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The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump and His Regime Shortened the Lifespans of the American PeopleDr. 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 life spans of the American people. She also highlights how the Trump regime's response to the...
2021-05-1223 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowJesus and John Wayne -- Guns, God, Masculinity and the Christian Fascist Assault on American DemocracyKristin 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 Braveheart in their imaginary. And she explains how and why th...
2021-05-041h 00
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaEp. 89: Sneak Preview of The Chauncey DeVega Show -- Lt. Dave Grossman on "Killology" and America's Out of Control PoliceThis 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 discussions of how America's police are trained to use lethal and other force.*** Former United States Army Ranger and Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Dave...
2021-04-2612 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDave Grossman on "Killology" and America's Out of Control Police***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 the psychology of killing and combat. He is the author of several books including On Killing and On...
2021-04-251h 06
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaThe Jim Crow Republicans Want to End Democracy and Impose a New White Supremacist Reign of Terror on Black AmericaChauncey 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 Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Fa...
2021-04-1713 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowWhy Can't You Lose Weight? The Processed Food Industry Has Weaponized Your HungerMichael 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 human beings will find irresistible. Moss also shares what the processed food industry learned from th...
2021-04-151h 01
The Chauncey DeVega ShowJeff Sharlet Reflects on Navigating and Surviving the American Dream-NightmareJeff 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 Vanity Fair, GQ, Esquire, Mother Jones, and The New York Times. Sharlet re...
2021-04-011h 15
The Chauncey DeVega ShowWhy Do People Kill? Lt Joe Kenda Explains The "Killer Triggers"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 explains the randomness of life and why m...
2021-03-231h 17
The Chauncey DeVega Show"Mindfulness" Will Not Save You From The Pandemic or Anything ElseRonald 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 as a tool for creating a passive, isolated, weak public of consumers and passive citizens. He also shares what he learned about how "mindfulness" ap...
2021-03-151h 03
The Chauncey DeVega Show"Judas and the Black Messiah" is a Marvelous and Flawed FilmAdilifu 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. Nama also reflects on the obligation of the black cultural critic and why...
2021-03-011h 12
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe American News Media And a Crisis of Journalistic ImaginationLeon 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 shares why the country's reporters and journalists need to ground their writing...
2021-02-1756 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDr Carl Hart Reflects on Freedom and Drug Use For Grown-UpsDr. 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-altering drugs have confused the American people about the differences between...
2021-02-091h 04
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report Sneak Preview -- Dr Justin Frank Warns That Donald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Mass Psychological EmergencyDr. 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 will follow through on Trump's campaign of American fascism and white r...
2021-02-0407 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Psychological EmergencyDr. 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 will follow through on Trump's campaign of American fascism and white...
2021-02-0418 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe American People Will Not be Able to Escape The Age of Trump and Its Evil ShadowJared 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 attack on the Capitol and how and why the mainstream news...
2021-01-261h 12
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaChris Hedges Warns That President Joe Biden Will Not Stop America's Descent Into Corporate TotalitarianismChris 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://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.d...
2021-01-2026 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowHow the American Mainstream News Media Enabled Donald Trump's Coup Attack on the U.S. CapitolEric 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 sounding the alarm. Boehlert also highlights how the leading voices among the American...
2021-01-1846 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDr. Cornel West Reflects on Trump's Fascist Coup Assault on the Capitol Building and America's Long CatastropheDr. 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 survive and triumph in a time of chaos, tumult, sickness, and struggle for a real democracy and huma...
2021-01-1153 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaTim Wise Explains How White Privilege Fueled Trump's Coup Attempt and Assault on the US Capitol BuildingTim 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 act with impunity in their coup attempt as well as in other acts of insurrection...
2021-01-0828 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaMary Trump Warns That Her Uncle Donald Trump Will Not Stop Tearing Down the United States and Hurting the American PeopleDr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and businesswomen. She is also Donald Trump's niece. Mary Trump is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. She warns that Donald Trump will tear down and assault the United States and the American people in an act of vengeance for his being defeated by Joe Biden on Election Day 2020. Mary Trump also wants the American people and the country's news media to understand that mocking Donald Trump and his schemes is false...
2021-01-0617 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaFuturist John Feffer on His Hopes and Worries for America and the World in the Year 2021 and BeyondOn this episode of The Truth Report I am sharing a special New Year's Eve episode of my other podcast The Chauncey DeVega Show. 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, and many other publications. He is a former...
2021-01-0144 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowFuturist John Feffer on His Hopes and Worries for America and the World in the Year 2021 and BeyondIn 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, and many other publications. He is a former associate editor of World...
2021-01-0144 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowAmerica is Now an Undead Country Whose Fantasies and Lies About Itself Have Now Been VanquishedJonathan 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 vanquished so many of the country's myths and fables, and how "essential workers" are part of a dy...
2020-12-2550 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump Will Never Stop Menacing the American PeopleMichael D'Antonio is the author of The Truth About Trump. His forthcoming book is High Crimes: The Corruption, Impunity, and Impeachment of Donald Trump. 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 Illustrated. Michael D'Antonio reflects on our collective rollercoaster o...
