KunstlerCast - Conversations: Converging Catastrophes of the 21st Century
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James Howard Kunstler, author of "The Geography of Nowhere" and "The Long Emergency," takes on suburban sprawl, disposable architecture and the end of the cheap oil era each week with program host Duncan Crary.
Episodes
- KunstlerCast_443 — Attorney Bobbie Anne Cox on the Tribulations of New York State under the Woke Witch Hochul
Bobbie Anne Cox, a civil rights attorney with 25 years of experience, discusses her legal challenges against New York State, including a successful lawsuit against Governor Kathy Hochul's administration regarding 'Isolation and Quarantine…
- KunstlerCast 442 — Elizabeth Nickson on Globalism and its Dark Mysteries
In KunstlerCast 442, Elizabeth Nickson, a Canadian journalist and author, discusses globalism, politics, and individual liberty. Nickson writes the 'Welcome to Absurdistan' newsletter and has authored books investigating the CIA's MK-Ultra…
- KunstlerCast 441 — Heather Mac Donald on the Exhausting Journey back to Normal
Heather Mac Donald, a fellow at the Manhattan Institute, discusses her work on policing, criminal justice, race relations, higher education, and merit in American institutions. The episode references her books "The War on Cops" and "When R…
- KunstlerCast 440 — Dr. Shane Simonson on Zero Input Agriculture, Taming the Apocalypse, and the Neo-Medieval Future
Dr. Shane Simonson, a biochemist and experimental farmer, discusses his work developing hardy crops and his views on Zero Input Agriculture, Australia's vulnerability to energy disruptions, and a post-industrial future.
- KunstlerCast 439 — Alex Krainer on Disturbances in the Geopolitical Field
Alex Krainer, a market analyst and author with experience in socialist Yugoslavia and Western finance, discusses geopolitics and global markets. He previously managed a hedge fund and authored several books.
- KunstlerCast 438 — Stephan Sanders-Faes on Europe's Glide Path to Suicide
Stephan Sander-Faes is a professor of history teaching European civilization at the University of Bergen, Norway (faculty profile: https://www4.uib.no/en/find-employees/Stephan.Sander-Faes ). His work focuses mainly on post-mediaeval (Cent…
- KunstlerCast 437 — Dr. Drew Miller, Col. USAF (Ret.) on the Touchy Subject of Social / Political / Economic Collapse
Dr Drew Miller, Col USAF (Ret) holds a masters degree and a PhD in Public Policy from Harvard. He had a distinguished career as an intelligence officer serving overseas in Iraq and as a senior executive in the Department of Defense (Now De…
- KunstlerCast 436 — Elizabeth Nickson on the Fall of Canada and Other Sorrows of Western Civ
Elizabeth Nickson is a distinguished veteran of American and Canadian journalism. She was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine and became European Bureau Chief of LIFE Magazine in its last years of monthly publicatio…
- KunstlerCast 435 — JHK yaks about his new book, "Look I'm Gone," with Literary Compadre, Ted Cleary
This one's a little break from the usual — it's me talking to a friend about my new novel, Look, I'm Gone with a particular emphasis on the iconic American author JD Salinger, who has a meaty role as a character in my book, playing himself…
- KunstlerCast 434 — Charles Marohn on Strong Towns and the Battle to Reform the Fiasco of Suburban Sprawl
Charles Marohn is the founder and president of Strong Towns . With decades of experience as a land use planner and civil engineer, Marohn is on a mission to help cities and towns become stronger and more prosperous through classic, traditi…
- KunstlerCast 433 — Piero San Giorgio Has Just Returned from Russia
Piero San Giorgio is one of Switzerland's best selling authors. After 20 years as an executive in the software business, Piero decided to write essays about the future. His first book Survive —The Economic Collapse was in the top-50 best s…
- KunstlerCast 432 — Jeffrey Tucker of The Brownstone Institute on his new book, The Spirits of America
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute, Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times , and author of 15 books. His newest book, The Spirits of America , is a reflection on American values – cultivated deep in US histo…
- KunstlerCast 431 — Thomas Fowler on the Diminishing Returns of Artificial Intelligence
Thomas B. Fowler is the author of five books and over 150 articles and reviews, ranging over philosophy, theology, engineering, physics, and mathematics. He is an expert in analyzing systems and procedures for the U.S government. He says h…
- KunstlerCast 430 — Charles Hugh Smith, blogger at "Of Two Minds," Talking Finance and The Ultra-Processed Life
Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. His 4,600 posts on the economy, society, housing and technology have logged over 150 million page views. He is…
- KunstlerCast 4219 — Matt and Maxim Smith on "The Preparation" — Becoming a Man in Uneasy Times
Matt Smith is an American entrepreneur and economic commentator who relocated to Uruguay in 2021, where he operates a regenerative cattle ranch. He co-hosts the podcast Doug Casey's Take with author and economist Doug Casey, offering analy…
- KunstlerCast 428 — Swimming in Deep Waters with Author Jasun Horsley
