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Is climate crisis becoming an excuse for mass surveillance?

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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 look. The federal Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) keeps an “unofficial” database with records pertaining to 54 million gun owners, raising concern among those who argue that registration will inevitably lead to confiscation of private arms. … Read More >Is climate crisis becoming an excuse for mass surveillance?

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Russia STOLE formula for Sputnik V Covid-19 jab, UK’s conspiracy-loving spies allege. Moscow says if you believe them, seek help

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We’re a year and a half in and public interest is waning in the Covid-19 pandemic. Thus, you can probably forgive Britain’s best-selling newspaper, The Sun, for trying to inject a little bit of excitement back into the narrative. … Read More >Russia STOLE formula for Sputnik V Covid-19 jab, UK’s conspiracy-loving spies allege. Moscow says if you believe them, seek help

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Slavoj Zizek on the failure of liberalism, how capitalism restricts freedom, climate crisis & the US ideological civil war

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to world-renowned communist philosopher Slavoj Zizek, author of ‘Heaven in Disorder’. He discusses the ‘disorder under heaven’ quote by Chairman Mao Zedong and why he has turned it on its head for the title of his new book, the ideological civil war in the USA … Read More >Slavoj Zizek on the failure of liberalism, how capitalism restricts freedom, climate crisis & the US ideological civil war

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On Contact: Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man & the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

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On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist and author, Ariel Sabar, about his new book Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man and the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife. Sabar’s book exposes much about the bankruptcy of contemporary theology and the yearning by academics to be lionized by the mass media and popular culture, even at the expense of truth. … Read More >On Contact: Veritas: A Harvard Professor, a Con Man & the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife

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Lab leak theory, kidnapping Alex Saab, John McAfee’s alleged suicide

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When Donald Trump spread the lab leak conspiracy theory, the corporate media made fun of him. Now that the theory is useful to Joe Biden, it has become the conspiracy theory of choice in liberal circles. Lee Camp looks into the evidence for a Wuhan lab leak. He then goes back into the history of US experimentation on the public with biological weapons, hallucinogens, and more. … Read More >Lab leak theory, kidnapping Alex Saab, John McAfee’s alleged suicide

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With vaccines widely available in Russia, dying of Covid-19 has become optional. So why are so many intent on making that choice?

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Russia’s pandemic record is contradictory. It has one of Europe’s highest death rates, but its economy has kept ticking over. Moscow gave the world its first Covid-19 vaccine, but few of the city’s residents are keen on taking it. … Read More >With vaccines widely available in Russia, dying of Covid-19 has become optional. So why are so many intent on making that choice?

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Protest group StandUpX fights against ‘undemocratic’ Covid-19 measures, mixing real concerns with conspiracy theories

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British protest group StandUpX is gaining in numbers. They mostly protest restrictive anti-Covid-19 measures, but members also oppose 5G and vaccines, among other things. The overarching belief is that democracy is under threat. … Read More >Protest group StandUpX fights against ‘undemocratic’ Covid-19 measures, mixing real concerns with conspiracy theories

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Half of all Russians believe NASA faked moon landings & 2% think Earth is flat – new study

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Almost fifty percent of surveyed Russians think that the US government “falsified” the Apollo expeditions to the Moon, with just 31 percent absolutely sure that American astronauts walked on the surface of Earth’s satellite. … Read More >Half of all Russians believe NASA faked moon landings & 2% think Earth is flat – new study