Chris Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion

The war in Ukraine is intimately linked to the real existential crisis we face – the climate crisis. The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warns that greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, and be nearly halved this decade, to thwart global catastrophe….Triggered by war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices have pushed the US and other countries to call on domestic oil producers to increase fossil fuel extraction and exacerbate the climate crisis. Oil and gas lobbyists are demanding the Biden administration lift prohibitions on offshore drilling and on federal lands.

Henry A. Giroux | Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

Surveillance, in any land where it is ubiquitous and inescapable, generates distrust and divisions among its citizens, curbs their readiness to speak freely to each other, and diminishes their willingness to even dare to think freely.                                      -Ariel Dorfman By Henry A Giroux, Truthout.org | Op-Ed  Monday, 10 February 2014 09:15 (Image: Jared Rodriguez More

Henry A. Giroux | Totalitarian Paranoia in the Post-Orwellian Surveillance State

Surveillance, in any land where it is ubiquitous and inescapable, generates distrust and divisions among its citizens, curbs their readiness to speak freely to each other, and diminishes their willingness to even dare to think freely.                                      -Ariel Dorfman By Henry A Giroux, Truthout.org | Op-Ed  Monday, 10 February 2014 09:15 (Image: Jared Rodriguez More

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