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Ukraine’s dangerous strategy: Targeting nuclear facilities
In today’s episode of Direct Impact, Rick Sanchez addresses the dangerous consequences of a Ukrainian drone strike on a nuclear power plant. The show then shifts focus to US Ambassador to Japan Rahm Emanuel and British officials boycotting a...
Aug 13, 2024 12:05
Israel’s apparent assassination campaign
In this episode of Direct Impact, Rick Sanchez delves into the escalating violence in the Middle East, focusing on Israel’s recent targeted assassinations of key Hamas and Hezbollah leaders. Rick also discusses the growing calls for peace...
Aug 1, 2024 12:01
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: 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
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: Economic disobedience and debt abolition
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discuss economic disobedience and debt refusal with Thomas Gokey from Debt Collective. Most people in the United States are burdened by staggering amounts of debt. They accrue mounting debt because they are forced...
Jul 23, 2021 08:53
On Contact: Police abuse & torture
Chris Hedges discusses police abuse and torture with civil rights attorney Flint Taylor. Taylor’s new book is ‘The Torture Machine: Racism and Police Violence in Chicago’. With his colleagues at the People's Law Office, Taylor...
May 2, 2021 07:14
Humor a great way to speak truth to power – ‘humor engineer’
Humor can be a lifeboat in dark times when it seems we have nothing to laugh about at all. But how is today’s reality transforming what we find funny? We talked about this with Andrew Tarvin, humor engineer and bestselling author....
Dec 4, 2020 07:10
Richard Stallman: You can get arrested without a reason
The last few months have put data protection back in the spotlight. During a crisis of this kind, do we have to choose between safety and privacy? We talked about this with Richard Stallman, digital privacy activist and the founder of the Free...
Sep 25, 2020 06:02
George Galloway on populism, racism and anti-Semitism
Chris Hedges discusses with former UK Member of Parliament George Galloway the state of politics in the UK and US, racism, and Islamophobia and anti-Semitism. Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT...
Jul 14, 2019 06:52