The latest decision on Roe v. Wade must prove what a fascist arm of the oligarchy the SCOTUS is. Little has been decided in favor of the people as opposed to the rulers, owners of this country. From segregation to the latest gutting of the Voting Rights Act, this “legislative branch” is nothing more than a boondoggle. Moreover, if you think the Dem…

After a few necessary detours, we get into why and how a $25/hr minimum wage is due. We discuss how we got here and real ideas in how to actually afford a $25/hr wage for all working Americans. Every 4-7 years, we bailout capitalism but we can’t see our way clear to take care of taxpayers who do the work to afford the elite the profits? After over …

Matthew Hoh (https://www.matthewhohforsenate.org/) joins us to talk about his platform and the big reasons he’s running for U.S. Senate for North Carolina. He’s a veteran of three tours in Iraq and Afghanistan, resigning in protest in 2010 as a Marine officer. We get into real fixes on the wars, the economy, healthcare, his experience in combat, th…

Friend of the show and activist, Cindy Sheehan (http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/) joins us to discuss the current war in Ukraine, relations with Russia and China and how the U.S. is stalled pushing the pieces around the global board. Could the dollar crash? Is nuclear war an option? What is the current mania for war and censorship among th…

Friend of the show, and Medicare for All activist, Lisa Theobald (https://americanhealthsecurityproject.org/) joins us to talk about the state by state strategy to bring Medicare for All to the United States. Hard facts and hard numbers are a breath of fresh air among the noise. Theobald is on the Steering Committee for the American Health Security…

Texas Green Party candidate for governor, Delilah Barrios (https://delilahfortexas.com/) joins us to talk about her campaign and the big picture in U.S. policy. She is a healthcare worker who sees the failings of the current system and is working to make a change. Legalizing pot, Medicare for all in the state of Texas, gay rights (yes, it’s still a…

We get into a play by play of how Democratic administrations get away with infinitely more than a Republican administration can. We compare Reagan/Bush I to Clinton, to Bush II, to Obama and finally Trump to Biden. Is anyone noticing how Biden and his policies (with little exception) are merely an extension and acceleration of Trump’s policies? How…

Friend of the show, and medical veteran, Dr. Joe Jarvis (https://americanhealthsecurityproject.org/) joins us to talk about the state of the union in American healthcare. We get into the state by state movements that are happening because that’s how Medicare for all is going to happen. The money is there. 20% of U.S. GDP is spent on healthcare, it’…

Now that the case for mandates is approaching a fever pitch, it’s safe to say the American Electorate is being had again. Just like gays, guns, and abortion, mandates are fast becoming the litmus for people. “Do you believe science or are you a Trumper?” is usually how these discussions go. The dirty secret, however, is the so called liberal in the…

The 1972 Munich Olympics was a watershed moment in world history. Black September took 11 Israeli athletes hostage and the result was not as the Germans would have hoped, “nobody wanted dead Jews in Germany.” As a 9 year old boy, I was faced with who my parents were, specifically my dad. It was the first time I had to admit to myself that yes, I wa…

Taken from James DiEugenio’s 2013 book, Reclaiming Parkland, we get into a sort of primer for the uninitiated. There are many aspects to the murder of JFK but one thing seems to be a constant, and that is Lee Harvey Oswald was not a “lone nut,” and the infamous “single bullet theory,” was a fabrication. The Warren Commission had more in common with…

Dr. Joseph Q. Jarvis (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=18dlLa_MVdY) joins us to talk about the overdue need for real healthcare reform in the U.S. We get into what’s wrong, who really owns it, who benefits and where we need to go fast. We’re not even close to behind the rest of the industrialized world. Dr. Jarvis has been practicing medicine for ov…

Does anyone wonder why we seem to move from outrage to outrage, without ever addressing the bad actors in the previous debacle? We talk about how the U.S. population is easily manipulated into hating the other without looking at who’s pulling the strings and why. If you have a habit of always yelling “hooray for our side,” this may be required list…

Award winning comedian, author, and friend of the show, Andrew Heaton (https://mightyheaton.com/) joins us to talk about U.S foreign and domestic policy and the hypocrisy of both. We get into both party’s policies and their tone-deaf responses here and abroad. Heaton is the host of “The Political Orphanage” comedy and news podcast. He’s a frequent …

Friend of the show, longtime activist and host of Cindy Sheehan’s Soapbox, Cindy Sheehan (http://cindysheehanssoapbox.blogspot.com/) joins us to talk about the latest whitewashing of yet another war criminal and how this is more than a trend. America loves war and there seems to be no two ways about it. Ms. Sheehan has been on the front lines of re…

What do the two parties have in common? What do you hear most when the ruling class wants us to behave and in our reliable place? Unity! Be unified! This is code for being compliant. We get into some examples and ask you to think. Here’s an essay written on the compliance that I predicted we’d be enjoying today. It goes with the theme of the podcas…

