Chris Hedges's Blog, page 673
August 31, 2014
The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals
The upcoming climate change march in New York is the last gasp of conventional liberalism. The time for reform and accommodation has ended. We will build a radical movement or be extinguished in a climate inferno.
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August 24, 2014
How the Brutalized Become Brutal
The beheading of a U.S. reporter, Hamas’ executions of suspected collaborators and fundamentalists’ slaughters in Iraq are the end of a long horror story, not the beginning.
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August 17, 2014
Rebellion in Ferguson: A Rising Heat in the Suburbs
Amid ongoing strife in Ferguson, Mo., civil rights veteran Lawrence Hamm foresees social unrest shifting out of the inner cities that erupted in the 1960s.
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August 10, 2014
Let My People Go
Chris Hedges delivered this address Saturday in New York City before demonstrators marched to U.N. headquarters in support of the people of Gaza. The event was part of a day of international protest against the Israeli military assault on Palestinians.
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August 3, 2014
Why Israel Lies
Its use of the kinds of big lies favored by totalitarian regimes is aimed at feeding two reactions: racism among its supporters and terror among its victims in Gaza.
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July 23, 2014
The Palestinians’ Right to Self-Defense
If the international community will not halt Israel’s Gaza attack and war crimes then it must concede to the Palestinians the right to self-defense under the U.N. Charter.
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July 20, 2014
The Actor and the Minister
In a time when corporate culture has marginalized our artists and those of compassion and vision, two such people merged for a moment at a Boston church. (Shown here, Michael Milligan in his one-man play.)
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July 14, 2014
Israel Is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process’
The weeklong assault on Gaza is one more in a horrific series of steps similar to those in Nazi Germany that ended in the Holocaust.
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July 7, 2014
Kneeling in Fenway Park to the Gods of War
In sporting events across the country the religion of sports fuses with the religion of war—a mark of all militarized societies. Games at Fenway are as much about venerating the military as the Red Sox.
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June 30, 2014
Pity the Children
War brings with it a host of horrors, but the worst is what it does to children. The suffering of the young, perpetrated by those who carry weapons, exposes war’s demented pathology.
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