This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-94-what-will-happen-when-the-united-states-and-china-finally-go-to-war Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also as an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. Ja...
May 31, 2021•8 min•Ep. 332
Nicole Perlroth is an award-winning cybersecurity journalist for The New York Times. She is the author of the new book This Is How They Tell Me the World Ends: The Cyberweapons Arms Race . Perlroth explains the existential threat that cyberwarfare and such digital weapons as computer viruses and "zero-day exploits" represent to an internet-connected society. She also warns that individual hackers and organizations working for countries, corporations, terrorist groups, and other organizations can...
May 19, 2021•56 min•Ep. 331
Kristin Du Mez is the author of Jesus and John Wayne: How White Evangelicals Corrupted a Faith and Fractured a Nation. Du Mez explains how right-wing extremists took over the Republican Party and why they view the evildoer Donald Trump as a type of savior and weapon to advance their Christian fascist war on secular democracy. Du Mez also highlights the role of white right-wing Christian extremists in Trump's coup attack and lethal assault on the Capitol – and the importance of the movie Bravehea...
May 04, 2021•1 hr•Ep. 330
***Given the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for murdering George Floyd, this week we are revisiting a conversation which took place with Lt. Colonel (ret.) Dave Grossman that originally aired here on The Chauncey DeVega Show on April 28, 2016. Grossman has been prominently featured in these recent discussions of how America's police are trained to use lethal and other force.*** Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Dave Grossman is one of the world's leading experts on ...
Apr 25, 2021•1 hr 7 min
Michael Moss is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and bestselling author of Salt Sugar Fat: How the Food Giants Hooked Us. His new book is Hooked: Food, Free Will, and How the Food Giants Exploit Our Addictions. Moss explains how the processed food industry has weaponized our hunger. He also highlights how the processed food industry is constantly developing new ways to use excess amounts of salt, sugar, fat, protein -- and now genetic engineering – to create food products that h...
Apr 15, 2021•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 328
Jeff Sharlet is a journalist and bestselling author of The Family: The Secret Fundamentalism at the Heart of American Power and C Street: The Fundamentalist Threat to American Democracy . He is also the executive producer of the Netflix documentary series based on those two books. His newest book is This Brilliant Darkness: A Book of Strangers. Sharlet is also a contributing editor for Rolling Stone magazine as well as Harper's. His writing has also been featured at such leading publications as ...
Apr 01, 2021•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 327
Lt. Joe Kenda (ret.) was a detective with the Colorado Springs Police Department for twenty years. During that time, he solved 356 of the 387 murder cases he investigated. Kenda is the host of the new discovery+ show American Detective . Lt. Kenda's new book is Killer Triggers . His previous book is I Will Find You: Solving Killer Cases from My Life Fighting Crime . Prior to his new show, Kenda was the host of the beloved TV show Homicide Hunter on the Investigation Discovery (ID) network. Kenda...
Mar 23, 2021•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 326
Ronald Purser is a professor of Management in the College of Business at San Francisco State University. He is the author of several books including his most recent, McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality . Purser's essays and other writing have appeared in the Huffington Post, Alternet, Tikkun, The Guardian, and elsewhere. Purser explains how neoliberal gangster capitalists and other plutocrats have distorted and cooptated "mindfulness" for profits and ultimately ...
Mar 15, 2021•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 325
Adilifu Nama is Professor of African American Studies at Loyola Marymount University. He is the author of several books including Super Black: American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes . His newest book is I Wonder U: How Prince Went beyond Race and Back . Nama reviews and analyzes the new film "Judas and the Black Messiah" in the context of black cultural politics, history, and our understanding of the life and legacy of Fred Hampton, the civil rights movement, and the Black Freedom Struggle. ...
Mar 01, 2021•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 324
Leon Krauze is a news anchor on Univision's KMEX station in Los Angeles. His writing and other work on U.S. politics and immigration has been featured by such leading publications as The New Yorker, The Daily Beast, Foreign Affairs, The New Republic, Foreign Policy, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The Washington Post. Krauze formerly held the Wallis Annenberg Chair in Journalism at USC. Krauze reflects on the unhealthy state of the American news media in the Age of Trump and beyond. He also...