After the Oakland Unified Schools debacle, in the 90s, many thought Ebonics was extinct. However, as we have seen in the U.S., if something can keep people down, we really can’t quit it. This is a frank discussion on the difference between language and slang. Support the show through https://thebittertruth.info/merch to get fun stuff or visit https…

Actress, writer and activist, Jennifer Jajeh, joins us to discuss show biz in the age of Israeli apartheid and how, even in the U.S., free speech isn’t quite free. We get into her one woman show, I Heart Hamas, and her time living in the West Bank during the first Intifada. Jajeh is a Palestinian-American actress, comedian and writer from San Franc…

Activist, author, speaker and friend of the show, Miko Peled (https://www.patreon.com/mikopeled) Joins us to discuss the ongoing land grab and slaughter of Palestinians by Israel. The so-called ceasefire made the American media go to sleep, not the IDF. He details the illegal arrests and the bulldozing of Palestinian homes inside the State of Israe…

Two time Texas Senate candidate, and friend of the show, Sema Hernandez joins us to discuss the reality of ballot access and viable alternatives to the one party system. Spoiler alert: I sound like a crazy person. Ms. Hernandez has run for the Texas Democratic nomination for the Senate in 2018 and 2020. In 2018, she garnered nearly 300,000 votes on…

Adrian Boutureira (https://rb.gy/gij2bo) joins us to discuss the epic failure of the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan from the beginning. It was never intended to fight freedom. We also get into the U.S. interventionist past and its attachment of lying us into it. Name a country, since 1950 the U.S. has made better? The U.S. will take theocratic fascis…

Recently, the U.N. voted, yet again, to end the U.S. Embargo on Cuba. 184 Countries out of over 200 sovereign nations. The Cuban people have been dealing with sanctions and this embargo for decades. Of course, the speed bumps of freedom, the U.S. and Israel voted no, with several members states abstaining, such as Colombia, Brazil and Ukraine. We g…

Creator and founder of Second Thought, JT Chapman (latest show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67uWQjs745E) joins us to talk about the impending eviction crisis, the renter bubble and how we have, yet again, bailed out oligarchs at the expense of American human taxpayers. Chapman has been running his channel, Second Thought for over five years. He’…

Brittany Richey (https://tutorvegas.weebly.com/) joins to discuss the privatization of everything from the military, prisons, to education and medicine. She gets into her past, coming up as a Millennial and how that is very different from what the Boomers and Gen X experienced. Ms. Richey is an educator and tutor and is the founder of Tutor Vegas. …

Friend of the show, Suhair Nafal joins us to discuss her landmark lawsuit with the Israeli Government. She was sued in California by the Israelis, under Israeli law. That it made a U.S. court at all is incredible, her victory even more so. She also shed some light on the latest eruptions of violence by the Israeli Government upon Gaza and Palestini…

We get into the aspects of the two COVID bills the Biden Administration is touting. As chants of the “next FDR!” harangue the listeners of corporate media, we ask what were his predecessors like? How is it that the Democratic Party has genuinely failed to evolve from a pro war, pro slavery, pro bank party? There was a real left in this country once…

Activist, health care and financial veteran Lisa Theobald (https://wholewashington.org/) joins us to break down the real logistics of Medicare for All. She explains the numbers, gets into the environmental impact and who’s really behind the fight against it. Lisa is also a member of the Red Berets, an organization dedicated to the fight for M4A. Sh…

Activist, health care and financial veteran Lisa Theobald (https://wholewashington.org/) joins us to break down the real logistics of Medicare for All. She explains the numbers, gets into the environmental impact and who’s really behind the fight against it. Lisa is also a member of the Red Berets, an organization dedicated to the fight for M4A. Sh…

Just out of Facebook “jail,” Abe gets into what some may refer to as a hot take. Are online companies with government contracts in violation of 1A rights when they de-platform, de-monetize or ban speech? Since when are taxpayer dollars to go to contractors, acting on behalf of the government to surveil us, and then ban us from the public square? An…

Constitutional and public policy expert, Toni Da Pron joins us to talk about our rights and how we have moved away from what the “framers meant.” We get into an array of issues and I think webrought up a lot of questions. Because it’s “legal,” is it right? Da Pron works with Realm of Caring (https://realmofcaring.org/) as a Business Consultant and …

During the entire Trump Administration, corporate Democrats have been laying claim that the “world is laughing at us.” Well, the real question is, “Haven’t they always been laughing at us?” We start off with incredulous comments by Joaquin Castro at the Impeachment Trial and go from there. Our rankings in the world, relative to the industrialized n…

Pilot and Arabist, Bill Kelsey talks about the origins of Zionism and the current state of Israel. He explains that the region’s issues haven’t “been there forever.” Going back to the 18th and 19th centuries, in Europe, Kelsey discusses the colonial settler construct that led to the formation of modern day Israel and who really paid the price. As a…

We get into the failure of the Texas electrical grid (the de-regulated part, anyway) and ask why are certain industries not treated as utilities in the United States? Why is it the taxpayer supports utter, abject failure? Not only in leadership, but in poor corporate decisions involving, investment, wage increases, and stock buy backs, the U.S. is …

