Aaron and Bryce speak with Dr. Assal Rad. She is the Research Director at the National Iranian American Council and the author of 'The State of Resistance: Politics, Culture & Identity in Modern Iran'.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

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Bryce Greene is back speaking about 9/11 with two guests, John Duffy and Ray Nowosielski. They are the authors of 'The Watchdogs Didn't Bark: The CIA, NSA, and the Crimes of the War on Terror'. This book was edited by our own David Talbot, who also wrote the foreword.

This episode marks the second in a series of 9/11 episodes that our own Bryce Greene is producing.

Image Credit: Washington Post

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music "Chrome Alligator" by Mock Orange

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Gary Vogler and Lawrence Wilkerson join us to discuss the deep politics of the Iraq War, drawing from their respective insider perspectives. Gary Vogler is the author of 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. Lawrence Wilkerson wrote the foreword to the book. He is a retired US Army Colonel and former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell.

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• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

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In this episode, Peter Dale Scott reads and discusses a new poem. Published at the American Exception Substack, the poem is entitled “Facing the Limen.”

This is the 30th installment of our oral history series with the prolific poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach.

Image Credit: Ludlow Group

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Nine Times” by Mock Orange

To hear/see the full episode, please subscribe on Patreon at: https://patreon.com/americanexception Aaron and Bryce discuss a number of subjects: The criminally bad New York Times coverage of the Gaza Genocide

The US presidential debate farce how Harris picked up the coveted Dick Cheney endorsement

How Russia and Iran are deepening their strategic relationship

The anniversary of 9/11

MAGA’s new strange and conspiracist Resistance spectacle

Special thanks to:

Dana Chavarria, production

Casey Moore, graphics

Michelle Boley, animated intro

Mock Orange, music

We talk with the Iraq Correspondent at the excellent website, The Cradle. He has done outstanding work covering ISIS as the latest entry in a long and sordid Western imperial tradition--the covert use of Islamist terror groups as geopolitical sock puppets.

Two articles from the Cradle’s Iraq Correspondent are particularly relevant to this episode’s discussion:

• "Masoud Barzani: The Butcher of Sinjar"

• "‘Justice is sleeping’: Yezidis struggle to punish Kurds who greenlit genocide"

Follow The Cradle on Twitter, and check out The Cradle website regularly to stay up to date developments in the Middle East.

Image Credit: The Cradle

Special thanks to Dana Chavarria for producing the episode!

Music: “Be Gone” by Mock Orange

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Aaron discusses a pair of suppressed recent news articles from The Grayzone:

• "Historic US-Russia prisoner swap exposes CIA support for Chechen jihad"

• "Accused financier of Moise assassination apparently advised by US intelligence"

Then goes into an (overly?) extended discussion of a new academic article that offers a critique of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State:

• 'Oedipus and the cabal: conspiracy theories and the decline of symbolic efficiency'

NOTE: The 'I' in BRICS is for India. I likely said "Iran" because Iran is the BRICS member who, along with Russia and China, has done the most to defeat the pnac of late.

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music

This is the second of Aaron's two-part review and discussion of a new and very important book, 'Israel, Winner of the 2003 Iraq Oil War: Undue Influence, Deceptions, and the Neocon Energy Agenda'. The book was written by Gary Vogler, with a foreword from Col. Lawrence Wilkerson.

Image: West Qurna 1 Oil Field (Middle East Online)

Special thanks to:

• Dana Chavarria, production

• Casey Moore, graphics

• Michelle Boley, animated intro

• Mock Orange, music