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RIP John Pilger (1939-2023): ‘Israel is a lying machine, Palestine has the right to defend itself’
On this special episode of Going Underground, we pay tribute to legendary journalist and film-maker John Pilger, who passed away at the age of 84. He was the award-winning author of the books ‘Hidden Agendas’, ‘Heroes’ and...
Jan 1, 2024 06:03
On Contact: Corporate assault on US Postal Service
Chris Hedges discusses the corporate assault against the US Postal Service with author Christopher W. Shaw. The corporate seizure of public utilities and privatization of schools is part of a broad assault to turn government assets into assets that...
Jan 21, 2022 05:52
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
Autophagy shields a person from infection – neurogeneticist
The human body is wise, it knows how to regulate itself. But like every mechanism, even the most perfect ones, it needs a reset button. We talked to David Rubinsztein, professor of molecular neurogenetics at Cambridge University, about the...
Nov 26, 2021 06:46
On Contact: Neofascist seizure of America’s state governments
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the seizure of state governments by America’s homegrown neofascist movement with the historian Paul Street. The creeping homegrown Christianized fascism that is steadily gaining power in the United States is...
Oct 22, 2021 06:45
Trauma & Transformation in an American Prison, Part 1
In part one of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American...
Oct 15, 2021 06:46
Social media add to depression and FOMO – visionary entrepreneur
Feel that others are enjoying a better life and you are missing a trick? We all feel this way from time to time, and it turns out science has a name for it. We talk to venture capitalist and the man who coined the term ‘fear of missing...
Oct 1, 2021 06:34
On Contact: Anti-capitalist chronicles, part 1
On the show, the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the reconfiguration of global capitalism, the contradictions of neoliberalism, the financialization of power, the commodification of spectacle, rate...
Sep 24, 2021 06:20
On Contact: The second American revolution
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the Second American Revolution with author David Talbot. The populist uprisings of the Progressive Era, labor militancy of the 1930s, and the sweeping social and cultural transformations of the 1960s and 1970s...
Sep 19, 2021 06:57
On Contact: Inverted totalitarianism
Chris Hedges discusses the work of political philosopher Sheldon Wolin with Professor Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, a student of Wolin’s. Wolin, who died in 2015, is our most important contemporary political theorist, one...
Sep 12, 2021 06:15