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On Contact: The fight to free knowledge
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses censorship and new digital media with Peter B. Kaufman, author and program manager at MIT Learning Center. The rise of new digital technologies that are rapidly supplanting print have conspired not to...
Aug 6, 2021 08:21
On Contact: Don’t be fooled by Joe Biden
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to history professor and author Paul Street about the Biden administration and its continuity with the Democratic and Republic administrations’ policies and programs to benefit the elite and corporate...
May 9, 2021 07:10
Covid exacerbates cellular senescence – geneticist
Covid-19 has in many ways changed the way we view our health. We talked about this with David Sinclair, professor of genetics and co-director of the Paul F. Glenn Center for Biology of Ageing at Harvard Medical School....
Mar 5, 2021 07:04
We should be able to choose when to die – cryonics advocate
If you were offered the chance to be revived after dying someday in the far-off future, would you go for it? Well, it may sound like the far-fetched realms of sci-fi but it is the reality of cryonics. We talk to Max Moore, philosopher, futurist and...
Feb 19, 2021 06:57
On Contact: Biden admin redux, deep state, empire & censorship
On this show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Glenn Greenwald about the incoming Biden administration and what it will mean for a country in crisis, ravaged by a pandemic it cannot control, hostage to corporate...
Jan 17, 2021 06:05
If production and consumption continue as now, we’ll bury our planet – ‘father of marketing’
Consumerism – culture and lifestyle for some, a religion for many. But 2020 has changed things. As part of the Synergy Online Forum organised by the Synergy Business School, we’ve talked about this with renowned economist and...
Sep 4, 2020 06:05
On contact: Julian Assange extradition hearing with Marjorie Cohn
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991 to 2016,...
Jun 28, 2020 06:32
On Contact: High rates of suicide among combat veterans
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Matthew Hoh, former US Marines company commander, about the high rates of veteran suicides. Hoh served two tours in Iraq as a Marine and also worked as an official within the State Department. He resigned...
May 10, 2020 07:47
Covid-19 pandemic was 100% preventable – immunologist
As the Covid-19 pandemic cripples economies and healthcare systems worldwide, scientists are scrambling in a race of prestige for a vaccine against the novel virus. We talked about this with Dr. Vincent Racaniello, the Higgins Professor of...
Apr 10, 2020 06:18
Intelligent aliens won’t be humanoids - astrophysicist
Based on the sheer number of stars in the galaxy alone... The odds that alien life exists out there are high. But how does that affect us here on Earth? We asked Professor Adam Frank, astronomer, physicist and author....
Jul 29, 2019 06:10