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On this episode of Keiser Report from El Encanto in El Salvador, Max and Stacy compare unions hoping to sabotage the development of an all-electric-vehicle world with central bankers also choosing to maintain their bloated job security over efficiency. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Congressman William Soriano about the hyperbitcoinized future happening now in El Salvador.
The first meeting between President Biden and Germany’s new chancellor takes place in Washington as the president of France travels to Russia. We’ll break down the latest talks and what they could mean for geopolitical tensions. Plus, Washington’s fight against top Chinese Telecom giants continues but it’s going to cost a lot more than the $2 billion that the FCC originally budgeted. We’ll look at the latest numbers. And, staying on the tech beat, are global correction fears in the sector warranted? We discuss the industry’s rebound after Meta’s historic loss.
Money makes the world go round. We use it everyday...And we should know the best ways to handle our money...But do we? Conversations around money and finances make people freeze up - why? Personal Finance Expert and host of the “Women & Money” Podcast joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to talk about money.
Is this the beginning of the end or end of the beginning? Russia and NATO are at an impasse. Both have presented their visions of pan-European security. Needless to say, there is no meeting of minds. Has diplomacy been exhausted?
CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and George Szamuely.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Jason Nichols, senior lecturer in African-American studies at University of Maryland and host of ‘Vince and Jason Save the Nation’. He discusses rising tensions between the US, its NATO allies and Russia over Ukraine, the comparison of Russian President Vladimir Putin to Adolf Hitler on US news outlets, why Biden will likely keep the US out of any conflict, voting rights and democracy being under attack in the US with inaction from President Joe Biden, and much more! Finally, we speak to Matthew Hodson, executive director of aidsmap. He discusses his friendship with the late David Stuart, the pioneer of the term ‘chemsex’, widely lauded for his work at 56 Dean Street and the Club Drug Clinic. He also talks about the uphill climb to develop a HIV vaccine, the changing prevalence of HIV in LGBTQ community and the heterosexual community, and much more.
What do you do when inflation is so high that your people are having to choose between heating and eating? Well, logically you should admit that your economic management has been poor. The reality? Western nations are now looking around the world for a war…
Ross Ashcroft is joined by financial expert Matthias Weik and Alex Krainer, founder of Krainer Analytics, to discuss how to navigate the uncertain times ahead.
Chris Hedges discusses the gig economy with Louis Hyman, professor of economic history at Cornell University.
After the end of World War II, two generations of workers in the United States were blessed with a period of unprecedented prosperity. Wages for the working class were high. Jobs were stable and came with benefits and health insurance. Unions protected workers from abuse by the business elites. Taxes on the wealthiest individuals and corporations was as high as 91%. The public school system provided a quality education to the poor and the rich. The nation’s infrastructure and technology were cutting edge and unrivaled. But by the 1970s, it all began to go south. Wages stagnated. Income inequality grew, until by 2008, the top wealthiest 10% of Americans received 87% of the economic growth, compared with 29% from 1933 to 1973. The good industrial jobs vanished. In their place rose the temp or gig economy, one where wages were low, the jobs were not secure and did not provide benefits, unions were emasculated, and the nation’s great democratic institutions, along with its infrastructure, crumbled into decay. What went wrong? How did it happen? And what does it mean for our future?
Louis Hyman is professor of economic history at Cornell University, and author of ‘Temp: The Real Story of What Happened to Your Salary, Benefits and Job Security’.
Competing interests and power politics have existed ever since nation states came into being, spurring the development of diplomacy on the one hand, and fueling arms races on the other. But every now and then, especially in European politics, diplomats and generals get sidelined by demagogues who bank on portraying adversaries as not just geopolitical competitors, but moral degenerates or civilizational inferiors. Are we back to the era of unter and uber menschen in European affairs? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent.
The Russians say they won’t invade Ukraine and Ukraine’s president tends to agree. But it’s still the prevailing narrative, at least in Britain and America, where there seems to be a cacophony of threats and calls for war coming from London and Washington. Peter Lavelle is an American and a conservative, he also hosts RT’s legendary Crosstalk, so we invited him aboard Sputnik to find out why this is happening.
So what is the answer to the chaos around the world? Why isn’t there a single standard for human rights, self-determination, foreign incursions, interference in the internal affairs of others? What’s the point of the United Nations if it cannot keep peace and find conflict resolution? Professor Alfred de Zayas is a lawyer and historian, who was the UN special rapporteur on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order. He’s the author of nine books, the latest titled ‘Building a Just World Order’, so who could be better qualified to help find some answers?
We speak to John Strafford, chair of the Campaign for Conservative Democracy. He discusses the Partygate scandal, which threatens to bring down Boris Johnson’s government, Johnson’s loss of grassroots support, tensions between the US & its NATO allies and Russia over NATO expansion and Ukraine, and much more. Finally, we speak to Vipp Jaswal, CEO of Interpersonal Intelligence Advisory. He discusses the diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Winter Olympics by the US and its allies, the potential consequences, Senator Rick Scott’s comments about Jaswal and his designation as a ‘foreign agent’ by the US government, American athletes being made to learn about the ‘evils’ of China before travelling to the Olympics, and much more.
Whoopie Goldberg steps in it big time while exposing her ignorance about the Holocaust. She is currently serving a suspension for her remarks following an apology, we'll bring you all the details. The head of CNN is out, Jeff Zucker admits to hiding a sexual relationship with a colleague... We have all the details. Plus, Bob Costas rips the IOC for choosing China for the Olympic games, which are now underway... And he has a lot more to say about it.
Spotify finds itself in the spotlight as the music giant is accused of providing a platform for podcasters like Joe Rogan to spread what’s been deemed misinformation about the Covid-19 pandemic. Parler CEO George Farmer knows a thing or two about online censorship, and discusses Big Tech’s fluid interpretation of free speech. Diplomatic boycotts aside, Beijing kicks off its long-awaited Winter Olympics. RT’s Alexey Yaroshevsky takes us inside China’s Covid-conscious compound. The host of RT’s ‘Ultimate Sports Hub’, Ben Holden, gives us a preview of all the action to come, and discusses how big a factor Covid restrictions will play as athletes suit up (and mask up) for their chance of a lifetime.
Lee Camp takes on the US’ dedication to fostering the largest prison state in the world, while also running a global terror campaign with a shocking body count that it ironically calls the ‘War on Terror’. Camp also reports on the real reason for the push for war with Russia, and a new report on the impacts of climate change. Naomi Karavani looks into a creepy move from Amazon.com Inc. The company is funding a course in a California high school that would prepare kids for a backbreaking career in Amazon warehouses. Corporate influence over schooling is just another sign of the US’ continuing slide toward fascism. Jaffer Khan finishes the show off by exposing how Texas state troopers and National Guard are illegally playing a role in policing the border.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the State Department’s hypocrisy over human rights in Egypt, Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, and the labor push for unions. David Sinclair talks about anti-aging science and technology.
In this episode of Keiser Report from San Salvador, Max and Stacy discuss the global debt situation and how Bitcoin fixes it. In the second half, Max chats to Congressman William Soriano of El Salvador about how downtown San Salvador has been transformed over the past three years and what Bitcoin offers for the future of his country.
As tensions continue to rise between the US and Russia, the latter is making efforts to strengthen its ties with China. We’ll discuss the new gas deal unveiled in Beijing. And from gas to oil, Brent Crude prices are seeing a rally that is threatening $100 per barrel in the near future. Plus, the demand for alcohol continues to soar with spirits seeing a 12th straight year of unprecedented growth. We’ll discuss the trend with an industry insider.
In times of trouble, we turn to art for comfort, turn to literature for wisdom. We talk to the world’s literature demiurge, master storyteller and Nobel Prize winner Orhan Pamuk.
It’s being called the second largest attack on DeFi ever recorded. We’ll take a look at the $320 million hack and what it means for a crucial bridge between popular cryptocurrencies. Plus, social media stocks were sent reeling after the company formerly known as Facebook saw its worst one-day performance in nearly a decade. We’ll discuss what’s behind the losses. And amid controversy over popular podcaster Joe Rogan, Spotify’s CEO has once again weighed in on the issue. We’ll be joined by Tyrel Ventura of Watching the Hawks to discuss.
War fever over Ukraine continues unabated with the US and the UK taking the lead. However, not all NATO members are on board, even Ukraine is attempting to dampen expectations of an armed conflict with Russia. Will Washington and London get their way?
CrossTalking with Lenka White, Vladimir Golstein, and Alexander Clackson.
This week on VIP, Lee Camp looks back to a 2016 interview with the director of the Netflix smash-hit ‘Don’t Look Up’. Adam McKay is responsible for brilliant social criticism in movies like ‘The Big Short’, which took on the 2008 financial crisis, and a satire of corporate media in ‘Anchorman’. His latest movie skewers inaction in the face of climate change. Naomi Karavani reports on the corporate media’s lies about crime rates and their causes. Police propagandists are on a constant hunt for reasons to expand their budgets and their current argument is that the ‘Defund the Police’ demand from the BLM movement has led to an increase in crime. What isn’t being said is that police budgets are still growing. Finally, Anders Lee looks back at the Boxer Rebellion when Western Powers faced opposition in their drive to colonize China.
Chris Hedges discuss James Joyce’s Ulysses with Professor Sam Slote on the centennial of its publication.
One hundred years ago this week, Sylvia Beach, who ran the bookstore Shakespeare and Company on 12 rue de l’Odéon in Paris, placed a copy of a book she had published, ‘Ulysses’ by James Joyce, in the window. Ulysses, with white letters on a blue book cover, had been rejected by publishers in English-speaking countries. The story takes place during a single day in Dublin, June 16, 1904. It would swiftly become one of the most important novels of the 20th century, at once ancient and modern, drawing its inspiration from Homer’s ‘The Odyssey’. Ulysses is the Latin name for Homer’s hero Odysseus. The mythical figures in Homer’s epic are reincarnated in the lives of the Irish working-class. Ulysses, king of Ithaca, mastermind of the Greek war against Troy, heroic voyager, and merciless slayer of the suitors who besieged his wife during his long absence, becomes in Joyce’s hands Leopold Bloom, a 38-year-old ad canvasser for the nationalist newspaper Freeman’s Journal. Leopold, of Hungarian Jewish extraction, mourns throughout the book his infant son Rudy who died over a decade earlier, a loss that severed his sexual relations with his wife Molly. Ulysses’ son Telemachus, who sets out to seek his long-absent father at the beginning of The Odyssey, is reincarnated as Stephen Dedalus, a fictionalized version of Joyce’s younger self. Penelope, the faithful wife of Ulysses, is reincarnated as Molly, the adulterous wife of Leopold Bloom who during the day has a tryst with her lover Hugh ‘Blazes’ Boylan. “Unimpressive as Bloom may seem in so many ways,” writes Joyce’s biographer Richard Ellman, “unworthy to catch marlin or countesses with Hemingway’s characters, or to sop up guilt with Faulkner’s, or to sit on committees with C.P Snow’s, Bloom is a humble vessel elected to bear and transmit unimpeached the best qualities of the mind. Joyce’s discovery, so humanistic that he would have been embarrassed to disclose it out of context, was that the ordinary is the extraordinary.” Joyce’s characters exhibit our common human frailties, inconsistences, contradictions, and ambiguities, not to mention explicit bodily functions from defecation to masturbation. They evoke our sympathy and respect, offering, perhaps, a new conception of greatness.
Professor Sam Slote is a Joyce scholar and teaches English at Trinity College Dublin. He is in charge of the Symposium to be held at Trinity College to mark the centennial of Ulysses’ publication.
Alex Salmond speaks to Dr Angelique Coetzee, the Pretoria GP who first identified the Omicron variant – and who informed the world (based on her practical experience of patients) that the new variant, while hyper-infectious, was much milder in health impact than the deadly Delta variant. Meanwhile, Prof Hugh Montgomery of UCL warns policymakers that it is not inevitable that further new variants will necessarily be less potent, and urges a fundamental reassessment of humanity’s interaction with nature, which is provoking the emergence of deadly contagions from the animal kingdom.
Russia and Ukraine insist they are against military escalations along the border, yet the US wants to send troops to appease congressional war hawks. Alabama residents are instructed by cops to remove Facebook posts critical of police.
We head to the metaverse, where real estate is booming in the virtual space. We break down the growing market, and answer another key question – what exactly is the metaverse? And US national debt has passed the $30 trillion mark. We’ll break down the figures and discuss how the Covid-19 pandemic has caused the figure to balloon.
In this episode of Keiser Report from San Salvador, Max and Stacy play a video they recorded while walking down the San Salvador volcano. In it, a tourist from New York explains why he believes the idea of a volcano bond is genius. In the second half, Max chats to Will Hernandez of Paxful.com about hyperbitcoinization in El Salvador and around the world.
On this episode of Going Underground we speak to UN Refugee Agency spokesperson Peter Kessler. He discusses the multitude of crises facing Afghans after the US occupation, including a liquidity crisis severely impacting the economy, a major loss of income wiping out the Afghan middle class, and investment and development grinding to a halt. He calls for more international assistance from wealthy countries around the world, including Russia and China. Finally, we speak to Lama Fakih, the Human Rights Watch crisis and conflict director. She discusses the hacking of her personal phone using Pegasus Spyware, why she can’t pinpoint a single state that would have targeted her, how the surveillance prevents journalists and human rights activists doing their work, the worsening humanitarian crisis in Lebanon, and much more.
Not long ago, open public debate was considered a good thing, even essential for a stable and functioning society. Today, if you do not follow and propagate liberal pieties you are accused of ‘misinformation’ and should be banned from polite society. Shut up or else!
CrossTalking with Lionel, Oliver Boyd-Barrett, and David Freiheit.
It’s a new month, and more delays for the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. We’ll take a look at how tensions over Ukraine are impacting the state of the completed project. Plus, all eyes are on OPEC+, as oil prices remain near $90 per barrel. Could the cartel ramp up production ahead of schedule? We’ll discuss. And, could the Federal Reserve raise interest rates seven times this year? We’ll bring the latest predictions with analysis.
While China has taken a stand against cryptocurrency in the past, the nation is making moves to explore the world of blockchain technology. We’ll take a look at what impact it could have. And we’ll take you next door to India, where the world’s second-largest nation is slated for a major rebound in the wake of its Covid woes. Plus, Spotify says it will add a new warning on its platform after the most popular podcaster in the world was criticized for his content. We’ll discuss the latest in the ongoing debate.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, from the airport in San Salvador, Max and Stacy look at the statement from the Biden administration that bitcoin is a matter of national security. In the second half, Max chats to Simon Dixon of BnkToTheFuture.com about his arrival in El Salvador just as hyperbitcoinization hits the country. Simon says he believes the nation will rival Singapore as it gains first-mover advantage by developing a bitcoin securities infrastructure.
The brain...It’s a complex and complicated organ that connects our consciousness and our human body. There is a lot we know but even more that we don’t. Researchers are exploring the relationship between the “mind” and the physical body and what happens when either one of those dies. Chief Scientist of the Mindscope program at the Allen Institute for brain science Christof Koch joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to discuss.
On this episode, we speak to former congressman and the 53rd Mayor of Cleveland Dennis Kucinich, author of ‘The Division of Light & Power’. He discusses his fight against out-of-control corporate power throughout his political career and the damaging effects of neoliberal privatisation in the United States and the wider world, the ‘forever wars’ stemming from the military-industrial complex’s hold over the US political system, assassination attempts made against him, tensions between the US, its NATO allies, and Russia, and much more.
We all know that we are being watched, listened to, tracked, traced, and monitored. Ross Ashcroft is joined by Peter Bloom, author of ‘Monitored: Business and Surveillance in a Time of Big Data’, to discuss an important question: who ensures that people in positions of power and those with corporate monopolies remain accountable?
War panic is in the air, but not in Kiev, apparently. NATO says it’s united against Russia’s so-called aggression against Ukraine, but alliance members act in differing –even contradictory– ways. Washington and London appear to want confrontation. Their allies, not so much.
CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen and Maxim Suchkov.
Ascribing diseases to the evil-doing of enemies is an old human habit that can be traced in a wide range of historical injustices, from the witchcraft trials to the Holocaust. One would think that in this age of science and rationality, we would have moved beyond casting unproven recriminations, at least at state level, but apparently not. Take the so-called Havana Syndrome, a mysterious condition said to be afflicting American diplomatic and military personnel abroad – it’s barely diagnosed but widely assumed to be an act of aggression. What is that symptomatic of? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Robert Bartholomew, honorary senior lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at the University of Auckland and author of ‘Havana Syndrome: Mass Psychogenic Illness and the Real Story Behind the Embassy Mystery and Mass Hysteria’.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the Leonard Peltier case with Kevin Sharp, a former federal judge, and one of Peltier’s lawyers.
Leonard Peltier, a leader in the American Indian Movement, now 78 years old, is America’s longest serving political prisoner. He has been in prison for 44 years charged with the murder of two FBI agents during a gun battle in 1975 on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Peltier in his memoir, ‘Prison Writings: My Life Is My Sun Dance’, said he participated in the shootout with the FBI agents but insists he did not kill them. His two co-defendants were acquitted based on self-defense. The FBI at the time of his trial was determined that Peltier would be found guilty. Peltier’s trial was riddled with inconsistencies and the withholding of exculpatory evidence. The FBI, it was later learned, threatened, and coerced witnesses to lie and used these false statements to convict Peltier. Most jurists who have examined the case consider the trial deeply flawed. Over the years, numerous world leaders, including Pope Francis, the Dalai Lama, Mother Teresa, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nelson Mandela, and Coretta Scott King, have called for his release.
James Reynolds, who was the US attorney who helped put Peltier in prison in the 1970s, has written a letter to President Joe Biden decrying the unfairness of Peltier’s trial and asked the president to grant Peltier clemency. “I write today from a position rare for a former prosecutor: to beseech you to commute the sentence of a man who I helped put behind bars,” Reynolds wrote to the president. “With time, and the benefit of hindsight, I have realized that the prosecution and continued incarceration of Mr. Peltier was and is unjust. We were not able to prove that Mr. Peltier personally committed any offense on the Pine Ridge Reservation.” He added that granting clemency would help mend “the broken relationship” between Native Americans and the government. “I urge you,” he wrote, “to take a step towards healing a wound that I had a part in making.” Peltier, who is in a Florida prison and who became eligible for parole in 1993, is in very poor health. If Peltier is not released soon, he will die in prison serving his two life sentences.
Project Censored is an amazing venture that collects all of the most important stories from the last year that the corporate media chose not to tell us about. Lee Camp reports some of the highlights from this year, with stories about rising prescription drug prices killing the elderly, the strike wave that has shocked big business, the plight of the journalists who are exposing our ruling class, and more. Then Camp reports on the CIA’s admission that they have no proof for their Havana Syndrome conspiracy theory, and the unsurprising impacts of a Universal Basic Income pilot program in upstate New York.
Jaffer Khan exposes how the US has been training a militarized Ukrainian Nazi group, the Azov Battalion, since 2015. Members of the Azov Battalion have also been training white supremacist groups here in the US, including members of the Unite the Right coalition responsible for killing counter-protester Heather Heyer during one of their hate-rallies in Virginia. Finally, Anders Lee reports on how Maine’s governor recently vetoed a bill that would’ve protected agricultural workers from exploitative employers.
While the eyes of the world have been on flashpoints like Ukraine, Taiwan and the Persian Gulf, another East-West confrontation is well underway in the horn of Africa.
Today the Ethiopian government had been identified by the United States as needing regime change. Meanwhile, in Sudan, a familiar pattern of democracy protesters being gunned down by dictatorships is also well underway.
RT Middle East Bureau Chief Paula Slier has recently returned from the area so we invited her aboard Sputnik to tell us what she saw.
Everyone in Britain is fully aware of how the Ukraine crisis looks from London, Washington and Kiev. But how it looks from Donbass and from Moscow, not so much. The self-proclaimed people’s republics of Donetsk and Lugansk are in the eastern region of Ukraine. Most people there speak Russian and they have their own administrations even though they are not internationally recognised.
RT’s youngest correspondent in Moscow, Donald Courter, is currently making a documentary about the region, so he boarded Sputnik to help us understand the situation there.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the crisis in Ukraine, Julian Assange’s small victory, and the upcoming sale of a CIA black site. Dr. Bryan Quoc Le talks about food technology and science, and how it affects human health.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the IMF trolling El Salvador about Bitcoin as legal tender in the independent nation. In the second half, Max chats to Roman Martinez, one of the original organizers at Bitcoin Beach, about the IMF’s concerns and whether or not he feels Bitcoin has offered harm or hope for the community.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Sinn Fein MP Francie Molloy ahead of the 50th anniversary of Bloody Sunday, when the British Army’s Parachute Regiment massacred 14 people in Northern Ireland. He discusses the history of collusion between the government, the army and unionist paramilitaries in Northern Ireland in covering up atrocities, the civil rights background preluding the Bloody Sunday massacre, the British government’s refusal to prosecute anybody for the atrocities, the plan for blanket immunities from Boris Johnson’s government, the role of Frank Kitson – the British Army’s commanding officer on the day of the massacre – in bloodshed in Ireland and around the world, and much more. Finally, we speak to Terry Lynn Karl, a war crimes and human rights investigator, about the El Mozote massacre, one of the worst massacres in modern Latin American history, committed by US-backed right-wing militias during the civil war in El Salvador. She discusses the Reagan administration’s arming of the El Salvadoran army despite widespread human rights abuses and the creation of death squads, the events leading up to the massacre itself, how the US and El Salvadoran military covered up the massacre and even denied it had happened in the first place, the role in Latin American atrocities of figures such as Elliott Abrams – whose career would be revived when he became Donald Trump’s special representative for Venezuela – and much more.
Russia, China and Iran are conducting joint military drills in the Gulf of Oman. China races the US to recover a downed fighter jet in the contested South China Sea. Human trafficking sees a worrisome uptick over the course of the pandemic.
Inflation continues to grip not only the United States, but also the world. We’ll discuss the impact it’s having on markets and how some investors are looking to hedge a volatile week in trading. And could the dominance of the dollar be on the line? We talk about China’s move to develop its own digital payment system.
Supreme Court Justice Steven Brayer is set to retire at the end of this term, and the media celebrates the opportunity it presents for Joe Biden, who has promised to appoint the court's first black woman. Is it affirmative action? Legal and media analyst Lionel of Lionel Media will be here to weigh in. Christians are under attack in many countries around the world and here at home, we'll discuss it all, with Hedieh Mirahmadi, who converted from Islam to Christianity. Plus, Little Steven Van Zandt makes some INSANE remarks, we'll have them for you in the Dessert segment.
Comedian Al Madrigal, who first came to prominence as a correspondent on 'The Daily Show with Jon Stewart' talks to Dennis about his podcast network 'All Things Comedy', created alongside Bill Burr. Plus, if he's planning on returning to the stand up stage anytime soon.
Lee Camp has a very important guest this week. John Pilger is a brilliant journalist with a long history of award-winning reporting. They discuss the show trial faced by Julian Assange and the current situation on the border of Russia and Ukraine. Assange recently received some good news after a decade of torturous detainment when a British court decided that he could appeal his extradition into the hands of a government who had tried to assassinate him. Lee and John then dive into the current reality of a collapsing US empire and how it’s leading into a dangerous period of nuclear brinkmanship between the falling kingdom and the world’s other nuclear powers.
Naomi Karavani takes on the current chaos in the electric vehicle industry with a couple of companies that are facing fraud charges. Nikola has been marketing electric freight trucks, with a devious secret – it hasn’t actually made one. The company has pulled some hilarious stunts to trick investors, though. Lordstown, on the other hand, has built its trucks and pre-sold a lot of them, but its vehicle has failed its safety tests in fantastic fashion. Jaffer Khan reports on the hidden exploitation of remote customer service representatives who are confronted with ridiculous obstacles, abusive customers, and a payment scheme that often leaves them below minimum wage.
Exaggerated rhetoric, massive arms shipments, and endless threats – this is how NATO presents its vision of pan-European security. Meanwhile, Moscow waits for the US and its allies to respond to its demands and vision for the same. This is untenable.
CrossTalking with Philip Giraldi, Ray McGovern, and Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann.
The US saw its highest annual growth rate in nearly 40 years, as the economy roared back in 2021. And as major central banks are moving to raise interest rates, the IMF is warning of economic instability. We’ll break down the details. Plus, days after the Bank of Russia proposed a complete ban on crypto mining, we’re hearing a different tone from the nation’s leader. We take a look at what the future of crypto mining could be in Russia.
This is the second half of our in-depth conversation with a brilliant mind, the genius and Nobel Prize winner Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft. We talk about whether quantum mechanics and quantum physics is just about probability and more of an esoteric notion rather than a precise science.
At the height of the annual celebrations of the life and work of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, Alex speaks to Scots language campaigner Billy Kay and the former MP for Burns Country in South Ayrshire, Jim Sillars, about the impact of Burns on political radicalism in Scotland and across the world.
The Federal Reserve is set to raise rates in the coming months, as it aims to dial back its pandemic-era measures. We’ll discuss with former Congressman and Fed critic Dr. Ron Paul. And as the Fed seeks to shift course and global volatility continues to rise, markets reacted on Wednesday. We’ll bring you a full forecast of what to expect. Plus, with tensions rising on the Ukrainian border, the US is threatening to level sanctions against Russia in the event of an invasion. We’ll discuss what impact the proposed sanctions would have.
Max and Stacy look at the collapse of the supply chain relating to agriculture and why there has been no proposal similar to the WWII-era ‘Women’s Land Army’ that organized workers to help maintain the food supply. In the second half, Max chats to Tone Vays of Unconfiscatable.com about the sharp pullback in bitcoin prices and what he sees in the charts.
The Chamber of Commerce says migrant workers can solve the US labor shortage. Biden has approved more oil and gas drilling permits than Trump did. RICO charges were dropped against state officials involved in the Flint water crisis.
Rashad Jennings sits down with Dennis Miller to share his inspiring backstory and his 'against all odds' story into the NFL. Plus, how he is using his platform to support kids and help them find their passions.
We speak to the former UK secretary of state for energy & climate, Chris Huhne. He discusses the scandal surrounding PM Boris Johnson and multiple parties being thrown at Downing Street through multiple Covid lockdowns, the relaxing of restrictions, the energy crisis hitting the UK with many energy providers collapsing, the possibility of war breaking out over a potential Russian invasion of Ukraine, what that would mean for global energy prices, and more. Finally, we speak to Rajya Sabha MP Subramanian Swamy for India’s 73rd Republic Day, which celebrates India’s independence from the British Empire. He discusses the life of celebrated Indian independence fighter Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose, the potential role of Lord Mountbatten in the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi, PM Narendra Modi’s withdrawal of the farming laws following mass farmer protests, India’s growing rivalry with China, accusations of a creeping genocide against Muslims in India, and much more.
Chris Hedges discusses the implications of the latest British High Court of England and Wales ruling and its implications for Julian Assange’s case with documentary filmmaker and journalist John Pilger.
The British High Court of England and Wales on Monday said it would allow the imprisoned publisher of WikiLeaks, Julian Assange, to, in essence, appeal a ruling that would have seen him extradited to the United States where he faces a possible 175 years in prison for the publication of classified documents and videos.
The High Court technically refused to allow an appeal to the Supreme Court, but, in a legal loophole, it left it up to that court to determine whether it will grant permission to consider one legal issue.
“We certify a single point of law … in what circumstances can an appellate court receive assurances from a requesting state which were not before the court of first instance in extradition proceedings,” the High Court said in an appearance that lasted less than a minute.
This single point of law refers to whether the United States was legally permitted to provide assurances to the High Court of Assange’s humane treatment in the United States after it had failed to do so during the initial hearing that blocked the extradition. During a Dec. 10 hearing, which vacated the ruling by District Court Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January 2021, the high court accepted the appeal by the US to approve the extradition. Baraitser had ruled that Assange could not be extradited because of inhumane conditions in US prisons that would make Assange, who suffers from physical and mental health issues, a suicide risk. The United States, in its appeal of her ruling, gave assurances that Assange would receive adequate medical and psychological care and would not be subject to measures commonly used in high-profile cases such as prolonged isolation and Special Administrative Measures, known as SAMs, which impose draconian rules limited any communication and allows the government to monitor meetings with attorneys in violation of attorney-client privilege.
It is now up to the British Supreme Court, if it accepts the appeal, to decide this one issue – could the US offer assurances after Judge Baraitser had ruled against extradition. Assange has 14 days to apply to the British Supreme Court to hear his case.
The US effort to extradite Assange, who is not a US citizen, has been widely condemned by human rights and press groups including Amnesty International, the American Civil Liberties Union, Human Rights Watch, PEN International, and Reporters Without Borders, which call the persecution of Assange an existential threat to press freedom.
Natural Gas prices are soaring in Europe as global uncertainty continues to strain supply. We’ll take a look at what’s happening in the European market. And the Bitcoin sell-off rages on, as the world’s foremost cryptocurrency has lost more than $10,000 this year. We bring you the latest. Plus, the Federal Reserve kicks off its first meeting of 2022. How many interest rate hikes can we expect this year, and is the Fed going to be able to tame soaring Inflation? We discuss with a former insider.
Lines have been drawn and positions made clear. After two weeks of high-level talks, Russia and NATO remain poles apart on how to define pan-European security moving forward. Moscow has presented its vision in writing, while Washington falls back on archaic Cold War clichés.
CrossTalking with Brian Becker, John Varoli, and Adriel Kasonta.
Candace Bushnell, who became famous for writing 'Sex and the City' that later turned into the groundbreaking television series, is back with her new one-woman show 'Is There Still Sex in the City'. The show, which is on hiatus due to Covid, will continue at a later date.
