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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
Is climate crisis becoming an excuse for mass surveillance?
The trial of Kyle Rittenhouse is underway. The tearful, intensely dramatic trial is being televised live and has captivated viewers and brings Americans’ perennial debate over gun control to the fore. RT America’s Faran Fronczak takes a...
Nov 11, 2021 01:47
ATF keeps 'unofficial' database on 54 million gun owners (Full show)
The Federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) has been quietly collecting records for 54 million gun owners. This is raising concern among gun owners over perennial fears over a federal database, a necessary precondition for confiscation...
Nov 11, 2021 01:14
Cancelled comedians and whistleblowers (E408)
It is often the case that books they try to ban go straight to the top of the bestseller list. This seems to have happened with the comedian Dave Chappelle and his current show on Netflix. He is the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’,...
Oct 30, 2021 10:24
Robots can’t replace surgeons – heart surgeon
Technology promises to stave off old age, as scientists work to increase the durability of our organs, including the most vital – the heart. What’s changing? And what does the future hold for healthcare in general? World-renowned heart...
Oct 15, 2021 06:03
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: 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
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
On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux.Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the...
Sep 10, 2021 07:54
On Contact: Legacy of Empire
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the importance of the scholar Edward Said with Professor Hamid Dabashi. Dabashi is professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. Every empire, as Edward Said points out,...
Aug 20, 2021 07:40