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On Contact: Assange can be extradited, says court
Chris Hedges and Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria discuss the British High Court ruling to allow the extradition of Julian Assange. On Friday, the British High Court in London overturned an earlier lower court decision blocking the...
Dec 12, 2021 06:08
On Contact: The second war on terror
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the second war on terror with journalist Glenn Greenwald. The liberal and Democratic Party elites have seized on the January 6 mob assault on the US Capitol as the domestic equivalent of the 9/11 attacks. Joe...
Nov 14, 2021 06:23
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: 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
On contact: Julian Assange extradition hearing with Marjorie Cohn
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991 to 2016,...
Jun 28, 2020 06:32
Too hard to build future with unpredictable partners like US – ex-French PM
With Trump facing off with Europe over trade and diplomacy, the transatlantic unity of the West seems to be cracking. Can the row between the historic allies go further? We asked Jean-Pierre Raffarin, the former prime minister of France. Follow...
Jul 2, 2018 06:36
Private prisons bribe judges to jail more inmates – ex-prison guard speaks out
Incarceration, for some, is a pure tragedy; for others, a burden on taxpayers’ wallets. And yet, there are those who make billions of dollars from the grim industry of private prisons. The US government praises them as a way to ease expenditure,...
Jun 5, 2015 07:52
Kids locked in adult migrant camps, subject to physical & mental abuse - rights activist
Every year, thousands of refugees leave the hardships behind and undertake a journey - sometimes a dangerous one - to begin a new life in the UK. But some find, not a promised democracy and humanity, but prison-like confinement in...
Mar 27, 2015 08:28
Kevin Mitnick: Govt thought I could launch nuke just by whistling into phone
In a world in which everything is controlled by computers; binary code rules communications, energy, food and water. In such reality, what is a hacker? Are they all criminals looking to steal and to harm - or do some of them do it for just...
Mar 6, 2015 08:18
Ex-mercenary & SAS officer: Worst atrocities committed by child soldiers
Soldiers of fortune. Hired guns. Mercenaries. They’ve existed throughout the known history of mankind, always there, where the flames of war are high. Little has changed in our days – private military companies are flourishing, and...
Jun 30, 2014 05:14