Panels

Mockingbird 2.0:  Propaganda, Fake News, Fake History, and Outright Censorship
Confronting Oligarchy: Resisting Full Spectrum Dominance
False Flags: Mass Psy-Op Events as Pretext for Wars and a Surveillance State
Triple Blockade: The Israeli Attack on Gaza, Free Speech, and Democracy
Dark Technology: Geoengineering, 5G, Smart Meters, and Other Faustian Bargains
Understanding Zionism: Deconstructing the Power Paradigm 

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Gilad Atzmon
Kevin Barrett
Ole Dammegard
Suzie Dawson
Jerry Day
Gerry Docherty
Elana Freeland
Philip M. Giraldi
Dean Henderson
Barbara Honegger
Tom Kiely
Peter Kirby
Ray McGovern
Mark Crispin Miller
Jonathan Revusky
Patrick Roddie
Jeremy Rothe-Kushel
Samir Salem
Alan Sabrosky
Kathy Shihadah
Ziyad Shihadah
J. Michael Springmann
Alison Weir

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2016 Left Forum
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2018 Left Forum
A Neo-McCarthy Climate
Censorship Today

Friday, June 8, 2018, 8:00-11:00pm EST
Moderator: Tom Kiely

Mark Crispin Miller – The Silence of the Left (go to 0:0)
Starting in 1967, the CIA made the epithet "conspiracy theorist" a powerful synonym for "lunatic"—an effort that the Agency began in order to discredit some best-selling critics of the Warren Report. That propaganda effort never stopped. To this day, the CIA continues to deploy its journalistic assets to discredit as "conspiracy theorists" all who dared to question the official narratives of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, Iran/contra and the October Surprise, TWA Flight 800, 9/11, Bush/Cheney's election theft, and all too many other major crimes against American democracy. This propaganda drive has been enormously successful, silencing not just the watchdogs of the corporate press, both "liberal" and "conservative," but, no less, the leftist press, including luminaries like Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, and Amy Goodman. We need to understand how this occurred, and to confront its catastrophic consequences, as a necessary first step toward reversing them.

Ray McGovern – Russiagate: How It Started, Morphed, and Now Threatens Us All (go to 39:40)
CAUTION: COGNITIVE DISSONANCE may be in store for New York Times readers who think they know what's going on. There WAS interference in the 2016 election, but it's not what you think. Top officials of the Justice Department, FBI, and CIA played fast and loose with the law to buy Hillary Clinton some extra "insurance." The House Intelligence Committee now has most of the "insurance documents" so to speak, and a Constitutional crisis is brewing. Renown ex-CIA analyst Ray McGovern will further examine how Russian President Vladimir Putin views the implications for Russia.

Gerry Docherty – How History Gets Memory-Holed: An Eye-Opening Case Study (go to 1:14:36)
Gerry Docherty (with co-author Jim MacGregor) wrote two scrupulously-researched, compelling accounts of WWI entitled Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War and Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years. In complete contrast to what we’ve been taught, their astonishing findings report how a British “Secret Elite” planned and prolonged WWI. Their books provide vivid analogous proof as to how official historical records today are likewise withheld for “national security," tampered with, and even destroyed. Gerry will also talk about how their books have been deliberately marginalized by their first publisher, the academic press, and mainstream book reviews in an effort to control mass perception of reality. Through frequent, meticulous micro-management, the Deep State proactively creates, monitors, and fakes not just news, but actual history. Bravo to Gerry's new publisher, TrineDay, a small publishing house committed to producing books that challenge official history.

Alison Weir – How Pro-Israel Thought Police Are Silencing Americans (go to 1:43:54)
Alison Weir will report on the ways in which the Israel lobby is undermining the First Amendment in the U.S. through the internet as well as through changing the definition of antisemitism and codifying it in various laws and regulations. Examples of Israel's internet manipulation include paid trolls, infiltration of Wikipedia, anti-BDS smartphone apps, YouTube video blocking, "Facebook jail," Unit 8200 (a massive, covert, high-tech global spy network), and the ADL's notorious command center in Silicon Valley ostensibly built to combat online "hate speech." Alison will also discuss the new Israel-centric definition of antisemitism first formulated by an Israeli official that has been making its way into diverse countries and international entities, including the U.S. State Department, state legislatures, and American campuses.

Suzie Dawson – Julian Assange: Censored to Death? (go to 2:20:02)
Julian Assange, arguably the most significant publisher of the new millennium, sits silenced in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London in which he has been arbitrarily detained for more than seven years. The mainstream media alternate between ignoring his plight or actively defaming him, colluding with anonymous intelligence sources to degrade his public reputation. WikiLeaks is a household name, but the seriousness of Julian Assange's physical condition has been understated. Beset with acute medical conditions yet denied access to healthcare facilities by the UK government, if we collectively fail to mobilize in support of his human rights, it could come at the ultimate price: his death. Author of Being Julian Assange, journalist Suzie Dawson will discuss Julian's situation in intimate detail, examining what lies beneath the headlines and what we of good conscience need to do to save a man who has helped to expose so many critical truths to the global public.

Q&A (go to 3:09:43)

Saturday, June 9, 2018, 11:00am-1:30pm EST
Moderator: Tom Kiely 

Dean Henderson – All Roads Lead to the City of London (go to 0:0)
The City of London Corporation is a separate jurisdiction from both London and the UK. Within its square mile, you will find every bank of any significance in the world. Even the Queen must ask permission and bow to the City's Mayor to enter. It was established in the 11th Century when the wealth of the Roman Empire was relocated to a safer island location. The City's offshore banking network helps the global oligarchy avoid taxation and moves their dirty money derived from drugs, arms, oil, and terror financing.

