CHRIS HEDGES | We Must PEACEFULLY Overthrow CORPORATE Fascism
'"These people are going to kill us. And they are going to kill my children."
Hedges: The Price of Conscience
"...by criminalizing those within the system who seek to inform the public is ominous for our democracy. It is effectively extinguishing all investigations into the inner workings of power."
“Don’t you know there’s a war on?” by Patrick Lawrence
"The sooner we recognize these and many similar events as disparate dimensions of a concerted war waged against us, the better we will understand the air we breathe and the water we drink."
“American Silence,” song by Chris Pierce
"...Pierce’s impassioned vocals and righteous message to keep fighting for justice in this country. It’s the sound of everyone who’s hungry for change, steadying themselves and marching toward a common goal.”
The Last Time Democracy Almost Died, by Jill Lepore
"It’s a paradox of democracy that the best way to defend it is to attack it, to ask more of it, by way of criticism, protest, and dissent."
Hedges: Bless the Traitors
“Daniel Hale is one of the most consequential whistleblowers,” Edward Snowden said on a May Day panel held at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst on the fiftieth anniversary of the release of the Pentagon Papers.
UK High Court Allows US to Appeal Ban on Assange Extradition;Doctors Tell Biden: Let Assange Go
"Because western media are designed to protect the powerful, most people are more aware of smears about Assange being a Russian agent or a rapist than of his victimization by a tyrannical assault on world press freedoms..."
Henry Giroux: Fighting back against the age of manufactured ignorance: Resistance is still possible
"The underlying message of CRT is to dismantle forms of structural racism in order to create a more fair and just society." "Banning instruction on 'critical race theory' has become the new McCarthyism."
Biden’s Bombing of Iraq and Syria Only Serves the Weapons Industry, by Glenn Greenwald
"The U.S. government is a lawless entity. It violates the law, including its own Constitution, whenever it wants. The requirement that no wars be fought absent congressional authority is not some ancillary bureaucratic annoyance..."
NY Times Op-Ed Denounces Daniel Ellsberg and Edward Snowden on 50th Anniversary of its Publishing the Pentagon, by Barbara Koeppel
In one piece, former New York Times foreign correspondent Elizabeth Becker says that, when the Pentagon Papers were exposed, “the nation was stunned. Responses ranged from horror to anger to disbelief.”
Key Witness in US Case Against Assange Changes His Story, by Joe Lauria
"This is the end of the case against Julian Assange." -Edward Snowden
Less-Lethal Weapons: Violence to Silence Justice, by Jasmine McBride
“Tear gas was initially developed as a chemical weapon for military use. These chemical weapons are now banned in warfare..."