it's make. here's what people have been saying about redacted in the sixty's full on austin the only show i go out of my way to launch you know a lot of the really packs a punch at least yap is the john oliver of r t america is doing the same we are apparently better than two thousand and six and see people you never heard of love redacted the next president of the world bank hate him because he really meant it seriously he sent us an email there's a real irony going. boys need people and there is always someone that's always next. wholesale surveillance you feel you have already while those who know and who do so as not to interrupt has used to sell you always our lead story because it's garbage real genuine.

greetings and salutation. you cannot have a revolution without dancing and you cannot have dancing without music revolution will always and forever be intertwined with music because most often it's the musician the poet who channels the rhymes and heart beats of change that often starts as a soft a logic whisper creeping out from the underground and then nose into a grand opera of cultural change and up people. and that intertwined history is why the musician will always be an agent or instrument if you will of change

their lyrics and melodies can shine a light on the injustices and bring attention to the under-represented and even helped bring down the giants themselves. today. let's find out what comes first the revolution or the music as watching the hawks strikes a chord if you want to go with no because. i really dislike to analyze it for the pa to see if you speak. like you. would if we. took our free will still in this world but you know what they were hoping. to start to put.

a. little of the liberal spotless mind about not just a lot of stars a lot of the stock is a lot of the losers in the. business world the body. has got all the colors in the world to hear all these. subtle opposed to look they. got. to be.

the best joke here. please don't let me fall ill. liz illegibly . i have never seen you that. i have never seen you. i have never said. there is a. good. history it was a strange. place it is going to. be good to

disrespect. but. is it true. that it is. so says to me that you would be listening to. live . i. live it every day can lead i was a little light can see it i live with the wind every day. i live my life. so

live. leg . i i. i. i. i. i. was. a rabbit in our fireback all flobots who don't recall rado and the alternative hip

hop bailey would play music for the last ten years plus together and you know for us music is about engaging the crowd but it's also about kind of engaging people with a message to what brought you guys to go there. loving the eczema. loving g.i. joe lots of nerdy things we were too nerdy boys who were placed in a highly gifted and talented program he was in the fifth grade i was in the fourth grade. and it's a memory that i remember very clearly i saw him down the hall with i was with my father and everybody told them my dad's army was like that boy the blue hat he's going to be my friend and here we are how many years later the twenty it would be eight years later we thought we're going to be making comic books professionally. but the world that we crafted in comic books and becoming the worlds that we i started crafting and exploring with our wraps and we fell in love with hip hop together and we both came from families that were pretty social justice activists

oriented so and hip hop especially like when we were falling in love with it also was just very much telling the story of the people who were experiencing like people from the south bronx experiencing problems like poverty and using their art to experience power and so for us that lined up with our families values lined up with our values and then also brought in that creative aspect of being able to like talk about the world and also imagine a world that is better than that and so for us that's always been like where we've been so you mix in some xmas. would you say digable planets. hieroglyphics and. you know some siphon all that stuff and. you get flow as always and they might be giants that would be remiss that i was going to leave they reminds me a little of a. deep this couple of mission accomplished a lot of other. with the new album what do you want people to take away from it

so i mean we've always tried to make music that helps people feel empowered and feel like they're part of a story that's just larger than whatever they're doing with this album we want people really to to hear their own voice. as part of a collective voice and to see that there's power in raising your voice with others and it's also that we want people to think more three dimensionally about what it means to get engaged because a lot of people are if you can listen to one song and just feel like i want to put my fist in the air i want to hold a sign but really stepping into the streets and being part of a social movement means you're going to go through a lot of different emotional experiences you're going to go through the feeling of triumph you're going to go through feelings of heartbreak feelings of failure and so this album is really supposed to be a way to say to people like look if you're part of this these efforts to make the world a better place you're going to be on a journey and you're not alone whatever emotion you're feeling right now you're not

alone that's part of the journey and don't leave but find ways to be compassionate for yourself compassion for people around you and to stay in the struggle so leslie what do you see going on in the in the political and social climate today one of what do you see are the biggest or the biggest most important issue is kind of fascinating we've been working on the album but we started almost three years ago. and we decided that we're just really going to write. to our stories and our experience and just they would with. as activists we had experience the roller coaster of like we are going to topple patriarchy tomorrow and the next day it doesn't happen and everybody starts stabbing each other in the back and everybody starts blaming each other for all the different failures and that movement i was going to conquer the world yesterday now you have a group of enemies who used to be allies the next and we've seen that happen so

