Corporate Totalitarianism: A Conversation with Chris Hedges
Destruction of the working class, the welfare system, public media, militarized police, prison system, oppression of black and brown people, deindustrialization
Lethal Force Against Pipeline Protests? Defending the Sacred”: Indigenous Water Protectors
Critics say [Governor] Noem is turning the National Guard into a private mercenary force targeting migrants, but the governor’s plans for the National Guard could encompass other activities. “This, to me, is an extension of the fight that’s happening all over Mother Earth, protecting the last beautiful places, protecting the sacred,” https://youtu.be/urIpqG4y8iA Resistance to More
A People’s Guide to the War Industry -4: The New BOSS
"Capitalists profit when they adeptly shift costs onto others (humans, other animals, the planet itself). This includes enforcing poor labor safety, crushing labor unions, and polluting the natural world. We, the people, see so much pollution and harm because that’s how the system is designed. Those are intentional byproducts of capitalism."
G-7 commits to global minimum tax of at least 15 percent
"The G-7 consists of the United States, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom. The announcement is in line with the priorities of the Biden administration, which proposed a global minimum tax rate of at least 15 percent last month."
70% of Americans Say Arms Sales Make Us Less Safe. We’re the World’s Top Dealer. By William D. Hartung
"One area where President Biden could readily begin to fulfill his campaign pledge to reduce the harm to civilians from U.S. arms sales would be firearms exports."
Why local journalism must be considered infrastructure
"A future without local journalism is as dire as a society without roads and bridges."
Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire
"There is not a single case since 1941 when the coups, political assassinations, election fraud, black propaganda, blackmail, kidnapping, brutal counter-insurgency campaigns, U.S. sanctioned massacres, torture in global black sites, proxy wars or military interventions carried out by the United States resulted in the establishment of a democratic government."
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
"...the liberals do what they always do, chatter endlessly about political and moral positions they refuse to make any sacrifices to achieve."
Protest at General Mills: “No to U.S. Dough for the Occupation of Palestine!”
“Israel, the Occupying Power, has systemically and unlawfully appropriated Palestinian public and privately owned land, exploiting Palestinian natural resources, while forcing the transfer of and creating coercive environments [sic] to forcibly displace the protected Palestinian population.*
Bob Dylan: Murder Most Foul
https://youtu.be/maBb2MPSQxE Steven Hager You Tube Murder Most Foul Lyrics Written by Bob Dylan ‘Twas a dark day in Dallas — November ‘63 The day that will live on in infamy President Kennedy was riding high A good day to be living and a good day to die Being led to the slaughter like a More
Tom Engelhardt: Murder, He Said, America’s Maestro of Death and Destruction
"Trump has proven to be America’s twenty-first-century maestro of death and destruction, the P.T. Barnum of, as he put it predictively enough in his Inaugural Address, “American carnage.” In fact, he’s been a master of carnage in a way no one could then have imagined."
Democracy Now! How Fascism Works: Trump’s “Law and Order” Is Lawlessness, Fueling Racist Violence and Chaos
"...to connect these dots, from the Republican National Convention to white supremacists in the streets of U.S. cities to the president’s embrace of fringe conspiracy theories..."