Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home
“I feel a mixture of excitement and trepidation,” he said. “It feels so strange right now to be walking outside without handcuffs and shackles.”
Andrew J. Bacevich, The All-American Way: MLK’s Giant Triplets
"What I am suggesting is that those calling for fundamental change will go badly astray if they ignore Dr. King’s insistence that each of the giant triplets [racism, extreme materialism, militarism] is intimately tied to the other two."
Chris Hedges: Seeing Through Faux-Solidarity Performance Stunts Of Police Politicians & Corporations
https://youtu.be/WVyPNeFvkDA Julianna welcomes back Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Chris Hedges, to discuss how as lawmakers and activists are working together to make real changes in policing that are worth celebrating, it is important to name the statements that are opportunistic and performative, like police officers taking a knee with protesters before proceeding More
Henry Giroux: The system has to be stopped: On state terror and collective rebellion.
"The fires burning in our cities are unfortunate, but the real fires go unnoticed. These are the fires burning the spirits of those who suffer daily traumas, fears, police violence, and policy driven hardships are what need to be noticed, addressed, and rouse mass anger. No one talks about the roots of these problems..."
The Protests Made a Huge Difference: All Four Minneapolis Cops Charged in Killing of George Floyd
Includes Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announcing the changing of charges against Derek Chauvin to 2nd Degree Murder and the charging of the other three officers; we also hear from Tamika Mallory in New York and Nekima Levy Armstrong in Minnesota with information about Breonna Taylor of others in Louisville, Kentucky.
The Murder of George Floyd
The question they are asking is, When will it end?
Democracy Now! COVID-19 Kills Blacks Disproportionately and Black Sacrifice Zones
“Exposing U.S. Racism in a Stark New Way”: COVID-19 Kills Disproportionate Number of Black America; COVID-19 Sacrifice Zones: Coronavirus Devastates Black Communities Historically Denied Healthcare
Understanding US-China Conflict, with Sarah Flounders
Sarah Flounders of the International Action Center discusses and compares China and the US, talks about COVID-19 in the two countries, and discusses US sanctions worldwide.
Chris Hedges: The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
"This project is about the ongoing seizure of Palestinian land by the colonizers. It is about the rendering of the Palestinians as non-people, writing them out of the historical narrative as if they never existed and denying them basic human rights."
America: Land of Make-Believe, by Chris Hedges
"The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia."
Dorothee Benz: ‘We Need to Do Everything We Can on All Fronts’
"Three years in, [the Democrats] still haven't understood that it's not business as usual. Right? They’ve had to be pushed every step of the way to show any real resistance to the extent that they have."
The Indigenous Worldview Is Our Only Hope for Survival, by Four Arrows
Just as the invasion of Indigenous North America and the resultant slaughter of "Indigenous peoples may have changed Earth’s climate into a little ice age by 1600, today’s land theft, illegal mining and attacks on Indigenous sovereignty is a significant cause of global warming."