Chris Hedges | American Prophets with Albert Raboteau (Video)
Featuring Fannie Lou Hamer and Dorothy Day: the theological and ethical motivations of prophetic figures and their importance in an age of radical evil
Chris Hedges | American Prophets with Albert Raboteau (Video)
Featuring Fannie Lou Hamer and Dorothy Day: the theological and ethical motivations of prophetic figures and their importance in an age of radical evil
VIDEOS: Chris Hedges & Michael Hudson | Days of Revolt: How We Got to Junk Economics
A politicians job is to deliver whoever voted for you to your backers, who are on Wall Street. Whether you are a Republican or a Democrat, but especially if you are a Democrat that's really the Wall Street wing of the American political system. The Republicans are for the corporate monopoly, oil and gas wing of it.
Chris Hedges and Michael Hudson: The Global Economy Is a Giant Ponzi Scheme
We should add that under this predatory form of economics, you game the system. So you privatize pension funds, you force them into the stock market, an overinflated stock market. But because of the way companies go public, it’s the hedge fund managers who profit. And it’s those citizens whose retirement savings are tied to the stock market who lose.
Noam Chomsky: My Hopes for the Future
Destruction of ISIS by any means that can be imagined might lay the basis for something worse, as has been happening quite regularly with military intervention. The state system in the region imposed by French and British imperial might after World War I, with little concern for the populations under their control, is unraveling.
Video. Abby Martin: America’s Unofficial Religion — The War On An Idea
A visual and narrative history of anticommunism and socialism in the U.S.
Marc Ash: Socialism? Let’s Cut to the Chase
“A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.” – Noam Chomsky
Sue Ann Martinson | Dissent, Activism, and Oppression in the 1970s and Today: An Exploration
Martinson: These actions for justice and peace, carried out with passion and love, are living demonstrations of moral indignation against a morally bankrupt system and of taking a stand in action in accordance with what should be our Constitutional civil rights and civil liberties.
Chris Hedges: Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
Hedges: I will not support a politician who sells out the Palestinians and panders to the Israel lobby any more than I will support a politician who refuses to confront the bloated military and arms industry or white supremacy and racial injustice. The Palestinian issue is not a tangential issue. It is an integral part of Americans’ efforts to dismantle our war machine, the neoliberal policies that see austerity and violence as the primary language for speaking to the rest of the world, and the corroding influence of money in the U.S. political system.
Peter Phillips> Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievements of Socialism
Cuba Sets a Global Example for the Achievements of Socialism By Peter Phillips (about the author) February 21, 2012 opednews.com In an all-day conference, February 10, 2012, some 120 authors, professors, and journalists, from dozens of Caribbean, American and African countries, met with Fidel Castro. Those attending were invited participants for the Intellectual Encounters for Peace and the More