Chris Hedges's Blog, page 661
October 16, 2016
Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism
The Democratic elites, we know from leaked emails, helped elevate a buffoonish rival whom they saw as the perfect foil for Hillary Clinton. The game they are playing—if they do not address our rising inequality, despair and loss of civil liberties—will usher in an American fascism.
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Were Kansas Terrorism Suspects Self-Radicalized—or Were Their Actions Inspired by Donald Trump?
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Fact-Checking Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton on the Billionaires’ Tax Break
October 9, 2016
The New Slave Revolt
The work stoppages and hunger strikes being carried out in prisons across the country show that many of those locked in cages have a political consciousness we must begin to emulate.
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After Days of Political Controversy, Presidential Nominees Hold Their Ground in Second Debate
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Election Fraud Concerns Extend Beyond Conspiracy Theorists
October 2, 2016
The Empire Strikes Back
U.S. imperialism and vicious corporate exploitation have returned to Latin America, and the region’s populist governments and movements are broken or in disarray. The defeat of the Latin American left is our defeat.
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Insulting Alicia Machado Won’t Help Donald Trump Attract Female Voters
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Cast Your Vote: Which Corporation Most Deserves a Boycott?
September 25, 2016
Police Killings Won’t Stop
The corporate state, which has destroyed traditional forms of social control such as stable employment and cohesive communities, has no intention of curbing police violence. Militarized police who can kill with impunity are all that lies between the corporate state and revolt.
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All We Want Is Dignity, Respect and a Job
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Robert Scheer and Journalist David Cay Johnston Discuss the Duplicity of Trump
September 18, 2016
The Courtiers and the Tyrants
We must not confuse the political elites who function as courtiers to corporate power with the tyrannical leaders who actually drive corporatism. Our real enemy, lurking behind the curtain, is usually faceless and anonymous.
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The 2016 Presidential Election ‘Did Not Take Place’
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Trump’s Yuge Bamboozle
September 11, 2016
Fooled Again
We have once more been baited and hooked by the corporate elites who look upon the electorate as malleable and disposable.
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Dear Media Elites, Here’s How You Have Donald Trump Completely Wrong
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What Was Saudi Arabia’s Involvement in 9/11?
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September 4, 2016
The Intellectuals We Abandon
The late political philosopher Sheldon Wolin explicated the mechanisms of control and manipulation used by the powerful. But those who most need to read his work have been left in darkness by an academy that has turned its back on the oppressed and caters to the elites. (Pictured, Wolin and James Baldwin, right.)
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August 31, 2016
America the Illiterate
The change from a print-based to an image-based society has transformed our nation. All the traditional tools of democracies—including dispassionate scientific and historical truth, facts, news and rational debate—are useless instruments in a world that lacks the capacity to use them.
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Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
August 23, 2016
Venturing Into ‘the Capitalist Labyrinth’ (Video)
In this week’s edition of “On Contact,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and author Rob Urie explore how our economic system is responsible for nuclear weaponry, climate change and imperialism.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
August 23, 2016 Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
Venturing Into “the Capitalist Labyrinth” (Video)
In this week’s edition of “On Contact,” Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and author Rob Urie explore how our economic system is responsible for nuclear weaponry, climate change and imperialism.
January 11, 2006 Site Preferences
August 23, 2016 Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction
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