Chris Hedges's Blog, page 667
October 4, 2015
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
Two prominent Green Party members call for third-party involvement in city council and other local races. This, they rightly say, is a fundamental step toward the large-scale changes needed to save society.
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September 28, 2015
State Terror Against People of Color
Mothers of young men murdered by police in Orange County, Calif., testify to the systematic destruction of families and society that such shootings cause. And by extension they indict the capitalist evil that consciously holds the poor like animals in squalid pens.
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What It Means to Be a Socialist
September 20, 2015
What It Means to Be a Socialist
To be a socialist is to stand for the next generation and against the destructive forces of corporations and the military. If we do not move toward life, society will fall and take everyone with it.
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September 13, 2015
Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn?
The election of the socialist to head Britain’s Labour Party is a harbinger of the global revolt against neoliberalism, corporate tyranny and the U.S. war machine. It is time Americans join the fight.
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September 6, 2015
The Real Enemy Is Within
If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not a side issue. It is the issue.
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August 30, 2015
The Great Unraveling
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power is collapsing. If we do not quickly dismantle the structures of neoliberalism and global capitalism, we will be swept away in the coming upheavals.
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Islamic State’s Dangerous Effort to Wipe Out Humanity’s Past
August 23, 2015
Eulogy for a Friend
The Rev. Terry Burke stood with the suffering, ministering to them over three decades and going to jail for his protests on behalf of fired workers and against the corporations that are destroying the ecosystem.
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Amnesty International: Protecting the ‘Human Rights’ of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers
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Why an Oil Glut May Lead to a New World of Energy
August 16, 2015
Amnesty International: Protecting the ‘Human Rights’ of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers
The group’s call for prostitution decriminalization is another in a long line of triumphs for heartless neoliberal economics and capitalism’s grotesque commodification of human beings.
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My Teacher
A ‘Teacher of the Year’ Notes That Low Expectations Hold Back Students From Poor Families
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August 11, 2015
My Teacher
Truthdig has received a number of responses to Chris Hedges’ July 19 column on Coleman Brown, his late friend and professor at Colgate University. Today we have posted some of the best.
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August 9, 2015
Evoking the Wrath of Nature
The loss of reverence for the natural world—a reverence that was the centerpiece of native cultures—and the worshipping of human technology have created a hubris and myopia that threaten to kill us all.
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