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Striketober, fascist passports, corrupt Manchin and the exploitation of black bodies

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Lee covers the wave of strikes that are happening in the country. Workers across industries from fast food to nurses to Hollywood are demanding that they receive the bare minimum. As businesses like John Deere try to operate without their trained workers, they’re discovering the hard way how valuable their workforce was. … Read More >Striketober, fascist passports, corrupt Manchin and the exploitation of black bodies

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Myth of the debt ceiling, virtual learning profits, investing to change the world

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Lee Camp exposes the truth about our ‘debt ceiling’. It’s an arbitrary, completely meaningless ‘limit’ that our government invents. In fact, it’s not even a useful indicator for any economic stressor facing the country. It’s simply a tool used by the rich to enforce austerity that hurts the poor. … Read More >Myth of the debt ceiling, virtual learning profits, investing to change the world

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2021 Nobel Prize winner Professor Klaus Hasselmann explains why politicians have failed on climate crisis so far

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the 2021 Nobel Prize winner, Professor Klaus Hasselmann. He discusses why the political classes of the world have been unable to formulate a long-term united plan against climate change, and explains the method and data used to separate long-term climate trends through Earth’s history from the carbon-intensive human era since the industrial revolution in his pioneering climate change modelling. … Read More >2021 Nobel Prize winner Professor Klaus Hasselmann explains why politicians have failed on climate crisis so far

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Global Peace Index 2021: Peace deteriorating, military spending & violence on the rise

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On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Steve Killelea, founder of the Institute for Economics & Peace, about the Global Peace Index 2021 report. He discusses the deterioration of peace through the coronavirus pandemic, the increase of violent mass demonstrations against inequality and racial discrimination, the most violent countries in the world being in Latin America, and much more! … Read More >Global Peace Index 2021: Peace deteriorating, military spending & violence on the rise

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‘A poison for social cohesion’: German govt’s wealth report shows disparity between rich & poor is ‘solidifying’

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Low-income families in Germany have ever fewer chances of climbing out of poverty, the German government’s latest poverty and wealth report confirms, in what Berlin’s critics describe as a testament to inequality. … Read More >‘A poison for social cohesion’: German govt’s wealth report shows disparity between rich & poor is ‘solidifying’