Jonathan Revusky – Reality vs. Simulation: Deconstructing "Roger Rabbit" Narratives (go to 33:18)
Jonathan Revusky presents a unique take on propaganda, analyzing it as a form of fantastical storytelling. A key concept he has developed is that of the “Roger Rabbit narrative” based on the movie “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” in which cartoon characters and human actors share the screen in a seamless fashion. For Revusky, the propaganda matrix weaving through people’s minds creates a Roger Rabbit mental world in which real people and real objects are entangled with synthetic, cartoonish constructs. While refreshing and entertaining, Jonathan’s innovative framing actually offers effective insights for how humanity can counter the omnipresence of propaganda.

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel – We the People Power Politics: Principles, Practices, and Proposals (go to 48:15)
In a time of compounding, mortal threats to humanity from Deep State deceptions, technological tyranny, and synthetic transnational terrorism, we can strategize and politically proceed in fresh, clarifying, decisive ways -- ways that can help us heal our body politic from bottom to top, inside to out. Using ideas such as The Hierarchy of Sovereignty, Full Spectrum Principled Populism, Integral Permacultural Politics, Townhall Assembly Culture, We the People’s Platform (scalable), A Transpartisan Alliance for Real Elections, Independent Official Write-In Candidacies, Coalition Cabinets, and Cooperative Technology Creation Consortiums, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel will introduce affirmative proposals we can all act on.

Q&A (go to 1:38:08)

Saturday, June 9, 2018, 2:30-5:00pm EST
Moderator: Tom Kiely 

Barbara Honegger – 9/11: Gladio Brought Home to the U.S. (go to 0:0)
Former White House and Department of Justice Official Barbara Honegger, M.S., presents 'The Burning Facts' that prove the Official Conspiracy Theories of what happened at the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and Shanksville, Pennsylvania, on 9/11 are not only false but absurd. The presentation includes the compelling evidence that the real story of September 11th is a treasonous inside operation scripted and overseen by the Pentagon Gladio liaison office that perpetrated the mass false flag terrorist attacks against innocent European citizens during the Cold War to discredit the Left.

Michael Springmann – Weaponized Migrations: Fueling Europe for False Flags (go to 38:13)
The United States and its confederates have destabilized and/or destroyed most of the countries in South and Southwest Asia and North Africa. Having dehoused substantial portions of their populations, America and its co-conspirators have long been pushing these people into Europe. The result, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel's help, is chaos: racial and religious hatred, along with anti-democratic attacks on anyone or any group that questions migrant policy.

Ole Dammegard – Find the Clues and Connect the Dots (go to 1:11:22)
Master detective Ole Dammegard deconstructs some of the premier false flags of our era. It turns out that the perpetrators behind many false flag operations are actually hiding clues about their upcoming attacks. In the forensic evidence. Hidden in plain sight.

Kevin Barrett – Guyénot on False Flags: Zionism, Psychopathy, and the Hijacked Provocation (go to 1:47:52)
In books and articles published during the past few years, French historian Laurent Guyénot has made several important contributions to the study of false flag events. Dr. Barrett's presentation will summarize those contributions, including the “family resemblance” between the JFK assassination and 9/11, the role of Zionism, and the theory of the “hijacked provocation” in which one intelligence agency infiltrates, amplifies, and turns to its own purposes another agency’s false flag operation.

Q&A (go to 2:14:47)

Saturday: June 9, 2018, 6:00-8:30pm EST
Moderator: Tom Kiely 

Alison Weir – A Prequel Appraisal: My 2001 Visit to Gaza (go to 0:0)
Citing censorship and the “new antisemitism,” Alison Weir will first provide an overview as to why this particular panel on Gaza was recently banned by the annual Left Forum Conference while several others were allowed to proceed. Alison will then take us on a journey with her back to 2001 when she traveled solo to Gaza to investigate for herself the state of affairs she sensed the U.S. media was not telling us. While today’s reporting on Gaza is often absorbed with Hamas and rockets, Alison can attest to the fact that the living conditions in the Gaza Strip remain the same. What she witnessed over 15 years ago was but a preview to come of the brutal, harsh treatment of the people of Gaza . . . and their indomitable spirit to survive.

Ziyad Shihadah – Being Gazan: Transcending the Psychological Blockade (go to 27:36)
Born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, Ziyad’s own family story illustrates the deprivations of social displacement. Dispossessed, Gazans endure the ignominy of economic and psychological oppression. While there are many individuals such as Ziyad who have achieved success, as a people Gazans are perennially discredited, marginalized, and misrepresented by stereotypes such as "Hamas followers." In spite of desperate circumstances, Gazans continue their resistance (or peaceful resistance) in the Great March of Return and other acts of unparalleled bravery, determination, and inspiration.

Samir Salem – Documenting Gaza: A Visual Catalog of Brutality and Resistance (go to 55:12)
Samir Salem, an award-winning activist filmmaker, will present original videos created primarily for the organization If Americans Knew. His first video is a timeline of the history of Gaza, presenting viewers with a documentation of incremental genocide. Other videos demonstrate the blockade and siege of Gaza, or focus on the lives of children and disabled people who were killed by Israeli forces. Samir shares some on-the-ground footage of the Great March of Return, and ends with a message from Gazan youth who describe their struggle to survive the unimaginable hell known as the Israeli Occupation.

