The Gary Null Show - 11/8/11

Guest: Fawaz Gerges

Prof. Fawaz Gerges is a Professor of Middle Eastern Politics and International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science. He also holds the Emirates Chair of the Contemporary Middle East and is the Director of the Middle East Centre at his university. He has also taught at Oxford, Harvard, Columbia and Princeton universities. Prof. Gerges is internationally recognized as an expert in social movements in the Islamic nations, the sociology and politics of jihadist organizations such as the Muslim Brotherhood and al-Qaeda, the Arab-Israeli conflict and American and European foreign relations with the Middle East. His research on al-Qaeda are regarded by many as the most informed in print.  His latest book “The Rise and Fall of al-Qaeda” is particularly important for challenging the reliability of the US government’s and major media’s propagandized threats of a viable terrorist organization that we come to know as al-Qaeda. 

Prof. Gerges has written for many publications including the NY Times, Christian Science Monitor, The Guardian and Independent in the UK, and many peer reviewed journals. And frequently many media outlets, which have included BBC, NPR, Bill Moyers, Jim Lehrer and others.

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The Gary Null Show - 11/7/11

Guest:  Dr. Justin Frank

Dr. Justin Frank MD is a psychoanalyst practicing in  Washington DC and a Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at George Washington University Medical Center.  Trained at Harvard Medical School, he has practiced for over 30 years and is also the co-Director of the Metropolitan Center for Object Relations in NYC.

His book “Bush on the Couch” was a best seller and detailed the psychological rationale for confirming President Bush was a president of poor mental health, unsuited for the office.

His very recent book, “Obama on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President” promises to do same in explaining the inconsistencies and weaknesses of President Obama and the reasons why Obama the Campaigner seems to be so distinct from Obama the President.

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The Gary Null Show - 11/4/11

Guest:  Harriet Washington

Harriet Washington is one of America’s most important medical journalists and bioethicists today, investigating some of the darker recesses of American medicine and experimentation. She has been a fellow of ethics at Harvard Medical School and its School of Public health, a Knight fellow at Stanford University, a senior researcher at the National Center for Bioethics at Tuskegee University and a visiting scholar at the DePaul University College of Law. 

Harriet published her critically acclaimed book “Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present” in 2007. It received many major awards including the National Book Critic’s Circle Award and was named one of the Best Books by Publisher’s Weekly.

Her most recent book is “Deadly Monopolies: The Shocking Corproate Takeover of Life Itself and the Consequences for Your Health and our Medical Future” – which promises to be the most thorough, comprehensive text on corporate manipulation and ownership of medical science solely for profit.

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The Gary Null Show - 11/3/11

Guest:  Dan McKanan

Dan McKanan is the Ralph Waldo Emerson Unitarian Universalist Association Senior Lecturer at Harvard Divinity School, where he specializes in the American history of religious and spiritual movements for social transformation. Before coming to Harvard, he served as department chair and associate professor of theology at the College of Saint Benedict/Saint John's University, where he began teaching in 1998. He has written on the theological understandings of violence and nonviolence among pacifists and radical activists and Catholic social activism.

Dan’s most recent book is Prophetic Encounters: Religion and the American Radical Tradition, from Beacon Press, that provides an all-encompassing history of American religious activism for social transformation.

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The Gary Null Show - 11/2/11

Guest:  Gerald Celente

Gerald Celente is one of today’s pioneers in trend strategy. He founded the Trends Research Institute and its Trends Journal in 1980 and has since been one of the nation’s most sought after diagnosticians and forecasters. His work covers over 300 fields including business and finance, politics, the environment, society and technology. 

Gerald’s insights have been sought for by major networks, PBS and BBC, Russian TV, and publications such as the Economist and major newspapers.

The Trends Journal is published 4 times a year at the website www.trendresearch.com.

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The Gary Null Show 11/1/11

Guests:  Dr. Brian Hooker, Darrin Drda

Darrin Drda has his higher degree in Philosophy and Cosmology from the California Institute of Integral Studies and is a long time practitioner and instructor in Insight Meditation.  He is a facilitator of the Awakening the Dreamer symposium which promotes ecological sustainability  and social justice.

