We don’t need the CIA – The Chris Hedges Report

The Real News Network Premiered Aug 12, 2022 The Chris Hedges Report

Chris Hedges and John Kiriakou discuss the CIA, how it has evolved, how it sees its mission, what it does, how it works, and the effects of its clandestine operations around the globe. John Kiriakou worked for the CIA from 1990 to 2004, first as an analyst, and later as a counterterrorism operations officer overseas in Bahrain, Athens, and Pakistan, where he was the CIA’s Chief of Counterterrorist Operations.He became the sixth whistleblower indicted under the Espionage Act by the Obama administration and was sent to prison for two and a half years. Studio: Adam Coley, Cameron Granadino Post-Production: Adam Coley Watch The Chris Hedges Report live YouTube premiere on The Real News Network every Friday at 12PM ET: / therealnews

Listen to episode podcasts and find bonus content at The Chris Hedges Report Substack: https://chrishedges.substack.com/

The Impact of Thomas Hodgkin, of Balliol College, Oxford [Excerpt from the Ticknor Society “The Collector’s Corner – Book Collecting at the End of Empire”]

View further details:

• [From the Ticknor Society] “The Collector’s Corner” – Book Collecting at the End of Empire

* * *

The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It | Robert Reich

Robert Reich – May 24, 2020

Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich presents the reader’s digest of his latest book, The System: Who Rigged It, How We Fix It. He explores the system of power in America that bails out corporations instead of people, even in times of crisis, and breaks down how we have socialism for corporations and the rich, and harsh capitalism for everybody else.

As power has concentrated in the hands of corporations and the wealthy few, those few have grabbed nearly all the economic gains — and political power — for themselves.

Meanwhile, workers have been shafted.

This isn’t a democracy, where all power is shared. It’s an oligarchy, where those at the top have the power to grab everything for themselves.

But history shows that oligarchies cannot hold on to power forever. They are inherently unstable. When a vast majority of people come to view an oligarchy as illegitimate and an obstacle to their wellbeing — which is happening before our very eyes as this crisis exacerbates — oligarchies become vulnerable.

Matthew Desmond on ‘Poverty, by America

Washington Post Live – Mar 30, 2023

Matthew Desmond, a Princeton sociologist, is the author of a new book that explores why poverty remains at a higher level in the United States than many of its peer countries. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer joins Washington Post deputy business editor Damian Paletta to discuss “Poverty, by America” and why such hardship persists in the richest country in the world.

Washington Post Live is the newsroom’s live journalism platform, featuring interviews with top-level government officials, business leaders, cultural influencers and emerging voices on the most pressing issues driving the news cycle nationally and across the globe. From one-on-one, newsmaker interviews to in-depth multi-segment programs, Washington Post Live brings The Post’s newsroom to life on stage. Subscribe to The Washington Post on YouTube: https://wapo.st/2QOdcqK

Barbados PM Mia Mottley Gives The Perfect Response To Reporter Pressing Her About Climate Change

African Diaspora News Channel – May 6, 2023

Phillip Scott reports on Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley responding to a reporter pressing her about her nation not participating in climate change efforts.

Gamal Abdel Nasser: Egypt’s Revolutionary Despised by the West

African Biographics – May 7, 2023

Best known for his charisma and pan-Arab populism, Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser, enraptured listeners with his radio broadcasts and inspired enormous pride inside the North African country and well beyond its borders. At the height of his power, during the 1960s, Nasser was known in the West mostly as a regional troublemaker, a gangster of sorts and a dangerous dictator.

Gamal Abdel Nasser: Egypt’s Revolutionary Despised by the West – YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3fNdRHUCZA

Noam Chomsky on Legacy of Radical Historian Staughton Lynd, Who Protested Korea, Vietnam & Iraq Wars

Democracy Now! Nov 23, 2022 #DemocracyNow
Noam Chomsky remembers the life and legacy of longtime peace and civil rights activist, lawyer and author Staughton Lynd, who has died at the age of 92. Lynd faced professional blowback after he was a conscientious objector during the Korean War and an outspoken critic of the Vietnam War, and later supported U.S. soldiers who refused to fight in Iraq. We feature an extended interview excerpt from when he appeared on Democracy Now! in 2006 to discuss the U.S. invasion and occupation of Iraq, his conscientious objector status and the 1993 Ohio prison uprising in Lucasville.

View also in an alternate playlist: