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November 2, 2014
Joe Sacco: A Bomb in Every Comic
Joe Sacco’s satirical “Bumf” is a radical, savage and sidesplitting look at America’s species of corporate totalitarianism.
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October 26, 2014
The Myth of the Free Press
The mass media set the parameters of acceptable debate. Cross those parameters, as the investigative journalist Gary Webb did, and you are turned into a pariah.
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October 19, 2014
The Imperative of Revolt
Two leading political philosophers, Sheldon Wolin and John Ralston Saul, explore the corporations’ slow-motion coup d’état and the prospects of financial collapse and revolt.
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October 13, 2014
Ordained to Write
Three decades ago Chris Hedges sought to become a minister and report the war in El Salvador. A church committee refused to see his work as a journalist as a valid call to the ministry. On Oct. 5 his ordination—marked by addresses from James Cone (above) and Cornel West—finally took place.
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October 5, 2014
The Ordeal of Stanley L. Cohen: Justice as Farce
The government campaign to imprison the few activist attorneys who defend those defined as America’s enemies is exemplified by the persecution of Stanley L. Cohen.
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September 28, 2014
Becoming Hezbollah’s Air Force
Waging endless war in the Middle East means not only turning old enemies into allies but exposing our inability to free ourselves from the mechanisms of violence and collapse.
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September 21, 2014
The Coming Climate Revolt
Civil disobedience must be used to abolish the oil, gas and coal companies and replace a government held captive by corporations. Otherwise, we will say goodbye to life as we know it.
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September 17, 2014
Chris Hedges Has 15 Minutes to Start a Revolution
The Truthdig columnist speaks to a crowd in Wisconsin over the weekend about the prevailing power structure and “the abject surrender of our political class ... to cash-rich lobbying groups.”
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September 14, 2014
Sacrificing the Vulnerable, From Gaza to America
The abandonment of Gazans, some of the planet’s most powerless people, illustrates how all who are vulnerable are now routinely sacrificed by our political elites.
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September 7, 2014
Driving American Politics Underground
Seizure of institutions by corporate power means our real political life has been transferred to groups that operate outside the system.
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