Ralph Nader: Weaning the State Department Off War-making
Perhaps, the State Department can host a meeting with Veterans for Peace to remind itself of its original mission.
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
Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
"...window dressing, masking the root cause of the demise of America — unchecked oligarchic power and greed. The longer wealth is funneled upwards into the hands of a tiny, oligarchic cabal, who put Biden into office and whose interests he assiduously serves, we are doomed."
Chris Hedges: The New Rules of the Game
"Should Bernie Sanders manage to evade the snares, traps and minefields laid for him by the Democratic Party elites, should he miraculously become the party’s nominee, the game of least worst will radically change."
The Problem With Impeachment, by Chris Hedges
Trump...will not go quietly into this good night. He will attempt to bring the whole rotten edifice down with him. And he may succeed.
A Whitened Media Shaped by Bill Clinton’s Telecom Act Misses Reasons for Hillary’s Defeat
The media’s current preoccupation with all things Russian, when the far more imminent threat is much closer to home, represents what is known as “cognitive dissonance,” which in the U.S. manifests as the white settlers’ reflexive attempt to rationalize their own savagery to avoid unsettling and even traumatizing truths. by Jon Jeter Mint Press News January More
The Politics of Sexual Harassment and War
A culture that tolerates various forms of abusive and predatory behavior, whether it’s silence amid a culture of sexual harassment or blind patriotism toward dubiously justified wars, has lost its moral compass.
Chris Hedges | The Silencing of Dissent
The corporate state was in crisis at the end of the Obama presidency. It was widely hated. It became vulnerable to attacks by the critics it had pushed to the fringes.
Chris Hedges | The Silencing of Dissent
The corporate state was in crisis at the end of the Obama presidency. It was widely hated. It became vulnerable to attacks by the critics it had pushed to the fringes.
Chris Hedges | The Mafia State
We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
Chris Hedges | How Power Works
The avalanche of government lies permeates the narrative—not a surprise to anyone who has reported on the inner workings of power...
DN! VIDEO | Black Lives Matter Activist: Bill Clinton’s Defense of “Superpredator” Policies Dehumanizes Us
Abdullah: I think what [Clinton’s] really neglecting is the policies that bring crack cocaine into inner cities in the first place, the policies that create unemployment and underemployment in the first place, and then the policies that he initiates, that then go ahead and further oppress and repress communities.