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October 29, 2012
Why I’m Voting Green
The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is not a battle between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
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October 21, 2012
McGovern: He Never Sold His Soul
The history books will tell you Richard Nixon won the 1972 election, that George McGovern went down to the worst defeat of any presidential candidate in history. But those who write history do not take into account the moral or the good, what is right or what is wrong, what endures and what does not.
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October 15, 2012
Join the Blockade of the Keystone Pipeline
The planned route of this six-state, 1,700-mile proposed pipeline is fast becoming a flashpoint in the war of attrition against the corporate state.
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October 7, 2012
The Maimed
Chris Hedges gave this talk Sunday night in New York City at a protest denouncing the 11th anniversary of the war in Afghanistan.
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October 1, 2012
What Is Happening to Muslims Will Happen to the Rest of Us
A disturbing pattern of gross infringements on basic civil liberties, put in place in the name of national security, has poisoned our legal system.
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September 24, 2012
How Do You Take Your Poison?
We can take it from nurse Romney or we can take it from nurse Obama, but one way or another the corporate hemlock will be shoved down our throats.
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September 17, 2012
We Won—for Now
In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.
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In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.
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September 10, 2012
Growth Is the Problem
The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let’s not revive it.
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September 3, 2012
Life Is Sacred
The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world—the one steadily collapsing around us.
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