Feb 17, 2021•56 min•Ep. 323
Dr. Carl Hart is professor of neuroscience and psychology at Columbia University. He is one of the world's leading experts on addiction and how drugs interact with the brain. In addition to articles in leading science journals, Dr. Hart's popular writing has been featured in such outlets as The New York Times, Scientific American, and The Nation. His new book is Drug Use for Grown-Ups: Chasing Liberty in the Land of Fear . Dr. Hart explains how myths about the use of narcotics and other mood-alt...
Feb 09, 2021•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 322
Dr. Justin Frank is the author of the book Donald Trump on the Couch . He is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and a physician with more than 40 years of experience in psychoanalysis. Dr. Frank cautions that Donald Trump may want to be the country's shadow president but the more serious danger at present are his millions of cult members and the likes of Republicans such as Mitch McConnell, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Ted Cruz and others who ...
Feb 04, 2021•7 min•Ep. 321
Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People and The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage. He is also a featured commentator on Vice TV's new series While the Rest of Us Die . Sexton explains how and why Donald Trump's neo fascist movement and assault on democracy will continue in America during Joe Biden's presidency. Sexton also reflects on Donald Trump's coup atta...
Jan 26, 2021•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 320
Eric Boehlert is an award-winning journalist who has written for Rolling Stone and Media Matters. He is also the author of the books "Bloggers on the Bus: How the Internet Changed Politics and the Press" and "Lapdog: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush". Boehlert is the editor and founder of PressRun.Media. He explains how the American mainstream corporate news media helped to enable Donald Trump's fascist coup attack on the Capitol by denying reality and trying to silence those voices who were s...
Jan 18, 2021•47 min•Ep. 319
This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-82-tim-wise-explains-how-white-privilege-fueled-trumps-coup-attempt-and-assault-on-the-us-capitol-building Tim Wise is one of America's and the world's leading experts on white privilege and racism. He is the author of numerous books including his most recent Dispatches from the Race War . Tim Wise explains how Whiteness and white privilege and white violence e...
Jan 13, 2021•6 min•Ep. 318
Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters , Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West reflects on what Trump's fascist white supremacist coup attempt and assault on the Capitol Building reveals (even more) about how America is a sick society experiencing many catastrophes at the same time. West also shares what it means to prepare oneself to ...
Jan 11, 2021•54 min•Ep. 317
In the spirit of the late great Art Bell and his radio show Coast to Coast AM , Happy New Year! John Feffer is a futurist, foreign policy expert, social theorist, and author of the speculative fiction books Splinterlands and Frostlands . He is also Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Nation, The American Prospect, Salon, The Progressive, The Christian Science Monitor, the Boston Globe...
Jan 01, 2021•44 min•Ep. 316
Jonathan Lethem is a best-selling essayist, novelist, and cultural critic. His books include Dissident Gardens , Chronic City , The Fortress of Solitude , The Feral Detective , and Motherless Brooklyn . Lethem is a recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. Lethem's new book is The Arrest . Jonathan ponders thinking and writing in the Age of Trumpism and the plague, how Trump may be an evil "gift" for an undead America because he has van...
Dec 25, 2020•50 min•Ep. 315
Michael D'Antonio is the author of The Truth About Trump . His forthcoming book is A Consequential President. D'Antonio is also a frequent commentator on CNN where he has appeared on Anderson Cooper 360, New Day, CNN Tonight with Don Lemon, and Reliable Sources. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist whose essays and other writing have been featured by such leading publications as The New York Times Magazine, Esquire, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, The Times of London, and Sports...
Dec 15, 2020•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 314
Nikki Giovanni is one of America's greatest living poets. She has written dozens of collections of poetry as well as non-fiction and other work. Giovanni has received many awards and other honors including a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and three NAACP Image awards for literature. She was also a central voice in the Black Arts Movement. Giovanni is currently University Distinguished Professor at Virginia Tech. Nikki Giovanni's new book is "Make Me Rain: Poems & Prose"....