Friend of the show and author, Professor Bruce Lerro joins to discuss his latest article on the disingenuous comparisons of late stage capitalism and systems in the world that are working. He gets into Adam Smith and his five principles of capitalism and asks how the result has held up juxtaposed with the rest of the industrialized world. Bruce Ler…

Founder and CEO of Anthropos Games, Calvin Johns, PhD (http://anthroposgames.com/) joins us to discuss how role playing and even video games are coming to grips with mindsets they’re inadvertently (or advertently) creating. He gets into age old tribal tendencies that are baked in and the realizations that many game creators are learning to deal wit…

Friend of the show and seasoned political observer, John Schoonover, PhD., (https://www.laprogressive.com/time-for-a-second-party/) joins us to talk about the very real possibility of new parties and ideas. Trump’s out. Now what? Nap time? Clearly, over the duopoly, many people are tired of holding their noses to vote for the “least worst.” No one …

Former CIA agent (counter terror chief in Pakistan), torture whistle blower, and friend of the show, John Kiriakou (https://sputniknews.com/authors/john_kiriakou/) discusses Avril Haines, and the rest of the Biden war hawk cabinet appointments. We also get into U.S. foreign policy moving forward, which seems to be the same foreign policy as before.…

We discuss the concept of investment into American industry by the American taxpayer. Why aren’t WE getting a dividend? Thomas Jefferson called it a Freedom Dividend before the Founding Fathers put the kibosh on the idea. Well, we’re the stockholder! Why are the industries in this country paying dividends to the few and not the real investors that …

Comedian, activist and film maker, Travis Irvine (https://americanmayormovie.com/), joins us to talk about the documentary American Mayor. The film tracked his run for Mayor in 2007 in his hometown of Bexley, OH. He also ran for Governor of Ohio in 2018, garnering over 80,000 votes. We get into the latest political climate, nationally, and his feel…

Abe discusses the system that brought us to this day. Today was supposed to be a formality. Well, whether it’s left or right, we’re going to see more. As long as people’s pain is a punchline or dismissed outright, they’re going to be coming harder. This system is predatory, flawed and is run by an inverted totalitarianism that is wholly corporate o…

Friend of the show and two time Senate candidate from Texas,Sema Hernandez discusses her last two campaigns, 2020 being in a deliberately crowded field. We get into the future of the U.S. criminal, economic and social justice systems and if a fair foreign policy is possible. Confusing accomplishment and virtue, while idolizing our oppressors, is wh…

As Ice Cube asked, “Trump’s gone, now what?” The abject denial of the abysmal Biden/Harris records only because people hated Trump, got the Orange One out. We go over some of the Biden cabinet picks and ask, “What’s the difference?” Fifty years of being on the wrong side of everything and now he’ll fix it? It seems “we’ll push him left after the ca…

John Schoonover, PhD. (https://www.greanvillepost.com/2020/11/15/bidens-energy-policy-fantasies-and-reality/) joins us to discuss the myths and benefits of nuclear power as cited in his recent article, Biden’s Energy Policy - a Lost Opportunity. He delves into the deliberate conflation of bombs and energy by Big Oil in order to de-legitimize nuclea…

Dr. Jennifer Glass (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/sociology/faculty/jg47972) joins us to talk about the disproportionate hit mothers have taken in pay during the pandemic. She gets into variables, largely determined by an utter lack of social insurance and sectors that don’t really protect workers in general. She also cites the last several decade…

Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Angela Walker (https://howiehawkins.us) joins us to discuss the results and ramifications of the 2020 Elections. We talk about what the Biden administration will look like, foreign and domestic policy and what we can expect besides Trump to leaving. Angela Walker is a professional truck driver (yes, still!) a…

Friend of the show, author, essayist, and Dartmouth professor of Jewish Studies, Shaul Magid joins us to discuss the latest peace deals among Bahrain, UAE, Sudan, among others. Ethics and efficacy are at play and Professor Magid really digs in. He is a contributing editor to Tablet Magazine, editor of Jewish Thought and Culture at Tikkun Magazine, …

When I put out the article, “Smashing Frogs” it was a metaphor, based on an actual childhood event. People that got it, got it! People, who’s only work out these days are mental pretzel splits, got super angry and/or played dumb on purpose. A vote for war, austerity, no healthcare, enslaving students with debt… those are all the same, whether chewy…

Activist and friend of the show, Adrian Boutureira discusses the latest results in Bolivia’s latest election, a year after the U.S. backed coup in 2019. The Jeanine Añez led coup had ousted democratically elected Evo Morales and forced him into exile in Mexico. Lithium, cobalt, energy, Bolivia has all the ingredients for the U.S. government to pull…

Psychologist, founder of Modern Intimacy and friend of the show, Dr. Kate Balestrieri (https://www.modernintimacy.com/) joins us to talk about different blocks that prevent us from communication and how feelings of victimhood and entitlement can lead to rage and beyond. Among other things, she gets into the Karpman Drama Triangle and the roles we c…