Chris Hedges | Days of Revolt: Coping with Reality (Video)
[Hedges and DeChristopher] discuss how climate change has, and continues to trigger social tension and injustice, and the necessary ethical response on the part of humanity as a whole
A conversation with Noam Chomsky on organizing for a next system
An initial signatory to the Next System statement, Chomsky explores the connections between culture, mass movements, and economic experiments—which in “mutually reinforcing” interaction, may build toward a next system more quickly than you may think.
VIDEO | Mark Fiore: Hiding, Secret and Shell
Most of these people with offshore accounts are just trying to avoid paying taxes, but many of them are corrupt politicians and other criminals.
Sanjay Perera |The economy of violence: Waste, expenditure and surplus
As we have seen there has largely been the channeling and misuse of energy and resources in economies that could have been used to generate abundance, but are used instead for production that involves unconscionable waste of resources and life forms. There is a framework of duality and polarity in which one group extracts from another mercilessly. The extraction of resources from the planet and all life forms results in an inordinate accumulation and hoarding of resources and wealth that is redistributed primarily amongst those who already have plenty.
VIDEOS: Chris Hedges & Michael Hudson | Days of Revolt: How We Got to Junk Economics
A politicians job is to deliver whoever voted for you to your backers, who are on Wall Street. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, but especially if you are a Democrat that's really the Wall Street wing of the American political system. The Republicans are for the corporate monopoly, oil and gas wing of it.
The Bribe Factory: The Company that Bribed the World
...a vast cache of leaked emails and documents has confirmed what many suspected about the oil industry, and has laid bare the activities of the world's super-bagman as it has bought off officials and rigged contracts around the world.
Chris Hedges and Michael Hudson: The Global Economy Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
We should add that under this predatory form of economics, you game the system. So you privatize pension funds, you force them into the stock market, an overinflated stock market. But because of the way companies go public, it’s the hedge fund managers who profit. And it’s those citizens whose retirement savings are tied to the stock market who lose.
Robert Parry: The Misinformation Mess
Parry: There is nothing wrong with having machines do more of the drudgery and give humans more time to enjoy life. The problem comes when the benefits accrue to a tiny minority and the rest of us are forced to work harder or face declining living standards.
VIDEO | Chris Hedges | Days of Revolt: The Militarism of U.S. Diplomacy
Video: Chris Hedges and author Vijay Prashad trace the acceleration of U.S. militarism since the collapse of the Soviet Union, and discuss the consequences of U.S. domination over global affairs, in this episode of teleSUR's Days of Revolt.
Gosztola | Interview: MintPress News’ Mnar Muhawesh on Paris Attacks and Response of Western Countries
Muhawesh: Those [attacks] that took place in Beirut, Baghdad, Turkey, and, of course, against the Russian airliner. They made the news barely and, if they did, for example, when ISIS attacked southern Beirut, the media dehumanized the entire population by calling it a Hezbollah stronghold.
Chris Hedges and Kevin Zeese: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
President Obama has been pursuing, in secret, negotiations, three major trade deals that will create a complete global network of laws that favor corporations. These laws have been written of, by, and for the corporations. We've gotten to see one of them, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, and it's not as bad as we thought--it's worse. And that's the TPP.
Video. Chris Hedges | Days of Revolt: Neoliberalism as Utopianism
Saul: And what they did, most universities, was they did an intellectual cleansing of the economic historians to remove the possibility of doubt, the possibility of speculation on ideas, leaving these sort of hapless--mainly hapless macroeconomists, who fell quite easily into the hands, frankly, of the ideologues, the neoliberals, neoconservatives...