Chris Hedges and Richard D. Wolff: It’s Just Another Debacle By The War Profiteers

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

Democracy At Work on Jan 30, 2023

In this week’s show, Prof. Wolff explains why capitalism does not deserve credit for improved living conditions, Home Depot billionaire blames US capitalism’s problems on US workers being “lazy, fat, and stupid,” Southwest Airlines as example of failures by both corporations and their gov’t “regulators,” George Santos as creature of capitalist advertising.

In the second half of the show, Wolff interviews Chris Hedges on the crisis of corporate America in 2023.

00:00 – 01:13 – Intro
01:14 – 06:11 – Improved Living Conditions
06:12 – 09:07 – Bernie Marcus
09:08 – 13:47 – Southwest Airlines
13:48 – 14:35 – George Santos
14:36 – 15:45 – Announcements
15:46 – 30:01 – Interview with Chris Hedges

From the archives:

Larry Wilkerson and Paul Jay: US Navy Puts Climate Change at Top of Threat List

Michael Hudson and Radhika Desai: Multipolarity and the Decline of US Hegemony

Finian Cunningham and Scott Ritter: This is a Proxy War Between NATO and Russia

Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich: How The Military-Industrial-Complex Has Become The Enemy From Within

Chris Hedges and Richard D. Wolff: The Looming Disasters Built Into The U.S. Economic System

Mike Prysner: Ron DeSantis’ Military Secrets: Torture and War Crimes

John Pilger: The US is Escalating War Tensions With China in Desperate Bid to Maintain Global Power, interviewed by Finian Cunningham