Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship. Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun...

Guest: Dr. Caroline Light – Director of Undergraduate Studies and Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality at Harvard University. Her book, Stand Your Ground: A History of Americas Love Affair with Lethal Self-Defense is a critical genealogy of our nations ideals of armed citizenship. Discussion on the history of armed citizenship – from the days of the founding of the US to present day. Who was really supposed to be armed? What qualifications needed to be met to be a gun...

Guest: Dr. Michael Jensen. He is a Senior Researcher at the National Consortium for Study of Terrorism and Responses to Terrorism (START) at the University of Maryland. He leads the Profiles of Individual Radicalization in the United States (PIRUS) project – a first of its kind database on the radicalization of U.S. homegrown extremists used by the US Justice Department, including the FBI. Discussion on how extremists get radicalized, who they are, and why they do it. An in-depth discussion...

Guest is Denice Labertew. She is a women’s rights advocate, professor, and former US envoy to foreign states – providing policy guidance to protect the rights of women and girls. Her work includes negotiating regulations in the Violence Against Women Act, and advocating for human rights at the recent UN Universal Periodic Review – on the US Treatment of migrant women and girls detained at the US/Mexican border. Discussion focuses on the Trump administration and its treatment of migrant women...

Guest is Attorney Mitchell Garabedian – the attorney who litigated many of the first child sexual-abuse cases in the nation – representing survivors of the clergy abuse taking place in the Catholic Archdiocese of Boston, and later around that nation. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations

Guest: Attorney Stephanie Krent, Knight First Amendment Institute at Columbia University. The mission of the Institute and its attorneys, is to defend freedom of speech and the press in the digital age – through strategic litigation, research, & public education. In this discussion, Attorney Krent outlines how the Office of Legal Counsel and its infamous legal opinions often referred to as OLC opinions, are of critical importance to those who need to know the law, comply with it, or...

Guest: Judith Herman, MD, formerly a full-time Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, at Harvard Medical School; and co-founder former Director of Training at the Victims of Violence Program in the Department of Psychiatry, at Cambridge Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts. She is the author of several books, including the groundbreaking book, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence – From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror. Discussion on the insidiousness and pervasiveness of...

Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff, Ph.D., Senior Research Scientist at the MIT. Discussion on her compilation & analysis of scientific data showing how 'statins' work in the body, the metrics on how successful they are in managing high-cholesterol and LDL. Also discussed is the fact that many of these meds have been over-prescribed by doctors in the US. Questions include, What are the side-effects to statin use? Are doctors informed about the unintended consequences of high-dose statin use?...

Guest: Bruce Schneier, is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a “security guru” by the Economist. He is the New York Times best-selling author of 14 books — including Data & Goliath, & Click Here to Kill Everybody — as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers. His influential newsletter Crypto-Gram and blog Schneier on Security are read by over 250,000 people. Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman-Klein Center for Internet and Society at Harvard...

-Guest: Attorney, Jamil Dakwar, Director of the American Civil Liberties Union’s Human Rights Program (HRP) Discussion is on the International Bill of Rights – (3 parts) including: the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICCPR), the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) adopted in 1948 after WWII, and the International Covenant on Economic, Social & Cultural Rights. Specifically, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights (ICESCR), is a...

US History of Immigration & Bigotry: From the Armenian Genocide, to the Jewish Holocaust, to Mexican & Central American Migration – Guest: Adam Strom, Director of Re-Imagining Migration, an education project with UCLA and Harvard Graduate School of Education; bringing understanding of immigration–past & present, to classrooms and educational leaders across the globe. His writings include: George Washington’s Rebuke to Bigotry; Stories of Identity & Religion; America’s Civil...

Medicaid Expansion vs No Expansion, Rural Hospital Closures, Medical Deserts, Lack of Critical Care – And the Effect on the American people. – Guest: Nicole Huberfeld, Attorney, Author, & Professor at Boston University Professor-BU School of Law & Public Health: on Health Law, Ethics & Human Rights. Discussion focus in on the role of Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as “ObamaCare”–how states refusing Medicaid expansion have caused hospital closures and critical care units...

– Guest: Dr. Stephanie Seneff is a Senior Research Scientist at MIT. Discussion on the multi-million jury awards to those who developed Non-Hodgkins lymphoma where causal evidence suggests that the regular use of the herbicide “Roundup” caused the victims to develop the fatal disease and what if anything, the company is doing about it. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/the-legal-edition/donations

– Guest: Dr. Roger Pitman, Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, & Psychiatrist at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) on PTSD in Abuse & Trauma Survivors & Veterans of War. Discussion on what is PTSD, how it is acquired, how to identify it, and ultimately, how to work to make the bad memories go away. Part of our series on Sexual Assault, Trauma & Abuse. Dr. Pitman appeared past appearances on ‘60 Minutes’ – sharing his research on the causes, and treatments of...

– Guest: Stephanie Seneff, PhD – Sr. Research Scientist at MIT Discussion of the potential relationship between the prevalence of COVID and the use of biofuels, and it’s effects upon human health. Dr. Seneff provides insightful analysis of statistical and empirical data used by scientists and academics showing a troubling correlation between the use of biofuels and harmful environmental toxins, to the prevalence of COVID19. She postulates how environmental pollutants may be setting the stage...

Guest: Michael David Cohen, PhD Dr. Cohen is a research professor in the Department of Government and a faculty fellow in the Center for Congressional and Presidential Studies at American University, in Washington, DC. He is a historian of nineteenth-century America, and currently serves as editor and project director of the Correspondence of the twelfth and thirteenth presidents of the United states, Zachary Taylor and Millard Fillmore. His previous works include: the letters of the...

– Guest: Attorney, Author, Professor Nicole Huberfeld, BU School of Law & Public Health. Discussion on the Litigating the ACA during the COVID CRISIS. Answering the hard questions: Why the Trump Administration is Heading to the US Supreme Court on November 10th – just after the US Presidential Election – to Try, Once Again – to Repeal the Affordable Care Act, When Millions of Americans Rely on it – and Now, More Than Ever, is Critical to Have it… and, Why South Carolina Senator Lindsay...

– Guest: Dr. Seth D. Norrholm – is a translational neuroscientist with over 20 years experience identifying psychopathologies in humans. Discussion of Trump’s magic-talk about the COVID virus just going away, his flouting of health and safety rules by holding mass rallies during a pandemic, and embracing dictators like Russian President Putin. Dr. Norrholm answers, why Trump engages in repeated lies, childish name-calling, denigration of the dead, and those who died in the military – what...