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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.
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What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
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The Disaster of Utopian Engineering
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Neoliberalism, the latest utopian project, aims at concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while reducing the many to peonage.
→ read full articleHow Democracies Die
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – The United States’ descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
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War with Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has opened a Pandora’s Box containing existential dangers to the American Empire.
→ read full articleHope Lies in the Streets
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as money and goods are transferred with little regulation across borders, as jobs in manufacturing and the professions are shipped to regions of the global south where most workers are paid a dollar or less an hour and receive no benefits, … Civil disobedience is the last tool we have to prevent corporate tyranny and save the planet.
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How to Save the Planet and Ourselves
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, understands corporate power and knows how to fight it. It is up to us to act.
→ read full articleDeath by Oligarchy
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Once oligarchs seize power, they dismantle outside controls to create a corrupt economy and finally a corrupt state. Tyranny follows.
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Russia Isn’t Getting the Recognition It Deserves on Syria
Scott Ritter – Truthdig,
4 Nov 2019
30 Oct 2019 – At a time when the credibility of the United States as either an unbiased actor or reliable ally lies in tatters, Russia has emerged as the one major power whose ability to serve as an honest broker between seemingly intractable opponents is unmatched. Like it or not, in Syria, the Russians saved us from ourselves.
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The Age of Radical Evil
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – All life, including our own, has become expendable, sacrificed on the altar of profit in a culture of death. “Radical evil, worse than merely treating others as objects, renders vast numbers of people superfluous. They possess no value at all and when no longer of utility to the powerful, discarded as human refuse.” — Hannah Arendt
→ read full articleSaving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Sep 2019
Friday’s [20 Sep] climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
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White Supremacy Is as American as Apple Pie
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
2 Sep 2019
30 Aug 2019 – Documentarian Robin Cloud discusses her new film, “Passing: A Family in Black & White,” and the lasting legacy of America’s original sin.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jun 2019
On Friday [14 Jun 2019] I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years. The American, British and Swedish judicial systems have been manipulated and corrupted to ensure the publisher is extradited to the U.S.
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The Thought Police Are Coming
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – The oppression of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange heralds a frightening new totalitarianism.
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Manufacturing War with Russia
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019 – Despite the Robert Mueller report’s conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Cold War with Moscow shows little sign of abating. The demonization of Putin and Russia was designed to poison bilateral relations, boost U.S. war industry profits and make détente impossible.
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Reckoning with Failure in the War on Terror
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – The endless conflict is the final gasp of the American Empire, signaling the end of hegemony abroad and democracy at home.
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The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Apr 2019
11 Apr 2019 – The arrest today of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. His arrest by British police, a flagrant violation of international law, signals the final stage of the destruction of a free press.
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Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests: Only the Struggle Matters
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
8 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 — The uprising in the streets of Paris illustrates the importance of resisting corporate oppression, no matter what the outcome.
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Chelsea Manning and the New Inquisition
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Apr 2019
18 Mar 2019 — The whistleblower is back behind bars as the government continues to try to hide its crimes.
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The U.S.-Venezuela Aid Convoy Story Is Clearly Bogus, but No One Wants to Say It
Adam H Johnson | Truthdig- TRANSCEND Media Service,
25 Feb 2019
21 Feb 2019 – No one actually thinks the murderers row of Cold Warriors, Venezuela envoy Elliott Abrams and national security adviser John Bolton care at all about the starving people in Venezuela or their plight. No one reading this, be they right, left, center, libertarian or communist, actually buys the prevailing narrative that the U.S. is sending “aid” to Venezuela as a humanitarian gesture.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Feb 2019
17 Feb 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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Confronting the Culture of Death
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – We must face down the corporate capitalism that is destroying humanity and the ecosystem itself. Salvation is in resistance. Chris Hedges, an ordained Presbyterian minister, gave this sermon Jan. 20 at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada.
