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Hedges: Democrats, the More Effective Evil
“That the rage of the dispossessed is legitimate, even if it is expressed in inappropriate ways, is never acknowledged by the Democrats, who were instrumental in pushing through the trade deals, deindustrialization, tax loopholes for the rich, deficit spending, endless wars and austerity programs that have created crisis.”
Know This, Trump’s Attempted Coup on Jan. 6 Was Just Practice
“What’s left to trust and rely upon? Unorganized people organizing. What else!”
Noam Chomsky: Republicans Are Willing to Destroy Democracy to Retake Power
“The term “neoliberal proto-fascism” captures well both the features of the current party and the distinction from the fascism of the past. The commitment to the most brutal form of neoliberalism is apparent in the legislative record, crucially the subordination of the party to private capital, the inverse of classic fascism.”
Chris Hedges: Decline of US Empire, Liberal Class Suicide and Fascism
Chris Hedges has for years argued that the Democratic Party sold its soul long ago and turned its back on the American people and that we Americans have been living through what he calls a “corporate coup d’etat in slow motion.”
Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide of the Liberal Class
“…the liberals do what they always do, chatter endlessly about political and moral positions they refuse to make any sacrifices to achieve.”
Matt Taibbi: For What Are America’s Wealthy Thankful? A Worsening Culture War
“…both politicians and the bigger media organizations…keep playing up these tensions as click-generating theater, not caring about the consequences of wishing actual sectarian battle into existence.”
Some Progressives Are in Denial About Trump’s Fascist Momentum
“Fascist politics exchanges reality for the pronouncements of a single individual, or perhaps a political party. Regular and repeated obvious lying is part of the process by which fascist politics destroys the information space.”
Neoliberalism Has Radicalized a Whole Generation, by Conor Lynch
“Neoliberalism is the opposite of solidarity.”
Chris Hedges: Democrats Have No Moral Authority on Impeachment
“Democrats are…living in an alternative reality.”
Democracy fatigue and how to fight it: Henry Giroux on life in the age of Trump: DeVega interviews Giroux
“Neoliberal fascism and Trumpism are a form of fascist politics that basically wears its own racism and modes of exploitation and humiliation as a badge of honor.”
Dorothee Benz: ‘We Need to Do Everything We Can on All Fronts’
“Three years in, [the Democrats] still haven’t understood that it’s not business as usual. Right? They’ve had to be pushed every step of the way to show any real resistance to the extent that they have.”
Chris Hedges: Hope Lies in the Streets
“The violent suppression of protesters in France, Chile, Iraq, Iran, Lebanon, India and Hong Kong is already underway, a window into what may be coming to England, the United States and other countries that attempt to throw off the yoke of corporate oppression.”
An American Tragedy: Empire at Home and Abroad, by Maj. Danny Sjursen
As a child myself, educated in public schools that peddled the dangerous myth of American exceptionalism, I never imagined a day when my government would separate refugee children from their parents…
Our Opponents’ Actions Show We’re Winning: Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese
There are people in every segment of the power structure that see the problems and want to help put in place solutions.
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom, by Chris Hedges
The persecution of Assange is part of a broad assault against anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist news organizations.
DN! | “Trump Creates Crises and Preys on Fear”: Rep. Jayapal on Policy of Separating Kids from Parents
Also includes a DN! video: Caged Children & Terrified Infants: Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee Describes “Acts of Indecency” at Border
Chelsea Manning: We Need to Stop This ‘Death Machine of Power’
All these systems are overlapping, and they’re suffocating people, deliberately and methodically, over decades. And this has been a continuing—you know, like people have been building this whirling death machine of power for decades now.
Chris Hedges Sums Up Our Collective Predicament and the Solution
Commentary on gloomy Chris Hedges: Feel good industry denies reality of situation of planet earth, economic inequality and militarization of our culture. Predatory systems that effect all of us globally. CP Editor Counterpunch Media of the Day January 31, 2018 More articles by:CP EDITOR
Color Revolution Comes Home?
The whole system is guilty.
DN! | Bernie Sanders on Resisting Trump, Why the Democratic Party is an “Absolute Failure” & More
Bernie Sanders outlines the current victories, the struggle ahead, what the future can bring.
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