Chris Hedges's Blog, page 669
May 31, 2015
Karl Marx Was Right
The economist and philosopher foresaw that capitalism had built within it the seeds of its own destruction, that the greed of a tiny elite would eventually bring down the system. The final stages that he predicted are visible all around us now.
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May 24, 2015
Our Mania for Hope Is a Curse
Our corporate masters know that our obsession with hope—the irrational belief we are headed toward some glorious future—causes us to ignore reality and remain disempowered. And this is why they peddle the myth of inevitable progress across the cultural and political spectrum.
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If Trade Is War, It’s Time We Fought Back
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May 17, 2015
The Pathology of the Rich White Family
The rich white family is a menace, and the sickness within it is the most dangerous threat to America.
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May 10, 2015
A Nation of Snitches
All totalitarian systems, including our own, rely on informants to keep the people afraid and under control. We will not be free of corporate tyranny until the network of snitches—in the government and on the streets—is banished.
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May 3, 2015
Make the Rich Panic
As we saw in Baltimore, the corporate elites who hold absolute power react only when they become afraid. And they become afraid only when we take to the streets.
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A Century of Women Working for Peace
April 26, 2015
Rise of the New Black Radicals
A new generation of young black radicals is opting for revolution—a generation that sees through the facade of the corporate state and has rejected as sellouts Obama, Sharpton, Jackson, Dyson and others among the African-American political elite.
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Choosing Life
April 19, 2015
Choosing Life
As long as we exploit animals and kill them for food, we will exploit and kill each other. The willful numbness of our life as carnivores feeds our lack of empathy for the poor, our lust for war and ecocide.
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The Call for Reparations Rises Again
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April 12, 2015
For Nader, Defiance Is a Way of Life
Our democracy may be farce, our citizens may be entranced by electronic hallucinations and our ecosystem may be collapsing, but the longtime gadfly, armed with his 50-year-old typewriter, will not give up.
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April 5, 2015
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons
The companies that cruelly exploit prisoners will get the message only if it is delivered in the form of a sustained, nationwide economic action.
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March 29, 2015
No One Is Free Until All Are Free
The fight to end male violence against women is crucial to the struggles of wider liberation. We cannot stand up for some of the oppressed and ignore others who are oppressed.
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