WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TRUTH
We speak to Rob Wallace, author of ‘Big Farms Make Big Flu’. He discusses how in recent history, deforestation and land use changes driven by global capital have caused more epidemics, his own experience battling coronavirus, why the emergency response to coronavirus has a side-effect of making the population see the structural causes …
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the hanging deaths of three black men in the US. Trump sanctions members of the International Criminal Court and the US Supreme Court rules in favor of LGBT civil rights. Retired Army Major Danny Sjursen talks about the link between the military and police brutality. …
An agent provocateur is an undercover agent, sometimes a police officer, who’s deployed to join a protest to provoke protesters into illegal acts or violence so the protest can be discredited and those protesting are liable for prosecution. It’s a classic strategy, and Anders Lee explores its place in history, both in the recent George Floyd uprisings, and in many instances of domestic terrorism in the US. …
We speak to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer. He discusses the ongoing #BlackLivesMatter protests following the death of George Floyd, President Trump’s police reform executive order and whether it’s good enough, alleged systemic & cultural racism in the US, his condemnation of the US for ‘racial terror lynchings’, the ongoing persecution of Julian Assange and more …
The world of journalism is under direct assault by naysayers left and right these days. Matt Taibbi’s latest publication is doing the rounds among news outlets, arguing that social media outrage is actively endangering honest reporting. Also, why won’t the Trump administration fess up about exactly where $500 billion of Covid-19 bailout funds have gone? …
