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State of the Exception - December 2024 (Video)

Aaron and Bryce give an update on AE projects and such before answering patron questions!

Art by Anson Stevens-Bollen

Set Up to Fail: The Overmatched Jimmy Carter

On the occasion of Jimmy Carter's death, an excerpt from 'American Exception: Empire and the Deep State' (2022) taken from Chapter 8: "Triumph of the Deep State"

Questions?

Submit your questions in the comments for the December Zoom which we are recording on Friday the 27th!

Special Holiday Episode!

It is the Holiday Season and so we are taking one of our first breaks here at the American Exception podcast! In order to give everyone something to listen to, I have uploaded a recent appearance that I made in an academic setting. University of Maryland Professor of Public Policy Mir Usman Ali invited me to speak to his class of graduate students. I enjoyed the discussion with Mir and his stud...

The "Free" Press in Crisis (DCC65 - Audio)

Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithaca College in New York where he also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media. Additionally, Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored (founded in 1976), and ...

The "Free" Press in Crisis (DCC65)

Mickey Huff joins Aaron to discuss the sorry state of American media. Mickey is Professor of Journalism at Ithaca College in New York where he also serves as the Distinguished Director of the Park Center for Independent Media. Additionally, Mickey Huff is the third director of Project Censored (founded in 1976), and ...

Olof Palme – The Murder, the Motive, and the Cover-Up

Swedish experts Ola Tunander and Gunnar Wall recently met to discuss the unsolved 1986 assassination of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.

RFK vs. ‘Operation X’ (Gray Alliance 5 - AE194)

Aaron and Max Discuss how Robert F. Kennedy, by targeting the Teamsters and thus the Lansky Syndicate, was also threatening what Peter Dale Scott has termed Operation X—the institutionalized symbiosis between the drug traffic and national security state entities like Hoover’s FBI, Anslinger’s Federal Bureau of Na...

The End of Syria – Larry Wilkerson (DCC64)

To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Image credit: AFP (via 2024-12-12 19:39:00 +0000 UTC View Post

The End of Syria – Larry Wilkerson (DCC64)

To discuss the cataclysmic fall of the Syrian government, we are joined again by Lawrence Wilkerson. He is a retired United States Army Colonel and former chief of staff to United States Secretary of State Colin Powell.

Image credit: AFP (via 2024-12-12 19:38:52 +0000 UTC View Post

Taking One for the Teamsters (Gray Alliance 4 - AE193)

Aaron and Max Arvo explore how Jack Ruby’s Syndicate and Teamster connections were covered up and obscured—first by the Warren Commission and then by the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

This is the fourth part of our Gray Alliance series, an investigation of the Lansky Syndicate-CIA-Mossad thre...

Oligarchicide? Plus: McJihad in Syria (DCC63 - Audio)

Aaron and Bryce discuss various, insane, history-making events we’ve seen in recent days, including the assassination of a health insurance executive (capo?) as well as Biden’s pardon of Hunter, new Russian super missiles, and the West’s new McJihad offensive in Syria--now spearheaded by Erdogan’s Turkey!

Check out:

• Bryce Greene’s article:...

  2024-12-06 22:34:56 +0000 UTC View Post

Oligarchicide? Plus: McJihad in Syria (DCC63)

Aaron and Bryce discuss various, insane, history-making events we’ve seen in recent days, including the assassination of a health insurance executive (capo?) as well as Biden’s pardon of Hunter, new Russian super missiles, and the West’s new McJihad offensive in Syria--now spearheaded by Erdogan’s Turkey!

Check out:

• Bryce Greene’s article:...

  2024-12-06 22:34:54 +0000 UTC View Post

State of the Exception - November 2024 (Audio)

Aaron and Bryce give an update and answer questions about the Gray Alliance series and more!

State of the Exception - November 2024 (Video)

Aaron and Bryce give an update and answer questions about the Gray Alliance series and more!