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Haiti’s Forgotten Women and Children
Julian Vigo - Truthdig,
21 Jan 2019
17 Jan 2019 – I lived in Haiti in 2010, arriving six weeks after the January earthquake. I initially worked at a children’s hospital, where I was assigned to a ward full of toddlers, all but one of whom were female, most of them abandoned. I was to change diapers, feed and bathe the children, and do whatever else the staff nurses needed.
→ read full articleResistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – We can resist the radical evil enveloping our lives and our planet only when we acquire the faith that resistance always weakens the oppressor and empowers the oppressed.
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Banishing Truth
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – The decay of American journalism, captured by corporate power, has marginalized and often silenced its most courageous reporters. Investigative journalism depends not only on reporters such as Hersh, but as importantly on men and women inside the systems of power who have the moral courage to expose lies and make public crimes.
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Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – The financial elites have engineered a monumental con job that threatens to rip away the remainder of our freedoms. Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism, which abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people.
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Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service,
12 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – The media’s refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.
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Noam Chomsky: Facebook and Google Pose a Manifest Danger
Jacob Sugarman | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
1 Oct 2018 – In “Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media” (1988), authors Edward S. Herman and Noam Chomsky identified what they called the “five filters of editorial bias”: Size, Ownership and Profit Orientation; the Advertising License to Do Business; Sourcing Mass Media News; Flak and the Enforcers; and Anti-Communism.
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One Man Could End World Hunger, but He Won’t
Lee Camp | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
3 Oct 2018 – We all know the Lex Luthor-looking head of Amazon is the richest human in the world. Did you notice I said Bezos “achieved” a net worth of $150 billion, and that seems like a normal way to phrase it? However, would you say, “Jeffrey Dahmer achieved eating the hearts of 10 different people?” No, that would sound odd to you. Yet having $150 billion is nearly as sociopathic, and still we use terminology as if it’s GREAT!
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America Is on the Road to Becoming a Fascist State
Robert Scheer | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
5 Oct 2017 – In a compelling essay for The New York Review of Books this month, Christopher R. Browning, a leading historian of the Holocaust and Nazism, outlines the frightening parallels between the United States and the Weimar Republic. “No matter how and when the Trump presidency ends,” he writes, “the specter of illiberalism will continue to haunt American politics.”
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African Feminists Emphasize Key to Global Peace
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
25 Sep 2018 – Peace is quintessentially a woman’s issue, most clearly when the continuum of male violence against women in its private, social and structural dimensions is grasped. “That continuum of violence persists along a scale of force (fist to nuclear bomb); space (the home, the street, the village, the city, the battlefield and the nation); and time (pre-war, wartime and post-war).”
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The Birth of American Empire
H. Patricia Hynes | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Oct 2018
The True Flag: Theodore Roosevelt, Mark Twain, and the Birth of American Empire – A book by Stephen Kinzer
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Conjuring Up the Next Depression
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – This manufactured financial tsunami will transform the United States, already a failed democracy, into an authoritarian police state. Life will become very cheap, especially for the vulnerable—undocumented workers, Muslims, poor people of color, girls and women, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critics branded as agents of foreign powers—who will be demonized and persecuted for the collapse. The elites, in a desperate bid to cling to their unchecked power and obscene wealth, will disembowel what is left of the United States.
→ read full articleSaying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
27 Aug 2018
19 Aug 2018 – Climate change is not simply an environmental problem—it is a planetary transition. We will survive only if we rapidly evolve to create new forms of civilization.
→ read full articleThe ‘Gig Economy’ Is the New Term for Serfdom
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Aug 2018
The corporate capitalist elites, which have seized control of ruling institutions including the government and destroyed labor unions, are re-establishing the inhumane labor conditions that characterized the 19th and early 20th centuries. They want everyone to be temp workers trapped in demeaning, low-paying, part-time, service-sector jobs without job security or benefits.