Bitcoin starts to bounce back after hitting a 6-month low, as the latest sell-off hits crypto markets across the board. We’ll take a look at what’s behind the latest losses and if they are expected to continue. And it’s not just crypto, US markets are also struggling, with the S&P logging its worst day since the pandemic began, and the Nasdaq falling deeper into correction territory. We’ll take a look at what’s going on with the markets. Plus, the UK’s economic recovery is in jeopardy as growth plummets to its lowest level in nearly a year. We check in with what’s going on in the UK.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the collapse of blank check firms – aka SPACs – which are failing just as they have repeatedly over the past few hundred years. In the second half, Max chats to Pete Antico and Sean Stone, the filmmakers behind the new movie ‘The Paradigm Of Money.’ They discuss Wall Street corruption, the link to Congress and how bitcoin fixes it.
In May of 2021, the remains of a 20-ton chunk of a Chinese rocket came crashing into earth. Surely you heard about it? In fact, maybe you were one of the people obsessively checking the internet for its latest trajectory...wondering where on earth (literally!) it was going to hit? It was the largest piece of man-made space debris to have an uncontrolled crash into Earth in nearly 30 years...and the US government warned that it was not out of the realm of possibility that it could come hurtling into an inhabited area. Well, fortunately the debris re-entered somewhere near the Maldives in the Indian Ocean and no one was hurt. But...it got me thinking: just how much stuff is up there? And how did it get there? And do I really need to also be worried that some piece of space debris could fall out of the sky? How big of a problem is this? SUNY Distinguished Professor John Crassidis joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to discuss space junk.
Comedy legend Bruce Vilanch sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss his long career in the business and how he first got started writing jokes for some of the biggest comedians like Robin Williams and Billy Crystal. Plus, behind-the-scenes of writing for huge award shows like 'The Oscars'.
It was not a showdown, but rather an exercise in placing markers. The Russia-US talks in Geneva settled basically nothing. However, the Biden administration can no longer say it does not understand Russia’s position on pan-European security. The ball is in Washington’s court. CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and George Szamuely.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food Michael Fakhri. He explains why global hunger is the result of political decisions, not food scarcity. He also discusses the humanitarian catastrophe and famine in Yemen, its political causes, and how corporations and neoliberal doctrine has worsened global hunger and allocation of food. Fakhri also explores the link between class and malnutrition, and much more.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses America’s meat industry with Gail Eisnitz, chief investigator for the Humane Farming Association.
The huge industrial slaughterhouses in the United States transport overcrowded animals, smeared with their own urine and feces, in trucks over long distances without water or ventilation in the summer and without heat in the winter. Many animals arrive dead, sometimes frozen to the sides of the trucks where a chain has to be wrapped around them to pry them loose. They are tossed onto a pile of other animal carcasses. Animals barely able to walk from the trucks into the chute to be slaughtered are beaten to death with a lead pipe. The killing is done so quickly – 200 to 400 cattle can be killed in an hour, or 3,000 to 5,000 per day – that when animals are skinned they are sometimes still alive, forcing workers to thrust a knife into the head to sever its spinal cord. Slaughterhouse work is also some of the most hazardous in the country, with 36% of workers incurring serious injuries. Those who are disabled, losing fingers and even limbs in the machinery used to kill the animals, are usually fired and replaced by undocumented workers who have neither job protection nor legal recourse. On top of this, the federal inspection system and enforcement to prevent contaminated meat from being sold to the public has been gutted, essentially permitting the meat industry to regulate itself. This has resulted in numerous E. coli and salmonella outbreaks among meat consumers.
Gail Eisnitz is the author of ‘Slaughterhouse: The Shocking Story of Greed, Neglect, and Inhumane Treatment Inside the US Meat Industry’.
In Cold War times, British members of Parliament could allegedly be suborned for a bottle of good vodka, a fur coat for the wife and caviar for Christmas. The Tory ones were a bit more expensive, often necessitating a honey trap of one kind or another. It made a few eyes water, therefore, to read about the sums an alleged Chinese intelligence operative paid to Labour parliamentarian Barry Gardiner. So, what are we to make of this latest spy affair? We invited former member of Parliament and veteran spy writer Rupert Allason to help us unravel the story.
And what of the other side to this story? With the enormous ruckus here in Britain over an alleged spy embedded at the heart of the British establishment, what of the news coverage in China? Einar Tangen is a veteran writer, political analyst and commentator who now lives and works in Beijing. So, he boarded Sputnik to tell us how this story unfolded in China as the country prepares to host the 2022 Winter Olympics.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to legendary journalist and filmmaker John Pilger. He discusses the scandal surrounding Boris Johnson over Downing Street parties during coronavirus lockdowns, growing US tensions with Moscow over Ukraine amid the backdrop of NATO enlargement to Russia’s borders, tensions with China and the West’s need for a perpetual enemy, the continuing persecution of Julian Assange, and much more.
After a Bronx apartment building went on fire earlier this month, killing 17 and injuring many more, a national conversation picked up about low-income housing and tenant rights. New York City’s new mayor initially tried to blame tenants who hadn’t closed the fire door and the people whose space heater may have caused the blaze. Lee Camp takes on this story to expose the true culprit responsible for the tragedy. The corporate media and their developer friends don’t want anybody asking questions like “Why did the tenants need space heaters to stay warm in their apartments?” and “Why wasn’t the fire door up-to-code?” Those are the important questions but you need to rely on Lee Camp and independent journalists to dig into them, and the answers are shocking. Camp also looks into US Covid numbers and the Biden administration’s decision to stop asking hospitals to report statistics.
Jaffer Khan joins Camp to explain how some young TikTok content creators have used an ingenious strategy to win big on the stock market. Since Congress refuses to hold its members accountable for using privileged information to invest in the stock market – a crime usually referred to as insider trading – some young investors have started to copy the stock purchases of members of Congress, and it’s working. Finally, the fossil fuel industry has copied a policy from the anti-BDS movement to suppress opposition to their inhumane business practices. Instead of attempting to clean up their act and appeal to the public’s conscience, the fossil fuel industry is pushing policies across the country that would punish people for boycotting them. Anders Lee reports on their outrageous plan.
Mere days away from China’s Winter Olympics, more and more countries are leaving the huddle to join a diplomatic boycott against Beijing. As the Omicron Covid-19 variant continues to cause a global scare (plus a stoppage of ticket sales), sports anthropologist and Olympics expert Dr. Susan Brownell discusses the impact on diplomacy and on athletes vying for their once-in-a-lifetime opportunities. Plus, misinformation by the mainstream media may be responsible for killing any hope of herd immunity.
While working stiffs worry about rampant inflation outpacing wages, corporations see profits hit a record high regardless. RT’s Brent Jabbour discusses the widening wealth gap, which is minting new billionaires by the day. Plus, eating disorders have risen sharply since we started staying at home. Psychotherapist Ashley McHan explains why the pandemic has brewed a perfect storm for already-stressed homebodies, as well as why it’s challenging to assess a person’s health based on weight alone.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the inflation ‘blame game.’ Headlines suggest everything from greedy CEOs to Saudi royals as the cause of all the high prices consumers are experiencing. It’s definitely not the money printing!
In the second half, Max chats to bitcoin developer and entrepreneur Jimmy Song, author of the new book 'Bitcoin and the American Dream.' The two discuss Jimmy’s impressions of El Salvador under its new Bitcoin Law.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the Biden administration’s potential foreign policy challenges in 2022, the Supreme Court’s decision to block vaccine requirements for workers, and inflation inequality. Author Erwin Chemerinsky talks about how SCOTUS empowered police and subverted civil rights.
With markets taking a beating this week, where are investors turning for a hedge? We take a look at the performance of global stocks and the toll of inflation. Plus, the Federal Reserve is making moves to expand its presence in the digital currency space. We take a look into the central bank’s efforts and how it will impact major cryptocurrencies. And, could the gaming sector soon be dominated by cryptocurrency? We discuss the future for the industry and how crypto could cement itself in the community.
Joe Biden held his first press conference in 10 months, and it's what he said next about Russia and Ukraine that had people's heads spinning. We'll let you hear it and the media's reaction to it. Plus, Biden wants media outlets to stop what he calls misinformation on COVID. Dr. Naomi Wolf will be here to weigh in. She was the White House Correspondent for Newsmax, taken off the air and then let go, and she has a new gig... Emerald Robinson joins Steve Malzberg to talk about her confrontation with Jen Psaki and much more. It happened again… We’ll show you yet another Kamala sit-down disaster.
There are just three words that make any right-thinking British person convulse. Those words are 'Sir Tony Blair.’
With only 14% of Britons approving of former-PM Blair’s knighthood and a petition to have it rescinded garnering well over a million signatures, it is clear that the ‘honours’ system is anything but democratic, and in urgent need of reform.
Ross Ashcroft speaks with politician George Galloway and convenor of Stop the War Coalition Lindsey German, about why Tony Blair’s knighthood should be revoked.
The Federal Reserve’s plans to change course in 2022 are being backed by President Biden, but will the measures be enough to combat rising inflation? Plus, we take you to Russia, where the nation’s central bank is calling for a complete ban of cryptocurrency and mining. We’ll take a look at what’s at stake. And with oil prices skyrocketing, could we soon see triple-digit barrels? We talk to an expert in the sector about the forecasts.
Naomi Karavani brings you a very special interview this week. She spoke to former-Guantanamo detainee and author Mansoor Adayfi about his experience of being held in the US’s most notorious illegal detention center, Guantanamo, for 14 years without charge. Adayfi is currently being held in Serbia under less restrictive conditions, but he still isn’t free. He had originally traveled to Afghanistan to do research, but he was kidnapped by a warlord and eventually sold to the CIA for a bounty, accused of being an important Taliban commander. He gave a false confession under torture before being shipped to Guantanamo. Come to this interview prepared for a brutal story of courage in the face of extreme cruelty.
Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by providing context to the US’s current debt crisis. Deficit has existed in human societies throughout recorded history, but it has also always come with the concept of cancellation or a jubilee. However, the ruling class in the US has done its best to eradicate that idea because the rich love it when their workers are crushed under insurmountable debt. It keeps us quiet. It’s a shame that the rich don’t take a page from the US’s favorite religious figure when considering debt forgiveness, though, since the Jesus Christ of the bible supported it.
On this edition of the program, we discuss the ongoing NATO-Russia tensions. We ask ‘What is NATO’s strategy?’ ‘What is Russia’s strategy in dealing with NATO’s eastward expansion?’ and ‘What are the likely outcomes for both?’
CrossTalking with Charles Shoebridge, Michael Maloof, and Alexey Naumov.
Chris Hedges discusses the corporate assault against the US Postal Service with author Christopher W. Shaw.
The corporate seizure of public utilities and privatization of schools is part of a broad assault to turn government assets into assets that will swell corporate profit. The post office has been a coveted target for decades. Corporations such as FedEx and UPS have used their lobbyists and campaign contributions to cripple the government postal service in an effort to destroy it and take it over. These corporations engineered a congressional mandate in 2006 that requires the post office to pre-fund the next 75 years of retiree health benefits in one decade. No other federal government agency is required to carry out a similar pre-payment plan, nor is there any actuarial justification for this measure. The requirement, which forces the post office to fund retiree health benefits for future employees who have not yet been born, is part of the broader corporate assault to dismantle the postal service. Mail service is already suffering from slower delivery, huge staff cuts, restrictions on window hours, the removing of mail processing equipment, and the uprooting of the familiar blue mailboxes. The goal is to drive the post office into utter disfunction, justifying the corporate seizure of one of America’s most beloved and iconic government institutions.
Christopher W. Shaw is the author of ‘First Class: The U.S. Postal Service, Democracy, and the Corporate Threat’.
Theoretical and particle physics continues to be mysterious, almost an occult science, and the more you try to figure out our reality, the more confusing and counterintuitive it gets. We talk to Nobel Prize-winning physicist Professor Gerard ‘t Hooft.
Career climber Mark Synoott explains what drives him to complete some of the most dangerous climbs in the world and why 'the spirit of adventure' is so important for many climbers. Plus, what he uncovered about Mount Everest in his new book 'The Third Pole'
One year after the storming of the Capitol, Colonel Laurence Wilkerson, chief of staff to the late General Colin Powell, presents a searing assessment of the current state of the republic, both in its domestic politics and its role in world politics. Colonel Wilkerson tells Alex that Colin Powell was the greatest president America never had, and the world would be a much better place now if he had decided to run for the White House. He also confirms that the former UK prime minister, Sir Tony Blair, committed Britain beforehand to stand with President Bush in the war on Iraq, come what may.
The US Chamber of Commerce has been rife with criminal activity since 2000. The Supreme Court strikes down Biden’s workplace vaccine mandate. More than a dozen top-tier universities have allegedly been colluding to limit financial aid.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at ‘game over’ for fiat as Bitcoin takes all the best minds and the stranded energy. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about inflation, central bank balance sheets, and the geopolitical ramifications of the end of the dollar’s reign.
Foodgod, formerly Jonathan Cheban, legally changed his name to reflect his social media brand, but his followers rely on him to tell them about the hottest restaurants around the country. The reality television star explains how the role as a food influencer is perfect for him and how he embraces it.
The wave of cryptocurrency crackdowns just got even bigger as the UK steps up efforts to combat advertisements in the industry. We’ll bring you the details. Plus, tech stocks in the US are looking to make a comeback as the Nasdaq approaches correction territory. We’ll take a look at the state of the markets. And the disparity between the rich and poor has been compounded by the pandemic, as millions have fallen into debt and poverty, while the richest have thrived. We take a look at the growing gap.
We speak to Nasser Arrabyee, director of Yemen Now. He discusses the Houthi drone attack on Abu Dhabi in the UAE and Yemen’s right to self defence, the worsening humanitarian crisis as the Saudi-led coalition’s bombing campaign continues against Yemen, continuing US/Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia, and much more. Finally, we speak to Max Lawson of Oxfam about the ‘Inequality Kills’ report, which says that while 99% of humanity’s income fell, 160 million were pushed into poverty, and one person died every four seconds over the course of the pandemic… the top 10 richest men saw their wealth more than double from $700 billion to $1.5 trillion dollars – a rate of $1.2 billion a day.
The Biden administration is underwater in just about every way. Is this due to bad policies or bad messaging? Maybe it is both.
This also begs a question. Yes, presidents come and go, but elite and special interests remain very powerful, so is this a threat to democracy?
CrossTalking with Richard Baris, Daniel Mitchell, and Helen Buyniski.
A seismic shift is underway in the gaming industry, as Microsoft’s latest acquisition will make it the third largest player in the video game market. We’ll bring you the details. And airlines are ramping up their fight against 5G as several heads of the sector are calling on President Biden to step up and stop the rollout. Plus, oil prices are sitting at their highest levels since 2014, as roaring demand and attacks in critical Gulf states are putting pressure on output.
Gary Cole is ready for the challenge of replacing a beloved character in season 19 of 'NCIS', replacing lead actor Mark Harmon. He describes that change in his career, plus his early days in the Chicago theater scene.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the real Federal Funds Rate going the most negative ever. What does this mean for the economy and the financial system? In the second half, Max chats to Alasdair Macleod of GoldMoney.com about inflation, central bank balance sheets, and the alleged attempts to taper.
Chinese President Xi Jinping addressed the World Economic Forum, as new figures show the nation’s 2021 GDP spiked from the previous year. Then we take a look at how inflation is weighing heavy on the production capacity of the UK. And Spain is the first European nation to crack down on cryptocurrency advertisements in the unregulated industry.
Camille Kostek was selected as field host of the rebooted version of 'Wipeout' and explains why she was excited to get the role. Plus, who she wants to see play in the Super Bowl.
Ghost stories are almost as old as time itself whether they are benevolent beings that help guide us or sinister spirits to cause harm or frighten us, people love talking about the idea of ghosts. Well, are they real? What do we really know about paranormal phenomena? Paranormal investigator and co-star of “Kindred Spirits” Amy Bruni joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to talk aobut if ghosts really exist.
There are media reports that US intelligence warns of a Russian ‘false flag’ operation to provoke an invasion of Ukraine. To those of us who are skeptical, this sure sounds like still another WMD conspiracy theory. Also, how bad could things get?
CrossTalking with Maxim Suchkov and Dmitry Babich.
We often hear the proclamation that ‘capitalism has failed’, but, actually, capitalism has worked perfectly according to the rules upon which it was created. Within its DNA is a mechanism that uses oppression to maintain control. Until we understand that mechanism and begin telling a different story, its retribution will continue unabated.
Ross Ashcroft is joined by Max Haiven to discuss his book ‘Revenge Capitalism’.
We speak to Prof. Kyung Hyun Kim, author of ‘Hegemonic Mimicry: Korean Popular Culture of the Twenty-First Century’. He discusses the rise of South Korean culture, which has become a global phenomenon, South Korean culture mimicking US culture through the experience of the American troop presence and evolving into a culture of its own, the significance of the worldwide appeal of South Korean-produced music and film, such as ‘Squid Game’, during a crisis in capitalism, and much more. Finally, we speak to Dr. Ingrid Waldron, director of Environmental Noxiousness, Racial Inequalities and Community Health Project. She discusses environmental racism – a phenomenon of governments locating industrial polluters near indigenous people or minorities, progress in pushing environmental justice in Canada through Bill C230, cancer rates being disproportionately higher in Canadian communities of colour due to close proximity to industrial polluters, and much more.
After almost a decade in confinement, Julian Assange is a shadow of the man he used to be. Fighting against extradition requests to the United States took a toll on his physical and mental health, while also compromising WikiLeaks’ ability to continue its operations. With the latest ruling by a British court to hand him over to Washington, what’s in store for one of the world’s most recognized whistleblowers? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Greg Barns, an Australian lawyer and an adviser to the Australian Assange campaign.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the legacy of the Carter administration with his biographer, Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Kai Bird.
Jimmy Carter, America’s 39th president, who served one term from 1977 to 1981 before being defeated by Ronald Reagan, was one of the country’s most enigmatic politicians. He was a bundle of contradictions, a man of deep Christian faith who would be abandoned by his evangelical base; a president who promised to place human rights at the center of his foreign policy and yet fell under the disastrous influence of his Svengali-like national security adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski, leading Carter to equip and arm the radical jihadists who would morph into the Taliban and Al-Qaeda, and give unswerving support to the brutal Iranian regime of the Shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi. Carter preached compassion for the poor and the vulnerable while imposing punishing financial policies, deregulation and austerity measures that would take a toll on the working class and the marginalized. And yet in many ways, he was perhaps our most exemplary modern president, refraining from military adventurism, devoting tremendous effort to securing peace in the Middle East, and overseeing an administration that was free from the kinds of corruption and scandals that characterized the presidencies that followed.
Kai Bird’s most recent book is ‘The Outlier: The Unfinished Presidency of Jimmy Carter’.
Kazakhstan was a name neither on the lips or even on the radar of most in the West – that is, until just over a week ago. Given it shares a 1,700km border with Russia, and its neighbor on the other side is China, you can see just what attracted certain powers to take an interest in the vast, landlocked nation. A giant country with a tiny population, it’s mineral rich, abounding in both oil and gas. It’s not the first time there’s been an uprising in Kazakhstan, however, although last time, Tony Blair was hired to help the regime spin its way out of it. Now the tables have turned and the tectonic plates have shifted. We invited Bryan McDonald, a journalist based in Moscow, to help make sense of it all.
She’s survived being marooned on an island with adventurer Bear Grylls, but probably more remarkably, she survived a long and eventful rock’n’roll marriage to a Rolling Stone. Jo Wood was fast-living guitarist Ronnie’s wife from the 1970s until about a decade ago – a story she documents in her memoir, ‘Stoned’. It’s full of photographs and memories of a life on the road, offering a behind-the-scenes look at a legendary rock band on tour. She now lives a far quieter life and joined Sputnik to tell us more.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former British ambassador to Russia, Sir Tony Brenton. He discusses the latest on the Ukraine crisis, the possibility of a Europe-wide war between NATO and Putin’s Russia, whether a last-minute breakthrough could be achieved by the US, NATO and Russia, the background of hostility between Russia and NATO, the alliance’s involvement in regime-change wars, its legacy, and much more.
The Pentagon has a long history of budgetary waste and fraud. They’ve failed every financial audit they’ve ever had by mind-blowingly large margins. Fortunately for the war hawks, the corporate media has helped the Pentagon cover up their actions. Lee Camp hates to repeat himself but this story requires it because the Pentagon keeps on pouring trillions into military violence, so he shines his spotlight back on the military industrial complex to open this episode. Camp also reports on a new hi-tech treatment for depression that the for-profit medical industry will keep from the poor, and the fortunate resurgence in monarch butterfly population numbers. Naomi Karavani looks into how branches of the Department of Homeland Security are getting sick of having their names connected to the shock troops in Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) has had its policing hampered by members of the public who are furious at the US’ dehumanizing treatment of immigrants. Not that the HSI doesn’t engage in the aforementioned dehumanization. Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by confronting Israeli propaganda. After the death of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, accusations of bigotry and racism started to pop up from Zionists. Many celebrities have been smeared with these criticisms for the crime of recognizing the existence of Palestine.
The two biggest purchases in your lifetime are your home and your car. Now house prices are surging, while car dealers are at the mercy of Chinese semiconductors amid an ongoing chip shortage. Editor-in-chief of the Car Coach, Lauren Fix, and CEO of DLB Financial Services, Debbie Bloyd, discuss how labor pains and supply-chain woes are wreaking havoc on both the auto and real-estate markets. Shortly after former project manager Frances Haugen sang like a canary on Capitol Hill, Facebook rebranded itself as Meta. RT’s Ben Swann explains the promises and privacy pitfalls of the Metaverse. Plus, just how does one go about covering their tracks online? A helpful how-to on reducing your digital footprint, which could span decades. Also, it turns out the World Vapers’ Alliance has been quietly funded by British American Tobacco. While cigarettes may have fallen out of fashion, Big Tobacco is hedging its bets to make sure nicotine addiction is here to stay.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the billionaire hedge fund investor asking on a corporate financial newscast, “Why would I own gold?” In the second half, Max continues his interview with Samson Mow of Blockstream about volcano bonds and bitcoin boiling the oceans FUD.
Joe Biden has decided the new voting bill is no longer about who can vote but about who counts the votes. Shame he didn’t tell his Vice President, Incompetent Kamala, about his shift in narrative. Let the damage-control-tour begin.
Microsoft Word has gone woke with their latest update. Now the tech will highlight snowflake offensive words and suggest something more politically correct. Also, the folks at U.C. Irvine have put out a list of words to use to be "inclusive" and words that are banned. The usual suspects are included. Well, actress and author, Sam Sorbo, says this is just a form of “word fascism.” Ford O’Connell also weighs in.
MSNBC just announced Symone Sanders will be joining as a weekend host. Do they not remember her racist statement saying white people should not be running the democratic party? We'll ask Horace Cooper that very same question.
And Steve Malzberg has two words to say to Keith Olbermann... stick around and find out what they are.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the Justice Department’s new anti-domestic-terrorism unit, Congress’ insider trading problem, and whether California will become the first US state to offer residents universal healthcare. Author Michael Hudson talks about economic diplomacy and Washington’s economic strategy of ‘super imperialism’.
Amid a turbulent year of Covid-19 and geopolitical friction, China saw a record trade surplus in 2021. We’ll bring you the details. Then, we’ll take you around the globe to review the latest performance from international markets. And a huge development could be brewing in the cryptocurrency sector as Jack Dorsey’s Block is wading further into the industry.
The Red Hill US naval base in Hawaii is facing the anger of its neighbors and many of the soldiers who live there, after a jet-fuel leak poisoned the water supply of O’ahu Island.
The locals only found out they’d been poisoned after thousands of people ended up in hospital because of a cover-up. Naomi Karavani got in touch with Kawena’ulaokala Kapahua of the O’ahu Water Protectors to learn more about the environmental disaster impacting his community. He goes over the timeline of the Navy’s poisoning of his community, the impacts of jet fuel contamination in the water, the callous response from the US government, and much more. This isn’t the first time this base leaked jet fuel into the island’s water supply so the locals aren’t surprised, but they’re sick of their colonizer. Their campaign is demanding that the Navy leave the island.
Then Karavani looks into a new development in the world of cryptocurrencies. Cryptoland would be a tourist island for cryptocurrency fanatics, and claims that people can purchase a million-dollar cryptocurrency coin that would guarantee them a plot of land on the island. But the group is trying to hide the fact that it still doesn’t own the Fijian island they’re basing their business around. Finally, Anders Lee reports on a labor struggle in Chicago. After the Chicago teachers’ union voted not to return to in-person teaching last week. the city fought back, with Mayor Lori Lightfoot blocking them from the software for the classes and threatened to stop paying them. This showdown ended with the teachers returning to the classroom, but not before they shook the power of Chicago government.
Pablo Picasso once famously said that sculpture is the art of intelligence. We talked to Sir Antony Gormley, sculptor, intellectual and philosopher.
Over the past two and half years, Russia and NATO have agreed on very little, if anything. However, they did agree to meet for a high-level meeting this week in Brussels. Both sides made their case. Nothing was really resolved. There were lots of words. What happens next may be action.
CrossTalking with Brad Blankenship, Scott Ritter, and David Swanson.
Supply-chain shortages are pushing up prices and inflation across the globe, but how long could the situation draw out? We’ll bring you in-depth analysis of the issue. And, the World Economic Forum has issued a warning that cyberattacks could threaten the global economy, joining other major issues like climate change. We break down the details.
Russell Banks in books such as ‘Continental Drift’, ‘Affliction’ and ‘The Sweet Hereafter’ has long chronicled the struggles and inner torment that come with being a member of our dispossessed working class. In his new novel, ‘Foregone’, he turns his lens on the inner life of artists, in this case a well-known documentary filmmaker Leonard Fife. Fife, who fled to Canada, supposedly to avoid the draft, is dying from the ravages of cancer. He is confined to a wheelchair, wracked by pain, pumped full of medications, and unable to eat solid food. His final desire, in front of a camera, is to expose to his wife of 40 years the lies and myths that he has spun to create a fictional persona, perhaps a curse of all who become public figures. He confesses in his final hours to two previously failed marriages and two children he left behind before fleeing to Canada, not to avoid the draft but to escape the emptiness and purposelessness of his existence. The novel explores the tricks of memory, the way proximity to wealth suffocates and corrupts us, the mutations of self that estrange us from those we once knew and loved, the deep fear we all have of being unloved, and the heady idealism that is at once the charm and curse of youth.
Russell Banks’s new book is ‘Foregone’.
She's created hundreds of successful products and now Lori Greiner spends her time helping others create products people will buy. The 'Shark Tank' investor explains what makes a product good and how she first got started in as an entrepreneur.
With the Omicron variant sweeping through country after country, Alex asks two key experts for their view on the future development of the epidemic. Dr Jerome Kim, director general of the International Vaccine Institute, explains the consequences of the ongoing failure to adequately vaccinate the planet. Dr Chris Smith of Cambridge University concludes that, for now, humankind must learn to live alongside coronavirus – but he draws attention to new science which may open the door to the development of a single vaccine, which could be fully effective against future variants.
Nancy Pelosi and more than 50 other lawmakers are guilty of insider trading. Nearly 100,000 military families were endangered by drinking water tainted with jet fuel in Hawaii. Amazon quietly collected biometrics from employees via Covid-19 health checks.
Inflation in the world’s two largest economies is not in lockstep as one is easing while the other is seeing its highest rate in decades. We’ll discuss the challenges. Plus, oil prices have hit their highest level in two months – we discuss the outlook for energy amid rising prices. And as the Turkish Lira faces a crisis, citizens of the nation are turning to cryptocurrency. We bring you the details.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the mainstream media and old-thinking economists publicly arguing for price controls. Of course, as Max and Stacy point out, all price signals have been destroyed as the central bank attempts to control the perceived value of the US dollar. In the second half, Max interviews Blockstream’s Samson Mow, who architected the new volcano bond in El Salvador.
Chef Todd English explains the concept behind the cannabis company LastLeaf and his involvement with the brand. Plus, how he built his restaurants empire with 60 locations around the world.
We speak to Prof. Steve Hanke, a former chief advisor to ex-Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev and a former senior economist in President Ronald Reagan’s Council of Economic Advisors. He discusses the causes of the protests in Kazakhstan that have seen the deaths of over 160 protesters in crackdowns by the government and why inflation is likely not one of them, his time as an advisor to Nazarbayev and his views on economic policies undertaken by successive Kazakh governments, his opposition to US sanctions and why he believes they don’t work, and much more. Finally, we speak to Dr. Edward Luttwak, a US military strategist. He discusses the accusations by Bolivia of the US plotting a coup against socialist President Luis Arce, the Ukraine crisis and why an invasion of Ukraine by Russian President Vladimir Putin is unlikely, the 2011 Libya intervention by NATO which ended in disaster, Russia’s support for Syria and what it reveals about Putin’s modus operandi for geopolitics, and much more!
Federal Reserve chair Jerome Powell has faced Congress, where he saw a grilling on factors from inflation to the supply chain. We go over the developments from the hearing. Plus, Bitcoin’s bear market rages on, as some forecasters flip on their $100,000 projections. We take a comprehensive look at what it means for the developing sector. And the world’s largest trade agreement is coming together as some of the biggest players in the Asia-Pacific region are participating. We break down what this means for global markets.
The Russia-US talks in Geneva were highly anticipated, but expectations of a positive outcome were very low. Russia's chief negotiator said Americans ‘underestimate the gravity of the situation.’ These are ominous words. What will be the cost of this failure?
CrossTalking with Mary Dejevsky, Ernest A. Reid, and George Szamuely.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the problem with Ponzis as the ‘down rounds’ begin. In the second half, Max interviews Wolf Richter of WolfStreet.com about the latest inflation data, and why this is the worst Fed ever.
The IMF warns that if the Federal Reserve moves too fast on interest rate hikes, it could have an impact on emerging markets. We’ll break it all down. Plus, it’s been a bad start to 2022 for Bitcoin and some of the most popular cryptocurrencies. We’ll take a look at what is behind the slide and what the future holds. And, it’s a new year with a new Brexit negotiator, but the talk seems to be the same. We take a look at the latest wrangling between the UK and EU over the Northern Ireland Protocol.