Kathy Shihadah – Invisible Blockades: Impediments to Peace in Gaza (go to 1:24:39)
The ten-year siege of Gaza by Israel constitutes a visible blockade, most dramatically evidenced by the withholding of food as the population is slowly and cruelly starved. The planned scarcity of medicine, electricity, and fresh water is likewise visibly inhumane. There are actually, however, a multitude of attendant invisible blockades, existing in varying degrees of mendacity, barbarity, and plunder. There is the blockade on information in which the mainstream media grossly misrepresents and underrepresents all Palestinians. There is the blockade on justice in which the U.S. government blames the victim, excuses the perpetrator, and colludes in genocide. There is the blockade on advocacy and relief efforts in which Israel and pro-Israeli groups proactively thwart help for the besieged Gazan populace. Now there is a new-fashioned blockade call the “new antisemitism” which in a frightening precedent against free speech halts legitimate criticism of Israel. A recent phenomenon, the “new antisemitism” blockade keeps money flowing, rewards Israel's bad behavior, and perpetuates and deepens Gaza's suffering. Egregiously, it blocks Gaza's ability to call for justice.

Q&A (go to 1:56:25)

Sunday, June 10, 2018, 10:30am-1:30pm EST
Moderator: Tom Kiely 

Elana Freeland – Our Ionized Skies: A Threat to All Life on Earth (go to 0:0)
It is difficult to believe that our planet is being weaponized before our very eyes. Elana Freeland will make the case that humanity is being steered into a militarized space-age dystopia by means of weather modification, chemtrails, plasma cloud cover, ionospheric heaters (HAARP), microwave transmission towers, smart meters, and now the rollout of 5G and Internet of Things. Our health is threatened by nanoparticles drifting down from the upper atmosphere to be zapped by radio waves and microwaves. All around us, we are being influenced by ionized and non-ionized radiation and a plague of autoimmune diseases. Our very DNA is being restructured. Elana calls on citizen-activists to study this technology so they know how to survive UN Agenda 21 and the electromagnetic spectrum dominance of the planned Transhumanist future.

Peter Kirby – Weather Modification: The CIA and the New Manhattan Project (go to 28:07)
Peter Kirby is one of the leading voices exposing how the proliferation of chemtrails in today's skies are part of a New Manhattan Project. Similar to the orginal Manhatten Project in the 1940s that created the atom bomb, this New Manhattan Project is steeped in secrecy, greatly affects the environment, is commandeered by the military industrial complex, and has almost zero public oversight. Peter's cutting edge research will reveal how the New Manhattan Project actually has another component as well: extensive involvement by the CIA. Along with the known list of bad actors, the intelligence agency is likewise responsible for massive climate destruction and the wholesale wrecking of our collective health.

Patrick Roddie – Stop Spraying Us!  Exposing—and Ending—the Global Chemtrails Program (go to 54:42)
Our planet is being relentlessly sprayed with toxic chemicals in a covert “geoengineering” program. What is being sprayed? How does it affect our health? What can we do to protect ourselves and stop the program? In this presentation, Patrick Roddie proves we are being sprayed with a toxic mix of alumina, barium, and iron nanoparticles that it is responsible for the global spike in Alzheimer’s. He contends we can protect ourselves with silica-rich water, and proposes a legal method to stop the entire program in its tracks.

Jerry Day – Smart Meter Trojan Horses: 24/7 Surveillance, Radiation Sickness, and Other In-Home Dangers (go to 1:26:36)
Jerry Day, nationally recognized activist against unlawful and unsafe utility metering, will explain why electronic utility meters, also called Smart Meters, should never be installed on any home and why, if you have one, you need to remove it. That is, if you don't want your personal living space to be subjected to radiation, surveillance, and fire hazards. Jerry’s presentation will give you the knowledge and resources to protect yourself against the very real dangers your utility company feels entitled to inflict on the public at large.

Q&A (go to 1:57:15)

Sunday, June 10, 2018, 2:30-5:30pm EST  
Moderator: Kevin Barrett

Kevin Barrett – Anti-Semitism, Anti-Zionism, Judeophobia: Let’s Define Our Terms (go to 0:0)
There is much confusion and (mis)use by Zionists around the concept of anti-Semitism. Dr. Kevin Barrett will demonstrate that the cluster of slurs—“anti-Semite,” “anti-Semitic,” and “anti-Semitism”—are routinely used to denigrate critics of Zionism. But do critics of Jewish power on both the left and right really hate an entire group of people? While the term “anti-Semitism” once had specific meaning, Dr. Barrett posits that “anti-Zionism” describes those who deny the legitimacy of the state of Israel versus “Judeophobia,” the term he says more accurately defines those who are prejudiced against Jews. Dispensing with the loaded term “anti-Semitism” frees us up to evaluate the cultural and historical reasons why anti-Zionists who oppose Israel are not synonymous with Judeophobes who harbor anti-Jewish prejudices.

Philip Giraldi – How Jewish Power Sustains the Israel Narrative (go to 25:00)
Israel’s ability to manipulate the U.S. political culture and to escape accountability for its many crimes against humanity is enabled by a vast and interlocking domestic lobby. To be sure, Israel finds support from so-called Christian Zionists and other Americans, but its ability to control the media and politicians comes from the financial and institutional clout of American Jews. Liberal Jews, who often are privately appalled by Israel’s behavior, frequently choose to remain silent so as not to break ranks with their more hardline co-religionists who are promoting the interests of the Jewish state even when they are aware that doing so does and will continue to do grave damage to the United States and all its citizens.

Gilad Atzmon – Truth, Truthfulness, and Palestine (go to 39:40)
In a healthy society truth doesn’t need a “movement.” In a society with a prospect of a future, truth is explored and celebrated in the open. Gilad Atzmon will delve into the strategies that are set to deviate us from truth and truthfulness. Primarily through the lens of Palestine and Neocon Wars, he will further explore how false dichotomies are manufactured and the means by which detachment and alienation are sustained. By now we are all Palestinians—and like the Palestinians, we are not allowed to utter the name of our oppressor, nor can we discuss the means that facilitate this oppression. Truth is our first step towards emancipation.

