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April 18, 2011
Throw Out the Money Changers
These are remarks Chris Hedges made in Union Square in New York City last Friday during a protest outside a branch office of the Bank of America.
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April 10, 2011
Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System
We spurn real teachers—those with the capacity to inspire—and replace them with instructors who teach to narrow, standardized tests. These instructors obey. They teach children to obey. And that is the point.
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April 3, 2011
This Is What Resistance Looks Like
The phrase consent of the governed has been turned into a cruel joke. There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left.
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March 27, 2011
The Collapse of Globalization
The last people who should be in charge of our food supply or our social and political life, not to mention the welfare of sick children, are corporate capitalists and Wall Street speculators.
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March 21, 2011
'Death and After in Iraq'
She and the others noticed that the Marine on the table was breathing lightly. The chest was going up and down. They frantically called their superiors to find out what to do. They were told to wait. "Just wait? Wait for what?" she cried.
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The Body Baggers of Iraq
She and the others noticed that the Marine on the table was breathing lightly. The chest was going up and down. They frantically called their superiors to find out what to do. They were told to wait. "Just wait? Wait for what?" she cried.
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March 15, 2011 Protect the Oil Zone
March 16, 2011
Chris Hedges on the 'Disintegrated' Media, Cultural Illiteracy
In case it wasn't clear from his columns, Chris Hedges is not optimistic about the state of American media and chagrined by the future of a culture in which "people don't read anymore," as he notes in this interview with Media Roots.
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March 14, 2011
Power Concedes Nothing Without a Demand
Workers in this country paid for their rights by suffering brutal beatings, crippling strikes, targeted assassinations and armed battles with thugs hired by the Koch brothers of another time.
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March 7, 2011
This Time We're Taking the Whole Planet With Us
We seem condemned as a species to drive ourselves and our societies toward extinction, although this moment appears be the denouement to the whole sad show of settled, civilized life that began some 5,000 years ago.
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February 28, 2011
No Other Way Out
We will not stop the war in Afghanistan and Iraq, we will not end this slaughter of innocents, unless we are willing to rise up as have state workers in Wisconsin and citizens on the streets of Arab capitals.
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