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Former FBI agent and whistleblower Colleen Rowley - Ep 82

Airs at: Tue, 10/13/2020 at 6:30am - Tue, 10/27/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Coleen Rowley, retired FBI agent and whistleblower on the FBI's inaction prior to and following September 11, 2001, joins us for a discussion on her career history to include her time conducting racketeering investigations in NYC, her role as a whistleblower in the FBI duri... Read more

Lebanon: The Top Ten Myths About the Country and Its Conflicts - Ep 81

Airs at: Wed, 10/07/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 10/21/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
We take a pause from the insanity of the election and a commander in chief with COVID-19 (remind me to thank him for endangering the staff at Walter Reed, as well as the permanent staff at the WH!) to discuss the recent explosion in Lebanon and America's long intervention h... Read more

Understanding the War Industry w/ Christian Sorenson - Ep 80

Airs at: Thu, 10/01/2020 at 6:30am - Thu, 10/15/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Christian Sorenson stops by the podcast to discuss his new book "Understanding the War Industry", a detailed look at contracting within the U.S. military industrial complex and how its giant war chest gets funneled to an endless list of contractors, without question to its ... Read more

Steve Poikonen, cohost of Slow News Day / the Free Assange online vigil series - Ep 79

Airs at: Wed, 09/23/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 09/30/2020 at 6:30am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Steve Poikonen, host of Slow News Day and co-host of the Free Assange online vigil series, joins us for a discussion on all things Julian Assange (FYI: this was recorded before the recent hearings on Julian’s extradition from the U.K.)  We discuss Steve’s view of NAFTA-driv... Read more

Patriotic Dissent: America in the Age of Endless War - Ep 78

Airs at: Tue, 09/08/2020 at 6:30am - Tue, 09/22/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
It's here folks!!  Danny's new book is out first thing tomorrow.  You can find it right here at Heyday Books.  For this episode, Danny and I broke down the book a bit, discussing the differences between Ghost Riders of Baghdad (Danny's first book.  Get it here) and Patrioti... Read more

Stone and Sjursen Part 4 - Ep 77

Airs at: Sat, 09/05/2020 at 6:30am - Sat, 09/19/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Danny's final discussion with Oliver Stone is here!!!  The discussion includes how Oliver expressed his angst with his parents' divorce through the stories of Elias and Barnes in Platoon, boot licking war films (like Gladiator and Blackhawk Down) and their exceptionally nar... Read more

Mike Monetta, National Director of Wolf-PAC - Ep 76

Airs at: Mon, 08/31/2020 at 6:30am - Mon, 09/07/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Mike Monetta, National Director for Wolf-PAC, stops by the podcast to discuss his organization’s vision of fighting money in politics amid a sea of political corruption, how progressives and those who align with them can find common cause, and how the American ideal of than... Read more

The buck does not stop here - the murder of Vanessa Guillen - Ep 75

Airs at: Wed, 08/26/2020 at 6:30am - Wed, 09/09/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
The murder of Vanessa Guillen has struck a violent, but unsurprising chord among the progressive community, anti-war veterans as a whole, and the many victims of military sexual trauma, as the activist reaction, given the high violent crime rate at Ford Hood, is to demand s... Read more

Badges Beyond Borders w/ Stuart Schrader - Ep 74

Airs at: Sat, 08/15/2020 at 6:30am - Sat, 08/22/2020 at 12:00am
Produced for Fortress On A Hill
Stuart Schrader stops by the podcast to discuss his book, "Badges Without Borders: How Global Counterinsurgency Transformed American Policing", along with the recent protests against police brutality, the massive changes in policing that came out of the fight for civil righ... Read more

The Hanford Plaintiffs:  Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice

Airs at: Thu, 08/06/2020 at 11:00am - 12:00pm
  The Cascadia Film Arts Festival:  Living in a Nuclear Landscape introduces Trishia Pritikin's book:  The Hanford Plaintiffs:  Voices from the Fight for Atomic Justice, with the help of Karen Dorn-Steele, former investigative journalist from Spokane Spokesman Review, and ... Read more