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Prof. John Mearsheimer on the fall of Assad: Syria will be in chaos for the foreseeable future
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to John Mearsheimer, professor of political science at the University of Chicago. He discusses the collapse of Bashar Assad’s government in Syria and his demise being a loss for Iran, why the fall...
Dec 14, 2024 03:00
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: SDS, the weather underground & political violence
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses political violence with Mark Rudd, author, and former leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS). The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that carried out a wave of bombings in the...
Dec 24, 2021 07:52
China vows to take Taiwan, Biden pleads in vain (Full show)
Presidents Biden and Xi of the US and China are holding a virtual summit on Monday. Taiwan is expected to be the overwhelming focus of the meeting. Beijing resents Washington's overtures to the island, with which it seeks reunification in the...
Nov 16, 2021 00:11
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: Mainstream environmental movement lies
On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the lies and fantasies told by the mainstream environmental movement about how to solve the climate crisis with authors and activists Derrick Jensen and Lierre Keith. A new book shows how technology will not...
Aug 29, 2021 06:21
On Contact: Virus
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the coronavirus with investigative journalist and author, Nina Burleigh. “There are many ways to begin to tell the story of why more Americans died of Covid-19, the disease caused by SARS-CoV-2,...
Jun 20, 2021 06:52
Conspiracies today are like spirits in ancient times – conspiracy researcher
When uncertainty becomes our daily routine, when there are no answers to mounting questions, we tend to search in the most unusual places. Why do people believe in conspiracy theories? We asked Dr. Michael Shermer, psychologist, historian of science...
Jun 11, 2021 06:42
On Contact: America's secret government
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the rise of America's secret government with journalist and author David Talbot. David Talbot's book is ‘The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret...
Mar 21, 2021 06:26
On Contact: American fascists and the Christian Right
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to the Rev. Dr. Mel White about the Christian Right, which Hedges describes as “a homegrown fascist movement.” It has been organizing to take political power for decades, he says. During the...
Nov 15, 2020 07:02