Kevin Gosztola Interview: Do People Know Assange?
Why isn't Julian Assange a household word?
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.
Chris Hedges: The Return of Fascism
As in the past, these new fascist parties cater to emotional yearnings. They give vent to feelings of abandonment, worthlessness, despair and alienation. They promise unattainable miracles. We have seen this movie before.
Ignoring How Militarism Fuels Climate Change Will Be the Death of Us, by Sue Ann Martinson
Unfortunately, not much has changed since this article was origianlly published in the Women Against Military Madness Newsletter and on ScheerPost, except the climate crisis has worsened with extreme heat waves in southeast Asia and more climate dhange in the U.S. and worldwide while the fossil suel industry and the corporations drag their feet at does the Biden administration, dependent on their money.
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s Father on Looming Extradition and Imperative of Mass Resistance
A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.
Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike
At what point does a beleaguered population living near or below the poverty line rise in protest? This, if history is any guide, is unknown. But that the tinder is there is now undeniable, even to the ruling class.
Ukraine and the Triumph of Militarism, by Caitlin Johnstone
What makes Tierney’s triumphant militarist smut so annoying isn’t how he’s wrong, it’s how he’s right. You can take issue all you like with his use of the word “left” to describe liberal supporters of capitalism and empire who just want the empire to be a bit less embarrassing and maybe forgive their student loans, but that’s the fault of the generations of psyops that have gone into sabotaging the left and destroying its memory, not Tierney’s.
Chris Hedges: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
Rampant, unchecked militarism, as historian Arnold Toynbee notes, “has been by far the commonest cause of the breakdown of civilizations.”
The Chris Hedges Podcast: Dissecting the Mythology of War, with Andrew Bacevich
Twenty years of America’s Global War on Terror produced little tangible success while exacting enormous harm. In Iraq and Afghanistan, the United States sustained tens of thousands of casualties, expended trillions of dollars, and inflicted massive suffering on the very populations that we sought to “liberate.” --Macmillan Publishers
Noam Chomsky: Is U.S. Censorship Worse Than Soviet Russia?
American thinker Noam Chomsky discusses the changes taking place in American culture and what to expect.
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.
Chris Hedges: War with Iran
The corpses of civilians, including children, piled up by Israel and Saudi Arabia, who do much of their killing in Gaza and Yemen with U.S. weapons, don’t come close to the hundreds of thousands of dead we have left behind in the two decades of warfare we have perpetrated in the Middle East.