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May 6, 2013
The Death of Truth
By Chris Hedges—The use of vast global resources against Julian Assange and WikiLeaks presages a dystopian world where anyone who exposes corruption, lies and crimes of power will be branded a terrorist.
May 5, 2013 Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange
May 3, 2013 Jason Collins’ Place in History
April 28, 2013
Chris Hedges Interviewing Julian Assange, Will Return Next Week
BLANK On any other Monday morning, you’d find Chris Hedges’ latest column in this space. But Chris is currently in London interviewing the founder of WikiLeaks. You can read their discussion next Monday, May 6, at the usual time.
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April 21, 2013
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Lynne Stewart, who as an attorney spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised, is suffering from stage 4 cancer in a Texas prison. Her crime was to steadfastly fight for justice in courts that have surrendered their independence to serve the security and surveillance state.
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April 15, 2013
Sweatshops on Wheels
Exploitation of bus drivers is just one part of the corporate disemboweling of the U.S. public transportation system. As the destruction of city and state bus and subway services enters its final phase, their unions have either disappeared or lost clout.
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April 7, 2013
The Hijacking of Human Rights
The ideology espoused by “humanitarian interventionists” such as Suzanne Nossel, recently appointed the executive director of PEN American Center, is used by the security and surveillance state to perpetuate war crimes, curtail civil liberties and justify pre-emptive war.
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March 31, 2013
The Treason of the Intellectuals
The journalists, pundits and academics who sold us the Iraq War remain firmly ensconced in their positions of privilege and power, and these self-defined liberals stand ready to sell us out again.
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March 24, 2013
The Day That TV News Died
If any single day marks the fall of broadcast reporting, it’s when Phil Donahue was banished in 2003 for telling the truth about the coming war in Iraq.
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March 17, 2013
The Shame of America’s Gulag
U.S. prisons are the engines of a system of neo-slavery in which corporations feed on the bodies of people of color. Reform is unlikely in the face of enormous profits.
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March 12, 2013
Kill Anything That Moves
Nick Turse’s book about the Vietnam War exposes the sickness of the hyper-masculine military culture, the intoxicating rush and addiction of violence, and the massive government spin machine that lies daily to a gullible public and uses tactics of intimidation, threats and smear campaigns to silence dissenters.
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The Crucifixion of Tomas Young
After being paralyzed in Iraq, the Army veteran went on to become a leading anti-war activist. Now, under hospice care, he is waiting to die. This is the face of war they do not want you to see.
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