{"id":12172,"date":"2018-06-07T15:36:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-07T21:36:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2018-06-07T16:05:05","modified_gmt":"2018-06-07T22:05:05","slug":"june-9-2018-john-j-higgins-and-barb-adams-week-in-review-robert-gleason-the-evil-that-men-do-alex-salkever-rebroadcast-the-driver-in-the-driverless-car-ken-goldstein-critical-thinking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/barbadamslive.com\/?p=12172","title":{"rendered":"June 9, 2018 – John J. Higgins and Barb Adams, Week in Review | Robert Gleason, The Evil That Men Do | Alex Salkever (Rebroadcast), The Driver in the Driverless Car | Ken Goldstein, Critical Thinking"},"content":{"rendered":"

(Hour 1 )\u00a0 John J. Higgins and Barb Adams, Week in Review<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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Join Barb and John as they tackle some of the top issues and stories from the past week, offering their own independent opinions and thoughts.<\/p>\n

(Hour 2) Robert Gleason, The Evil That Men Do<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"\"Joining the show during the second hour is bestselling author and nationally-recognized nuclear terrorism expert, Robert Gleason<\/strong>. Robert will be discussing his latest novel, The Evil That Men Do.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Income inequality and the offshore hoarding of illicit black funds have reached such extremes that the earth\u2019s democracies are in peril. The oligarchs are taking over\u2026<\/p>\n

As Bob Gleason notes in his book, The Evil That Men Do<\/em>, eventually \u201cpower and \"\"wealth concentrate in fewer and fewer hands,\u201d and, as Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis wrote, \u201cWe can either have democracy in this country or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can\u2019t have both.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to Gleason, \u201c\u2026the world\u2019s ultra-rich hide one-third of the planet\u2019s annual GDP in offshore black-money accounts and pay no taxes on it. One hundred plutocrats spend more money financing America\u2019s dominant political party than all other contributors put together.\u201d And in Russia, \u201cPutin is arguably the biggest thief in world history. His critics maintain he and his oligarchs have stolen 100% of Russia\u2019s GDP. Worth over $200 billion, Putin is easily the wealthiest man on Earth with two and one half times as much money as the planet\u2019s second biggest billionaire, Jeff Bezos.”<\/p>\n

The ultra-rich today, Gleason continues, \u201cmake their money exploiting people in ways that have no redeeming social value\u2026and many of these billionaires are extremists. Some have had parents and grandparents who had trafficked with Adolph Hitler and Josef Stalin.\u201d<\/p>\n

Bob Gleason will discuss current geo-political entanglements as well as how he believes an oligarchic takeover is happening in America today.<\/p>\n

Robert Gleason is an Executive Editor at Macmillan Publishers in New York City. He has written seventeen books\u2014six of them on nuclear terrorism. His current novel is\u00a0The Evil That Men Do.<\/em>\u00a0 Gleason starred in a History Channel two-hour special, which was devoted largely to nuclear terrorism, has discussed nuclear terrorism on PBS, NPR, Coast to Coast AM<\/em> with George Noory, the Sean Hannity<\/em> and Lou Dobbs<\/em> TV Shows, on hundreds of other shows and has spoken on the subject four times at Harvard.\u00a0\u00a0Mr. Gleason has also worked with inmates in over 60 prisons, and New York has named a day after him for the work he\u2019s done for prison literacy. He also recently succeeded in getting the anti-nuclear activist nun, Sister Megan Rice, to get released from prison.<\/p>\n

For more information, visit https:\/\/robertgleasonbooks.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Hour 3): Alex Salkever (Rebroadcast), <\/a>The Driver in the Driverless Car <\/em>(Original Air Date July 15, 2017)
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