Full episode only at Patreon.com/EmpireFiles - Abby Martin speaks to Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges days after RT America permanently shut down and RT programming was banned across the US and Europe. They talk about the government and Big Tech censorship campaign against dissident views, the media propaganda in a "cartoon war" that plays to emotion instead of facts, US culpability in the war in Ukraine and what needs to happen to avoid the worst outcomes.

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