Chris Hedges: The Politicians Who Destroyed Our Democracy Want Us to Vote for Them to Save It
These establishment politicians and their appointed judges promulgated laws that permitted the top 1 percent to loot $54 trillion from the bottom 90 percent, from 1975 to 2022, at a rate of $2.5 trillion a year, according to a study by the RAND corporation. The fertile ground of our political, economic, cultural and social wreckage spawned an array of neo-fascists, con artists, racists, criminals, charlatans, conspiracy theorists, right-wing militias and demagogues that will soon take power.
War as Presentation, by Patrick Lawrence
Now we have the Ukraine case, and we need not bother with “ample reason.” It is open-and-shut evident at this point that we witness two wars as the Armed Forces of Ukraine face off with the Russian military. There is the presented war, the meta-war, you might say, and there is the waged war, the war taking place on the ground, nothing meta about it.
Nuclear Winter: The Other Catastropic Climate Change
Imagine then if you had a vantage point from outer space:You would see a massive dark cloud circling the tiny and fragile earth. No one would escape the effects.
Noam Chomsky: Neoliberalism and the Roots of Fascism, interview by Chris Hedges, Part 2
"Seymour Melman and others have written about the permanent War Economy and the economic and social consequences. Unchecked militarism is often cited by historians such as Arnold Toynbee as the principal reason for the collapse of Empires. Is this where we are and if we are, what does collapse look like…?" (Edited Transcript from YouTube)
Chris Hedges: Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Sixty-six U.N. members, most from the global south, have called for diplomacy to end the war in Ukraine, as required by the U.N. Charter. But few of the big power players are listening.
Chile’s New Constitution Surprising Results and Campaign Cuba for Medical Supplies
Chile's New Constitution: the Surprising Results Volume 40 Number 5 Women Against Military Madness Fall 2022 By Michael Livingston On Sunday, September 4, 2022, the movement for social change in Chile suffered a massive setback. The new constitution, submitted to a national referendum, was rejected by 62 percent of the More
The Chris Hedges Report: Noam Chomsky, Part 1
"If you take a look at the academics who are mostly moderately liberal and are in a moderately lived world that means being almost completely subordinate to an official doctrine and ideology, and they can't go millimeter beyond. Occasional exceptions are a reflection of the pressures of activism and engagement. With most of the students in talking about the role of liberals: You've [Hedges] pointed out that they are tolerated by the ruling capitalist elite as long as they do not question the virtue of the rulers or the structural and social systems that sustain the elites. And they become the attack dogs on people such as yourself and do more damage than good. (Edited transcript.)
Katie Halper: The Hill TV fired me for defending critics of Israel
"To my fellow Jews, to my friends in the Democratic party who want to support Israel and think of themselves as Progressive, it is important to look at what Israeli law today does, what the lived experiences of Palestinians today means,"
Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates and the Death by Sniper of Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh
Divestment News, Journalist Shireen Abu Aklleh, BDS Divestment Action in Minnesota, and more... Palestine/Israel and the U.S.: Updates by Lucia Wilkes Smith, WAMM Middle East Committee Volume 40 Number 4 Women Against Military Madness Summer II 2022 The Pillsbury Boycott Is Suspended There is some good news!In June the American More
What to Do in Case of a Nuclear Attack; The Nuclear Triad and Treaties: a Death or Life Struggle; Intermediate and Tactical Nuclear Weapons
Why hasn’t more attention been paid to these extremely dangerous weapons that are the most likely to be used?
Bob Garfield: Oh, Can’t It?
Ignorance. A vacuum of understanding, whether from native stupidity or arrogant disregard, of the underlying issues, the functions of government, the lessons of history, the trustworthiness of information and the evaluation of evidence.
Chris Hedges: They Crush Our Song for a Reason
W.E.B. Du Bois argued that white society feared educated Blacks far more than they feared Black criminals. “They can deal with crime by chain-gang and lynch law, or at least they think they can, but the South can conceive neither machinery nor place for the educated, self-reliant, self-assertive black man,” he wrote.
Kevin Gosztola Interview: Do People Know Assange?
Why isn't Julian Assange a household word?
Need-to-Know Midterm Ballot Measures for Feminists, by Carrie N. Baker
If the Kansas primary vote is a sign, these ballot measures could expand women’s rights significantly in a number of key states.
Rise Up Times Summary, October 16, 2022
"Power is global and politics is local. That must change. We need a new language for understanding new global power formations as well as new international modes of politics to fight them." Henry Giroux
The Never-Ending Impact of a Forgotten Blitzkrieg Against the American Left
...the classic definition of socialism is public ownership of the means of production, an agenda item not on any imaginable American political horizon. In another sense, though, the charge is historically accurate because, both here and abroad, significant advances in health and welfare have often been spearheaded by socialist parties.
Chris Hedges: The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
From its inception, the CIA carried out assassinations, coups, torture, and illegal spying and abuse, including that of U.S. citizens, activities exposed in 1975 by the Church Committee hearings in the Senate and the Pike Committee hearings in the House. All these crimes, especially after the attacks of 9/11, have returned with a vengeance.
Chomsky: Optimism of the Will, with David Barsamian
The International Institute for Democracy and Electoral Assistance just issued the Global State of Democracy Report 2021. It says that the United States is a country where democracy is “backsliding.”
Colonialism, Compradors and the Militarized Crisis of Capitalism in Africa
The online discussion features analysis from organizers in hotspots on the ground in Africa and from others with uncompromising and lucid views on the state of affairs in Africa and strategies to get the “U.S. Out of Africa” and “Shut Down AFRICOM.”
Political Map of the World 2022
It is a political map because it shows the borders between sovereign states. A sovereign state is, in international law, a legal entity represented by a government that has sovereignty (self-determination) over a geographic area.