WE HAVE OUR EYE ON THE TRUTH
The corporate media is pushing stories about child labor in China because they have a new Cold War to sell to us. Lee Camp brings you the slavery stories the propagandists won’t tell you about. The corporate world is run on child labor, from the precious metals that make our cell phones work to the chocolate that Nestlé delivers to the store shelves. Camp also covers racist police violence. …
Naomi Karavani hosts this VIP special. Anders Lee interviews Gigi Droesch, who organizes with NOlympics LA. The Olympics has historically had a negative impact on the poor in the communities it comes to. With an LA Olympics planned for 2028, Droesch and her cohort of organizers hope to shine a light on that history and convince the city of LA not to go through with hosting the event. …
Lee Camp dives back into the issue of mass incarceration in the US. He breaks down who is actually being held in the prison system by the numbers. There are a lot more nonviolent offenders and people who haven’t been convicted of any crime yet are stuck in for-profit facilities than you might assume. Camp also covers the candidate selection process of the People’s Party compared to that of America’s two corporate parties. …
The US today is a sick, broken society. Late-stage capitalism doesn’t offer any real solutions to the problems that people are facing as the economy falls apart. Lee Camp looks at the false solutions that corporations and the US government offer to people instead of addressing the root causes of the real problems that we all face. System-wide problems require systemic answers but unfortunately it’s more profitable to allow those problems to persist while selling solutions to the symptoms. …
Monica Cruz, a labor reporter and anchor with BreakThrough News, sits down with Lee Camp for a conversation on the national landscape for labor organizers in the US right now. Cruz just returned from Alabama where an Amazon union drive recently finished with a loss in the face of a massive Jeff Bezos-funded union busting campaign. …
Lee Camp looks into the US’ long history of oppressed people fighting back against their oppressors. The story goes back to the arrival of the ‘Mayflower’ and continues today as our corporate overlords seek to invade the privacy of workers. The capitalist system continues to try and crush the human spirit and turn workers into automatons but we can continue the tradition of fighting back. …
Lee Camp opens the show this week with a recent report released publicly by the intelligence community to prove how little they are willing to tolerate free speech. Their list of “domestic violence extremists” includes a wide array of groups to be targeted. The real crime of most of these groups is standing in the way of, or simply being opposed to, global capitalist power. …
Lee Camp interviews the economics professor and author of ‘Debunking Economics,’ Steve Keen. Keen’s scholarship gives insight into the ways that neoclassical economic models misunderstand climate change. These models, therefore, stop our political institutions from responding to the crisis and provide cover for corporations to continue their polluting business practices. …
