A podcast where politics, history, and culture are examined from perspectives you may not have considered before. Call it a parallax view.
Prof. Noam Chomsky, linguist, best selling author, and one of America's most noted public intellectual 
John Sayles, Academy Award and Golden Globe-nominated screenwriter, filmmaker, short story writer, and novelist 
Ilyasah Shabazz, activist, author, and the third daughter of human rights icon Malcolm X 
Slavoj Zizek, internationally known philosopher
Joseph McBride, noted film historian, Orson Welles collaborator, and Frank Capra biographer 
Thomas Frank, New York Times Bestselling author of What's the Matter With Kansas?
Mark Rossini, former FBI agent who worked in the CIA's Bin Laden Unit leading up to 9/11
Ret. Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, Chief of Staff under Secretary of State Colin Powell
Ishmael Reed legendary poet, playwright, essayist, novelist and publisher. Works include Mumbo Jumbo and The Haunting of Lin-Manuel Miranda
Elisabeth Rosenthal, editor in chief of Kaiser Health News and contributing writer to the New York Times
Ret. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Senior Fellow and Military Expert at Defense Priorities
Andrew Bacevich, President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Melvin Goodman, noted national security expert; former CIA and State Department analyst; senior fellow at the Center for International Policy
Jean Guerrero, award-winning investigative journalist specializing in immigration and border reporting
Stephen M. Walt, columnist at Foreign Policy and the Robert and Renée Belfer professor of international relations at Harvard University
Wade Davis, noted anthropologist and bestselling author of such books as The Serpent and the Rainbow, Into the Silence: The Great War, Mallory, and the Conquest of Everest, and Magdalena: River of Dreams
David Cay Johnston, Pulitzer Prize winning investigative reporter
Dr. Assal Rad, Senior Research Fellow at the National Iranian American Council
Michael Brooks, radio host of The Michael Brooks Show and The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder
Rusty Cundieff, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter; credits include Michael Moore's TV Nation, Chapelle's Show, Spike Lee's School Daze, Fear of a Black Hat, and the Tales from the Hood series
Toni Natalie, NXIVM whistleblower and former girlfriend of NXIVM leader Keith Raniere
Ret. Lt. Col. Daniel Davis, Senior Fellow and Military Expert at Defense Priorities
Trita Parsi, Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft
Dennis Kucinich, former Congressman, 2 time Presidential candidate, and author of The Division of Light and Power
Abby Martin, host of The Empire Files
Anne Nelson, award-winning journalist and Columbia University professor
Vincent Bevins, international journalist and author of The Jakarta Method: Washington's Anticommunist Crusade and the Mass Murder Program That Shaped Our World 
Greg Palast, award-winning investigative reporter and four-time New York Times Bestselling author
Alex Cox, filmmaker and screenwriter; credits include cult classics like Repo Man, Sid & Nancy, Straight to Hell, and Walker
Michael Hiltzik, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author of Iron Empires: Robber Barons, Railroads, and the Making of Modern America
Richard Kozul-Wright, Director of the Globalization and Development Strategies Division in United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Coleen Rowley, Ret. FBI Special Agent and whistelblower
Ramsey Campbell, acclaimed British horror writer 
Prof. Harvey J. Kaye, historian and author of Take Hold of Our History: Make America Radical Again
Alfred W. McCoy, historian author of The Politics of Heroin in Southeast Asia and In the Shadows of the American Century
Patrick Cockburn, veteran Middle East reporter and war correspondent
Dr. Thomas Ferguson, Professor Emeritus at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and author Golden Rule: The Investment Theory of Party Competition and the Logic of Money-Driven Political System
David Talbot, founder and former CEO of Salon and New York Times Best Selling author
Kevin Davies, Executive Editor of CRISPR Journal and author of Editing Mankind: Humanity in the Age of CRISPR and Gene Editing 
Alexander Stille, investigative journalist and author of The Sack of Rome: How a Beautiful European Country with a Fabled History and a Storied Culture Was Taken Over by a Man Named Silvio Berlusconi 
Linnea Quigley, Horror Movie "Scream Queen"
Danielle Bolelli, host of the hit podcasts History on Fire and The Drunken Taoist 
Gerald Posner, New York Times best selling author and investigative journalist 
Mike Gravel, former United States Senator 
Thom Hartmann, New York Times Best Selling author and legendary progressive radio host
Mimi Kennedy, Hollywood actress of such TV series as Dharma and Greg and CBS's Mom 
Stephen Singular, New York Times Best Selling author and investigative journalist 
John Feffer, Co-Director of Foreign Policy in Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies 
Dr. Harold Schechter, noted true crime author 
John Perkins, New York Times best selling author of Confessions of an Economic Hit Man 
Frank B. Wilderson III, author of Afropessimism and Incognegro: A Memoir of Exile and Apartheid 
Bobbie Brown, the iconic "Cherry Pie Girl" from Warrant's "Cherry Pie" music video and author of Dirty Rocker Boys 
Dr. Richard Drake, historian, University of Montana academic, and author of Charles Austin Beard: The Return of the Master Historian of American Imperialism 
Dr. Michael E. Sawyer, author of Black Minded: The Political Philosophy of Malcolm X 
David H. Price, author of Cold War Anthropology and Weaponizing Anthropology
Doug Henwood, journalist, economic analyst, financial trader, and host of the Behind the News radio program 
Robin Sydney, Hollywood actress
