The Truth Report with Chauncey DeVega
137 episodes - English - Latest episode: 3 months ago - ★★★★★ - 178 ratingsThe truth will set you free. Each week on "The Truth Report", Salon politics and culture writer Chauncey DeVega searches for personal, philosophical, empirical, and moral truth with New York Times best-selling authors, leading opinion makers and other experts on politics, history, social justice, the creative arts, human rights, the economy, technology, and the Age of Trump.
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Ep. 133: Dr. Bandy Lee Warns That Trumpism Is a Public Health Emergency Which is Reaching Terminal Levels For American Democracy and Society
January 12, 2024 07:43 - 34 minutes - 24 MBDr. Bandy Lee is a forensic psychiatrist and a leading expert on violence who taught at Yale School of Medicine and Yale Law School for 17 years before transferring her activities to Columbia and Harvard. Dr. Lee is also the editor of the New York Times bestseller, The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 37 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President. She is currently president of the World Mental Health Coalition, the largest professional organization to address the pro...
Ep. 132: On Jan. 6 Capitol Hill Police Officer Sgt. Aquilino Gonell Defended American Democracy From Donald Trump's Coup Attempt and MAGA Attack Force
December 21, 2023 02:46 - 32 minutes - 22.6 MBSgt. Aquilino Gonell is a Dominican immigrant, former U.S. Army Soldier, and Iraq War veteran. He’s been a Capitol Hill Police Officer for the past 17 years and was one of four police officers who testified before the House Select Committee investigating the January 6th Insurrection. He’s been recently featured in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, NPR, CBS Mornings, NBC News, Fox-TV, MSNBC, The Daily Beast, The Hill, and Rolling Stone. He is the recipient of the Carnegie Im...
Ep. 131: Dr. Justin Frank Explains Donald Trump's God Complex
December 21, 2023 02:24 - 17 minutes - 11.8 MBDr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. He warns that Donald Trump appears to be a megalomaniac, who as demonstrated by his recent comments at a rally in Iowa, truly does believe that he is some type of Chosen One who has been selected by “god” and “Jesus” to be America’s first dictator. Dr. Frank also explains how Trump’s obviously diseas...
Ep. 130: Donald Trump and His Cabal’s Plans to Make Him a Dictator Are Being Announced in Public
November 28, 2023 07:31 - 7 minutes - 5.49 MBOn this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “The secret to Trump's revenge plot: He's making his plans for vengeance public”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com
Ep. 129: Donald Trump’s Evil Dream Nightmare of An American Fourth Reich
November 28, 2023 07:13 - 11 minutes - 7.83 MBOn this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his recent essay at Salon, “Donald Trump Dreams of an American Fourth Reich — and He's Not Kidding”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com
Ep. 128: What do Donald Trump’s Reactions to Being Indicted for the Crimes of Jan. 6 and Beyond Reveal About His Mental and Emotional Health?
November 18, 2023 03:14 - 38 minutes - 26.5 MBDr. Justin Frank is a former clinical professor of psychiatry at the George Washington University Medical Center and the author of Trump on the Couch: Inside the Mind of the President. Dr. Frank shares his expert insights about Donald Trump’s mind and how the ex-president’s mental pathologies and other unwell behavior are shaping his response to being criminally indicted for his many alleged crimes including Jan. 6 and his attempted coup attempt to end American democracy. In the end,...
Ep. 127: Rich Logis Escaped the Trump - MAGA Cult -- Heed His Warnings About Its Power and Extreme Danger to America
November 18, 2023 02:43 - 52 minutes - 35.9 MBRich Logis is a former high ranking Trump MAGA World operative and propagandist who describes himself as "a remorseful ex-Trump, DeSantis and GOP voter." Logis is the founder of Perfect Our Union, an organization dedicated to healing political traumatization; building diverse, pro-democracy alliances; and perfecting our Union. He reflects on how he was radicalized by the Trump MAGA fascist movement, how it functions as an alternate reality that provides emotional, intellectual, spir...
Ep. 126: Mark Jacob Explains How America's Mainstream News Media Surrendered to Donald Trump and The Republican Fascist Movement
May 25, 2023 06:29 - 34 minutes - 23.5 MBMark Jacob is a media critic and a former Metro Editor at the Chicago Tribune and Sunday Editor at the Chicago Sun-Times. He reflects on his decades-long career in the news media and what he learned about that institution’s failings and how it helped to birth the Age of Trump and American neofascism. Mark Jacob warns that obsolete habits and cultural norms such as “fairness”, “objectivity”, “bothsidesism”, “access journalism”, and “horse race coverage” by the mainstream corporate news...
