On the show, the second of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the social, political, and economic consequences of neoliberalism and globalization, exploring alienation, the rise of authoritarianism, the significance of China in the world economy, the geopolitics of capitalism, carbon dioxide emissions and climate change, and our collective response. In our previous show, we discussed central themes raised in ‘The Anti-Capitalist Chronicles’ by Professor David Harvey, who is distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. Library Journal calls Professor Harvey “one of the most influential geographers of the […]
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On the show, the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses with Professor David Harvey the reconfiguration of global capitalism, the contradictions of neoliberalism, the financialization of power, the commodification of spectacle, rate versus mass of surplus value, and other issues fundamental to economic theory. David Harvey, distinguished professor of anthropology at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York, is a leading theorist in the field of urban studies. Library Journal calls Professor Harvey “one of the most influential geographers of the later 20th century.” Professor Harvey earned his Ph.D. from Cambridge University and was formerly professor of […]
Chris Hedges discusses the work of political philosopher Sheldon Wolin with Professor Wendy Brown, University of California, Berkeley, a student of Wolin’s. Sheldon Wolin, who died in 2015, is our most important contemporary political theorist, one who laid out in grim detail the unraveling of American democracy. In his books ‘Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism’ and ‘Politics and Vision’, a massive survey of Western political thought that his former student Cornel West calls “magisterial,” Wolin lays bare the causes behind the decline of American empire and the rise of a new and terrifying configuration of corporate […]
On Contact: Global Economic Machine December 6, 2020 On Contact: Global Economic Machine2020-12-062020-12-06https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/12/oncontact.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Fabian Scheidler about how the global economic machine came to dominate our lives, and with looming social upheavals caused by predatory capitalism, what can be done to blunt its destructive power. Fabian Scheidler is author of The End of the Megamachine: A Brief History of a Failing Civilization, and co-founder of Kontext TV. www.end-of-the-megamachine.comwww.fabianscheidler.com YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
On Contact: Fascism – America’s DNA November 29, 2020 On Contact: Fascism – America’s DNA2020-11-292020-11-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/rockhill.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Gabriel Rockhill about the undercurrents of fascism in America’s DNA, and the US role in internationalizing fascism after World War II through clandestine activities such Operation Paperclip and Operation Gladio. Rockhill is a Franco-American philosopher and the founding Director of the Critical Theory Workshop and Professor of Philosophy at Villanova University. His books include Counter-History of the Present: Untimely Interrogations into Globalization, Technology, Democracy, Interventions in Contemporary Thought: History, Politics, Aesthetics, Radical History & the Politics of Art and Logique […]
On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis November 22, 2020 On Contact: Covid-19 And America’s Health Care Crisis2020-11-222020-11-22https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/mflowers.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Dr. Margaret Flowers about the Covid-19 pandemic and the catastrophic response to the public health crisis under America’s for-profit healthcare system. Without national coordination, or universal and free national health care, Americans are faced with uneven or absent care due to hospital closures, reductions in hospital beds and services. Lawmakers and hospital administrators compete to purchase basic supplies leading manufacturers to hike prices. The mercenary nature of the for-profit health care system also means many Americans are distrustful of […]
On Contact: American Fascists And The Christian Right November 15, 2020 On Contact: American Fascists And The Christian Right2020-11-152020-11-15https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/oncontact-1.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to the Rev. Dr. Mel White about the Christian Right, which Hedges describes as “a homegrown fascist movement.” It has been organizing to take political power for decades, he says. During the Trump administration, it seized senior positions in the legislative, executive, and judicial branches of government – a move violating US Constitutional powers of separation of Church and State. In his book ‘American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America’, Hedges states that there […]
On Contact: American Dissent November 8, 2020 On Contact: American Dissent2020-11-082020-11-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/paulstreet-e1604801538252.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Professor Paul Street about the outcome of the US presidential election, and how despite likely losing, Donald Trump has solidified an angry, disposed working class that cuts across racial lines and has embraced a right-wing populism. What does this portend for the two ruling parties? Will the Democrats continue to be captive to big donors and Wall Street, or will they embrace the anti-corporate message and promises Medicare for all, free higher education, higher corporate taxes and regulation of big […]
