Steve Paikin, host of the TVOntario (TVO) program The Agenda with Steve Paikin, speaks with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, a vociferous public critic of presidents on both sides of the American political spectrum, and author of the new book, America, the Farewell Tour. Hedges delivers the biting assessment of the state of American democracy that our neighbors to the North are not [...]

Nicaragua’s accusation before the International Court of Justice is that Germany is actively participating in the genocide committed by the Israeli armed forces in the Gaza Strip. And I as a German learned in school that I have to resist when genocide is happening in front of my eyes. I can hardly recognize my homeland Germany. Now people are talking about “fitness for war” again. We’re s [...]

'The Big Short' exposes and attempts to deconstruct the subprime mortgage collapse and disaster of 2008. Wait until Hollywood hears about derivatives! 'The Big Short' opens nationwide on December 23 and as Variety notes, it details the “sprawling account of the byzantine financial instruments that brought global commerce to its knees.” [...]

Russia may walk out of a joint project with NASA to build a lunar station as it doesn’t want to “play second fiddle” in the effort. Instead, Moscow mulls joining forces with BRICS countries, a Roscosmos head has confirmed. [...]

Ami on the Street: Do we really need the 1st Amendment? Ami visits the Yale University campus with a petition to repeal the 1st Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. Surely they will laugh him off of campus...right? US political satirist and filmmaker Ami Horowitz approached the students at one of the most prestigious universities in the world asking its attendees to sign a petition in favor of [...]

The oil debate has been particularly intense lately given President Donald Trump’s threatening with sanctions against countries that would continue buying Iranian oil. The issue has met a barrage of criticism across the world. Kuwait has for the first time in 25 years halted its crude oil exports to the US, according to statistics published by the US Department of Energy. [...]

Economist Jim Rickards says we are entering phase two of hundreds of banks collapsing across The United States. MAJOR G7 DECISION Signals the Collapse of Western Led Global Financial System 'Why Are We So Terrified To Tell The Truth?': Schweikert Warns Of 'Death Spiral' Facing The U.S. [...]

Democracy, as a noble principle of self-governance, is fading away in big ways and small, with special interests seizing control of both media and politicians and with the people increasingly manipulated and misinformed. In this impassioned appeal, Bill Moyers calls it “the fight of our lives.” In the fall of 2001, in the aftermath of 9/11, as families grieved and the nation mourned, Washin [...]

US authorities are now allowed to shoot down personal drones if they deem them to be a threat, thanks to a new bill which has been signed by President Donald Trump. But critics say the law could be easily abused. The FAA Reauthorization Act, signed by Trump on Friday, includes several points which are aimed at bringing US aviation rules up to speed with modern times – including new provisions to [...]

BlackRock & Larry Fink CANNOT be trusted. This is the latest warning out from Whitney Webb. In her latest interview, Whitney Webb breaks down why AI is a slippery slope, and why if AI is given enough data & falls into the wrong hands, it can be used as a tool of unprecedented manipulation. Make sure to stick around to the end of the video, where Whitney breaks down why power needs to be ta [...]

In an interview with newspaper Die Welt, a German economist argues that the ruble has the potential to become a currency of global significance and strengthen by about 20% by the end of 2016. Experts making forecasts for 2016 should take into account such currencies as the Russian ruble because the currency markets may soon face surprising developments, the newspaper wrote. [...]

Internal research commissioned by Google confirms Orwellian-scale censorship powers enjoyed by tech giants. It says free speech is a “utopian idea,” and creating “ordered spaces for safety and civility” is Google's new mission. The name of the briefing, leaked to Breitbart, says it all. ‘The Good Censor,’ prepared by a host of prominent industry researchers and "cultural leaders," stat [...]

Dozens of volcanoes beneath Italy are ready to explode, and yet the government is NOT sounding the alarm for people to get out now. Naples could be leveled, and its 3 million residents destroyed, so why aren't more people sounding the alarm? [...]

America presents itself to the world as “the land of the free” but – for the vast majority – it is a place of enslaving indebtedness, a reality for much of “the 99%” that has deep historical roots hidden or “lost” from our history, as Jada Thacker explains. Since its center-stage debut during the Occupy Wall Street movement, “the 99%” – a term emblematic of extreme economi [...]

The USS Harry Truman, a 104,000 ton Nimitz-class aircraft carrier capable of deploying some 90 combat and support aircraft, has entered the North Sea in preparation for Trident Juncture, a series of drills which are expected to become the largest alliance exercises in the region since the Cold War. [...]

US Army Colonel Daniel Davis joins the show to discuss how Israel has lost its war in Gaza and how Netanyahu can never succeed by trying to kill his way to success. The hostages are not free, the Israeli people are protesting against Netanyahu, and the entire international community is outraged against Israel and the United States for this war. If you want to understand the truth about Israel and [...]

Inciting preemptive pushback from advocacy groups, organized labor, and some Democratic lawmakers, President Barack Obama is expected to beat the drum for the corporate-friendly Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in his State of the Union (SOTU) address on Tuesday night. [...]

US penalties against Saudi Arabia over the alleged murder of Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi may never be implemented. But just in case, the oil-rich kingdom has threatened to hit back using several effective weapons. Washington pledged ‘severe punishment’ if the Saudis ordered the killing of Khashoggi, a Saudi-born journalist, who disappeared nearly two weeks ago shortly after he e [...]

A German peer-reviewed study has found that children who received two doses of Pfizer’s COVID-19 mRNA vaccine had immune system damage one year after vaccination, and an elevated risk of developing cancer during their lifetime. A team of German researchers, led by Dr. Robin Kobbe from the Institute for Infection Research and Vaccine Development at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf [...]

Nearly 18 months after Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 crashed in eastern Ukraine, one of the troubling mysteries is why the U.S. government – after rushing to blame Russia and ethnic Russian rebels – then went silent, effectively obstructing the investigation into 298 deaths, writes Robert Parry. As the whodunit mystery surrounding the shoot-down of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17 nears the 1½-ye [...]

With the US-bound caravan of Central American migrants being used as a political football ahead of the midterm elections, there’s one factor receiving scant attention: The role the US itself has played in destabilizing the region. [...]

Elon Musk has just done something no one saw coming—he’s banned all Tesla sales in China, the very market that helped Tesla dominate the EV world. Shocking, right? This is the same China where Tesla’s Gigafactory churned out record-breaking numbers of Model 3s and Model Ys, and where the brand became a symbol of cutting-edge technology. But now, Musk is walking away, citing economic instab [...]