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Despite godlike technologies, our goals are primitive – sculptor
Pablo Picasso once famously said that sculpture is the art of intelligence. We talked to Sir Antony Gormley, sculptor, intellectual and philosopher. Follow @SophieCo_RT Instagram Sophieco.visionaries...
Jan 14, 2022 06:33
On Contact: Slow-motion execution of Julian Assange
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the torture of Julian Assange with his father, John Shipton. Julian Assange committed the empire’s greatest sin – he exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for...
Dec 26, 2021 06:16
On Contact: The second war on terror
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the second war on terror with journalist Glenn Greenwald. The liberal and Democratic Party elites have seized on the January 6 mob assault on the US Capitol as the domestic equivalent of the 9/11 attacks. Joe...
Nov 14, 2021 06:23
FULL SHOW: France to build more nuclear reactors; COP26 wraps up
As the international Climate Change summit reaches its final days in Scotland, over in the EU, members are waiting for the European Commission to determine what is defined as ‘clean energy’, and whether nuclear energy should be included...
Nov 11, 2021 01:15
On Contact: Sex, women, gender identity
Chris Hedges discusses gender identity with Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex. There are few cultural debates as contentious as the one raging around gender identity. Do we have an inner state called a gender...
Nov 7, 2021 06:34
Traditional artists to embrace NFT: digital graphic designer Beeple
Digital art is rapidly grabbing the attention of not only tech enthusiasts but also venerable auction houses. Is the crypto art craze a bubble hyped by the pandemic, or is it the real deal and here to stay? We talk to one of the top-three...
Sep 24, 2021 06:02
On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux.Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the...
Sep 10, 2021 07:54
On Contact: The corporatization of science
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the corporatization and corruption of American science with the author Clifford D. Conner. Science in the United States almost exclusively serves the interests of corporate and military power. Science historian...
Sep 5, 2021 06:16
Britain cuts foreign aid budget, the US’ draconian mass incarceration prison system (E1021)
We firstly speak to Nick Dearden. He discusses Boris Johnson’s cutting of the foreign aid budget, the use of British aid to fuel privatisation and big business, the need for the UK to pay reparations to countries which have been the victims of...
Jun 9, 2021 08:16
On Contact: Emergence of the global police state
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the emergence of the global police state with Professor William I. Robinson. Robinson’s new book, The Global Police State, uses shocking data to reveal how far capitalism has become a system of...
Apr 4, 2021 06:36