Dec 08, 2020•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 313
This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-77-wajahat-ali-has-spent-several-years-reaching-out-to-trump-supporters-and-it-did-not-go-well Wajahat Ali is a playwright, attorney, and political analyst. He is also the author of the recent and widely-read New York Times essay, "'Reach Out to Trump Supporters,' They Said. I Tried." In addition to The New York Times, Ali's essays and other writing have appear...
Dec 05, 2020•5 min•Ep. 312
Ace Atkins is a New York Times bestselling author whose novels include the Quinn Colson series and Robert B. Parker's Spenser series. Atkins is a former newspaper reporter and SEC football player. His essays and other writing have appeared in national publications such as Time magazine and elsewhere. Ace reflects on the ghosts and demons of the color line in America and what the "New South" means to him. Ace also shares what he learned about life and the craft of writing through his journey from...
Nov 26, 2020•52 min•Ep. 311
Thom Hartmann is a national radio show host, New York Times bestselling-author, and leading progressive voice. His new book is The Hidden History of Monopolies: How Big Business Destroyed the American Dream . Hartmann counsels that the American people -- and liberals and progressives in particular -- should be both optimistic and cautious about Joe Biden's presidency. He also explains that Joe Biden and Kamala Harris have the potential to enact a progressive policy agenda if they are sufficientl...
Nov 14, 2020•54 min•Ep. 310
On this special Election Day episode, Chauncey DeVega goes solo and reflects on his and our feelings and emotions about America in the Age of Trump, this world historical moment, and what may happen today and in the days and weeks ahead with the election and the country's future. To that end, Chauncey warns that the American people should be very suspicious of anyone in the pundit class and elsewhere who claims to know with a high level of certainty if Joe Biden or Donald Trump will win the pres...
Nov 03, 2020•22 min•Ep. 309
This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-66-the-american-people-are-living-in-donald-trumps-horrible-reality-tv-show-and-cannot-escape-it James Poniewozik is chief television critic at the New York Times and author of the new book Audience of One: Donald Trump, Television, and the Fracturing of America. He explains what type of character Donald Trump is. How does Trump imagine his role? How did Donald...
Nov 02, 2020•6 min•Ep. 308
This is a sneak preview of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-68-timothy-snyder-warns-that-as-election-day-2020-approaches-america-is-in-the-midst-of-a-slow-motion-reichstag-fire-emergency Dr. Timothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. His new book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. Dr. Sny...
Nov 02, 2020•5 min•Ep. 307
Paul Mason is a journalist, writer, film-maker and public speaker. He is the author of six books, including Postcapitalism . Mason writes a weekly column for the New Statesman, and contributes to the Guardian, Freitag and Le Monde Diplomatique. He is a frequent guest on opinion-forming TV and radio shows, including BBC Newsnight, DemocracyNow! BBC Politics Live and BBC Question Time. Mason was also economics editor at both BBC Newsnight and Channel 4 News. Paul Mason warns that the Democratic Pa...
Oct 28, 2020•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 306
Robert P. Jones is the CEO and Founder of PRRI and a leading scholar and commentator on religion, culture, and politics. He is the author of the acclaimed book The End of White Christian America . His new book is White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity. Jones reflects on the relationship between racism and white supremacy in White Christianity and the Age of Trump. Jones also explains how the lie that Christianity is somehow "race neutral" and "colorblind" does the...
Oct 21, 2020•56 min•Ep. 305
Dr. Cornel West is professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard and a professor emeritus at Princeton. He is the author of several bestselling books, including Democracy Matters , Race Matters and Black Prophetic Fire . Dr. West reflects upon questions of right and wrong, karma, and justice as related to how Donald Trump was recently hospitalized because he was infected by the virus. Dr. West also explains how true liberals and progressives should respond to Donald Trump being hospi...
Oct 13, 2020•54 min•Ep. 304
There are two guests on this special post 2020 first presidential debate special. Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is one of the United States' and the world's foremost experts on voter suppression, vote theft and vote fraud. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His new book is How Trump Stole 2020 . Jared Yates Sexton's ...
Oct 01, 2020•39 min•Ep. 303