Alan Sabrosky – The Impact of Zionist Influence in the U.S. (go to 1:05:33)
Alan Sabrosky examines the process by which Zionists acting on behalf of Israel have gained significant control of the United States and its government. Starting gradually in the 1950s, Zionist Jews now hold a commanding influence in such sectors as finance, business, media (online and offline), the academy, the arts, and most obviously, politics. Through funding and other tactics, they effectively control both houses of Congress, leverage the Executive branch, and exert strong influence in nearly two dozen state governments. Regardless of what one thinks of 9/11, neocons (overwhelmingly “Israel Firster” Zionist Jews) are the driving force behind the 9/11 Wars. Without their hidden hand, the wars against Iraq, Libya, and Syria would not have happened, nor the hostilities with Iran and Russia. Incessant charges of “antisemitism” and “Holocaust denial” coercively keep Jews and non-Jews alike from questioning or challenging the dominant narratives.

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel – Talpiot and Unit 8200: The Global Cyber Agenda for Kill-Switch Domination (go to 3:40-30)
The Talpiot Program, a long-term Israeli Military Intelligence strategic initiative to give the Israeli War State a permanent technological edge, was rolled out in 1979. Coincidentally or not, this was the same year the modern “War on Terror” had its public-policy birth at the infamous 1979 Jerusalem Conference on International Terrorism. While the SECURITY and INTELLIGENCE results of Talpiot heightened the effectiveness of Unit 8200 (Israel’s NSA, co-producers of the Stuxnet industrial virus), the deep corporatist ECONOMIC impact only got super-charged in the wake of the 9/11 false-flag. Now we face “Crime Minister” Netanyahu's claims for a next-generation "Samson Option" of “kill-switch DIPLOMACY,” powered by Talpiot to hold the world’s databases, hardware backdoors, and critical infrastructure hostage.

Q&A (go to 2:53:52)

​Gilad Atzmon is a British jazz artist and author, born in Israel, and trained at the Rubin Academy of Music in Jerusalem. His 15 albums to date often explore political themes and the music of the Middle East. Gilad writes on political matters, social issues, Jewish identity, and culture. His articles are published throughout the world, and he is a popular television and radio political analyst. Gilad's most famous work, The Wandering Who?, a study of Jewish identity politics, has been translated into ten languages. His most recent book, Being in Time: A Post-Political Manifesto, dissects the ethos, strategy, and culture driving the invincible elite oligarchy.

Kevin Barrett

Kevin Barrett, an American Muslim and Islamic Studies scholar, is one of the best-known critics of the war on terror. His latest books, a trilogy on false flags, are Orlando False Flag: The Clash of Histories (2016), ANOTHER French False Flag?: Bloody Tracks from Paris to San Bernardino (2016), and We Are NOT Charlie Hebdo!: Free Thinkers Question the French 9/11 (2015). He recently translated from the French Laurent Guyénot's book From Yahweh to Zion: Jealous God, Chosen People, Promised Land . . . Clash of Civilizations. Kevin has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other mainstream news outlets. A former professor of French, Arabic, Islamic Studies, Humanities, and other subjects at colleges and universities in Paris, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Wisconsin, he is currently a talk-radio host and an editor at Veterans Today. His website is TruthJihad.com and he hosts a weekly online show called False Flag Weekly News.

Ole Dammegard

Ole Dammegård, awarded the Prague Peace Prize, and adopted by the Apache Nation, is an author, International speaker, former journalist, musician and investigator, who has dedicated the last 35 years to researching many of the world's conspiracies. He has done some 1,000 international interviews (with a total of several millions of views) and is now considered a leading expert on false flag operations. Through his investigative insights, Ole is believed to have managed to expose and stop several planned massacres. He has appeared as an International speaker in the US, UK, Germany, the Czech Republic, Belgium, Holland, Denmark, Norway, Estonia, Poland, Gibraltar, Spain and Sweden. He was chosen to represent the people of Europe when giving a JFK-memorial speech in Dealey Plaza, Dallas, Texas, on November 22, 2016, as well as being a speaker at the World Peace Day in Gibraltar. Ole's website is Light On Conspiracies.

Suzie Dawson

Suzie Dawson is an activist, journalist, former Party Leader and current President of the Internet Party of New Zealand, a groundbreaking political party founded in 2014 by tech entrepreneur Kim Dotcom. She specializes in writing about intelligence agencies, surveillance, technology, and geopolitics. She is a fierce advocate for truth-tellers, particularly Julian Assange and Edward Snowden. Her work has been shared by WikiLeaks, Christine Assange, Glenn Greenwald, and other noteworthy figures. Along with Elizabeth Lea Vos of Disobedient Media, Suzie is the co-host of Decipher You, a world-first journalism initiative analyzing Snowden documents live online. She recently penned a 23,000-word opus called Being Julian Assange which ricocheted around the world due to its systematic dismantling of common misnomers and media smears about the world's most famous publisher. Suzie now lives in Moscow, Russia, where she is seeking temporary asylum due to political persecution she has experienced in New Zealand as a result of her work.

Jerry Day

Jerry Day is an Emmy-winning television and media producer who has produced hundreds of video programs, commercials, and campaigns in genres from entertainment and comedy to open-heart surgical training to nationally-distributed, award-winning tutorials on how to do lighting for media. In Southern California he built from the ground up an off-grid living space and studio where he has no services or relationship with any grid electricity, gas, or water utility companies. Jerry has over six million views on his YouTube channel which is mostly focused on freedom and rights topics. He has also created two resource websites for people who seek relief from the harm and hazards of unsafe, unlawful utility metering. Go to FreedomTaker.com and EMFhelpcenter.com. Also see JerryDay.com - Jerry's video production services, experience, and resume.