Longtime comedian and Broadway star Mario Cantone sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss reprising his role on the 'Sex and the City' reboot 'And Just Like That' and why he's so grateful for the role. Plus, his early days as a comedian.
Words matter. And the beauty and scope of language when turned into poetic verse can be used to inspire, uplift and express emotion in innumerable ways…and no surprise here - it can also be therapeutic and restorative to many people. Poet and author of "I Love You, Call Me Back" Sabrina Benaim joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to discuss poetry and how it can help us heal.
It has long been the plan to dismantle the NHS and sell great swathes of it into private hands. The profits that can be made from healthcare are staggering – just ask the Americans. So have British politicians, lobbyists, and corporate interests used the pandemic to speed up the steady creep toward a US-style pay-to-play healthcare system that puts profits above patient interests? Ross Ashcroft is joined by Dr. Bob Gill to discuss the future of the NHS.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the building of climate fortresses with the author and journalist, Todd Miller.
Industrialized nations, among them the world’s largest polluters, are compounding one human-made crisis with another one. Rather than investing in technologies to end our dependence on fossil fuels, they are spending billions to construct climate fortresses ringed by border walls. There are already more than 63 border walls, manned by tens of thousands of guards. These nations, including the United States, are investing in technologies and equipment including robots, drones, surveillance cameras, iris recognition software, weapons, acoustic detection devices, and ready-to-eat meals to blockade and criminalize those fleeing war and the worsening climate emergency that is triggering famines, droughts, wildfires and declining crop yields. More than 44,000 people (a vast undercount, according to researchers of the International Organization on Migration) have died crossing borders between 2014 and 2020, in both the world’s deserts and seas. And tens of thousands of others are incarcerated in a global network of more than 2,000 detention centers, while companies in the border industry anticipate more profitable contracts with the intensifying climate crisis. For four decades, with virtually no public debate, a handful of large corporations such as Northrop Grumman, Elbit Systems, General Atomics, and Deloitte have driven up immigration enforcement budgets in the United States behind closed doors and beyond public scrutiny.
Todd Miller’s new book is ‘Build Bridges Not Walls: A Journey to a World Without Borders’.
It’s cold outside and it’s not down to the weather. There’s a new cold war looming, so why don’t we discuss the old one while we await the revelations about the next? However, that’s easier said than done when it comes to getting access to state secrets – even after the 30-year rule. Nonetheless, there’s nobody better to try than the indefatigable Tim Tate, an author and journalist who’s made more films and written more books than any of our fellow travelers on the show to date. We invited him aboard Sputnik to tell us about his latest project.
History should not be reduced to the role played by great men and women, because even great men and women have feet of clay. Greatness in the time of Covid may be difficult to find, but actor, playwright, and poet Tayo Aluko, has written powerfully about some of the people who don’t normally make it into the history books. He boarded Sputnik to tell us about one of them.
New year, new beginnings? Not so fast! From soaring gas prices to crippling teacher shortages, widespread cabin fever to spiking gun sales, and Mars missions to Chinese missile tests, we reflect on The Big Picture’s most talked-about guests of 2021, who help us paint a picture of what to expect in 2022.
Lee Camp looks at how the capitalist system sits at the heart of the worst problems facing society. In this history lesson, Camp takes you back to the feudal system, to the creation of corporations and currency, to the modern system that’s destroying the lives of the poor today. The ruling class don’t even try to hide the inhumanity that keeps the system running anymore, now that it has become almost impossible to ignore. This leaves it up to popular movements to end the capitalist system and create something new. Then, Camp reports on the police brutality victims who don’t gain as much attention as those murdered by cops, and Marilyn Manson’s #MeToo allegations.
Afghanistan’s economy is suffering under US sanctions after the 20-year war on the Afghan people. To try and fix the situation, Joe Biden has made an attempt to create exemptions to the sanctions to encourage trade but the business community isn’t biting. So the people of Afghanistan are being punished again for a terrorist attack that they didn’t pull off. Finally, Anders Lee exposes the plot to privatize Medicare… because our for-profit healthcare system is working so well for the rest of us.
US markets are slumping in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s plans to shift course in 2022. We’ll break down the numbers and how global equities are performing. Plus, the coming year could be a big one for mergers in the media sphere – we’ll discuss the biggest moves making waves in the industry. And rising prices are slamming European natural gas. We’ll get to the bottom of what’s pushing prices up.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss nuclear non-proliferation among five world powers, and the latest in the Jeffrey Epstein saga, including Ghislaine Maxwell’s conviction, Prince Andrew’s legal woes, and Alan Dershowitz’s controversial appearance on BBC World News. Veteran and author, Jerad W. Alexander, talks about his experience fighting America’s forever wars.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look back at the headline news they missed over the holidays, including Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s tweet that ‘it’s game over for fiat.’ In the second half, Max asks crypto specialist José Rodríguez for his thoughts on El Salvador post-hyperbitcoinization.
The media was so excited as the first anniversary of January 6th approached. We'll show you why. Attorney general Merrick Garland threatens to go after more people in connection with the riot at the capital. What might it mean? Professor Nicholas Giordano joins us to discuss. The January 6th Congressional Committee wants to speak with Fox's Sean Hannity. The panel, Legal and Media Analyst Lionel of Lionel Media, and the host of the Kevin Jackson Radio Show, Kevin Jackson, weighs in on that. Plus, Jeopardy has a new all-time female champion... But there's a catch. We'll explain.
Naomi Karavani interviews journalist Danny Haiphong and takes a look at modern China, the propaganda being deployed against it by the US empire, and the reality that contrasts with that propaganda. Haiphong’s journalism is published on his ‘Chronicles of Haiphong’ Substack. There are many lies being spread about China across the West, and they’re shading the people’s understanding of what’s happening in the world’s most populous country. Haiphong explains how the Belt and Road Initiative really works, the new Cold War being developed by the NATO powers, and much more.
Then, Karavani looks into the collapse of the US welfare system. This has become a punitive tool used to keep the working poor in line since Bill Clinton gutted it in the ‘90s and merciless bureaucrats got to take over. Karavani brings you some of the more shocking stories of the welfare system screwing over its poor victims. Jaffer Khan finishes off the show by looking into evidence that the Notorious BIG may have been assassinated by cops.
Actor Adam Rodriguez, who is known for his role in the popular 'Magic Mike' series returns to the franchise to host the HBO Max reality competition series 'Finding Magic Mike' and says the show is not at all what you would expect.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the nature of Islamophobia with the author and professor, Nazia Kazi.
Islamophobia is not defined solely as anti-Muslim sentiment. It is not limited to hate speech and hate crimes, racial stereotypes, or discrimination against Muslim men and women. Islamophobia, in its most pernicious and deadly form, is embodied in the wars waged by the United States in the Muslim world, as well as the laws and internal security structures that turn Muslims in the United States into “the other.” These laws include the criminalization of migrants, allowing Americans to justify the violent and illegal treatment of the undocumented, and the wholesale surveillance of Muslim communities. It includes the crippling sanctions imposed by the United States on countries such as Iraq and Iran. It includes the numerous military bases and occupation forces in Muslim countries. It includes the drone attacks, missile strikes, and aerial assaults that have left in their wake tens of thousands of nameless Muslim dead. It includes the alliances and massive arms sales to brutal Middle Eastern dictators and monarchs who crush democratic movements, imprison and execute dissidents, impose draconian censorship, and treat women as property. And it includes the cartoon versions of Islam that feed negative stereotypes, a cartoon version that is part of both the right-wing and liberal Islamophobia, which while rhetorically gentler, also permits the targeting of Muslims at home and abroad.
Professor Nazia Kazi’s new book is ‘Islamophobia, Race, and Global Politics’.
The United States is not alone in its inflation struggles, as Europe’s largest economy is seeing some its highest rates in nearly three decades. We’ll discuss the German inflation issue. And there was a slump in the price of Bitcoin in recent days, hitting its lowest level since December’s flash crash. Meanwhile, scammers reportedly came away with a record $14 billion in cryptocurrency in 2021. Plus, in the wake of the FAA’s drive to delay Verizon and AT&T from completing their 5G rollouts, airline companies are backing the government’s position. We’ll tell you why.
Alex and Tasmina take a look back at some of the key interviews from a turbulent 2021, dominated by the global pandemic, the ignominious retreat from Kabul, and the mounting difficulties of the Johnson government in the UK. Will 2022 be a guid year?
Dangerous levels of toxic chemicals known as PFAS have been detected around US military bases in Japan. Senator Elizabeth Warren goes after Kroger and Publix grocery stores for fattening profits over the past year by price gouging. Walmart faces a CA lawsuit for its illegal dumping of hazardous waste.
Time is finally up for Ghislaine Maxwell. Jeffrey Epstein’s former girlfriend and co-conspirator has now been convicted of trafficking underage girls for sex, and could spend the rest of her life behind bars.
In this final episode of the Keiser Report's Christmas/New Year’s episodes, Max and Stacy look back on 2021 and forward to 2022 with their own double-header forecasts. They vow to spend more time in the future, which is hyperbitcoinization now. Stacy forecasts the imminent death of banks, the death of the dollar, and the death of gold. Max notes the monetary premium is disappearing on gold. They also discuss citadels and time preference.
Comedian Dane Cook reflects on being one of the first stand up comedians to perform at stadiums. He also discusses the current state of comedy and what he has coming down the pike.
Chaos is unfolding in Kazakhstan, where protests are erupting over rising fuel prices in the nation. We break down the details. And the Fed hints at a March rate increase as markets are moving in the wake of last month’s meeting. Plus, the great resignation continues to sweep US workplaces as a generous labor market has been tilted in favor of workers.
OPEC+ members have agreed to boost output as they convene for virtual meetings. We’ll discuss the decision and how it could level off oil prices. And in an effort to seize the wave of digital currency, many nations are rushing to launch their own projects. We’ll bring you the latest developments in the field. Plus, the Biden administration says it has a plan to take on anti-competitive practices in the meat-packing industry that have sent prices soaring. So, just how much are the four largest companies impacting the price you pay at the grocery store? We’ll break down the details.
Actor Leslie Jordan stopped by 'Dennis Miller +1' to discuss season two of the Fox show 'Call Me Cat' and his role in the show opposite Mayim Bialik. Plus, he details the intent behind his viral Instagram videos.
Christina Ricci discusses the challenges she faced in her role on the series 'Yellowjackets.' Plus, she gets into the sometimes dark world of child acting.
In this special first episode of 2022 of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to author, philosopher, and blogger Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about the acceleration in entropy of the economic, monetary, and cultural systems around us. Smith focuses on the positives of what's to come after the collapse in terms of a better quality of life based less on hyper-consumption and more on local communities.
Evergrande’s stock trading has been halted on the Hong Kong exchange as the Chinese government has allegedly directed the real estate giant to demolish a project. And the airline sector is in flux to begin the new year as Omicron and delays have battered the recovering industry. Then we take a look at the oil industry as we begin the year with the state of petroleum still in question.
In a rare moment of candor, the then-Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan gave us an insight into what he feels are optimum conditions for workers. The so-called “healthy” economy that he presided over owed its success to what he called “growing worker insecurity.”
Workers with precarious existences are not going to make demands, and this compromised position, coupled with diminishing wages, is the cornerstone to the global gig economy.
This week Ross Ashcroft is joined by documentary filmmaker Shannon Walsh to discuss her new film – The Gig Is Up.
“The more I learn, the less I realize I know.” This was the humble yet inspiring admission by Socrates, the father of modern Western philosophy – an admission which, over the last two and a half thousand years, has been echoed by many of the world’s brightest scientists. How does our disposition towards the unknown shape what we think we know? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Iain McGilchrist, a British psychiatrist and author of the upcoming book ‘The Matter With Things’.
In the second of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges the role of race and poverty in mass incarceration, as chronicled in Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.’
The pipeline that fuels our system of mass incarceration runs through the intersection of race and poverty in all too many of our neglected and marginalized urban centers. In his new book, ‘Our Class’ author Chris Hedges describes the impact of this debilitating poverty that pervades many of our cities and towns. He writes: “The social hell of urban America is the great destroyer of dreams. It batters and assaults the children of the poor. It teaches them that their dreams, and finally they themselves, are worthless. They go to bed hungry. They live with fear. They lose their fathers, brothers, and sisters to mass incarceration – and, at times, their mothers.
“This social hell is relentless. It wears them down. It makes them angry and bitter. It drives them to hopelessness and despair. The message sent to them by the dysfunctional schools, the decrepit housing projects, the mercenary financial institutions, gang violence, instability, and ever-present police abuse, is that they are human refuse.”
It’ll be a hard act to follow, 2021! It often seemed as if all four horses of the apocalypse were charging down the road at full gallop. So, the question is this: will 2022 be just as tumultuous? One of the wisest men in journalism is Joe Lauria, of Consortium News. His new year started earlier than ours, as he joined Sputnik from Australia to try to come up with some answers. And what of predictions closer to home? Will the new year be much the same as the old year: will we again be forced to weather the maelstroms of the pandemic and the fallout from Brexit? Will Boris Johnson keep the loyalty of his party, and will he be able to keep the United Kingdom united? We invited Professor Sir John Curtice of Strathclyde University aboard Sputnik to find out.
There are decades when nothing happens, and weeks when decades happen. How will global markets fare in the new year as our Covid-stricken world hobbles into 2022? Dean of Miami University’s Herbert Business School John Quelch and CEO of Euro Pacific Capital Peter Schiff lay out a trajectory for our ongoing economic recovery. Compared to 50 years ago, measures of wealth and success appear to have been rewritten altogether.
Unemployment numbers have plummeted 70% since President Biden took office. So, why are there ‘help wanted’ signs everywhere? Strelmark president Hilary Fordwich explains the ‘Great Resignation’ – a phenomenon that’s reverberated across the professional world as the pandemic has reshaped the way millions of people view their livelihoods.
In this first episode of 2022, Max and Stacy chat to Gerald Celente, the original trends forecaster, to get his expert outlook on 2022. He sees ‘dragflation’ as the modern version of the 1970s’ ‘stagflation.’ Into this mix will come more money-printing, more lockdowns, more deplatforming, and more unionization. The trio discuss how a low-tech future will be the consequence of all these trends.
You know, it's estimated that the average adult makes up to 35-thousand decisions a day. So chances are...You’re going to make a really bad one once in a while...So what affects our everyday decisions and behaviors? And why do we sometimes behave our best and sometimes behave our worst? John A. and Cynthia Fry Gunn professor of biology, neurology and neurosurgery at Stanford University Robert Sapolsky joins William Shatner on this week's episode of "I Don't Understand" to explore what makes a person good or bad.
In a speech at a Turning Point USA event, Fox News's Jesse Watters urged attendees to ambush Fauci with questions about NIH’s involvement in research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology and “go in for the kill shot”. We'll show you what happened next. It's our “2021 Year In Review” show, and what would it be without CNN's Jeffrey Toobin, who returned to the network following six months off for masturbating on a work zoom call. What was he thinking?.. We'll have more on that. And we lost two talk radio giants in 2021 Rush Limbaugh and RT's Larry King. We'll pay tribute to both.
The Redacted team brought you great interviews from some of the most interesting people in the fight to save humanity from late-stage capitalism in 2021. In this recap episode, we bring you some of our favorite moments from interviews with important figures such as Dennis Kucinich, Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Briahna Joy Gray, political prisoner Steven Donziger, and Julian Assange’s father, John Shipton. Enjoy, and have a happy new year!
First, we’ll take a look at the supply chain problems that have dominated both headlines and business talk over the past few months and consider whether the strain on the auto industry will continue into 2022. Next, this year saw the launch of the private space industry, so what might the coming one herald? We’ll consider the options. Finally, with seismic changes in the social media sphere, and with further crucial changes on the horizon, we bring you analysis of what we can expect.
With 2021 rapidly coming to an end, it is time for some reflection. What will we remember about this year? How did our lives change? Also, we look forward to the New Year. What does 2022 have in store for us? Will we be living in interesting times?
CrossTalking with Joti Brar and John Laughland.
A Russian adage has it that one can take the girl out of the village but never the village out of the girl. This dilemma gets even more amplified if the girl grows into an accomplished stateswoman and the village into the world’s most entitled country. What’s it like to acquire Russian citizenship after a life of public service to the United States of America? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Suzanne Massie, former adviser to Ronald Reagan on Russian affairs.
What would happen if hit TV Show Strictly Come Dancing, featured the UK royal family as dancing contestants? Find out when Alex and Tasmina ring in the New Year with the many voices of Spitting Image stars, Kate Robbins and Lewis McLeod, to review the year in television and poke some gentle fun at the biggest stars in showbusiness. Happy New Year!
In this end-of-2021 episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to Nick Giambruno, an independent geopolitical and economic analyst, about his forecast for 2022 and the year of Bitcoin versus central bank digital currencies (CBDCs). They look at the many cycles colliding, from generational to economic and geopolitical, and whether the ensuing chaos will spark a rush for citadels.
Biden spent months disavowing Saudi Arabia, yet supports a $650 million arms deal. The Pentagon kept hidden records of civilian drone strike casualties by the thousands. Lawmakers probe Biogen’s ineffective and overpriced Alzheimer’s drug.
Oil prices are climbing yet again, as Omicron concerns compound falling US supplies. We’ll discuss recent developments and 2022 forecasts. Next, as inflation continues to slam the global recovery, the auto sector has been one of the industries hardest hit, so we’ll talk with an expert about what to expect next year amid the ongoing semiconductor shortage. Plus, as we approach Covid-19’s two-year mark, the latest figures show the pandemic has pushed nearly 100 million people into poverty.
As the Omicron variant tears through the globe, the United Kingdom has reported its highest Covid case count in the pandemic so far. This comes as Goldman Sachs has given the island nation a gleaming forecast for its economic recovery. We’ll discuss this and the latest revisions to global recovery outlooks. And we’ll take you to the airline sector, where the new strain has driven mass cancelations and staffing issues. We’ll talk with an expert in the field to break it all down.
At the end of every year CrossTalk answers some of your many questions. Not surprisingly many of your questions concern politics, the current international situation, and whether we should trust legacy media.
CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and Patrick Henningsen.
Have you ever wondered where our language came from? Experts believe a group of people called the Indo-Europeans who lived roughly 5000-7000 years ago spoke a language that is a direct ancestor of languages like English, Spanish, and Hindi. How did their language come about? And how much of what they created influenced how we communicate with each other today?
In this end of 2021 episode, Max and Stacy chat to Mitch Feierstein of PlanetPonzi.com about the growing use of the ‘H-word’ – hyperinflation. When prominent billionaire businessmen like Jack Dorsey get on the hyperinflation bandwagon on which hedge funders like Michael Burry ride, how long until it actually happens? Why are high prices no longer curing high prices as is the history of capitalism? Perhaps it is because we no longer have capitalism but crony Cantillonism. Finally, Mitch gives his outlook for 2022 and the likelihood that the central bank could ever manage to taper a ponzi.
Thousands of flights across the world were canceled over the busy holiday weekend. Staffing shortages have hit the airline industry badly, and it is struggling to recover from the latest wave of Covid-19. Meanwhile, holiday shopping has soared to its highest level in nearly two decades, aided by online sales. We’ll discuss how Inflation is playing a role. Elsewhere, with the energy crisis continuing across Europe, and prices expected to remain high, we’ll take a look at how Russia’s Nord Stream 2 pipeline could provide some much-needed relief and ponder why officials are saying it is still months away from being approved. Finally, as 2021 comes to a close, we take a look at the progress cryptocurrencies have made and the regulations we can expect to be imposed on the sector in the year ahead.
On this episode, Ross Ashcroft catches up with some of our Renegade Inc friends and asks what surprised them over the past year, and what they foresee happening in 2022. Strap in – it’s about to get interesting.
There is no such thing as unilateral security, all real security is always collective. This is precisely how Russia views endless Western hostility and NATO expansion to the east. Moscow has presented ways to avoid conflict and assure all security. Is the West asleep at the switch?
CrossTalking with Marcus Papadopoulos and George Szamuely.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the torture of Julian Assange with his father, John Shipton.
Julian Assange committed the empire’s greatest sin – he exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption, and innumerable war crimes. Republican or Democrat, Conservative or Labour, Trump or Biden – it does not matter. The goons who oversee the empire sing from the same satanic songbook. Empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
Assange is in precarious physical and psychological health, and suffered a stroke during court video proceedings on October 27. That he has been condemned to death should not come as a surprise. The 10 years he has been detained – seven in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London and nearly three in high-security Belmarsh Prison – were accompanied by a lack of sunlight and exercise, as well as unrelenting threats, pressure, anxiety and stress. “His eyes were out of sync, his right eyelid would not close, his memory was blurry,” his fiancee Stella Moris said of the stroke.
His steady physical and psychological deterioration has led to hallucinations and depression. He takes antidepressant medication and the antipsychotic quetiapine. He has been observed pacing his cell until he collapses, punching himself in the face and banging his head against the wall. He has spent weeks in the medical wing of Belmarsh. Prison authorities found “half of a razor blade” hidden under his socks. He has repeatedly called the suicide hotline run by The Samaritans because he thought about killing himself “hundreds of times a day.” The executioners have not yet completed their grim work. Toussaint L’Ouverture, who led the Haitian independence movement, the only successful slave revolt in human history, was physically destroyed in the same manner. He was locked by the French in an unheated and cramped prison cell and left to die of exhaustion, malnutrition, apoplexy, pneumonia, and probably tuberculosis. Unless we mobilize to halt this judicial execution, this will be Assange’s fate as well.
From the earliest days of nation states, security has been of the utmost importance; and while ensuring it has provided both prosperity and development, it has also condemned millions to death. With Russia now openly rejecting the post-Cold War security arrangement as unfair and even dangerous, is another round of confrontation in Europe a safe bet? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Christoph Heusgen, former German ambassador to the United Nations, elected chairman of the Munich Security Conference, and long-time adviser to the former German chancellor, Angela Merkel.
A week in politics is a long time, but another year living with the pandemic feels like an eternity. So this week we’re taking a traditional winter stroll through the Sputnik archives to remind ourselves of some of the stories we covered in 2021. We visit Latin America as the pink tide returns, we walk the corridors of Belmarsh, look at the house arrest of Steven Donziger, and get stuck into cancel culture. All with the hope that we can re-assess them with the benefit of twenty-twenty hindsight.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the Pentagon’s newly exposed Secret Civilian Casualty Files, an archive of hidden drone strikes that reveal systemic failure and widespread lack of accountability in civilian killings in the Middle East. They also discuss the fentanyl crisis and the role of boomers in the labor shortage. Dr. Richard Williams talks about fixing food and nutrition in the US.
In this end-of-year episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to Dan Collins, an entrepreneur and former auto executive who lived in China for 20 years. They discuss geopolitics in an age of Thucydides Traps, as tension builds between the declining power of the US and the rising one of China. They also look ahead to 2022 and forecast the chances of kinetic conflict in Taiwan and how the new hypersonic missile out of China could change the balance of power. Finally, they discuss whether or not China has burnt its Treasure Fleet by kicking out bitcoin miners, and what it means for a post-USD world.
Do you know this year’s top 10 news stories? Year Two of the pandemic again proved Covid-19 doesn’t discriminate, leaving a legacy of loss in its wake. As 2021 draws to a close, we remember cultural icons we will never forget.
2021 was a turbulent year. The Redacted Tonight team was with you through it all, reporting on the stories that the corporate media doesn’t want you to see. We’ve been taking on corporate corruption, climate change, police brutality, the war machine, US regime change operations, and the many absurdities of living in an empire in decline. Thanks for staying with us through this pandemic. We look forward to many more years with you. Enjoy some of our favorite reporting on the good, the sad, & the horrific from the last year.
Joe Biden says Coronavirus pandemic is a ‘pandemic of the unvaccinated’ and calls it a problem. The problem is also what Biden said next about the virus. We'll let you hear it. Donald Trump calls Chinese President Xi ‘a killer’, but Joe Biden seems to be afraid of Xi... Why might that be? We'll discuss with China expert and filmmaker and author, Chris Fenton. Plus, he's one of the most recognizable actors in the world, and he's putting his fame to use, trying to make sure law enforcement has enough bulletproof vests to go around. We’ll talk with actor Eric Roberts. And, the Fox News Christmas Tree is set on fire, and the depraved media jokes about it, and resents Fox's coverage of the arson. We'll show you more.
An art, a science, a means of spiritual expression – music is all these things. So how do mere vibrations of the air become such a powerful medium for us? We talked about the neuroscience of music with Elizabeth Margulis, head of the Music Cognition Lab at Princeton University.
Naomi Karavani interviews UK-based freelance journalist Mohamed Elmaazi this week on VIP. He's published with numerous outlets, including The Dissenter, Jacobin, The Canary and The Electronic Intifada. They go into the case that the US is presenting against Julian Assange, its implications for the future of journalism, and more. Elmaazi has covered every single hearing in Julian Assange’s extradition case since it started.
Then Anders Lee has a timely economics lesson from history. This lesson takes us to Sweden in the 1970s, where labor organizers pursued a left-wing economic agenda. The Meidner Plan would've seen, over time, more of the economy in the hands of working people. Similar policies were used to create the nation's generous welfare system. The plan, however, didn't survive right-wing attacks.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses political violence with Mark Rudd, author, and former leader of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS).
The Weather Underground, a clandestine revolutionary organization that carried out a wave of bombings in the 1970s, was seen by my father and other clergy members who were involved in Vietnam anti-war protests as one of the most self-destructive forces on the left. These members of the clergy, many of whom, including my father, were World War II veterans, often became ministers because of their experiences in the war. They understood the poison of violence. One of the most prominent leaders of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam (CALCAV), to which my father belonged, was the Catholic priest Philip Berrigan, who was a highly decorated Army second lieutenant who fought in the Battle of the Bulge. The young radicals of the Vietnam era, including Mark Rudd– who in 1968, as a leader of SDS, led the occupation of five buildings at Columbia University and later helped form the Weather Underground– did not turn to those on the religious left whose personal experiences with violence might have saved SDS, the Weather Underground and the student anti-war movement from self-immolation. Blinded by hubris, intoxicated by the lust for violence and hypermasculinity and infected with the disease of moral purity, the leaders of the Weather Underground destroyed the largest anti-war movement in the country. It was, perhaps, the single most important blow to the left since the witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy. The leaders of the Weather Underground dismissed the nonviolent left as useless cowards, claiming they were the only true revolutionaries. They embarked, as have many of those in today’s black bloc and antifa, on a campaign that proved to be counterproductive to the social and economic goals they said they advocated.
Rudd, 50 years later, plays the role once played by clerics Phil and Daniel Berrigan, Martin Luther King and Rabbi Abraham Heschel. His book, Underground: My Life with SDS and the Weathermen, is a brutally honest deconstruction of the dangerous myths that captivated him as a young man. I suspect that many of those in the black bloc and antifa will no more listen to his wisdom than did the young radicals five decades ago who dismissed the warnings from those on the religious left for whom violence was also not an abstraction. Rudd sees his old self in the masked faces of the black bloc and antifa, who advocate violence and property destruction in the name of anti-fascism. These faces, he said, ignite in him deep embers of “shame and guilt.”
Mark Rudd's memoir is Underground: My Life With SDS and the Weatherman.
Brian Baumgartner discusses bringing together the cast of 'The Office' for a look back at the popular sitcom. Plus, his take on the social sharing app Cameo and why he enjoys sending messages to fans.
Alex and Tasmina are joined for some gentle festive fun by the many voices of ‘Spitting Image’ stars Kate Robbins and Lewis Macleod. They look at the political year and lampoon some of the key figures, from the White House to Westminster and beyond. Watch out for Sir David Attenborough and Greta Thunberg. Merry Christmas!
Mitch Albom, who shot to fame with his non-fiction book 'Tuesdays with Morrie', is back with another thought-provoking fictional story called 'The Stranger in the Lifeboat' and explains how he came up with the idea. Plus, the sweet story behind 'Tuesdays with Morrie'.
GDP growth in the US for the third quarter was revised up as the pandemic recovery continues. We’ll discuss the figures. And former Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey has spoken out against the US dollar as he now says that Bitcoin will replace fiat currency. We’ll break down his bold predictions for the premier cryptocurrency. And 2021 is poised to be a blockbuster year at the box office as the silver screen is ready for a comeback. We speak with an expert in the sector about what lies over the horizon.
On this end-of-year episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy chat to James Howard Kunstler, author of ‘The Geography of Nowhere’, and get his explanation of what went horribly wrong for woke utopias like San Francisco, where feces and needles line the streets. They look at the Cantillon Effect and the words of Bastiat on plunder becoming a way of life. Finally, they examine the Build Back Better program and ponder whether or not it is a road to nowhere.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Pink Floyd frontman Roger Waters. He discusses attempts to prosecute Israeli Defence Minister Benny Gantz for war crimes against Palestinians, his classification of Israel as a “terrorist, apartheid, racist, colonialist regime,” what President Joe Biden represents and his views on the withdrawal from Afghanistan, the persecution of Julian Assange and Steven Donziger, and much more.
As the future of President Biden’s infrastructure bill is thrown into jeopardy, Goldman Sachs has dialed down its growth forecast for the US economy. We discuss the revision as the fate of the Build Back Better Plan hangs in the balance. Plus, as 2021 draws to a close, we take a look at the performance of commodities throughout the year as they topped even some precious metals. And 2021 was also a huge year for the field of auctions as a new wave of investors revitalized the industry.
How should we describe our times? What’s the zeitgeist, as they say? Do we have a sense of direction and purpose? We hear a lot about the desire to ‘return to normal.’ But what does that mean now? Are we already living in the new normal?
CrossTalking with John Laughland and Lionel.
John Michael Higgins sits down with Dennis to discuss playing the new principal on the reboot of 'Saved by the Bell' and what it was like to join a beloved series. Plus, getting his start in theater and his memories of acclaimed composer Stephen Sondheim.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the WSJ editorial by a former Fed governor, Kevin Warsh, pointing his finger at the central bank for causing inflation. In the second half, Max chats to Mish Shedlock of MishTalk.com about inflation and its causes.
