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Desperate companies lower bar to replace vanishing workers
Tens of thousands of medical workers at Kaiser Permanente are striking for a one percent raise. Instead of meeting their demands, the company is hiring ununionized workers, or "scabs." RT America's Faran Fronczak explains how the "two tier pay"...
Nov 10, 2021 01:09
15 Israeli spies arrested as Turkey moves against Mossad
Fifteen operatives of Mossad, Israel's shadowy intelligence agency, were arrested in Turkey after being tracked for more than a year. They were tasked with observing the activities of foreign students enrolled in Turkish universities. What else do...
Oct 28, 2021 21:07
In 30 years, real meat will only be available in illegal places – 1st stem-cell burger creator
The Earth’s population is growing and so is the demand for food. Will we be able to sustain the planet when there are twice as many of us, and not completely destroy the environment? We talked to a man who has presented the first lab-grown...
Oct 22, 2021 06:42
On Contact: Pandemic!
On the show this week, the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural and economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. “Driven by demand to persevere and not to fail, as...
Jul 14, 2021 07:58
On Contact: Corporate tyranny & Steven Donziger
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Steven Donziger, the human rights environmental justice attorney, about the grim reality when we confront the real centers of power.Donziger has been fighting polluting American oil companies for nearly...
May 30, 2021 06:27
On Contact: ‘Except for Palestine’
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses why American liberals refuse to speak out about the crimes the Israeli apartheid state carries out against the Palestinians, with political analyst and author Mitchell Plitnick. Mitchell Plitnick's new...
May 23, 2021 06:37
On Contact: The power of classics
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with Emily Allen-Hornblower and Marquis McCray the power of the classics, such as Sophocles’ play Philoctetes, to elucidate mass incarceration. Emily Allen-Hornblower is a...
Feb 21, 2021 06:51
On Contact: Wrecking the left
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist Diana Johnstone about the betrayal of the left with its historical role as the champion of social justice and peace now replaced with the boutique activism of identity politics, political...
Dec 13, 2020 06:41
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
On Contact: Shredding journalistic credibility
On the show this week, Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi examine how the media and the major tech platforms function as a propaganda and censorship bureau on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Biden campaign. Author and journalist, Matt Taibbi, has...
Nov 1, 2020 07:10