Ep. 125: Jason Van Tatenhove Reflects on the Perils of Right-Wing Radicalization and How He Found Himself a Leading Member of the Oath Keepers
May 04, 2023 02:54 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MBJason Van Tatenhove is the former national media director of the right-wing militia group the Oath Keepers. Mr. Tatenhove testified about the escalating dangers of right-wing radicalization and neofascism before the House Jan. 6 Committee. His new book is The Perils of Extremism: How I Left the Oath Keepers and Why We Should be Concerned about a Future Civil War. In this wide-ranging conversation Jason reflects on his life decisions and mistakes and how he found himself radicalized...
Ep. 124: Chris Hedges Warns That "The News" and "The Truth" are Not The Same Thing
February 20, 2023 07:02 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MBChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His two most recent books are Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison and The Greatest Evil is War. Chris Hedges reflects on the lessons he learned during his long career as a journalist about the “business” that is the news business, how the “truth” is manufactured, why it pays very well to be a careerist who does not care about confronting Power, and the ways that the limits of ...
Ep. 123: Reflecting on Gratitude and Thankfulness on This Thanksgiving Day 2022
November 24, 2022 09:24 - 37 minutes - 25.6 MB***This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show*** On this special Thanksgiving Day installment of the podcast, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the deeper meaning of gratitude and thankfulness during these challenging and troubling times. Chauncey also shares his recent essay on using gratitude and thankfulness as a type of energy and fuel in what will be a long struggle against neofascism and to create a true we the people democracy here in the United ...
Ep. 122: The Republican Party's "Red Tide" of Fascist Sewage Didn't Fully Drown the American People
November 17, 2022 19:10 - 1 hour - 59.3 MB*** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show*** Jeff 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. His forthcoming book is The Undertow: Scenes from a Slow Civil War. Sharlet reflects on the meaning of the 2022 midterms and how the American people voted to slow down the Republican fascist assault on their dem...
Ep. 121: American Democracy and Freedom are on the Ballot in the 2022 Midterm Elections
November 07, 2022 09:00 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MB*** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show*** David Neiwert is an investigative journalist. 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, and Red Pill, Blue Pill: How to Counteract the Conspiracy Theories That Are Killing Us. His forthcoming book is The Age of Insurrection: The Radical Right's Assault on American Demo...
Ep. 120: Who is Really Responsible for America's (and the World's) Democracy Crisis and the Rising Tide of Neofascism and Fake Right-Wing Populism?
September 19, 2022 06:13 - 33 minutes - 23.1 MBShawn Rosenberg is a professor of political science and psychology at UC Irvine and one of the world’s foremost experts in political psychology. He warns that the average American and other people who live in countries governed by Western-style democracies may be fundamentally unable to follow through on the basic responsibilities of being responsible citizens. Such a deficiency helps to explain why right-wing fake populism and other forms of authoritarianism and fascism are compelling t...
Ep. 119: The South Side of Chicago is Not a Problem to be Solved, It is a Home for the American Spirit
September 01, 2022 22:06 - 48 minutes - 33.3 MBSudhir Venkatesh is the William B Ransford Professor of Sociology and African-American Studies at Columbia University. His books include Floating City and Gang Leader for a Day. Sudhir Venkatesh’s new book is The Tomorrow Game: Rival Teenagers, Their Race for a Gun, and a Community United to Save Them. He reflects upon his 30-year relationship with the South Side of Chicago and how racism and classism distort the complex truth about that community and the people who live there. Sudhir ...
Ep. 118: Nuclear Espionage? More Proof That Donald Trump is The Worst President in American History and a Traitor
August 17, 2022 17:45 - 1 hour - 65.2 MB*** This is a special combined episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show*** Brynn Tannehill is a leading trans activist and essayist. She has written for such leading publications as The New York Times, The Huffington Post, and The Advocate. Tannehill is a former United States Naval Aviator and officer who also served as a campaign analyst for the 5th Fleet Headquarters in Bahrain. After leaving the military, she worked as a senior defense research scientist in private ind...
Ep. 117: Eddie Glaude Explains That America is in Great Pain and on a Horrible Journey and White Racial Innocence Will Not Save It
July 18, 2022 01:13 - 40 minutes - 27.9 MBEddie Glaude Jr. is the James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor and Chair of the Department of African American Studies at Princeton University. His publications include "Democracy in Black: How Race Still Enslaves the American Soul", "In a Shade of Blue: Pragmatism and the Politics of Black America", and his most recent, the New York Times bestseller, "Begin Again: James Baldwin's America and Its Urgent Lessons for our Own". Professor Glaude has also written for The...