Jasun Horsley is the author of many books, including Seen & Not Seen , Prisoner of Infinity , 16 Maps of Hell , and Big Mother , which examine how popular culture, politics, occultism, science, and pseudo-spirituality all overlap on a cove…
- KunstlerCast 427 — Eugyppius on the Retardation of Europe and "Schoolmarmocracy"
"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes…
- KunstlerCast 426 — John Seaman, Retired DEA Investigator on Prosecuting Conspiracy Cases
John Seaman has corresponded with me over a year proposing a straightforward way to prosecute government officials who, so far, have gotten away with crimes committed in the RussiaGate Hoax and other high-level mischief due to the five-yea…
- KunstlerCast 425 — Mike McCormick on Joe Biden, the Democrats' Interminable Nightmare
Author Mike McCormick was a stenographer with the White House Press Office from 2002 to 2018. His duties included being a world traveler on Air Force One and Air Force Two, even into combat zones. He saw the presidency up close, with Oval…
- KunstlerCast 424 — Ray Jason Navigating the Shoals of Collapse with the Sea Gypsy Tribe
Ray Jason has been writing the Sea Gypsy Philosopher blog, for the last twelve years largely touching on politics and social issues. His commentary is filtered through his unusual lived experience of being a longtime ex-pat open water sail…
- KunstlerCast 423 — Dr. Meryl Nass on the Echoes of Covid and Medicine's Nervous Breakdown
Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician and was the first person in the world to prove that an epidemic (anthrax in Rhodesia) was due to biological warfare, in 1992. She has given 6 Congressional testimonies regarding anthrax, biologi…
- KunstlerCast 422 — Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute on The Immortal Despotism of the Covid Police State
Jeffrey Tucker is founder and president of Brownstone Institute and Senior Economics Columnist at Epoch Times. He is the author of 15 books, most recently Life After Lockdowns . Senator Rand Paul says, "In Life after Lockdown, " Jeffrey Tu…
- KunstlerCast 421 — Dr. Chris Martenson on Reforming US Public Health under RFK; Tremors in Finance; and the First Hundred Days of Trump
Dr. Chris Martenson, is an economic researcher and futurist specializing in energy and resource depletion, finance and banking, and the science and politics surrounding the Covid-19 affair. Before founding PeakProsperity.com, where he prov…
- KunstlerCast 420 — Tom Luongo of Gold, Goats and Guns, Talkin' Europe, Russia, and America in a Dangerous Year
Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns . His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.c…
- KunstlerCast 419 — Celia Farber on Covid Sorcery, the AIDS Fiasco, and Science Gone Wrong
Journalist and blogger Celia Farber started out covering the AIDS crisis in the 1980s as a staff writer for Spin Magazine. She went freelance in 1997 writing for Esquire, Harper's, Rolling Stone, Salon, Observer, and more. Her 2006 article…
- KunstlerCast 418 — Peter Golden Explores the Inner Life of John F. Kennedy in a New Novel
Peter Golden is an award-winning journalist, novelist, and historian. His novels include Comeback Love , Wherever There Is Light , Nothing Is Forgotten , and The ir Shadows Deep , just published, in which John F. Kennedy is a major charact…
- KunstlerCast 417 — Charles Hugh Smith, Progress and Anti-progress
Charles Hugh Smith founded his blog Of Two Minds in 2005 after 17 years of free-lance journalism in the San Francisco Bay Area. His 4,500 posts on the economy, society, housing and technology have logged over 150 million page views. He is…
- KunstlerCast_416 — Bill Moyer on Reviving and Restoring the US Railroad System
Bill Moyer calls himself a radical solutionary. He's the author of the book Solutionary Rail, a people powered campaign to electrify US railroads and open corridors for a clean energy future . He also hosts the new podcast Reconnect Americ…
- KunstlerKast 415 — Vermont Farmer and Attorney John Klar Fights for Parental Consent
John Klar is a Vermont farmer and Lawyer. He is currently representing the Politella family in an upcoming SCOTUS case concerning their six-year-old son who was vaccinated by his local school officials against the express orders of the boy…
- KunstlerCast 414 — Part Two, Elizabeth Nickson: Momentous Changes A'foot
Part Two of my chart with Elizabeth Nickson. Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that tim…
- KunstlerCast 413 — Journalist Elizabeth Nickson, MK Ultra and other Reindeer Games
Elizabeth Nickson was trained as a reporter at the London bureau of Time Magazine. She became European Bureau Chief of LIFE magazine in its last years of monthly publication, and during that time, acquired the rights to Nelson Mandela's me…
- KunstlerCast 412 — Mike McCormick, Joe Biden Unauthorized
Mike McCormick was a White House staff stenographer for fifteen years in the George W. Bush, Obama, and Trump administrations. He spent many years assigned to Veep Joe Biden and went on many overseas trips with him. His task was to record…
- KunstlerCast 411 — Christopher Bystroff and the Coming Population Crash
Christopher Bystroff is a professor of Biology and Computer Science at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy NY. He runs a laboratory that studies protein structure and design, working towards targetable fluorescent biosensors and a con…
- KunstlerCast 410 — Donald Jeffries on American Memory Hole and Other Anomalies of History
