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On Contact: Race and America's long war
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America's inner and outer wars and its nexus with capitalism and empire with Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University Nikhil Pal Singh. The internal violence in the United...
Feb 27, 2022 10:36
On Contact: Climate fortresses
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the building of climate fortresses with the author and journalist, Todd Miller. Industrialized nations, among them the world’s largest polluters, are compounding one human-made crisis with another one....
Jan 9, 2022 06:48
Violence against US govt justifiable – new poll (full show)
Thursday marks the one year anniversary since the January 6th riots, some refer it to the insurrection. The scenes from the Capitol building seared into the American collective consciousness. Thousands of Trump supporters rallying outside---as...
Jan 3, 2022 20:32
Examining the economic outlook for 2022
First, we’ll take a look at the supply chain problems that have dominated both headlines and business talk over the past few months and consider whether the strain on the auto industry will continue into 2022. Next, this year saw the launch of...
Dec 31, 2021 07:00
On Contact: The Black Agenda
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the journalist Glen Ford and the radical black press with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer and spokesperson with the Black Alliance for Peace. Glen Ford, who died in the summer of 2021, was one of the...
Dec 10, 2021 06:50
On Contact: Struggle against industrial agriculture
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O’Connell. The San Joaquin Valley in California is the most agriculturally productive farmland in the United States, but it is also plagued...
Nov 19, 2021 07:04
Top US general: Yes, I called China — here's why (Full show)
General Mark Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, faced a bevy of tough questions by US senators on Tuesday about his tenure as top US general and especially the war in Afghanistan and the US withdrawal. One such question, posed by Tim...
Sep 29, 2021 00:01
On Contact: Anti-capitalist chronicles, part 2
On the show, the second of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the social, political, and economic consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, exploring alienation, the rise of authoritarianism, the...
Sep 26, 2021 07:21
On Contact: Undercurrents of American fascism
On January 6, 2021, a mob, incited by outgoing US President Donald Trump, stormed the US Capitol building, in an attempt to halt the in-session congressional certification of the 2020 election results. Within the mob, as scholar Gabriel Rockhill...
Sep 17, 2021 04:15
BTC trial launches in El Salvador & aluminum price spike on Guinea coup
The great bitcoin experiment is underway in El Salvador as the Central American nation adopts the cryptocurrency as a means of payment. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute analyze the most recent developments...
Sep 8, 2021 06:34