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Chris Hedges | Our Ever-Deadlier Police State
The grotesque distortions of the judicial system and the aggressive war on the poor by the police will get worse under President Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions.
Puerto Ricans Protest Trump’s Visit, Denounce Militarization Amid Lack of Aid Distribution (Video)
As President Trump travels to Puerto Rico two weeks after it was devastated by Hurricane Maria, we go to the island for an on-the-ground report. Democracy Now!’s correspondent Juan Carlos Dávila traveled to the town of Utuado to speak with residents who have yet to get help other than a few bottles of water. He […]
Chris Hedges | The Abuses of History
Every nation needs a set of myths to justify its own existence.
Chris Hedges | How ‘Antifa’ Mirrors the ‘Alt-Right’
The corporate state welcomes this violence because violence is a language it can speak with a proficiency and ruthlessness that none of these groups can match.
Anne Frank Center: Trump’s Personal Twitter Account Amplifies Hate and Should Be Suspended (Video)
Anne Frank Center for Mutual Respect is calling on Twitter to suspend President Trump’s personal account, after branding him an “accomplice to domestic terrorism.”
Glenn Greenwald | The Misguided Attacks on ACLU for Defending Neo-Nazis’ Free Speech Rights in Charlottesville
We do it because we believe in the principle, and because we realize that once you chip away at one person’s rights, everyone else’s are at risk. . . .
Counterpunch: Police Anarchy and Technology and Criminal Justice
In the context of criminal justice, America’s faith in technological interventions is worse than misplaced; it is dangerous.
John Pilger | Palestine Remains ‘the Greatest Moral Issue of Our Time’
For Palestinians, these will be familiar stories. The question is: Why are they not familiar in London and Washington, Brussels and Sydney?
Chris Hedges | The Age of Anger
Western elites, rather than accept their responsibility for the global anarchy, self-servingly define the clash as one between the values of the enlightened West and medieval barbarians.
Lessons on Political Culture and Consciousness From Struggles of the Global South
Some complain that the Women’s March lacked direction, but more limiting was its lack of shared experiences and knowledge that could rationalize a political objective.
Chris Hedges | American Prophets with Albert Raboteau (Video)
Featuring Fannie Lou Hamer and Dorothy Day: the theological and ethical motivations of prophetic figures and their importance in an age of radical evil
Chris Hedges | Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease
Our failure to defend those who are demonized and persecuted leaves us all demonized and persecuted. Our failure to demand justice for everyone leaves us all without justice. Our failure to halt the crushing of popular movements that stand unequivocally with the oppressed leaves us all oppressed. Our failure to protect our democracy leaves us without a democracy. (Includes interview with Mumia Abu-Jamal.)
Trump’s Alt-Right Army Descended on Los Angeles to Battle Non-Existent Antifa
This is a flat out lie: “This group of people [the pro-Trump group] is not being aggressive in the least bit, and the people on the left, all they do is play into the PR for these people,” Pool said.
The “Elite” ─ The Rulers 21st Century Style
Can you have a democracy that organizes itself around violence and war?
Henry A. Giroux | Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Historical legacies of racist oppression and dangerous memories can be troublesome for the neo-fascist now governing American society.
James Kilgore | Mass Incarceration in the Cornfields: Shattered Families and Racial Profiling in Small-Town America
Taylor believes the absence of her father made a huge difference. If he had been around, she observed, “the household would have been more structured … I don’t think my brother and sister would have gotten into trouble.”
Chris Hedges | James Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness
Whiteness is a dangerous concept. It is not about skin color. It is not even about race. It is about the willful blindness used to justify white supremacy.
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