Ep. 116: Day-to-Day Advice on Getting Your Balance and Momentum for the Long Fight Against American and Global Neofascism
July 02, 2022 06:11 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBOn this special installment of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega reflects on the fascist tsunami and escalating disaster that is a rogue Supreme Court that has taken away women’s reproductive rights, the “revelations” that Trump’s coup plot was even more dangerous than most among the chattering class and centrist punditry hope-peddlers wanted to admit, and other happenings that have left so many Americans off balance and in a state of despair. As part of that reflection, Chauncey offers so...
Ep. 115: The White Supremacist Terrorist Attack in Buffalo and How White Privilege is Lethal
May 19, 2022 03:41 - 25 minutes - 17.7 MBTim Wise is an author, activist and leading expert on white privilege and racism. His most recent book is "Dispatches From the Race War." Tim Wise explores the role of white privilege, white racial innocence, and white denial in the Buffalo white supremacist terrorist attack. He warns that the white supremacist terrorist attack in Buffalo is likely the first of what will be many other such events here in the United States. Tim Wise also counsels that we must remain persistent in the an...
Ep. 114: The Battle to Save American Democracy From the Republican-Fascists Will Be Long and Difficult -- And Quitting Is Not an Option
May 03, 2022 05:37 - 35 minutes - 24.1 MBDon Winslow is a bestselling crime fiction author, political activist, a hope warrior, and one of our premiere truth-tellers. His videos about the dangers to democracy embodied by Donald Trump and the Republican Party have been viewed online more than 250 million times. Don Winslow is the author of many bestselling novels, including "Savages" (2010), "The Cartel" (2015), "The Force" (2017), and "The Border" (2019). His work has also been adapted for major Hollywood movies and TV series. Hi...
Ep. 113: Chris Hedges Reflects on the New Censorship and Authoritarianism of the 21st Century
April 09, 2022 05:04 - 43 minutes - 30.1 MBChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, bestselling author, and social critic. His most recent book is Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. He reflects on the sudden deletion of his popular Emmy-award winning RT Network television show “On Contact” from YouTube in the aftermath of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. Hedges also explains what that reveals about the new censorship in the 21st century, a time when social media and other corporate actors exercis...
Ep. 112: The Shame Machine And Who is Profiting From This New Age of Humiliation
March 27, 2022 04:27 - 46 minutes - 32.3 MBCathy O’Neil is the author of the bestselling book Weapons of Math Destruction. Her new book is The Shame Machine: Who Profits in the New Age of Humiliation. O’Neil explains the power of shame and how in today’s society it is amplified in potentially dangerous and life altering ways by algorithms, social media companies, and big data. She also details the often contradictory and nonsensical relationship between so-called “cancel culture” and shame. O’Neil also explores the complex dyna...
Ep. 111: The Republican Fascist Threats of Violence Are Very Real
March 16, 2022 05:23 - 15 minutes - 10.5 MBOn this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "The Republican Party’s violent rhetoric keeps getting worse — and almost nobody is paying attention”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com ...
Ep. 110: Racism Will Bring America's Ultimate Destruction
March 13, 2022 02:29 - 47 minutes - 32.4 MBLeonce Gaiter’s nonfiction writing has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Times Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Times, LA Weekly, Newsweek, and The Washington Post. His essay “The True Story of The Harder They Fall’s Villain Is Even Weirder Than in the Movie” was recently featured at Slate. He is the author of several novels including his most recent, “In the Company of Educated Men”. Gaiter is also the author of the historical novel, “I Dreamt I Was in He...
Ep. 109: Donald Trump and the Republican Neofascists Have Pushed America to the Brink of a Second Civil War
February 06, 2022 06:31 - 37 minutes - 25.9 MBBarbara Walter is a professor of international relations and political science at UC San Diego and one of the world's leading experts on civil wars, political violence, and terrorism. She is also a permanent member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a frequent live guest on CNN, and an active consultant for the World Bank, the United Nations, and the Departments of Defense and State. Her new book is How Civil Wars Start. Barbara Walter explains how Donald Trump, the Republican fascis...
Ep. 108: Fascism is Breaking Time and Reality in America
January 03, 2022 21:49 - 8 minutes - 6.15 MBOn this episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "It's a new year — but time is broken in America. Can we recover from this?” WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com M...
