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I'll like to our power.

You're welcome to be able to

take it back.

You're welcome Neil. You. This is hell. Live from the United States where capitalism is the virus.

This is hell.

And the virus went unabated for some essential workers,

essential workers who cannot protect themselves

with masks and social distancing,

workers who kept working non-stop throughout the earliest and repeated outbreaks of the pandemic,

as the outside world depended upon the results of their labor.

In fact, without their sacrifices,

and often that means making the ultimate sacrifice,

you likely would be unable to listen to this show right now and we probably could not make the phone call

necessary for today's guests to be on the show. Purposely kept invisible from us

we do not see how mining operations the world over are dominated

not by high-tech machinery, but the same brute human force that has been a part of mining since

its very beginning.

When it comes to colonialism and the slavery it brought along with it in places like Africa.

Very little has changed over the last 500 years, despite the alleged end of imperialism on the continent.

In a few minutes we will be speaking with Siddharah, author of Cobalt Red, how the blood of the Congo

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