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The Useful Idiocy of Donald Trump
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Aug 2018
5 Aug 2018 – The problem with Donald Trump is not that he is imbecilic and inept—it is that he has surrendered total power to the oligarchic and military elites. They get what they want. They do what they want. Although the president is a one-man wrecking crew aimed at democratic norms and institutions, although he has turned the United States into a laughingstock around the globe, our national crisis is embodied not in Trump but the corporate state’s now unfettered pillage.
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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
23 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, which appears near, would be the first domino to fall. Afterward, thousands of publishers, editors and reporters in the U.S. would be in peril.
→ read full articleThe Con of Diversity
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
16 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Racial diversity in the hands of the ruling elites—political and corporate—is a tool for preserving white privilege, wealth and power.
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Scapegoating Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Jun 2018
The wars in the Middle East are the worst strategic blunders in American history. But don’t expect U.S. politicians and generals to accept responsibility for the mess when they can blame it on Iran.
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Killing Gaza
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
14 May 2018
“Killing Gaza” will be released Tuesday 15 May, to coincide with what Palestinians call Nakba Day—“nakba” means catastrophe in Arabic—commemorating the 70th anniversary of the forced removal of some 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 by the Haganah, Jewish paramilitary forces, from their homes in modern-day Israel. The release of the documentary also coincides with the Trump administration’s opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
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The Campaign to Exterminate Muslims
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
16 Apr 2018
8 Apr 2018 – The Israeli massacre of Palestinians is a prelude to a dystopian, neocolonial world where global elites, hoarding wealth and controlling the mechanisms of power, resort to bloodshed to keep the oppressed at bay. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in the open-air prison that is Gaza, subject to repeated murderous assaults by the Israeli war machine, will be done to desperate climate refugees and citizens who rise up to protest the pillage by global oligarchs. Those who resist will be branded as terrorists. The global elites have a plan for the future. It is visible in the killing fields of Gaza.
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Building the Iron Wall
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
2 Apr 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun. Those who challenge the dominant corporate narrative already struggle on the margins of the media landscape. The handful of independent websites and news outlets are the few platforms left that examine corporate power and empire, the curtailment of our civil liberties, lethal police violence and the ecocide carried out by the fossil fuel and animal agriculture industries, as well as cover the war crimes committed by Israel and the U.S. military in the Middle East.
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Guns and Liberty
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Mar 2018
Guns do not protect us from tyranny. They are an instrument of tyranny.
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The Deadly Rule of the Oligarchs
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
19 Feb 2018
Once oligarchs take power, rational, prudent and thoughtful responses to social, economic and political problems are ignored to feed insatiable greed.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
5 Feb 2018
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journalists who expose the crimes of corporate capitalism and imperialism, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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Martin Luther King’s Revolutionary Dream Deferred
Maj. Danny Sjursen – Truthdig,
15 Jan 2018
13 Jan 2018 – My King is the provocative King, the critic of bigotry but also of capitalism and the Vietnam War. The King, in truth, who has been willfully concealed from view. Read, study, unearth the real King, the radical King, and take up the torch of his fight—a dream deferred—against the three evils still alive and well in the United States: racism, materialism and militarism. The owners of this country are counting on your apathy. Prove them wrong.
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The Case against America’s Brand of ‘Ethical War’
Scott Ritter – Truthdig,
8 Jan 2018
According to Lakoff, physical structures within the brain, once activated by the use of coded and morally loaded language, determine an audience’s response to stimuli. Kilner’s “five flawed assumptions” are little more than a thinly disguised effort to frame a larger discussion on the morality of America’s wars: “Peace isn’t an option,” “resisting evil is good,” “just wars are fought to protect human rights,” “mixed motives are moral,” and “immoral incidents are distinct from immoral wars” all contain coded language.
→ read full articleThe End of Empire
Chris Hedge | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Oct 2017
The American empire is coming to an end. The U.S. economy is being drained by wars in the Middle East and vast military expansion around the globe. It is burdened by growing deficits, along with the devastating effects of deindustrialization and global trade agreements. Our democracy has been captured and destroyed by corporations that steadily demand more tax cuts, more deregulation and impunity from prosecution for massive acts of financial fraud, all the while looting trillions from the U.S. treasury in the form of bailouts.
