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The Ripple Effect Podcast

The Ripple Effect Podcast # 79 (Russ Baker)

The Ripple Effect Podcast

Ricky Varandas

6, Bryan, Callen, Dave, Carlin, Bill, Society & Culture, Philosophy

4.6603 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2015

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

Episode 79 with Russ Baker, award winning investigative journalist, author of best selling book 'FAMILY OF SECRETS: The Bush Dynasty, America's Invisible Government & the Hidden History of the Last Fifty Years' and also the founder & editor of WhoWhatWhy.org, a non-profit news site. He has also written for many national & international publications like the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, The Guardian, Salon, Esquire and many more.
Russ Baker returns to the show to talk about his investigation into the Boston Bombing, the mysterious death of journalist Michael Hastings & much more.

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0:00.0

We must regard again the acquisition of unborned in a world, whether sought or unsurbed, by the military

0:11.0

successful economy. In my line of work for the truth of you're going to

0:22.6

keep repeating

0:27.6

things over and over again

0:29.6

for the truth to sink in

0:33.6

they've got to cataport the propaganda

0:38.3

I'm going to cataport the propaganda

0:46.3

propaganda What's up, everybody?

0:59.5

Another episode of Ripple Effect podcast.

1:01.3

I'm your host, Ricky Vrandis.

1:02.5

Today we got author and journalist Russ Baker.

1:04.9

He's also the editor and creator of who what why.org, a great website where you can get just up-to-date news on historical

1:12.0

events and current events. So definitely check that out. Russ Baker's written for everybody, New York

1:17.2

or Vanity Feared, New York Times, The Nation, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, Village

1:23.0

Voice, Esquire, Salon, just to name a few, and he's written for other publications overseas. But he's just a really knowledgeable, smart guy who's been doing this for a long time. Always a pleasure to talk to him. So definitely enjoy the show. In the beginning of the show, I was going to cut it out, but you know what? I'll leave it in. The whole point of this show, or not the whole point, but one of the points of this show is to share some interesting information that could be useful. And we have a little bit of small talk about how to help with your stomach bug, because Russ had one at the moment. So you know what? That information could be helpful to somebody too. So why cut that out when somebody might have a stomach

2:00.9

bug listen to this podcast and it could help them out so i'll leave that in and also we talk about the

2:06.1

boston bombing we talk about uh a little bit of the bush family and uh the upcoming election

2:11.7

we talk about a whole bunch of stuff that i obviously can't remember at the moment but it's it was long

2:17.3

podcast it was a long podcast.

2:18.2

It was a, I don't know, an hour and 20 minutes or something like that. So I enjoyed. It was a great time. It's always really fun to talk to Ross. And like I tell him in the beginning of this show, every time I listen to him speak or hear an interview with him, I always end up learning something. Also check out his podcast.

2:15.4

Who What Why has a podcast, which you can find just like the ripple effect podcast.

2:19.0

You can find it out his podcast. Who What Why has a podcast, which you can find just like the Ripple Effect podcast.

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