Chris Hedges's Blog, page 665
February 21, 2016
Why I Support Dr. Jill Stein for President
The candidate, seeking the Green Party nomination, is the only presidential hopeful who understands that what’s important is not the election—it’s the construction of anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist global movements. The building of these movements alone will save us.
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February 14, 2016
Bernie Sanders’ Phantom Movement
No “movement” or “political revolution” will ever be built within the Democratic Party. The Sanders campaign is just one more betrayal of the left.
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Here’s a Way to Hold Wall Street Accountable
February 7, 2016
Flint’s Crisis Is About More Than Water
The thousands of Michigan children who were knowingly poisoned were victims of an American moral malaise: Our nation has bred generations of bureaucrats who are blind to values other than self-advancement and profit.
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The Terror of Flint’s Poisoned Water
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FBI is Now Involved in the Investigation Into the Flint Water Crisis
January 31, 2016
Pity the Children
If we continue to ignore the hunger, poverty and desperate families and communities of our young, we guarantee there will be a huge, violent population plagued by crime, drug addiction and high incarceration rates. If we save the children, we save society.
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How Americans Are Increasingly Turning Their Backs on the Poor
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Negligent Federal Policy Puts Migrant Children in Danger
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The Suicide of the Liberal Church
January 24, 2016
The Suicide of the Liberal Church
The liberal denominations and their seminaries, by betraying the poor, especially people of color, in a desperate bid to stay financially solvent, are making themselves obsolete.
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Paul Krugman Is Wrong. Here’s Why Bernie Sanders’ Movement Will Provide Real Change
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The Porter Ranch Gas Leak: Blame Gov. Jerry Brown
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The Real Reason the White Working Class Abandoned the Democrats
January 17, 2016
The Mirage of Justice
There seldom are trials for the poor. Instead, under threat of draconian sentences, they are forced to accept plea bargains. The system is a sham set up for elites with god-like powers who seek to advance themselves and their agendas at the expense of the downtrodden.
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The Great Forgetting
Chris Hedges on Gun Culture: A CBC Radio Interview
January 10, 2016
The Great Forgetting
America’s refusal to fund and sustain its intellectual and cultural heritage has come with an enormous cost. We are now paying the bill.
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Bernie Sanders and Hillary Clinton Are Neck and Neck in Iowa and New Hampshire
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Can’t We Pause the Culture War and Just Watch the Game?
January 3, 2016
The American Empire: Murder Inc.
Investigative journalist Allan Nairn knows firsthand how the U.S. uses mass killing as a routine tool of foreign policy. The horrifying tactics of Islamic State, he says, are an imitation of what we have been doing and what we have been teaching our international proxies for generations.
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Why Black Lives Matter Is the Movement of the Year
December 27, 2015
The Illusion of Freedom
This deception will exist as long as we “stay in our place.” Once we call out power for what it is, once we resist, the chimera will vanish. The iron fist of history’s most sophisticated security and surveillance apparatus will assert itself with a terrifying fury.
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2015 in Review: Marriage Equality, Mass Shootings, Pope Francis and Islamic State
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2015: The Year in Government Secrecy
December 20, 2015
The Creeping Villainy of American Politics
The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech in political discourse are signs of our society’s morbidity.
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Do Christians and Muslims Worship the Same God? (Video)
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