Gerry Docherty

Gerry Docherty is a former high school principal who lives in Scotland. He is author of works on Scottish and European history. Together with Jim MacGregor, he co-wrote Hidden History: The Secret Origins of the First World War and its follow-up Prolonging the Agony: How the Anglo-American Establishment Deliberately Extended WWI by Three-and-a-Half Years. Both books are extraordinary works of history, revealing secret machinations by a powerful group of British elites to foment WWI and then prolong it.

Elana Freeland

Elana Freeland is a writer, ghostwriter, speaker, storyteller, and teacher who researches and writes on Deep State issues, including stories of survivors of MK-ULTRA, ritual abuse, and invasive electromagnetic weapons. She is the author of Chemtrails, HAARP, and the Full Spectrum Dominance of Planet Earth and Under An Ionized Sky: From Chemtrails to Space Fence Lockdown. She also self-published a four-book series Sub Rosa America: A Deep State History, a fictional approach to the hidden history of America since President Kennedy's assassination. Her website is ElenaFreeland.com and her Facebook page by permissions only is Elana Freeland Under an Ionized Sky. Freeland has a Master of Arts degree from St. John’s College with a concentration in historiography. She lives in Olympia, Washington, and her initials are EMF.

Philip M. Giraldi

Philip M. Giraldi is a former counter-terrorism specialist who served for nineteen years with the CIA and Army intelligence in Europe and the Middle East. He is Executive Director of the Council for the National Interest, a Washington-based advocacy group that promotes a more balanced U.S. foreign policy in the Middle East. In 2008 and 2012, he was a foreign policy adviser for presidential candidate Ron Paul. Phil is the foreign policy editor for Unz.com, where he writes about terrorism, intelligence, and national security issues. Phil has a BA with honors in history from the University of Chicago and an MA and PhD in European history from the University of London.

Dean Henderson

Dean Henderson was raised on a cattle ranch near Faulkton, South Dakota. He earned a BLS from the University of South Dakota and an MS in Environmental Studies from the University of Montana. He founded, published, and edited one of America’s first political “zines,” The Missoula Paper, in 1990 in Missoula, Montana, where Dean was also a regular columnist for the Montana Kaimin. Dean’s Left Hook columns have appeared on Infowars, Globalresearch.ca and David Icke, among many other websites. He is a featured columnist for Rense.com and appears regularly on Press TV, RT News, The Syria Times and other international news outlets. A self-described revolutionary and traveler to over 50 countries, Dean won the 2004 Democratic nomination for Congress in Missouri’s 8th District, where he and his wife operate a self-sufficient homestead. Dean is the author of five books: Big Oil & Their Bankers in the Persian Gulf: Four Horsemen, Eight Families & Their Global Intelligence, Narcotics & Terror Network, The Grateful Unrich: Revolution in 50 Countries, Stickin’ it to the Matrix, The Federal Reserve Cartel and Illuminati Agenda 21. You can subscribe free to his weekly Left Hook column.

Barbara Honegger

Barbara Honegger M.S., is a leading researcher, author, and public speaker on September 11th. She is a Board Member and Grand Jury Petition drafting committee member of the Lawyers' Committee for 9/11 Inquiry that filed a demand for a special federal criminal grand jury on the WTC attacks in April with the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York. Ms. Honegger served as White House Policy Analyst and Department of Justice official in the Reagan Administration, and for over a decade was the Senior Military Affairs Journalist at the Naval Postgraduate School, the premiere science, technology, and national security affairs graduate research university of the Department of Defense. Due to her access to high-level military and civilian officials, she was able to piece together the inside story of the Pentagon attack on 9/11 resulting in her authoritative work Behind the Smoke Curtain: What Happened at the Pentagon on 9/11, and What Didn’t, and Why It Matters. Her pioneering whistle-blowing book October Surprise, on the Iran side of the Iran/Contra scandal, led to a full-subpoena-power House of Representatives investigation.

Tom Kiely

Tom Kiely is an alternative media activist who in 2002, cofounded INN World Report, an alternative daily news and information television program which broadcast nationally for seven years on the Dish Network satellite system's Free Speech TV. For the past nine years, Tom has hosted INN World Report Radio which is broadcast online from Austin Texas. International News Net (INN) was founded in 2002 to provide the public with an alternative view on important issues and matters of war and peace—a counterforce to the “fake news” peddled by the mainstream corporate media. Tom says that he used to better understand the political public by dividing them along political lines, between right and left. These days he finds it much more useful to understand the political public by dividing them on informational lines, between those who still believe the corporate media is telling them the truth and those who no longer do.

Peter Kirby

Peter Kirby is a San Rafael, CA researcher, writer, and activist focused for the last ten years on chemtrails and geoengineering. He is the author of the book "Chemtrails Exposed: A New Manhattan Project," and a staff writer at ActivistPost.com. His works have been published extensively online, including on the Global Research and David Icke websites. In addition to being interviewed on Coast to Coast AM, he has been on the Corbett Report multiple times. The Corbett Report interview of Peter Kirby on the History of Chemtrails is highly recommended.

