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Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
“What is taking place is not neglect. It is not ineptitude. It is not policy failure. It is murder. It is murder because it is premeditated. It is murder because a conscious choice was made by the global ruling classes to extinguish life rather than protect it.”
Chris Hedges: Chris Hedges on Fascism, Civil Unrest, and the Police State
“I expect serious problems in terms of civil unrest and I expect pretty draconian responses from our internal security systems, and you can look at Ferguson to get a sense of what that looks like: that’s militarized police in armored personnel carriers with 50 caliber machine guns pointed at nonviolent protesters.”
Chris Hedges: America’s Death March
“The ruling elites, who first built a mafia economy and then built a mafia state, will continue under Biden, as they did under Trump, Barack Obama, George W. Bush, Bill Clinton and Ronald Reagan, to wantonly pillage and loot. The militarized police will not stop their lethal rampages in poor neighborhoods.”
Chris Hedges: America: Land of Make-Believe
“The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia. America, as it is discussed in public forums by politicians, academics and the media, is a fantasy, a Disneyfied world of make-believe.
America: Land of Make-Believe, by Chris Hedges
“The rhetoric we use to describe ourselves is so disconnected from reality that it has induced collective schizophrenia.”
The Age of Radical Evil, by Chris Hedges
Who are those who would sacrifice us on the altar of global capitalism? How did they amass the power to deny us a voice?
The Curse of Moral Purity, by Chris Hedges
Collective self-delusions, have now been mainstreamed. They are trumpeted by media platforms across the political spectrum and by the political establishment.
Did the Left Betray Israel and Zionism? Robert Sheer Interviews Susie Linfield
RS: The governments that all attacked Israel [in the Six-Day War}…they all made peace with Israel. The only people that didn’t make peace were the Palestinians, and the Palestinians were actually occupied by these Arab governments.
Legalizing Tyranny by Chris Hedges
The law as an instrument of morality at the state and federal levels has been deformed into an instrument of racialized social control.
Learning to Live in the Dark: Reading Arendt in the Time of Climate Change
Totalitarianism is. . . a system in which human beings, both as individuals and distinct groups, become surplus, unnecessary, and unwanted, cease to have any intrinsic value as human beings — are dehumanized.
John Pilger: US IS THE PROBLEM (Video)
The problem for the rest of the world actually, now, is the containment of the United States.
Trump’s Neo-Nazis and the Rise of Illiberal Democracy
Certainly, it is obvious that Trump is a racist, xenophobe and egregious sexist. But most of all, he is emblematic of a ruthless corporate, self-serving, greedy elite who will do anything to consolidate their class and financial power.
How Donald Trump Will Destroy Capitalism: Chris Hedges Explains (Video)
Totalitarian movements conjure up a lying world of consistency…
Kathy Kelly | “Would you like a drink of water?” Please Ask a Yemeni Child.
“Disarm and live.”
This world in arms is not spending money alone.
Henry A. Giroux | Trump’s War on Dangerous Memory and Critical Thought
Historical legacies of racist oppression and dangerous memories can be troublesome for the neo-fascist now governing American society.
Evergreene Digest | A diatribe against the cultural decline in America also offers a way out A review of America at War with Itself by Henry A. Giroux
A diatribe against the cultural decline in America also offers a way out A review of America at War with Itself ~ Henry A. Giroux Related: Table of Contents, Foreword, and the First Chapter from America at War with Itself Related: Will Americans Submit to Despotism in an Urge to ‘Escape from Freedom’Shelley Walia, The […]
Learning to See in the Dark Amid Catastrophe: An Interview With Deep Ecologist Joanna Macy
People dare to be comfortable with uncertainty if they are in solidarity with each other.
Henry A. Giroux | Combating Trump’s Neo-Fascism and the Ghost of “1984”
Wrongheaded Calls to “Give Trump a Chance”
Totalitarianism in the age of Trump: lessons from Hannah Arendt
As Pollock says: “What she was afraid of was the tendency to devalue action, for the economic to overtake the political.”
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