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July 12, 2010
Chris Hedges and Derrick Jensen on Totalitarianism and Resistance
What is it going to take for concerned and engaged citizens to finally feel as though some crucial threshold has been crossed—that our nation's political system and the global corporate culture it both serves and feeds into will never represent them or serve their needs?
July 14, 2010 There's Just No Pleasing Some Robber Barons
July 13, 2010 Reality and Reform for How the EU Keeps Its Peace
Obama's Health Care Bill Is Enough to Make You Sick
A close reading of the new health care legislation, which will conveniently take effect in 2014 after the next presidential election, is deeply depressing.
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July 8, 2010 Are Low Taxes Exacerbating the Recession?
July 6, 2010
In Pictures: The Inaugural Truthdig Trek
This summer's inaugural Truthdig Trek with Chris Hedges was truly an adventure. Check out this slide show of photos from the Trek—and see what some of our participants have to say.
July 16, 2010 Gunsmoke
July 16, 2010 More Champagne for Goldman Sachs
July 5, 2010
Freedom in the Grace of the World
We are fooled by virtual mirages into mistaking the busy, corporate hives of human activity and the salacious images and gossip that clog our minds as real. The natural world, the real world, on which our life depends, is walled off from view as it is systematically slaughtered.
June 13, 2010
A 'Prophecy' Worth Watching
Theater, which at its best makes us more human and humane, has become increasingly mediocre, produced as spectacle or driven by the presence of Hollywood celebrities.
June 7, 2010
The Christian Fascists Are Growing Stronger
Tens of millions of Americans are creating a theocratic state based on "biblical law," and shutting out all those they define as the enemy.
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June 6, 2010 Obama's Double Bind
June 6, 2010 The Longest War in U.S. History
June 6, 2010 Disaster
May 31, 2010
This Country Needs a Few Good Communists
Hope in this age of bankrupt capitalism will come with the return of the language of class conflict. It does not mean we have to agree with Karl Marx, but we have to speak in his vocabulary.
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May 28, 2010 'Left, Right & Center': The Big Spill, Sestak and Spain
May 28, 2010 America's Forgotten War
May 28, 2010 Obama Goes Gulfing
May 24, 2010
The Greeks Get It
Here's to the Greeks. They know what to do when corporations pillage and loot their country. Call a general strike. Riot. Shut down the city centers. Toss the bastards out.
May 17, 2010
BP and the 'Little Eichmanns'
These deformed individuals carrying out the global genocide against human life and the natural world lack the capacity for empathy. They possess the peculiar ability to organize vast, destructive bureaucracies and yet remain blind to the ramifications.
May 14, 2010
America: The Silence of a Nation
Truthdig columnist and author Chris Hedges has some very strong words for the Israeli and American governments, condemning their roles in the ongoing conflict with Gaza in this clip from Hedges' speech at Revolution Books in New York City last year.
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