Tag: US Propaganda
On Contact: The age of manufactured ignorance
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the age of manufactured ignorance with the scholar Professor Henry A. Giroux. Education, Giroux writes, has increasingly become a tool of domination as right-wing pedagogical apparatuses controlled by the entrepreneurs of hate attack workers, the poor, people of color, refugees, immigrants from the south, and others considered disposable. …
Tackling Anti-China Propaganda w/ Amanda Yee, an update on targeted harassment in Florida
Amanda Yee is the host of the podcast Radio Free Amanda, where she tackles anti-China propaganda in politics, culture and the media. Anders Lee interviews Yee on this episode that’s hosted by Naomi Karavani. Lee and Yee look into the propaganda surrounding Chinese athletes at the Olympics, the development of – and Western backlash to – China’s Belt and Road Initiative …
Richard Medhurst on US aggression toward Syria, and Exxon lobbyists boast of stopping climate action
Lee Camp interviews independent journalist Richard Medhurst on US foreign policy. Medhurst is from Syria and has an intimate understanding of the conflict in the region. Thanks to US intervention, the situation over there is still volatile and dangerous. Camp and Medhurst discuss the continued violence from religious extremist groups, the US’s crippling sanctions impacting the Syrian people …
