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Episode 35: Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light w/Peter Dale Scott (Part 5)
🕑 Added 2022-04-09 04:02:00 +0000 UTCThis is Part 5 of Minding the Darkness, Minding the Light—our oral history series with Professor Peter Dale Scott. He is the iconoclastic poet, historian, and political theorist who gave us parapolitics as well as the deep politics approach. Also accompanied by special co-host Ben Howard, Peter reflects upon a number of topics including:
- his early research in to Air America
- his friendship with Allen Ginsberg
- Alfred McCoy's Politics of Heroin
- CIA influence at The Nation magazine
- the Nugan Hand bank
Follow Ben on Twitter and check out his latest series on NATO over at TrueAnon: Episode 212: NATO (Part 1)
Special thanks to Casey Moore for the episode art and Dana Chavarria for the sound engineering!
Music: "Grow Your Soul Away" by Mock Orange
Comments
Aaron Good
We may be doing something down the road...
dennis anderson
Please consider interviewing Kris Newby who wrote “bitten- the secret history of Lyme disease and biological weapons “?
Dogface Reilly
Do you post transcripts of these conversations?
Aaron Good
I wouldn't go that far--and I didn't want to derail the conversation by grilling him on that assertion--but I also was puzzled by that one.
Max Barnett
Hearing Peter say the American system is the best in the world after he spent his life documenting the crimes of the deep state… made me drop my head into my hands
NYCM&AHole
Hon hon hon
Matt Pierce
Personally, I think it's a real shame France never went Stalinist.