Ray McGovern

Ray McGovern came to Washington in the Sixties from the Bronx as an Army infantry/intelligence officer and then served as a CIA analyst for 27 years. His duties included chairing National Intelligence Estimates and preparing and briefing, one-on-one, the President’s Daily Brief. In January 2003, Ray co-created Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS). Ray’s writings can be found on consortiumnews.com and raymcgovern.com. He has appeared on numerous TV and radio programs, including The Newshour, C-Span, CNN, BBC, Russian TV channels, Aljazeera, RT, PressTV, and CCTV. A founder of Sam Adams Associates for Integrity in Intelligence, Ray helped present the annual award in 2013 to Edward Snowden. Ray’s B.A. and M.A. degrees from Fordham University are in Russian history, language, and literature, with minors in theology, philosophy, and classics. He has taught Russian as an adjunct at the University of Virginia and Fordham. Ray also holds a Certificate in Theological Studies from Georgetown University and is a graduate of Harvard Business School’s Advanced Management Program. He is fluent in Russian, German, and Spanish.

Mark Crispin Miller

A professor of media studies at New York University, Mark Crispin Miller is the author of several books, including The Bush Dyslexicon: Observations on a National Disorder and Fooled Again: The Real Case for Electoral Reform, and editor of the Forbidden Bookshelf series.

Jonathan Revusky

Jonathan Revusky, an American, has been living in Spain for over twenty years. He has made his living variously by teaching, translation, software development, poker, and financial speculation. Mr. Revusky received his (mis)education at several universities in North America—and it took him nearly three decades to unlearn all of it. Jonathan's website, Heresy Central, is dedicated to deconstructing society's sacred narratives.

Patrick Roddie

Patrick Roddie is a Northern Irish researcher, activist, and speaker who runs StopSprayingUs.com. He presented his paper “Human Health Impacts of Proposed Geoengineering Solutions” to the Paris Climate Conference, testified at the Environmental Protection Agency, and has given speeches in several countries exposing the global crime of chemtrails. He produces daily time-lapse videos of the skies over San Francisco, tests rainwater for geoengineering metals, and is building a public-domain epidemiological database of adverse health impacts connected to observed geoengineering activity. Patrick lives in San Francisco. You can also find him on Facebook and YouTube.

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel

Jeremy Rothe-Kushel has a background in politics (local and international) with experience in community organizing, media jamming, documentary journalism, and consensus-building. He aims to coalesce a partisan-transcendent and permaculturally-informed #FullSpectrumPopulist, #IntegralPolitics from the #RadicalMiddle with a #WeThePeoplePlatform and #CoalitionCabinet. Jeremy has a working background in permaculture, future-roots music production, performance, and education. While at Williams College where he got a B.A. in Religion, he founded and over the next decade taught an original approach to musical education called "HipHop Empowerment”, with students of diverse ages and backgrounds from the Bronx to Boston, Southern Vermont to South Los Angeles. He is currently working on a documentary project titled “September Eleventh Uncoverage” based on a decade of his investigative research, activism, and experience with the 9/11 cover-up. He can be heard on The AnteDote, False Flag Weekly News, and Talpiot Talk.

Samir Salem

Samir Salem is a filmmaker, entrepreneur, and social justice activist. He was raised in a multi-cultural family in a diverse, blue-collar neighborhood in Chicago. This upbringing allowed Samir to form a unique perspective and to identify with a broad range of people, cultures, and ideologies. Samir studied communications at the University of Illinois and film production at the University of Miami. His films have won multiple awards at national and international festivals, have aired on NBC, and have been distributed around the world. Samir is also involved with several documentaries that focus on social issues, and creates content for organizations such as If Americans Knew. Samir is a national organizer and the field coordinator for the North America Nakba Tour, an organization that champions the voice of female Palestinian refugees from the camps in Lebanon. He also volunteers his time teaching children from low-income families how to make films and tell their stories. Samir is the founder of Cinemonger, a motion picture company, which is defined by the blue-collar attitude Samir was raised with. Cinemonger’s mission is to produce inspirational, provocative and impassioned motion pictures for the global marketplace, with the intention of bringing about social change to our world through entertainment.

Alan Sabrosky

Alan Ned Sabrosky (Ph.D., University of Michigan) is a writer and consultant specializing in national and international security affairs. In 1988, he received the Superior Civilian Service Award after more than five years of service at the U.S. Army War College as Director at the Strategic Studies Institute, and holder of the General of the Army Douglas MacArthur Chair of Research. Alan is a Marine Corps veteran who served two years in Vietnam and a 1986 graduate of the U.S. Army War College. Alan’s teaching and research appointments have included the United States Military Academy, the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), Middlebury College and Catholic University. While in government service, he held concurrent adjunct professorships at Georgetown University and the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS).

Kathy Shihadah

Kathryn Shihadah spent years raising four children and teaching. The empty-nest years have enabled her to turn her teaching experience and writing passion in the direction of advocacy for her husband’s people, the Palestinians. Her work now consists of writing for If Americans Knew, blogging on Palestine Home, and doing presentations about justice for Palestinians with her husband, Ziyad. Kathy founded Faithful Sisterhood, a local women's organization that promotes interfaith fellowship. Kathy and Ziyad also work for equality and justice for other marginalized groups through their civic organization, Unity in Diversity.

Ziyad Shihadah

Ziyad Shihadah was born in a refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, the son of Nakba survivors, and lived through the Six-Day War before relocating to Saudi Arabia as a displaced person. He came to the U.S. to get his Master’s degree in Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois; his career has included work in both the U.S. and the Middle East. Today he works as a consultant. Ziyad married Kathy and embraced the American Dream for years, before reclaiming his roots and revisiting the pain and injustice that are his birthright. He uses his distinct position as an American citizen and Palestinian refugee to advocate for peace and justice for the Palestinian people. Ziyad and Kathy also work for equality and justice for other marginalized groups through their civic organization, Unity in Diversity.

