On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "The Republican Party’s violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this ...
Mar 16, 2022•15 min•Ep 111•Transcript available on Metacast Leonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. His essay “The True Story of The Harder They Fall’s Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie” was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, “In the Company of Educated Men”. Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in Heaven - The Ram...
Mar 13, 2022•47 min•Ep 110•Transcript available on Metacast Barbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism. She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Departments of Defense and State. Her new book is How Civil Wars Start . Barbara Walter explains how Donald Trump, the Republican fascists, and o...
Feb 06, 2022•38 min•Ep 109•Transcript available on Metacast On this episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this?” WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's episode of The Trut...
Jan 03, 2022•9 min•Ep 108•Transcript available on Metacast This is a special New Year’s Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report . Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He 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 an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War . Elliott and Chaunc...
Jan 01, 2022•59 min•Ep 107•Transcript available on Metacast 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 . He explains how white rage and white privilege have combined in the Jim Crow Republican Party’s very successful “critical race theory” bogeyman attacks as seen in Virginia (and soon around the country) against the Democrats, the very idea of public education, and the teaching of America’s real history of racial ine...
Nov 09, 2021•40 min•Ep 106•Transcript available on Metacast Greg Palast is an investigative journalist whose work has been featured by the BBC, the Guardian, the Nation, and Rolling Stone. He is the author of the bestselling books Billionaires & Ballot Bandits and The Best Democracy Money Can Buy . His most recent book is How Trump Stole 2020 . Greg Palast reflects on how he predicted almost precisely how Donald Trump’s regime, the Republican fascists, and their agents would try to steal the 2020 presidential election. Greg Palast is now warning that Tru...
Oct 22, 2021•29 min•Ep 105•Transcript available on Metacast This is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Truth Report in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021. **** James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me . He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns , Teaching What Really Happened , and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader . Professor Loewen shares his thoughts on the resurrection of the Confederacy in the South and the Republican Party, t...
Oct 11, 2021•48 min•Ep 104•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump’s niece. She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man . Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal . Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump’s enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world. She also ex...
Sep 26, 2021•25 min•Ep 103•Transcript available on Metacast Eric Eyre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the book “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic”. He explains how big pharma flooded vulnerable rural communities in Appalachia and elsewhere with tens of millions of opioid pain pills. Eyre also shares the human story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the opioid crisis and what is a true David and Goliath story of resistance agai...
Sep 09, 2021•30 min•Ep 102•Transcript available on Metacast Norman Solomon is the author of several books including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death". He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country’s military industrial complex, and war profiteering. Solomon also reflects on the myth of American Exceptionalism and its ...
Aug 26, 2021•23 min•Ep 101•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, " Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor" . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's epi...
Jul 29, 2021•14 min•Ep 100•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week...
Jul 26, 2021•15 min•Ep 99•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Biden gave a rousing speech — but is he the wrong president at the wrong time?” WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's episode ...
Jul 24, 2021•14 min•Ep 98•Transcript available on Metacast Jared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show. Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including “The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage” and “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People”. In this wide-ranging conversation Jared and Chauncey ponder why so many rank-and-file Americans as well as the country’s “elites” are in de...
Jul 04, 2021•45 min•Ep 97•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “In the fight for democracy, Democrats are being outmaneuvered — and time is against them” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's ...
Jun 24, 2021•13 min•Ep 96•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “Guess what? The Trump regime's coup against American democracy never stopped”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's episode of Th...
Jun 19, 2021•12 min•Ep 95•Transcript available on Metacast 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. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War . Elliot Ackerman explains how the United States and China could sleepwalk into a world war with one another and ...
May 30, 2021•28 min•Ep 94•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “America urgently needs a real investigation of the Trump regime — or it will all happen again” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this we...
May 23, 2021•11 min•Ep 93•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey shares his new Salon essay “Liz Cheney is an enemy of democracy — just as much as the Trumpers” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's episode of The Truth Report i...
May 20, 2021•10 min•Ep 92•Transcript available on Metacast Dr. Steffie Woolhandler is a primary care physician, Distinguished Professor of Public Health at the City University of New York at Hunter College, and Lecturer in Medicine at Harvard Medical School, where she formerly served as a Professor of Medicine. She co-chaired The Lancet Commission on Public Policy and Health in the Trump Era. Dr. Woolhandler explains how the Trump regime and its policies on science, health, the environment, labor, racism, and society as a whole actually shortened the li...
May 12, 2021•24 min•Ep 91•Transcript available on Metacast On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey shares his new essay “Today's Republicans are cartoon villains — who pose a dire threat to America's health and safety” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: chaunceydevega@gmail.com HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's episo...
May 08, 2021•10 min•Ep 90•Transcript available on Metacast This is a sneak preview of The Chauncey DeVega Show which can be found at the link below: https://thechaunceydevegashow.libsyn.com/ep-329-dave-grossman-on-killology-and-americas-out-of-control-police ***Given the Derek Chauvin guilty verdict for murdering George Floyd, this week I am revisiting a conversation which took place with Lt. Colonel (ret.) Dave Grossman that originally aired on The Chauncey DeVega Show on April 28, 2016. Grossman has been prominently featured in these recent discussion...
Apr 26, 2021•13 min•Ep 89•Transcript available on Metacast Chauncey DeVega updates the listeners, friends, and other good folks who support and learn from The Truth Report as to the future direction of the podcast – which in addition to great conversations with leading truth-tellers will now include sharing his political essays and other commentaries as featured at Salon.com. On this week’s episode of The Truth Report , Chauncey shares his new essay “Republicans have a dream: The end of democracy and the return of Jim Crow” . WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On T...
Apr 17, 2021•14 min•Ep 88•Transcript available on Metacast Anne Nelson is the author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right . She is an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nelson is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, BBC, CBC, NPR and PBS. Anne Nelson explains how a highly secretive right-wing alliance of Christian fascists, white suprema...
Mar 24, 2021•29 min•Ep 87•Transcript available on Metacast Sarah Chayes is the author of the prize-winning book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. Her most recent book is On Corruption in America . Chayes is also a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also served at the topmost levels of the U.S. military, including as special adviser to two commanders of the international forces in Kabul and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mike Mul...
Mar 03, 2021•21 min•Ep 86•Transcript available on Metacast 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 03, 2021•19 min•Ep 85•Transcript available on Metacast Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour . He explains what Donald Trump’s coup attempt and mob attack on the Capitol reveals about the country’s deep angst and dysfunction. And Chris Hedges warns that Joe Biden’s presidency will not offer any type of substantive relief from American pathocracy and imminent surrender to corporate totalitarianism. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitte...
Jan 20, 2021•26 min•Ep 84•Transcript available on Metacast This is a sneak preview of The Chauncey DeVega Show which can be found at the link below: https://thechaunceydevegashow.libsyn.com/ep-317-dr-cornel-west-reflects-on-trumps-fascist-coup-assault-on-the-capitol-building-and-americas-long-catastrophe 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 w...
Jan 13, 2021•7 min•Ep 83•Transcript available on Metacast 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 enabled Trump’s coup attempt and his fascist mob’s lethal assault on the United States Capitol Building on Wednesday. He also reflects upon how Whiteness and white privilege empowered Trumpists and other fascists and right-wing street thugs to a...
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