BFP Podcast

A Counter-Hegemonic Foundation

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Todd Miller
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by Todd Miller, a journalist and author of the new book Border Patrol Nation: Dispatches from the Front Lines of Homeland Security. We discuss the emergence of the “border-industrial complex,” and how its political effects extend beyond the Southwestern United States and are now being felt across the country and around the world.

Peter B. Collins Presents Melinda St. Louis of Public Citizen

Japan: Back to Empire?

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Philip Giraldi
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent Guillermo is joined by former CIA officer and Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, Phil Giraldi. We discuss Giraldi’s latest article, “The Cognitive Dissonance of Spying,” and explore the post-9/11 “culture shift” within the CIA, the US government, and the country as a whole. As the “war on terror” rhetoric loses its effectiveness as a propaganda tool, neoconservatives in Washington position a “New Cold War” as the next “just cause” in the killing business.

Globalization’s ‘Game of Thrones’

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Douglas Lucas
On this edition of De-Manufacturing Consent: Guillermo is joined by freelance writer and journalist, Douglas Lucas. We discuss Lucas’s latest article, “Portrait of a failed president: Inside the art of George W. Bush.” We examine how presidential libraries, like the latest in Dallas, Texas, function as self-aggrandizing propaganda tools, and explore what Bush’s recent “art exhibit” may reveal about the former sociopath-in-chief.

Peter B. Collins Presents Journalist Bob Egelko

Georgia: Prelude to Ukraine?

Guillermo Jimenez Presents Alfredo Lopez