2020-12-1532 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowWhat Will Donald Trump do Next? Start a TV Network and Open a Theme ParkMichael 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 Illustrated. Michael D'Antonio reflects on our collective rollercoaster of emotions following the 2020 Election, why Trump...
2020-12-151h 08
The Chauncey DeVega ShowPoet Nikki Giovanni Reflects on Living a Life of Truth-Telling, Mortality, and the Ultimate Emptiness of White SupremacyNikki 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". Giovanni reflects on truth-telling and writing as vocation, the evil of Donald...
2020-12-081h 03
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- Wajahat Ali Has Spent Several Years "Reaching Out" to Trump Supporters -- And It Did Not Go WellThis 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 appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Ali shares what he as a Muslim-American...
2020-12-0505 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaWajahat 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 appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, New York Review of Books, and The Washington Post. Ali shares what he as a Muslim-American learned from his efforts to find common ground and understanding with Trump's supporters. He also reflects on what the 2020 election does or does not signal about the en...
2020-12-0417 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowAce Atkins on Race, Writing Bestselling Crime Novels, and the "New South"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 being a newspaper reporter to the author of bestselling...
2020-11-2651 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaRuth Ben-Ghiat Explains Donald Trump's CoupRuth Ben-Ghiat is a professor of history and Italian studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her opinion essays and other writing have been featured by CNN, the Washington Post, The New Yorker and the Atlantic. Ruth Ben-Ghiat's new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. She explains the real meaning and breadth of the Trump regime's coup attempt and how societies begin to heal once authoritarian leaders have been removed. And Ben-Ghiat also highlights how "organized forgetting" imperils and undermines a true reckoning with the harm and damage...
2020-11-2319 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThom Hartmann Counsels That Joe Biden May be The Last Chance to Save American DemocracyThom 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 sufficiently pressured and held accountable by the American people. And Hartmann also issues an om...
2020-11-1453 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaThom Hartmann Warns That President Joe Biden May be the Last Chance to Save American Democracy From the Republican PartyThom 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 sufficiently pressured and held accountable by the American people. And Hartmann also issues an om...
2020-11-1314 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaIf Joe Biden Fails Then His Successor will be a Christian Fascist Who is Much More Dangerous Than Donald TrumpChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour. Hedges warns that if Joe Biden fails to rehabilitate America's social democracy then the country will become even more of a plutocracy dominated by racism and other forms of cruelty. Even worse, Chris Hedges warns that if Biden does not relieve the deep pain being felt by wide swaths of American society then what follows will be a White Christian Fascist president who is much more dangerous than Donald Trump. And Hedges...
2020-11-1221 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaGreg Palast Explains How Donald Trump is Trying to Steal the White House and Victory Away from Joe Biden and the American PeopleGreg 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. Greg Palast explains how Donald Trump and his agents are using the courts and other means to steal the presidency away from Joe Biden and the American people in these days and...
2020-11-0516 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe American People are Living in Donald Trump's Horrible Reality TV Show And Cannot Escape ItThis 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 Trump master the new rules of television and the media in the 21st century to gain so much power? James Poniewozik also...
2020-11-0206 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaEvaluating the Likelihood of Serious Political Violence on Election Day 2020 and Beyond in AmericaDavid Kilcullen is one of the world's leading experts on counterinsurgency and military strategy. He is a former diplomat and soldier who served as a counterinsurgency advisor during the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq where he advised Condoleezza Rice and Gen. David Petraeus. Kilcullen is also the founding chairman of Caerus Associates His books include The Accidental Guerrilla, Counterinsurgency, Out of the Mountains, and Blood Year. His new book is The Dragons and the Snakes: How the Rest Learned to Fight the West. David Kilcullen explores the possible and likely scenarios for political viole...
2020-11-0224 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- Timothy Snyder Warns That as Election Day 2020 Approaches America is in The Midst of a Slow-Motion Reichstag Fire EmergencyThis 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. Snyder explains why America's mainstream news media continues to avoid describing Donald Trump and his regime as fascist and authoritarian – and how such behavior, to this late date, continues to...
2020-11-0205 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump is Something Much More Dangerous Than an Apparent Sociopath or PsychopathDr. Dan McAdams is the Henry Wade Rogers Professor of Psychology, and Professor of Education and Social Policy, at Northwestern University. He is the author of almost 300 articles and chapters as well as seven books including The Art and Science of Personality Development and The Redemptive Self: Stories Americans Live By. Dr. McAdams' work has been featured in leading media outlets such as The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Atlantic, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, NPR, CNN, and elsewhere. His most recent book is The Strange Case of Donald J. Trump: A...
2020-10-2921 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDonald Trump's Followers Fear the Freedom and Humanity of People Who are Not Like ThemPaul 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 Party and the country's "left" and "progressives" in the United States are not eq...
