Traces of Reality by Guillermo Jimenez

DC on BFP #60 | Aaron Cantú details the case of Eric Garner, the 43-year-old father of six who NYPD officer Daniel Pantaleo choked to death last July; the failings of the grand jury system in both the Garner case and Michael Brown in Ferguson; and why police are the "most violent parts of white supremacy distilled down to human form."

RadioWHO #2 | Paul Alan Smith joins us to discuss why he left a lucrative job at one of Hollywood’s most influential agencies to found his own company, and shares his perspectives on the way Hollywood shapes American culture, the media's role in "democracy," and the establishment's last word on Hollywood productions.

DC on BFP #59 | Douglas Valentine, CIA expert and author of The Phoenix Program, joins us to discuss the "sweeping organizational changes" proposed for the agency, how its counter-terrorism and counter-insurgency tactics have invaded nearly every law enforcement department in the country, including local police.

DC on BFP #43 | Lee Camp joins us to talk about his new show on RT America called "Redacted Tonight," and what it sets it apart from social "steam valves" like The Daily Show. Also, the sociopathic power elite, why good people aren't very good at planning, consumerism, apathy, and optimism for the future.

DC on BFP #42 | Ioan Grillo joins us to discuss Brazil, as protests and clashes with police are spurred by the upcoming 2014 FIFA World Cup. We go over the allegations of corruption and the program of "pacification": police raids, homes bulldozed, thousands rendered homeless, and many killed, in an effort to "cleanse" host cities for tourists.

TOR Radio #100 | Russ Baker joins us to discuss recent developments in the case of Ibragim Todashev, shot and killed in his Florida home during an interrogation by police and FBI. The FBI agent who pulled the trigger on Todashev has been identified, and we break down it means within the larger questions surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing.

DC on BFP #41 | Dr. Bruce Levine joins us to discuss how elites in Psychiatry and Psychology have "manufactured consent" through the "chemical imbalance fiction"; how anti-authoritarianism has been pathologized through diagnoses of "oppositional defiant disorder"; and the potential for social engineering through psychiatry, media, and politics.

Porkins Policy Radio #23 | Pearse Redmond interviews TOR Contributing Editor Danny Benavides on Porkins Policy Radio, May 28, 2014. Topics: Mexican drug war, the autodefensa movement in Michoacan, history of La Familia and the Knights Templar Cartel, violence in Tamaulipas, and EPN's "million dollar selfie" with Kevin Spacey.

DC on BFP #40 | Tom Secker joins us to discuss Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Zero Dark Thirty, and the role of the CIA and the national security state in Hollywood. As the Snowden narrative unravels, will the master story-tellers in Hollywood step in to rewrite history and shape your reality?

DC on BFP #39 | Jacob Hornberger joins us to discuss US interventionist foreign policy in Africa and the ongoing situation with Nigeria, Boko Haram, and the kidnapping of nearly 300 young school girls. Also: the "Cold War mind" in Latin America, the call for "smart sanctions" in Venezuela, and the case for open borders.

TOR Radio #99 | Anonymous protests Glenn Greenwald's No Place to Hide Book Tour; Greenwald signs deal with Sony, producers (and defenders) of Zero Dark Thirty to oversee Snowden: The Motion Picture; the FCC rules on net neutrality; ongoing crisis in Michoacan; and the legal pot market in Colorado and Uruguay vs. drug cartels.

DC on BFP #38 | Todd Miller joins us to discuss the emergence of the "border-industrial complex," and how its political effects extend beyond the southwestern United States, across the country and around the world. Also, the remarkable story of Arivaca, Arizona and how border communities can resist the homeland security state.

TOR Radio #98 | Andalusia Knoll joins us to discuss Mexico's telecom "reform," the broad surveillance and censorship authority that it proposes, the potential for such data to end up in the hands of drug cartels, and the civil resistance movement birthed by social media that led to street action across the country.

DC on BFP #37 | Phil Giraldi joins us to discuss the "Cognitive Dissonance of Spying," post-9/11 "culture shift" within the CIA, neoconservatives in Washington positioning a "New Cold War" as the next "just cause" in the killing business, Jonathan Pollard, the strength of the Israel Lobby today, and much more.

DC on BFP #36 | Douglas Lucas explains what George W. Bush's recent "art exhibit" may reveal about the former sociopath-in-chief. Also, the drug war rages on "south of the border," the next generation of sociopathic cartel leaders, Stratfor's cozy relationship with law enforcement, and the latest on the Barrett Brown case.