Tag: Show-Redacted Tonight
Chaos on Super Tuesday, coronavirus, the vigilante app
Bernie Sanders and Joe Biden are the last contenders standing in the Democratic primary election after Super Tuesday. Lee takes a look at what happened on Tuesday. There were obvious and less obvious attempts to undermine the progressive vote. Biden ended up being pushed as the winner of the day but the aftermath might paint a different picture. …
Julian Assange’s extradition (w/George Galloway)
George Galloway is the guest this week. He is a friend of Julian Assange, the political prisoner and founder of WikiLeaks. Assange is facing an extradition hearing in the UK. The US wants to bring him over here to charge him with a multitude of crimes for exposing American war crimes. Galloway discusses his trial and what’s likely to happen. …
MSNBC hates Bernie Sanders, Weinstein jailed, Malcom X remembered
It seems like Bernie Sanders is running away with the DNC primary, and the corporate media are freaking out. It’s really funny to behold and Lee is here to make fun of it with you. Both Chris Matthews and Chuck Todd have made Nazi allusions about the so-called “Bernie Bros” in the last few weeks, and that didn’t stop the momentum of Bernie’s anti-establishment campaign. Now the media have started to create a narrative that the Russians are supporting both Sanders and Trump. …
‘Medicare For All’ could save lives & billions of dollars
A new Yale study says what we already knew about universal healthcare – it’s a lot cheaper than the for-profit healthcare system and saves a significant number of lives. Lee looks at the forces keeping our horrific system alive. In ‘Taking The News From Behind’, Lee covers how the state of Georgia is in two legal binds, with Greg Palast and Abby Martin, the Boy Scouts of America went into bankruptcy …
The Democratic primary is wild
Lee “shreds some paper” at the top of the show. He takes apart a front page of the Washington Post that is filled with hyperbole and vitriol, including an attack on Trump for being too supportive of Chinese President Xi Jinping. China is facing the coronavirus pandemic and it seems like a great time to be sympathetic to them. After all, Trump started a trade war with China in his early days as POTUS. …
Direct action against animal abuse (with Wayne Hsiung)
Our guest today is Wayne Hsiung, a lawyer and co-founder of Direct Action Everywhere, who is currently facing felony charges for recording animal abuse across the country. Anders Lee reports on a little-known story from American history in which a small group of plutocrats attempted to overthrow the government. …
The state of bipartisan sickness, the DNC’s Iowa debacle, Trump’s racist ‘travel’ ban
Donald Trump made his third State of the Union address this week and despite the recent impeachment drama with the DNC, there’s still a lot of bipartisan support for the terrible actions of our government. Lee watched the speech and found several points of agreement between the parties on issues such as the US’ prison-industrial complex and our foreign interventions. …