Chris Hedges's Blog, page 685
June 25, 2012
Why We Fight
The men and women in despair who rise up against the corporate onslaught don’t do it to save themselves. They do it because it is right.
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In every conflict, insurgency, uprising and revolution I have covered as a foreign correspondent, the power elite used periods of dormancy, lulls and setbacks to write off the opposition.
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June 3, 2012
Northern Light
Those of us who care about a civil society, and who abhor violence, should begin to replicate what is happening in Quebec. Their fight is our fight.
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May 28, 2012
The War on Gays
In most of America, life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.
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May 18, 2012
A Victory for All of Us
We hoped we could draw attention to the injustice of the law. None of us thought we would win. But every once in a while the gods smile on the damned.
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May 14, 2012
Colonized by Corporations
We have been, like nations on the periphery of empire, colonized.
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May 7, 2012
The People’s Bishop
Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested for the second time as part of the Occupy protests. His moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions.
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April 30, 2012
Welcome to the Asylum
The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide.
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April 23, 2012
The Globalization of Hollow Politics
I went to Lille in northern France to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate Francois Hollande. I could, with a few alterations, have been at a football rally in Amarillo, Texas.
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