authorities have refused to entertain: that is, to look at the published research to compare the health status and disease incidence between vaccinated and unvaccinated people. For more information, go to ChildrensHealthDefense.org Polly Tommey is the mother of a son injured from the MMR vaccine, an outspoken autism advocate and the founder of the Autism Trust in the UK and US. Polly is also the founding chief editor of the autism magazine The Autism File and co-founder of the Autism Media Channel. She has appeared in many media sources around the world and has gone head-to-head with various political leaders about vaccine safety and efficacy. She is also the producer of several documentaries including the three Vaxxed films -- the last being "Vaxxed 3: Authorized to Kill" which was released last week, and exposes the medical and pharmaceutical malpractice during the Covid-19 pandemic.