Chris Hedges's Blog, page 681
March 3, 2013
We Are Bradley Manning
His trial is not simply the persecution of a courageous whistle-blower, but a state mechanism to destroy the independence of the press and its ability to expose the power elite’s criminal activity.
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February 24, 2013
Rebels Stand Alone
Those we now deify for resisting evil were, when they found the courage to rebel, condemned by the public, criminalized by the law and declared traitors by the state. Rebellion is a lonely pursuit when it begins.
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The Courage to Resist
Germans seeking to topple Hitler faced powerful forces, vilification and, frequently, execution. But they would not turn away from their cause: They knew that in a time of national crisis, “Somebody, after all, had to make a start.”
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February 17, 2013
Profiting From Human Misery
The for-profit prison industry, which is expanding across the nation, has blunted prison reform, stymied repeal of our draconian drug laws and successfully lobbied for harsher and harsher detention policies. Mass incarceration is increasingly about corporate profit, not justice.
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February 11, 2013
The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State
The courts will now decide if we will fatally damage our democracy and become a military state or protect what is left of our rights as citizens.
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February 3, 2013
Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage
The corporate state uses debt to keep workers—especially the working poor—frightened and disempowered. Only through a campaign for a minimum wage of at least $11 an hour can Americans begin to regain economic, social and political control.
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January 28, 2013
White Power to the Rescue
As Southern whites sink into economic and cultural despair, more and more are retreating into a fictional past. They ignore Confederate atrocities in a desperate effort to restore what they view as a lost paradise.
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January 20, 2013
A Time for ‘Sublime Madness’
Only in the depths of human imagination can we find the resources to fight against the ceaseless assaults on civil liberties and the planet itself. Only there can we unearth the strength and passion to resist.
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January 13, 2013
The Myth of Human Progress
The mounting distortions of climate change and the rapid depletion of natural resources have done little to blunt the self-destructive notion of ceaseless expansion. The road we are on points toward human extinction.
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January 7, 2013
State of Fear
The security and surveillance state, recently released FBI documents show, monitors even mainstream dissenters and is determined to shut down all organized resistance to corporate rule. The goal: an encompassing system of pervasive fear and overt intimidation.
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