On Contact: The Disintegrating Media Landscape By Chris Hedges, RT. November 1, 2020 On Contact: The Disintegrating Media Landscape2020-11-012020-11-01https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/11/oncontact.png200px200px Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi examine how the press and the major tech platforms function as a propaganda and censorship bureau on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Biden campaign. On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist and author Matt Taibbi about the rapidly disintegrating media landscape and the consequences of that disintegration. Taibbi has been following developments since Twitter and Facebook blocked a New York Post story about a cache of emails reportedly belonging to Democratic nominee […]
On Contact: Radical Hamilton October 25, 2020 On Contact: Radical Hamilton2020-10-252020-10-25https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oncontact-1.png200px200px Alexander Hamilton, popularized by the musical, “Hamilton,” was the first treasury secretary of the United States. He has been called ‘the founding father of capitalism and imperialism,’ but Hamilton was far more complex than a simple advocate for a market-drive economy. Christian Parenti, in his new book, “Radical Hamilton; Economic Lessons From a Misunderstood Founder,” argues that his ideas for the US economy were distorted or ignored by the capitalist elites. Parenti goes back to Hamilton’s neglected masterpiece, “Report on the Manufacturers” and “The Federalist Papers” to rescue Hamilton’s […]
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On Contact: Resistance And Militancy October 18, 2020 On Contact: Resistance And Militancy2020-10-182020-10-18https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oncontct.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to former Baltimore Black Panther leader Eddie Conway about the nature of resistance, white supremacy and the rise of the a new black militancy. The book, The Brother You Choose, is a conversation between Eddie Conway and Paul Coates. Conway reflects on state repression and the hard road of resistance in a state that stops at nothing to crush resistance movements. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
Among thousands of contact tracers nationwide, Heather Griggs, a registered nurse and operations chief of the Umatilla County Public Health Department contact tracing center in Pendleton, Ore., updates a list of job assignments. Ben Lonergan/AP hide caption toggle caption Ben Lonergan/AP Among thousands of contact tracers nationwide, Heather Griggs, a registered nurse and operations chief of the Umatilla County Public Health Department contact tracing center in Pendleton, Ore., updates a list of job assignments. Ben Lonergan/AP The United States has more than 50,000 contact tracers for the first time since the coronavirus pandemic hit, according to a survey of states conducted […]
On Contact: Yugoslavia/USA Déjà Vu October 13, 2020 On Contact: Yugoslavia/USA Déjà Vu2020-10-132020-10-13https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/oncontact.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses what happened three decades ago in Yugoslavia when the country broke into brutal warring factions, and the parallels in the US today, with Croatian author and journalist, Slavenka Drakulić. Drakulić’s book ‘They Would Never Hurt a Fly’ is about the war criminals from the former Yugoslavia who were put on trial in the Hague. She explores not only the motivations of these killers and their sense of themselves, but also how such crimes were allowed to be perpetrated in her country. […]
On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing October 4, 2020 On Contact: Assange Extradition Hearing2020-10-042020-10-04https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/10/craigmurray-e1601825376724.jpg200px200px Chris Hedges discusses with former British ambassador Craig Murray the hearing that just adjourned in London to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States. Murray’s exhaustive reporting, which can be found at craigmurray.org.uk, has become one of the few sources of reliable information about the hearing, which has become notoriously difficult to cover due to court restrictions imposed on the press, and is being ignored by most mainstream news organizations. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking Wednesday at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. Alex Brandon/AP hide caption toggle caption Alex Brandon/AP President Donald Trump throws hats to supporters after speaking Wednesday at a campaign rally at Duluth International Airport in Minnesota. Alex Brandon/AP Updated at 7 p.m. ET Public health officials in the cities and states that President Trump visited in recent days are working to contact those who were in close proximity to him, first lady Melania Trump and others who traveled with him. Since he has tested positive for the coronavirus, health […]
On Contact: Origin Of White Supremacy September 27, 2020 On Contact: Origin Of White Supremacy2020-09-272020-09-27https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/ghorne-e1601223824338.jpg200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the origin of white supremacy and how it plays out in contemporary society with historian Gerald Horne. Horne is the John J. and Rebecca Moores Chair of History and African American Studies at the University of Houston, Texas. Horne’s new book is ‘The Dawning of the Apocalypse: The Roots of Slavery, White Supremacy, Settler Colonialism, and Capitalism in the Long Sixteenth Century’. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
On Contact: New Black Militancy September 20, 2020 On Contact: New Black Militancy2020-09-202020-09-20https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/oncontact-e1600623224744.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the rise of the new black militancy with film director and producer Mobolaji Olambiwonnu. “The police murders of young black men and women in the United States, an average of three a day, along with a constant judicial and police harassment of those living in what Malcolm X called our own internal colonies have given rise to a new black militancy. Nowhere was this more evident than in Ferguson, Missouri following the murder of the teenager Michael Brown on […]
The German government said in early September that doctors at the hospital where Russian opposition figure Alexei Navalny is being treated had found traces of a nerve agent from the Novichok group in his system. Moscow responded by pointing to the lack of evidence in Berlin’s claims and noting that Russian doctors had found no toxic substances. The Russian Foreign Ministry has called German Foreign Minister Heiko Maas’ statement that Moscow should contact the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) about the situation with politician Alexei Navalny “evasion”. Earlier today, Steffen Seibert, the German government’s spokesman, stated that Germany […]
On Contact: Chevron Vs Donziger September 7, 2020 On Contact: Chevron Vs Donziger2020-09-072020-09-07https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/09/on-contact-e1599512113134.jpg200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Steven Donziger about the reach of corporate power. Donziger battled corporate oil giant Chevron over environmental pollution and destruction in Ecuador and won a settlement of $9.5 billion for indigenous communities. Since then, Chevron has waged a campaign against Donziger to try and destroy him economically, professionally and personally. He is on trial in federal court in New York on September 9 for contempt charges, which could send him to jail for six months. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow […]
https://cdn1.img.sputniknews.com/img/104879/05/1048790548_14:0:2766:1548_1200x675_80_0_0_f5db81a92d3a523f81a0f42816bfb795.jpg Sputnik International https://cdn2.img.sputniknews.com/i/logo.png Rishikesh Kumar. Sputnik International https://sputniknews.com/military/202009011080339005-india-russia-deploy-warships-for-no-contact-drills-near-strategic-malacca-strait-in-indian-ocean/ India and Russia have lined up a series of bilateral engagements over the next 10 days, including the visit of Indian defence minister Rajnath Singh to Moscow later this week. The talks will also touch on the issue of the early delivery of the S-400, quick reaction missile system; officials in New Delhi told Sputnik. India has deployed destroyers, frigates and corvettes to carry out a naval exercise near the strategically-located Strait of Malacca later this week. A government official in New Delhi told Sputnik that the INDRA NAVY–2020 exercise will take […]
On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism August 30, 2020 On Contact: Public Monuments And Racism2020-08-302020-08-30https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/oncontact-e1598805555902.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges, in his second interview with Professor James W Loewen, discusses public monuments and statues, who puts them up and why, and what may replace them. Prof Loewen is the author of ‘Lies Across America: What Our Historical Markers and Monuments Get Wrong’. “The uprisings sweeping the nation triggered by the police murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor and others have not only confronted systematic police abuse, but targeted statues, monuments and buildings commemorating white supremacy. The headquarters of […]
On Contact: Teaching History For Indoctrination August 23, 2020 On Contact: Teaching History For Indoctrination2020-08-232020-08-23https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/chris-e1598205083919.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the teaching of history as a form of indoctrination with Professor James W. Loewen. Loewen’s book is: Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong. His new book, a memoir, is: Up a Creek, with a Paddle: Tales of Canoeing and Life. “The teaching of history in our schools is not an impartial or neutral discipline. It is at its core about justifying the power of the ruling elites in the present by defining the […]
The aliens aren’t coming—they may already be here! Or, at least, that’s what recent news suggests the U.S. government suspects. Just this past week, the Pentagon announced it was creating a new task force to look into the existence of UFOs that may have been witnessed flying around and over U.S. military bases. That development was spurred by a New York Times report that, despite previous statements to the contrary, the Pentagon has been carrying out a covert program—dubbed the Unidentified Aerial Phenomenon Task Force, which was tucked inside the Office of Naval Intelligence—to investigate American pilots’ encounters with mysterious aerial […]
Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Karl Tapales/Getty Images Beware scammers. Legitimate contact tracers will never ask you for any sort of payment or seek other financial information or your Social Security number. Karl Tapales/Getty Images State officials and federal agencies warn there’s a new phone scam circulating: Some callers posing as COVID-19 contact tracers are trying to pry credit card or bank account information from unsuspecting victims. The grifters apparently are taking advantage of a […]