→ read full articleThe Abuses of History
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
2 Oct 2017
24 Sep 2017 – Historians, like journalists, are in the business of manipulating facts. Some use facts to tell truths, however unpleasant. But many more omit, highlight and at times distort them in ways that sustain national myths and buttress dominant narratives. History is what the present chooses to remember about the past.
→ read full articleThe Price of Resistance
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
24 Apr 2017
Talk That Chris Hedges Gave on 17 April 2017 at Princeton University – In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them are unknown.
→ read full articleThe Mafia State
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
12 Dec 2016
The later years—George W. Bush and Barack Obama—are marked by declarations that things are getting better even though they are getting worse. The final years—Donald Trump—see the lunatic trolls, hedge fund parasites, con artists, conspiracy theorists and criminals drop all pretense and carry out an orgy of looting and corruption… We will remove them from power or enter a new dark age.
→ read full articleHow Power Works
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Oct 2016
Thompson meticulously documents the innumerable ways the state oppresses the poor by discrediting their voices, turning the press into a megaphone for government propaganda and lies, stoking the negative stereotypes of black people, exalting white supremacy, ruining the lives of people who speak the truth, manipulating the courts and law enforcement, and pressuring state witnesses to lie to obstruct justice. Her book elucidates not only the past but also the present, which, she concedes, is worse.
→ read full articleThe Intellectuals We Abandon
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
12 Sep 2016
The great writers—Marcel Proust, Anton Chekhov, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Max Weber, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and others—knew that thought is subversive. They challenged and critiqued the dominant narrative, assumptions and structures that buttress power. They freed us. They did not cater to the latest fashion of the academy or popular culture. They did not seek adulation. They did not build pathetic monuments to themselves. They elucidated difficult and hard truths. They served humanity. They lifted up voices the power elites seek to discredit, marginalize or crush.
→ read full articleThe American Empire: Murder Inc.
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
11 Jan 2016
The Bible says they sow the wind, they shall reap the whirlwind. Well, usually that isn’t true. It’s not true most of the time. It’s like the other slogan: The people united will never be defeated. Not true. The people united get defeated all the time. They get crushed. They get massacred. They get thrown into mass graves. But sometimes you sow the wind and you do reap the whirlwind. And that’s what’s happening now to the West with ISIS.
→ read full articleEven War Has Rules
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan - Truthdig,
16 Nov 2015
Three weeks after the attack in Kunduz, another MSF hospital was struck, this time in Yemen. The hospital was hit multiple times over a two-hour period last week, even though the roof was marked with the MSF logo and its GPS coordinates had been shared multiple times with the Saudi-led coalition. Every indication is that the Saudi Arabian military, using U.S.-provided bombers and arms, launched the strike.
→ read full articleU.S. Union Support for Palestinian Rights Could Be a Game Changer
Stanley Heller - Truthdig,
16 Nov 2015
5 Nov 2015 – On Oct. 29, the 200,000-strong Connecticut AFL-CIO passed a powerful resolution of support for Palestinian rights, calling on its national federation to join the campaign of boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) against Israeli government abuses.
→ read full articleStorming the Bastille at the Paris Climate Summit
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
2 Nov 2015
Since the dawn of the industrial age, humans have been dumping pollutants into the sky as if the atmosphere is a bottomless pit, able to absorb an infinite amount of our smoke and exhaust. Protest organizers have called for global actions on Nov. 28 and 29, demanding a fair, ambitious and binding agreement to confront, and ultimately reverse, the potential for catastrophic, human-induced climate change. If the leaders fail, many will be there to storm the Bastille.
→ read full articleNo Papal Bull: Francis Hails Peace and the Activists Who Fight for It
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
5 Oct 2015
Lincoln and King need little introduction. Dorothy Day was a crusading 20th-century activist who is formally being considered for Catholic sainthood. “She was a radical in her youth, underwent a conversion, and then started a movement, the Catholic Worker, to combine her faith with her commitment to social justice, the poor and the pursuit of peace.”
