Chris Hedges's Blog, page 668
August 2, 2015
A Haven From the Animal Holocaust
Farm Sanctuary makes you ask: Do you want to abet brutal abuse and mass slaughter? Do you want to eat creatures that clearly have distinct personalities and emotions?
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July 26, 2015
Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel
To bring justice to Palestine, there are no mechanisms left except BDS—boycott, divestment and sanctions against Israel.
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July 19, 2015
My Teacher
The Rev. Coleman Brown, who had the most profound impact of all my teachers on my education, died in December. He taught me how to think. And in being taught how to think, I was taught how to be free.
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The Iran Deal May Not Be Perfect, but It’s Better Than the Alternative
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Cornel West Blasts Ta-Nehisi Coates for Perceived Obama Worship
July 12, 2015
We Are All Greeks Now
What is happening in Greece in the name of austerity has already happened to the poor and the working class in the United States. If the global financial elites continue in power, the misery of the Greeks will become our own.
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Benghazi! Why Trey Gowdy Is Concealing Blumenthal Deposition
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July 5, 2015
Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State
Only when corporate capitalism is demolished will the indiscriminate use of lethal police force and mass incarceration be reformed. And only then will we finally address white supremacy and racism.
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Donald Trump, Dumpee: Forgetting to Use the GOP Racial Dog-Whistle Is an Expensive Mistake
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June 28, 2015
The Lonely American
Communal activities, from attendance at sporting events to civic organizations, have plummeted. We are isolated and have become hapless victims of corporate propaganda. We must reconnect to resist.
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AUDIO: Chris Hedges on Rebels, Visionaries and ‘Wages of Rebellion’
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America’s Slave Empire
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Orwell, Huxley and America’s Plunge Into Authoritarianism
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Glenn Greenwald: ‘Terrorism’ Is a Meaningless Propaganda Term
June 21, 2015
America’s Slave Empire
The only way brutality and economic exploitation in prisons can be halted is by attacking the system of neoslavery that defines our prison system. Alabama prisoners are leading a call for work stoppages in an effort to break the U.S. system of mass incarceration.
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Hope and Hate in Charleston
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On Becoming Black, Becoming White and Being Human: Rachel Dolezal and the Fluidity of Race
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Pope Francis Issues Major Call to Rescue a Planet in Crisis
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Coroner Releases Names of Nine People Killed at Church in South Carolina (Updated)
June 16, 2015
America’s Electoral Farce
The power elite wants us to participate in the political charade of choreographed elections. Instead, our energy should be directed at ripping down the structures of the corporate state.
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Dear Candidate Clinton: Pardon Edward Snowden
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The Electoral Farce
The power elite wants us to participate in the political charade of choreographed elections. Instead, our energy should be directed at ripping down the structures of the corporate state.
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June 7, 2015
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Repulsed by tales of U.S. atrocities told by veterans of the Afghanistan and Iraq wars, Spc. Robert Weilbacher applied for and was granted conscientious objector status. Then the Pentagon pulled a fast one, leaving him trapped in a hypermasculine dystopia.
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The Sex Industry’s Attack on Feminists
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