Chris Hedges: The American Empire Is Dead – How Corporations & Finance Have Ruined the U.S. (2009)

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Published on Jan 2, 2015

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TAVIS SMILEY | Chris Hedges | June 8, 2015

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Published on Jun 9, 2015

Last night, I was joined by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. In his near two decades’ worth of experience as a foreign correspondent for prominent news outlets like The New York Times and NPR, Hedges has covered critical issues from all around the world, including his groundbreaking reporting on global terrorism. The bestselling author’s latest text is called “Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt.”

In the clip below, Hedges describes how the media’s inability to do its job has weakened our democracy, and why the public’s loss of faith in traditional mechanisms of power has placed us on the brink of revolution.

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Good Soil | 2015 PBS Online Film Festival

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Published on Jun 14, 2015

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The Meier brothers’ nursery faces the edge of the Garzweiler II coal pit.

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Opening Remarks — Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming Conference

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Published on May 19, 2015

A welcome from Quinton Zondervan, President of Green Cambridge, and Lucy Alexander, Policy Coordinator for the Climate Action Business Association (CABA), on behalf of their organizations which sponsored the Urban and Suburban Carbon Farming to Reverse Global Warming conference organized by Biodiversity for a Livable Climate at Harvard University on May 3, 2015.

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“Microbes ‘R’ Us” Meet-Up (June 14, 2015)

Biodiversity for a Livable Climate

Streamed live on Jun 14, 2015

Our restoration ecologist Jim Laurie shares some of the revolutionary ideas developed by Lynn Margulis on the deep relationship among microbes, and all life including humans. Join us as we explore the importance of microbial activity to restoring ecosystems and reversing global warming.

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Winning the Battle for Endangered Gorillas in Africa’s Oldest National Park

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Published on Jun 14, 2015

In this live event recording, take a powerful journey with renowned conservationists who have worked tirelessly to understand and protect the mountain gorillas of Virunga National Park in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Virunga National Park director Emmanuel de Merode and Virunga National Park warden Innocent Mburanumwe, who together accepted the Rolex National Geographic Explorer of the Year award on behalf of the rangers of Virunga, will join conservationist George Schaller, recipient of the National Geographic Hubbard Medal, for this special presentation.

Want more Explorers Symposium? Click here to watch “Transformers, Food Cube Farms, and a Nuclear-Waste Chomper: Inventors Reimagine Our Future”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wZc6J…

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After Setback, Trade Backers Seek Another Round on Capitol Hill

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Published on Jun 14, 2015

This week will feature concerted efforts to save President Barack Obama’s trade agenda, after lawmakers of his own Democratic Party scuttled a vote critical for eventual congressional approval of blockbuster free trade pacts spanning the Atlantic and the Pacific. VOA’s Michael Bowman reports, the Republican-led House of Representatives could vote again on a worker retraining program tied to the trade promotion authority (TPA), which subjects deals to simple up-or-down votes.
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Linn Persson on ‘Sweden’s environmental footprint: facing up to import dependencies (session 3)

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Published on Jun 14, 2015

Linn Persson, SEI Research Fellow, examines how Sweden can reduce its environmental footprint by facing up to import dependencies.

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These six people simulated a mission to Mars on a Hawaiian volcano

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Published on Jun 14, 2015

A NASA-funded study is focusing on the psychological impact of a potential mission to Mars. For the past eight months, six people have been living in a self-sustaining 1,000 square-foot dome on the Mauna Loa Volcano in Hawaii, cut off from the outside world. It is the longest space-travel simulation to take place in the United States. Saskia de Melker reports.

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Explosive intervention by Pope Francis set to transform climate change debate

The most anticipated papal letter for decades will be published in five languages on Thursday. It will call for an end to the ‘tyrannical’ exploitation of nature by mankind. Could it lead to a step-change in the battle against global warming?

Pope Francis on a visit to the Philippines in January. Photograph: Johannes Eisele/AFP/Getty Images

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Saturday 13 June 2015 07.44 EDT Last modified on Saturday 13 June 2015 19.01 EDT

Pope Francis will call for an ethical and economic revolution to prevent catastrophic climate change and growing inequality in a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics on Thursday.

In an unprecedented encyclical on the subject of the environment, the pontiff is expected to argue that humanity’s exploitation of the planet’s resources has crossed the Earth’s natural boundaries, and that the world faces ruin without a revolution in hearts and minds. The much-anticipated message, which will be sent to the world’s 5,000 Catholic bishops, will be published online in five languages on Thursday and is expected to be the most radical statement yet from the outspoken pontiff.

However, it is certain to anger sections of Republican opinion in America by endorsing the warnings of climate scientists and admonishing rich elites, say cardinals and scientists who have advised the Vatican.

The Ghanaian cardinal, Peter Turkson, president of the Vatican’s Pontifical Council for Justice and Peace and a close ally of the pope, will launch the encyclical. He has said it will address the root causes of poverty and the threats facing nature, or “creation”.

In a recent speech widely regarded as a curtain-raiser to the encyclical, Turkson said: “Much of the world remains in poverty, despite abundant resources, while a privileged global elite controls the bulk of the world’s wealth and consumes the bulk of its resources.”

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