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Global Economy

The Prophet of Bursting Bubbles

John Rubino has profited from bursting financial bubbles since the 1970’s and tells James, “You’ll sleep better at night if most of your money is in real assets vs. financial assets.”

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February 23, 2021
About James

How To Write A Book

James distills 30 years of experience.

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February 17, 2021
American Foreign Policy

Americans Are All Prisoners of War

Lt Col. William Astor, USAF (Ret.) tells James the facts.

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February 10, 2021
Vietnam

Fight the Big with the Small

A former Viet Cong Buffalo-Boy tells James how he destroyed America’s high-tech marvel, the Mcnamara Line.

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February 3, 2021
Vietnam

How Ho Chi Minh Defeated the U.S. Marines

Viet Cong vets tell James that “Military Initiative” was the key.

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January 28, 2021
China

America’s Pacific problem is America

Veteran Asia correspondent Patrick Lawrence tells James that America’s leaders are concerned that China’s success could undermine popular support for the worldwide U.S. empire.

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January 20, 2021
Vietnam

Pandemic Response Is Our Vietnam

Professor Robert Sauer describes the response to a virus as a “monumental government failure,” a “state-run religion” where believers brand truth-tellers as “heretics,” and that Americans are being hit with “phycological napalm.”

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January 14, 2021
Vietnam

Christmas in Vietnam

James recalls a Western tradition on the island of Con Dao.

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January 2, 2021
History

American Elections

James remembers Nixon vs. Kennedy.

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January 2, 2021
China

China Rising

Jeff J. Brown tells James the Chinese view of the world.

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December 9, 2020
Vietnam

The Most Bombed Spot in the World

Chuck Searcy takes us to where American bombs still explode fifty years after they were dropped.

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December 2, 2020
China

“The #1 Focus of the U.S. National Security State is War with China.”

Gareth Porter tells James about the trillions of dollars to be spent upon a fool’s errand.

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November 24, 2020
China

An American in Hong Kong

Asian think-tank executive Eric Stryson tells James what’s happening in Hong Kong, China.

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November 11, 2020
About James

Two Old Men

Two giants of WWII inspire James.

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November 4, 2020
China

Our Man in Africa

James has a conversation with award-winning journalist Nick Turse.

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October 30, 2020
About James

Our Lady in Taipei

Michelle Bradley–James’s Taipei-based daughter–looks at Asia from Taiwan.

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October 14, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Japan’s Race to Build a Bomb.

A veteran author tells James that the Russian and North Korean nuclear programs were built upon the wreckage of Japan’s underground WWII atomic experiments.

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September 18, 2020
China

Will WWIII Begin in the Himalaya?

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September 9, 2020
China

Deng Xiaoping’s Interpreter

Professor Victor Gao tells James “War between China and the US would be a calamity for mankind.”

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August 21, 2020
China

“China is a Necessary Enemy.”

Norman Solomon, author of War Made Easy, describes an America in search of enemies.

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July 23, 2020
Vietnam

Vietnam Tom

“Vietnam is the future,” says Tom, the world expert on independent travel in Vietnam.

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July 1, 2020
China

“The World is on a War Footing.”

Rob Kirby tells James hard historical truths about hyperinflation leading to conflict at home and abroad.

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June 24, 2020
About James

Why I Stopped Writing Books

James discovered the hard way that he was not Jimmy Taylor.

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June 16, 2020
Global Economy

Your Biggest Problem is in Your Pocket

Joel Bauman discusses how to prepare for the coming currency reset.

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June 16, 2020
Global Economy

Better than Warren Buffett.

E.B. Tucker explains how to stay wealthy

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June 16, 2020
American Foreign Policy

Is Hong Kong Chinese or American?

James traces America’s “China Mirage” from George Washington to today’s Hong Kong streets.

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June 9, 2020
China

U.S. to China: We Have You Surrounded.

David Vine tells James about the Washington national security elite’s “intellectual curiosity about a war between the United States and China.”