2020-10-281h 04
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaRalph Nader Explains that the Worse Things Get for Regular People the More Powerful Big Business BecomesRalph Nader is an author, attorney, consumer advocate and activist, as well as five-time presidential candidate who has been fighting for the freedoms and rights of the American people for six decades. His new book (with co-author Mark Green) is Wrecking America: How Trump's Lawbreaking and Lies Betray All. Ralph Nader explains how the plutocrats and the corporatocracy are benefitting from the pandemic and why America's mainstream news media and other voices have largely been silent if not complicit. Nader also warns that voting for the Democratic Party (what he describes as the "...
2020-10-2617 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Legacy of White Supremacy in American ChristianityRobert 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 work of right-wing politics and of sustaining social inequality along the color line i...
2020-10-2155 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaTimothy Snyder Warns That as Election Day 2020 Approaches America is in The Midst of a Slow-Motion Reichstag Fire EmergencyTimothy Snyder is a Professor of History at Yale University and the author of the bestselling books On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century and The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America. His new book is Our Malady: Lessons in Liberty from a Hospital Diary. Dr. Snyder explains why America's mainstream news media continues to avoid describing Donald Trump and his regime as fascist and authoritarian – and how such behavior, to this late date, continues to empower and normalize his fascist authoritarian movement. Dr. Snyder also details how Donald Trump and his regime used th...
2020-10-1821 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaPhilosopher Cornel West Reflects on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and Justice 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 hospitalized – even though he is evil and cruel. Dr. West also shares his thoughts on a democr...
2020-10-1321 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowPhilosopher Cornel West Reflects on Donald Trump, the Virus, and Questions of Karma and JusticeDr. 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 hospitalized – even though he is evil and cruel. Dr. West also shares his thoughts on a democr...
2020-10-1354 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDonald Trump Won the First Debate Against Joe Biden -- and Will Steal the 2020 Election Using Violence and the CourtsThere 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 writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New Republic, and elsewhere. He...
2020-10-0138 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaRev. Al Sharpton Warns That Donald Trump is a Dirty Street Fighter Which is Why The Democrats Don't Know How to Defeat HimRev. Al Sharpton is the host of MSNBC's "PoliticsNation" and the founder and President of the civil rights organization National Action Network (NAN). Sharpton also hosts the nationally syndicated radio show, "Keepin' it Real". His new book is Rise Up: Confronting a Country at the Crossroads. Rev. Al Sharpton reflects on the Age of Trump, the pandemic, and a season of protest and resistance. He also explains how Joe Biden should prepare to debate Donald Trump, a man that has no limits of morality or human decency but who is also a devious master of...
2020-09-2923 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaAuthoritarianism, the Pandemic, and Trump's War on Science and the Truth Holden Thorp is a chemist, biologist, inventor, and now editor-in-chief of Science magazine, which has the largest number of paid subscribers for a peer-reviewed general science publication in the world. He has served as provost at both Washington University and University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. Holden Thorp is the author of the recent widely read essay at Science magazine, "Trump lied about science". Holden Thorp explains why he finally decided to publicly condemn Donald Trump and why America's scientific community should have spoken out sooner about key questions of politics and society – especially in...
2020-09-2823 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaThe Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Put America's Multiracial Democracy on Life SupportTim Wise is one of the United States' and the world's leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America, White Like Me, Speaking Treason Fluently, and Under the Affluence. His new book is Dispatches from the Race War. Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America's multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement. He also shares how the Trump regime's move to immediately replace Ginsburg with a white neofascist is but a...
2020-09-2424 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Death of Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Put America's Multiracial Democracy on Life SupportTim Wise is one of the United States' and the world's leading antiracism activists and authors. His books include Dear White America, White Like Me, Speaking Treason Fluently, and Under the Affluence. His new book is Dispatches from the Race War. Tim Wise reflects on the recent passing of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg and how her death has now made America's multiracial democracy even more imperiled by the Age of Trump and his white neofascist movement. He also shares how the Trump regime's move to immediately replace Ginsburg with a white neofascist is but another...
2020-09-2138 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaVladimir Putin is Donald Trump's "Honey Trap"Jim Sciutto is CNN's chief national security correspondent and co-anchor of CNN Newsroom. Sciutto previously served as ABC News' senior foreign correspondent. As a foreign correspondent and in his other professional roles, Sciutto has traveled to and reported from more than 50 countries including Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan. His new book is "The Madman Theory: Trump Takes On the World". Sciutto explains that there is no strategic logic or so-called "madman theory" guiding Donald Trump and his control over the country's foreign policy. Sciutto warns that America's foreign policy is now guided by Donald Trump's personal whims, delusions...
2020-09-1529 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowTo Save America the Republican Party and Its Policies Must Be Burned to the GroundThere are two guests on this very special 300th episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. David Rothkopf is the CEO of The Rothkopf group. He was also a senior official in the Clinton Administration and CEO and editor-in-chief of Foreign Policy Magazine. He is the author of many books and articles including the forthcoming Traitor: A History of American Betrayal from Benedict Arnold to Donald Trump. Rothkopf is a frequent contributor to such leading news media outlets as The Washington Post, The New York Times, Financial Times, Time, CNN, and Newsweek. Rothkopf is...