Matthew Hoh, Senior Fellow at the Center for International Policy and former State Department official
Stephen Kinzer, award-winning foreign correspondent and Senior Fellow in International and Public Affairs at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs
Yasha Levine, investigative journalist and author of Surveillance Valley: The Secret Military History of the Internet
Anatol Lieven, Senior Research Fellow at the Quincy Institute for Responsible Statecraft and former professor at Georgetown University in Qatar and the War Studies Department of King’s College London
Peter Kuznick, co-author w/ Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the United States and Director of the Nuclear Studies Institute at American University
Zaha Hassan, Palestinian human rights lawyer, political analyst, and fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Hans-Christof Von Sponeck, UN Assistant Secretary-General and UN Humanitarian Coordinator for Iraq
Nathan Forrest Winters, former child actor, CSA (Child Sexual Abuse) survivor, Hollywood sexual abuse whistleblower 
John Robb, military analyst, founder of the Global Guerrillas Report, and author of Brave New War: The Next Stage of Terrorism and the End of Globalization 
Paul Bakija, co-founder of the seminal NY hardcore punk band Reagan Youth 
William Hogeland, author of Founding Finance and the Wild Early Republic trilogy 
Jim Naureckas, editor of Extra!, the official magazine of Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
Billie Winner-Davis, mother of imprisoned whistleblower Reality Leigh Winner 
Joseph Matheny, ARG (Alternate Reality Game) pioneer 
Travis View, co-host of the QAnon Anonymous podcast
Kevin D. Williamson, National Review Columnist
Mickey Huff, current director of the long-running U.S. media watchdog organization Project Censored 
Rob Larson, Professor of Economics at Tacoma Community College and author of Bit Tyrants: The Political Economy of Silicon Valley 
Dr. Jerry Lembcke, Associate Professor Emeritus of Sociology at College of the Holy Cross and author of The Spitting Image: Myth, Memory, and the Legacy of Vietnam 
Bryan Quinby, co-host of Street Fight Radio 
Stuart Wexler, author of America's Secret Jihad: The Hidden History of Religious Terrorism in the United States 
Dr. David Detmer, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue University Northwest and author of Zinnophobia: The Battle Over History in Education, Politics, and Scholarship 
Doug Lain, publisher at Zero Books, host of the Zero Squared podcast, and sci-fi/fantasy author 
Jake Flores, stand-up comic and host of Pod Damn America 
"Destiny" Steve Bonnell II, internationally-known Twitch streamer and Youtube personality 
Steve Alten, best selling author of the MEG series (now a major motion picture starring Jason Statham) 
Michael DeKort, former Lockheed Martin Project Manager and whistleblower 
Matt Binder, host of the DOOMED! podcast and former co-host at The Majority Report w/ Sam Seder 
Alan R. Warren, true crime author and host of The House of Mystery radio show 
Mr. Lobo, television horror host of the nationally syndicated Cinema Insomnia 
Barbara Moore, glamour model 
Bob Fitrakis, Project Censored Award Winning investigative journalist
Ted Rall, political cartoonist
MC dälek of the experimental hip hop group Dälek
Jefferson Morley, long-time Washington, D.C.-based journalist and former editor at The Washington Post
Bill Oberst Jr., Hollywood character actor of TV's Criminal Minds and Scream Queens as well as films like Rob Zombie's 3 from Hell and Circus of the Dead
Richard A. Falk, professor emeritus of international law at Princeton University
JP Sottile aka The Newsvandal, freelance journalist and two-time Washington Regional Emmy Award Winner
Dr. Jack Rasmus, professor of economics at St. Mary's College in California
Ambassador Chas W. Freeman, Jr., main interpreter for President Richard Nixon's historic 1972 visit to China
Ali Winston, independent journalist specializing in surveillance technology reporting
Barrett Brown, journalist, 2016 National Magazine Award winner, and founder of Project PM
John W. Dean, former White House Counsel to President Richard Nixon and Watergate testifier
Elaine Smith, former FBI special agent and author of A Gun in My Gucci: Two Outsiders Take Down the Chicago Mob
William I. Robinson, Sociologist at the University of California, Santa Barbara and author of The Global Police State
Deborah Voorhees, journalist, educator, and actress; "Tina" in Friday the 13 Part V: A New Beginning
Ret. Maj. Danny Sjursen, combat veteran, West Point graduate and educator, and author
Christian Sorensen, military analyst, author, journalist, and Senior Fellow at the Eisenhower Media Network
Kelley Vlahos, Editorial Director of Responsible Statecraft and Senior Advisor at the Quincy Institute
James Bovard, libertarian commentator, USA Today columnist, and author of such books as Attention Deficit Democracy, The Bush Betrayal, Public Policy Hooligan, and more
Barbara Boland, co-host of the Crashing the War Party podcast with Kelley Vlahos and Daniel Larison
Ron Paul, former U.S. Congressman and host of The Ron Paul Liberty Report
Alena Douhan, United Nations Special Rapporteur on the negative impact of the unilateral coercive measures on the enjoyment of human rights
Doug Bandow, former special assistant to President Ronald Reagan
John Dugard, South African international law scholar and former United Nation Special Rapporteur
Stephen Zunes, international relations scholar and prominent specialist on U.S. Middle East policy
And many others!
On this episode of Parallax Views, President Eisenhower famously warned of the "military-industrial complex" in his farewell address. But what is the "military-industrial complex" and more broadly "The War Industry"? Christian Sorensen provides an excellent primary in his insightful new book Understanding the War Industry (Clarity Press; 2020).
(Further Show Notes Forthcoming)
