WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TRUTH
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 …
Naomi Karavani hosts Redacted Tonight this week. A few corporations have taken near-monopoly control over the foods we buy in grocery stores. Karavani exposes how these special interests have managed to win insane subsidies for their businesses and force processed food products on society. It’s a story of lobbying, bribes, and propaganda that lets these corporations get away with putting trash on our tables while paying the people who produce their products peanuts. …
Mark Horvath is the founder and director of InvisiblePeople.tv. The non-profit organization was built to highlight the plight of people living on the streets in the US. Horvath had experienced homelessness and held a career in the TV industry in Los Angeles before the 2008 economic collapse. In the months after the crisis began he started taking a camera to interview people without homes. …
Lee Camp takes a look back at how Congress played economic brinkmanship with the eviction moratorium over the past week. Millions of people were threatened with eviction without the moratorium. If it weren’t for Representative Cori Bush and the people who slept at the Capitol with her, evictions would be in full swing right now. …
Lee Camp interviews Afeni – a DC-based organizer and member of Fred Hampton Leftists. He learned about her work when she spoke at a Medicare For All rally and knew that Redacted Tonight viewers needed to hear from her. They discuss the precarious situation on the ground for people across the country in the face of a political class that doesn’t care about their welfare. Afeni also offers solutions to the growing problems affecting the most vulnerable members of our society. …
Joe Biden announced this week that combat operations in Iraq were over. Lee Camp looks back at all the times previous presidents made the same false declaration about the US’ extended illegal occupation of the Middle Eastern nation. Camp also reports on the Medicare for All marches that took place across the country last weekend, the boost being given to the military’s already-gargantuan budget, the sentencing of whistleblower Daniel Hale, and the latest in the Syrian chemical weapons saga. …
Lee Camp looks into a solution to humanity’s widespread destruction of agricultural land. Hydroponic farming technologies offer society the ability to feed everyone using less land and less water. The corporate world is always looking for ways to ruin anything good, but, barring their interference, these technologies could improve billions of lives. …
Lee Camp sits down with investigative journalist Ann Garrison to learn about US imperialist goals in Ethiopia. Garrison is a contributing editor at Black Agenda Report and has been reporting on the civil war in the country. The US’ intentions in Ethiopia can be mapped out with a look at its history of “humanitarian” intervention and its actions during the genocide in Rwanda. …
Lee Camp exposes the exploitation that holds the gig economy together. One-third of US citizens work within the gig economy and its practical impact is to increase the precarious situation of American workers. The system guts many of the protections that people had come to expect from their jobs and that’s exactly why the rich love it. …
Former Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein joins Lee Camp on VIP this week. Stein is part of Doctors for Assange. The group is concerned about the health of Julian Assange, under the persecution of the United States. But Stein and the group she’s organizing with are in the fight to free the political prisoner for more than just health reasons …