2020-09-081h 33
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaThe Republican Party is Dying Because There Are Not Enough White People Stuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by "Never-Trumpers" and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement. His new book is, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Stuart Stevens explains how the Republican Party became one with Donald Trump and his neo fascist movement and the...
2020-08-3126 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Republican Party is Dying Because There Are Not Enough White PeopleStuart Stevens has worked as a strategist and consultant for the Republican Party at the highest levels including with the Dole, George W. Bush, Romney, and McCain presidential campaigns. He now serves as a senior advisor to the Lincoln Project, a political advocacy group founded by "Never-Trumpers" and former Republicans that is committed to defeating Donald Trump and his movement. His new book is, It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump. Stuart Stevens explains how the Republican Party became one with Donald Trump and his neo fascist movement and the...
2020-08-311h 01
The Chauncey DeVega ShowEp. 298: The Truth Report -- Donald Trump's Scheme to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election is Much Bigger Than Just The U.S. Mail This is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-60-riots-and-lawyers-donald-trumps-scheme-to-steal-the-2020-presidential-election-is-much-bigger-than-just-the-us-mail 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.
2020-08-2505 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaRiots and Lawyers -- Donald Trump's Scheme to Steal the 2020 Presidential Election is Much Bigger Than Just The U.S. MailGreg 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. He warns that the Trump regime and its agents are implementing a massive nationwide campaign to challenge the legitimacy of votes cast in support of Joe Biden. This is part...
2020-08-2522 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowPresident Joe Biden's First 100 Days and a Return to Normalcy for the American People Simon Rosenberg is president of the New Democrats Network and the New Policy Institute, a liberal-think tank based in Washington, DC. He has served as a senior advisor to the Democratic Party at the highest levels and has worked in two presidential campaigns, including a senior role in the 1992 Clinton "War Room". In 2018, Rosenberg was a senior advisor to the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee where he helped to craft the strategy which resulted in the Democratic Party winning 41 seats in the House of Representatives. Simon Rosenberg shares his thoughts on what issues should be prioritized...
2020-08-171h 05
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump Should Be Criminally Prosecuted for His Willfully Negligent Response to The Pandemic Glenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller. Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for manslaughter and/or negligent homicide because of their response to the pandemic. Kirschner also outlines how he would prosecute the Trump de facto political crime family. Glenn Kirschner also shares his th...
2020-08-1424 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDonald Trump Should Be Criminally Prosecuted for His Willfully Negligent Response to The PandemicGlenn Kirschner is an NBC News and MSNBC legal analyst and teaches criminal law at George Washington University. He also worked in the United States Attorney for the District of Columbia office as a federal prosecutor/Assistant U.S. Attorney where he was supervised by Robert Mueller. Kirschner explains why Donald Trump and other members of his inner circle should be criminally prosecuted for manslaughter and/or negligent homicide because of their response to the pandemic. Kirschner also outlines how he would prosecute the Trump de facto political crime family. Glenn Kirschner also shares his th...
2020-08-061h 13
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- Donald Trump is Bullying the American PeopleThis is a sneak preview of this week's episode of The Truth Report which can be found at the link below: https://thetruthreportwithchaunceydevega.libsyn.com/ep-57-donald-trump-is-bullying-the-american-people 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. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. Dr. Frank shares his thoughts about Mary Trump's new b...
2020-07-3106 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDonald Trump is Bullying the American People 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. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. Dr. Frank shares his thoughts about Mary Trump's new book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man, how Donald Trump's relationship with both his father and mother led to his embrace of...
2020-07-3123 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDonald Trump is Using The American People as Fuel For His Fascist Political MachineRuth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University and an expert on fascism and authoritarianism. Her new book is Strongmen: From Mussolini to the Present. Ruth Ben-Ghiat warns that Donald Trump's threats of violence against the American people are very real. Ruth Ben-Ghiat explains that the American people (including the country's political elites) remain in denial about the existential dangers of neo-fascism and autocracy because to admit the truth would mean they would have to take action against such forces. Chauncey DeVega reflects on America's extreme descent into ne...
2020-07-2558 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaChris Hedges Warns That The George Floyd Protests May be The Last Chance to Save America From Corporate Tyranny and Neo-FascismChris Hedges is a Pulitzer-winning journalist, author, and philosopher. His most recent book is America: The Farewell Tour. He explains why this perilous moment in America with the pandemic and Trumpism will be looked back upon fondly, compared to what the future holds. Hedges also shares how he sees little hope in Joe Biden and the Democratic Party, which he believes have no substantive solutions for the social inequality and other institutional problems that spawned Donald Trump and his white neo-fascist movement. Hedges is also concerned that America is spiraling down into the...
