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Best of 2023: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy / Claire Provost & Matt Kennard

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🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 86 minutes

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The Best of 2023 continues with Matt Kennard and Claire Provost on their Bloomsbury book, "Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy." This interview originally aired on May 16th. Check out "Silent Coup" here: https://www.bloomsbury.com/us/silent-coup-9781350269989/ Help keep This Is Hell! completely listener supported and access bonus episodes by subscribing to our Patreon: www.patreon.com/thisishell

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The Lord is with the

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the Lord is with the

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I like that our power

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and the water

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I look at the signature making back. This is hell.

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live from the United States where capitalism is the virus.

0:38.0

This is hell.

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And on today's best of 2023 episode, we are reminding you of just how virulent,

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just how severe, harmful, and even deadly capitalism can be by sharing our February 16th conversation with a couple of people who had been on the

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show in the past, but separately, Claire, Provost, and Matt Canard, who had joined forces and

1:01.5

co-authored the book,

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Silent Koo, how corporations overthrew democracy,

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as in past tense.

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And I, as I mentioned when introducing Claire and Matt

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way back in February. The only difference

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between the deadliness of the virus and capitalism is we are absolutely certain 100%

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positive how capitalism kills people as well as destroys the

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environment, which is through profit seeking at all costs no matter the impact on the people

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or the planet.

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We also know that the main perpetrators of these crimes against humanity are corporations.

1:37.7

The bigger they are, the greater danger they pose.

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But when those corporations influence the legal system in order to craft

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