Chris Hedges's Blog, page 656
April 17, 2017
The Price of Resistance
To stand with the oppressed means being treated like the oppressed.
Related Entries
[image error]
Neocons Have a Long List of Endless-War Ideas for Donald Trump to Implement
[image error]
‘On Contact With Chris Hedges’: Putting the War in Syria in Full Context
[image error]
Dennis Kucinich Questions White House’s Gas-Attack Narrative (Audio and Video)
[image error]
Is This the ‘Worst Moment in American-Russian Relations’ Since the Cuban Missile Crisis?
April 11, 2017
Chris Hedges and Nikhil Goyal Discuss How to Save the American Education System (Video)
The journalist tells Hedges that the system is “designed to inculcate the traits of obedience, punctuality and respect for authority within working-class children.”
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
April 8, 2017 Chris Hedges Criticizes Mainstream Media’s ‘Cheerleading’ for Syria Strike (Video)
April 8, 2017
Chris Hedges Criticizes Mainstream Media’s ‘Cheerleading’ for Syria Strike (Video)
The Truthdig columnist explains how “the corporate media has presented precisely the narrative and the images that the deep state wants,” and the deep state in turn manipulates President Trump’s foreign policy decisions.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
April 8, 2017 Jared Kushner in Charge
April 7, 2017
The Pandora’s Box of War
Amid the U.S. outrage over Syrian civilian deaths from banned weapons, we should not forget America’s role in creating and perpetuating the seemingly endless conflict.
Related Entries
[image error]
Documents Reveal NYPD Infiltrated Black Lives Matter
[image error]
‘Iconic: Black Panther’ Ties Then With Now
[image error]
Does the U.S. Attack Against Syria Violate International Law? (Video)
[image error]
Trump Intervenes in the Civil War in Syria
April 4, 2017
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets’ Importance in an Age of Radical Evil (Video)
“Many of these prophets stand up against what [Martin Luther King Jr.] called the ‘giant triplets’ ” of racism, extreme consumerism and militarism the professor and author tells Truthdig columnist Hedges.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
April 2, 2017 A Nation of the Walking Dead
April 2, 2017
A Nation of the Walking Dead
Donald Trump mastered the techniques of turning desperate gamblers at his casinos into zombies, techniques he used to become president.
Related Entries
[image error]
U.N. Experts: Americans’ Right to Protest Is in Danger Under Trump
[image error]
As Seas Around Mar-a-Lago Rise, Trump’s Budget Cuts Could Thwart a Local Climate Action Plan
[image error]
Donald Trump’s Technique for Dealing With Bad News Is to Create Confusion and Partisanship
[image error]
Veteran Washington Attorney Calls the Trump-Russia Allegations a ‘Hall of Mirrors’
March 28, 2017
How Gambling Has Become America’s Premier Form of Entertainment and Escape (Video)
Professor Natasha Dow Schüll and Chris Hedges discuss how “casino capitalism” is designed to keep people away from “a position where they [can] act as decision-making subjects.”
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
March 26, 2017 The Feuding Kleptocrats
March 26, 2017
The Feuding Kleptocrats
While the power elites—inside and outside of government—squabble over corporate health insurance they are demolishing the remnants of democratic institutions and programs.
Related Entries
[image error]
Neil Gorsuch and the Deconstruction of the Administrative State
[image error]
Trump Appoints Heritage Foundation Staffer to Health and Human Services Post
[image error]
Bernie Sanders: Democrats’ Intransigence Is the Solution, Not the Problem (Video)
[image error]
The GOP Crusade Against Health Care Is Class Warfare
March 25, 2017
Chris Hedges Explains the Importance of ‘Robust’ Public Broadcasting (Video)
The Truthdig columnist, whose talk show is nominated for a Daytime Emmy, joins correspondent Ashlee Banks to discuss why it’s vital to broadcast dissident voices.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
March 25, 2017 The Challenge to the Dakota Access Pipeline Isn’t Over: Cheyenne River Sioux Take Battle to Court
March 19, 2017
A Last Chance for Resistance
Unless we act now, Americans will remember 2017 as the year their naive belief in the recovery of democracy died under the heel of despotism.
Related Entries
[image error]
The First Brick in the Wall
[image error]
U.S. Pressures Group of 20 Into Dropping Climate-Change Reference From Joint Statement
[image error]
The Theme That Unites All Trump’s Initiatives Is Cruelty
[image error]
Majority of Young Americans See Trump as ‘Illegitimate,’ Poll Finds
Chris Hedges's Blog
- Chris Hedges's profile
- 1886 followers