Syria/Palestine Discussion

I was a part of this discussion with Guerrilla History's Adnan Husain and friends... Good conversation on McJihad in Syria and how anti-imperialists should understand the Western dirty war on Syria.

Blackmail and Establishment Sense-Making (DCC62 - Audio)

We are joined again Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years. Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack where you can find the articles we discuss today:

• 2024-11-29 22:26:46 +0000 UTC View Post

Blackmail and Establishment Sense-Making (DCC62)

We are joined again Sam Husseini—an independent journalist who has been piercing through the establishment’s falsifications for 25 years. Please check out Sam Husseini’s Substack where you can find the articles we discuss today:

• 2024-11-29 22:26:42 +0000 UTC View Post

November Zoom - Questions Please!

It will soon be time for Bryce and I to give the Monthly Zoom update with Q&A...
Please submit questions here in the comments. Please pose any questions you might have re: the Gray Alliance series and I will answer them as best I can!

Jack Ruby as Deep State Functionary (Gray Alliance 3 - AE192)

Aaron Good and Max Arvo interrogate the absurdly suspicious life and times of Jack Ruby—the "pimp for all seasons" who assassinated Lee Oswald, the most politically important prisoner in US history. Over the years, many people have come to find it suspicious that a mob-connected figure could murder Oswald in a room full of ar...

Jeffrey Sachs and Aaron Good Discuss ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’ (DCC61 - Audio)

This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs.

We decided to make a DCC episode which includes the interview, ...

Jeffrey Sachs and Aaron Good Discuss ‘American Exception: Empire and the Deep State’ (DCC61)

This special episode features Professor Jeffrey Sachs interviewing Aaron Good about American Exception: Empire and the Deep State. The interview was for Professor Sachs' excellent podcast and video series, Book Club With Jeffrey Sachs.

We decided to make a DCC episode which includes the interview, ...

Down to the Wire (Gray Alliance 2 - AE191)

Aaron Good and Max Arvo continue to explore the evolution of American organized crime. In particular, we discuss the key importance of the racing wire service and the obscured nature of mid-20th century American organized crime: Did mafia or La Cosa Nostra models really apply? Or alternatively, were the ethnic...

Jeffrey Sachs in Conversation with Aaron Good, American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

[This interview was originally posted at Book Club with Jeffrey Sachs. Deepest appreciation to Professor Sachs and the rest of the people who put that podcast together!]

Join Professor Jeffrey Sa...

Searching for the Real ‘Deep State’ (DCC60 - Audio)

Aaron speaks with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, authors of the new book, Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America.

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. ...

Searching for the Real ‘Deep State’ (DCC60)

Aaron speaks with Charles Derber and Yale Magrass, authors of the new book, Who Owns Democracy?: The Real Deep State and the Struggle Over Class and Caste in America.

Charles Derber is Professor of Sociology at Boston College. ...

The Gray Alliance - Part 1 (AE190)

This episode kicks off our new Gray Alliance series featuring Aaron and independent researcher Max Arvo. In this introductory episode, we cover the evolution of American organized crime in the 20th century.

Special thanks Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering and to 2024-11-12 23:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post

Aaron Good on The Deep State, Middle East War, JFK, 9/11

I recently appeared on The Truth Expedition podcast to discuss the US deep state/empire and our suppressed true history.

As an aside here: I am someone who tries to accept basically all interview requests. I find it sad and strange that I get more requests from disillusioned normal socialists/left-liberals or conservative anti-imperialists than from people who are supposedly interested in...

The Laundering of Black Rage (DCC59 - Audio)

Aaron speaks with Too Black and Rasul Mowatt, authors of 'Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits'.

Che...

The Laundering of Black Rage (DCC59)

Aaron speaks with Too Black and Rasul Mowatt, authors of 'Laundering Black Rage: The Washing of Black Death, People, Property, and Profits'.

Che...