Darrin is a regular contributor to the alternative spiritual news and commentary Reality Sandwich and Evolver sites. His recent book is “The Four Global Truths: Awakening to the Peril and Promise of Our Times”, a treatise that explores the roots of our ecological suffering and humanity’s alienation from itself and the planet.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/31/11

Guest:  Dr. Meryl Nass

Dr. Meryl Nass is a board certified physician in Internal Medicine practicing at Mount Desert Island Hospital in Bar Harbor Maine, where she also runs a clinic treating patients from Gulf War Syndrome, Multiple Chemical Sensitivity conditions, Fibromyalgia, Chronic Fatigue and other related disorders. She regarded as expert in biological warfare and bioterrorism, which she has investigated since 1989, and in 1992 was the one who identified the use of anthrax as a biological weapon in Rhodesia’s civil war in the late 1970s. Dr. Nass is a staunch opponent to the anthrax vaccine and was instrumental in the creation of a coalition to fight the Anthrax Vaccine Immunization Program.  Since 1999, she has testified to four Congressional Committees about anthrax, the anthrax vaccine and biological warfare. 

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The Gary Null Show - 10/28/11

Guest: Colin Woodard

  

 

Colin Woodard is an award-winning investigative journalist and author who has conducted research and reporting from over fifty countries, primarily eastern Europe and the Balkans. He is currently a foreign correspondent for the Chronicle of Higher Education and The Christian Science Monitor. He received the Jane Bagley Lehman Award for his reporting on environmental issues in 2004 and numerous fellowships including the Pew Fellowship at Johns Hopkins, the US Antarctic Project, and the Regional Environmental Center in Budapest Hungary. He is also on the advisory board of the Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Science.

 

Colin has written several books, and his latest is “American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America.”

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The Gary Null Show - 10/27/11

Guest: Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay  

Dr. Rodrigue Tremblay is a prominent Canadian economist who is now a professor emeritus at the University of Montreal. In the late 1970s he served as the Minister of Industry and Commerce in the Quebec government. Dr. Tremblay is also the President of the North American Economics and Finance Association and President of the Canadian Economics Society.

Dr. Tremblay has authored over 25 books dealing with economics, fiancé and a variety of global ethical and political issues. His blog on geopolitics is read throughout the world and translated into 8 languages. Prof. Tremblay’s most recent book “The Code for Global Ethics: Ten Humanist Principles” addresses the urgent need for a new sense of morals in the face of immense international and global challenges.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/26/11

Guest: Susun Weed

  

 

Susun Weed is an American herbalist who has been investigating the benefits herbal and plant medicine since 1965, and has written extensively on the topic. In addition to her writing she teaches and lectures widely at medical schools, wellness and breast cancer centers, naturopathic colleges on ethnobotony, nutrition, women’s and men’s health issues.

Her most recent release is “Down There: Sexual and Reproductive Health” which offers a wide range of well documented integrative and alternative health options for gender specific and reproductory organ conditions and illnesses.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/25/11

Guest: Stephen Kohn

Stephen Kohn is one of the nation’s leading advocates for corporate and government whistleblowers and has a long record spanning over 25 years of court victories on behalf of individuals bringing the truth to the public about corruption, fraud and misdemeanors.  He is the Executive Director of the National Whistleblower Center in Washington and a Trustee of the National Whistleblower Legal Defense and Education Fund. Stephen has testified in Congress and counseled the Senate Judiciary to protect whistleblower well being. He is the author of the first legal treatise on whistleblower back in 1985 and has since published numerous articles and books.

Stephen’s program on PRN:

“Honesty Without Fear” – every Tuesday at 1:00 PM --  will feature leading experts in the whistleblower field, firsthand accounts of major government and corporate whistleblowers, discussions about employee rights, and more. Learn about your whistleblower rights so you can protect yourself. Join Stephen as well as co-hosts leading whistleblower attorneys Michael D. Kohn, David K. Colapinto, Lindsey M. Williams and prominent whistleblowers such as Jane Turner and Dr. Frederic Whitehurst to learn how whistleblowers strengthen democracy, protect the environment, and save taxpayers and investors billions of dollars.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/24/11

Guest: Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is one of our nation’s most insightful cultural critics and authors. For almost 20 years he was a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans for such news media as The New York Times (for 15 of those years), Christian Science Monitor and National Public Radio.  While at the Times, Chris and team received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for their reportage on global terrorism. The same year he received Amnesty International’s Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. 

 

Chris’ most recent book is “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”  – a collection of Chris’s most insightful and timeless essays on our current political climate, the middle east, and the decline and decay of the American empire. He also writes a weekly column for the award winning political blog Truthdig.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/21/11

In lieu of a guest, Gary shares his commentary on student loans, health & wellness, and the state of the economy.

