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Matt Taibbi: Meet the Censored — Chris Hedges
“Biden is a classic example of the traditional elites, who now are completely out of touch. Remember, he’s built an alliance with the traditional establishment of the Republican party, the old Liz Cheneys, and Bill Kristol, and all these people, who are appalled by the kind of cult-like Republican party that’s built up around Trump.”
Why Drop the Charges Against All 646 Arrestees in Minneapolis Post-election Demonstration on I94
Whether in war abroad or war at home, human rights in this day and age so often do not apply, especially for people of color.
Chris Hedges and Mr. Fish: Art – transcendent, transformative, revolutionary
Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
‘Nobody Left’: Pay Some Attention to the Man Behind the Curtain
The renowned political cartoonist sets out to ask the burning question: Is nobody LEFT any more?“
Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges on the State of the American Empire
Noam Chomsky addresses the current state of the American Empire after the attack on the capital on Jan 6, 2021. His new book: “Consequences of Capitalism: Manufacturing Discontent and Resistance.”
Glenn Greenwald: Julian Assange’s Imprisonment Exposes U.S. Myths About Freedom
“Censorship, like most repression, is reserved for those who dissent from majoritarian orthodoxies, not for those who express views comfortably within the mainstream.”
Dissent Is Being Criminalized Right Under Our Noses, by Michael Siegal
Under this definition, the Boston Tea Party itself was a terrorist act: “Property damage, with the intent to influence a government policy.”
What Kind of Times Are These, by Adrienne Rich
“…our country moving closer to its own truth and dread…”
Edward S. Herman: Master of Dissent (1925–2017)
Ed was the main author of “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media,” written with Noam Chomsky
‘There’s an Effort Around the Country to Curtail People’s Fundamental 1st Amendment Rights’
But when people do go into the street and are arrested, what then? When they put their bodies on the line and the state creates a new law to criminalize that resistance, what then?
Janine Jackson | Big Media Need to Fight for the Right to Protest
People who broke no windows and set no fires face up to 10 years in prison and $25,000 in fines.
Robert Parry | NYT’s Fake News about Fake News
Western news outlets and governments even take pride in blocking such dissenting views and contrary information from reaching the American and European publics.
Greenwald and Reed | Secret Docs Reveal: President Trump Has Inherited an FBI with Vast Hidden Powers
The revealing, once-secret FBI documents The Intercept is today reporting on, and publishing, demonstrate why protecting press freedom is more critical than ever.
Chris Hedges | The Real Purpose of the U.S. Government’s Report on Alleged Hacking by Russia
The purposes of the declassified report…offers no evidence of hacking…
Extreme Center Goes After Anti-Trump Protesters
Trump already is mapping out several of his most dangerous campaign promises…
Chris Hedges | The Surrender of the Liberal Left to Neoliberalism Gave Us Proto-fascism (Video)
Roots of our current situation are austerity, deindustrialization, and the impoverishment of half the nation
DN! Henry Giroux: Is Trump’s Rise a Result of America Declaring War on Institutions That Make Democracy Possible? (Video)
Henry Giroux critiques what he believes is a slide toward authoritarianism and other failings that led to the current political climate and rise of Donald Trump.
Henry Giroux | The Racist Killing Machine in the Age of Anti-Politics
We are in a new historical era, one that is marked a culture of lawlessness, extreme violence, and disposability, fueled, in part, by a culture of fear, a war on terror, and a deeply overt racist culture that is unapologetic in its disciplinary and exclusionary practices. This deep seated racism is reinforced by a culture of cruelty that is the modus operandi of neoliberal capitalism–a cage culture, a culture of combat, a hyper masculine culture that views killing those most vulnerable as sport, entertainment, and policy.
Chris Hedges Gives a Heartbreaking Speech on “Wages of Rebellion” (Video)
Chris Hedges speaks at Community Worker Program’s Tommy Douglas Institute May 2015. Lucideans Published on Apr 20, 2016 Media for the people! Click here to help Rise Up Times continue to bring you vital analysis of and commentary about current issues you won’t find in the mainstream corporate media.
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.
Karma Of Dissent: An Interview With Ann Wright
“Here’s somebody that’s spent a lot of years of her life in the military and the diplomatic corps and is now willing to speak about peace and challenge the rationale that America needs to have war in order to be the dominant power in the world.” By Ann Wright (about the author) opednews.com June 5, 2014 In late […]
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