House Approves $778 Billion Military Budget
“What possible justification is there for throwing $768 billion at the Pentagon..."
Increasing Pentagon Spending When People Are Going Hungry Is Madness, by John Nichols
"Upending the process by which ever increasing cash flows are directed into the military-industrial complex may not be popular with McConnell and the defense contractors he represents. But it most definitely is popular in a country where the overwhelming majority of Democratic voters and more than half of Republicans voters are ready to take money out of the Pentagon budget and move it into the fight against the coronavirus pandemic and the economic pain that extends from it.
Lifting of US Propaganda Ban Gives New Meaning to Old Song
Planting Stories in the Press: With the propaganda ban now a relic, the once-covert propaganda machine long used to justify war after war is now operating out in the open and out of control.
The Empire’s Hustle: Why Anti-Trumpism Doesn’t Include Anti-War
Nothing rehabilitates an unpopular president in capitalist “America” like war.
Video: Dr. Noam Chomsky Breaks the Set on War, Imperialism, and Propaganda
Noam Chomsky on media control in the free world, drones as a weapon of terror, citizen rights, U.S. foreign policy, and more in an interview by Abby Martin.
Chris Hedges: The Post-Constitutional Era
Corporations, no matter which politicians are in office, loot the Treasury, escape taxation, push down wages, break unions, dismantle civil society, gut regulation and legal oversight, control information, prosecute endless war and dismantle public institutions and programs that include schools, welfare and Social Security. By Chris Hedges May 4, 2014 truthdig.com Activist Lauren DiGioia is arrested More
Chris Hedges: Fighting the Militarized State
“We have already seen journalists such as [you] and Laura Poitras detained and denied access to a lawyer and due process. This law will make legal any such detentions. It will permit the military, on American soil, to throw journalists and activists in a military prison without trial or due process.” — Carl Mayer Alexa O’Brien speaks More
[Video Panel] Glenn Greenwald: The war on whistleblowers and journalism – Julian Assange, David Coombs, Alexa O’Brien and others
Discussing press freedoms with Julian Assange, David Coombs, Alexa O'Brien and others. Glenn Greenwald Thursday 19 September 2013 06.49 EDT theguardian.com I'm working on several stories, so posting this week will be difficult. Until then, below is the video of the 90-minute event I did this week at the Sydney Opera House on the More
[Video Panel] Glenn Greenwald: The war on whistleblowers and journalism – Julian Assange, David Coombs, Alexa O'Brien and others
Discussing press freedoms with Julian Assange, David Coombs, Alexa O'Brien and others. Glenn Greenwald Thursday 19 September 2013 06.49 EDT theguardian.com I'm working on several stories, so posting this week will be difficult. Until then, below is the video of the 90-minute event I did this week at the Sydney Opera House on the More
Chris Hedges> Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
“Obama used [Martin Luther] King’s Bible during his inauguration, but under the National Defense Authorization Act King would be detained without due process. By Chris Hedges Posted on Sep 9, 2013 truthdig.com Princeton University professor Cornel West, left, hugs a protester while marching with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York. AP/Bebeto Matthews More
Chris Hedges> Cornel West and the Fight to Save the Black Prophetic Tradition
“Obama used [Martin Luther] King’s Bible during his inauguration, but under the National Defense Authorization Act King would be detained without due process. By Chris Hedges Posted on Sep 9, 2013 truthdig.com Princeton University professor Cornel West, left, hugs a protester while marching with Occupy Wall Street demonstrators to Goldman Sachs headquarters in New York. AP/Bebeto Matthews More
Chris Hedges> The Last Chance to Stop the NDAA
Chris Hedges. (photo: Truthdig) By Chris Hedges, TruthDig 02 September 13 ReaderSupportedNews.org and my fellow plaintiffs have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold More