Chris Hedges's Blog, page 666
December 13, 2015
Capitalism’s Cult of Human Sacrifice
Manchester, a poor Mexican-American neighborhood in Houston, is just one example of how industrial capitalism is killing us on an altar of profit.
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VIDEOS: Activists at the COP21 Climate Change Summit in Paris
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A New World of Renewable Energy Beckons
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High-Level Danger for Forest Giants
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Pre-Eminent Climate Scientist James Hansen Calls Paris Deal a ‘Fraud’; John Kerry Begs to Differ
December 6, 2015
Apocalyptic Capitalism
The Paris climate summit, dominated by the economic and political forces that are driving us toward destruction, will end with the usual empty rhetoric and a continued assault on the ecosystem.
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VIDEO: Indigenous People Demand Rights as Draft Climate Deal Is Reached in Paris
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Beijing Issues Its First Red Alert Over Smog as the City Goes Into Shutdown
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Emperor Weather
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Scientists Post Extreme Weather Warning
November 29, 2015
The Age of the Demagogues
The collapse of our political and cultural institutions has turned charlatans and thugs such as presidential hopeful Donald Trump into viable candidates.
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Abortion Clinics, White Christian Terrorism and GOP Candidates
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The GOP’s Self-Inflicted Wound
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VIDEO: Ta-Nehisi Coates on Police Brutality: The Cameras Are New—Not the Violence
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To Trump and His Supporters, Blacks and Muslims Are the Enemy
November 22, 2015
States of Terror
We waded into conflicts in the Middle East we did not understand, propelled forward by fantasy. And our folly spawned a death spiral of political, social and economic collapse, widespread poverty, massive displacement, misery and radical jihadism.
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VIDEO: John Oliver Explains Why We Seriously Don’t Need to Make U.S. Refugee Vetting Any Harder
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AUDIO: ‘Left, Right & Center’: On the Post-Paris Era
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VIDEO: Adele Adds the Magic Ingredient to Heal Thanksgiving Political Tensions on ‘SNL’
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Brussels Maintains State of Emergency as European Crackdown Grows
November 15, 2015
Pray With Your Feet
Civil disobedience to halt the assault by the oil and gas industry is an act of faith for retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard. His church is wherever protesters gather to stop corporations from destroying our rights or our ecosystem.
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More Warming Will Bring a More Polluted Future
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Global Warming Is Draining the Waters of Life
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Who Can Follow This Climate Leader?
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West Antarctic Ice Cascades Toward Crisis
November 6, 2015
The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
The release of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership confirms that the agreement would be another step in the global capitalists’ march to enslave us. Open, sustained revolt is our only option.
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What Socialism Means to Bernie Sanders—and You
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Obama Rejects Keystone XL: This Is Big. ... And Just the Beginning
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VIDEO: Obama Administration Rejects Keystone XL Pipeline
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‘Worse Than We Thought’: TPP Is a Total Corporate Power-Grab Nightmare
November 1, 2015
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
America’s most important contemporary political theorist, who died Oct. 21, warned that militarists and corporate capitalists, obsessed with creating a global empire, would extinguish our democracy. We should have heeded his warning.
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Truthdigger of the Week: Bidhya Devi Bhandari, Nepal’s First Female President
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Police Are the Greatest Threat Facing Black Kids in School
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VIDEO: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor
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VIDEO: Chris Hedges and John Ralston Saul Discuss Neoliberalism, False Populism and Donald Trump
October 25, 2015
Prostitution: Being Raped for a Living
Prostitution dehumanizes those trapped within it. Like America’s sanctification of militarism and war, the commodification of girls and women banishes empathy to glorify male violence.
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VIDEO: Chris Hedges on What It Truly Means to Be a Socialist
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VIDEO: Chris Hedges and Max Blumenthal on Israel, Gaza and ‘The 51 Day War’
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‘A Pipeline Straight to Jail’
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Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
October 18, 2015
Death by Fracking
We are committing suicide by failing to rise up in large numbers to oppose a practice that poisons our air and water, causes epidemics of cancers and other diseases, and lays a hellish hand on the ecosystem. The longer we wait for the political process to work, the more assured is our mutual destruction.
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Mangroves Face Struggle to Survive Rising Seas
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Abrupt Climate Change Can Occur Even Before a 2-Degree Rise in Warming
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Science Flies High to Unravel Clouds’ Climate Effects
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VIDEO: This Artist Is ‘Erasing’ the U.S.-Mexico Border Fence With Blue Paint
October 11, 2015
‘A Pipeline Straight to Jail’
Millions of brilliant Americans—often people of color—have been set up from birth to be put behind bars. Boris Franklin was one of them, and his words dramatically trace a powerful system that destroys lives.
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VIDEO: Politicon 2015: Ann Coulter Claims She Fed Donald Trump ‘That Spicy Stuff on Mexican Rapists’
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Truthdiggers of the Week: The Bard Prison Initiative Debate Team and Its Supporters
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Harvard’s Prestigious Debate Team Loses to New York Inmates
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Report: Shift in Sentencing Guidelines Will Mean Freedom for 6,000 U.S. Inmates
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