Chris Hedges's Blog, page 660
December 11, 2016
Demagogue-in-Chief
Donald Trump will use the presidency to inflate his personality cult and increase his family’s wealth. Those who do not pay homage to his megalomania, or swell the profits of his financial empire, will be viciously attacked and persecuted.
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Trump’s Capricious Use of Power to Denigrate and Even Endanger His Critics Must End
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December 4, 2016
The Mafia State
The greed of the 1 percent and their dismantling of good governance have given rise to a criminal economy and criminal state embodied in the presidency of Donald J. Trump.
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Donald Trump’s Treasury Secretary Pick Is a Lucky Man. Very Lucky.
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How the Media Iced Out Bernie Sanders and Helped Donald Trump Win
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President Obama Spent ‘Unprecedented’ Billions on Fossil Fuel Projects Around the World
November 27, 2016
Waiting for the Barbarians
The collapse of our democratic institutions, the pillaging of the economy by the elites and the surrender of our most basic constitutional rights will be enshrined permanently into law by a crisis.
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Chris Hedges Meets the Resistance at Standing Rock
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Deconstructing Thanksgiving at Standing Rock
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Canada’s Indigenous Peoples Weigh In on Global Warming at COP22
November 20, 2016
We Are All Deplorables
Liberals have no moral authority to preach to a dispossessed white working class about racism, multiculturalism, identity politics or diversity. The abject failure by liberals to fight for economic justice triggered the protofascist backlash embodied by Donald Trump’s election victory.
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The Crisis of Conservative Intellectuals?
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Donald Trump Assembling Team of ‘Swamp Creatures,’ Says Democratic Lawmaker Keith Ellison
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Truthdigger of the Week: Radical Political Strategist Micah White
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Christian Assyrian Woman Is Harassed as ‘Terrorist’ for Speaking the Language of Jesus
November 11, 2016
It’s Worse Than You Think
The election of Donald Trump, whose appeal to voters is based on magical thinking, assures the rise of a police state unlike anything seen in American history. Its fangs will appear the moment Trump’s base realizes it has been betrayed.
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Glenn Greenwald on Who’s to Blame for Trump’s Election
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Elizabeth Warren: Democracy Demands That We Work Together on America’s Agenda
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Donald Trump Promised to ‘Drain the Swamp’ but His Transition Team List Raises Doubts
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Donald Trump Praises Protesters After First Blaming Media for Inciting Them
November 9, 2016
Chris Hedges Unmasks American Empire in ‘Unspeakable’
In this new book, the award-winning Truthdig columnist discusses taboo topics in America—including his experience as a radical war correspondent at The New York Times—with fellow journalist David Talbot.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
November 8, 2016 ‘Hold Fast to the Causes of the Oppressed’: Chris Hedges Speaks at Jill Stein Rally in Philadelphia
Chris Hedges Recounts His Life as a War Correspondent With The New York Times
In a new book called “Unspeakable,” the award-winning Truthdig columnist discusses taboo topics in America—including his experience at The Gray Lady—with fellow journalist David Talbot.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
November 8, 2016 ‘Hold Fast to the Causes of the Oppressed’: Chris Hedges Speaks at Jill Stein Rally in Philadelphia
November 6, 2016
Defying the Politics of Fear
The major political parties offer us nothing but continued corruption and oppression. A simple act of citizen defiance can be a first step on a road to profound change.
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The Enablers Who Helped Donald Trump Do Incalculable Damage to America
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Podesta Emails: Clinton Advisers Discuss Chelsea’s Wedding Tab and the Need to ‘Crush’ Sanders
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October 30, 2016
American Irrationalism
We are captive to images and forms of propaganda that make us the most self-deluded population on the planet. We are driven by manipulated emotions, not fact or reason. And this is why, even now, Donald Trump could become president.
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October 23, 2016
How Power Works
Historian Heather Ann Thompson’s book on the 1971 Attica prison uprising details the government’s brutality, lies and propaganda, demonization of the poor, obstruction of justice and silencing of those who tried to tell the truth. She exposes the American blueprint for social control.
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The Damage of Today’s Ethos of Doing Whatever It Takes to Win Is Incalculable
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As Election Day Nears, Military Hawks Circle to Promote New Wave of War
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Chris Hedges, Eddie Glaude’s Democracy Now! Debate: Which Candidate Should Win Progressives’ Votes?
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