Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home
“I feel a mixture of excitement and trepidation,” he said. “It feels so strange right now to be walking outside without handcuffs and shackles.”
Patrick Cockburn: The Cynical Forces Behind America’s Forever Wars
“These lessons are pretty obvious, but they don’t seem to be learned,” he goes on, “particularly by the sort of political elite, above all in Washington.”
Chris Hedges Interview: America’s Broken Political System and How We Rise Up To Overthrow It
Chris Hedges discusses the demise of Truthdig and the media, Julian Assange, and America now and the relationship of compassion and activism in resistance.
Did the Left Betray Israel and Zionism? Robert Sheer Interviews Susie Linfield
RS: The governments that all attacked Israel [in the Six-Day War}...they all made peace with Israel. The only people that didn’t make peace were the Palestinians, and the Palestinians were actually occupied by these Arab governments.
'We the Corporations' with Robert Sheer and Adam Winkler (Audio and Transcript)
The Constitution doesn’t mention corporations, right? +++ ...the fact is it’s the subversion of the 14th Amendment, by the corporations, by the rich.
‘We the Corporations’ with Robert Sheer and Adam Winkler (Audio and Transcript)
The Constitution doesn’t mention corporations, right? +++ ...the fact is it’s the subversion of the 14th Amendment, by the corporations, by the rich.
Chris Hedges | RT America Torched in Witch Hunt ’17
The ruling elites are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the cause of the political insurgencies on the left and the right: extreme social inequality.
Chris Hedges | RT America Torched in Witch Hunt ’17
The ruling elites are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the cause of the political insurgencies on the left and the right: extreme social inequality.
Michael Ratner on American Imperialism
[Truthdig] Editor’s note: Michael Ratner, the pioneering civil rights and constitutional lawyer, died Wednesday from cancer complications at age 72. In 2013, Ratner spoke on Truthdig Radio with Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and former Truthdig Managing Editor Peter Scheer. To honor Ratner, we are reposting the audio of that interview. Truthdig Radio May 12, More
▶ Scheer and Hedges: They Know Everything About You |Video Parts 1 to 7
How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy"
Senate Fails to Pass USA Freedom Act but Blocks NSA Phone Data Collection
In what Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer calls “a big victory for Rand Paul and for all who fear uncontrolled government surveillance,” the legislative body was unable to extend the NSA phone data collection program. Scheer mentions the Kentucky senator because of his 10-hour, 30-minute filibuster Wednesday in which he aimed to prolong the voting process More
Robert Sheer, et al: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Deadly Shooting, Foreign Policy and Ed Snowden
Photo by The U.S. Army (CC BY 2.0)truthdig.com May 30, 2014 Click here to listen. Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss what led to Elliot Rodger’s deadly attacks in Santa Barbara, President Obama’s announcement that he will reduce the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan from 30,000 troops to 10,000, and NSA whistle-blower More