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Chris Hedges: US traditionally solves domestic political crises by waging war

The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up…

2 years ago

Chris Hedges: The execution of Julian Assange

Let us name Julian Assange’s executioners. Joe Biden. Boris Johnson. Scott Morrison. Theresa May. Lenin Moreno. Donald Trump. Barack Obama.…

2 years ago

Chris Hedges: The Assange case is the most important battle for press freedom in our time

For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London.…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: America’s fate is oligarchy or autocracy

The competing systems of power in the United States are divided between oligarchy and autocracy. There are no other alternatives.…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: We Americans kill with an inchoate fury. The evil we do is the evil we get

I was in Times Square in New York City shortly after the second plane banked and plowed into the South…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: The revengeful suffering orchestrated by the American empire on Afghans will be of Biblical proportions

The Carthaginian general Hannibal, who came close to defeating the Roman Republic in the Second Punic War, committed suicide in…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: The price of conscience

Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: Bless our American traitors

Daniel Hale, an active-duty Air Force intelligence analyst, stood in the Occupy encampment in Zuccotti Park in October 2011 in…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: Bandaging the corpse

This article was originally published by ScheerPost.The established ruling elites know there is a crisis. They agreed, at least temporarily, to…

3 years ago

Chris Hedges: Cancel culture, where liberalism goes to die

This article was originally published by ScheerPost.The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious…

3 years ago