Laraine Newman was part of the original cast for Saturday Night Live and she sits down with fellow ‘SNL’ alum Dennis Miller to reminisce on her time there. Plus, her second career as a successful voice over actor in the competitive industry.
China’s Central Bank has confirmed it will cut its key lending rate for the first time in 20 months, amid continued supply-chain shortages and concerns surrounding global demand. We take a look at how markets are reacting. And energy prices are soaring in Europe, as temperatures continue to drop. We’ll discuss the latest on the fate of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, and whether it could face new sanctions from the US. Plus, the United Kingdom has inked a post-Brexit trade deal with Australia as it looks to build stronger ties with the nation – we’ll bring you the latest.
Earlier this year, the Mars Perseverance rover successfully landed on the red planet. The goal? To collect rock samples and other specimens to bring back to earth - in about 10 years. What is the fascination with humans colonizing Mars? Will we ever actually get to Mars and who will be brave enough to attempt the first human mission? Rocket scientist Anita Sengupta joins William Shatner to discuss.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mansoor Adayfi, author of ‘Don’t Forget Us Here: Lost and Found at Guantanamo.’ He details his time at Guantanamo Bay, including the existence of satanic rooms, sexual abuse, and torture, the presence of Israeli personnel at the prison, Islamophobic abuse by interrogators and more. Mansoor also explains how he was able to cling to hope and daily life in the infamous hellhole.
The Biden administration says it believes in diplomacy. Well now, it has a chance to prove this. Russia has presented two wide-ranging proposals to recast and regulate its relations with the West in general and specifically NATO. We are living in a historic moment. CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen and George Szamuely.
This week’s guest is a man who single-handedly steers the Tory government through the high seas of politics. Based in Clapham, but with a global perspective, Rafe Hubris BA (Oxon) joins Ross Ashcroft to discuss politics, writing his memoirs, and himself.
For millennia, poets and philosophers have puzzled over the nature of love and why people succumb to it but the exact opposite question, why do people hate and kill, may be even harder to answer. From the biblical fratricidal murder to the genocides of the 20th century, how well do we understand this urge to efface the other?
To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Alex Hinton, distinguished professor of anthropology at Rutgers University, UNESCO chair on genocide prevention, and author of ‘It Can Happen Here: White Power and the Rising Threat of Genocide in the US’.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses ‘The Trial of Julian Assange,’ a new book by Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture.
In July 2010, WikiLeaks published ‘Cablegate,’ one of the biggest leaks in the history of the US military, including evidence of war crimes and torture. Julian Assange, the founder and spokesman of WikiLeaks, immediately found himself a target, accused of hacking, and later sexual assault. He spent the next seven years in asylum in the Ecuadorian embassy in London, fearful that he would be extradited to Sweden to face accusations of assault and then sent to the US. In 2019, Assange was handed over to the British police. On the same day, the US demanded his extradition. He faces up to 175 years in prison for alleged espionage and computer fraud.
It was at this moment that Nils Melzer, UN special rapporteur on torture, started his methodical investigation into how the US and UK governments were working in tandem to imprison Assange for life in the United States. The more Melzer investigated the more it became apparent that the UK and the United States were grossly distorting the legal process to revoke Assange’s most basic rights, including due process along with the flagrant manipulation of evidence. The violations included the taping of Assange’s meetings with his attorneys, in violation of attorney-client privilege. Melzer gathered medical and psychological evidence to prove that Assange had suffered prolonged and orchestrated psychological torture. All these measures were instituted solely because Assange provided to the public evidence of war crimes, lies, corruption and a callous indifference by the United States to human life.
Nils Melzer is the UN special rapporteur on torture. His new book is ‘The Trial of Julian Assange: A Story of Persecution.’
Julian Assange, journalist and publisher, lies stricken this weekend in a Belmarsh Prison cell. It has been revealed that he has suffered a stroke on top of all the psychological and physical health attrition that has occurred over the 11 years of his incarceration. First in the Ecuadorian embassy and the last two years in a maximum security prison usually reserved for mass murderers and terrorists. Julian Assange has actually been convicted of nothing, but he is being kept in conditions that are attracting the attention of human rights organizations all over the world. The British and American states are subjecting themselves to quite severe collateral damage to their reputation by this relentless pursuit of this journalist. So, we invited Annie Machon, a former MI5 officer, to ask what it is that makes them conclude the damage and detriment to their reputation is worth it.
Hawaii would have been in the news this week anyway as the island remembered the 80th anniversary of the controversial bombing of the Pacific fleet in Pearl Harbor, an act which brought America into the Second World War. But Island activists are creating waves about two current controversies; The Red Hill Petrol leak is attracting attention from all over the world as jet oil from World War II tanks is now leaking and contaminating the water. Coupled with this, the siting of a telescope on sacred land on the dormant volcano of Mauna Kea has seen arrests of 33 Native Hawaiian elders for peacefully blocking construction resulting in an emergency order giving more authority to the law to remove demonstrators. Kaniela Ing is a politician, community organizer, and activist, so we invited him aboard Sputnik to tell us more about the 50th State of America which is more than just sand, sea, and surfing.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Tariq Ali, author of ‘The Forty-Year War in Afghanistan: A Chronicle Foretold’. He discusses the persecution of Julian Assange and the significance of the Afghan war logs released by WikiLeaks, the real motives for the US-led NATO war and occupation of Afghanistan being money laundering, military-industrial complex profiteering, and drug trafficking, rather than women’s rights and democracy, the US de-facto opposing women’s rights and civil rights while fighting the proxy war against the Soviet Union, and much more. Finally, we speak to Judge Kevin Sharp, lawyer of Leonard Peltier, the indigenous rights activist who remains the longest serving political prisoner in the US. He discusses the failing health of Peltier and attempts to appeal to presidents to free him, evidence that he is innocent and not responsible for the murder of two FBI agents, the unfairness Peltier faced during his trial, and much more.
Naomi Karavani opens the show on waste at the Pentagon. The snow tank is a great example of strange military gear made at the expense of the ability of regular Americans to eat and pay rent, and it’s just one among hundreds of odd ways weapon companies turn tax dollars into technology for killing poor people around the world. Then Karavani updates us on the LA Sherriff’s Department gangs story, Rand Paul’s change of heart on disaster relief after Kentucky took a tragic hit last week, and more. Jaffer Khan brings us a story of espionage. The intelligence community loves their surveillance technology, but it’s so widespread now that they can’t move silently against the enemies of empire anymore. They’re victims of their own success. Anders Lee reports on recent updates from Julian Assange’s persecution.
TIME has named Elon Musk ‘Person of the Year’. Legal journalist Mollye Barrows outlines the intrepid entrepreneur’s landmark achievements that helped turn Tesla and SpaceX into household names. Now people wonder if Musk’s fortune and fame are enough to convince us to get brain implants under his new venture with Neuralink. Tech expert Ian Khan and Boom Bust co-host Ben Swann discuss how bionic implants, QR codes, cryptocurrency, and a surging dependency on cloud services have reshaped the global tech landscape since Covid-19 first arrived. Fox’s Chris Wallace and NBC’s Brian Williams are the latest in a string of mainstream media A-listers to leave their longtime posts. Progressive radio talker Jon Elliott and Boom Bust’s Ben Swann break down the re-casting of cable news pundits, and how our growing digital dependency has forever changed the way we consume news.
As the energy crunch continues to squeeze global markets, coal is making a comeback and is on track to hit record levels. We’ll bring you the figures. Plus, global markets are mostly down for the week as central banks take action to deal with rising prices and the latest Covid strain. And the Biden administration is warning of attacks during the holiday season. We take a look at the cyber security landscape.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos talk about the fate of Julian Assange now that the US government has won an appeal to extradite the WikiLeaks founder from the UK, and why millions of Americans can’t afford to retire. Professor Sheldon Krimsky talks about his book, ‘Conflicts of Interest in Science’, and how special interests shape academic research to fit their agenda.
Max and Stacy look at the suppression of price signals leading to Legos outperforming gold. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com about the surging inflation numbers and what exactly is the problem with gold.
What is CNN Plus? And would you pay for it? Shock Jock Howard Stern rips CNN and their new streaming service, which will feature Chris Wallace, who announced his resignation from 'Fox News Sunday' after hosting the program for 18 years. Plus, Wyoming Republican Congresswoman Liz Cheney reads the private texts of three Fox News hosts at a January 6th Committee hearing. Whose texts did she read and why, and what about the right to privacy? Jeffrey Lord will be here to discuss. Fox's Greg Gutfeld responding to AOC as she calls for student loan forgiveness... We'll show you what else was said and get reaction from actor Kevin Sorbo. MSNBC's Brian Williams signs off his show for the last time, and he claims he's not liberal or conservative... Is it true or it’s another tall tale? Don't miss the Dessert segment.
In terms of security and defense, Europe stands at a crossroads. Should outdated Cold War-era structures be maintained, like NATO and overreliance on the US? Or should Europe define and shoulder responsibilities for its own defense? And what about Russia?
CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and Maxim Suchkov.
Naomi Karavani is joined by Pascal Robert. He’s a contributor to the Black Agenda Report and the host of the ‘This Is Revolution’ podcast. They start the conversation on new reporting revealing that the assassins of Haitian President Jovenel Moise were searching for a list of drug kingpins when they raided his home. They also discuss the country’s history, the Haitian diaspora in the US, the impoverishment of Black America as a strategy for creating a pool of desperate workers, and Pascal’s reasons for optimism.
Jaffer Khan talks about how Europe is copying the US’ racist “Remain In Mexico” policy with a “Remain In Africa” stance. The EU is funding a massive campaign to deny asylum seekers their right to a safe haven. The campaign includes funding Libya’s Coast Guard to keep refugees out of Europe.
Chris Hedges discusses with Andrew Cockburn his new book, ‘The Spoils of War – Power, Profit and the American War Machine’.
Cockburn’s book lays bare the naked lust for profit that is behind America’s endless wars and bloated military budget. The American war machine, he writes, can only be understood in terms of the “private passions” and “interests” of those who control it – principally, a passionate interest in making money.
Thus, Washington expanded NATO beyond Germany, breaking a promise to Russian leaders, to open up the lucrative arms market in Eastern Europe to defense contractors. The US Army insisted on furnishing soldiers with defective helmets from a favored contractor that magnified the trauma and traumatic brain injury caused by an explosion. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet deployments were for years dictated by a corrupt defense contractor known as “Fat Leonard” who bribed high-ranking officers with cash, drunken parties that lasted days, and prostitutes known as the “Thai SEAL team” to ensure his more than $200 million in contracts. The Air Force spent $50 billion in esoteric devices to deter insurgents’ homemade $25 bombs, including the $100 million Lockheed EC-130H aircraft supposedly equipped with ground-penetrating radar that could detect buried bombs. Only after hundreds of flights was the device found to be useless. Senior Marine commanders agreed to a troop surge in Afghanistan in 2017, not because they thought it would work, but “because it will do us good at budget time.”
Cockburn provides example after example that exposes the ugly reality of the largest military machine in history, at once corrupt, squalid, and terrifyingly dangerous.
Andrew Cockburn, Washington editor, Harper’s Magazine
The Bank of England has broken the global central bank consensus as it moves to raise interest rates, in a bid to combat inflation, moving away from its pandemic policies. And the debate over lawmakers and stock trading is heating up as US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has come out in favor of congressional members owning shares. Plus, the supply chain woes are showing no signs of slowing down as the backup is taking a toll on auto sales and the industry at large.
As 2021 draws to a close, futurists, political scientists, and economists are all competing in wild guesses about what the next year has in store for us. We talked to Steen Jakobsen, chief investment officer at Saxo Bank.
Chef Michael Symon sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss his new cooking competition series 'Throwdown with Michael Symon' and how he challenges local chefs on their own turf. Plus, why he decided to create a simple and accessible cookbook just in time for the holidays.
As Boris Johnson’s political problems pile up, Alex asks two political soothsayers with contrasting views to look forward into 2022. Top Tory commentator Peter Oborne believes that the prime minister is finished, but Johnson’s fellow Brexiteer, independent peer Baroness Claire Fox, says that there is still time for the PM to turn things round.
Hundreds of migrants are smuggled across the southern US border and forced into modern-day slave labor. Who will be held accountable for US airstrikes that killed innocent Syrians? Amazon is forced to hold a new union vote.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the explosion in propaganda about inflation. In the second half, Max chats to John Rubino of DollarCollapse.com about those surging inflation numbers.
The US Federal Reserve has announced that it will ramp up the tapering of bond purchases as it winds down its pandemic measures. And Presidents Xi and Putin have held their first virtual meeting in several months as tensions over trade and the Olympics continue to strain the globe. The talks come as tensions continue between the US and China amid reports that Washington plans to blacklist several more Chinese firms, including the world’s largest commercial drone maker, DJI Technology. We take a look at the talks and what it means on the geopolitical stage.
Egyptian comedian Bassem Youssef put down the scalpel as a surgeon to take a risk and try his hand at stand-up comedy. After a successful career in Egypt, Bassem explains how he has adapted his jokes for an American audience.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Mahmood Mamdani, author of ‘Neither Settler nor Native: The Making and Unmaking of Permanent Minorities’. He discusses the failures of Nuremberg and its legacy in the modern world, how deliberate actions by the British and other European empires has created continuous racial strife across the formerly colonised world, the inspiration Adolf Hitler found for the Holocaust from the US’ genocide of Native Americans, the Israel-Palestine conflict, and much more.
Albert Hammond Jr., best known as the lead guitarist for 'The Strokes,' is testing out his entrepreneurial skills with a brand new wine seltzer called 'Jetway.' He also discusses how the birth of his daughter has given him new musical inspiration.
Pundits love polls, particularly when polls further a certain political agenda. But polling has a checkered history as of late. The last two election cycles tell us as much. Should we put much stock in polling anymore? If so, then why?
CrossTalking with Richard Baris and Pye Ian.
Oil prices are edging downward as an uncertain new year approaches. We’ll discuss what we can expect as the busy holiday travel season picks up. Plus, the Federal Reserve’s meeting is underway in Washington, DC – the first since chair Jerome Powell announced a new way forward for the central bank. We’ll discuss the outlook and how it will impact the economy. And bitcoin has cleared a milestone as 90% of the crypto has been mined and issued.
In this episode of the Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look back to 2014, when Max and a guest, Tuur Demeester, predicted a small, nimble nation-state would be the first to adopt bitcoin as legal tender. In the second half, Max chats to James Turk about his new book, ‘Money and Liberty’.
One night in December 2018, Drew Magary suffered a mysterious fall that caused him to hit his head so hard that he cracked his skull in three places and suffered a catastrophic brain hemorrhage. He has been battling to recover both mentally and physically since then. On this episode of 'I Don't Understand,' he joins William Shatner to talk about his journey.
The G7 alliance has once again made Russia and China the main topics of their latest meeting, but what can we expect from the “massive consequences” they are now threatening? We’ll discuss. And inflation is rising at its fastest rate in nearly 40 years, and the latest increase in wages hasn’t come close to catching up. We’ll take a look at the impact on the US economy, with the holiday season right around the corner. Plus, the UK’s economy comes to a standstill as the construction sector takes a hit and tensions over Brexit continue to take a toll. We’ll look into whether the ‘Fishing War’ with France could be coming to an end soon.
Carrie Preston is known for her unforgettable roles in 'True Blood', 'The Good Fight', and 'The Good Wife.' She talks with Dennis about her theater roots and her supportive parents. Plus, she reveals how her show 'Claws' wraps up their fourth season.
It’s been a busy 2021, so in this episode we look back over the year and select choice cuts from some of our excellent contributors.
The West’s relationship with Russia is at a record low. And there’s no reason to believe this will change any time soon. However, is a grand bargain possible as some have suggested? Also, has the fate of Julian Assange been sealed?
CrossTalking with Maxim Suchkov and Dmitry Babich.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Moussa Ibrahim, the former spokesperson for late Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi. He discusses the overturning of the decision to ban Saif Al-Islam Gaddafi (the son of Muammar Gaddafi) from running in the Libyan presidential elections, current polling for the elections, why he believes the polls are wrong, why he thinks Saif Al-Islam is the only candidate who is not aligned with a foreign power, and much more. Finally, we speak to Brian Peterson, author of ‘Thomas Sankara: A Revolutionary in Cold War Africa’. He discusses the African revolutionary’s famous battle against foreign aid, the IMF and World Bank. He also talks about France’s role in destabilising Burkina Faso’s revolution, French involvement in the coup against Sankara, the revolutionary’s fight against imperialism, and much more.
After attempting to steal two Christmases in a row, Covid-19 is once again going in for the kill. The new Omicron variant has already led to restrictions on air travel and booking cancellations but its effect on business may be dwarfed by the pressure on already strained healthcare systems. How solid are our defenses against this seemingly omnipotent and omnipresent shapeshifter? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Lawrence Young, a virologist at the University of Warwick.
Chris Hedges and Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria discuss the British High Court ruling to allow the extradition of Julian Assange.
On Friday, the British High Court in London overturned an earlier lower court decision blocking the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. The ruling sends the case back to the Magistrate’s Court with instructions to allow the extradition to be approved or denied by British Home Secretary Priti Patel.
The ruling, which included a decision to continue to hold Assange in a high security prison, is a severe blow to the Wikileaks co-founder’s efforts to prevent his extradition to the United States to face charges under the Espionage Act.
The extradition is now in the hands of Patel, unless Assange’s lawyers, as expected, file an appeal to the UK Supreme Court.
District Judge Vanessa Baraitser ruled in January that Assange could not be extradited because the inhumane conditions of US prisons would make Assange, who suffers from physical and mental health issues, a suicide risk.
The United States, in appealing the decision, assured that Assange would receive adequate medical and psychological care and would not be subjected to measures commonly used in high profile cases, such as prolonged isolation and Special Administrative Measures – known as SAMs – which impose draconian rules limiting any communication and allows the government to monitor meetings with attorneys in violation of attorney-client privilege.
The US attempt to extradite Assange has been widely condemned by civil liberties organizations, including Amnesty International, Reporters Without Borders, the International Federation of Journalists, the American Civil Liberties Union, and Human Rights Watch – which have called it an existential threat to freedom of the press.
If extradited to the United States, Assange – who oversaw the WikiLeaks publication of documents and videos that exposed US war crimes and a range of other illegal and nefarious activities – faces a 175-year prison sentence.
The international airwaves are thick with the prospects of war: Unexplained explosions near a nuclear reactor in Iran; military, political, economic stand-offs with China in the Taiwan Strait, and perhaps the most ominous of all, on the Russian-Ukrainian border. Over the last few weeks, the US government has repeatedly stated that they believe Russia is preparing to invade Ukraine. The UK government last week added its voice, saying they believe the same. So, is there trouble on the horizon? We asked an expert on the situation from the University of South-Eastern Norway, Professor Glenn Diesen.
Debbie Hayton is a political activist, a human rights activist, and a union activist; she also happens to be a trans person. She transitioned 10 years ago, but now has grave doubts about how trans activism is taking the world. It’s an issue which has become politically divisive, and people such as JK Rowling, Martina Navratilova, and Germaine Greer are essentially being de-platformed as the word ‘woman’ appears to be excised from public notices and discourse. So, we invited her aboard Sputnik to ask why key terminology is being erased and where it is all heading.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Richard Sakwa, professor of Russian and European politics at the University of Kent. He discusses the summit between Putin and Biden over the Ukraine crisis, the unresolved issues at the end of ‘Cold War 1’ that led to ‘Cold War 2’ between the US and Russia, NATO expansion towards Russia’s borders contrary to promises made prior to the collapse of the Soviet Union, and the threat of nuclear war, the lack of implementation of the Minsk Agreement, and much more. Finally, we speak to Martyn Whittock, author of ‘The End Times, Again? 2000 Years of the Use & Misuse of Biblical Prophecy’. He discusses the issue within Christian churches when people believe they are truly living in the end times, the relationship between evangelicals and US policy towards Israel and the wider Middle East, the contention between Islam and Christianity through the ages, the climate crisis and whether these are the end times, and much more.
Max and Stacy look at how the central bank injecting ever more credit into the system has caused the dollar to look like it has over-inflated lips. In the second half, Max chats to Mark Moss about just how many meals we are away from anarchy.
When Xiomara Castro won the election in Honduras the other week, it was a repudiation of the 2009 US-backed coup that overthrew her husband, Manuel Zelaya. Naomi Karavani reports on the elections and what they mean for the global left. Castro’s husband had ruled as a centrist democrat. He was removed from power in 2009 over small reforms that offended those in power. After a decade of corrupt leadership from the business community Castro won power as a democratic socialist and the imperialists are mad about it. Karavani also reports on recent news around the conservative war against abortion rights in the US, debt collectors being allowed to harass people on social media, Joe Biden’s record on climate change, and more.
Anders Lee looks into Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg’s inaction when it comes to addressing the supply chain shortages the US is facing. He shows us some of the actions that the secretary of transportation could take to free up the flow of goods in the market. Of course, the neoliberal mindset would never allow soldiers like Pete to improve the working conditions of the workers who keep this nation’s transportation infrastructure working. We’re going to have to settle with system failure. Finally, Jaffer Khan exposes how the Mormon Church has taken over Utah’s social welfare system. People have been forced to convert to Mormonism to receive their benefits and have faced other forms of discrimination from the church.
On this special episode of Boom Bust, we take a look at some of the biggest stories we have covered in 2021 and bring in some of our favorite guests on the show and go over some of the predictions they have made and how it all panned out.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the buildup of Russian and NATO forces around Ukraine, rare charges filed against school shooter Ethan Crumbley’s parents, and how the CIA failed to prosecute employees accused of child sex crimes. Counterpoint founder Catherine Fieschi talks about her latest book, ‘Future Tense: Globalism After the Pandemic’.
The UK High Court greenlights the US extradition of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Meanwhile, the trial of alleged sex-trafficker Ghislaine Maxwell continues, and fears grow over the possible overturning of Roe v. Wade. Legal & media analyst Lionel and attorney Madeline Pendley weigh in on this trio of cases. The US is joined by Canada and New Zealand in its diplomatic boycott of the upcoming Beijing Winter Olympics. RT sports correspondent Steve Christakos explains just how big an impact China would have on the world of sports if THEY iced US out. Plus, we bring you to the sands of Dubai, where professional rugby and hockey make their desert debuts!
Recently acquitted Kyle Rittenhouse rips Lebron James… as payback for what James said about him on Twitter during his trial. We'll show you what the 18-year-old said. What on earth is Hillary doing there on NBC? We'll tell you, and let you hear more, but you may not believe it. Media goes into meltdown as the Mississippi abortion law goes to the Supreme Court. Steve Malzberg has much more to show you. Plus, is Stacy Abrams, the loser in the 2018 Georgia Governor's race, a liar as some media outlets claim? We'll have the verdict for you in the Dessert segment.
US President Joe Biden is hosting a virtual global summit on democracy. Apparently, Washington intends to launch a new crusade to save the world for democracy, at least as the foreign policy blob understands this political term. Critics of this stunt claim it is all about ‘strategic polarization’ and an attempt at ‘values-based diplomacy.’
CrossTalking with Scott Ritter, Fiorella Isabel, and Alexey Naumov.
Naomi Karavani sits down with Ben Burgis to discuss the philosophy professor’s latest book, ‘Christopher Hitchens: What He Got Right, How He Went Wrong, and Why He Still Matters’. Hitchens began his intellectual career as a socialist and ended it as a supporter of the War on Terror. Karavani and Burgis look at some of Hitchens’ career highlights such as exposing Bill Clinton, Mother Teresa, and more. They also get into what started his rightward slide and how 9/11 broke his brain.
Anders Lee and Jaffer Khan join Karavani to look over some of the missed headlines from the week. General Stanley McChrystal wrote a book about doing business without having a business career. A billionaire has asked the Olympics to be more accommodating to yacht owners. And Japanese cops have been stealing from the American playbook when it comes to discrimination.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the journalist Glen Ford and the radical black press with Ajamu Baraka, national organizer and spokesperson with the Black Alliance for Peace.
Glen Ford, who died in the summer of 2021, was one of the country’s most insightful political commentators and radical journalists. He appeared several times on this show. He spoke for the marginalized and excoriated the elites. Glen was the co-publisher of the radical Black Commentator. He co-founded Black Agenda Report with Bruce Dixon and Margaret Kimberley in 2006. Glen repeatedly called out the Black political elites, exposing for example New Jersey Senator Cory Booker’s close ties with right-wing organizations such as the Manhattan Institute and the Bradley Foundation and Booker’s advocacy of neoliberalism, austerity programs, school privatization, and other initiatives that are at the forefront of the war on the poor, especially poor Blacks. He called the Black political leaders who sold their soul to corporations and America’s imperial projects the “Black misleadership class.” While many Black leftists betrayed the most basic tenants of their political beliefs to support Barack Obama following his election to the presidency in 2008, Glen saw through the charade. He lambasted Obama and Hillary Clinton as “political twins” and warned that the policies they advocated were deeply harmful to Black people. He saw Obama and the Democratic Party as not the lesser evil, but the more effective evil. The Democrats, he knew, were better at masking their subservience to corporations, the ruling elites, and the military-industrial complex while assiduously doing their bidding. Glen was also keenly aware that the evils of white supremacy and corporate plundering are the driving engine behind America’s imperial projects. He kept a close watch on the United States Africa Command, AFRICOM, and its expanding military footprint on the continent. A talented and brilliant writer, gifted with an acerbic sense of humor and uncompromising in his integrity and courage, he will be very hard to replace. Glen Ford’s new book is: The Black Agenda https://www.orbooks.com/catalog/the-black-agenda/
Former NFL star Ahmad Rashad discusses his sports broadcasting and ensuring he had a lasting career past his football days. He also discusses hosting the game show 'tug of words' and why he doesn't do anything that isn't fun anymore.
China’s Evergrande gets the label of ‘restricted default’ for the first time from a major credit rating agency after its 30-day grace period comes to an end. We’ll discuss what it means for the embattled company. Plus, the drama surrounding the Nord Stream 2 pipeline continues. We’ll tell you which leaders are begging Germany’s new chancellor not to give the greenlight to the project. And we’ll discuss the new wave of inflation hitting consumers as the holiday season approaches.
Hypnosis has always tread the line between trickery and science leaving some fooled while helping others explore their psyche. What's true or false about this somewhat occult practice? We asked Paul McKenna, hypnotist, behavioral scientist, and best-selling author.
As COP26 in Glasgow fades into memory, Alex asks Professor Stuart Haszeldine to assess the progress and failures of the crucial climate summit. Plus he talks to two artists, Natalia Kapchuk and Sarah Class, whose work in the visual arts and classical music has been inspired by the environmental emergency.
Pfizer lobbies against updates to the False Claims Act, which would help whistleblowers expose corporate fraud. California is inundated with cases of ‘smash and grab’ retail theft. Corporations use inflation as an excuse to increase prices.
Actor Vincent D'Onofrio sits down with Dennis Miller for a career retrospective, discussing some of his biggest roles and working with celebrated directors like Barry Sonnenfeld and Stanley Kubrick. Plus, his latest role in the Netflix film 'The Unforgivable'.
Max and Stacy look at the ‘global stilling’ contributing to the soaring price of electricity, as wind power goes offline. They compare it to the velocity of money which has also died down in energy. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Dr. Michael Hudson, who is out with the third reprint of his classic, Super Imperialism. They discuss the money pump and the end of empire.
Tensions in the Asia-Pacific region are shifting power dynamics, as China and Australia’s ties continue to fray. Straight ahead, we discuss the evolution of geopolitics in the region and what it means for the world’s two largest economies. And, a group of CEOs in the cryptocurrency industry have gone before Congress to discuss the future of regulation in the space. We bring you the highlights from the hearing and what it all means. Plus, we take a look at the fallout from an Amazon Web Services outage that was felt across the internet, raising serious questions about why it happened and what this tells us about the state of monopolies on the internet.
On this episode, we speak to independent health analyst Dr. John Campbell. He discusses the popularity of his videos explaining the complexities of the coronavirus pandemic and public health generally, the rare heart problem associated with Covid-19 vaccines and the solution to the cause, the Omicron variant, and much more! Finally, we speak to Michael Albert, author of ‘No Bosses: A Economy For A Better World’. He discusses the framework for the economy that comes after a communist or socialist revolution, why Karl Marx was so vague about what follows a revolution, participatory economics which would see the end of the power of capitalist billionaires such as Jeff Bezos, attempts at revolutionary economics that have happened in the past and their shortcomings, and much more!
What is the national mood? I suppose it depends on what kind of media you consume. To say the nation is divided and highly partisan is an understatement. That is certainly what the national media want us to think. But are we really so divided on what matters most?
CrossTalking with Martha Boneta, Dee Dawkins-Haigler, and Rory Riley-Topping.
Oil prices are up nearly 5% as concerns surrounding the latest Covid variant ease, and tensions continue to impact global supply. We’ll discuss the latest. And a Miami court has ruled in favor of a man who claims he invented Bitcoin! We’ll tell you all about the case, and whether it will have an impact on the foundation of the crypto industry. Plus, Elon Musk has weighed in on the Biden ‘Build Back Better’ plan, slamming the budget and calling for an end to EV subsidies, despite building Tesla off those very subsidies.
Actress and vocal artists Andrea Savage sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss how she got involved in the animated series 'The Freak Brothers' along with other talented actors like Woody Harrelson and Pete Davidson. Plus, she discusses how she convinced the studios to take a chance on her hit comedy show 'I'm Sorry.'
