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Episode 209 – Requiem for the Suicided: Danny Casolaro

Danny Casolaro was a freelance journalist who told his friends and family that he was close to cracking a story he called The Octopus, which he referred to as the political conspiracy of the century. In August of 1991 he packed his notes and headed to West Virginia to conduct some final interviews for his forthcoming book. On August 10, 1991, he was found dead in his hotel room. The death was immediately ruled a suicide. Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we go in search of the story behind the story of the mysterious death of Danny Casolaro.

Episode 208 – The Galton Institute Exposed

Although it formally changed its name from the British Eugenics Society to the Galton Institute in 1989, eugenics by any other name would smell as rotten. Join us this week as we peek behind the curtain of the birthplace of eugenics and interrogate the inbred line of British gentry who believe themselves to be of superior stock.

Episode 207 – More Patriot Mythology

Did Lucky Larry Silverstein admit to blowing up WTC7 in front of documentary cameras? Did Benazir Bhutto say that Omar Sheikh murdered Osama Bin Laden? And just who was responsible for WTC 1993 after all? Find out in this week’s episode of The Corbett Report as we go in search of the truth wherever it might lead.

Episode 206 – The Gutenberg Revolutions

The Gutenberg press was the catalyst for the Renaissance and the Reformation, but it shaped what we communicated as much as how we communicated. What, then, to make of the electronic global village of our modern Gutenberg revolution? Are we on the cusp of a new Renaissance, or will this technology only further degrade a culture already in decline? The promise of the Internet: Library of Alexandria or Library of Babel?

Episode 205 – Inside the Film Archive

This week we open the vaults of The Film Archive, a vast treasure trove of archival footage on everything from old documentaries to CIA training films to educational cartoons to Duke Ellington performances…and much much more.

Episode 204 – A Brief History of CIA Drug Running

From the Golden Triangle to the Golden Crescent, from its early origins to it current operations, the CIA has long been immersed in the murky underworld of drug trafficking. Join us this week as we dig up some of the skulls and bones in the CIA’s closet in Burma, Laos, Afghanistan, Mexico and beyond.

Episode 203 – Philosophy of Freedom: Natural Law

What is “the rule of law”? On what basis do we institute laws and why should we obey them? Are laws for the protection of unalienable rights, and if so, how do we derive our knowledge of those rights? Are governments necessary for the enforcement of the laws? Join us this week on The Corbett Report as we go in search of natural law.

Episode 202 – How to Overthrow a Dictator

From Romania to Egypt, even our recent history is replete with examples of how the people can stand up en masse and take down a dictator…but what if overthrowing the dictator is the easy part? This week on The Corbett Report we ask the question behind the question of how to overthrow a dictator: How to overthrow the power structure that underlies the dictatorship.


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