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June 4, 2020
Global Economy

The Most Boring Channel on Youtube

Junius Maltby tells James the difference between “Money” and “Currency.”

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May 28, 2020
China

Ronald Reagan’s CIA Briefer

Ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern enlightens James about Russiagate, Obamagate, the Russia-China alliance and the “MICIMATT complex”–the Military Industrial Congressional Intelligence Media Academia Think-Tank complex.

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May 21, 2020
Uncategorized

Fiction or Non-Fiction?

Should the Pulitzers be withdrawn from the Washington Post and New York Times?

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May 19, 2020
China

U.S. Military: “War with China Inevitable.”

Security analyst Michael Klare tells James some hard realities.

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May 14, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Iwo Jima Pt. 3

In the final episode of the “Iwo Jima” series, James discusses the significance of the flag-raising and the impact it had on winning the war.

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April 29, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Iwo Jima Pt. 2

James tells stories about the battle of Iwo Jima.

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April 29, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Iwo Jima Pt. 1

James follows his father’s footsteps to the Battle of Iwo Jima.

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April 29, 2020
China

America’s New McCarthyism

James speaks with Moscow-based journalist Dmitry Babich who discusses America’s new McCarthyism.

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April 23, 2020
China

U.S. Military Has China Surrounded

James speaks with John Pilger, Australia’s greatest living journalist.

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April 22, 2020
About James

Hitchhiking Around the World Pt. 3

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April 8, 2020
Uncategorized

Listener Questions

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April 1, 2020
About James

Hitchhiking Around the World Pt. 2

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March 26, 2020
Vietnam

Mini-Episode: Vietnamese Attitudes

James talks about Vietnamese attitudes towards Americans.

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March 21, 2020
About James

Hitchhiking Around the World Pt. 1

James had been in 21 countries by the age of 21.

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March 18, 2020
China

Bio-Warfare in China

Americans covered up Japanese biological warfare in China

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March 11, 2020
Uncategorized

Listener Questions

James answers listener’s questions.

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March 5, 2020
American Foreign Policy

America’s Other Forever War

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February 26, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Who Raised the Flags on Iwo Jima?

The U.S. government hid photos for fifty-two years about what really happened atop Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945. James interviews Dustin Spence, the historical sleuth who solved the world’s biggest photographic mystery.

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February 21, 2020
American Foreign Policy

Our Man in Iran

An Interview with James’ favorite author.

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February 12, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

KIA on Iwo Jima

One third of the U.S. Marine’s World War II casualties occurred in one month on Iwo Jima, even though the Marines fought for 43 months.

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February 6, 2020
Vietnam

Returning: Facing the Vietnam War

“God saved me to help the Vietnamese.” – Rik Carnes

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January 29, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

Fire War in the Pacific

For the first time in history, a nation surrendered without an invasion of its homeland.

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January 22, 2020
American Foreign Policy

South China Sea

Asian and Pacific history changed in 1863 when the U.S. Navy sailed into Tokyo Bay.

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January 16, 2020
WW2 in the Pacific

The Morality of War

Paul Tibbetts, who dropped the Atom Bomb on Hiroshima, said, “There is no morality in war.”

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January 9, 2020
Vietnam

Vietnamese Women

Meet the “Long Haired Warriors.”

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January 1, 2020
American Foreign Policy

Hawaii: America’s First Regime Change

James pulls from his third best-selling book, The Imperial Cruise, to tell the story of the American conquest of Hawaii.

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December 11, 2019
WW2 in the Pacific

George Bush and the Cannibals

Stranger than fiction: the guy who got away went on to become President of the United States.

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December 4, 2019
American Foreign Policy

America’s First Drug Kingpins

FDR’s grandfather—Warren Delano—was the American opium king of China.

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November 26, 2019
About James

2. 27 Turndowns

Twenty-seven New York publishers rejected FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS

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November 21, 2019
History

1. Introducing Untold Pacific

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September 27, 2019

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