Donald Jeffries is the author of many books investigating the strange anomalies of recent American history. The titles include his latest, American Memory Hole, Survival of the Richest, and Crimes and Cover-Ups in American Politics. He has…
- KunstlerCast 409 — Mel K on "Americans Anonymous" — Restoring Power to the People One Citizen at a Time
Mel K is a conservative journalist, filmmaker, and podcaster known for her well-researched, thought-provoking work. With a background in journalism and film from NYU, she has spent over two decades in Hollywood crafting meticulously resear…
- KunstlerCast 408 — David McAlvany on the Financial Scene as We Enter the Nervous Season
David McAlvany is CEO Of McAlvany Financial Services, which includes wealth management and precious metals advisors for retail investors. David's own excellent podcast, the McAlvany Weekly Commentary comes out Tuesdays and is available at…
- KunstlerCast 407 — Eugyppius on the Political Crises of Europe
"Eugyppius" is a former academic who blogs about the pandemic aftermath and the pathological politics of modern Germany. He spent much of his life abroad and over a decade in American universities as a grad student and a teacher. He writes…
- KunstlerCast 406 — Reinventing Dmitry Orlov in Russia
Dmitry Orlov is a Russian-American engineer and author of many books on culture and politics. He emigrated to the US with his parents at age 12 and as a young adult sojourned in Russia, where he witnessed the aftermath of the Soviet collap…
- KunstlerCast 405 -- Helena Norberg-Hodge on Relocalizing Economies
Helena Norberg-Hodge, linguist, author, filmmaker and pioneer of the new economy movement, is the founder and director of Local Futures, and the convenor of World Localization Day and the Planet Local Summit. She is author of the inspirati…
- KunstlerCast 404 — A General Surgeon Talks about the ruinous Financialization of Medicine
Dr. Sid Rohrscheib is a general surgeon in central Illinois. His career spans the period from the 1990s and he has witnessed thje changes wrought by the financialization of medicine. We have corresponded for a while about the problems in h…
- KunstlerCast 403 -- Lt. Col Steve Murray and the Chaos Ahead
Steve Murray is Chief Information Security Officer of a large medical company. He was a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army commanding a Cyber Defense Battalion, providing offensive and defensive cyber operations for the United St…
- KunstlerCast 402 — Dr Meryl Nass on the W.H.O. Pandemic Treaty, the Covid Fiasco, and the Decline of Health Care
Meryl Nass is an internal medicine physician and was the first person in the world to prove that an epidemic (anthrax in Rhodesia) was due to biological warfare, in 1992. She has given 6 Congressional testimonies regarding anthrax, biologi…
- KunstlerCast 401 — Jeff Rubin and A Map of the New Normal
Jeff Rubin is a Canadian economist, an expert on trade and energy, and author of the newly released book, A Map of the New Normal. His previous best-selling books are: Why Your World Is About to Get a Whole Lot Smaller, The End of Growth,…
- KunstlerCast 400 — You might Not Know That Mike TerMaat Is Running To Be the Libertarian Candidate for President I in '24
Mike ter Maat is a candidate for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. In 2021-22, he campaigned as the Libertarian candidate in the January special Congressional election in Florida's District 20. Mike served as a police officer…
- KunstlerCast 399 — Catherine Austin Fitts Versus the Globalist Blob
Catherine Austin Fitts is the president of Solari, Inc., publisher of the Solari Report. Catherine served as managing director of the Wall Street investment bank Dillon, Read & Co. Inc.; as Assistant Secretary of Housing and Federal Housin…
- KunstlerCast 398 — Dr. Geert Vanden Bossche and the Coming Acute Crisis of Covid among the Vaccinated
Geert Vanden Bossche is a globally renowned virologist working in Belgium. He predicts a "hyper-acute crisis" of Covid-19 illness among highly-vaccinated populations emerging shortly across the world. He argues that scientists and politici…
- KunstlerCast 397 -- Matt Bracken, Navy SEAL, Views the Field of Operations
Matt Bracken graduated from Basic Underwater Demolition/SEAL training class 105 in Coronado California. He served on east coast UDT and SEAL teams, taking a Naval Special Warfare detachment to Beirut in 1983. Mr. Bracken left active duty a…
- KunstlerCast 396 -- Jasun Horsley Explores the Uncanny Valley with "Big Mother"
Jason Horsley produces the Children of Job Blog and Podcast . He is the author most recently of Big Mother: the Technological Body of Evil , and many other books. He was born in Britain and has lived in Morocco, British Columbia, and now S…
- KunstlerCast_395 -- Art Berman on the US Oil Scene
With 45 years in petroleum geology, Art Berman describes himself as an energy realist who integrates energy, the economy, the environment, and human behavior into his view of the industry and society. He routinely gives keynote addresses f…
- KunstlerCast 394 -- Tom Luongo on the Federal Reserve versus the World and other Current Events
Tom Luongo is a Former Research Chemist, Amateur Dairy Goat Farmer, Anarcho-Libertarian and Obstreperous Austrian Economist who blogs and podcasts at Gold, Goats and, Guns . His work can also be found on sites like Zerohedge, Lewrockwell.c…