Mike Baker & Dr. Aaron Good on The Johnny Vedmore Show - 10 July 2024

GUEST OVERVIEW: Michael Baker is an American-British former Central Intelligence Agency officer and security expert, technical advisor for the entertainment industry, TV commentator, and host.

Baker spent approximately 15 years with the CIA, working as a covert field operations officer specializing in counterterrorism, counternarcotics and counterinsurgency operations. After this, he worked in the private sector as CEO of security firm Veritas Global,[ and host of the President's Daily Brief.

He is also currently at the NATO Summit in DC.

 

GUEST 2 OVERVIEW: Author of American Exception: Empire and the Deep State and host of American Exception Podcast.

American Exception seeks to explain the breakdown of US democracy. In particular, how we can understand the uncanny continuity of American foreign policy, the breakdown of the rule of law, and the extreme concentration of wealth and power into an overworld of the corporate rich. To trace the evolution of the American state, the author takes a deep politics approach, shedding light on those political practices that are typically repressed in “mainstream” discourse.