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The US is using the pandemic to intensify its regime-change and military campaigns against countries across the world. This is revealing the weaknesses of the US Empire. Meanwhile, the US’ largest competitors for global power is distributing aid to countries in need. … Read More >The end of US empire

The pandemic is a disaster, but if you’re looking for the positive side of this crisis, there are several boons you could focus on. Human pollution has reduced drastically, wildlife is having a great time, the façade that our economy of pointless jobs has any value is falling apart, and everyone in politics is newly open to radical policy solutions to our problems. … Read More >This pandemic puts our priorities in order

Naomi Karavani is the guest host of this episode of VIP. Karavani, Lee Camp and Natalie McGill open the show with a panel where they compare the coronavirus pandemic to former crises in the US, how our society is relying on low-wage workers to continue functioning throughout this pandemic … Read More >Low-wage workers on the frontlines of the pandemic

Naomi Klein released ‘The Shock Doctrine’ in 2007. In it she looked back at how powerful people have systematically used crises to implement draconian austerity politics and plunder economies in the name of “free market” economics. … Read More >The pandemic shock doctrine, Joe Biden, Andrew Cuomo, & Labor power

The rich are prepared to let millions of US citizens die in order to safeguard the economy against the coronavirus crisis. The US renews its demonization of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro. … Read More >Green Party presidential candidate Howie Hawkins

Naomi Karavani pilots the 200th episode of Redacted Tonight VIP. She opens the show with Lee Camp and Anders Lee on a panel. They discuss the coronavirus’ impacts around the world, some of the upsides of this economic downturn, the rise of eco-fascist logic, the census, and the return of Martin Shkreli. … Read More >The race for a coronavirus cure

Lee opens the show this week with a look into how Trumpist nationalism has made the coronavirus crisis worse. We no longer live in a world where it’s possible to pretend that one nation’s problems are separate from those of every other nation. … Read More >US nationalists v public health crisis

This week Lee sits down with Redacted Tonight correspondents Naomi Karavani and Anders Lee. They discuss the social impacts of the coronavirus pandemic as it sweeps the US, and the state of the US primaries. … Read More >The coronavirus pandemic, Saint Patrick’s battalion in the Mexican-American War

The Coronavirus is spreading across the world rapidly and testing the resilience of governments and societies. The US has found itself unprepared for the pandemic partly because Donald Trump got rid of a pandemic response power when he first came to power but also because of the healthcare system that has been at the center of this election season. Lee covers the situation so far. … Read More >Coronavirus v the US healthcare system