WhoWhatWhy's Podcasts

RadioWhoWhatWhy: FBI Whistleblower: America’s Culture of Violence Starts With Perpetual Wars

Coleen Rowley is a former FBI special agent whose bravery as a whistleblower exposed many of the FBI’s pre-9/11 failures. She was named one of Time magazine’s “Persons of the Year” in 2002. This week she talks with Jeff Schechtman about the recent shootings at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.  Rowley accentuates two problems with the FBI. One, that local threats — even in high schools — are not the province of the FBI. It would, however, have been the bureau’s job to make sure that lo...

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Plundering Iraq’s Oil Wealth

To understand the plundering of Iraq’s oil wealth, we have to look first at the original sin of the invasion itself. Blueprints showing how oil could help rebuild the country were drawn up post Desert Storm in the 1990s and resurrected in 2003. It never happened.     Journalist Erin Banco explains why, as she talks to Jeff Schechtman in this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast. She laments the dashed hopes of the Kurds and the Iraqi people. She explains the hapless actions of the Bush and Obama ad...

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Surveillance Capitalism Is Dead

Andrew Keen is the Anthony Bourdain of technology. The author, entrepreneur and futurist has traveled the far corners of the world to see what works and what doesn't. He has seen the internet reflecting both the best and the worst of us, and concluded that we and our technology need to grow up.   In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Keen talks to Jeff Schechtman about the next chapters in the digital revolution.   Keen reminds us that we’ve been here before. The digital revolution is n...

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Truth Decay: The Diminishing Role of Facts in Public Life

The shrinking role of facts and evidence-based analysis in American public life poses a threat to democracy, to policy making, and to the very notion of civic discourse.   This is the alarming conclusion spelled out in the RAND Corporation’s recently released 300+ page report provocatively titled “Truth Decay.” The co-author of this report, RAND political scientist Jennifer Kavanagh, is Jeff Schechtman’s guest on this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast.   The report’s authors compare what’s ...

Russcast: Special Guest Author and Journalist Andrea Chalupa (Facebook Live — 01/31/2018)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: What Five ‘Domestic Terrorism’ Cases Tell Us about FBI Tactics

Are undercover FBI agents responsible for pushing some of the terrorism suspects it arrests toward acts of violence? That is the question Peter B. Collins tackles in his brand new WhoWhatWhy podcast. In this premiere episode he talks with investigative journalist Darwin BondGraham of the East Bay Express in Oakland, CA, about his recent report “Terror or Entrapment?” (https://www.eastbayexpress.com/oakland/terror-or-entrapment/Content?oid=12242075) BondGraham looked into five recent case...

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Where All That Davos Money Sleeps at Night

With the annual gathering of global financial elites taking place this week in Davos, and all the recent news focusing on money laundering, taxes and the .0001 percent, it seems an appropriate time to take another look at where so much of the wealth-that-dare-not-speak-its-name is being stashed.   Back in 2016 we learned that a Panamanian law firm had become a kind of digital safe-deposit box for tainted money and tax evaders. WhoWhatWhy has extensively covered this story, which laid bar...

Russcast: Special Guest Kirsty Vitarelli (Facebook Live — 01/24/2018)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Deutsche Bank: Where the Dots of Russiagate Connect

Martin Sheil, a retired branch chief of the IRS Criminal Division, discusses his WhoWhatWhy series on Deutsche Bank and how nearly all the main figures involved in Russiagate also have ties to the financial institution.

Russcast: Special Guest Veteran Journalist Stephen Pizzo (Facebook Live — 01/18/2018)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Voter Suppression May Be the Most Important Issue of 2018

Popular author and journalist Sarah Kendzior looks at the many battles ahead to combat voter suppression in 2018.

Russcast: Special Guest Comedian Scott Blakeman (Facebook Live — 1/10/2018)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Keyboards Are the New F-15s

A look at how social media’s “charisma of certainty” is changing the nature of warfare.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Be Afraid or Be Involved — Artificial Intelligence Is Close at Hand

The artificial intelligence revolution is here. It’s already impacting the economy and the military. It needs to be discussed now in the arena of public policy.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Daniel Ellsberg on Nuclear War

Forty-six years after the release of the Pentagon Papers, Ellsberg reveals another set of documents on how nuclear war might have been waged in the 1950s and 60s.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Trump/Russia From 30,000 Feet

An overview of Guardian correspondent Luke Harding’s expose of the 40-year Trump/Russia collusion.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Whistleblower Who Could Have Prevented 9/11

Bill Binney was an NSA analyst whose work was so effective it was shut down. It threatened to derail the gravy train fueled by the kinds of problems he might have solved — including preventing potential terrorist attacks. The contractors and executives riding that train had a motto: “keep the problem going, so the money keep flowing.”