On Contact: Truth Of War With Danny Sjursen August 16, 2020 On Contact: Truth Of War With Danny Sjursen2020-08-162020-08-16https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/oncintact-e1597620982211.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses ‘Ghost Riders of Baghdad: Soldiers, Civilians, and the Myth of the Surge’ with Danny Sjursen, a combat veteran and West Point graduate. “We talk a lot about moral courage at West Point. It’s a term they throw around but they’ve largely hijacked it. It is much harder in a lot of ways to speak against the tide and obviously you’ve done that for your entire career. There are real costs – emotional, professional – and […]
Charo Woodcock cleans a classroom at McClelland Elementary School in June in Indianapolis. Students across Indiana are already back in school in a mix of in-person and online instruction. Darron Cummings/AP hide caption toggle caption Darron Cummings/AP Charo Woodcock cleans a classroom at McClelland Elementary School in June in Indianapolis. Students across Indiana are already back in school in a mix of in-person and online instruction. Darron Cummings/AP In Indiana, school has started up for many students — or will in the next week. It’s one of a majority of states where local districts will make most of the decisions about […]
General Dynamics Land Systems, one of the world’s largest defense contractors, was awarded the contract to support the family of Stryker vehicles. The U.S. Department of Defense has awarded General Dynamics $428 million in contracts related to the Stryker vehicles, including the field level maintenance, field service representative support, contingency maintenance support, new equipment training and total package fielding. Work locations and funding will be determined with each order, with an estimated completion date of July 31, 2025, according to a DoD press release. – ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW – The Stryker Family of Vehicles is built on a common […]
On Contact: Nonviolent Rebellion August 2, 2020 On Contact: Nonviolent Rebellion2020-08-022020-08-02https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/08/oncomtact.png200px200px NOTE: For a critique of the influence of XR on the climate justice movement in the United States, listen to our Clearing the FOG interview with Cherri Foytlin and Bea Ruiz. Chris Hedges discusses resistance with Roger Hallam, co-founder of Extinction Rebellion and author of ‘Common Sense for the 21st Century: Only Nonviolent Rebellion Can Now Stop Climate Breakdown and Social Collapse’. In April 2018, Roger Hallam met with a group of 15 activists, environmentalists, and scientists in a café in Bristol. Along with Gail Bradbrook and Simon Bramwell, he and […]
In May we reported on our concerns with contact tracing and our loss of freedom as a result of this practice. We reported that contact tracers will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever. We reported that Democrat states were promoting the idea of “contact tracing” and when you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news that Chicago was hiring 600 […]
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) tested positive for the COVID-19 China coronavirus Wednesday, prompting the Justice Department to announce Attorney General William Barr will get tested after being in contact with Gohmert at Tuesday’s House Judiciary Committee hearing. Gohmert was tested at the White House for screening to fly with President Trump to Texas. Gohmert did not take the trip. Gohmert was seen walking with Barr outside the hearing Tuesday, with reporters observing the two talking without wearing masks. “Kerri Kupec, a DOJ spokeswoman, says AG Barr will be tested for covid-19 today. He and Louie Gohmert were in close proximity because […]
People wait in line outside of a COVID-19 testing site in Florida. The state has seen unprecedented surges in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. Lynne Sladky/AP hide caption toggle caption Lynne Sladky/AP People wait in line outside of a COVID-19 testing site in Florida. The state has seen unprecedented surges in coronavirus cases in recent weeks. Lynne Sladky/AP When the coronavirus pandemic began, public health experts had high hopes for the United States. After all, the U.S. literally invented the tactics that have been used for decades to quash outbreaks around the world: Quickly identify everyone who gets infected. Track down […]
On Contact: Paying The Land July 26, 2020 On Contact: Paying The Land2020-07-262020-07-26https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f1d3f0c2030271b392f1fde-e1595781451310.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to comics journalist Joe Sacco about his new book, ‘Paying the Land’. In the book Sacco travels to the frozen Canadian Northwest Territories to reveal the Dene people in conflict over the costs and benefits of the resource extraction industry and development. The Dene have lived in the vast Mackenzie River Valley since time immemorial, by their account. To the Dene, the land owns them, not the other way around, and it is central to their livelihood and very way of […]
The Queen’s second son, said to be her favourite, has been accused by Virginia Giuffre, one of Epstein’s alleged victims, of having sex with her when she was 17. The Duke vehemently denied the allegations and said he has no recollection of ever meeting Giuffre, despite the existence of a photo that shows the royal hugging the girl. Jeffrey Epstein’s list of contacts purportedly features another member of Britain’s Royal Family, Viscount Linley, who is Queen Elizabeth’s nephew, The Daily Mirror reported, citing a lawyer representing several of the billionaire’s alleged victims. According to the newspaper, Spencer Kuvin has urged the […]
