The disintegration of the ruling political parties, along with the discrediting of the established political and economic elites, presage radical change
CHRIS HEDGES: So, we spoke previouslyĀ about the parasitic quality of the banks, hedge funds and the speculative class that has in essence…
Our civil liberties have been transformed into privileges
The global elites have no intention of interfering with the profits, or ending government subsidies, for the fossil fuel industry and the extraction industries
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership confirms what even its most apocalyptic critics feared
Wolin struggled against forces he knew he could not vanquish, never wavering in the fight as an intellectual and, more important, in the fight as a citizen
The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is…
John Malkin interviews Chris Hedges about the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the Occupy movement, Hedges recent book and more.
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling
Shoot us down. We keep coming. Lie on us. We keep coming. Subordinate us. We keep coming. Thatās the fightback
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