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by David Swanson
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Let’s Try Democracy, June 14, 2022
June 16, 2022
I wrote a book years ago called War Is A Lie, arguing that everything we’re told that supports war-making is untrue.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jun 10, 2022
Today in Part Two of The Long Road Home, we look at the numerous hurdles faced by prisoners released into society, the toll on their families, the importance of educational programs in restoring self-esteem and setting goals and the difficult process of even being granted parole.
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with Chris Hedges
TheRealNews on Jun 3, 2022
Although it represents less than 5% of the global population, the United States has 25% of the world’s prison population, some 2.3 million people, most of whom are poor.
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with Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader Radio Hour on Apr 16, 2022
Ralph welcomes back prolific Pulitzer Prize winning author and esteemed public intellectual, Chris Hedges, to get his thoughts on the hypocrisy of war, corporate control of the press, Julian Assange, unions, grass roots activism, Christian fascists, and his work teaching in prisons.
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with Chris Hedges and Lee Camp
“Because we’re calling out these elites for their hypocrisy, their cynicism, their mendacity, their corruption, that’s why. So this gave the deep state the excuse to shut it down. It’s kind of ridiculous because RT had a very tiny media footprint, it’s not like we were reaching particularly large numbers of the American public.” — Chris Hedges
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 26, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America’s inner and outer wars and its nexus with capitalism and empire with Nikhil Pal Singh, Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and history at New York University.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Feb 10, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses veganism and mass incarceration with educator and poet, Gretchen Primack.
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by Rainer Shea
Writer, Dandelion Salad
Rainer Shea’s Newsletter
February 3, 2022
This is a reblog of an article from last year.
The slow-motion execution that the U.S. empire is subjecting Julian Assange to, where Washington’s satellite state the U.K. is depriving him of the conditions necessary for a sound physical and mental state, is an external version of how the empire’s internal settler state creates political prisoners. Within the borders of the U.S. occupier regime, African liberation fighter Kevin Rashid Johnson and indigenous liberation fighter Leonard Peltier continue to be unjustly imprisoned. Should Assange be convicted, the empire will expand the arbitrary incarceration powers it exercises upon its internal subjects to a global scale, with the added effect of making war crimes journalism criminally prosecutable throughout this expanded range of tyranny.
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with Chris Hedges
Originally on RT America on Jan 29, 2022
Enema of the State on Mar 20, 2022
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the Leonard Peltier case with Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, and one of Peltier’s lawyers.
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by Daniel N. White
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
January 22, 2022
In response to Karen Greenberg’s article, Jan. 20, 2022:
Dear Ms Greenberg:
Enjoyed reading your latest. Was most interested in what it didn’t say about closing Guantanamo, releasing its last inmates, and the law.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Dec 10, 2021
Wikileaks founder and journalist Julian Assange could soon be extradited to the United States for alleged crimes he committed publishing classified information. The UK’s High Court rejected a January decision refusing extradition of Assange after the US filed a request to have him sent stateside.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Nov 27, 2021
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses prison with the poet, writer and attorney, Reginald Dwayne Betts.
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by Melinda Butterfield
Struggle ★ La Lucha
October 19, 2021
The Biden administration on Oct. 16 kidnapped Venezuelan diplomat Alex Saab from the West African country of Cape Verde, in blatant violation of international law. Under U.S. pressure, Saab had already been imprisoned and tortured in Cape Verde for 16 months.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Oct 16, 2021
On the show, part two of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.
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with Chris Hedges
RT America on Oct 14, 2021
On the show, part one of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses the saga of trauma and transformation in an American prison as chronicled in journalist Chris Hedges’ new book Our Class.
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