On Contact: Police Reform July 19, 2020 On Contact: Police Reform2020-07-192020-07-19https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/defund-the-police-from-black-agenda-report-e1594659816854.jpeg200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to writer, academic and activist Philip McHarris about the latest calls for police reform in the US. McHarris says the entire system of policing has to be unearthed. He argues there is no way to tweak or reform our way out of mass incarceration or the current policing apparatus and the culture of surveillance. The broader culture of punishment and control is actively harming certain people while also failing to provide public safety. Along the way to remaking the entire system, […]
By the time you finish reading this article, another American will be dead from COVID-19. And three minutes later, another, and then another. Faced with a tidal wave of death unparalleled in modern history, we are rushing to put in place the public health solutions to track, trace, and treat this virus. But as we have already seen, rushed solutions carry a higher price than expected. As states look to expand the most crucial part of this public health effort, contact tracing, the stakes couldn’t be higher, and unless we change course, America will hurtle to a public health disaster. That […]
Contact tracing for the coronavirus is the subject of colorful conspiracy theories. In fact, contact tracing is a straightforward process of notifying people if they’ve been exposed to someone who is sick. Hannah Norman/KHN hide caption toggle caption Hannah Norman/KHN Contact tracing for the coronavirus is the subject of colorful conspiracy theories. In fact, contact tracing is a straightforward process of notifying people if they’ve been exposed to someone who is sick. Hannah Norman/KHN In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, contact tracing is downright buzzy, and not always in a good way. Contact tracing is the public health practice of […]
On Contact: Collateral Murder Video July 12, 2020 On Contact: Collateral Murder Video2020-07-122020-07-12https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f0aba8e85f5403b156717ef.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to journalist, Dean Yates, who, 13 years ago, was the head of Reuters’ Baghdad bureau. On July 12, 2007, Yates learned two of his employees, Saeed Chmagh and Namir Noor-Eldeen, had been fired on and killed by the US Army. Their deaths, and those of others, were the focus of the now-infamous video Collateral Murder, leaked by Chelsea Manning and released by Wikileaks. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
On Contact: Patriotism And Dissent With Danny Sjursen July 5, 2020 On Contact: Patriotism And Dissent With Danny Sjursen2020-07-052020-07-05https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/07/5f0182a120302775336087aa.png200px200px Chris Hedges discusses the nature of patriotism with West Point graduate and US Army combat veteran, Danny Sjursen. Former Army Major Danny Sjursen, a frequent contributor to Popular Resistance, urges people to consider themselves citizens of humanity and not of a nation. Sjursen is the author of “Sjursen discusses three types of patriotism. Principled participatory patriotism takes the same sense of duty to urge the United States to become a better place that lives up to its values. Even the small […]
Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing June 29, 2020 Chris Hedges On Contact: Julian Assange Extradition Hearing2020-06-292020-06-29https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/marjarie-cohn-on-rt-on-contact-e1593395530951.png200px200px Above photo: Screenshot of Marjorie Cohn on RTs On Contact On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses the extradition hearing of Julian Assange with lawyer, author and professor, Marjorie Cohn. Marjorie Cohn is professor emerita at the Thomas Jefferson School of Law, where she taught from 1991 to 2016, and a former president of the National Lawyers Guild. Professor Cohn is the editor of and a contributor to ‘The United States and Torture: Interrogation, Incarceration and Abuse’, and ‘Drones and Targeted Killings: Legal, […]
“We spent 12 million on this. Other countries are ahead of us. When are we going to have a working app?” opposition party Leader Keir Starmer said during a Prime Minister’s Questions in the House of Commons. Labour’s Keir Starmer addressed the UK PM Boris Johnson during a parliamentary session on the government’s progress in rolling out a Covid-19 contact trace app. “Unless someone with Covid-19 can name and identify everybody they’ve been in contact with, the app is the only way of tracing all known contacts,” opposition leader Keir Starmer said. He referred to another MP’s question of how would one […]
On Contact: Planet Of The Humans June 21, 2020 On Contact: Planet Of The Humans2020-06-212020-06-21https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/maxresdefault-3-e1592763372527.jpg200px200px In this week’s episode of On Contact, Chris Hedges discusses the criticism and censorship of Michael Moore’s film Planet of the Humans with the director, Jeff Gibbs. “Perhaps it’s a form of denial to actually instead of understanding the – this civilization, the industrial civilization, the human species – we’re hitting limits and we’re gonna crash. We’re instead hoping that this fantasy will save us. And as I discovered, and I’m not saying that all environmental leaders are on the take, but one of the things […]
A nationwide coronavirus tracking app is set to launch in Canada, but while the government says its software is fully anonymous, skeptics have raised major privacy concerns, pointing to similarly intrusive programs overseas. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said the new software would soon be unveiled in a press briefing on Thursday, previewing a contact tracing project spearheaded by the Canadian Digital Service, a federal agency, and e-commerce giant Shopify. “It will be up to individual Canadians to decide whether to download the app or not, but the app will be most effective when as many people as possible have it,” […]
