Progressive Commentary Hour – 08.18.15

Guest #1 - Dr. Paul Craig Roberts is one of today’s most progressive political and economic writers and commentators on the state of the nation:  governmental dysfunction, political corruption, global and domestic economic threats, the war on terror, Wall Street, and the decline in human values in American society.   He was the chairman of the Institute for Political Economy and a former Assistant Secretary of Treasury during Reagan’s first term.  During his academic career he has taught at many universities and held the William Simon Chair in Political Economy at the Center for Strategic and International Studies at Georgetown University.

Dr. Roberts’ blog can be found at PaulCraigRoberts.org and he is a frequent contributor to Global Research, The Trends Journal, Counterpunch, and others.  He was an associate editor at the Wall Street Journal and has published many books and articles during the past 40 years, his latest being “How America Was Lost: From 911 to the Police/Warfare State” 

Guest #2 - Kermit Heartsong is an empirical scientist, political author and the creator of several award wining word games.  For the past 25 years, Kermit has investigated the macroscopic developments of social, economic and political systems to identify disturbing trends in both the US and around the globe.  He is currently the managing editor of Tayen Lane Publishing in San Francisco. He has appeared on CNN International and many radio stations and has been featured in a variety of magazines and publications. Kermit is the author of several books on America’s dystopia and illusions and recently published “Ukraine: Zbig’s Grand Chessboard and How the West was Checkmated.”  His website is  TayneLane.com