Rationality matters. It leads to better choices in our lives and in the public sphere, and is the ultimate driver of social justice and moral progress. So are humans innately rational or irrational? And why is it difficult for some people to be rational? Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University Steven Pinker joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss how do we embrace rationality and why is it sometimes really hard to do.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at Janet Yellen blaming consumers for causing supply chain disruptions and the ensuing inflation. In the second half, Max chats to Dr Michael Hudson, who is the author of the classic, Super Imperialism, now out in its third edition. They discuss ‘the greatest rip-off’ of the US dollar system and Max challenges Dr Hudson to consider bitcoin as a way to end the ‘rip-off.’
Reggae artist Shaggy shares his Jamaican heritage with the world by delivering a holiday album called 'Christmas in the island' to give people a taste of Christmas on the beach. Plus, he discusses the 20 year anniversary of his chart-topping hit 'It Wasn't Me'.
First, Bitcoin is still reeling after an ugly weekend – the world’s largest crypto-currency has fallen back below $50,000. So, what’s behind the losses, and how will it affect predictions? We’ll discuss.
Next, the US State Department has launched an investigation after its employees’ cellphones were infiltrated by hackers using Israeli spy software. We’ll bring you the latest, and what it could mean for the world of cybersecurity.
Lastly, we take you to China, where Evergrande is again facing default as shares in the firm hit a record low, casting a shadow over the entire real estate sector.
It’s unlikely that you’ve heard of it, but it’s likely that you’re part of it. As neoliberalism rages on, the human scrap heap gets bigger and bigger, and this is creating a dangerous new class called the Precariat.
Ross Ashcroft is joined by Prof. Guy Standing to discuss the growing Precariat and why the political class should be taking them seriously.
Focus on Ukraine: Joe Biden says "I don’t accept anyone’s red lines." Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov says: "The nightmare scenario of military confrontation is returning." On this edition of the program we examine the significance of both statements.
CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and George Szamuely.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Professor Kehinde Andrews, author of ‘The New Age of Empire: How Racism and Colonialism Still Rule the World’. He discusses how the Queen and the British royal family are the ‘premier symbol’ of white supremacy, the racist worldview that informed Enlightenment thinking and how it brought genocide and colonialism to the doors of people of colour around the world, their suffering being integral to the Industrial Revolution and the absence of this history from western curricula, and how the same forces of colonialism and racism still dominate the world today.
Like her trademark jackets, Angela Merkel’s political style came in one shape and size but all colors of the rainbow. Measured and at times even dull, she nonetheless managed to steer Germany and Europe through many upheavals. Can the traffic-light coalition now poised to replace her do the same without running into red at every corner? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Werner Patzelt, Emeritus Professor of Comparative Government at Dresden Technical University.
Chris Hedges discusses the decline of the American empire and the new global order with Professor Alfred McCoy, who holds the Harrington Chair in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
McCoy looks at past empires and how they disintegrated in his book ‘To Govern the Globe’. The familiar patterns of decline allow him to speculate about what lies ahead as the global dominance of the United States crumbles under the weight of disastrous military adventurism, the collapse of public institutions, a rapacious and greedy oligarchic elite, and inept political and military leadership. The new world order, McCoy argues, will see China ascendant.
“While Washington was spilling its blood and treasure into desert sands,” writes McCoy, “Beijing had been investing much of its accumulated trade surplus in the integration of the ‘world island’ of Africa, Asia, and Europe into an economic powerhouse.”
The key to Chinese dominance, he argues, is its far-sighted strategic focus on control of the world’s energy and raw materials, increasingly in short supply, and its investment in technologically advanced infrastructure.
“Each transition to a new world order has occurred when a massively destructive cataclysm has coincided with major social change,” he notes, arguing that the climate crisis will be the trigger for a new configuration of world dominance.
McCoy’s new book is ‘To Govern the Globe: World Orders and Catastrophic Change’.
War and famine ravaged Ethiopia, Eritrea, Somalia, and much of the Sahel in the ‘80s leaving millions dead. Live Aid and Band Aid tried to paper over the cracks of famine but there was a proxy war being fought as Soviet bombers dropped American bombs. Now, the war, at least, is back and superpower involvement is guaranteed. The details may have changed but the larger picture remains the same. So just how dangerous is the situation there now? We asked Simon Tesfamariam, executive director of the New African Institute.
Leslee Udwin is a critically acclaimed filmmaker with an eclectic body of work, from ‘East is East’, which opened up Asian-themed culture to a national audience, to ‘Who Bombed Birmingham’, which helped release six innocent men after 17 years of wrongful imprisonment, and ‘India’s Daughter’, a film dealing with the terrible violence meted out to women and girls. There is clearly an overriding theme of humanism and justice running through her work and her charity Think Equal, a global education initiative for children, is no exception, so she boarded Sputnik to tell us more.
In this episode, Professor Barry Schoub, chair of South Africa’s Ministerial Advisory Committee on Covid-19 vaccines tells us why the latest coronavirus strain is unlike any we have seen to date. He discusses the fall-out from the travel bans imposed on his country after its labs discovered and sequenced the Omicron variant, and considers whether current vaccines will be effective in keeping the new strain at bay.
In the second half, we speak to Elle Hardy, author of ‘Beyond Belief: How Pentecostal Christianity Is Taking Over The World’. She brings us up to speed on the fundamentals of “Born Again+”, explains how it differs from the more traditional branches of Christianity, such as Catholicism and Protestantism, and discusses how and why it’s rapidly gaining devotees across the world. Finally, Hardy explores Pentecostalism’s origins in the US’ dirty wars in Latin America in the 1970s, and tells us how it contributed to the rise of both Jair Bolsonaro and Donald Trump.
Will Omicron push America’s economy to its limit? Finance professor Dr. Murray Sabrin explains how the pandemic has supercharged the usual boom/bust cycle. Plus, when it comes to our healthcare system, just how ‘free’ is free enterprise?
What are the long-term psychological impacts of having spent the past 18 months locked down and masked up? Psychotherapist Nancy Colier explains how antisocial behaviors have rewoven the fabric of our society, and caused some to develop mask dependency.
Microwork is a rising form of labor exploitation being deployed by some of the world’s best-known corporations. It’s online work requiring the performance of repetitive, often menial tasks for minimal pay, and there are big players among the ranks of those who offer it, including Jeff Bezos’ Mechanical Turk. Naomi Karavani takes a look at the phenomenon and introduces us to some of those who know the industry all too well. Their tasks includes the likes of identifying and labeling the contents of images, or translating or transcribing audio. Vulnerable people such as refugees and those living in the Occupied Territories are the target workers for the microwork industry, and abuse is common, she discovers, extending in some cases to harassment. Later in the program, Karavani covers the victimization argument around which Ghislaine Maxwell’s lawyers are constructing their case, Joe Biden’s flippant lies about believing in a waiver for the intellectual property of Covid-19 vaccines, and more.
Jaffer Khan reports on the recent victory for Indian farmers, who had been engaged in a massive protest campaign to overturn reforms that had opened up their industry to exploitation. Prime Minister Narendra Modi finally gave into their pressure and reversed the changes, but they’ve chosen to continue their campaign in order to exact yet more concessions.
Anders Lee dives into the debate about inflation in the US. America has seen 6% inflation in the past year and the talking heads at the top are taking this as an opportunity to blame the rise on welfare spending. But is that really the whole story? Lee takes apart the arguments of economist Larry Summers.
A new report reveals that, despite a federal ban, at least three US government agencies are still purchasing thousands of dollars’ worth of Chinese technology. An investigation has been launched, but will there be any consequences? We’ll discuss.
The leaders of the world’s largest economies came together to agree a global tax deal, but a new report finds there are billion-dollar loopholes companies are using right now that were never closed. Plus, inflation coupled with the emergence of the Omicron variant and the ongoing supply chain crisis is a recipe for a holiday-shopping disaster. We’ll take a look at the likely impact on retail’s traditionally lucrative season.
In a wide-ranging discussion, Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the latest Covid variant of concern, the exoneration of two men convicted for the murder of Malcolm X, a potential cure for Type 1 diabetes, and Oliver Stone’s new documentary about the assassination of JFK. Inequality expert Chuck Collins talks about the proposed tax on billionaires to fund the Build Back Better Act.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at Jamie Dimon’s claim that ‘bitcoin has no intrinsic value.’ Indeed. Bitcoin has pure monetary value and that is a good thing. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Simon Dixon of BnkToTheFuture.com about the financial world in a post-hyperbitcoinization reality in which El Salvador is issuing bitcoin-backed bonds, and what the next few years might hold.
Tucker Carlson is defending Chris Cuomo who was suspended by CNN for his role in helping to shape a defense for his brother, former NY governor Andrew Cuomo, accused of sexual misconduct.
More officers have been shot and killed this year than any other year. Plus, what happened to the media coverage of the Christmas parade massacre? Why did it virtually disappear from the news? A Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, and New York Times Best-selling author, Heather Mac Donald will join Steve to discuss that and more. Twitter has a new CEO, but who is he and what will he do to conservatives? Natasha Sweatte reports.
Plus, Alec Baldwin says he never pulled the trigger on the gun that killed his cinematographer, so how did it fire? Legal and media analyst Lionel of Lionel Media will be here to discuss.
For ages, we've been trying to trace the origins of life on Earth. How did a barren rock turn into something as flourishing, beautiful, and abundant as we know it? We asked Nick Lane, professor of evolutionary biochemistry at University College London.
OPEC and its oil-producing allies agreed to stick to their existing policy of increasing production. This despite a release of oil reserves and amid fears of the new variant of Covid. Is this the best option for the cartel? We’ll discuss.
Then, the US economy is coming under pressure as supply chain issues, labor shortages and inflation persist, leading to what the Feds call ‘widespread’ price hikes as consumer demand continues to outstrip supply.
Plus, lawmakers rolled out legislation to stop so-called “Grinch bots” from snatching up everything from electronics to sneakers to toys. We’ll hear from both sides today, an advocate as well, and a botter himself.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the literary scene today and its parallels to the Great Depression, with author Jason Boog.
This is not a good time in America to be a writer. The printing and traditional publishing sector has shed over 134,000 jobs during the Great Recession. Between 1998 and 2013, the book publishing industry lost 21,000 jobs, periodical publishing cut 56,000 jobs, and the newspaper industry shed 217,000 jobs. Digital technology has replaced the vital connection between sellers and buyers that once made news magazines and newspapers profitable. Writers struggle to make a living as freelancers, part-time employees, contractors, or in temporary fellowships. They often lack job stability, and health and retirement benefits. The economic distress for writers, including novelists and poets, increasingly replicates the distress writers endured during the Great Depression, many of whom were only able to eat and pay the rent because of the New Deal’s Works Progress Administration’s Federal Writers’ Project, created in 1935 to give work to unemployed writers, editors, and research workers. The Federal Writer’s Project employed 6,600 men and women, and rescued the careers of some of the country’s most gifted writers, including Richard Wright, Claude McKay, Saul Bellow, John Cheever, Conrad Aiken, and James Agee. But there is no such support today. An entire generation of writers is being sacrificed under the hammer blows of a digital revolution and the collapse of print.
Jason Boog is the author of ‘The Deep End: The Literary Scene in the Great Depression and Today’.
Chris Hedges, the author and presenter of RT’s “On Contact”, joins Lee Camp for a conversation about teaching in American prisons. They also discuss corruption in the media and the US system of justice. The persecutions of Julian Assange and Steven Donziger have garnered attention over the last few weeks for their egregious displays of judicial corruption in service of the world’s most powerful people. Hedges provides context for your outrage in their cases. He then reveals his experiences teaching prisoners in maximum security facilities and expresses support for incarcerated people who have chosen to protest their living conditions.
Jaffer Khan reports on another case of judicial corruption from Tennessee. A judge in Rutherford County has been exposed by ProPublica for sending children into juvenile detention at an outrageous rate. Her court recently settled an $11 million fine over its corruption. Anders Lee ends the show with a look into the history of the French people’s 19th Century experiment with Democracy, now known as “The Paris Commune”. The commune was short-lived and extinguished brutally, but it has echoed through left-wing history.
Again, there are rumors of war. There are rumors of invasion. And again, the country is Ukraine. There are allegations of a Russian military build-up near its Ukrainian border. Though it is a fact that Kiev is receiving lethal aid from NATO countries. Who benefits from this stratagem?
CrossTalking with Alexander Clackson, Walter Smolarek, and Paul Finlay Robinson.
Actor and Martial Arts Expert Scott Adkins has appeared in blockbuster films Zero Dark Thirty, American Assassin, Dr. Strange, and now One Shot. Adkins talks about the difficulties and benefits of doing a one take film.
Alex talks to two opposition parliamentarians, intent on adding to the prime minister’s current political woes. Labour peer Lord Sikka is leading the charge on the government reneging on commitments to UK pensioners, while Angus Brendan MacNeil has reintroduced his parliamentary bill, highlighting the criminality of selling peerages and honours to support political party funding.
The FBI’s counter-terrorism division labels school officials as threats. Biden allocates $10bn to address PFAS chemicals in drinking water. More than a year after it was recalled, Belviq manufacturers are sued over cancer risks.
Could we see the Federal Reserve increasing its plans for tapering asset purchases faster than expected? We’ll dive into the latest comments from Powell, and what they could mean for the average consumer. Plus, Turkey’s Lira hits a new record low, as inflation takes a toll. We’ll take a look at how the government is responding, and where cryptocurrencies could come into play. Then, Europe is giving new insight into its plans for a Global Gateway project. But will it be enough to compete with China’s Belt and Road Initiative? We’ll discuss.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the concern trolling by the Bank of England who are very ‘concerned’ about El Salvador’s bitcoin legal tender law. In the second half, Max chats to Simon Dixon of BnkToTheFuture.com about this ‘concern’ and what he thinks about El Salvador’s volcano bond.
Timothy Omundson had a stroke in 2017 that forced him into intense physical therapy. He sits down with Dennis to talk about his recovery and coming back for a larger role in 'Psych 3'.
On this episode, we speak to the former UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, François Crépeau. He discusses the closing of borders over Omicron coronavirus variant fears and why the strategy will likely be ineffective, the death of 27 migrants in the English Channel and why the policies of European states are responsible for the deaths of the migrants, why migrant crises and the business of illegal smuggling is a recent phenomenon, and much more. Finally, we speak to the UN special rapporteur on human rights in the occupied Palestinian territories, Michael Lynk. He discusses Israel’s deepening occupation of Palestine and how international arms sales and agreements only embolden Israel, the designation of Palestinian human rights groups as terrorist organisations by Israel, Britain’s proscribing of Hamas as a terrorist organization, and why the move will only harm efforts to reach a peace agreement, and much more.
Oil prices are sinking as Omicron variant fears have infected markets across the globe. The new Covid strain has been found in even more nations, spreading beyond its South African origins. David Tawil, president of ProChain capital, joins Boom Bust to discuss the sector. William Schaffner, professor of medicine, Division of Infectious Diseases at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, gives the latest on the spread of the new strain. Plus, Australia’s crackdown on social media is taking a new turn as the nation proposes a law to combat online trolls; we’ll discuss what this means.
Trump supporters and conservative media spare no energy to tell us the Democrats are going too far – they are too lefty. Is that really true? A majority of all voters say they support universal pre-k, free community college, and low drug prices. So, is going too far left really about the culture wars?
CrossTalking with Kevin Chavous, Margaret Kimberley, and Jonathan Gilliam.
'Real Housewives of New York' star Luann de Lesseps sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss her successful cabaret career and why she loves the intimacy with her fans. Plus, transforming her show for the holidays.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the mass looting sweeping America as the legal and moral code now allows it. In the second half, Max chats to Aleks Svetski of Amber.app about his thoughts on the hyperbitcoinization in El Salvador.
Comedian and actor Jim O'Heir, best known as the "lovable loser" Jerry Gergich on 'Parks and Recreation,' joins Dennis Miller to discuss how he got his start with improv in Chicago. O'Heir reveals the skill that paid the bills before his acting career. Plus, Jim O'Heir talks about his role on the YouTube series 'Liza on Demand.'
Markets rebounded on Monday after being rocked on Black Friday by fears of the Covid-19 Omicron strain. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Octavio Marenzi of Opimas LLC join the program to discuss the sell-off and offer their forecasts for market performance. And the Nord Stream 2 pipeline could soon see operations start as controversy continues to swirl. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann breaks down the state of pipeline as winter sets in. Then we move to the English Channel, as tensions continue to grow between the UK and France. Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association lends her insight into post-Brexit issues and lingering fishing disputes.
Heartbreak...it's ugly, it's painful, and it's universal. We've all experienced at some point in our lives whether it is the death of a relationship, the death of a loved one or from rejection in one form or another. Being human is really hard, isn't it? How do we process, deal and eventually triumph over the mental and physical pain?
The league tables that cause plenty of consternation among the Western political classes show the Nordic countries constantly at the top in education, media freedom, lack of corruption, happiness and quality of life.
Ross Ashcroft is joined by geographer and author of 'Finntopia' Danny Dorling, to discuss how they got there, how they stay there, and why the UK hasn’t managed to emulate their success.
The legacy media continues to prepare Western audiences for a military conflict in Ukraine. Another war of choice? And, if so, whose? Also, the United States doesn’t export much these days, except perhaps for its so-called values. But are those values attractive to the world anymore?
CrossTalking with Patrick Henningsen and Marcus Papadopoulos.
On this episode, we speak to James Hanning, author of ‘Love & Deception: Philby in Beirut’, focusing on the life of communist double agent Kim Philby, who infiltrated Britain’s MI6 and passed secrets to the Soviet Union, detailing his time in Beirut, Lebanon. He discusses Philby’s motivations for turning to communism and eventually defecting to the Soviet Union, why no one in Britain’s intelligence services seemed to suspect him, the part of his life spent in Beirut, how Philby eventually fell into depression, and much more.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses prison with the poet, writer and attorney, Reginald Dwayne Betts.
The poet Dwayne Betts for a long time hid the fact that he had been incarcerated from the ages of 16 to 24 for a carjacking. Betts, a lawyer who was sworn into the Connecticut bar two years ago, is finishing up his PhD at Yale University, where he also earned his law degree. He currently works as a public defender. In his book ‘A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison,’ and in his poems, including his third book of poems ‘Felon,’ he grapples with the degradation, humiliation, and trauma of prison life. Betts, like Virgil in Dante’s ‘Inferno,’ leads his readers into the dark and frightening labyrinth of the American prison system, where, as he writes, “Black men go to become Lazarus.” Confronting evil has a cost. And we, like Betts, must be willing to pay this price. Flannery O’Connor recognized that to tell the truth means confrontation. “St. Cyril of Jerusalem, in instructing catechumens, wrote: ‘The dragon sits by the side of the road, watching those who pass. Beware lest he devour you. We go to the Father of Souls, but it is necessary to pass by the dragon. No matter what form the dragon may take, it is of this mysterious passage past him, or into his jaws, that stories of any depth will always be concerned to tell, and this being the case, it requires considerable courage at any time, in any country, not to turn away from the storyteller.” Betts is that storyteller, for he passed by the dragon.
Dwayne Betts' books include: ‘A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Learning, Survival, and Coming of Age in Prison,’ and his third book of poems, ‘Felon.’
An old Hungarian adage says you can’t put everything under one hat, meaning the same rules can’t be applied to everyone, and yet this is what Budapest signed up to when it entered the European Union in 2004, before it turned into the union’s favorite prodigal son a decade later. Accused over the years of all possible sins against democracy, how does the Orban government feel about its place and future in the European family? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Peter Szijjarto, Hungarian minister of foreign affairs and trade.
Racism in sport is as old as the hills but, somehow, when it's so recent and when both victims and perpetrators are known, it’s all the more chilling. As the tabloids got to work on cricketer Azeem Rafiq, two things became clear: whistleblowing is not easy and heroes often have feet of clay. Perceptions of cricket as afternoon tea in the pavilion, the sound of leather on willow and the quintessential English notion of fair play has, in the last few weeks, been exposed as a game riven with racism. So we invited writer and broadcaster Peter Oborne to discuss how behaviour both on and off the pitch is definitely “not cricket.”
Manchester United is one of the biggest brands on the planet. It could be yours for a mere five billion pounds as long as you're a fit and proper person – although the definition of just what constitutes “fit and proper” is currently rather elastic. In more innocent days, Michael Knighton was not just the chairman and owner of Manchester United: he could play “keepie uppie” and lash the ball into the back of the net as a former footballer himself. So, as the NY stock exchange shakes and waits anxiously for news from Old Trafford, we invited him to join Sputnik to discuss all things red!
On this episode, we speak to Professor Alfred de Zayas, a former UN independent expert and author of ‘Building a Just World Order’. He discusses the distrust among some of the global public towards the United Nations, Britain ignoring UN Rapporteur Nils Melzer’s report that Julian Assange is being tortured and his call for him to be freed, his work in Venezuela investigating human rights abuses and how the Venezuelan government cooperated with his requests, the US’ and NATO allies’ use of ‘humanitarian interventions’ to pursue regime change in countries like Libya, and the use of unilateral sanctions which have a devastating humanitarian impact, the public being lied to by mainstream media outlets, and much more.
The holidays are just around the corner and the supply-chain situation isn’t looking great, which might force consumers to change holiday shopping habits. Coupled with inflation and the economy struggling to recover from the pandemic, how does the highly lucrative holiday retail season look? We’ll discuss.
Sean O’Brien is a cyber security specialist and a member of the team building the PanQuake social media site. He joins Lee Camp to expose a the NodeXL scandal – software being used to track the social media of anyone who supports Julian Assange and other activists. They also discuss the upcoming launch of PanQuake and how the alternative social media site will fight corporate censorship.
Anders Lee takes a look at the state of Delaware’s extremely corrupt and corporate friendly regulatory policies. Jaffer Khan goes back to when NAFTA was signed in the early 90’s and led to the iconic Zapatista uprising in southern Mexico.
In this special episode of Keiser Report from El Zonte, El Salvador, Max and Stacy reflect on the past week in El Salvador and what they’ve observed as hyperbitcoinization sets in from rural surf town into the capital city. In the second half, they play clips of President Bukele’s announcement of Bitcoin City and volcano bonds, the latter being architected by Samson Mow of Blockstream. Max also takes a surf lesson and learns about life while falling off his board.
Itineraries have been getting clobbered by cancellations, yet experts predict a return to pre-pandemic levels of travel this holiday season. Captain Dennis Tajer of the Allied Pilots Association explains how airlines are navigating supply-chain issues while trying to get back on schedule. Charlie Leocha of Travelers United explains the surge in demand among Americans who are eager to reunite with loved ones post-lockdown.
Ongoing supply-chain issues may leave Santa stumped as the holidays creep closer. Host of Into Tomorrow Dave Graveline explains how this season’s wish-lists will be impacted by semiconductor shortages and a retail sector that’s been walloped by the pandemic.
CNN claims China has been censoring their reporting with regularity. Steve Malzberg will show you the latest incident. Two Fox news Contributors quit, reportedly over Tucker Carlosn..and they didn't like another pro-Trump contributor either, we'll discuss with our panel... The interview that started it all. The “Let's go Brandon” chant and how it spread. We have it all.
Benjamin Norton is a journalist for the Grayzone living in Nicaragua. He joins Lee Camp to discuss the truth about Nicaragua’s latest election, and why the Biden administration’s coup attempt was an epic failure. Guest host Naomi Karavani gets aggressive in her ‘Weekly Offensive’.
The human body is wise, it knows how to regulate itself. But like every mechanism, even the most perfect ones, it needs a reset button. We talked to David Rubinsztein, professor of molecular neurogenetics at Cambridge University, about the mysterious phenomenon of autophagy.
The EU is in the process of finalizing what is being called the ‘Strategic Compass for Security and Defense’. This is shorthand for what may become the ‘EU Army’. This is not a new idea and there is no guarantee it will even come about. Is Europe capable of defending itself in this competitive world?
CrossTalking with Michael Maloof, André Walker, and John Wight.
On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the peculiar pathology of the rich and our oligarchic state with Chris Lehmann, editor-at-large for The New Republic.
“The rich are different from us,” F. Scott Fitzgerald is said to have remarked to Ernest Hemingway, to which Hemingway allegedly replied, “Yes, they have more money.” The exchange, although it never took place, sums up a wisdom Fitzgerald had that eluded Hemingway. The rich are different. The cocoon of wealth and privilege permits the rich to turn those around them into compliant workers, hangers-on, servants, flatterers, and sycophants. Wealth breeds, as Fitzgerald illustrated in ‘The Great Gatsby’ and his short story “The Rich Boy,” a class of people for whom human beings are disposable commodities. Colleagues, associates, employees, kitchen staff, servants, gardeners, tutors, personal trainers, even friends and family, bend to the whims of the wealthy or disappear. “They were careless people, Tom and Daisy,” Fitzgerald wrote of the wealthy couple at the center of Gatsby’s life. “They smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness, or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.”
Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith, and Karl Marx all began from the premise there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the masses. “Those who have too much of the goods of fortune, strength, wealth, friends, and the like, are neither willing nor able to submit to authority,” Aristotle wrote in ‘Politics.’ “The evil begins at home; for when they are boys, by reason of the luxury in which they are brought up, they never learn, even at school, the habit of obedience.” Oligarchs, these philosophers knew, are schooled in the mechanisms of manipulation, subtle and overt repression, and exploitation to protect their wealth and power at our expense. Foremost among their mechanisms of control is the control of ideas. Ruling elites ensure that the established intellectual class is subservient to an ideology – in this case free market capitalism and globalization – that justifies their greed. “The ruling ideas are nothing more than the ideal expression of the dominant material relationships,” Marx wrote, “the dominant material relationships grasped as ideas.”
Chris Lehmann, an editor-at-large for The New Republic and The Baffler, and the author of ‘Rich People Things.’
Scotland’s national day, St Andrew’s Day, this year sees the publication of a new volume exploring the origins of the modern quest for Scottish independence. Historian Owen Dudley Edwards tells Alex why Scottish national identity has survived 400 years of first monarchical and then political union with England.
In this Thanksgiving Day special episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy reflect on all the things they have to be grateful for – from hyperbitcoinization to hyperinflation. They look at the ‘mindshaft’ into which the economy and culture has fallen as all these trends take place. While normally the solution to high prices is high prices, we are not in normal times. They also look at the 400-year history of Thanksgiving.
Itineraries have been clobbered by cancelations, yet experts predict a return to pre-pandemic levels of travel this holiday season. It’s time to re-think that wish list. Ongoing supply chain issues may leave Santa stumped this year.
The IMF is once again pushing back against El Salvador’s decision to use bitcoin as legal tender, warning that because of the volatility of the cryptocurrency, the risks are too high. We break down what this means. And the US continues to grapple with inflation and supply chain shortages; because of this, President Biden has reiterated the need for the autonomy of the Federal Reserve. We’ll discuss the details. Plus, it’s a new era for Germany, as the nation is set to inaugurate a new chancellor for the first time in nearly two decades. We bring you the latest from Berlin.
On this episode, we speak to Oscar-winner Oliver Stone, director of ‘JFK Revisited: Through The Looking Glass’. He discusses the significance of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and its implications for democracy in the US, the CIA, military-industrial complex, and other actors that he alleges were involved in the assassination, the motivations for these actors to assassinate JFK, the Biden administration’s blocking of the release of classified documents related to the assassination, and much more!
The recent Rittenhouse verdict is a cautionary tale. For many in power, ideology trumped anything resembling justice. The jury thought otherwise. Unfortunately, our elites win more times than not. They are informed by their ideology and they are pursuing a revolution from the top down.
CrossTalking with Quardricos Driskell, Bruce S. Marks, and John Laughland.
In order to combat surging energy costs, the US and other nations have taken the major step of tapping their oil reserves. We’ll discuss the move, as fuel prices begin to drop. And President Biden has nominated Jerome Powell to stay at the helm at the Federal Reserve; what will this mean for the economic recovery amid spiking inflation? We break down the details. And is there an end to the semiconductor chip shortage on the horizon? Lauren Fix, the Car Coach, is on hand to break down the latest efforts and investments.
In this episode of Keiser Report from El Salvador, Max and Stacy look at the headlines from the fiat world outside of El Salvador where hyperbitcoinization has started. They find that ‘inflation is good for you’ and ‘so is Jamie Dimon’. In the second half, Max interviews Roman Martinez, one of the young bitcoiners from El Zonte’s Bitcoin Beach who helped bring hyperbitcoinization to El Salvador.
Jerome Powell is up for another term at the Federal Reserve, as President Biden nominated the current head, despite pushback from some members of his own party. Then, oil prices are coming back down to earth, with news that several nations could tap reserves, boosting optimism that a fresh supply could help ease global demand. We’ll bring you up to speed on the latest developments from the energy sector. And Brexit continues to strain trade relations between the UK and EU, as issues persist along the Irish border; we’ll break down the details.
Is math discovered or invented? Mathematicians invent and create all the mathematical objects, concepts, and methods but everything has to follow the immutable rules of logic in that we have no control over them. So which is it? Discovered? Invented? Emeritus mathematician at Stanford University Keith Devlin joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand to explains the origin of mathematics.
With the US invasion of Afghanistan coming to end and Iran joining the Shanghai Cooperation Organisation, the Middle East, otherwise known as West Asia, is seeing major shifts in geopolitical power dynamics.
Ross Ashcroft is joined by Beirut-based journalist and analyst Sharmine Narwani, and journalist and investigative historian Gareth Porter to discuss the future of West Asia and the end of US hegemony.
On this episode, we speak to Oscar-winning actor Peter Capaldi. He discusses the COP26 climate summit and why it was largely a PR event and a disappointment; launches a scathing attack on Boris Johnson’s government on the lack of trust and its record on climate change, including plans for more fossil fuel extraction in the UK; why the fight against the climate crisis means so much to him, and more. Next, we speak to Ambassador Wolfgang Petritsch, the former high representative for Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-2002) about the current crisis in Bosnia which could see the potential breakup of the country. He discusses why the Croats and Serbs are threatening to boycott the Bosnian elections next year; the background of the ethnic tensions; the controversial legacy of the Dayton Accords in setting the stage for the current crisis both ethnically and economically; the perception in the West that Putin is behind the crisis, and much more.
As tensions are once more on the rise regarding Ukraine, we hear again about ‘red lines’ – Russian red lines. The West needs to take them seriously. Also, in the wake of the Rittenhouse verdict, isn’t it time to admit the legacy media lie all the time about almost everything?
CrossTalking with George Szamuely and Dmitry Babich.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the business secrets of drug-dealing with investigative journalist Matt Taibbi. No one knows exactly how big the underground or illegal economy is in the United States, but most estimates say it's huge, 11%, maybe 12% of the US' Gross Domestic Product (GDP), that's well over $2 trillion. The underground economy, designed to avoid taxation and government oversight, has its own set of rules, one of them being that it deals exclusively in cash. The 2008 global financial meltdown and the economic fallout from the pandemic have, by most estimates, seen an expansion of the illegal economy, where people make an off-the-books living. The IRS estimates it lost $441 billion in taxes between 2011 and 2013 due to unreported wages. There is a cost to flying under the radar. Not only are those that work in the underground economy bereft of benefits, health insurance and worker’s compensation, but they have no legal recourse when they are cheated or exploited. Disputes are often settled with violence. Matt Taibbi, in his new book The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing, which he describes as “an almost true account,” chronicles the life of a successful coast-to-coast black drug dealer in Donald Trump’s America. The book examines the shadowy world of drug dealing, estimated to be a $100-billion-a-year industry in the United States, and lays out its peculiar subculture and peculiar rules for survival and success. Matt Taibbi's new book The Business Secrets of Drug Dealing.
As the world works its way through the pandemic, so does Covid-19 in changing the world of work. The arrangements and prohibitions that seemed impossible only a few years ago are now commonplace, while some of the things we used to take for granted are no more. What kind of a new labour reality is Covid-19 inducing? How can we cope with the labour pains it’s causing? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Guy Ryder, director-general of the International Labour Organization.
So COP26 has come to an end; you could tell from the vapour trails left by the private jets, the diesel consumption from eight-mile-a-gallon cavalcades, and the media hullabaloo surrounding the summit. But some ghosts haunted the event in their absence: Russia, whose president appeared by Zoom, and China, whose president appeared via old-fashioned printed press handouts. Why so, and where for? We asked our man in Beijing, Tom McGregor. Kenton Cool is a world-renowned mountaineer, but when he’s not busy trekking the highest mountains in the world, he’s pretty damn good at conservation and development work, including building dams in Africa. He has reached the summit of mount Everest 15 times, climbed K2 and skied down 8,000m peaks. So we asked Kenton Cool how the world, and COP26 in particular, looked from these heady heights.
The US military was caught up in controversy this week when the New York Times reported that, in 2019, it covered up a bombing that killed 70 Syrian civilians. Reporting from Aaron Mate shows that the military went to extreme levels to cover up the mass murder. Lee Camp takes on this story and connects it to the Military Industrial Complex’s proven record of turning trillions of dollars from the US Treasury into a boundless global killing spree. Camp also reports on Bill Gates’ donations to media outlets that report favorably on him, the trial of Jeffrey Epstein’s alleged accomplice Ghislaine Maxwell, pinkwashing in the navy, the Republican legalization plan, and more. Naomi Karavani shows how the Build Back Better Act being touted by the Biden administration will now include a tax cut for the rich. The Democrats have decided to stand for the rich despite the fact that inequality is currently out of control. The poor are suffering in this country and with this decision the Democrats are clearly staying their course of ignoring the needs of the majority so they can keep on raking in the donations of the mega-wealthy. Anders Lee explains an odd legal mechanism made famous by Britney Spears. Conservatorships remove the rights of people for various reasons and are easily taken advantage of by lawyers without moral scruples.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to former Middle East adviser to the European Union and the founder of Conflicts Forum, Alastair Crooke. He discusses rising tensions between the US and China over the US’ tacit support for Taiwanese independence, the ‘Kosovisation’ of Xinjiang and Taiwan, China and Russia’s refusal to continue to allow the US shape the future of the world order, Western media hysteria over a supposed invasion of Ukraine by Russia’s Vladimir Putin, and much more.
In this episode of Keiser Report from El Zonte, El Salvador, Max and Stacy look at the bitcoin savior of El Salvador, where hyperbitcoinization has brought in positive results for the economy. In the second half, Max interviews Carlino of Ibex Mercado about how El Salvador’s new bitcoin law has inspired others in the Central America region.
America’s economic recovery is at the mercy of gas prices, which are causing pain for industries at the pump. Founder of Bubba Trading Todd Horwitz weighs in on the latest push by Democrats to have President Biden tap into the country’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve. Meanwhile, the newly minted bipartisan infrastructure bill will allocate $50 billion toward fighting climate change. President of SmartPower Brian Keane discusses a renewed push in renewable energy, hot off the heels of the COP26 climate conference. Despite being tasked with defending Americans at home and abroad, more than 100,000 members of our armed forces struggle to make ends meet. RT contributor Ashlee Banks reports on food insecurity among the ranks. Meanwhile, the ongoing supply-chain disruptions have only put food banks in a tighter spot. Social science professor Dr. Sarah Duni discusses how hunger doesn’t discriminate, affecting nearly 14 million households across the US.
The Build Back Better package is now headed to the Senate after the House passed the nearly $2 trillion bill – which is a key piece of President Joe Biden’s economic agenda. We’ll break down the numbers and discuss what this could mean for the economy. Global markets are mixed this week, we’ll go over what’s been moving stocks in some of the world’s most important economies in our global market walk. Billionaire Jeff Bezos predicts that Earth will one day be a tourist attraction as humans will inhabit space. What on Earth is he talking about? We’ll discuss.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss new disclosures by the Department of Defense that the US military killed dozens of civilians before the fall of the Islamic State in Syria under the Trump administration. They also talk about President Joe Biden’s virtual meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping, and the ongoing water crises in Michigan. Author and historian, Enrique Rivera, talks about his book, ‘The Untold History of Capitalism: Primitive Accumulation and the Anti-Slavery Revolution’.
Growing tensions are in abundance in eastern Europe. There's the escalating EU-Belarus standoff over illegal migration. There are Western reports that Russia is amassing troops at its borders. And, of course, there's the self-inflicted crisis of European energy supplies. It's no coincidence some are calling this a hybrid war. But whose hybrid war, and against whom?
CrossTalking, with Earl Rasmussen, Daniel McAdams, and Peter Kuznick.
Li Jingjing is a reporter with the Chinese news group CGTN. The United States has entered a new era of provocation targeting China as its most significant global competitor for power. Lee Camp and Jingjing sat down together to go deeper into the conflict that’s brewing between the US empire and the Chinese republic. They discuss the propaganda campaigns being pushed by the US State Department and the corporate media, such as the Uighur genocide tale, the brutal Hong Kong protests and their capitalist message, and more. Jingjing also lands some punches regarding the hypocrisy of the US claiming to stand for human rights while destroying lives around the world.
Naomi Karavani goes on her weekly offensive to expose corruption across the US. This week, she lays waste to corporate moves to bring back child labor across the US. Corporate America is using the current “labor shortage” to push for reduced labor protections for children instead of offering workers higher wages. Jaffer Khan reports on the ATF’s newest strategy for protecting law enforcement officers from the consequences of their actions. ATF agents have been touring the country, talking to journalists to push the idea that most cases of police brutality are justified.
Sci-fi has always been about taking a peek into the future. But the fantasy scripts being conjured up today are more about nightmares than dreams. So, why do we paint such a dark future for ourselves? Or is the fear justified? We talked about this with bestselling science-fiction author Frank Schaetzing.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the struggle against industrial agriculture with author Daniel J. O’Connell.
The San Joaquin Valley in California is the most agriculturally productive farmland in the United States, but it is also plagued by high levels of poverty and water pollution, as well as the serious health risks that come with constant exposure to pesticides. These huge corporate farms in California, established over the last century, became the model for modern agrobusiness designed to exploit a transient labor force, bankrupt, and seize small family farms, exhaust the soil, and drain the aquifers and reservoirs. These agrobusinesses use their economic might to buy elected officials, deform the court system to legalize their assault on the land, and silence criticism in academia and the press. They are largely unregulated and unaccountable. The disastrous consequences for family farms and farmworkers, plagued by extreme poverty, a retreat into often lethal addictions to blunt the pain of dislocation and suicides, however, is only part of the destruction wrought by these industrial farms. These agrobusinesses have, as the authors Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters argue in their book ‘In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California’, eroded the bedrock of democracy itself. The authors look at the fight by eight scholars who foresaw and fought the agribusinesses, most of whom were attacked, censored, and marginalized for their critiques.
Daniel J. O’Connell and Scott J. Peters’ new book is ‘In the Struggle: Scholars and the Fight Against Industrial Agribusiness in California’.
You know him from 'The Flash', Robbie Amell now stars in the latest installment of 'Resident Evil'. Amell tells Dennis Miller the full circle moment of playing the video game as a kid and now being able to star in "Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City." Plus, how happy fans will be about the number of easter eggs throughout the film.
With inflation in the United States hitting its highest rate in more than three decades and no end to rising prices in sight, you might think that consumers and retailers alike would be feeling the pressure, but that doesn’t appear to be the case. Ahead of the highly lucrative holiday shopping season, American retail sales surged, up 1.7% compared to September, with roughly two-thirds of the largest publicly traded companies in the US reporting better profits this year, compared to the same period in 2019. This raises the question whether corporations are using inflation as an excuse to raise prices and take an even bigger profit as consumers feel the pain.
With rising oil prices, the Biden administration asked some of the world’s largest fuel consumers to release their reserves. The request – made to Japan, China, and India – comes as President Biden feels political pressure at home due to rising prices at the pump as the economy recovers from the global pandemic.
North America is seeing a surge in orders for robots. The reason for the increase is the overwhelming labor shortage. Many Americans are reluctant to return to work after the Covid pandemic, making some companies turn to robots to close the gap.
In a week where racism in sport has dominated the headlines in the UK, England football legend John Barnes talks to Alex Salmond about his new book ‘The Uncomfortable Truth About Racism’. Barnes argues that to understand the origins of racism you have to look beyond the football and cricket stands, to the power structures in the boardrooms and to Britain’s colonial history.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy discuss Gresham’s Law and bitcoin. In the second half, from Miami, Max interviews Robert Breedlove and asks ‘What is money?’
Biden’s pick to run the FDA shows a revolving door between Big Pharma and federal regulators. Michigan residents receive a paltry settlement for the Flint water crisis. Litigation continues over cancer-causing Xeljanz and Valsartan pills.
Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan says China is committed to expanding and opening up to foreign investment. “China cannot develop in isolation from the world, nor can the world develop without China,” Wang said at the Bloomberg New Economy Forum. At the same time, the US is set to meet with Japan, South Korea and India to bolster trade ties in order to counter China’s influence – we’ll discuss what all this means.
In its bid to sidestep US sanctions, Huawei is recruiting smartphone partners as a way of gaining access to critical components needed for their products. But will the strategy work, or will the US continue putting pressure on the Chinese company?
Plus, American farms are becoming a thing of the past as farmers struggle with rising costs, falling profits, and customers buying cheaper foreign products. We’ll discuss the steps being taken to help save America’s farming industry.
Comedian Theo Von is releasing a stand-up special 'Regular People' on Netflix. He tells Dennis Miller how his upbringing inspired his sense of humor and the story of how his inability to commit to anything got him started in stand-up comedy.
On this episode, we speak to President of Palau Surangel Whipps Jr. He discusses the failure of COP26 to meet the demands of the fight against climate change, how his country faces long-term ‘torture’ as the climate emergency worsens, the US military presence in Palau and the benefits and costs of the alliance with the superpower, and much more. Finally, we speak to the award-winning pioneer of the mRNA vaccine, Prof. Katalin Karikó. She discusses how she originally pioneered the mRNA technology for use against medical emergencies such as strokes, the years upon years of work before finally being given a grant, the misconception that mRNA technology was suddenly developed just before the Covid-19 pandemic, the debate on vaccine patents, and much more.
When there are problems like the energy crisis, Europe’s illegal immigration on Poland’s border or even when the ‘wrong political party or politician wins’, there is a culprit always waiting in the wings and that is Russia. Scapegoating Russia is the excuse used by failing Western elites.
CrossTalking with Xavier Moreau, Geoffrey Roberts, and Vladimir Golstein.
Germany has suspended certification of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline, saying it can only certify companies organized under German law. The announcement means gas will not begin flowing through the pipeline for at least another several months. This comes amid recent tensions between Moscow and Europe over issues surrounding Belarus and Ukraine. The news caused a jump in European natural gas prices. A virtual summit was held between US President Joe Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping on Tuesday, and Taiwan topped the agenda, among other topics that have caused tensions between the two nations. And Chinese authorities have vowed once again to crack down on crypto mining, calling the process a threat to efforts to reduce carbon emissions. The move had an impact on crypto markets, with bitcoin dropping below $60,000 during morning trading in Europe.
The Ghostbusters are back! Ernie Hudson joins Dennis Miller to talk about the new movie "Ghostbusters: Afterlife." Hudson reveals who is coming back and why there is a new director. Plus, how this movie will differ from the others while paying homage.
Tariffs and supply chain disruptions will take a backseat when Presidents Biden and Xi prepare for their virtual summit, as Taiwan is expected to dominate the agenda. Rampant inflation is making millions of consumers think twice when holiday shopping, while Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen warns Americans to buckle in as prices are expected to keep rising. Plus, Britain and the EU remain in a tug-of-war over trade following the contentious Brexit deal.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at producer price inflation ripping higher at 20% and how the wave will swamp the meager 6.2% consumer price inflation happening at the moment. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about the Cold War 2.0 with China in an age of everything shortages.
We all know some people are more successful than others, but what determines that success? According to our next guest, it all comes down to grit, a combination of passion and perseverance. So is that something anyone can learn? CEO of Character Lab Angela Duckworth joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss what makes some people more successful than others.
Motivational speaker and wrestler, Zion Clark, sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss growing up with Caudal Regression Syndrome. Clark explains how growing up without legs inspired him to become an athlete, the people who helped him along the way, and turned him into who he is today. Get ready to cry when Clark tells the emotional story of how he got adopted. You can see more of Zion Clark’s inspirational story in the new Netflix documentary, “Zion.”
In this special episode, we speak to legendary Palme d’Or-winning film director Mike Leigh, who has made iconic films such as ‘Topsy Turvy’, ‘Peterloo’ and ‘Abigail’s Party’.
In early March 2020, we sat down with investor and author Mitch Feierstein and Alan Day, CEO of global procurement consultancy State of Flux, to discuss how Covid would affect the world’s supply chain. As their predictions came true and we find ourselves facing shortages and price rises, Ross Ashcroft invites them back on the show to make sense of the mess we’re in.
The EU and Belarus are at odds over illegal immigration. Guess what? Minsk has the higher cards. Also, Washington is again increasing tensions within Ukraine. Is the Biden administration looking to score a foreign policy victory to deflect from crises at home?
CrossTalking with Marcus Papadopoulos and Maxim Suchkov.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the second war on terror with journalist Glenn Greenwald.
The liberal and Democratic Party elites have seized on the January 6 mob assault on the US Capitol as the domestic equivalent of the 9/11 attacks. Joe Biden called the storming of the Capitol “the worst attack on our democracy since the Civil War.” Representative Liz Cheney, a right-wing Republican whose animus towards Donald Trump has seen her join forces with the Democratic Party leadership, said the forces behind January 6 represent “a threat America has never seen before.” The enabling resolution that created the select committee that is investigating the events of January 6 called the mob assault “one of the darkest days of our democracy.”
The hyperventilating about the incursion into the Capitol, often described by its critics as an attempted insurrection and coup, has effectively shut down questions about the response to the incident. There is a collective chant by the Democratic Party leadership and many in the media, calling for the censoring and criminalization of those who embrace right-wing ideology and its conspiracy theories. The Biden administration is pushing a bill authored by Representative Adam Schiff, a member of the Select Committee on January 6, to declare a second war on terror against domestic enemies. The rhetoric, and the rush to push through legislation that will severely circumscribe our ability to dissent, echoes what we heard in the immediate aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Those, such as Glenn Greenwald, who warn that such overreach is excessive, unconstitutional, and dangerously weakens our already anemic civil liberties are excoriated as closet right-wing sympathizers. Greenwald, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, who is also an attorney, was one of the first and most important voices to decry the draconian provisions instituted under the Patriot Act and the anti-terrorism laws passed in the wake of 9/11. He sees a similar lack of proportionality or legality in the government actions being carried out after the January incursion with, perhaps, even more dire consequences.
The Swiss psychologist Carl Jung once said that the most important question anyone can ask is ‘What myth am I living?’ In our enlightened age, it’s the rationalists who are helping humanity to break free from the misconceptions and superstitions of the past, illuminating the future with the help of scientific method. But what if that’s a myth and a perilous one? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Rupert Sheldrake, biologist and author of ‘The Science Delusion’ and ‘Science and Spiritual Practices’.
Many people worked hard to prevent Western leaders from committing the terrible blunder of invading and occupying Iraq. The fact that the invasion and subsequent occupation ended in calamitous failure with catastrophic consequences is scant consolation to those who raised concerns that have been proven right. Since then, the same blunders seem to be repeated on an endless loop, the latest being in Afghanistan. Scott Ritter, a former US Marine Corps intelligence officer and UN weapons inspector, is a vocal critic of American foreign policy in the Middle East. He joined Sputnik to discuss the ongoing situation in Iraq and Afghanistan. Almost 40 years ago, the United States entered the politics of Nicaragua. The Sandinista Front was the darling of the international left as it mounted that most daring of challenges to the US: the threat of a good example. But the US prevailed in Nicaragua and the good example was snuffed out. The Sandinistas are now back, though shorn of some of their allure and much of their leftist support base around the world. But not all of it. Daniel Ortega secured his fourth consecutive term in this week’s elections, which were all but written off by much of the global community. We invited Caleb Maupin of RT America, who is currently in Nicaragua, to give us his eyewitness observations.
On this episode, we speak to Sudan’s ambassador to the United States, Nureldin Satti. He discusses the coup in Sudan which overthrew Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok just hours after US envoy Jeffrey Feltman was in Khartoum. He also addresses the economic crisis in a country where the majority are impoverished, the legacy of former autocrat Omar al-Bashir, economic ties with China, and much more. Finally, we speak to Philippe Lazzarini, the director-general of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). He discusses the agency facing collapse due to lack of funding, the impact this shortage has had on Palestinian refugees who rely on the agency for a lifeline, his message for Boris Johnson who cut funding for UNRWA, and the agency’s work in Gaza, where its schools were a safe haven during the Israeli bombardment campaign this summer. He also talks about the international community’s ‘abandonment’ of refugees, and much more.
The oil and gas industry has known that we’re destroying the planet for a lot longer than you might think, according to new reporting from DeSmog Blog. This week, Lee Camp blows open Big Oil’s big secret. They’ve been covering up the fact that their industry, left unchecked, would lead to serious climate change since at least 1959. Now, we all know what oil executives knew more than 50 years ago. But because of their significant efforts to cover up the truth, humanity is facing a dire crisis. Big Oil did it all for profit and they’re hoping that with the insane wealth they generated, partially through their lies, they’ll be able to skip out on the worst impacts of a warming planet. It’s a bet that the general public never had a say in. Camp covers a new report on inequality and climate change from Oxfam, and US attempts to undermine the Nicaraguan election. Anders Lee looks into Big Pharma’s latest effort to stop Congress from giving the government the power to negotiate lower drug prices. They’re using the tried and tested method of laundering their message through an astroturfed “public advocacy” organization. Big Pharma also has the benefit of owning most of Congress. This fight in the halls of Congress contrasts with the situation experienced by regular people in the US who are sick of medical debt ruining their lives and the lives of those around them. Jaffer Khan finishes the show on a newly exposed torture method being employed against America’s incarcerated and unhoused populations. Khan shows that the strategies the US military uses on its victims abroad will always be used against domestic dissidents and inconvenient populations in the end.
China’s latest hypersonic missile test has the Pentagon worried, with Joint Chiefs Chairman General Mark Milley describing it as a “Sputnik moment.” Back in 2020, “unity” was the rallying call heard across the nation. But Americans remain starkly divided over lingering mask mandates, a tender economy, and surging prices at the pump.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos talk about the arrest and indictment of Christopher Steele's main source, Igor Danchenko, and its implications on the credibility of the Steele Dossier. NASA astronaut and author Eileen Collins talks about the history of women in space.
The devil is in the details of Congress's $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill, which introduces new taxes on crypto trades. Former CFTC chair J. Christopher Giancarlo explains how the feds are pivoting toward tighter regulations of digital currency exchanges. The US and China announce a joint agreement at the COP26 climate conference in Scotland. While both countries pledge to more aggressively curb emissions, Christy Ai discusses whether the deal will actually pan out. Sony further cuts production of its elusive PS5 console due to ongoing semiconductor shortages.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the calls for $150 trillion, or $100 trillion plus, to achieve ‘net zero,’ and how the Overton Window's shifted in terms of dollar debasement. In the second half, Max chats to Karl Denninger of Market-Ticker.org about how to fix the supply-chain crisis.
A Providence Rhode Island middle school teacher explains the dangers behind CRT and how it is keeping her from her students. CNN'S Chief Legal analyst Jeffrey Toobin, who lost one job, and was suspended for 8 months from CNN, for masturbating on camera on zoom, has the utter gall to call accused murderer Kyle Rittenhouse an "Idiot". Meanwhile, Jimmy Kimmel blames "sexism and racism" for Kamala Harris's poor poll numbers. We'll show you what both of these men have apparently forgotten. Plus, MSNBC allows a racist attack on the Lt. Gov-elect of Virginia, we'll show you what was said. Nancy Pelosi was making bizarre remarks, and slurring her words, during one of her regular conferences… Is she okay? Steve Malzberg reveals the story.
Tara Reade is an author, a podcaster, and one of Joe Biden’s most vocal accusers of sexual assault. She joins Lee Camp on VIP for a wide-ranging interview. They discuss how, rather than supporting her, the #MeToo and #TimesUp movements acted in the interests of the Democratic National Committee when she came forward with her experience as an accuser of one of their own. Reade experienced bullying and trolling from powerful figures and the public alike, which eventually resulted in her taking out a lawsuit against Democratic Party communications consultant Sally Albright. Reade’s podcast is called The Politics of Survival. In it, she explores what it means to be a survivor.
Naomi Karavani explores allegations about a property management company called Corvias, which has purportedly contributed to the crumbling state of residential facilities in public universities across the US. Students at Howard University, in Washington, DC have begun to camp outside their dorms in protest at the conditions, which they say were making them sick. Anders Lee finishes off the show with a segment about Afeni Shakur, who was a Black Panther and the mother of the rapper Tupac. In 1959, she was caught up in an outrageous conspiracy case targeting 21 of the Black Panthers. She chose to represent herself and her fellow party members in the case and won the group their freedom.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the nature of neoliberalism and its consequences with Professor Wendy Brown of the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton University.
Does the eruption of ethnonationalist movements defined by hyper-patriotism, xenophobia, racism, religious chauvinism, and so-called traditional moral values signal the end of neoliberalism? Or are these protofascist movements the natural consequence of neoliberal policies that allowed corporations to corrupt and seize governing institutions and the press, impoverish the working class, and orchestrate the largest transference of wealth upwards in American history? There is no doubt, as the political scientist Wendy Brown writes, that the constellation of principles, policies, practices, and forms of governing reason that may be gathered under the sign of neoliberalism has importantly constituted the catastrophic present, but, she argues, this was not neoliberalism’s intent, rather its Frankensteinian creation. By generating antidemocratic forms of state power above its natural consequence, she claims, was antidemocratic culture from below. The synergy between these two forces sees an increasingly undemocratic and antidemocratic citizenry ever more willing to validate an increasingly antidemocratic state.
Professor Wendy Brown teaches at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University, and is the author of ‘In the Ruins of Neoliberalism: The Rise of Antidemocratic Politics in the West’.
How is the economy working for you? We are told this is the time of the Great Reset and Build Back Better. What does that mean to you? How the does the Green New Deal play into this? It seems the rich are only getting richer. What about the rest of us?
CrossTalking with Jeffrey Tucker, Joti Brar, and Tony Ewing.
Chinese President Xi Jinping has been elevated to a level that only two previous leaders in the CCP’s history have reached. We discuss Xi’s new status and his warnings about growing tensions with the United States in Asia with Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai. And, as the United States continues to grapple with high inflation, how does the nation’s central bank plan to combat the spike? Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth fills us in on the state of the Federal Reserve. Then we bring you the hottest IPO listing on the market right now, as Rivian becomes one of the highest-valued car companies in the US. Michele Schneider of Market Gauge lends her insight into the EV frenzy.
Tabitha Brown, who has more than 4 million followers on TikTok, is proving her can feed the body along with the soul. The vegan foodie sits down with Dennis to talk about her new book "Feeding the Soul (Because It's My Business)" and why she decided to write a book for the soul before releasing her highly anticipated cook book.
Mind-reading is no longer some psychic power claimed by those with a special ‘gift’. Brain researchers are saying it will be very real very soon. So, will our thoughts cease to be our own? We ask neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes, the director of the Berlin Center for Advanced Neuroimaging, to give us some expert insight.
With continuing high levels of coronavirus infection, the UK health service is heading for a Christmas crisis as pressure from Covid 19 interacts with seasonal illnesses. Professor Hugh Montgomery of University College London outlines the new treatments spreading fresh hope in intensive care wards, while Dr. Bharat Pankhania of Exeter University warns about the dangers of relying on vaccination programmes alone and neglecting basic infection-prevention measures.
Inflation in the United States has hit its highest level in nearly 30 years as supply-chain woes continue to take a toll on the nation’s recovery. Tobin Smith of Transformity Research lends his insight on the surge that has gripped prices across the world’s largest economy. The Department of Justice has levied charges against hackers allegedly behind one of the largest cyberattacks in US history. We break down the rising wave of hacks that have hit major US businesses with cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright. And Tesla’s stock price has had a wild week as CEO Elon Musk continues to rattle markets with his tweets. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai dig into the latest numbers from the EV giant.
Toxic tap water impacts millions of households in all 50 states. Zantac makers could face a class-action lawsuit after downplaying cancer risks. Hundreds still seek justice against an OSU physician whose sexual abuse span 20 years.
Actress and Comedian, Aisling Bea, joins Dennis Miller to talk all things comedy. Bea says one female led comedy movie created a new era for women and paved the way for her to become a successful stand-up comedian. Plus, she talks about her role in the remake of Christmas classic "Home Alone."
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at Biden letting it rip: inflation, that is. They examine San Francisco, where squalor is luxury and progress is squalor. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Marshall Auerback, a market analyst and Levy Institute researcher, about the economy in a post-pandemic world of inflation, shortages and money printing.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Ubai Al-Aboudi, one of the Palestinian activists targeted by Pegasus Spyware and executive director of the Bisan Centre for Research and Development – one of the bodies Israel has labelled a terrorist organisation. He discusses his reaction after finding out that he had been hacked using Pegasus Spyware. He also talks about Israel’s draconian control over Palestinian communications, why he believes Israel labelled his group and five others as terrorist organisations, the Palestinian Authority’s arguably complicit persecution of Palestinian activists alongside Israel, and much more. Finally, we speak to Nancy Hollander, lawyer for Guantanamo Bay prisoners such as Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri and Mohamedou Ould Slahi. She discusses the case of Majid Khan and the first public testimony of the experience at Guantanamo Bay, shocking torture methods used by the US at the prison and other black sites around the world, the 26 people at Guantanamo Bay not charged with anything, the US bribery campaign in Pakistan, the persecution of Julian Assange, and much more.
It would seem with every passing day we are allowed to openly discuss fewer and fewer topics. What happened on Capitol Hill on January 6 is not one of these topics. The events of that day are a third-rail issue. Was it a riot or an insurrection? Even asking this is inflammatory. It shouldn’t be.
CrossTalking with Melik Abdul, Robert Patillo, and Brian Trascher.
The Federal Reserve is sounding the alarm on the potential for the Chinese real estate contagion to infect US markets. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai fills us in on the looming danger forming in the world’s second-largest economy. And with inflation showing no signs of slowing down, how long can we expect the trend to continue? Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital offers his forecast and the latest Producer Price Index figures. The cryptocurrency sector has hit a new milestone after clearing $3 trillion in market cap. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute weigh in on the institutional viability of the industry.
For more than 400 years, audiences have been mesmerized by the complicated beauty of opera. For many the pinnacle of an art form that tells a story through singing and music. So where does a composer start if he or she want to compose an opera? Musician and composer Terence Blanchard joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss how to compose an opera.
Ziggy Marley is known as a musician and the son of Bob Marley. He sits down with Dennis Miller to talk about growing up with the Jamaican music icon. Plus, his newest line of children's books.
China’s rate of coal consumption has skyrocketed as the nation turns to the fossil fuel to fight surging energy prices. Octavio Marenzi of Opimas LLC and Todd Horwitz of Bubba Trading lend their insight to the nation’s measures to combat the crisis and the state of the oil sector around the globe. Then we head to Europe, where trade issues persist between the UK and EU. Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association joins the program to discuss what is at stake in the ongoing discussions. And cryptocurrencies are off to a hot start on the week as ethereum smashes a price record. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai both lend their insights on the surge and the state of the industry.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the economics of rug pulls and what that may look like on a global economy wide scale. In the second half, Max chats to market analyst and Levy Institute researcher Marshall Auerback about inflation, shortages, and money printing.
On this episode, we speak to Eritrea’s UN ambassador, Sophia Tesfamariam. She slams the Western media for their coverage of the war between the Ethiopian government, led by Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, and the Tigray People’s Liberation Front, and US and Western support for the TPLF. She also discusses allegations of abuses by Eritrean and Ethiopian soldiers, the peace between Ethiopia and Eritrea that the TPLF has opposed, the prospect of another Libya-style US-led NATO intervention against Ethiopia, and much more. Finally, we speak to Lebanon’s former foreign minister, Farés Boueiz. He discusses the rising power of Hezbollah within Lebanon and the growing tensions between Lebanon, Saudi Arabia, the Gulf, and the US, sectarian tensions in Lebanon that could lead to war at any moment, the deepening economic collapse which the World Bank has called the world’s worst since 1850, and much more.
Well, its official – the US military has declared the ‘Great Three Power Competition’, featuring the US, Russia, and China. How does neoliberal ideology play into this? And, what do Russiagate and January 6 have in common?
CrossTalking with George Szamuely and Dmitry Babich.
The word ‘degrowth’ was suspiciously absent from the COP26 talking shop, but unless you’re actively talking about degrowth, you’re just peddling corporate, political and billionaire propaganda. Ross Ashcroft is joined by political economist Jason Hickel to discuss why, when it comes to growth, less really is more.
Chris Hedges discusses gender identity with Kathleen Stock, professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex. There are few cultural debates as contentious as the one raging around gender identity. Do we have an inner state called a gender identity? Is it possible that this gender identity does not match our biological sex, male or female, originally assigned to us at birth? Does gender identity, not biological sex, make us a man, a woman, or neither? Is gender a purely social construct, without foundation in biological generalizations about men and women? Are our sexual identities, personalities, behavior, and life options determined primarily by what society projects onto us? In short, as the cultural critic Judith Butler writes, is anatomy destiny? Is gender a conditioned social performance? Are sexual orientations identities? Is sex defined by nature and gender by culture? Or are sex and gender indistinguishable from nature and culture? Kathleen Stock, a professor of philosophy at the University of Sussex who studied French and philosophy at the University of Oxford and received her PhD in philosophy from the University of Leeds, explores these questions in her new book ‘Material Girls: Why Reality Matters for Feminism’.
People, planet, prosperity – those were chosen as the guiding priorities of the G20 summit in Rome, one of the first in-person gatherings of global leaders since the pandemic struck. And while the three Ps slogan seems great as a bumper sticker, is it realistic in terms of social and economic policy? Can one prioritize the health of the planet while also delivering its people into prosperity? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by John Kirton, professor of political science at the University of Toronto and director of the G20 Research Group.
From Amnesty International to the International Federation of Journalists, everyone is now rallying to the cause of Julian Assange. For some, they had been late to the battlefield but then as the Russians say “after the war a lot of brave soldiers turn up“. The espionage case against Julian Assange has been falling apart for months. Yahoo News revealed CIA plans to kidnap and if necessary kill Julian Assange - even if it meant a shoot-out with Russian diplomats on the streets of Knightsbridge. Less well-known is the admission by a key figure in the Assange circle that he had fabricated parts of the Kerry evidence in the American indictment against Assange. The man who broke that story is Bjartmar Alexandersson, and he joined Sputnik to tell us the importance of this story.
Leon Trotsky was a very famous Russian indeed. A key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution, in the foundation of the Red Army, which successfully repelled the foreign invasion of Russia which sought to overthrow it. He even found time to be the godfather of our guest Michael Hudson, Professor of Economics at the University of Missouri, Kansas City. The author of ‘Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire’, he joined the show to explain his theories on industrial capitalism, politics and military might.
On this episode, we speak to the president of Bolivia, Luis Arce. He discusses the position of developing Global South countries at COP26 against ‘green capitalism’ in the fight against climate change, the centrality of Bolivia’s lithium reserves in the US-backed coup by Jeanine Anez and the UK’s role in supporting it, the assassination plot by the same mercenary group that killed Haitian President Jovenel Moïse, socialist policies implemented at home to alleviate hunger in a rejection of the IMF’s economic model, and much more.
The DNC’s case for Russiagate was centered on unverified, and now debunked claims from an IT contractor called CrowdStrike that was paid to make us to think that the DNC’s emails were hacked by Russia. This narrative went the same way as the Steele Dossier and other laughable excuses for Hillary Clinton getting beaten by Donald Trump. Lee Camp takes a victory lap this week as the final pillar of the Russiagate conspiracy theory crumbles. Camp also reports on a mysterious illness connected to lavender products, and the real people fighting for a better future at the UN’s COP26 conference – the activists. Jaffer Khan and Camp investigate Facebook’s name change. The Meta rebranding is a move to expand the dominance the corporate giant has in our lives with a heavy focus on virtual reality technologies. Naomi Karavani finishes the show off on Elon Musk’s pivot toward fracked natural gas. He became one of the richest men in the world on the back of corporate greenwashing but now he’s stepping into his real role as a planet-killer.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan, and the first public account of CIA torture by a prisoner at Guantanamo Bay. Harvard Law Professor and author Lawrence Lessig talks about the filibuster, his new book, ‘They Don’t Represent Us: Reclaiming Our Democracy’, and allegations that Facebook has repeatedly violated US security laws.
The pandemic has forced countries across the globe to rethink their public transit systems, as riders and operators have dwindled since 2019. RT’s Peter Oliver lays out initiatives to reinvigorate bus and rail systems abroad. Strelmark President Hilary Fordwich discusses how companies stateside are coping with a stationary workforce. What does the future hold for daily commuters turned-remote workers? What do this week’s gubernatorial and mayoral races project for the 2022 midterms? Progressive radio host Jon Elliott and Republican strategist Melik Abdul discuss how regional politics shaped by local ballot boxes and school curricula will push the needle nationwide.
Despite calls to boost output amid the ongoing energy crisis, OPEC+ members have decided to hold oil output levels steady. Kirk Edwards, the former chair of the Permian Basin Petroleum Association gives us his forecast for the energy sector in the wake of the cartel’s decision. This, as global markets have finished the show mostly up, with some exceptions; we’ll discuss. And Bitcoin Cash saw a price surge on Friday as a false press release claimed that the US grocery giant Kroger would begin accepting the cryptocurrency. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai fill us in on the false price jump and other key developments in the cryptocurrency sector.
Was Hillary Clinton behind the fake “Russia-Gate”? New arrests points to political dirty trick. Election day coverage 2021. When the media weren't blaming white people for republican victories, they were ignoring the historic election of the first black female to the position of Lt. Governor in Virginia. Because she is a republican, of course!
Joe Biden denies his administration will pay illegal aliens $450,000. The panel, Lionel and Ford O’Connell, will weigh in.
Has the media made more out of the sex scandals that have plagued the Catholic Church? Bill Donohue, the President of the Catholic League says, YES! He's here to explain.
And the REAL “big lie,” continues to be told by the left. We'll explain the truth behind Trump’s words in the dessert segment.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the high cost of the hot air coming out of COP26, where consensus is by decree, while, over in bitcoin land, we see true eco-geopolitical innovation. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Ben Aris of European business news platform BNE.eu. They discuss the excessive money-printing that’s negating any grand plans for an energy transition away from carbon. They also chat about Ben’s recent trip to Uzbekistan and the booming economy he saw there on the ground.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the legacy of the radical group, the Young Lords, with Professor Johanna Fernandez. In Chicago in 1969, a former gang leader, Cha Cha Jimenez, founded the revolutionary group the Young Lords to fight police brutality, racism, and gentrification. The Young Lords, with their signature purple berets and paramilitary formations, were to Mexican and Puerto Rican youth what the Black Panthers were to radicalized blacks. The Young Lords quickly spread to New York. But in New York, the leaders, while mostly the children of poor Puerto Rican immigrants, were also often better educated. The New York chapter, bilingual and bicultural, soon gave its generation the language to understand the discrimination, displacement and structural racism that plagued their families and their communities. As children, they had to serve as interlocutors between their parents, who often did not speak English, and a callous and indifferent bureaucracy, forcing them to see their parents humiliated and often abused. The group was racially diverse – more than 25% of members were black – and celebrated the unique fusion of cultures that produced, for example, the Spanglish poetry of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe. The Young Lords drew their inspiration from the liberation movements in Cuba and Vietnam. They were at the forefront of the rainbow coalition of black, Latinx, native, and white working-class radicals embodied in the organizing work of the Chicago Black Panther leader Fred Hampton, who was drugged and then assassinated by the Chicago police and the FBI. The Young Lords occupied churches and hospitals to protest against the lack of adequate social services and healthcare, including the severe shortage of doctors in their neighborhoods and the widespread lead poisoning that afflicted poor children. They piled up garbage in the streets and lit the piles on fire to protest over the failure by New York’s sanitation department to provide services to poor neighborhoods. They at once built community campaigns and a revolutionary party, one of the very few waves of radical socialists in the United States led by people of color. The Young Lords, part of the new left of the 1960s, fundamentally altered the relationships between people of color and the white majority. Their militancy forced city governments and wider society to acknowledge and respect their most basic civil rights. Johanna Fernandez is a professor of history at Baruch College of the City of New York, and author of ‘The Young Lords: A Radical History’.
Chris Hedges, the author and presenter of RT’s On Contact, joins Lee Camp for a conversation around his latest book about teaching in American prisons. They also discuss corruption in the media and the US justice system. The persecution of Julian Assange and Steven Donziger have garnered attention over the past few weeks for their egregious displays of judicial corruption in service of the world’s most powerful people. Hedges provides context for your outrage in their cases. He then reveals his experiences teaching prisoners in maximum security facilities and expresses support for incarcerated people who have chosen to protest over their living conditions. Jaffer Khan reports on another case of judicial corruption from Tennessee. A judge in Rutherford County has been exposed by ProPublica for sending children – most of whom were black – to juvenile detention at an outrageous rate. Her court recently settled an $11 million fine over corruption but a lot more needs to be done to protect children from her court. Anders Lee ends the show with a look into the history of the French people’s 19th century experiment with democracy now known as the Paris Commune. The commune was short-lived and extinguished brutally but it has echoed through left-wing history.
From an early age, we strive to understand the world around us. But maybe we should do more to understand ourselves. Well, today I'm putting life's big questions about love and happiness to the philosopher and founder of The School of Life – Alain de Botton.
Virginia has roared and Democrats are reeling. Republican Glenn Youngkin’s gubernatorial win was nothing less than stunning. He is a political novice and not a Trump surrogate. This bellwether election will have far-reaching implications. And it may signal the end of the Biden presidency. CrossTalking with Jen Kerns, Dee Dawkins-Haigler, and Christopher Metzler.
Markets have shattered records in the wake of the Federal Reserve’s tapering announcement this week. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Michael Pento of Pento Portfolio Strategies offer their insight into the markets and the newest measures from the nation’s central bank. And as cryptocurrency adoption has become more mainstream, could we soon see some of the world’s largest nations adopt a central bank digital currency? Boom Bust’s Ben Swann fills us in on the potential benefits of a hypothetical adoption. Plus, we take you to the auto sector, where a rebound in US sales is boosting optimism in the industry. We’ll break it all down with Lauren Fix, the Car Coach.
Former Van Halen frontman Sammy Hagar, who is currently performing in his sold out Las Vegas residency, has conquered a new spirit in his entrepreneurship. The rock legend has a new line of sparkling rum drinks and he’s performing four shows in Texas in December to celebrate.
Alex Salmond interviews Brian Cox about his new autobiography and about acting, politics, and his screen alter ego, Logan Roy. After more than half a century as an award winning actor, Cox has now achieved superstar status through his portrayal of Roy in the global hit series ‘Succession’.
Of the 30,000 deaths by police violence since 1980, more than half went unreported. Half-a-million US workers walked out during “Striketober.” Enfamil and Similac baby formulas are found to be highly dangerous to preterm infants.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at financial repression intensifying as markets hit new all-time highs. In the second half, Max talks to Ben Aris of BNE.eu about the natural gas crisis in Europe.
The peak of the Covid-19 pandemic seems to be winding down, leading the Federal Reserve to dial back economic measures. Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth offers her insight to the central bank’s decision. And a freshly rebranded Facebook has decided to put an end to its facial recognition system. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann fills us in on the latest attempt to save face by the embattled social media giant. Then we talk to Professor Richard Wolff about the social responsibilities of billionaires as Jeff Bezos pledges $2 billion to combat climate change.
'The Sopranos' stars Steve Schirripa and Michael Imperioli explain why they decided to write an insiders book about their time on 'The Sopranos' and look back fondly on their memories of the late James Gandolfini.
On this episode, we speak to Lord Deben from COP26. He discusses progress made to end deforestation and reduce methane emissions. He criticizes Russia’s Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping of China for not attending COP26 in person, and tears into Scott Morrison of Australia as well. The UK climate change committee chair also looks at the current trajectory of limiting global temperatures after COP26, why current farming methods are unsustainable, and more. Finally, we speak to Martin Butcher, arms and conflict adviser at Oxfam UK. He discusses the worsening humanitarian crisis in Yemen as Houthi forces advance on pro-government troops in Marib, Saudi Arabia’s ‘serious’ violations of international humanitarian law and its continuous aerial bombardment, how UK and US arms sales to Saudi Arabia are worsening the crisis, US militarism and its impact on the climate, and more.
At present Russia and the North Atlantic military alliance have no official links. Now there is no official dialogue on issues that concern them both – and one of these is Ukraine. Washington’s relentless drive to admit Ukraine to NATO is a red line for Moscow. Something's going to have to give…. CrossTalking, with Nicolai Petro, Jeremy Kuzmarov, and Ernest Reid.
In order to combat the ongoing energy shortage facing the globe, China has turned to coal. David McAlvany joins the program to discuss the measures taken by the world’s second-largest economy and the state of energy the world over. Then we turn to Scotland, where major world leaders are meeting to discuss the threat of climate change. Public Citizen’s Tyson Slocum offers his insight into the measures being undertaken and the promises being made. And stablecoins are finding themselves in the crosshairs of US regulators. Christy Ai joins us from California to discuss the idea and the role played by the crypto.
'DWTS' judge Carrie Ann Inaba sits down with Dennis to discuss her early days as an entertainer, dancing topless on Madonna's tour, and becoming a pop star in Japan. Plus, some of her favorite contestants on this season of 'Dancing with the Stars'.
First do no harm. We assume that scientists and doctors are the ‘good guys’ in society. And by and large they are except when they are not. So why do certain people cross the line of ethics? Author of The Icepick Surgeon: Murder, Fraud, Sabotage, Piracy, and Other Dastardly Deeds Perpetrated in the Name of Science Sam Kean joins William Shatner on this week's episode of 'I Don't Understand' to discuss unethical science.
Nicole 'Snooki' Polizzi sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss her new wine 'Messy Mawma' and how she unwinds as a busy mom of three kids. Plus, she reminisces about her 'Jersey Shore' days and the friendships she maintains with the original group.
World leaders are convening in Italy this week for the G20 conference to discuss a range of topics including, notably, global supply-chain disruption. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai discuss the measures being floated among some of the globe’s most powerful people. The United States and European Union have moved past their Trump-era disputes over steel tariffs, and now they’re looking to team up elsewhere in the sector. Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association offers her insight on the new developments. And we bring you key analysis of American Airlines’ horrible weekend with Dennis Tajer of the firm’s pilot union.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the data spooking central banks, economists, and some investors. And, as inflation continues to soar, will we all one day soon be trillionaires like Elon Musk? In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen’s Energy program about the situation with natural gas and who he thinks is to blame.
After spending so much of his academic career systematically disproving the many myths peddled by mainstream economists, Professor Steve Keen has written a manifesto.
He joins Ross Ashcroft on Renegade Inc to detail a blueprint that will allow us to reboot our relationship with the economy, each other, and with the plundered planet on which we all entirely depend.
Can you make heads or tails of Biden’s foreign policy? Ukraine is a good example. Does Washington want war or peace? The same applies when it comes to China. Where are the ‘stable and predictable’ policies we were told about?
CrossTalking with Glenn Diesen and George Szamuely.
On this episode, we speak to Lord Barker, the former UK state minister for energy and climate change. He discusses the scale of the challenge ahead in tackling the climate crisis as the UK hosts COP26, the role of the private sector in fighting climate change, the UK’s strides in reducing carbon emissions, Russia’s rapid turn towards a green economy, criticisms on China’s record, and more. Finally, we speak to Raoul Pal, founder and CEO of Global Macro Investor. He discusses his advice for new investors seeking to enter the cryptocurrency world and gives his forecast for Bitcoin and other crypto prices, how cryptocurrency is the fastest-adopted technology in history, the coming war to regulate cryptocurrency in the US, the first Bitcoin ETF and what it means for the crypto world, and much more!
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange in London with Joe Lauria, editor-in-chief of Consortium News.
For the past two days, Chris Hedges has been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The United States is appealing a lower court ruling that denied the US' request to extradite Assange not, unfortunately, because in the eyes of the court he is innocent of a crime, but because, as Judge Vanessa Baraitser in January concluded, Assange's precarious psychological state would deteriorate given the “harsh conditions” of the inhumane US prison system, “causing him to commit suicide.” The United States has charged Assange with 17 counts under the Espionage Act and one count of trying to hack into a government computer, charges that could see him imprisoned for 175 years.
If Assange is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material, it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting, allowing the government to use the Espionage Act to charge any reporter who possesses classified documents, and any whistleblower who leaks classified information, under the Espionage Act.
They were never on friendly terms but there were times when Russia and NATO managed to accommodate each other’s security concerns and even do something together, most notably during the early stages of the US presence in Afghanistan. And while the hurried American withdrawal from Kabul seems to necessitate more coordination between this uneasy duo, their formal talking lines will be severed, come November. What does this silent treatment mean for the world? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Anatol Lieven, senior fellow at the New America Foundation.
This interview was held on the sidelines of the annual meeting of the Valdai Discussion Club.
It is often the case that books they try to ban go straight to the top of the bestseller list. This seems to have happened with the comedian Dave Chappelle and his current show on Netflix. He is the latest victim of ‘cancel culture’, after discussing transgender issues. So, we invited Leo Kearse to help us understand the role of comedians – from their position as modern-day court jester playing with ideas and theories, to the current trend of shutting them down and silencing their voices.
Tara Reade worked as staff assistant in Joe Biden’s Senate office back in the 90s. When she filed a harassment complaint in 1993 against him, she found herself ‘cancelled’. Liberal political groups on Capitol Hill who would ordinarily circle around and support whistleblowers turned their back, refusing to believe her account. Since then, she has campaigned for whistleblowers around the world. And, as Julian Assange went back to court this week (albeit by video-link only), we invited Tara Reade onto the show to tell us about her campaigns and work raising awareness.
On this episode, we speak to UN Special Rapporteur on Torture Nils Melzer on the trial of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. He discusses his assessment that Assange has been psychologically tortured by UK authorities, why it has become harder for the UK courts to refuse the US extradition request, the parallels between the video of the murder of George Floyd and Assange’s revelations, and what his persecution means for the average citizen’s rights. Finally, we speak to Ann Pettifor, economist and director of policy research in macroeconomics. She discusses the new budget for the UK government set out by Boris Johnson’s Chancellor Rishi Sunak, the ignoring of the climate crisis in the budget, how the budget represents the Conservatives attempting to backtrack on a decade of austerity, the City of London financial sector’s destabilisation of the economy, and much more!
The capitalist system forces those living within it to absorb thousands of advertisements every day and it has a serious impact on how we view the world and ourselves. Lee Camp takes on the tireless parade of garbage that you might know better as consumerism. Marketing executives do their best to make the world safe for corporate, militarist, and fossil fuel interests. And they do it by lying to us about how things work, what the psychopaths in power have really done in history, and convincing us that toxic products are fine for us. Fortunately there are ways of fighting back. Camp also looks into the real reasons that the US is focusing a regime change operation on Belarus.
Naomi Karavani reports on the telecoms industry’s latest efforts to collect and sell your data. This controversy was revealed in a government report. AT&T is helping advertisers by using our data to put users into categories that marketers can use to grab our attention. Anders Lee finishes off the show with a report on the threatened labor strike in the entertainment industry. Members of the IATSE Union were discussing a strike due to worsening working conditions. Their story received international coverage after Alec Baldwin accidentally shot a production crew member on a show he was producing.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos talk about the National Institutes of Health’s funding of risky coronavirus research in Wuhan, new rules for Federal Reserve officials, and why the Biden administration is holding off on the planned release of new JFK files. Chip Gibbons talks about the history of government surveillance.
Communities across the US continue to struggle with an opioid epidemic, and fentanyl has become the most dangerous culprit that’s been slipping past border control. RT’s Ben Swann explains how one of Mexico’s biggest drug cartels has spearheaded the fentanyl trade across our southern border. Author and medical journalist Dr. Bob Arnot lays out just how widespread a problem opioid addiction remains. How wary should we be about counterfeit ‘prescription’ pills?
As President Biden meets up with Pope Francis at the Vatican, the Catholic community ponders on the commander-in-chief’s juggling act between Church and state. New York pastor Gerald Murray shares his takeaways from Presidents Biden and Trump, including how their spiritual backgrounds factor into hot-button issues like abortion and same-sex marriage.
On Boom Bust, we catch up with Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai to discuss the meeting of some of the world’s most powerful leaders at the G20 summit in Rome. Then they break down Facebook’s latest makeover, as the social media giant rebrands itself as ‘Meta’.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy present their evidence of ‘hypershrinkflation’, as an order of avocado shocks them with its obvious shrinkage. They also look at the fallout from Jack Dorsey’s ‘hyperinflation’ tweet. In the second half, Max chats to Tyson Slocum of Public Citizen’s Energy program about COP26 and what to expect from the climate summit.
Radio Host Eric Metaxas criticized Barack Obama’s Speech at a rally in Newark. He compared former President’s remarks over Critical Race Theory, vaccine mandates, and school rapes going unreported to comments by Adolf Hitler. Last Friday, while campaigning for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia, the Vice President turns from laughing Kamala into angry Kamala. Steve Malzberg will show you why. The media ignores the sexual assault of a 9th grader in the girls bathroom, by a boy with a skirt. Plus, Texas bans boys playing girls sports and the daughter of two Hollywood superstars appears to be straight after all. Trans YouTube star Blaire White joins Steve to discuss. Facebook is caught going after Breitbart and other conservative news outlets? And has China won the AI war with the United States? We'll have the details. If you plan on criticizing billionaire George Soros, be careful, because Joe Scarborough may have a terrible accusation waiting for you. We'll show you more in the dessert segment.
Rising sea levels, cities covered with smog, hurricanes, and storms wreaking havoc – climate change is an issue of our own making that could soon be felt in every corner of the planet. Can we reverse it? Or is it too late? We asked Professor Martin Siegert, glaciologist and co-director of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change at Imperial College London.
The assassination of Robert F. Kennedy is one of the US’s most significant mysteries of the 20th Century. Lee Camp interviews Lisa Pease, the author of “A Lie Too Big To Fail,” to get a deeper view of the political killing. Sirhan Sirhan was blamed for the assassination but research from Pease opens a hole in the case. The counter-narrative that she presents involves hypnotism, MKUltra, a starter pistol loaded with blanks, and a second shooter connected to intelligence organizations. This story is important right now because Sirhan could be paroled soon. He doesn’t represent a threat to anyone and he deserves his freedom.
Naomi Karavani reports on the entrepreneurship of Harry Windsor and Meghan Markle. They’ve started to promote mental health awareness and their campaign is just as tone deaf as you’d expect from former members of the British royal family. Therapy is effective, helpful, and unaffordable for the majority of people living in the US. The only advice they can really give us is, “Have you tried being unimaginably wealthy?” Jaffer Khan reports on the crisis faced by immigrant taxi drivers in New York City. The drivers are forced into debt as they compete for the million-dollar medallions that they need to do their jobs. In response the drivers have been rallying for debt forgiveness.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses ‘War, News and Chaos in the Middle East’ with its author, foreign correspondent Patrick Cockburn.
When Patrick Cockburn, the Middle East correspondent for The Independent, first traveled to the region in 1975, and when Chris Hedges arrived a decade later, most of the states were ruled by dictators, usually army officers or hereditary monarchs, though the level of cruelty and repression varied widely. Today, they are mostly still dictatorships, but the cruelty, repression, and suffering has increased exponentially. Even in the handful of states where there is somewhat greater political freedom, such as Iraq, power has been seized by a kleptocratic elite that, as Cockburn notes, has siphoned off oil revenues for its own benefit, scarcely built any essential infrastructure, and, with the fall of oil prices, is unable to pay wages and salaries. Rather more countries – Afghanistan, Syria, Yemen, Libya, Somalia – have collapsed into chaos and war. States that remain at peace, such as Turkey and Egypt, have seen freedom of speech crushed and opposition to the government criminalized.
The disintegration of the Middle East is the result of two decades of US, NATO, and Israeli military intervention in the region, which has stoked sectarian wars and spawned numerous radical jihadist groups determined to rid the region of the foreign occupier. The morass in the region is compounded by our ignorance of what is happening – the result of the anemic state of journalism. Readers and viewers are largely unaware of the realities on the ground, and the consequences of Western policies both for those in the Middle East and those in the industrialized West who fall victim to acts of terrorism.
Patrick Cockburn has written six books on the region’s recent history, including his latest, ‘Behind Enemy Lies: War, News and Chaos in the Middle East’.
What explains Joe Biden’s sudden and dramatic drop in the polls? As a candidate he promised a return to some form of normality. However, his current standing with the public is anything but. Is agenda his problem? Maybe he is not as likeable as he once seemed. He is in trouble and so is his party.
CrossTalking with Ed Martin, Richard Baris, and Laura Fink.
Following a red-hot recovery amid the Covid-19 economic rebound, the US has seen GDP growth slow in the third quarter. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Octavio Marenzi of Opimas LLC analyze the latest growth figures and whether it is indicative of future issues. This slowdown comes as US President Joe Biden faces a rough patch with some of his key spending measures. We discuss the stalling of a proposed ‘billionaire tax’ that is meeting some pushback with US Congressman Alan Grayson (D-FL) and Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute. And global financial regulators are putting cryptocurrency back in their crosshairs. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai fill us in on proposals to crack down on criminal activities in the crypto sector.
Comedian Bobcat Goldthwait and Dennis Miller reflect on their years coming up together as stand up comedians and some of their biggest inspirations, including the late Robin Williams. Plus, Bobcat describes his directing style and his new stand up documentary 'Joy Ride' alongside fellow comedian Dana Gould.
Movie director Klim Shipenko talks about his experience of making the first film ever shot in space aboard the ISS. RT’s Saskia Taylor sat down with Shipenko to discuss the challenging mission, which was a collaboration project between Russia’s Channel 1 and Roscosmos.
On the eve of COP26 in Glasgow, Alex Salmond interviews two leading climate scientists on the prospects of success for a summit described as “the last best hope for humanity.” Professor Hugh Hunt of Cambridge University outlines the technical solutions available to world leaders struggling to meet climate objectives, while Professor Stuart Haszeldine of Edinburgh University assesses the damage done to carbon reduction targets by the UK Governments’ relegation of Scottish carbon-capture projects.
Rita Wilson, who has made a name for herself as an actress, has recently decided to dedicate her time to her passion for music. She sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss her latest EP 'Trilogy III' and what inspired the songs on the album.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the surging wealth gap as trillions in stimulus boost the assets of the top 10% most wealthy. In the second half, Max continues his conversation with Charles Hugh Smith of OfTwoMinds.com about how bitcoin stopped the ability of the US to impose sanctions.
J&J is seeking bankruptcy to fend off thousands of cancer lawsuits over its talcum products. Millions of Americans with sleep apnea could be exposed to carcinogens in CPAP machines. Vision loss treatment Beovu is causing blindness.
The ongoing China-US tech war doesn’t seem to have dissipated as the world’s largest economy has now banned China Telecom from operating in the nation. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann digs into the developments and what it means for trans-Pacific relations. And the crypto surge may be showing signs of slowing down as retail trading app Robinhood has attributed its stock fall to the novel financial technology. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Michael Gayed of the Lead/Lag Report discuss the dip and the merits of cryptocurrency. In the grip of a global energy pinch, could coal be making a comeback? David Tawil of ProChain Capital lends his insight to the energy shortage and how the world is compensating.
On this episode, we speak to Jonathon Porritt, author of ‘Hope in Hell: A Decade to Confront the Climate Emergency’. He discusses whether people can expect success or failure in an agreement being reached at COP26 that could turn the tide against climate change. He tackles fossil-fuel companies for lying about net zero targets, and addresses Boris Johnson’s record on climate change, along with his recent comments rubbishing plastic recycling. Porritt also talks about the absence of Russia’s Vladimir Putin and China’s Xi Jinping from COP26, and much more.
Finally, we speak to Changhua Wu, executive director of the Professional Association for China’s Environment. She discusses the COP15 biodiversity conference and close cooperation between the UK and China on two issues. She assesses the significance of the COP26 summit being held in Glasgow, and looks at how China is being blamed for the climate crisis despite taking massive strides in renewable energy production for the world. She asks how seriously US envoy John Kerry is taken, why no country is doing enough to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees, and much more.
More than a year-and-a-half into the Covid-19 pandemic, could we soon see the Federal Reserve beginning to taper its asset purchases? Former Fed insider Danielle DiMartino Booth lends her insight into what measures we can expect moving forward from the US central bank. Tesla has now entered the upper echelon of US companies as the Elon Musk venture clears $1 trillion market cap. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai bring us the latest on the electric vehicle behemoth. And Todd Shipley of Dark Intel joins the program to discuss the growing wave of cyberattacks hitting businesses in 2021.
Olympic gymnast Laurie Hernandez, who is currently participating in the 'Gold Over America' tour, reveals to Dennis Miller whether she is planning to try out for the 2024 Olympics after a knee injury prevented her from participating in the 2021 Tokyo games.
Does Europe have a strategic vision for the future? What kind of relationship will it develop with China? Europe stands at a crossroads. Will it remain dependent on Washington as a junior partner? Or will Europe opt for playing the role of a great power on the world stage?
CrossTalking with Einar Tangen, Brad Blankenship, and Luc Rivet.