2020-07-1620 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Rhetorical Genius of the Demagogue Donald TrumpJennifer Mercieca is a historian of American political discourse at Texas A&M University. Her new book is Demagogue for President: The Rhetorical Genius of Donald Trump. Mercieca explains how Donald Trump is intentionally using the rhetorical strategies of demagogues and other authoritarians. She also details how Trump's use of the demagogue's language playbook allows him to consistently evade responsibility for his actions. And Mercieca reveals how Donald Trump is the P.T. Barnum con artist of American politics. Chauncey DeVega reflects on another week in Donald Trump's crime empire where Roger Stone's sentence was...
2020-07-1557 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDr. John Gartner Warns That Donald Trump is Using the Pandemic as a Biological Weapon Against the American PeopleDr. John Gartner is a psychologist, psychoanalyst, and former professor at the Johns Hopkins University Medical School. Dr. Gartner is also the founder of the Duty to Warn PAC, an organization working to raise awareness about the danger to the United States and the world posed by Donald Trump. He is a contributor to the 2017 bestseller "The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. Dr. Gartner is also featured in the upcoming documentary "Unfit: The Psychology of Donald Trump". Dr. Gartner warns that Donald Trump is actively...
2020-07-1318 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaMike Davis Warns That The Pandemic is The First of Many Disasters That Will Change The World As We Know ItMike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. His new book is Set the Night on Fire: L.A. in the Sixties. Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the...
2020-07-0933 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowIs It Ever Appropriate For White People to Wear "Blackface?"Marvin McAllister is Associate Professor of Theatre at Winthrop University. He is the author of Whiting Up: Whiteface Minstrels and Stage Europeans in African American Performance. McAllister explains the history and enduring power and damage of so-called "blackface" race minstrelsy. He also shares some hidden history about how black folks in America and across the Black Atlantic have performed "whiteness" as a means of striking back against racism – this cultural resistance also includes the centuries-old tradition of "white face" performance art. McAllister and Chauncey also reflect on some iconic white face performances such as Dave Cha...
2020-07-0445 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowCornel West Explains How George Floyd is a Martyr and The Struggle Ahead Will be Long and PerilousDr. 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 explains how George Floyd is a martyr and that the American people must prepare for a long and brutal reaction from the country's right-wing elites to the rising demands for social justice. He also warns that Donald Trump and his regime constitute a neofascist disaster that could doom any hope for a true multiracial democracy in America, wh...
2020-06-271h 09
The Chauncey DeVega ShowRev. William Barber II Reflects on the Police Murder of George Floyd and America's Moral Reckoning in the Age of TrumpRev. Dr. William J. Barber II is the President & Senior Lecturer of Repairers of the Breach and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign: A National Call For Moral Revival. Rev. Dr. Barber is also the architect of the Forward Together Moral Movement He is the author of several books including We Are Called to Be a Movement; Revive Us Again: Vision and Action in Moral Organizing; The Third Reconstruction: How a Moral Movement Is Overcoming the Politics of Division and Fear; and Forward Together: A Moral Message for the Nation. Rev. Barber is...
2020-06-181h 13
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaGreg Palast Warns That The Georgia Democratic Primary Was a Preview of How Donald Trump Will Steal the 2020 Presidential ElectionGreg 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. Greg Palast warns that Joe Biden's chances against Donald Trump are far worse than the polls would suggest because millions of Democrats will have their votes thrown out on Election Day...
2020-06-1323 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- Fintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable NationFintan O'Toole is a historian, literary critic, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications. O'Toole is the author of many books including his most recent The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism. In a series of recent essays O'Toole has, with rapier sharp devastating prose, described Trump's America as being pitiful and pathetic where the pandemic only further exposed the societal and institutional rot that was already long present in the country. Fintan O'Toole reflects on...
2020-05-2804 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaFintan O'Toole Explains How the United States in the Age of Trump's Pandemic is a Pathetic and Pitiable NationFintan O'Toole is a historian, literary critic, author, and essayist whose work has appeared in The New York Review of Books, The Irish Times, The Guardian, and other leading publications. O'Toole is the author of many books including his most recent The Politics of Pain: Postwar England and the Rise of Nationalism. In a series of recent essays O'Toole has, with rapier sharp devastating prose, described Trump's America as being pitiful and pathetic where the pandemic only further exposed the societal and institutional rot that was already long present in the country. Fintan O'Toole reflects...
2020-05-2628 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Pandemic is the First of Many Disasters That Will Change the World As We Know ItMike Davis is a historian, political activist, and writer. He is the author of many books including City of Quartz, Buda's Wagon, and Planet of Slums. Davis has also written for The Nation and The New Statesman among other magazines and publications. Davis is also an editor of the New Left Review. He is the recipient of a MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award. Davis is also a Distinguished Emeritus Professor in the Department of Creative Writing at the University of California, Riverside. Mike Davis warns that the pandemic is only the...
2020-05-211h 07
The Chauncey DeVega ShowFrom Donald Trump's Fake Pandemic "Protests" to a Second American Civil WarDavid Neiwert is an investigative journalist based in Seattle and a contributing writer for the Southern Poverty Law Center. He is the author of numerous books including Alt-America: The Rise of the Radical Right in the Age of Trump, The Eliminationists: How Hate Talk Radicalized the American Right, Of Orcas and Men: What Killer Whales Can Teach Us, and Over the Cliff: How Obama's Election Drove the American Right Insane. Neiwert explains how Trump's fake "anti-lockdown" "protests" are the latest iteration of the so-called Tea Party Movement which viciously harassed President Obama and laid the foundations for...