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The Gary Null Show - 10/20/11

Guest: Keith Fitz-Gerald

Keith Fitz-Gerald is the Chief Investment Strategist for Money Map Press which publishes Money Morning specializing in global markets.  A former professional trade advisor on global futures trading adn hedging, he was a founding fellow of the Kenos Circle in Vienna Austria, an economic think that looking at financial trends.  Aside from Money Morning, Keith is also the editor of three investment services: The New China Trader, The Geiger Index, and the MicroQuake Alert.  In 2010, Forbes magazine named him a “business visionary” and he is the author of “Fiscal Hangover: How to Profit from the New Global Economy.”

www.KeithFitz-Gerald.com AND www.MoneyMorning.com

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The Gary Null Show - 10/19/11

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Guest: Matthew Stein

Matthew Stein is an engineer with a degree in mechanical engineering from MIT and a National Merit Scholar.  He is the owner of Aloha Aina Builders, which specializes in hurricane resistant, energy efficient and environmentally friendly homes, and is also president of Stein Designs which invents consumer and commercial water and bacteriological filtration systems, photovoltaic roofing and other energy efficient and sustainable products. 

Mat writes extensively on sustainable preparedness and self-sufficiency in the face of predictable and unpredictable catastrophic scenarios and conditions.  In addition to writing on the future of perfect storms for the Huffington Post, he is author of several exhaustive books on how people can prepare themselves for having to rely on our own resources and ingenuity, most notably “When Technology Fails: A Manual for Self-Reliance, Sustainability and Surviving the Long Emergency” and “When Disaster Strikes:  A Comprehensive Guide to Emergency Planning and Crisis Survival”

The Gary Null Show - 10/18/11

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Guest: Dr. Joel Fuhrman

Dr. Joel Fuhrman is a board-certified family physician who specializes in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods.  He is one of the very few alternative medical physicians in the nation with a vital, personal practice online. 

Dr. Fuhrman is also alternative medical educator for other physicians and a board member of the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and a research director of the Nutritional Research Project of the National Health Association.  He has appeared on The Today Show, Good Morning America, CNN and Discovery the Channel.

Dr. Fuhrman is the author of several best selling health books. His most recent is “Super Immunity: The Essential Nutrition Guide for Boosting Your Body’s Defenses”

The Gary Null Show - 10/17/11

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In lieu of a guest, Gary discusses vaccines, nuclear energy, #occupywallstreet, and the GMO march to Washington DC. Additionally, Gary takes your calls on the commentary.

The Gary Null Show - 10/14/11

Guests: Mickey Huff and Peter Phillips

Mickey Huff is an Associate Professor of History at Diablo Valley College in California where he specializes in the history of the American media, critical thinking and popular culture. He is also the Associate Director of the Media Freedom Foundation and Project Censored, which was the recipient of the 2008 PEN Oakland National Literary Censorship Award

Along with Peter Phillips, is the primary editor of the recent annual edition of Project Censored – Censored 2012 – which presents the top censored sorties and media analysis for the years 2011.

Peter Phillips is a professor of Sociology at Sonoma State University in California where he teaches courses in political sociology, media censorship, and the sociology of power and the media. He is the former founding director of Project Censored, an internationally known research program and watch organization that annually identifies the “Most Censored” news stories not appearing in mainstream media

Prof. Phillips has written many oped investigative pieces for news soures such as Counterpunch, Common Dreams, Social Policy, Free Inquiry and others, and appears frequently as a guest on TV shows such as Talk of the Nation, the World Radio Network and Jim Hightower’s program

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The Gary Null Show - 10/13/11

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No guest today: Gary discusses health, the economy, and takes your calls.

The Gary Null Show - 10/12/11

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Guest Professor Michael Kazin

Michael Kazin is a professor of history at Georgetown University in Washington DC, specializing in US social movement and the American Left.   He is also the co-editor of the magazine Dissent, founded in 1954 by Irving Howe as a home for thoughtful research for the democratic left.   Prior to his teaching at Georgetown, Professor Kazin was Chair of American Studies at Utrecht University in the Netherlands and taught at Stanford and the University of California.

He is the author of five books, and  his most recent publication – “American Dreamers: How the Left Changed the Nation” –traces the sweeping history of the leftist movements from its early roots in the 19th century to the present and the attempts by Americans to envision a “radically egalitarian transformation of society”