The Ripple Effect Podcast

Harley Schlanger, every weekday morning does a 10 minute briefing on LaRouchePAC.com covering the latest news. Harley has also been featured on a number of radio programs and writes regular articles covering breaking news, economics, the New Silk Road initiative, the end of geopolitics and more.Harley joins me today to talk about all that and more, including exploring the ideas of Lyndon LaRouche.

Tim James is the Founder and CEO of ChemicalFreeBody.com, a mission based company that is dedicated to helping people to achieve their highest potential in life by transforming their Health first. After growing up on the Standard American Diet, Tim found himself at the age of 37, overweight, tired, not sleeping well and with two separate skin issues. He also had chronic acid indigestion and had surgery to remove one of his organs due to serious digestive issues.Now at age 45, Tim's health and vitality has never been better. Tim's journey from illness to wellness, has created a passion to help others also imporve their health and lives. TO SAVE 5% OFF YOUR FIRST PURCHASE OF TIMS DETOX & NUTRITION PRODUCTS, USE THE DISCOUNT CODE: "RippleEffect"

Jim Abrahams is a filmmaker, director and writer of some of my favorite movies like Airplane!, Naked Gun, & Hot Shots, to name a few. But his life & focus changed when his son Charlie was born. In 1993, 11 month old Charlie Abrahams developed difficult to control epilepsy. As a last resort, while Charlie was experiencing multiple daily seizures and multiple daily medications, Jim & his wife turned to a Ketogenic Diet for help. The diet worked. Charlie became seizure and drug free within a month. He was on the diet for five years and now eats whatever he wants. He has never had another seizure. After modern medicine failed Jim & his family, he created The Charlie Foundation for Ketogenic Therapies in 1994, to provide information about diet therapies for people with epilepsy, other neurological disorders and select cancers. Charlie Abrahams, continues to be the inspiration for the foundation, working as a pre-school teacher, and proving that Epilepsy can be cured through Ketogenic Therapy.

Charlie Robinson is an researcher and author of The Octopus of Global Control. The Octopus of Global Control is a controversial non-fiction book that uncovers some of the biggest conspiracies in modern world history. The book features quotes from over 500 people that had a front row seat to some of the most important events in history, and their voices paint a picture of what really happened that won’t be found in the history books.Charlie returns to the show to talk about his new book, new podcast, current events, historical events, and everything in between. This was truly a 2 hour conversation about everything. Hope you enjoy it as much as we did.

John Barbour is recognized as ‘The Godfather Of Reality TV’ as the creator-Producer,Co-Host, and Writer of the trend setting hit ‘Real People.’ He won the first of his 5 Emmys as the original Host of ‘AM LA’ in 1970 where he interviewed controversial anti-war guests like Mohammed Ali, Cesar Chavez and Jane Fonda. He was the first in America to do film reviews on the News, winning 3 more consecutive Emmys as KNBC’s ‘Critic-At-Large.’ And ten years as Los Angeles Magazine’s most widely read and quoted controversial critic. Prior to that he was a successful topical stand-up comedian, appearing on ‘The Dean Martin Show,’ ‘The Tonight Show,’ and others; and in Las Vegas opening for Robert Goulet and Bobby Darin. Comedian-activist Dick Gregory did the liner notes for his first album, ‘It’s Tough To Be white,’ and Play-write Neil Simon did them for his second album, ‘I Met A Man I Didn’t Like!’In 1992 he wrote and Directed the award-winning ‘The Garrison Tapes,’ which Director Oliver Stone heralded as ‘The perfect c

Richard D. Wolff is Professor of Economics Emeritus, University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a Visiting Professor at the New School University in New York. Wolff's recent work has concentrated on analyzing the causes and alternative solutions to the global economic crisis. His book Democracy at Work: A Cure for Capitalism inspired the creation of Democracy at Work, a nonprofit organization dedicated to showing how and why to make democratic workplaces real.Wolff is also the author of Occupy the Economy: Challenging Capitalism and Capitalism Hits the Fan: The Global Economic Meltdown and What to Do About It. He hosts the weekly hour-long radio program "Economic Update," which is syndicated on public radio stations nationwide, and he writes regularly for The Guardian and Truthout.org. Wolff appears frequently on television and radio to discuss his work, with recent guest spots including "Real Time with Bill Maher," "Moyers & Company," "Charlie Rose," "Up with Chris Hayes," and "Democracy Now!." He is also

Scott Horton is the host of AntiWar Radio, The Scott Horton Show, author of Fool's Errand: Time to End the War in Afghanistan, managing director of the Libertarian Institute & one of the most knowledgeable & respected researchers in foreign policy & geopolitics. Today Scott returns to the show to discuss the history of Iran-U.S. relations.

Lyn Ulbricht is the mother of the Silk Road website creator Ross Ulbricht. Ross Ulbricht is a first-time offender serving a double life sentence without parole, plus 40 years, for a website he made when he was 26 years old and passionate about free markets and privacy. Ross, an Eagle Scout, scientist and peaceful entrepreneur, had all non-violent charges at trial. He was never prosecuted for causing harm or bodily injury and no victim was named at trial. Please go to FreeRoss.org and sign the petition to help Free Ross. Also check out the documentary DEEP WEB by Alex Winter, about Ross Ulbricht & the Silk Road website.