2020-05-1341 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowBen Fountain Reflects on the Surreal Reality That is Life in the Age of Trump's PandemicBen Fountain is the author of the novel Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk, winner of the National Book Critics' Circle Award and a finalist for the National Book Award. Fountain traveled across the country during Donald Trump's 2016 presidential campaign in an effort to document that political and social disaster as it took place in real time. The result is his most recent book Beautiful Country Burn Again. Fountain shares how he is trying to remain focused and grounded in these maddening and surreal days of the Trump Pandemic. He also explains that Trump is so powerful and...
2020-05-031h 11
The Chauncey DeVega ShowHundreds of Ku Klux Klan Members Have Surrendered Their Robes and Hoods to Daryl DavisDaryl Davis is an American R&B and blues musician, activist, author, actor, and bandleader. He is considered one of the best -- if not the best -- boogie-woogie piano players in the world. Daryl Davis has played with such legendary musicians as Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, B. B. King, and Bruce Hornsby. He is also the subject of the 2016 documentary Accidental Courtesy: Daryl Davis, Race & America. Daryl Davis is also the author of the book Klan-destine Relationships: A Black Man's Odyssey in the Ku Klux Klan. Daryl Davis explains how he decided to...
2020-04-231h 05
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaTim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Pandemic Much WorseTim 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 Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. Tim Wise explains how the pandemic and the types of surveillance and changes in personal behavior and freedom it requires are a crisis for white entitlement and white privilege. Tim Wise also reflects on how only white men such as Donald Trump and his cabal could still be viewed as competent given their g...
2020-04-2127 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDon Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American MasculinityDon Winslow is one of America and the world's most widely read and acclaimed crime fiction writers. His books include the New York Times bestsellers "The Cartel", "The Force", and "The Border". Winslow's work has been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. Winslow's new book "Broken" is a collection of short novels focusing in on the tragedies and triumphs, and day-to-day lives of people -- cops, bounty hunters, drug addicts, drug dealers, detectives, their loved ones, friends, and community -- who are criminals, those trying to stop them, and the human rubble left along the s...
2020-04-1650 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaDon Winslow Explains How Donald Trump is Everything Wrong with American MasculinityDon Winslow is one of America and the world's most widely read and acclaimed crime fiction writers. His books include the New York Times bestsellers "The Cartel", "The Force", and "The Border". His work has been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. Winslow's new book "Broken" is a collection of short novels focusing in on the tragedies and triumphs, and day-to-day lives of people -- cops, bounty hunters, drug addicts, drug dealers, detectives, their loved ones, friends, and community -- who are criminals, those trying to stop them, and the human rubble left along America's "c...
2020-04-1526 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaHow Donald Trump Will Use Mail-in Voting and the Coronavirus to Steal the 2020 Presidential ElectionGreg 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." Palast is one of the country's foremost experts on voter fraud and how elections are rigged to suppress and otherwise interfere with the will of the people in a democracy. He warns that mail-in voting as it currently exists is likely to guarantee Donald Trump's victory in the 2020 election. Palast also explains how the Supreme Court decisi...
2020-04-1118 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowTim Wise Explains How White Privilege is Making the Coronavirus Plague Much WorseTim 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 Under the Affluence: Shaming the Poor, Praising the Rich and Sacrificing the Future of America. Tim Wise explains how the coronavirus plague and the types of surveillance and changes in personal behavior and freedom it requires are a crisis for white entitlement and white privilege. Tim Wise also reflects on how only white men such as Donald Trump and his cabal could still be viewed as competent given t...
2020-04-071h 20
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaUnderstanding the Power of Donald Trump's Coronavirus Death CultSteven Hassan is one of the world's foremost experts on mind control and cults. Hassan is the author of several bestselling books, including Combating Cult Mind Control and Freedom of Mind: Helping Loved Ones Leave Controlling People, Cults, and Beliefs. His new book is The Cult of Trump: A Leading Cult Expert Explains How the President Uses Mind Control. Steven Hassan details the workings of Donald Trump's coronavirus death cult and the power the president has over his followers. Hassan also explains how Trump is like notorious cult leader Jim Jones and why Trum...
2020-04-0619 min
The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVegaNavigating the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and WorldRobert Evans has been a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine. He has also reported extensively on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His investigative reporting is featured at the website Bellingcat. He is the host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here. His new podcast -- which is available at iHeartRadio -- is The Women's War. Robert offers suggestions about preparing for crises like the coronavirus and surviving the types of chaos and society-wide disruptions in food, other necessities and daily life that are already happening -- and which...