Health investigator Mackenzie Bray of the Salt Lake County Health Department in Salt Lake City, Utah, works to contact people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus so they can get tested and quarantine themselves. Thousands of health workers around the country are doing this work to help keep outbreaks from flaring up. Rick Bowmer/AP hide caption toggle caption Rick Bowmer/AP Health investigator Mackenzie Bray of the Salt Lake County Health Department in Salt Lake City, Utah, works to contact people who may have been exposed to the coronavirus so they can get tested and quarantine themselves. Thousands of health […]
Researchers in Australia have identified a bug that caused that country’s contact tracing app to malfunction, it was announced Monday. Governments around the world have introduced contact tracing apps to track the spread of the coronavirus. But, as in Australia, so far it’s unclear how much of a benefit these systems are having. Critics complain about risks to privacy and centralization of sensitive data, and note that intrusive technologies rarely work as expected. COVIDSafe, Australia’s contact tracing app, was rolled out in April. But its latest version has not been working properly due to a bug, Richard Nelson, a software engineer, […]
The army of contact tracers hired by New York City to conduct the ‘test and trace’ campaign to weed out coronavirus infection vectors will reportedly not be allowed to ask people if they attended Black Lives Matter protests. Mayor Bill de Blasio announced on May 8 that NYC would be hiring hundreds of Covid-19 contact tracers to help bring the coronavirus, which wreaked havoc on the densely-populated city’s population, to heel. The city has witnessed 210,000 cases resulting in at least 17,193 deaths from the infection. However, before May came to an end, George Floyd was killed by Minneapolis police, sparking […]
On Contact: Analysis Of George Floyd Protests June 14, 2020 On Contact: Analysis Of George Floyd Protests2020-06-142020-06-14https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/glen-e1592137081255.png200px200px On the show today, Chris Hedges discusses the George Floyd protests erupting in over 140 American cities with Glen Ford, executive editor of Black Agenda Report. “And the black misleadership class seems to be more upset and angry about this than the white misleadership class. Sometimes it’s funny. Activists have coined the term ‘coopaganda,’ to describe these funny gestures by cops and other authority figures to be kneeling. A gesture of submission to the demands but of course it’s a diversion, a distraction […]
Debbie Sorensen, an infectious disease nurse with Salt Lake County Public Health Department in Salt Lake City, talks by phone with a woman who recently tested positive for the coronavirus. Sorensen is one of the county’s 130 contact tracers aiming to slow the spread of COVID-19. Andrew Becker/ KUER hide caption toggle caption Andrew Becker/ KUER Debbie Sorensen, an infectious disease nurse with Salt Lake County Public Health Department in Salt Lake City, talks by phone with a woman who recently tested positive for the coronavirus. Sorensen is one of the county’s 130 contact tracers aiming to slow the spread of […]
A banner showing a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, was displayed to denounce policies of Moon on North Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Ahn Young-joon/AP hide caption toggle caption Ahn Young-joon/AP A banner showing a photo of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and South Korean President Moon Jae-in, left, was displayed to denounce policies of Moon on North Korea in Seoul, South Korea. Ahn Young-joon/AP North Korea said on Tuesday that it plans to cut off all communications with South Korea and would treat South Korea as an “enemy,” according […]
The company hired in Texas and New York to perform contact tracing activities is led by an individual who has reportedly falsified his educational background. This is not the person you want to be telling you that you have to go on a 14 day quarantine because he claims you ran into someone with an infectious disease. A company by the name of MTX Group was recently hired in New York and Texas to perform contact tracing activities for these states. MTX will ensure everyone who comes in contact with individuals these states don’t want you to come in contact […]
On Contact: Trump And The ‘Permanent Lie’ June 8, 2020 On Contact: Trump And The ‘Permanent Lie’2020-06-082020-06-08https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/06/5edc885220302715c129255e-e1591637163250.png200px200px Chris Hedges talks to Mark Green, former New York City Consumer Affairs Commissioner and Public Advocate, about the “permanent lie” used by US President Donald Trump to cancel out reality. Mark Green is co-author, with Ralph Nader, of “Fake President: Decoding Trump’s gaslighting, corruption, and general bullsh*t.” YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
At a press conference Sunday Minnesota Department of Public Safety commissioner John Harrington compared the methods police were using to identify protestors to those used to track COVID-19 cases. We’ve “begun analyzing the data of who we have arrested, and begun, actually, doing what you would think as almost pretty similar to our COVID. It’s contact tracing. Who are they associated with? What platforms are they advocating for?” he said. The Department of Public Safety works in partnership with local state and federal law enforcement and emergency response agencies. Public health and privacy experts reacted with alarm, saying that conflating law enforcement and contact […]