many different times so we decided to as activists like why are people talking about the rest of the story. and so we're writing specifically to that we're writing to our heritage is our dynamic. and. we called it no enemies because we found that we were just so as a country even at that time we're working on it so beleaguered with the us versus them and so then when the album was done. shortly thereafter trump was elected and we were releasing singles and now it was is exhibited things that happened with our late people like oh that song pray is about trump as well. not specific no that's specific. but it is the type of thing where you see that with every new movement there's waves of people so occupy happens and waves of people step into the streets and then likewise matter happens and waves of people step into the streets and then you know the climate change that people keep step

new people keep entering and you know it's from selection suddenly you have tons of new people that say look old now is the time i need to get active and there's always dynamics that happen when a new group of people step into something and there's been people there many many years before but it's important to find ways not to make enemies of those people but to be inviting and to be welcoming and to to use it to kind of refresh and renew and strengthen the movement. so it's great to see the octopus in the streets and hold the signs but what happens after the streets where we're you know where does the activism go you know after after the protest. yeah i mean i think there is there's a difference between sort of. generating power and then wielding that power and i think. for people who are brand new often there can be some conflict confusion and dissonance and you think well if we start to engage in the political process then we must be selling out or we must be somehow if all you have is a stylistic sort of activism like wait we went from the streets and now we're you

know sitting down across from someone who could actually make this policy a reality but we're inside outside we must be traitors really selling out but really if you care about the transformation that you want to see happen you can't be focused on us then he can't be focused on well you know we're now sitting down across from a police officer we're sitting down across from you know an elected official or somebody who works for an oil company that that can't be if you if you say that that's off limits then you're not actually serious about implementing the change you want to see eventually enough people come to this place and there's active popular support for any cause you're going to have the opportunity to wield the power and make the change that you've so desk. it leave been fighting for as we go to break watchers don't forget to let us know what you think of the topics we've covered and to learn more about today's featured artist check us out on facebook twitter and you tube and see our poll shows that are t.v. dot com coming up the snow doesn't stop as the flobots return to the stage is

watching the hawks strikes a chord. lately. called the feeling of. every the world should experience the eagle and you'll get it on the old the old. the old according to just. come along for the ride. our culture is awash in lives dominated by streams of never ending electronic hallucinations that. fiction until they are indistinguishable we have become the

most deluded society on politics as a species of endless and needless political politicians. celebrities are to ruling parties are in reality one party to corporate and those who attempt to puncture this. breathless universe of fake news just signed to push through the cruelty and exploitation of the neo liberal are pushed so far to the margins of society including by a public broadcasting system that has sold its soul for corporate money that we might as well be mice squeaking against an avalanche. we must. lose our. own. welcome back.

let's not wait for a single second more here's the. the world is watching. this. so let's just need to go west. to the people odets. a little. bit go let's. go.

to stoke. lake. that's. cool by. her. to go to the pub was a comic book we get back to you it's cup of tea you get to.

the bridge. job and sensible cops just because she compliments that couples are located in the back to come up over the top just because the let's get. elected . to. sit still or luck

he. still are lucky lucky little.

if those of us who are truly seeking connection can just be curious about somebody else's pay as opposed to denying it. it will go a long way as right now we have very much got in the habit of those debates that we're having i think it's does them a great i think it holds them too high to even call them debates right i think we're just that they're just roving castigation us and but if we can. if we can at least. like why are you like you're hurting you're

actually hurting so tell me about that. when i used to teach elementary school like a kid came up to me crying the first thing i don't say is i don't say like that doesn't hurt if i were to do that i would redouble the damage of what that child is feeling and that's what i think we're doing as adults is like right off the bat we're denying the pain and specifically with certain backgrounds and certain groups which is i know you don't have access to pain i think the left does that very well . and i think as a strategy. it's flawed. and if some of us can at least be curious i think there's a lot of information if we treat pain as information we're going to learn something as opposed to denying the entire reality of existence of somebody by saying that they don't have access to it one of the songs on our album rattle the cage is trying to speak to the fact that when we get so caught up in being right and making