2020-03-3126 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- Surviving the Coronavirus Pandemic and Then Making a Better America and World Robert Evans has been a conflict journalist in Iraq and Ukraine. He has also reported extensively on far-right extremist groups in the United States. His investigative reporting is featured at the website Bellingcat. He is the host of the podcasts Behind the Bastards and It Could Happen Here. His new podcast -- which is available at iHeartRadio -- is The Women's War. Robert offers suggestions about preparing for crises like the coronavirus and surviving the types of chaos and society-wide disruptions in food, other necessities and daily life that are already happening -- and which...
2020-03-3126 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Coronavirus and Social Inequality in AmericaJonathan Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and the director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society, at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. He is the author of several books, including Prozac on the Couch and The Protest Psychosis. His new book is Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment is Killing America's Heartland. Dr. Metzl explains how the novel coronavirus pandemic will further expose social inequality in America. He also shares what his contacts at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have told him about...
2020-03-151h 01
The Chauncey DeVega ShowThe Truth Report -- "Star Trek's" Walter Koenig Reflects on Humanity's Future, Hope, and Despair in the Age of TrumpWalter Koenig portrayed the character "Pavel Chekov" on the original Star Trek series and in seven of the subsequent canonical films. Generations was Koenig's final appearance in the official Star Trek films. Koenig shares his deep worries and concerns about the state of the world and American society in the Age of Trump. He also reflects on both the power and dangers of hope in troubled and challenging times. Koenig also shares how he found acting as his vocation and the ways that he tried to best embody Chekov on Star Trek and the character Bester o...
2020-02-2822 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowAfter Impeachment Donald Trump is the Jim Jones of American PresidentsDr. Justin Frank 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. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. His most recent book is Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank explains how Donald Trump's non-conviction for his obvious crimes in the Ukraine Scandal will worsen his mental health and other aberrant behavior. Is Donald Trump addicted to rage and anger? Why does Donald Trump's transgressive, anti...
2020-02-1623 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowVince Houghton on Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board Vince Houghton is the historian and curator of the International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He is also the host and creative director of the Museum's podcast, SpyCast. His new book is Nuking the Moon: And Other Intelligence Schemes and Military Plots Left on the Drawing Board. Houghton explains how the Cold War spawned fantastical science fiction-like weapons programs and plans by the United States government and the Pentagon such as atomic bomb-powered spacecraft, nuking the moon, psychic soldiers with the powers of telekinesis and mind control, and cyborg cats and other animals. Houghton also shares his...
2020-02-081h 20
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDonald Trump's Authoritarianism Report CardRuth Ben-Ghiat is a historian at New York University who specializes in authoritarianism, aesthetics, cultural politics, and Italian history. She is the author of numerous books including an upcoming project on authoritarianism and political strongmen. Ben-Ghiat is also a regular contributor to CNN, The Atlantic, and The Huffington Post. Professor Ben-Ghiat explains how Donald Trump is continuing to wear down America's democratic institutions – and the public – to a point where authoritarian rule will be accepted as the new normal. Ben-Ghiat also warns how Trump leads a personality cult, which in keeping with how authoritarian regimes have historically take...
2020-01-0936 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowHow Neoliberalism Uses "Mindfulness" to Create Compliant and Weak PeopleThere are two guests on this week's very special December fundraising-month episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show. Ronald E. Purser is a Professor of Management at San Francisco State University. His new book is McMindfulness: How Mindfulness Became the New Capitalist Spirituality. Purser is also the author of the widely-read essay at the Huffington Post,"Beyond McMindfulness". Purser explains how neoliberalism and its gangster capitalists use "mindfulness" as a way of creating a compliant, lonely and weak public that is not equipped for the collective action necessary to make a better and more...
2019-12-131h 09
The Chauncey DeVega ShowChris Hedges Warns That Impeaching Donald Trump Will Not Save America's Dying EmpireChris Hedges is the author of numerous award-winning and bestselling books including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle," "Death of a Liberal Class," "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning," "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" and "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt." His newest book is "America: The Farewell Tour." Hedges explains how Trumpism, white right-wing Christian Evangelicals, white supremacists and other right-wing groups are the types of death cults which come into existence when a society is in decline and crisis. He also highlights...
2019-12-0545 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDavid Cay Johnston Connects the Dots Between the Ukraine Scandal, Donald Trump the De Facto Crime Family Boss, and ImpeachmentDavid Cay Johnston has been writing about and observing Donald Trump for more than thirty years. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter and author of the bestselling book "The Making of Donald Trump." His recent book is "It's Even Worse Than You Think: What the Trump Administration is Doing to America." Johnston explains why the Ukraine scandal should not be a surprise given Donald Trump's many years of success as a white-collar criminal – skills he learned from his father as well as mentor Roy Cohn. He also highlights how the testimony of Ambassador Sondland is key in...
2019-11-2854 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowTimothy Snyder Warns the Resistance That Just Opposing Donald Trump is Not Enough They Need to Offer a Better Vision of America's Future Timothy Snyder is a professor of history at Yale University and author of the bestselling book On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. Professor Snyder is one of the most insightful and bold truth-tellers about Donald Trump's movement and the dangers of authoritarianism in America and around the world. Dr. Snyder reflects on the health of American democracy in the third year of Trump's presidency. He also shares his concerns about how democracy and the rule of law are continually being undermined by Donald Trump and now his consigliere Attorney General William Barr. And Dr. Snyder imp...
