Chris Hedges: The Signs of the Declining Empire

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

The Democracy At Work on Aug 31, 2020

On this week’s Economic Update, Prof. Wolff discusses the following: Denmark’s new taxes on banks and rich people to help workers doing dangerous jobs; West Virginia AG sues Walmart and CVS for complicity in opioid scandal; and US State Department urges universities to sell shares in Chinese corporations. On the second half of the show, Prof. Wolff interviews author and journalist Chris Hedges on signs of the declining US empire.

[Hedges begins at 15:48 minutes in.]

The Mother of All Talkshows with George Galloway – Episode 62

George Galloway Aug 23, 2020

[Hedges begins at 21:31 minutes in.]

Chris Hedges’ electrifying take-down of Biden AND Trump

People United for Radical Action on Aug 30, 2020

From The Peoples’ Convention – August 30, 2020

Transcript: If It’s Biden vs. Trump, This Year’s One-Choice Election Will Be for Oligarchy by Chris Hedges

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The Peoples Convention 2020

Movement for a People’s Party on Aug 30, 2020

From the archives:

Why the US is Doomed, by Finian Cunningham

Fascism and the Quickening of History + The Empty Theatre, by Kenn Orphan

Kamala Harris Is Not A “Left Radical” Or A “Marxist”, By Paul Street

Danny Haiphong and Margaret Kimberley: Kamala Harris Negates Black Freedom Movement

The Banality of Evil of The Evil of Two Lessers + The Democratic Party’s Raison D’être Is To Co-Opt, Absorb, Marginalize, and Neutralize The Left, by Phil Rockstroh

Late-Stage Capitalism Deprives Us Of Meaning + The Capitalist Class Is Bringing America Towards Fascism, by Rainer Shea

Defund Fascism, Blue and Orange, by Paul Street

Joe or No? by Jim Kavanagh

Chris Hedges: Americans Face A One-Choice Election—The Oligarchy

Chris Hedges and Paul Street: The Problem is Not Trump. It is a Political System Dominated by Corporate Power and The Mandarins of the Two Major Political Parties