On Contact: COVID-19 And Critic Of Globalization May 31, 2020 On Contact: COVID-19 And Critic Of Globalization2020-05-312020-05-31https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/on-contact-covid-19-e1590954472123.jpg200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to John Ralston Saul, author and president emeritus of Pen International, about how the Covid-19 pandemic has exposed the weakness of American society, and accelerated the decline of the American Empire. Among Saul’s many books are: The Collapse of Globalism and the Reinvention of the World, and Voltaire’s Bastards: The Dictatorship of Reason in the West. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
Vipin Bharathan is chair of the Hyperledger Identity Working Group where he researches solutions for privacy in public settings. As the nCovid-19 virus has spread unchecked in the U.S., complete shutdowns are the adopted solution. Contact tracing and isolation along with the necessary corollary, testing, are needed for opening the economy safely and to prevent a second wave and another shutdown and consequent deepening of economic distress. In classic public health practice, human contact tracers interview the newly infected, attempting to jog their memory and find all the epidemiologically significant encounters that might have passed on infections. The tracers contact exposed […]
They will track you and tell you what you can and cannot do. You will be a puppet of the state. You must do what they say for the greater good. Freedom will be lost forever. Democrat states are promoting the idea of “contact tracing”. When you realize what it is, you will think you are living in Orwell’s 1984. If Hillary was in office we would already be there. Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot cheered the news on Wednesday that Chicago is hiring 600 tracers to track its citizens over coronavirus. A video was released that explains what this madness is. […]
Europe 21:54 GMT 26.05.2020Get short URL BERLIN (Sputnik) – The German authorities have extended restrictions on social contacts for citizens in connection with the novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) outbreak until 29 June, the German cabinet said in a statement. “The federal government and the states today agreed on a joint decision on how to act on restrictions on contacts associated with the coronavirus. An important part of the decision of the head of the federal chanellor’s department and the heads of the senates and state chancelleries is that contact restrictions will remain until 29 June”, the cabinet said. Citizens are encouraged […]
Donald Trump’s allies in conservative media have a new villain in the coronavirus fight: contact tracing, the rigorous efforts to track the virus’s spread that public health experts say is essential to safely restarting society. Fox News host Laura Ingraham devoted much of her show Thursday night to raising questions about contact tracing, the process where interviewers try to figure out who has been exposed to the virus by literally figuring out whom the infected had contact with. As a Fox News chyron warned that contact tracing should “concern all Americans,” Ingraham claimed that calls for more contact tracers were just […]
Get friendly with community leaders; be prepared to be judged by others. Disease detectives from California and Liberia share their best insights. (Image credit: Jana De Brauwere; Rachel Saykpah) Source link
On Contact: Ecosocialism May 24, 2020 On Contact: Ecosocialism2020-05-242020-05-24https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/wallis-e1590342095495.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to writer, teacher and activist Victor Wallis about the prospect and need for ecosocialism. Wallis’ book is entitled ‘Red-Green Revolution: The Politics and Technology of Ecosocialism’. Today we discuss socialism, capitalism, and ecocide with Victor Wallis. “The problem is it’s not enough to run all of our private cars with solar cells. The whole problem of how much is used up in the way of materials, how much space is taken up and also the fact that if you don’t change the social configuration […]
Citizen, the mobile application that alerts its more than two million users to crime and disaster around them, has launched a contact tracing functionality, called SafeTrace, in the fight against the coronavirus. Now it’s just a matter of the New York City-based startup finding a customer for the product, which has raised privacy red flags among civil liberty lawyers and technologists. A review of internal Citizen documents and the privacy policy related to the contact tracing function gave privacy advocates plenty of causes for concern. These included how data collected through contact tracing would be used and shared via both GPS […]
On Contact: Paris Uprising, May 1968 May 17, 2020 On Contact: Paris Uprising, May 19682020-05-172020-05-17https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/5ec0eae6203027530a57fcc0.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to author and translator, Mitch Abidor, about the lessons from the student uprising in Paris in May 1968. “What happens in May is as a mass cultural, as a class event, its results are ambiguous but its results for the individual are enormous. There was a great and really funny example in the book when I asked everybody, “How did it change your life?” And so people told me about how “I discovered my voice. The first […]
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee announced a controversial rule earlier this week that would wipe out restaurants in his state. The governor said he will require restaurants to keep a log, including contact information, on every customer who dines at their establishment. Advertisement – story continues below Inslee also wants all restaurants to open at half capacity. This crazed tyrant wanted to be president. TRENDING: BREAKING: Video Surfaces of Joe Scarborough Joking About Having Affair With Intern and Having to Kill Her This was another example of pure liberal insanity. Here’s the update—On Friday the governor of Washington walked back his […]
