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On the show this week, Chris Hedges discusses with economist Professor Rick D. Wolff,  the economic and political collapse of the American empire.

Wolff’s new book, The Sickness is the System - When Capitalism Fails to Save Us from Pandemics or Itself,  is available on September 15.


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len brian
len brian
2 weeks ago
So funny how Americans will scream about socialism, when corporations RELY on socialism all the time.

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Leo L
Leo L
2 weeks ago
No amount of blaming China is going to change the truth. Wake up to the truth the proletariats of USA

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blk hemi392
blk hemi392
2 weeks ago
This is the most comprehensive explanation of the U.S. economy in all of YouTube.

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Gail G
Gail G
2 weeks ago
Curious - 5%of the world's population with 25% of the world's covid cases.  That's the same as the prison numbers.  Is the universe sending a message?

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E M
E M
2 weeks ago
All these money are going to cooperate and military spending, no wonder America is going down the toilet

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Joe Johnson
Joe Johnson
2 weeks ago (edited)
He's telling the truth but unfortunately the masses of U.S. citizens doesn't have the sophistication to understand or know this. It's over.

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happy retired
happy retired
2 weeks ago
Total corruption, give money to the greedy garbage who caused the crisis in the first place.

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Truth About Lies
Truth About Lies
2 weeks ago
I finally understand why US hates China so much.. We usually hate something we couldn't have or someone we couldn't be...

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bigdaz7272
bigdaz7272
1 week ago
"The American Dream. You gotta be asleep to believe it"
-George Carlin

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Scot Lee
Scot Lee
2 weeks ago
All empires eventually implode from within. It's just history repeating itself as usual.

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Jared T
Jared T
2 weeks ago
The US is a dying Empire. Anybody who understands the word knows that.

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happy retired
happy retired
2 weeks ago
50 million people without work, meanwhile the stock market is doing great,  not too hard for anybody with a brain to realize, this is not working.

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Janet Baker
Janet Baker
2 weeks ago
Professor Wolff truly gets it. Our politicians are doing nothing lip-service and play-acting!

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Avenger
Avenger
2 weeks ago
We Are Living in a Failed State

The coronavirus didn’t break America. It revealed what was already broken.
America is Chronically  ills—a corrupt political class, a sclerotic bureaucracy, a heartless economy, a divided and distracted public—had gone untreated for years,  usa is in a steady decline for decades.

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Livon Diramerian
Livon Diramerian
2 weeks ago
Our systems are based on deception that's why we have crisis after crisis, the only way out is to stop this.

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Itech Iwizard
Itech Iwizard
2 weeks ago
He gets it. It's all clear now. It's all a game of the ruling class to hold on to their power and wealth.

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Paul
Paul
2 weeks ago
Do you not understand we are watching the removal of the petro dollar in real time 🙂

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Lee Kh
Lee Kh
2 weeks ago
Exactly. The way US treated stock market is a shame. Is just an easy way for the rich to reap money out from public fund. Alot of the stimulus fund is used to support the market artificially creating false impression that the market and overall economy is ok when is not. The middle and low income earners will be the most badly affected.

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Hamid Ramezani
Hamid Ramezani
2 weeks ago
Dr Wolff why are you surprised Trump is the same person who fielded bankruptcy many times, now he will file on U.S.A behalf

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Mactech Mactech
Mactech Mactech
2 weeks ago
Americans are taking advantage of the world for too long, when they desperate they will start wars but this time war can’t save them!

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Lee Lookhoong
Lee Lookhoong
2 weeks ago
U. S. A had been doing alot of evil things n killing alot of innocent people around the world. There is a chinese saying that what evil u do, also the evil will come back to u. Its a return of deeds

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Craig Bartel
Craig Bartel
2 weeks ago
its not an accident , crashing the economy and muzzling the masses ..it is intentional.
a further consolidation of the big monopoly game ..all the money and ownership ends up in fewer and fewer hands.
just like a monopoly game ..a monopoly game is not a society

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cornebod
cornebod
2 weeks ago
Middle class, working class all those terms are meaningless in an Empire...
You only have peasants and lords, all ruled by Emperor Trump 🙈🙉🙊