Lee Camp

Lee Camp is an American stand-up comedian, writer, actor and activist. Camp is the host of Behind The Headlines' new series: The Most Censored News With Lee Camp. He is a former comedy writer for the Onion and the Huffington Post and has been a touring stand-up comic for 20 years.

The Truth About Crazy High Rents in the US

64% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, with one of the main reasons being the high cost of rent and housing, thanks in part to large investors, like Blackstone, buying up homes and leaving them vacant while raising rents.

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Renting an apartment or a house in the United States has become increasingly expensive over the past decade. As it stands, 64% of Americans are living paycheck to paycheck, thanks to the high cost of living. The median rent in the United States has increased by 17.11% since March 2021, which equates to an annual growth rate equivalent to a $283

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Peak oil and the Flawed Logic of Infinite Economic Growth, with Keith Akers

Gain a fresh perspective on climate change and ecological sustainability with author Keith Akers as he delves into the impacts of fossil fuel extraction, the ecological crises facing our planet, and the radical changes needed for a sustainable future.

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Join activist Keith Akers in a fascinating deep-dive interview on climate change and ecological sustainability. In his upcoming book, Embracing Limits, Akers asks tough questions about the impact of anthropogenic climate change and proposes a truly sustainable future with economic degrowth at its core. In this conversation, Akers discusses his

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The Petrodollar in Freefall and a New Multipolar World Order, with Ben Norton

Join Lee Camp and Ben Norton as they delve into the changing world order, the rebellion of Latin America against Western hegemony, the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and much more.

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Join Lee Camp and Ben Norton in this captivating episode of Behind the Headlines as they delve into the changing world order, the rebellion of Latin America against Western hegemony, the ongoing proxy war in Ukraine, and the latest international political clashes. Norton, a seasoned journalist who founded Geopolitical Economy, a Nicaragua-based

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Lee Camp: You Won’t Believe Who Got The Richest From The Afghanistan War

The US has withdrawn from the war in Afghanistan, but the war profiteers are still raking in big bucks through the revolving door that is the military industrial complex.

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Lee Camp: You Won't Believe Who Got The Richest From The Afghanistan War

The war in Afghanistan, one of the longest conflicts in U.S. history, was marked by extensive waste, fraud, and corruption, resulting in trillions of dollars being spent by American taxpayers. The war was ostensibly launched to eliminate the threat posed by the Taliban and to find and capture Osama bin Laden, the purported mastermind behind the

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Monsanto’s Evil Is Not Gone, It’s Just In Disguise

Now that it’s been sold to Bayer, few talk about Monsanto anymore, but their crimes haven’t gone away. They don’t stop just because you drop the dirty name.

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Monsanto has been voted the evilest corporation in the world several times over. Yet, we don’t hear anything about them now. What happened? Did they complete the evil? Did they retire after all their evil wrapped up? No, not so much. Monsanto was one of the most hated companies in the Americas. There were protests just a few years ago,

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Imagining A World Beyond Capitalism, with David Cobb

In this hour-long interview, former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb discusses radical politics, community organizing, sustainable development, climate change, racial justice, the protests in France, indigenous sovereignty, and building power to confront the ruling class.

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Former Green Party presidential candidate David Cobb is the advancement manager for the Wiyot Tribe Community Land Trust, the co-coordinator of the U.S. Solidarity Economy Network, and one of the promoters of the upcoming Decolonizing Economics Summit. His lifelong commitment to social and environmental justice has made him a respected figure

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Why China’s Winning and the US Is Panicking, With Gregory Mahoney

China expert Dr. Joseph Gregory Mahoney joins Lee Camp to discuss the rise of China on the world stage on the heels of the US empire’s decline.

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One of the most important topics going on right now in our world is, as the U.S. government likes to call it, the “great power conflict” between China and the U.S. To explore this topic, Lee Camp brings on a political science professor from Shanghai to break the issue down. Dr. Joseph Gregory Mahoney of the East China Normal University joins us

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