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People are waking up, the chemical industry, justice for Prakash
The US’ two-party system is quickly losing support from voters as it becomes more obvious that neither party represent the interests of regular people. The impact of donor money on politics continues to grow, and it is becoming difficult for...
Feb 12, 2022 06:27
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: 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
On Contact: Islamophobia, race & global politics
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the nature of Islamophobia with the author and professor, Nazia Kazi. Islamophobia is not defined solely as anti-Muslim sentiment. It is not limited to hate speech and hate crimes, racial stereotypes, or...
Jan 7, 2022 07:08
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: Business secrets of drug dealers
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the business secrets of drug-dealing with investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. No one knows exactly how big the underground or illegal economy is in the United States, but most estimates say it's huge, 11%, maybe...
Nov 21, 2021 06:19
Human beings are made to suffer – philosopher
From an early age, we strive to understand the world around us. But maybe we should do more to understand ourselves. Well, today I'm putting life's big questions about love and happiness to the philosopher and founder of The School of Life –...
Nov 5, 2021 07:00
On Contact: Trauma & Transformation in an American Prison, Part 2
In the second of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges the role of race and poverty in mass incarceration, as chronicled in Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class:...
Oct 17, 2021 07:27
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