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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
Social media sting: Anything you post can be used against you
Law enforcement agencies nationwide have a cozy relationship with platforms like Facebook and Google. Attorney Madeline Pendley explains how Big Tech has been gagged from informing users exactly what personal information they’re sharing with...
Oct 16, 2021 05:47
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: Judicial lynching
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Craig Murray, the former British ambassador to Uzbekistan, who was removed from his post after he made public the widespread use of torture by the Uzbek government and the CIA. Murray has since become one...
Jun 27, 2021 06:21
Workers – Don’t just organise, unionise!
There’s nothing like the idea of unionised workers to make the predatory capitalist convulse – for them, precarious employment is profitable. But what if this subjugation and short-termism had its time, particularly as younger...
May 10, 2021 07:43
On Contact: American economic illusion
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with the economist Richard Wolff the nearly $5 trillion being allocated by the Biden administration for Covid-19 relief and infrastructure projects. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on...
Apr 11, 2021 06:53
Prisons fail to correct – criminologist
Punishment for crime is an essential component of our civilisation. But do the punishments currently in place actually make society safer? We talked to Rosemary Ricciardelli, criminology coordinator at Memorial University of Newfoundland, and...
Apr 2, 2021 06:22
US empire damaged by leaks, employers surveil employees at home, EU reigning in big tech
This week, Lee Camp opens with a tale of two sets of leaks – about US police, and imperialist lies about Western intervention in Syria. Public opinion of America has plummeted around the world over the last 5 years, and Camp lays out all of...
Oct 10, 2020 07:39
On Contact: Assange extradition hearing
Chris Hedges discusses with former British ambassador Craig Murray the hearing that just adjourned in London to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found...
Oct 4, 2020 06:22