J. Michael Springmann

J. Michael Springmann is an attorney, author, political commentator, and former diplomat. As a Foreign Service Officer, the State Department assigned him to Germany twice, first as an Economic/Commercial Officer, later, as a Political/Economic Officer. He served as Commercial Attaché in India and Visa Officer in Saudi Arabia. His last assignment was at State's Bureau of Intelligence and Research in Washington, D.C. Besides articles for Global Research, Hausfrauleaks.com, ArabAmerica.com and Tasnim (an Iranian publication), Mr. Springmann has wrote Visas for Al Qaeda: CIA Handouts That Rocked The World. His current book, Goodbye, Europe? Hello, Chaos? Merkel's Migrant Bomb, is about mass migration into Europe caused by American foreign policy.

Alison Weir

Former journalist Alison Weir is executive director of If Americans Knew, a think tank that provides information on Israel-Palestine. She writes and speaks widely on the Middle East and is the author of a meticulously sourced book on the history of the US-Israel relationship: Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the US Was Used to Create Israel.

No Lies Radio is a controversial, hard-hitting, truth-telling nonprofit internet radio station broadcasting 24/7 at noliesradio.org. They are an affiliate of the Pacifica Radio network, the same network KPFA, WBAI, and KPFK are in. Theyy also live video-stream important and newsworthy truth-telling events, including the 9/11 Truth Film Festival held every September in the San Francisco Bay Area, Architect's and Engineers for 9/11 Truth's Justice in Focus 2016 event in New York City, and the 2016 and 2017 Deep State panels from the Left Forum conference in New York City.

They also live video-stream onto YouTube every Friday on False Flag Weekly News. The news show exposes history-changing false flags perpetrated by government intelligence agencies and other Deep State actors that plague mankind by causing wars built on lies, racism, genocide, mass surveillance, censorship, assassinations, martial law, stripping of our civil rights, etc. No Lies Radio is an alternative media project of the No Lies Foundation, a California non-profit.

Our History

Summary
The Left Forum, the largest leftist conference in the country, has a history of censoring views they do not support. In 2017, four of our five panels were banned. Our group responded by organizing a highly successful alternative conference we dubbed the “Left Out Forum.”

This year, 2018, all of our panels were banned, once again with zero explanation. Refusing to be silent, we created an alternative online conference for the weekend following the Left Forum and called it Deep Truth: Visionaries Speak Out.

Full Background Story
2016 Left Forum
In 2016, a group of East Coast transpartisan progressives organized six panels for the Left Forum that we classified under the theme “Deep State”—a term at that time just on the cusp of the mainstream lexicon. Our panels were:

1. The Fabricated Global War on Terror: Why the Left Should Unite to Expose and Rebel Against It
     Jim Fetzer, Michael Springmann, Gearoid O’Colmain
2. 9/11-An Ecumenical Approach
     Barbara Honegger, Kevin Barrett
3. Cointelpro Post 9/11
     Lynne Jackson, Mauri Saalakhan, Taalib-Din Shakir
4. Assassinations and Their Cover-Ups: Could a Left Consensus Promote Unity?
     Andrew Kreig, Russ Baker, William Pepper
5. False Flags – How a United Left Could Defeat a “Global Gladio” Agenda
     Kevin Barrett, Richard Dolan, Chris Emery
6. Islamophobia – Fallout for Failure to Challenge the Proxy Role of Muslims in 9/11
     Zarinah Shakir, Stephen Downs, Kevin Barrett

A key goal was to insert 9/11 into the Left Forum, an organization which showed little interest in the subject. We were delighted that our panels were approved and well received. Of our six panels, the 9/11 panel had the highest attendance, confirming our intuition that leftist audiences ARE interested in 9/11 truth when presented intelligently and in context.

2017 Left Forum
Bolstered by our 2016 success, in 2017, we submitted five panels:

1. Political Correctness: The Dangers of Thought Crime Police
    Dr. Anthony Hall, Jeremy Rothe-Kushel
2. Terrorism: Fake Enemies, Fraudulent Wars
    Michael Springmann, Dr. Anthony Hall, Dr. Kevin Barrett
3. False Flags: Staged, Scripted, Mass Psy-Op Events
    Dr. Kevin Barrett, Dave Lindorff, Ole Dammegard
4. 9/11 Truth: Ground Zero for a Resistance Movement
    Dr. Kevin Barrett, Barbara Honegger, Richard Gage
5.Co-Opting The Left: Infiltration by the Corporate State to Neutralize Resistance
    Kevin Zeese, Glen Ford

Early in the submission process, the Left Forum co-directors shared with us a letter sent to them by a Zionist researcher who specializes in documenting hate groups. He claimed that several of our speakers were antisemitic, and made vague threats that they should not be allowed to speak. We vigorously denounced the false, slanderous allegations, although all for naught. The Board—with zero explanation—rejected three of our five panels one month before the conference was due to start.

Panel speakers and many supporters wrote letters of protest, all of which went unanswered. The Board refused to reverse their decision to allow the three banned panels. The entire process had the hallmarks of a secretive grand jury. Then at the eleventh hour under shameful, ignoble circumstances, a fourth panel (on thought crime police no less) was additionally banned.

Resisting the Left Forum censorship, we organizers presented the four banned panels at an alternative venue. Due to a pattern of harassment by Zionists elements, the location of the banned panels could not be announced until an hour before the event began. The “Left Out Forum” was highly successful and ultimately earned our cause far more publicity than our panels would have ever attained lost among the 250 or so other conference panels.