2019-11-2119 min
The Chauncey DeVega Show"Never Trump" Patriot Tom Nichols Reflects on What It Was Like to be Called "Human Scum" by Donald TrumpTom Nichols is a professor of national security affairs at the United States Naval War College and also teaches at the Harvard Extension School. He is the author of seven books including "No Use: Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security" and "The Death of Expertise: The Campaign Against Established Knowledge and Why It Matters." He is also a political columnist for USA Today. Tom Nichols shares what it was like to be targeted by President Donald Trump who slurred him and other "Never Trumper" patriots as "human scum". Nichols warns that Donald Trump is a mafia-like...
2019-11-0747 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDr. Cornel West on Maintaining Hope in the Time of Struggle and Darkness that is the Age of TrumpCornel West is one of the United States' and the world's leading public intellectuals and truth-tellers. He is Professor of the Practice of Public Philosophy at Harvard University and holds the title of Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He has also taught at Union Theological Seminary, Yale, Harvard, and the University of Paris. Cornel West is the author of several bestselling books including Race Matters, Democracy Matters, and his memoir, Brother West: Living and Loving Out Loud. He is also a frequent guest on CNN, C-Span and Democracy Now. Cornel West explains why hope must...
2019-10-3151 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowKevin Levin Exposes the Lie and Whitewashed History of So-Called "Black Confederate Soldiers" and the American Civil WarKevin Levin is an award-winning historian and educator whose work has been featured by The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Wall Street Journal, C-SPAN and NPR. His new book is Searching For Black Confederates: The Civil War's Most Persistent Myth. Levin explains how the Internet has allowed lies and disinformation about American history and the Civil War to spread so easily and the harm that is doing to the country's politics. Levin details why more than 150 years after the end of the Civil War so many people are still not able...
2019-10-1944 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowPhilip Zimbardo Explains the Psychology of Evil Inside of Trump's Concentration CampsPhilip Zimbardo is one of the world's leading authorities on the psychology of cruelty, groupthink, and evil. Most famous for the 1971 Stanford Prison Experiment, Dr. Zimbardo has written dozens of books and articles including the powerful and disturbing book The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil. Dr. Zimbardo explains how America under Donald Trump is fully devolving into a state of violence, authoritarianism, and cruelty and the many ways that the Trump regime encourages thuggery against nonwhite immigrants, migrants, and refugees by law enforcement and others. Dr. Zimbardo also highlights the connections between his infamous...
2019-10-1043 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowDr. Justin Frank Explains the Real Reason That Donald Trump Hates the Ukraine Scandal WhistleblowerDr. Justin Frank 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. He is the author of the bestselling books Bush on the Couch and Obama on the Couch. His newest book is Trump on the Couch. Dr. Frank's work has appeared in Time magazine and the Daily Beast and he has appeared as an expert commentator and guest on MSNBC, CNN, PBS and other outlets. Dr. Justin Frank explains what does Donald Trump's behavior in response to the Ukraine...
2019-10-0221 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowIbram X. Kendi Explains How to be an AntiracistIbram X. Kendi is one of America's foremost historians and leading antiracist voices. He is the author of Stamped From the Beginning: The Definitive Idea of Racist Ideas in America which won the National Book Award for Nonfiction. His new book is the New York Times bestselling, How to Be an Antiracist. Kendi explains how racism is violence and death. He also highlights how America's moral crisis along the color line is inseparable from capitalism. Kendi warns how Donald Trump is one of America's most dangerous white supremacist presidents, perhaps second only to Andrew Jackson...
2019-09-261h 06
The Chauncey DeVega ShowBryan Edward Hill on "American Carnage" and the Age of TrumpBryan Edward Hill is the writer of such comic books as the Batman Detective Comics series, Batman and the Outsiders, and also Michael Cray. His newest project is American Carnage. Bryan shares his thoughts on the rise of Trump, the New Right, and making art and telling the truth in this moment. He also explains the connections between existential angst, extremism, and why men and boys join such groups as ISIS and white supremacist organizations. Chauncey and Bryan also reflect on fandom and "representation", the symbolic power of black masculinity, internalized racism, and the importance of mentors...
2019-07-0156 min
The Chauncey DeVega ShowEp. 240.5: Introducing The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega: Dr. Bandy Lee on How the Mueller Report Shows That Donald Trump is Mentally Unfit and Should Have His Presidential Powers Taken AwayThe Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega is my new podcast. It is a companion to The Chauncey DeVega Show. The Truth Report will feature many of the same great conversations on a weekly (or twice weekly) basis as The Chauncey DeVega Show. But The Truth Report is more "traditional" and will not feature my extended analyses of the week's events and other commentary. You can find The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega at Apple Podcasts, Itunes, and the other places you download your other favorite podcasts. Please subscribe to and share The Truth Report with C...
2019-06-1320 min