Chris Hedges: The Corporatization and Corruption of American Science

Till Dead Batteries Us Do Part

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with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Sep 4, 2021

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 5, 2022

On the show, Chris Hedges discuss the corporatization and corruption of American science with the author Clifford D. Conner.

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The Outlook for the US is Uniquely Bleak, by Finian Cunningham

Communist Vegans - Covid-19 Exposes Capitalism

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Aug. 11, 2021
August 12, 2021

The United States is facing perfect storm conditions for the grueling continuation of the Covid-19 pandemic. The long-term economic impact could hasten the end of its global power as we know it.

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Pandemic Shows China Bests US, by Finian Cunningham

Communist Vegans - Covid-19 Exposes Capitalism

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by Finian Cunningham
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Ireland
Crossposted from Sputnik, Aug. 7, 2021
August 8, 2021

The starkly different impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on China and the United States is glaring proof of which political system is most capable of delivering for the common good of people.

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Chris Hedges: Debt Peonage Is Not Accidental

Look at it from the 1% Perspective: Debt Keeps You Subservient

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

Originally on RT America on Jul 22, 2021

The Chris Hedges YouTube Channel on Jul 1, 2022

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discuss economic disobedience and debt refusal with Thomas Gokey from The Debt Collective.

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I’m Sick and Tired of This Thing Called “Patriotism,” by William Blum

Patriotism

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by William Blum
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Originally published July 5, 2010
July 2, 2021

Some thoughts on “patriotism” written on July 4

Most important thought: I’m sick and tired of this thing called “patriotism”.

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Cuba’s Covid-19 Vaccines: A Journey of Collaboration and Revolutionary Solidarity, by Jyotsna Singh

Researcher at Cuba's Bio Tech Center, December 2, 2010

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by Jyotsna Singh
Struggle ★ La Lucha, June 19, 2021
Peoples Dispatch, June 17, 2021
June 20, 2021

With its development of five COVID-19 vaccines and the promise of sharing know-how with developing countries, Cuba has remained faithful to Che Guevara’s values of international solidarity and people-oriented medicine.

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Chris Hedges: Virus: Vaccinations, the CDC and the Hijacking of America’s Response to the Pandemic

Coronavirus graffiti, Leake Street

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

RT America on June 19, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discuss the Coronavirus with investigative journalist and author, Nina Burleigh.

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India Is Being Pulverised By A Second Covid-19 Wave, by Haris Zargar + The Modi Surge: COVID-19 Cases Overwhelm India’s Healthcare System as Gov’t Censors Critics

India Is Being Pulverised By A Second Covid-19 Wave

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by Haris Zargar
New Frame, April 26, 2021
May 2, 2021

Oxygen, hospital bed and medication shortages have left thousands dead. But the ruling party lets millions gather at religious festivals and remains on the campaign trail.

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Chris Hedges and Richard D. Wolff: American Economic Illusions

Communist Vegans - Covid-19 Exposes Capitalism

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Apr 10, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the nearly $5 trillion being allocated by the Biden Administration for COVID-19 relief and infrastructure project with economist Richard Wolff.

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Perfidy Meets Putty – Congressional Democrats Betray Voters, by Ralph Nader

Medicare for All Rally - Feb 2017

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by Ralph Nader
The Nader Page, Mar. 12, 2021
March 16, 2021

Do you remember the promises made by the Democratic Party’s presidential and Congressional candidates on universal health insurance? You can forget their pledges and somber convictions now that your votes put the Democrats in charge of the House and the Senate. The Democrats’ leaders are abandoning their promises and retreating into a cowardly corporatist future.

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Begging For A Vaccine, by Sharon Black + Cuba and COVID 19 Public Health, Science and Solidarity

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by Sharon Black
Struggle ★ La Lucha
February 26, 2021

This is what it’s like in the United States, people desperately competing with each other to get jabbed with a needle. Of course, it’s not just any needle, it’s a potentially life saving vaccine.

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The Final Dance: A Conversation with Cheryl Deines on Death and Dying, the Pandemic, and Living Our Best Lives, by Kenn Orphan

Don’t grieve. Anything you Lose Comes Round in Another Form.

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by Kenn Orphan
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Halifax, Nova Scotia
February 17, 2021

KO: I wanted to begin by disclosing that I had the great honour of working with Cheryl in hospice care as medical social workers and grief counselors for several years. Her compassion, intuitive empathy and healing manner taught me invaluable lessons on how to approach death and grief.

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Chris Hedges: People’s History of West Virginia

West Virginia Coal Mining

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with Chris Hedges

RT America on Feb 6, 2021

On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to filmmaker and journalist, Eleanor Goldfield about her documentary, Hard Road of Hope.

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The Scale of Loss: 400,000 Dead, by Rivera Sun

The Scale of Loss: 400,000 Dead, by Rivera Sun

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by Rivera Sun
Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 28, 2021

Four hundred lights stretch along the Reflecting Pool on the National Mall. Each represents one thousand people in America who have died of COVID-19. It is only in their absence that we have space to acknowledge the dead–there is not enough space beside the pool for that many people to stand. It is only by symbols that we can understand the enormity of what we’ve lost.

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Chris Hedges: America Has The Tinder To Ignite Social Uprising

Fight The Power, Occupy Oakland 2011

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“The problem is not just Trump’s ineptitude and he was inept, the problem is the for-profit health care system. We don’t have an infrastructure that can cope with a national health crisis because our health care structure is designed only for one thing and that’s to make money.”

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