Brian Tuohy is America's leading expert on game fixing in sports. While Larceny Games discusses game fixing from a sports gambling aspect, his previous book The Fix Is In: The Showbiz Manipulations of the NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, and NASCAR examined how the professional leagues influence the outcome of their own games for TV ratings and profit. He has appeared as a guest on over 100 radio programs throughout the United States and Canada and has spoken at Florida State University, Columbia College in Chicago, and at the 2012 AEJMC National Conference.Jason Bermas is a researcher, activist & documentary filmmaker. Check out his films Invisible Empire, Fabled Enemies, 9/11 Loose Change, SHADE and his YouTube Channel www.YouTube.com/InfoWarrior.

Kerry McDonald is a Senior Education Fellow at FEE and author of Unschooled: Raising Curious, Well-Educated Children Outside the Conventional Classroom (Chicago Review Press, 2019). She is also an adjunct scholar at The Cato Institute and a regular Forbes contributor.Kerry's research interests include homeschooling and alternatives to school, self-directed learning, education entrepreneurship, parent empowerment, school choice, and family and child policy. Her articles have appeared at The Wall Street Journal, Newsweek, NPR, Education Next, Reason Magazine, City Journal, and Entrepreneur, among others. She has a master’s degree in education policy from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Bowdoin College.Kerry lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and four children.

Kris Newby is an award-winning science writer at Stanford University, senior producer of the Lyme disease documentary UNDER OUR SKIN, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival and author of Bitten: The Secret History of Lyme Disease and Biological Weapons. Newby has two degrees in engineering, a bachelor’s degree from the University of Utah and a master’s degree from Stanford University. Previously, Newby was a technology writer for Apple and other Silicon Valley companies. She lives in Palo Alto.

Dr. Tom Cowan discovered the work of the two men who would have the most influence on his career while teaching gardening as a Peace Corps volunteer in Swaziland, South Africa. He read Nutrition and Physical Degeneration by Weston A. Price, as well as Rudolf Steiner’s work on biodynamic agriculture. These events inspired him to pursue a medical degree. Tom graduated from Michigan State University College of Human Medicine in 1984. After his residency in Family Practice at Johnson City Hospital in Johnson City, New York, he set up an anthroposophical medical practice in Peterborough, New Hampshire. Dr. Cowan relocated to San Francisco in 2003.Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians Association for Anthroposophical Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation™. During his career he has studied and written about many subjects in medicine. These include nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine and herbal medicine. He is the principal author of the book The Fo

For our 200th episode we gather a dream team, with James Corbett from The Corbett Report, Whitney Webb from MintPress News, Sam Tripoli from the Tin Foil Hat podcast, and filmmaker/researcher Jason Bermas from YouTube.com/InfoWarrior. Enjoy!

Jot Maxi & Jermaine 'J' Hurley are vocalists for British band Hacktivist. Hacktivist is a combination of rap/grime and metal/metalcore. As you can assume by the name of the band, music is not Hacktivist's only interest and we talk about all that and more. Hacktivist is working on their 2nd full length studio album, and on their 1st album Outside The Box, they have a song called TAKEN featuring a Ripple Effect Podcast past guest, Rou Reynolds of Enter Shikari.

Matt Farah his the host of The Smoking Tire, the Watch & Listen podcast and The Drive on NBS Sports. Matt is one of the most well known TV and YouTube automotive journalists. Matt returns to the show to talk about his new endeavor, Westside Collector Car Storage, EV's, Elon Musk, Tesla Motors and much more.

Brian McGlinchey is an activist, editor of www.28Pages.org & handles Political Communications at www.LibertyMessaging.com.28Pages.org, is an information and activism hub for the movement that achieved the release of 28 pages linking Saudi Arabia to the 9/11 hijackers.

Stephen Kinzer is an author, journalist, academic, former NY Times foreign correspondent, Boston Globe columnist, and senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs at Brown University. Stephen also currently writes for several newspapers and news agencies.Stephen has published many great books like The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War; All the Shah's Men: An American Coup and the Roots of Middle East Terror; Overthrow: America's Century of Regime Change from Hawaii to Iraq; Reset: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future, and his NEW book that is now available Poisoner in Chief: Sidney Gottlieb and the CIA Search for Mind Control.

Whitney Webb is a MintPress News journalist based in Chile. She has contributed to several independent media outlets including Global Research, EcoWatch, the Ron Paul Institute and 21st Century Wire, among others. She has made several radio and television appearances and is the 2019 winner of the Serena Shim Award for Uncompromised Integrity in Journalism.

Jason Bermas is a researcher, activist & documentary filmmaker. Check out his films Invisible Empire, Fabled Enemies, 9/11 Loose Change, SHADE and his YouTube Channel www.YouTube.com/InfoWarrior.

James Corbett, writer, filmmaker, researcher and historian from The Corbett Report and Sam Tripoli, comedian and host of the Tin Foil Hat podcast, join me for a SwapCast about Big Tech, Privacy and Censorship.