Health care workers place a nasal swab from a patient into a tube for testing at the Brightpoint Health and UJA-Federation of New York pop-up coronavirus testing site on Friday in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images Health care workers place a nasal swab from a patient into a tube for testing at the Brightpoint Health and UJA-Federation of New York pop-up coronavirus testing site on Friday in New York City. Angela Weiss/AFP via Getty Images States around the country are gradually reopening their economies, even as most of them […]
US 22:59 GMT 10.05.2020(updated 23:36 GMT 10.05.2020) Get short URL Earlier, the decision to self-quarantine was made by the promintent members of the White House Coronavirus Task Force such as Dr. Anthony Fauci, Dr. Stephen Hahn and Dr. Robert Redfield, as they came in contact with staffers who tested positive for COVID-19. The chief of the US Navy Admiral Mike Gilday decided to self-quarantine after coming in contact with his family member who tested positive for the novel coronavirus, Reuters reported, citing unnamed US officials. Although he tested negative, his self-isolation will last for a week as a precaution. It is […]
On Contact: High Rates Of Suicide Among Combat Veterans May 10, 2020 On Contact: High Rates Of Suicide Among Combat Veterans2020-05-102020-05-10https://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2017/12/popres-shorter.pngPopularResistance.Orghttps://popularresistance-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/2020/05/oncontact-e1589135923416.png200px200px On the show this week, Chris Hedges talks to Matthew Hoh, former US Marines company commander, about the high rates of veteran suicides. Hoh served two tours in Iraq as a Marine and also worked as an official within the State Department. He resigned his position as a State Department political officer in Afghanistan in 2009 in protest at the Obama administration’s escalation of the war. YouTube channel: On Contact Follow us on Facebook: Facebook.com/OnContactRT Podcast: https://soundcloud.com/rttv/sets/on-contact Source link
NPR YouTube You may have never heard the phrase “contact tracing” before. Now it’s a part of the daily conversation about the coronavirus pandemic. Dr. Robert Redfield, the head of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, has said contact tracing is key to halting the spread of the disease. It’s not a new idea. In fact, contact tracing is used all over the world. It’s based on the knowledge that someone with a contagious disease will infect a certain number of people. With coronavirus, it’s likely two or three. So the goal is to track down anyone in recent […]
US 01:45 GMT 10.05.2020(updated 02:34 GMT 10.05.2020) Get short URL Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease since 1984, is one of the leading members of the White House Task Force, and is known to contradict US President Donald Trump when advising on health issues to the US public amid the pandemic. Dr. Anthony Fauci is set to start a “modified quarantine” after having a “low risk” contact with the White House staffer who tested positive for COVID-19, CNN reported Saturday. Fauci explained to CNN that the “modified quarantine” means that he will stay at home and […]
Anthony Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and member of the White House coronavirus task force, will be entering “modified quarantine” after contact with someone who has tested positive for the coronavirus. According to reports, Fauci will be staying at home and teleworking while wearing a mask for 14 days, but might also be going to his office at the National Institutes of Health “where he is the only one there.” A public health official told CNN that Fauci made “low risk” contact with a coronavirus case, as he was in the same room with […]
Malachi Stewart, with the Washington, D.C., health department, works full time as a contact tracer for the COVID-19 response. Washington plans to increase its contact tracing workforce in the near future. Ryan Kellman/NPR hide caption toggle caption Ryan Kellman/NPR Malachi Stewart, with the Washington, D.C., health department, works full time as a contact tracer for the COVID-19 response. Washington plans to increase its contact tracing workforce in the near future. Ryan Kellman/NPR Note: This story was originally published on April 28. We’ve updated it throughout to reflect updates and new data from several states. In late April, NPR surveyed all 50 […]
One of US President Donald Trump’s personal valets has tested positive for coronavirus, kicking off an orgy of media speculation even as the White House struggled to clamp down on rumors about the president’s exposure. The Trump valet, who serves in the US Navy, tested positive for the coronavirus on Wednesday after showing symptoms that morning, according to CNN, which reported the news on Thursday. The White House has confirmed the report, adding that both Trump and Vice President Mike Pence subsequently tested negative for the virus “and they remain in great health.” CNN claimed the president was “upset” to learn […]
As states rush to get back to work and President Donald Trump orders the nation’s coronavirus task force to switch its focus to reopening the economy, health experts are pressing more than ever the need for contact tracing. It’s a tool that proved effective in past epidemics like SARS and Ebola, and it’s regarded as essential to safely reopening the country with the looming threat of higher surges in cases. But it’s also complex and time-consuming. Before the coronavirus pandemic, there were only about 2,200 contact tracers, or disease detectives, in the U.S., according to the Association of State and Territorial […]