→ read full articleThe Migrant Crisis: Arms That Welcome, Arms That Kill
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
14 Sep 2015
“It’s 160,000. That’s the number that Europeans have to take in their arms.” — Jean-Claude Juncker, president of the European Commission. “It is our arms which are also killing and destroying these countries.” — Annette Groth, member of the German Parliament and spokeswoman for human rights for Germany’s Left Party.
→ read full articleTorture, Impunity and the American Psychological Association
Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan – Truthdig,
20 Jul 2015
The legal facade behind these heinous acts relied heavily on the cooperation of professional psychologists, who trained and advised the interrogators and supervised the progress of the “breaking” of prisoners. This cooperation was dependent on an official seal of approval from the American Psychological Association.
→ read full article‘The Perpetrator Has Been Arrested, but the Killer Is Still at Large’
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
29 Jun 2015
Dylann Storm Roof is accused of methodically killing the congregants, reloading his Glock pistol at least twice. He let one victim live, according to a person who spoke with the survivor, so she could tell the world what happened. This brutal mass killing was blatantly racist, an overt act of terrorism.
→ read full articleKalief Browder, Albert Woodfox and the Torture of Solitary Confinement
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
15 Jun 2015
There are an estimated 80,000-100,000 prisoners held in some form of solitary confinement in the United States. The United Nations says the practice often amounts to torture. It is cruel and unusual punishment, and must be abolished, once and for all.
→ read full articleA Nation of Snitches
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
18 May 2015
“Freedom demands the destruction of the security and surveillance organs and the disempowering of the millions of informants who work for the state.” Are we living in a time bomb where informants keep a populace in a state of fear?
→ read full articleThe American Dream: Living to 18
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
11 May 2015
“What do you hope to accomplish with this protest,” I asked a 13-year-old girl marching in Staten Island, N.Y. “To live until I’m 18,” the young teen, named Aniya, replied. “You want to get older. You want to experience life. You don’t want to die in a matter of seconds because of cops.” It’s that sentiment that has fueled the Black Lives Matter movement across the country.
→ read full articleA Century of Women Working for Peace
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
4 May 2015
One hundred years ago, more than 1,000 women gathered here in The Hague during World War I, demanding peace. Britain denied passports to more than 120 women, forbidding them from making the trip to suppress their peaceful dissent. Now, a century later, nearly 1,000 women have gathered here again, this time from Africa, Asia and Latin America, as well as Europe and North America.
→ read full articleThe Costs of War, the Price of Peace
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
30 Mar 2015
What price would you pay not to kill another human being? At what point would you commit the offenses allegedly perpetrated by Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl, who was charged Wednesday [25 Mar 2015] with desertion and “misbehavior before an enemy?”
→ read full articleJournalism as Subversion
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
30 Mar 2015
Global capitalism seeks to erase our stories and our histories. Its systems of mass communication, which peddle a fake intimacy with manufactured celebrities and a false sense of belonging within a mercenary consumer culture, shut out our voices, hopes and dreams. Salacious gossip about the elites and entertainers, lurid tales of violence and inane trivia replace in national discourse the actual and the real.
→ read full articleFrom ‘Demos’ to ‘Podemos’: Popular Uprisings in Greece and Spain
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
23 Feb 2015
“Austerity in Greece means 50 percent increase in male suicides. It means real wages fell by 25 percent in five years … 300,000 families who can’t afford electricity.” Interviewed in Der Spiegel, Varoufakis called austerity “fiscal waterboarding.”
→ read full articleThe Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
16 Feb 2015
Both ISIS and the West revel in brutality that feeds the fever for war. The line that separates us from our enemies is technological, not moral. We are those we fight.
