Category: Shows
On Contact: Corporate tyranny & Steven Donziger
On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Steven Donziger, the human rights environmental justice attorney, about the grim reality when we confront the real centers of power.Donziger has been fighting polluting American oil companies for nearly three decades on behalf of indigenous communities and peasant farmers in Ecuador, and has been under house arrest in Manhattan for nearly two years. …
Coronavirus corruption in Boris Johnson’s Britain & coronavirus catastrophe in Modi’s India
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Prof. Guy Standing. He discusses his new book, ‘The Corruption of Capitalism’, the shocking revelations made by Dominic Cummings about disastrous coronavirus pandemic mismanagement by the Boris Johnson government, arguable neglect and chronic corruption, the revolving door between big finance and politics in the UK …
Lab leak: can intelligence be trusted?
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos reveal the intelligence community’s latest claims about the origins of Covid-19, and question whether the masses can trust the intelligence, following decades of lies. They also discuss the US Justice Department’s surveillance of journalists. Plus, science writer Nicholas Wade breaks down the lab-leak theory. …
Israel’s propaganda, Joe Biden abandons student debt promises, San Francisco DA Chesa Boudin under attack
Israel’s latest operation targeting people in occupied Palestine has aroused a global movement of resistance. In response, the Israeli government has sparked a propaganda campaign to convince the world the real problem is antisemitism rather than the violence from its forces. Lee Camp examines the propaganda being used to persuade people to forget about Israel’s crimes against the Palestinian people. …
Is the Palestinian struggle moving back to armed resistance? (Yasser Arafat’s nephew Dr. Nasser Al-Kidwa & Daniel Levy)
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Yasser Al-Kidwa, the nephew of the late leader of the Palestinian Liberation Organisation Yasser Arafat. He discusses the presidential election next door in Syria which saw Bashar Al-Assad re-elected for another 7-year term, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s visit to Ramallah to meet with Mahmoud Abbas, perceptions that the Palestinian Authority and ruling elite are out of touch for still pursuing negotiations with the United States …
CrossTalk: Biden-media lovefest
Joe Biden’s policy honeymoon may be over, but this doesn’t apply to the lovefest the media’s in with the president and his administration. Amazingly, we’re told there’s no need for fact-checkers. We weren’t allowed to trust Trump, but now we can again trust politicians. And why? The reason is simple: most of the media is in lockstep with the liberal agenda. …
UnKoch my campus, the future of private security, Alabama coal-miner strike
Lee Camp interviews the executive director of UnKoch My Campus Jasmine Banks. Banks takes us through the Koch agenda on college campuses across the country. The notorious oligarchs have used their billions of dollars to fund campus activists and academic departments with a view toward pushing free-market principles and undermining social welfare policies. …