RadioWhoWhatWhy: A Rogue American Spy and Why North Korea Hates America

As the Korean War broke out, Donald Nichols was a major American player for the CIA. He helped launch the South Korean Air Force and picked bombing targets in the North. He ended up a non-person, discredited in the eyes of the US government. This is his story.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: If We Can Laugh at It, We Can Live With It

With the world feeling like it's spinning out of control, with a new crisis happening every day at a speed beyond our ability to process, humor may be the only thing that can get us through. For this holiday weekend, WhoWhatWhy’s Jeff Schechtman sits down with Chicago comic and professor Al Gini to talk about humor, satire and why we need both to fend off our fear of the world.   Certainly there is no algorithm for what’s funny. Time, place, context, language and audience all matter a lo...

RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Link Between Roy Moore, George W. Bush and Voter Suppression

Worried about Russian hackers or other outsiders meddling in US elections? Arguably, the greatest threat to our democratic system comes not from the outside but from forces within our own two-party system that are trying, and often succeeding, to prevent American citizens from voting.   In this week’s WhoWhatWhy podcast, Jeff Schechtman talks to journalist Greg Palast, author of The Best Democracy Money Can Buy, about “caging” and “crosscheck” — two species of “dirty tricks” that are bei...

Russ Baker & Peter B. Collins: Does Official Weinergate Story Cut the Mustard?

In this nearly hour-long interview, WhoWhatWhy Editor-in-Chief Russ Baker takes veteran podcaster Peter B. Collins through the details of Anthony Weiner’s fall — and the effect it had on Hillary Clinton’s presidential race. They go deep into the shadows where political traps are constructed.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Myth of a ‘Post-Racial’ America

Russ Baker Talks JFK Records Release with Peter Boyles on 710KNUS Denver (10/27/2017)

Russ Baker Talks JFK Records Release With KNX/CBS Newsradio Los Angeles (10/27/2017)

RadioWhoWhatWhy: The High Price of 16 Years of Failure in Afghanistan

A look at how the US has favored and funded terror groups since long before 9/11.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: JFK Assassination Triggered More Than Kennedy’s Death

The assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and particularly its aftermath, was the first in a series of high-profile events that triggered an increased level of distrust of government among Americans. The ripples from that day have now turned into a wave, author David Talbot argues.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Did the Greek Financial Crisis Give us Brexit and Trump?

Economist and former Greek finance minister Yanis Varoufakis blows the whistle on a crisis that led to an international cover up directed by a circle of incompetent bureaucrats.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker Talks Media Manipulation, Russiagate, and More

WhoWhatWhy’s founder Russ Baker recently sat down for an in-depth interview on a range of important topics, including propaganda, Russiagate, mass shootings, and more.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Harvey Weinstein University — Sexual Assault on College Campuses

The Weinstein sexual harassment story is just an example of behavioral patterns that have long been playing out on college campuses.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: America’s Culture of Killing: It Doesn’t Begin at Home

A surprising link between US foreign policy and violence on America’s streets. Philosopher, cultural critic and author Laurie Calhoun explains what US behavior abroad has to do with domestic gun culture.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: How Fake News About Africa is Costing US Taxpayers

The US is protecting, funding and covering up for Ugandan dictator Yoweri Museveni -- under the principle that “the enemy of my enemy is my friend.”

RadioWhoWhatWhy: How Propaganda Hacks Our Brains

How corporations and politicians are stimulating the dopamine and serotonin that drive our attitudes, reactions and votes.

RadioWhoWhatWhy: What Can America Learn from the Vietnam War?

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Barrett Brown Takes on Dallas Politics

RadioWhoWhatWhy: The Fearful vs. The Fearless

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Highly Toxic Materials Are Leaking into Hurricane Flood Water

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Barrett Brown’s Exclusive Interview with Wanted Hacker Lauri Love

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Russ Baker on Trump Lawyer Michael Cohen: Consigliere or Stooge?

RadioWhoWhatWhy: America’s Electrical Grid Is Falling Apart

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Is Anybody Running the Deep State?

RadioWhoWhatWhy: A Real Home of Real Fake News

RadioWhoWhatWhy: How the Civil War Is Still Being Fought Today

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Too Big to Prosecute — DOJ Gives Giant Corporations a Pass

RadioWhoWhatWhy: Exclusive to WhoWhatWhy: The Barrett Brown Podcast

RadioWhoWhatWhy: China Monopolizes Crucial Rare Earth Minerals

RadioWhoWhatWhy: A First Look at the New JFK Assassination Document s

RadioWhoWhatWhy: If Russia Didn’t Exist, Would We Have to Invent It?

RadioWhoWhatWhy: World War 3.0 — the Fight over Cyberspace

RadioWhoWhatWhy: WhoWhatWhy Investigated Russia’s Actions Long Before the Mainstream Media2

RadioWhoWhatWhy: WhoWhatWhy Investigated Russia’s Actions Long Before the Mainstream Media1