In spite of its success, our “Left Out Forum” was also quite stressful. Should we move forward with the panels? Where? How? With what budget? Would the Left Forum continue to harass us? Would the Zionists protest us and/or forcibly shut us down as they had actually done on other occasions? It was remarkable that we were able to successfully pull off an alternative forum under such duress.

The Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
We subsequently learned that the Left Forum was not really "the decider." That power went to one of the Left Forum’s primary funders: the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Germany, which receives 97% of its funding from the German government. (Like Europe generally, Germany is a vassal state of the Western NATO powers who since WWII still does not have its own constitution.)

“Rosa-Lux” putatively supports progressive social movements worldwide, yet as a global NGO they are able to operate under the radar to help fulfill neoliberal objectives. For example, Rosa-Lux leveraged their “new left” façade to help whitewash the Ukrainian coup engineered by the West in alliance with neo-nazi Maidan fascists.

In terms of the Left Forum’s “sub Rosa” agenda, a primary focus is censoring all potent critiques of Zionism. To wit, in 2018, in addition to our four panels, the Left Forum likewise censored—without any explanation—a panel submitted by If Americans Knew called “Is Talking About Gaza Anti-Semitic Hate Speech, Or a Vital Step Toward Ending Oppression?”

2018 Left Forum
Despite last year's challenges, we were hopeful and confident that the Left Forum would accept our panels this year in light of their 2018 Left Forum theme, “Towards a New Strategy for the Left.” Their theme proclaimed: Unity allows for differences and embraces other voices—it does not squelch them. We do not have to block dissent and critical self-analysis.

In January, 2018, we wrote the Board to say we were delighted with their theme and hoped to work with them this year, but given the difficulties we had the year before, we requested they guarantee us that if they approved our panels, they would not renege and censor them. We were answered with silence.

So we submitted an initial panel and was verbally told it was approved and that, yes, we could go ahead and make travel arrangements. When a second panel we had submitted was held up, we phoned and were told that one of our top speakers was a “holocaust denier” and a “jerk”—a harmful, offensive, and libelous lie which mimics in toto the ADL’s censorship tactics. It was clear we were not going to have any day in court.

True to form, all five of our panels were not approved. We switched gears to produce an online conference free of antifa-riddled interference. And that is how Deep Truth: Visionaries Speak Out came to be.

A Neo-McCarthy Climate

The Left Forum's capitulation to shadowy pressure must be contextualized as part of a general brazen persecution of academics and activists whose alternative perspectives run counter to official versions of controversial events. Many academics—including several of our panel speakers—have been fired or suspended, almost all without reprieve. Much, but not all, of this thought-policing derives from an organized meta strategy to oppose any criticism of Israel.

The following are a few examples from the 2017 time period showing how an extreme, warped interpretation of hate speech serves to silence dissent by labeling it "antisemitic” or “conspiracy theory.” These two popular ad hominem attacks are simply updated versions of the 1950s “Communist” slur to shut down speech that challenges Official Narratives.

• Dr. Kevin Barrett's GoFundMe account was abruptly shut down and his donor database liquidated, all without a single explanation

• Zionists rabidly heckled Richard Falk at a British university, leading other institutions to cancel his lectures on Palestinian issues

• Sophisticated terrorist-troll Joshua Goldberg hid behind multiple online personalities in order to frame non-Jews for antisemitic activities he himself had concocted. In particular, read about Goldberg's outrageous dirty tricks that got Professor Anthony Hall suspended from his tenured position at Lethridge University.

• Alison Weir, founder of If Americans Knew and a highly respected advocate for the human rights of Palestinians, was subjected to an ongoing witch hunt by progressive Jewish organizations.

• Canary Mission and the Southern Poverty Law Center are two of many organizations which monitor and publicize anti-Zionist activists and academics, deliberately libeling them as antisemitic.

• Based on a wave of bomb threats against Jewish centers, Zionists groups pressured Amazon to remove scores of books with alternative views on WWII – essentially a cyber book burning. It was subsequently discovered that the antisemitic threats were made by an Israeli-American teen. Yet, despite this false flag deception, Amazon never restored these history and science books for public purchase, and they are now very hard to find.

Censorship Today

Censorship continues to be on the rise. The Left Forum’s heavy-handed silencing tactics mirror the pervasive banning of speech by corporate social media players like Google/YouTube and Facebook. These massive entities need to be turned into public utilities so that the power of censorship is not privatized to monopoly capital in which the public has no oversight.

A wide range of activists on both the left and the right are having their channels blocked, harassed, demonetized, and even blacked out or permanently banned by these faceless digital behemoths. Those who have been targeted include:

• We Are Change

• Forbidden Knowledge

• If Americans Knew

• Sane Progressive

• The Health Ranger

• Blackstone Intelligence Network

• Abby Martin - Empire Files (see her feature on militarism in Israel blocked by YouTube in 28 countries)

• The Richie Allen Show

As with the Left Forum, when banned, there is little hope of engaging with a live human against whom one could have their day in court. Welcome to “Facebook jail” where AI bots are often the jailers. AI bots actually might be fairer than the brave new censors enlisted to provide a fig leaf of objectivity. To wit, ADL and the Southern Poverty Law Center, both with business models predicated on rooting out so-called hate speech, have created lucrative opportunities for themselves as official internet thought police.

Watch Israel's Internet Censorship War, a highly informative video revealing how Israel funds million of dollars to train young people on how to develop fake internet personas (i.e., trolls) to censor and sabotage social media free speech.

If you parrot the Official Narratives, you have little to worry. Those who are at risk are the deep-truth tellers, the courageous souls who do not blindly accept at face value the lies and distortions propagated by the oligarchy and their public-facing puppets. Regardless of whether you have a website or post to one, continue to question and challenge authority. All you visionaries, speak out!