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Aaron Good

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Past episodes

Episode 1: Oliver Stone's JFK w/Zach Sklar & Jim DiEugenio

Newly remastered, this episode is the first of the Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination. It features a discussion with Zachary Sklar, co-screenwriter of Oliver Stone’s 1991 masterpiece, JFK.

This episode also includes contributions from the great Abby Martin of The Empire Files.

Please check out:

James DiEugenio’s fantastic website: Kennedys and King

Aaron’s book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

Project Censored Homepage

The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee 

Music by Mock Orange

Episode 2: The 9/9/2001 Massoud Assassination

This episode has now been remastered for American Exception!

Peter Dale Scott, Pepe Escobar, John Kiriakou, and Aaron Good discuss the September 9, 2001 Ahmad Shah Massoud assassination, an event that paved the way for the long-planned US invasion and occupation of Afghanistan.  Other topics covered include the US deployment of jihadis in the Central Asian “Great Game” as well as the significance of Xinjiang and China’s New Silk Road.

Here are the articles that were discussed in this episode:

“Was the Now-Forgotten Murder of One Man on September 9, 2001 a Crucial Pre-condition for 9/11?”  by Peter Dale Scott and Aaron Good

“9/9 and 9/11, 20 years later”  by Pepe Escobar

 

Music by Mock Orange

Episode 3: David Talbot's 'Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years'

This episode has now been remastered for American Exception!

In this second episode of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, Aaron talks with journalist and historian David Talbot about his masterpiece, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years. Based on dozens of interviews with virtually all the surviving key members of the Kennedy administration, Brothers traces the history of JFK’s presidency, as well as RFK’s tragic quest to bring his brother’s killers to justice.

This episode also includes contributions from the great Abby Martin of The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.

Please check out:

James DiEugenio’s fantastic website: Kennedys and King

Aaron’s book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

Project Censored Homepage

The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee

Music by Mock Orange

Big thanks to Dana Chavarria for remastering and Casey Moore for the episode art!

Episode 4: Poetry, Terror, and Suppressed Memory--A Tribute to Peter Dale Scott

This features a surprise tribute to the great Peter Dale Scott which also includes the iconic Daniel Ellsberg and acclaimed filmmaker Joshua Oppenheimer! In addition to the segments with Scott, Ellsberg, and Oppenheimer, this episode has an introduction with some historical background–as well as a postscript discussion with Ben Howard.

Music by Mock Orange

Big thanks to J.G. Michael for audio engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!

Episode 5: Peter Dale Scott's 'Deep Politics and the Death of JFK'

Aaron talks with Professor Peter Dale Scott about ‘deep politics’ and his 50+ years of historical research into the JFK assassination. Part 3 of our Destiny Betrayed series on the JFK assassination, this episode also features a postscript segment with Ben Howard. Peter Dale Scott is the author of Deep Politics and the Death of JFK and Dallas ’63: The First Deep State Revolt Against the White House.

Please check out:

James DiEugenio’s fantastic website: Kennedys and King

Aaron’s book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

Project Censored Homepage

The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee

Music by Mock Orange

Big thanks to to Anthony Fest for engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!

Episode 6: 9/11 & the US Empire w/Lawrence Wilkerson

Aaron talks with Lawrence Wilkerson, the former chief of staff to US Secretary of State Colin Powell. Wilkerson is also a retired US Army Colonel and currently Distinguished Adjunct Professor of Government and Public Policy at the College of William & Mary. This discussion was recorded around September 11th. We discussed his experiences related to the events of that anniversary along with other important issues. After that, Aaron is joined by the insightful and entertaining Hailey Rounsaville. The two of them discuss Lawrence Wilkerson’s recently departed former boss, Colin Powell and the media coverage around his death.

Episode 10: JFK and Vietnam w/John Newman and James Galbraith

In this fifth episode of our Destiny Betrayed series, Aaron discusses John Kennedy’s Vietnam policies with two towering figures in the field–Professors John Newman and James Galbraith. John Newman is the author of the orthodoxy-shattering JFK and Vietnam: Deception, Intrigue, and the Struggle for Power. James Galbraith is the author of numerous articles and books including Exit Strategy: In 1963, JFK ordered a complete withdrawal from Vietnam and The Predator State: How Conservatives Abandoned the Free Market and Why Liberals Should Too. This episode also features the incomparable Abby Martin.

Please check out:

Abby Martin’s The Empire Files and Media Roots Radio.

James DiEugenio’s fantastic website: Kennedys and King

Aaron’s book: American Exception: Empire and the Deep State

Project Censored Homepage

The American Truth and Reconciliation Committee

Music by Mock Orange

Big thanks to to Anthony Fest for engineering, Dana Chavarria for remastering, and Casey Moore for the episode art!