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.

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.

US Making a Deadly Mistake in Afghanistan, Says Former Diplomat

“Under General (David) Petraeus, starting in 2010, the U.S. initiated scores of airstrikes, as well as dozens of nighttime commando raids, daily against Afghan insurgent targets," he recalled. "Many of these strikes hit legitimate targets, but many more of them hit civilians. The surge in increase of public support for the Taliban in areas of the air and commando strikes is undeniable.”

Catherine Shakdam: Is There Room For Islam In Democracy, Freedom Of Speech, And Secularism?

From the article: “If Islam is portrayed as a mortal enemy to Western civilization and values it is because it poses a formidable obstacle to imperialistic hegemonic interests. Democracy, freedom of expression, and secularism are merely masks worn by the one-percenters (1%), the global elite that seeks to enslave all of humanity as it simultaneously destroys the planet in its greed for resources, wealth, and absolute power.

Chris Hedges: A Message From the Dispossessed

Hedges: If you spend time as I have in Gaza, Iraq, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt and Sudan, as well as the depressing, segregated housing projects known as banlieues that ring French cities such as Paris and Lyon, warehousing impoverished North African immigrants, you begin to understand the brothers Cherif Kouachi and Said Kouachi, who were killed Friday in a gun battle with French police. There is little employment in these pockets of squalor. Racism is overt. Despair is rampant...

Susu Jeffrey: Bring Back Our Girls

Bring Back Our Girls  by Susu Jeffrey Bring Back Our Girls. Bring Back Our Girls since April 15th, 2014 it's been months & months forever for teenage girls assembled for their final physics exam. Kidnapped in the middle of the night. Bring Back Our Girls. Bring back our 276 girl students or is it 329 More

(Video) Jeremy Scahill> The War Against Whistleblowers & Inside America’s Covert Wars

At this year's Socialism Conference in Chicago, Jeremy Scahill spoke about the war against whistleblowers, what a country's treatment of its own citizens says about how it will treat non-citizens and the difference between having principles and playing a partisan game. [youtube=http://youtu.be/4xU-eH7IpCw] Published on Wednesday, July 17, 2013 by The Nation via Common Dreams videonation  Published on Jul 11, More

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