Noam Chomsky, whom I interviewed last Thursday at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, has influenced intellectuals in the United States and abroad in incalculable ways

Paine never veered from the proposition that liberty meant the liberty to speak the truth even if no one wanted to hear it

The Cecily McMillan Trial

Human misery and the deadly assault on the ecosystem are good for business

The corporate state, which has proved utterly incapable of addressing the grievances and injustices endured by the underclass, is extremely nervous about the mass movements that have swept the country

Excerpts from Chris Hedges talk at Northeastern University in support of its now banned Students for Justice in Palestine chapter

The attacks appear to be part of a coordinated effort by the Israeli government and the Israel lobby to blacklist all student groups that challenge the official Israeli narrative

Our current economic model, he said, will be of little use to us in an age of ecological deterioration and growing scarcities

No one who lives under constant surveillance, who is subject to detention anywhere at any time, whose conversations, messages, meetings, proclivities and habits are recorded, stored and analyzed, can be described as free

Interview on areas of extreme poverty that Hedges refers to as ‘sacrifice zones’, as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies