Tag Archives: Robert Sheer

Chris Hedges: My Student Comes Home

June 30, 2020 · by · in Constitutional Rights, Education, Human Rights, Justice, Racism

“I feel a mixture of excitement and trepidation,” he said. “It feels so strange right now to be walking outside without handcuffs and shackles.”

Patrick Cockburn: The Cynical Forces Behind America’s Forever Wars

June 13, 2020 · by · in Israel, Syria, U.S. Foreign Policy · 1 Comment

“These lessons are pretty obvious, but they don’t seem to be learned,” he goes on, “particularly by the sort of political elite, above all in Washington.”

Chris Hedges Interview: America’s Broken Political System and How We Rise Up To Overthrow It

April 18, 2020 · by · in Activism, Independent Media, mainstream media

Chris Hedges discusses the demise of Truthdig and the media, Julian Assange, and America now and the relationship of compassion and activism in resistance.

Did the Left Betray Israel and Zionism? Robert Sheer Interviews Susie Linfield

June 8, 2019 · by · in Israel, Palestine, U.S. Foreign Policy

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.

‘We the Corporations’ with Robert Sheer and Adam Winkler (Audio and Transcript)

May 29, 2018 · by · in capitalist system, Constitutional Rights, Corporations/Capitalism, Government/Politics, Racism

The Constitution doesn’t mention corporations, right?
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…the fact is it’s the subversion of the 14th Amendment, by the corporations, by the rich.

Chris Hedges | RT America Torched in Witch Hunt ’17

November 15, 2017 · by · in Congress, Economy, Election, Media, Media Advocacy · 1 Comment

The ruling elites are desperately trying to shift the focus away from the cause of the political insurgencies on the left and the right: extreme social inequality.

Michael Ratner on American Imperialism

May 14, 2016 · by · in Civil Liberties, Constitutional Rights, corporate globalization, U.S. Empire, U.S. Foreign Policy · 2 Comments

[Truthdig] Editor’s note: Michael Ratner, the pioneering civil rights and constitutional lawyer, died Wednesday from cancer complications at age 72. In 2013, Ratner spoke on Truthdig Radio with Truthdig Editor in Chief Robert Scheer and former Truthdig Managing Editor Peter Scheer. To honor Ratner, we are reposting the audio of that interview. Truthdig Radio  May 12, […]

Evergreene Digest: Sheer and Hedges: They Know Everything About You, Part 7

August 9, 2015 · by · in Civil Liberties, Constitutional Rights, Freedom of Speech, Human Rights

Robert Scheer to Chris Hedges: ‘I Will Not Blame’ the American Masses for Imperialism” EvergreeneDigest.org In the final installment of the seven-part interview on The Real News Network, after columnist Chris Hedges tells the Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer that he thinks the American public has been “far more complicit [in the culture of violence] than […]

▶ Scheer and Hedges: They Know Everything About You |Video Parts 1 to 7

June 30, 2015 · by · in corporate empire, Corporatism/Capitalism, U.S. Economy

How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy”

Senate Fails to Pass USA Freedom Act but Blocks NSA Phone Data Collection

May 24, 2015 · by · in Congress, Constitutional Rights, Surveillance · 1 Comment

In what Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer calls “a big victory for Rand Paul and for all who fear uncontrolled government surveillance,” the legislative body was unable to extend the NSA phone data collection program. Scheer mentions the Kentucky senator because of his 10-hour, 30-minute filibuster Wednesday in which he aimed to prolong the voting process […]

Robert Sheer, et al: ‘Left, Right & Center’: Deadly Shooting, Foreign Policy and Ed Snowden

June 1, 2014 · by · in Media Criticism, Militarism, Surveillance, Women

Photo by The U.S. Army (CC BY 2.0) truthdig.com  May 30, 2014 Click here to listen. Truthdig Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer and the other “Left, Right & Center” panelists discuss what led to Elliot Rodger’s deadly attacks in Santa Barbara, President Obama’s announcement that he will reduce the U.S. military presence in Afghanistan from 30,000 troops to 10,000, and NSA […]

Robert Sheer: The Super Bowl of War — Three Decades of Failure in Afghanistan

February 4, 2014 · by · in corporate media empire, Militarism, Military Madness

By Robert Scheer  truthdig.com  February 3, 2014   Lt. Chuck Nadd and his girlfriend wave as they ride on the wagon pulled by Clydesdales aboard the famously-red Budweiser beer wagon in a parade, led by a marching band in Winter Park, Fla. The brewer fashioned an ad around the parade that ran during the Super Bowl. (AP […]

Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer Discuss American Fascism

November 1, 2013 · by · in corporate empire, corporate media empire, Corporatism/Capitalism, Media Criticism, Occupy

Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer Discuss American Fascism LISTEN NOW  The two celebrated journalists discuss the collapse of vital institutions and the rise of demagogues and charlatans in post-meltdown America. 10/11/13 Free View In iTunes A truthdig.com Podcast Subscribe or “Follow” us on WAMMToday.org. For the TC EVENTS calendar and the ACTIONS AND ACTION ALERTS click on […]