This month we bring you our conversation with Pulitzer prize-winning journalist and author Chris Hedges. Recorded during his late-2013 visit to Winnipeg, we discuss the idea of human progress; religion’s role in the world and the “new” atheists; his controversial attacks on the black bloc tactic; the role of electoral politics in agitating for social justice; and more. Then your intrepid hosts debrief on where some atheists go astray, and enter the fray regarding living clown celebrity Russell Brand, concluding that he and Chris are basically living parallel lives.

Episode Links

• The Rob Ford saga
• War Is A Force That Gives Us Meaning
• American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America
• When Atheism Becomes Religion: America's New Fundamentalists
• Jeremy Paxman vs Russell Brand
• Russell Brand on revolution: “We no longer have the luxury of tradition”
• A discourse on brocialism
• Indigenous Nationhood Movement
• Citizen Radio

Episode Music

• warsawpack – Doomsday Device