On this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the building-supply-chain crisis being dismissed as a ‘tragedy of the delayed treadmill.’ In the second half, Max chats to Charles Hugh Smith from OfTwoMinds.com about the supply-chain situation and localization as a better response.
The sea level has risen by 6.5 inches since 1950 and 3 inches, which is nearly half, has occurred in just the last 20 years. This increase has caused on average a 233% increase in tidal flooding across the united states. How can we slow down sea level rise? What coastal communities are in the biggest danger? And, is it too late?
Real estate agent Josh Altman, who sold over a billion dollar worth of houses in 2021, explains why the market is so hot right now and if he sees it ever cooling down. Plus, some of the benefits of investing in real estate right now.
EU leaders are sounding the alarm on magnesium shortage in China as the bloc’s leaders look to adjust. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and John Quelch, dean of the University of Miami Herbert Business School, weigh in on the dual issues of supply-chain disruptions and energy shortages. Meanwhile, the threat of hyperinflation looms in the background of the post-Covid recovery process. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Peter Schiff of Euro Pacific Capital offer their forecasts for inflation on the horizon, and discuss potential hedges. Then, we take you across the Atlantic where disputes between the United Kingdom and the European Union continue to persist. Hilary Fordwich of the British-American joins the program to discuss the fissures.
On this episode, we speak to Guernica 37 co-founder Toby Cadman. He discusses war crimes committed by Saudi Arabia and the UAE in Yemen, the location of the world’s worst humanitarian crisis, which have included aerial bombardment of civilian areas, indiscriminate shelling, and assassinations. He also discusses UK and Western arms sales to the Gulf states involved in the war on Yemen. Finally, we speak to Andrew Lownie, author of ‘Traitor King: The Scandalous Exile of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor’. He details the hidden history of fascism in the royal family and the scandalous Nazi sympathies of Edward VIII and his wife Wallis Simpson, as well as their lavish lifestyles and tax evasion as Britons suffered the hardship of life under Nazi bombardment and wartime rationing.
The more NATO tries to explain itself, the more obvious this Cold War relic needs to be retired and for good. Also, Joe Biden told us he wanted to be the great unifier, unlike the evil orange man. Indeed, now there is growing unity in the dislike of Biden.
CrossTalking with Dmitry Babich and George Szamuely.
Famously, the broadcaster and natural historian David Attenborough said that someone who believes in infinite growth is ‘either a madman or an economist.’ One of the big problems we face today is that in our hunt for growth, mainstream economics has been taken over by madmen. But not everyone has fallen for it… We speak to writer and activist Christian Felber about how to build an ‘Economy for the Common Good’.
On the show, Chris Hedges talks to documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist John Pilger about the upcoming appeals hearing in London for the Julian Assange case.
On Sept. 26, Yahoo! News published ‘Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA’s secret war plans against WikiLeaks’. The article detailed discussions within the CIA to kidnap or assassinate Julian Assange. The revelations came a month before a hearing in Britain’s High Court that will see the US government appeal a decision that WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange cannot be sent to the United States to face espionage charges. These revelations also coincided with the arrest of an Icelandic man who played a major role in the FBI’s case against Assange and who has now admitted he lied in his testimony about Assange to US federal investigators. The most recent revelations, coupled with the numerous legal anomalies of the Assange case, including leaks that show that the Spanish security firm at Ecuador’s Embassy in London, where Assange sought refuge for seven years, turned over recordings of his meetings with his lawyers to the CIA, amply illustrate that the judicial pantomime carried out against Assange is a political persecution led by the US government and the CIA because of embarrassing and damaging revelations about the inner workings of the US military, intelligence agencies, and the political class repeatedly exposed by Assange and WikiLeaks. The goal of the US government is to shut down WikiLeaks and organizations like it, and to make an example of Assange, who, if he is extradited to the United States, faces 175 years in prison, to dissuade others who might consider replicating his courageous reporting. The upcoming appeals hearing is on October 27 and 28 at Britain’s High Court, London.
When it comes to debates on gender equality, one of the most common arguments you’ll hear is – men have it all, women have less, and what women do have, they’ve had to fight for. But if you look at the data, girls do better than boys in school, are less burdened by illness and addiction, and commit suicide in far fewer numbers. Is the gap between the genders really as punishing as many claim? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Gulden Turktan, founding chair of the W20. This interview was filmed at the Eurasian Women's Forum in St. Petersburg.
In one form or another, the Lebanese civil war still appears to be ongoing more than 40 years on. Pictures last week from downtown Beirut showed the same chilling images of black-clad phalangist snipers firing at unarmed demonstrators down below and the ambivalence of the Lebanese Military Forces (not to be confused with the Lebanese Forces). It all looks too familiar, and the danger now appears to be an all-out civil war similar to that of the 1970s. So, to discuss this unfolding situation in Lebanon and the chess game being played in the wider region, we talk to Sputnik's Tom Fowdy, a political analyst for RT. MP Sir David Amess was cruelly murdered in his constituency surgery last week, apparently stabbed 17 times by his assailant. Five years ago, Jo Cox was murdered outside her surgery. Before that, Stephen Timms, a former minister, was stabbed multiple times in his constituency and Nigel Jones was attacked with a Samurai sword and his agent, Andrew Pennington, was murdered defending him. So, what have we learnt, if anything, from this latest incident? We talked to former Conservative Party minister Steven Norris, who was a friend and colleague of Amess, and asked what it means for British politics in the aftermath of yet another attack on a parliamentarian.
Lee covers the wave of strikes that are happening in the country. Workers across industries from fast food to nurses to Hollywood are demanding that they receive the bare minimum. As businesses like John Deere try to operate without their trained workers, they’re discovering the hard way how valuable their workforce was. Nonetheless, Americans are discovering, many for the first time, the wide rift between the exploiters and the exploited. Then Lee gets into how vaccine passports will only exacerbate vaccine inequities, as many high-level WHO officials have warned. Then Anders Lee calls in from West Virginia to report on how the ultra-corrupt Joe Manchin is doing his best to prevent anything good from coming out of the Democratic reconciliation bill. Finally, Jaffer Khan covers the lawsuit brought to pharma company Thermo Fisher by the family of Henrietta Lacks. Thermo Fisher has made billions off of cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks by Johns Hopkins University. The exploitation of black bodies is unfortunately a long-running theme in the United States.
On this episode, we speak to author, filmmaker, and activist Tariq Ali. He discusses the death of Colin Powell and his involvement in the US’ many foreign wars, the US withdrawal from Afghanistan and why it won’t mean the end of US imperialism, US & UK arms sales to Saudi Arabia and Saudi Arabia’s role as a client state of imperial powers, the US’ increasing hostility towards Russia & China as they refuse to follow Washington’s directives, the extradition trial of Julian Assange, and more.
Soaring shipping costs and dwindling truck drivers have led to store shelves going out of stock and consumers being out of luck. Syracuse professor Patrick Penfield explains the mechanics behind a supply chain crisis that’s brought industries across the country to a grinding halt. Workers once deemed essential at John Deere and Kellogg’s are dissatisfied with the growing wage gap despite companies logging record profits over the past year. RT’s Ben Swann reports on tens of thousands of laborers walking out in the midst of ‘Striketober’. TED-Talker and Phenomenal Training director Laura Thomson outlines occupations that benefit from automation but still rely on the ingenuity of human workhands. Radio host of ‘Into Tomorrow’ Dave Graveline talks home tech, including Amazon’s latest Astro companion and Ring’s new drone surveillance system.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss the death of former US Secretary of State Colin Powell, the resignation of millions of workers, supply chain woes, and skyrocketing drug overdose deaths. Author Arsalan Iftikhar talks about Islamophobia.
In the midst of a major supply chain disruption facing the US, President Joe Biden has floated the idea of using the National Guard to ease pressure on the system. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann and Christy Ai analyze the idea and compare it to other potential solutions to the crisis. Then we take you to the realm of pop culture, where Netflix’s ‘Squid Game’ is shattering records and becoming a global sensation. RT America’s Faran Fronczak examines the South Korean drama’s themes and why they’re striking such a nerve with people in the modern world.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy compare a recent Reuters report suggesting that the UK is the ‘bank scam capital of the world’ with comments from a deputy at the Bank of England claiming bitcoin could cause a financial crisis. Max chats to Rodolfo Andragnes of LaBitconf.com about his upcoming conference in El Salvador and what bitcoin has enabled across Latin America.
Nico Tortorella sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss his busy schedule and what it was like transitioning from a comedy to a drama while filming 'The Walking Dead: World Beyond'. Plus, he explains his stance behind pronouns and why language fails us as a society.
Amid the global surge in energy prices, some are pointing the finger at policies aimed at addressing climate change. Tobin Smith of Transformity Research offers his take on the power crunch and how the world can rebound. Plus, China’s Evergrande situation continues to deteriorate as the indebted real estate giant has seen its stock continue to tumble. Our own Ben Swann and Octavio Marenzi of Opimas LLC analyze the fallout and bring us up to speed on the state of the current supply chain disruption. And former US President Donald Trump has announced the launch of his own social media network. Lionel of Lionel Media offers his take on the new platform and how he thinks it will fare in the market.
The Earth’s population is growing and so is the demand for food. Will we be able to sustain the planet when there are twice as many of us, and not completely destroy the environment? We talked to a man who has presented the first lab-grown hamburger to the world, Professor of Vascular Physiology of Maastricht University Mark Post.
On the show, Chris Hedges discusses the seizure of state governments by America’s homegrown neofascist movement with the historian Paul Street.
The creeping homegrown Christianized fascism that is steadily gaining power in the United States is most evident not in Washington but in state-level politics. Some 150 million Americans live in fully or mainly “red states,” where state politics and policy are completely or largely in the hands of a neofascist Republican party. There are 22 states where Republicans control the governorship and legislatives bodies. There are 15 states where the Democratic party controls the governorship and legislative bodies. And there are 13 states with divided governments. In the “red” states such as Texas and Florida, laws are being passed to suppress voting, outlaw abortion, forbid honest discussion of white systemic racism in public education, ban local governments and school districts from enforcing minimum wage ordinances, prohibit local vaccine and mask mandates, cut pandemic-related unemployment benefits, reject federal Medicaid dollars to help the poor receive health care, and persecute undocumented workers and their families. The nation’s most retrograde corporate political funders and operatives – the Koch-backed “fifth column” culprits in historian Nancy MacLean’s book Democracy in Chains – have long focused heavily on politics and policy at the state level. State politics, with the collapse of the local press and its consolidation by a handful of corporations, is an easy mark. It is rarely covered and almost never in-depth. Corporations, for relatively small costs, can buy the loyalty of state officials and banish those who do not do their bidding. What is happening, as the historian Paul Street writes, is that in the white-nationalist “flyover” states, Republican neofascists are hard-wiring these jurisdictions to orchestrate this creeping coup with Leninist discipline.
Paul Street is the author of 10 books including his latest Hollow Resistance: Obama, Trump, and the Politics of Appeasement. He also writes regularly for Counterpunch where he published a recent column headlined “What Happens in the Red States.”
Russia’s strategic patience with the West, particularly with NATO and the EU, appears to have come to an end. The West is hell-bent on lecturing Moscow; negotiating and dialoguing among equals hasn’t been part of the equation for a very long time. The West is making a serious strategic error.
CrossTalking with Ivan Eland, Charles Shoebridge, and Pierre-Emmanuel Thomann.
Journalist Michael Levitin joins Lee Camp on Redacted Tonight VIP to discuss his book ‘Generation Occupy’. Levitin explains how the Occupy Wall Street movement transformed the conversation about power in America to include corrupt/corporate power at the center. The reverberations of Occupy are felt amongst activists in the environmental movement, in Congress with the progressive movement, and in new media outlets and platforms. Then, Naomi Karavani delves into the FBI’s domestic terrorism case against a leftist for a Facebook post he made after the January 6 riots. While rioters are receiving extremely light sentences for participating in the Capitol breach, a Florida yoga teacher will spend almost four years in prison for a Facebook post he never acted upon. Finally, Anders Lee takes a look at the violent 2009 South Korean auto strike that helped inspire the hit Netflix series ‘Squid Game’.
Brent Jabbour guest hosts from the Mass Torts Made Perfect conference in Vegas. Paraquat is reapproved despite the herbicide’s links to Parkinson’s disease. Social media platforms and hotels are complicit in child sex trafficking.
Just one day after launching on a NYSE ETF, bitcoin has seen its price clear previous records. We discuss the new frontier for bitcoin with former CFTC chair J. Christopher Giancarlo. And with winter approaching amid an energy shortage, Europe is at odds with Russia over supply. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann brings us up to speed on the conflict and what role the Nord Stream 2 pipeline is playing in the dispute. Then we take you back to the picket line as organized labor launches another wave of strikes. Professor Richard Wolff brings us the latest from the movement and what it could spell for labor moving forward.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy ask, “are you prepared?” – for the sudden repricing of everything, including risk and money. In the second half, Max continues his chat with Nick Giambruno. They turn to chip shortages and commodity prices.
Nikki Sixx has lead the life of a quintessential rock star and his new book “The First 21” gives fans a glimpse into his childhood and his journey to understand his father a little better. Plus, how he has learned to really appreciate life after 21 years of sobriety.
After the chaotic retreat from Kabul, has the 20-year ‘War on Terror’ finally come to a close, and is there any hope for greater understanding between the West and the Islamic world? One of the world’s most influential Muslim academics, anthropologist Professor Akbar Ahmed of the American University, discusses with Alex Salmond the prospects for a rapprochement between East and West.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to public-health expert Professor John Ashton. He discusses the House of Commons’ Health and Science Committees’ report on the UK’s coronavirus response and how it exposes the government as having been seriously unprepared. Its disastrous policies, he says, led to deaths in care homes early in the pandemic and, later, to the UK’s death rate being one of the highest among developed countries. He goes on to discuss how the UK has fallen behind with its vaccination program compared to Europe. He pulls no punches, calling it “social murder” committed through “arrogance and incompetence.” And democracy, he says, is under threat as a result of the government’s recklessness. He goes on to criticize the consultants who have become extremely wealthy through the development of the discredited, privatised NHS Test and Trace service, and the possibility that further lockdowns will be imposed. In the second half, we speak to Karen Greenberg, author of ‘Subtle Tools: The Dismantling of American Democracy from the War on Terror to Donald Trump’. She discusses what she calls the US’ “subtle tools” of international coercion, such as torture and drone strikes, which have furthered US foreign policy since 9/11, but led only to further strife. She goes on to explore the degradation of language to make policy boundaries deliberately vague, citing the Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Iraq Resolution of 1991, which precipitated the First Gulf War, its wording enabling broader US military interventions. Barack Obama continued the use of those “subtle tools,” meaning they were left on the table for Donald Trump, whom she says had no respect for either procedure or the law. Lastly, she goes onto explain how they have since been used domestically, both in immigration policy and at the southern border.
Is there now a dual system of justice? Many think so. For example, a former senior FBI official lied repeatedly to his bosses, but now is exonerated. But a former head of the National Security Council did not lie to the FBI and his life was destroyed. Where is the justice in that? CrossTalking, with Lionel, Sabrina Salvati, and David Gornoski.
Bitcoin has taken another step toward institutional acceptance as the premier cryptocurrency will now have its own exchange-traded fund on the New York Stock Exchange. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann fills us in on the breakthrough and what it could mean for the future of the cryptocurrency. Plus, the global energy crunch has caused the price of coal to spike as a means of combating supply-chain shortages. Todd ‘Bubba’ Horwitz lends his insight on the converging crises. And cybersecurity expert Morgan Wright joins the program to discuss the surge in ransomware attacks slamming US businesses in 2021.
NHL star Jeremy Roenick, who played most of his career with the Chicago Blackhawks, reflects on his incredible career and how intimidated he was getting drafted right out of high school. Plus, how he’s master his golf game since retiring from the sport and how hockey helped his swing.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the stories related to rising inflation, building shortages and the multinational retail chains renting private cargo ships to deliver holiday goods. In the second half, Max chats to Nick Giambruno about the Bank of England’s warning that bitcoin could cause a financial meltdown. They then discuss the actual financial meltdown in Lebanon, where Nick had previously lived, and ask: Is there hope for the country, and if so, would bitcoin fix it?
Despite being one of the few nations to see economic growth in 2020, China has seen its 2021 Q3 GDP growth dip amid dual crises. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai offers her analysis of the slump, explaining how the energy crunch and supply-chain issues are driving volatility. And Facebook is speaking out in defense of its AI algorithm amid rising criticism. Boom Bust’s Ben Swann fills us in on the details. Plus, ECB head Christine Lagarde has addressed the supply-chain woes that continue to hamper the European Union. Hilary Fordwich of the British-American Business Association joins us in the studio to break down the complications and the role globalization has played in the slowing recovery.
Actor and comedian Byron Bowers sits down with Dennis Miller to discuss his hot career and how he got to be in demand, with shows on both Netflix and HBO Max. Plus, his decade as a stand up comedian and finding his confidence.
The deadliest predator in human history weighs in at just over 2.5 milligrams. What is it you ask? The pesky mosquito. The tiny insect has decided the fates of empires and nations, forced the trajectory of the world’s economy and shaped our history.
It is incredibly rare that the BBC ever admits that one of their reports on Douma in Syria failed to meet the Corporation's editorial standards for accuracy by reporting false claims… Blink and you’d have missed this admission, but we didn’t, and it adds to a volley of misreporting that has dogged journalism and peace in the Middle East for decades.
Ross Ashcroft is joined by political scientist Dr. Piers Robinson and journalist Vanessa Beeley to discuss the crumbling narrative around the alleged Douma chemical attack.
On this special episode of Going Underground, we speak to the former co-leader of Google’s ethical AI team, Timnit Gebru, who is the co-founder of Black in AI. She discusses a toxic work culture within Google, where staff walkouts had occurred at the start of her tenure on the team, why she left what many would consider a dream job, the development of unethical AI by Google, unethical practices by other Big Tech companies such as Facebook and Amazon, the need for regulation, discriminatory algorithms and systems created by Big Tech firms that discriminate against not only the most marginalised in the United States but also those in places like Palestine, the problems caused by large language models, the founding of Black in AI and why the technology they develop is different to that of the billionaire-owned Big Tech companies, and much more!
There are growing indications that Washington isn’t finished with Afghanistan just yet. Military involvement has come to an end, but not engagement. Also, we are told there is an energy crisis. Maybe this is part of the ‘Great Reset’.
CrossTalking with Marcus Papadopoulos and Patrick Henningsen.
Jesse Ventura and Brigida Santos discuss a wave of labor strikes across the US, insider trading in Congress, and the Department of Defense’s response to climate change. Author Alex De Waal talks about his latest book, ‘New pandemics, Old politics: Two Hundred Years of War on Disease and its Alternatives’.
In the second of a two-part interview, journalist Hugh Hamilton discusses with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges the role of race and poverty in mass incarceration, as chronicled in Hedges’ new book, ‘Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison’. The pipeline that fuels our system of mass incarceration runs through the intersection of race and poverty in all too many of our neglected and marginalized urban centers. In his new book, ‘Our Class’, author Chris Hedges describes the impact of this debilitating poverty that pervades many of our cities and towns. He writes: “The social hell of urban America is the great destroyer of dreams. It batters and assaults the children of the poor. It teaches them that their dreams, and finally they themselves, are worthless. They go to bed hungry. They live with fear. They lose their fathers, brothers, and sisters to mass incarceration – and, at times, their mothers. “This social hell is relentless. It wears them down. It makes them angry and bitter. It drives them to hopelessness and despair. The message sent to them by the dysfunctional schools, the decrepit housing projects, the mercenary financial institutions, gang violence, instability, and ever-present police abuse, is that they are human refuse.”
It’s been 80 years since philosopher Eric Fromm identified two types of freedom: “freedom from” -– to be no one’s slave – and “freedom to” – to be the master of your own fate. And while we all idealize the latter, achieving the former, the freedom from use and abuse is no small feat in this day and age, especially for Africa, which for centuries has been exploited under all sorts of pretexts. What needs to happen for the continent to truly take its deserved place in the world? To discuss this, Oksana is joined by Jewel Howard-Taylor, vice president of Liberia. This interview was filmed at the Eurasian Women's Forum in St. Petersburg.
Things are upside down ‘Down Under’, and the special relationship between Australia and Britain appears to be in turmoil. But just how bad is the political situation in Australia at the moment? A state premier forced to resign due to allegations of bribery; sex scandals in the parliament house itself; and, of course, reneging on a deal with the French. So who better to ask than retired professor and distinguished research fellow Steve Keen.
The Nobel Peace Prize is increasingly a controversial choice. Picked by a committee appointed by the Norwegian parliament, it is ultimately politicians who decide just who has striven the hardest for peace in any one year. When it was awarded to Henry Kissinger it was said satire had died; it was controversial when it was awarded to the OPCW at the height of the agitation of the alleged weapons of mass destruction in Syria; and when it was awarded to Barack Obama before he had even begun work as president, you could say that satire had died once again. This year is no less controversial, so we invited Damian Wilson, former Fleet Street editor, aboard Sputnik to hear his views.
On this special episode of Going Underground, we speak to 45th President of the United States Donald Trump’s former National Security Advisor John Bolton. He discusses the US withdrawal from Afghanistan under Joe Biden and what it means for the US’ position on the world stage and for Afghans, the rise of ISIS-K and the prospect of Afghanistan becoming a hotbed for terrorist groups again, his calls for a regime change campaign against Iran, the 2018 US bombing of Syria along with France and the United Kingdom, President Trump’s sanctions on Venezuela estimated to have killed 40,000, his criticisms of the United Nations, and much more!
The Boeing 737 MAX saga has seen yet another major development as the Department of Justice has indicted a former pilot involved in the jet’s production. RT’s John Huddy brings us up to speed on the latest turn in the investigation. And bitcoin’s price has rallied past the $60,000 mark on optimism of a possible ETF for the world’s foremost cryptocurrency. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai lends her analysis of the surge and how realistic the ETF possibility is. And the only Western social media operating in China has officially withdrawn from the world’s most-populous nation. We bring you the full story behind LinkedIn’s departure from the market.
Law enforcement agencies nationwide have a cozy relationship with platforms like Facebook and Google. Attorney Madeline Pendley explains how Big Tech has been gagged from informing users exactly what personal information they’re sharing with police departments. Meanwhile – Amazon’s new Astro home companion and Facebook’s new partnership with Ray-Ban sunglasses are the latest additions to a marketplace flooded with products that watch and listen to our every move. Boom Bust co-host Ben Swann explains precautions we should take before adding these surveillance devices to our shopping carts.
If you’re wondering whether your boss is monitoring you while working from home, rest assured…they are. The pandemic has forced much of our daily regimens to go digital, meaning our lives have become that much easier to monitor from afar. Strelmark president Hilary Fordwich walks us through the various methods employers have taken to keep a watchful eye over their employees, even those working remotely.
Lee Camp exposes the truth about our ‘debt ceiling’. It’s an arbitrary, completely meaningless ‘limit’ that our government invents. In fact, it’s not even a useful indicator for any economic stressor facing the country. It’s simply a tool used by the rich to enforce austerity that hurts the poor. The vast majority of countries don’t even have a debt ceiling! USA baby! The only thing the debt ceiling is useful for is highlighting how absurd and made-up our economy truly is. Then Lee Camp discusses the success of ‘Portland Street Response’, a non-police pilot program used to respond to non-violent 911 calls, and Merck, the pharmaceutical company that is heroically selling us a Covid pill we funded at an absurd mark-up. Jaffer Khan and Lee Camp discuss virtual learning and the giant corporations that are ensuring that this new necessity becomes a for-profit commodity. Finally, Naomi Karavani delves into the fad of ESG or ‘environmental, social, and governance’ investing which has become wildly popular despite evidence showing it exacerbates the problems it attempts to solve.
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the multiple supply chain catastrophes unfolding around the world as markets continue their relentless march higher. Is this due to amazing economic activity? Or a huge volume of new money? In the second half, Max continues his chat with bitcoin podcaster Mark Moss about going where you are wanted, and how bitcoin changes the rules of the game for the individual.
In 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: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison’.
The US imprisons more of its people than any other country in the world. According to the non-profit Prison Policy Initiative, the American prison-industrial complex currently holds captive nearly 2.3 million people in more than 6,000 prisons, penitentiaries, jails, detention centers, and correctional facilities across the country.
In his newest and positively riveting page-turner, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges takes us behind the forbidding bars of steel at East Jersey State Prison, into a world where prisoners are people. Together, as students in Hedges’ college-level prison class, they embark on a journey of artistic and personal discovery. Tasked with the challenge of writing a dramatic play of their own, these students deliver eloquent, original, and often painful voices to the heartbreaking grief and suffering that they and their families have endured.
Film critic Dennis Broe joins Lee Camp for a lively discussion on Redacted Tonight VIP. Broe is a film critic who is well-known for analyzing the cultural impact of films, rather than providing surface-level criticism. They discuss the failures of series like ‘Space Force’, ‘House of Cards’, and ‘The Morning Show’. They also talk about his new book, ‘Diary of a Digital Plague Year: Coronavirus, Serial TV, and The Rise of The Streaming Services’. Naomi Karavani covers a recent study that shows that Americans are getting price gouged on medication, including the new Merck treatment for the coronavirus. Government funding makes the prices more controversial given that it funded the very medications Americans get for absurd prices. Finally, Anders Lee explores the upcoming Teamsters Union leadership elections and how James Hoffa Jr’s retirement means a new opportunity to make the union more militant and democratic.
The US has now officially become the world leader in bitcoin mining following China’s decision to ban the practice. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Jeffrey Tucker of the Brownstone Institute offer their insights on the development. And supply chain issues continue to grip the global economy as the holiday season approaches. David McAlvany of the McAlvany Financial Group lends his analysis of the bottleneck shortage. And US workers are taking to the picket line. Boom Bust host Brent Jabbour joins us from Las Vegas to discuss what’s driving the spike in strikes amid the ongoing labor shortage.
Technology promises to stave off old age, as scientists work to increase the durability of our organs, including the most vital – the heart. What’s changing? And what does the future hold for healthcare in general? World-renowned heart surgeon Dr. Leo Bokeria shares his thoughts.
Brothers Ron & Clint Howard have both had successful Hollywood careers, but say it comes down to their solid upbringing by their actor parents who risked everything to change the course of their lives. Plus, how Ron & Clint bonded over baseball as young boys.
When Europe is mentioned, what do you think of? A place? An idea? A common place with diverging ideas? Maybe you think of the European Union. Think what you wish, but Europe is in crisis. It must choose between being an ideological construct or a place with real people and real needs.
CrossTalking with John Laughland, Fabrice Epelboin, and Theofanis Exadaktylos.
In the first of two interviews with world leading anthropologists, Professor Wade Davis tells Alex Salmond why he would mourn the passing of the American century. Can President Biden arrest the decline and division scarring America or are the wounds too deep?
In this episode of Keiser Report, Max and Stacy look at the ongoing consequences of the pandemic response: from everything shortages to energy crises. In the second half, Max chats to bitcoin podcaster Mark Moss about how he had predicted the energy crisis and how bitcoin fixes it.
Improv artist, Colin Mochrie, has been in the game for more than 20 years. He reflects on his time on the popular show ‘ Whose Line Is It Anyway’ and working with his improv partner Brad Sherwood. Plus getting back on the road after a year and a half hiatus because of Covid-19.
The US saw a record number of workers quit their jobs in August in the midst of an ongoing labor shortage. Professor Richard Wolff joins the program to discuss the figures and the factors driving the surge. And William Shatner has officially become the oldest person to reach space after Blue Origin’s successful Wednesday launch. Plus, China’s burdened property market has been upgraded by Morgan Stanley, despite the ongoing woes of the Evergrande Group. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai and Dean John Quelch of the Miami Herbert Business School bring us up to speed on the developments in the world’s second-largest economy.
On this episode of Going Underground, we speak to Dr. Omar Zakhilwal, former minister of finance under former President Hamid Karzai, and former ambassador to Pakistan. He discusses his opinions on the G20 summit and his hopes for more humanitarian aid as Afghanistan’s humanitarian and economic crisis spirals out of control, Joe Biden’s personal feelings on US policy towards Afghanistan, and what we can expect US policy to be towards Afghanistan for the rest of Biden’s presidency, the rise of ISIS-K and how Donald Trump’s use of the Mother of All Bombs (MOAB) on Afghanistan drove up recruitment for the group, his personal horrific experiences with ISIS-K, his opposition to any further foreign armed interventions or armed support for resistance groups, and the international community’s obligation to aid Afghanistan after years of interference and bloodshed.
Finally, we speak to Prof. Tim Jackson, author of ‘Post-Growth: Life After Capitalism’. He discusses why the GDP metric is deeply flawed in measuring the health and quality of an economy and society, the trend of decline of economic growth in Western economies such as the UK, his arguments for a radically different labour culture in which production is slowed down and lessened, the myth of ‘more is better’ that the obsession with GDP has created, the negative social impacts stemming from governments’ plans for constant economic growth, Boris Johnson’s comments that capitalism has been key in the UK’s coronavirus response and vaccine rollout, and much more!
Bitcoin’s price is surging amid rising optimism. Boom Bust’s Christy Ai analyzes the spike and the factors pushing prices higher. Plus, the IMF has cut its outlook for global growth as supply chain issues and Covid-19 continue to grip the world. Octavio Marenzi of Opimas LLC weighs in on the forecast and what he anticipates moving forward. Then we take you to the travel sector, where Southwest Airlines saw a huge wave of cancelations over the weekend. RT correspondent Sayeh Tavangar brings us the latest. And Aaron Pagel of DePaul University joins us to discuss the prospect of William Shatner becoming the oldest person to travel to space.
What happened to the idea of tolerance in our politics? Conservatives see their world being upended. Liberals view conservatives with contempt. Of course, the media only makes things worse. Have we all lost hope in compromise and peaceful co-existence?
CrossTalking with Christopher R. Barron, Souraya Faas, and Jamie E. Wright.