sure that our narrative is dominant we can become utterly dehumanized so that when you'll have a terrorist attack for example you know you have you have something an act of violence that happens this act of violence happens and all we know is that there's been real people who lost their lives and without knowing anything else you go to social media and the first battle you see is who's narrative does this fit like i guarantee you this is going to be a x. y. z. which will fit my narrative and all of you guys are going to see that you were wrong this whole time and you get permutations of that from every direction and it's really grotesque that we get to the point where we're so excited that we might be proven correct by an act of violence that it's going to fit our narrative that we don't even bother to say whatever just happened this was tragic people lost their lives we just jump straight to this you guys are going to finally understand i'm right and that's really grotesque. one thing that's exciting for me to think about is what we really mean when we say we you know in the united states there's

a tendency to say well. you know x. y. z. is happening we have to do something and there's it's very easy to just say we think that we means you know the military of our of our particular state but there's a different we there's women all over the world who are dealing with patchy arky wherever they are and these women can work in solidarity with one another as women and be transformative in every single country that they're in it'll be a different fight it will be a different front but it's the same battle and i think that on an even more human level just. you know that the world is so disproportionately filled with young people in any country where there's an oppressive regime or just oppressive laws or you know unsustainable practices there are young people that are looking around at everything and saying they're synthesizing and saying how can i transform this and at times i'm sure that feels like a very lonely operation and people feel like they're the only one but i guarantee

you you're not the only one there's people in every single country with very similar aspirations and dreams and people who are deeply loved the community that they're from people who are deeply don't want to see tradition just like set aside but want to also carve a new path forward and so you know for those people that we've met that we've had the privilege of meeting when we're touring and traveling we know that to be true but we also know there's just countless people that we've never met or never heard from and it's those voices those on heard voices that as they start to lift and rise and be more and more heard that's what's going to transform the planet in this day and age where even the word fact to so hotly debated i don't think beauty is so i would say if we can pair any of our outrage any of our anger our fear with beauty where possible because it's a medium that will transmit. i think if you if you shout at someone they

are conditioned to not listen to you if you shout beautifully which we call singing . you're making an emotional argument that is much harder to deny so i think in some ways i know it's easy to say but i think seeking beauty is revolutionary right now. i can ride my bike with no handlebars goal head to bars no handle bar i get my bike with no handlebars go handlebars no way to. be a look at me hands in the hammock it's good to be a law a bit of a famous rapper when the past was going to be i can show you how to dose you dobe i can show you how to scratch a record i'm going to bar the remote control and i can almost put it back together

inside on a chair we simply could tell you about the barracks and i do all the work to take a load is that i'm proud to be an american be a mom friend from platypus be a mom friend made a comic book to get sound long until god can't do anything that i want cuz look fine with the window manager and go go ahead for a go go go. see your based on that salad cold call that some of the phone call that sell the phone. to me just called to say that it's good to be a law in such a small world i'll call them with the dream i can make money for a storm i may live in a magazine design it's sixty votes counted in giving. them a computer store bought aquatic and since i'm not on the business i can make you want to modify your shakers and producers became our friends understand them to see the strings to control this of them i can do with it with was it gets.

back. packs. my.

head will. head off. and that is our show for you today remember everyone in this world we are not told we are loved and up so i tell you all i love you i am tired relevant and i'm top of

the life keep on watching those hawks and have a great day and night everyone. if you want to so still with the oldest cd. it looks so real that it is what you analyze it takes a teacher to products it is speech. oh for the day like it or not i got tablets this fall this is what we've all been the first to put our free today over there still going on in this world hope no you know and open though they know what you opened up to start to push to close. the mission of news with it is to go to the people tell their side of the story our stories are well sourced we don't hide anything from the public and i don't think

the mainstream media in this country can say that any average viewer knows that r.t. america has a different perspective so that we're not hearing one echo chamber that mainstream media is constantly spewing. we're not beholden to any corporate sponsor no one tells us what to cover how long the coverage or how to say it that's the beauty of our t.v. america. we hear both sides we hear from both sides and we question more that journalists are not letting anything get in your way to bring it home to the american people.

welcome to on contact we came to cambridge massachusetts. to meet with professor noam chomsky arguably america's greatest intellectual i want to ask you about the ten principles that are laid out in the book and the first one you talk about is reducing democracy your second point shaping the ideology principle number three redesign the economy let me move on to shifting the burden. with chris hedges. this is the second part of our conversation at his office at mit focusing on his latest book requiem for the american dream. with chris hedges so.