Ep. 107: New Year's Eve 2021 Potpourri -- 1980s Cold War Action Movies, the Meaning of a Good Death, and What Troubles Await America and the World in 2022 and Beyond
January 01, 2022 04:44 - 58 minutes - 40.4 MBThis is a special New Year’s Eve 2021 episode of The Chauncey DeVega Show and The Truth Report. Elliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine. He served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. Elliott ...
Ep. 106: The Jim Crow Republican "Critical Race Theory" Bogeyman is Powered by White Rage
November 09, 2021 08:21 - 39 minutes - 27.2 MBTim 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. He explains how white rage and white privilege have combined in the Jim Crow Republican Party’s very successful “critical race theory” bogeyman attacks as seen in Virginia (and soon around the country) against the Democrats, the very idea of public education, and the teaching of America’s real history of racia...
Ep. 105: How the Jim Crow Republicans are Going to Steal the 2022 Midterm and 2024 Presidential Elections
October 22, 2021 08:13 - 29 minutes - 20.3 MBGreg 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. His most recent book is How Trump Stole 2020. Greg Palast reflects on how he predicted almost precisely how Donald Trump’s regime, the Republican fascists, and their agents would try to steal the 2020 presidential election. Greg Palast is now warnin...
Ep. 104: Remembering Sociologist James Loewen
October 11, 2021 05:05 - 47 minutes - 32.8 MBThis is a special Indigenous Peoples' Day episode of The Truth Report in honor of sociologist and historian James Loewen who passed away on August 19, 2021. **** James Loewen is the author of the bestselling book Lies My Teacher Told Me. He has also written award-winning books such as Sundown Towns, Teaching What Really Happened, and The Confederate and Neo-Confederate Reader. Professor Loewen shares his thoughts on the resurrection of the Confederacy in the South and the Rep...
Ep. 103: Donald Trump is Not Going Away -- No Matter How Much You Wish He Would
September 26, 2021 05:37 - 24 minutes - 16.9 MBDr. Mary Trump is a clinical psychologist and business woman. She is also Donald Trump’s niece. She is the author of the bestselling book Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man. Her new book is The Reckoning: Our Nation's Trauma and Finding a Way to Heal. Mary Trump explains why so many Americans are still in deep denial about Donald Trump’s enduring power and his ability to cause destruction and other harm to American society and the world....
Ep. 102: Eric Eyre Explains How the Drug Companies Created the Opioid Crisis in Appalachia and Beyond
September 09, 2021 07:44 - 29 minutes - 20.6 MBEric Eyre is a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist and author of the book “Death in Mud Lick: A Coal Country Fight against the Drug Companies That Delivered the Opioid Epidemic”. He explains how big pharma flooded vulnerable rural communities in Appalachia and elsewhere with tens of millions of opioid pain pills. Eyre also shares the human story behind his Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporting on the opioid crisis and what is a true David and Goliath story of resista...
Ep. 101: "War Made Easy" and the Pitfalls and Lies of American Empire and its Forever Wars
August 26, 2021 05:21 - 23 minutes - 18.5 MBNorman Solomon is the author of several books including "War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death". He is also the founder and executive director of the Institute for Public Accuracy. Solomon explains how the United States is actually a global empire. He also details how propaganda is used to convince the American people to support war, the country’s military industrial complex, and war profiteering. Solomon also reflects on the myth of American Exceptionalism ...
Ep. 100: Donald Trump's Fascist Attacks on American Democracy Are Escalating
July 29, 2021 02:45 - 13 minutes - 9.6 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, "Donald Trump rallies the troops in Phoenix: Unfortunately, that's not a metaphor". WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the...
Ep. 99: Never Forget Donald Trump and His (Almost) Military Coup
July 26, 2021 18:25 - 14 minutes - 10.2 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Donald Trump's military coup didn't (quite) happen — but it was much closer than we knew”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Mus...
Ep. 98: Joe Biden is The Right President at the Wrong Time in America's Fight Against Neofascism
July 24, 2021 22:55 - 13 minutes - 9.64 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new essay at Salon, “Biden gave a rousing speech — but is he the wrong president at the wrong time?” WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the e...
Ep.97: On This July 4th Independence Day, America's Democracy is on Life Support
July 04, 2021 23:54 - 45 minutes - 31 MBJared Yates Sexton is the guest on this very special July 4 Independence Day episode of The Truth Report and The Chauncey DeVega Show. Jared Yates Sexton is the author of several books including “The People Are Going to Rise Like the Waters Upon Your Shore: A Story of American Rage” and “American Rule: How a Nation Conquered the World But Failed Its People”. In this wide-ranging conversation Jared and Chauncey ponder why so many rank-and-file Americans as well as the country’s “elites” a...
Ep. 96: The Jim Crow Republicans Continue to Outmaneuver the Democrats
June 24, 2021 04:06 - 13 minutes - 9.11 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “In the fight for democracy, Democrats are being outmaneuvered — and time is against them”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at Chaunc...
Ep. 95: The Trump Regime's Coup Never Stopped
June 19, 2021 05:57 - 12 minutes - 8.63 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “Guess what? The Trump regime's coup against American democracy never stopped”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of...
Ep. 94: What Will Happen When the United States and China Finally Go to War
May 30, 2021 06:23 - 27 minutes - 19.1 MBElliot Ackerman is both a former White House Fellow and Marine, and served five tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, where he received the Silver Star, the Bronze Star for Valor, and the Purple Heart. Ackerman is also as an ex–CIA paramilitary officer. His new book (co-written with Adm. James Stavridis USN (Ret.)) is The New York Times bestseller 2034: A Novel of the Next World War. Elliot Ackerman explains how the United States and China could sleepwalk into a world war with one ano...
Ep. 93: America Needs a Real Investigation of the Trump Regime and Jan. 6 — or the Fascist Disaster Will All Happen Again
May 23, 2021 08:03 - 10 minutes - 7.44 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey DeVega shares his new Salon essay “America urgently needs a real investigation of the Trump regime — or it will all happen again”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at C...
Ep. 92: She is No Friend of Democracy -- Liz Cheney Helped to Create Trumpism
May 20, 2021 06:22 - 10 minutes - 7.2 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey shares his new Salon essay “Liz Cheney is an enemy of democracy — just as much as the Trumpers”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeVega.com Music at the end of this week's epis...
Ep. 91: Donald Trump and His Regime Shortened the Lifespans of the American People
May 12, 2021 04:55 - 23 minutes - 16.2 MBDr. 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 ...
Ep. 90: Today's Republicans are Deadly Real Life Cartoon Villains
May 08, 2021 04:33 - 9 minutes - 6.62 MBOn this week’s episode of The Truth Report, Chauncey shares his new essay “Today's Republicans are cartoon villains — who pose a dire threat to America's health and safety”. WHERE CAN YOU FIND ME? On Twitter: https://twitter.com/chaunceydevega On Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chauncey.devega My email: [email protected] HOW CAN YOU SUPPORT THE TRUTH REPORT? Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/TheTruthReportPodcast Via Paypal at ChaunceyDeV...
Ep. 89: Sneak Preview of The Chauncey DeVega Show -- Lt. Dave Grossman on "Killology" and America's Out of Control Police
April 26, 2021 05:16 - 12 minutes - 8.78 MBThis 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...
Ep. 88: The Jim Crow Republicans Want to End Democracy and Impose a New White Supremacist Reign of Terror on Black America
April 17, 2021 03:08 - 13 minutes - 9.4 MBChauncey 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 M...
Ep. 87: Anne Nelson Explains the Right-wing Shadow Network And Its War on American Democracy and Freedom
March 24, 2021 05:11 - 28 minutes - 19.8 MBAnne Nelson is the author of Shadow Network: Media, Money, and the Secret Hub of the Radical Right. She is an adjunct professor at the School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. Nelson is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, and a former Guggenheim Fellow. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, Harper's, BBC, CBC, NPR and PBS. Anne Nelson explains how a highly secretive right-wing alliance of Christian fascists, white ...
Ep. 86: The Dangers Facing America's “Democracy” and Future Are Much Greater Than Trumpism
March 03, 2021 02:55 - 21 minutes - 14.7 MBSarah Chayes is the author of the prize-winning book Thieves of State: Why Corruption Threatens Global Security. Her most recent book is On Corruption in America. Chayes is also a former senior associate in the Democracy and Rule of Law Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. She has also served at the topmost levels of the U.S. military, including as special adviser to two commanders of the international forces in Kabul and then Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Mik...
Ep. 85: Donald Trump's Political Cult Members Are Experiencing a Psychological Emergency
February 03, 2021 23:54 - 18 minutes - 12.8 MBDr. 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 othe...
Ep. 84: Chris Hedges Warns That President Joe Biden Will Not Stop America's Descent Into Corporate Totalitarianism
January 20, 2021 05:51 - 26 minutes - 17.9 MBChris 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: h...