→ read full article50 Years after His Death [21 Feb]: Malcolm X Was Right about America
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
16 Feb 2015
Malcolm X is the best medicine against genocide. He showed us by example and prophetic preaching that one does not have to stay in the mud. We can wake up; we can stand up; and we can take that long walk toward freedom. Freedom is first and foremost an inner recognition of self-respect, a knowledge that one was not put on this earth to be a nobody. Using drugs and killing each other are the worst forms of nobodyness.
→ read full articleNet Neutrality, Back by Popular Demand
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
9 Feb 2015
More than 4 million people commented on the rules, making this the largest response to any federal request for public comment in history. The large Internet providers will be prevented from discriminating against people on the Internet regardless of race, color, beliefs and, perhaps most importantly, how rich they are.
→ read full articleClose Guantanamo—Then Give It Back to Cuba
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
12 Jan 2015
7 Jan 2015 – This week marks the 13th anniversary of the arrival of the first post-9/11 prisoners to Guantanamo Bay, the most notorious prison on the planet. This grim anniversary, and the beginning of normalization of diplomatic relations between the U.S and Cuba, serves as a reminder that we need to permanently close the prison and return the land to its rightful owners, the Cuban people.
→ read full articleAll Forms of Life Are Sacred
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
12 Jan 2015
What gives man the right to kill an animal, often torture it, so that he can fill his belly with its flesh? The battle for the rights of animals is not only about animals. It is about us. Once we desanctify animals we desanctify all life.
→ read full articleThree Members of Congress Just Reignited the Cold War While No One Was Looking
Dennis Kucinich - Truthdig,
22 Dec 2014
The Congressional Record will show ONLY THREE of 425 members were present on the floor to consider the sanctions bill. According to the clerk’s records, once the bill was considered under unanimous consent, it was passed in one second, unanimously.
→ read full articleISIS—the New Israel
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
22 Dec 2014
The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is our Frankenstein. It is seeking to establish, as the Zionists did in Palestine, a utopian, religious state.
→ read full articleObama and the Beginning of the End of the Cuban Embargo
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
22 Dec 2014
It was President Dwight Eisenhower who severed relations with Cuba, on Jan. 3, 1961, two years after Fidel Castro took power. President John F. Kennedy then expanded the embargo, and his CIA invasion of the Bay of Pigs, intending to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro, went awry.
→ read full articleThe Myth of the Free Press
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
3 Nov 2014
There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie “All the President’s Men,” which celebrates the exploits of the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
→ read full articleWe Need Medical Boots on the Ground Now
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
20 Oct 2014
We need tens of thousands of boots on the ground dealing with Ebola: boots of doctors, nurses, health professionals, dealing with this wholly preventable global health disaster.
→ read full articleGlobal Warming and Global Warring
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
29 Sep 2014
“In today’s wars, many more civilians are killed than soldiers; the seeds of future conflict are sown, economies are wrecked, civil societies torn asunder, refugees amassed, children scarred.” These words were spoken on Dec. 10, 2009, by that year’s Nobel Peace Prize winner, President Barack Obama. Five years later, his pronouncement reads like a daily headline. The peace group Code Pink is calling on President Obama to return his Nobel medal.
→ read full articleGet Ready for the ‘Internet Slowdown’
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
8 Sep 2014
Next Wednesday, Sept. 10 [2014], if your favorite website seems to load slowly, take a closer look: You might be experiencing the Battle for the Net’s “Internet Slowdown,” a global day of grass-roots action.
→ read full articleA Venerable Jewish Voice for Peace
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
4 Aug 2014
As the United States resupplies Israel with ammunition, more than 250 children in Gaza have been killed. Instead of providing weapons, the U.S. and the rest of the world should pressure Israel to stop the slaughter.
→ read full articleOvercoming the Media Blockade in Gaza
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
28 Jul 2014
“We are disgustingly biased when it comes to this issue. Look at how [much] airtime [Prime Minister Benjamin] Netanyahu and his folks have on air on a daily basis, Andrea Mitchell and others. I never see one Palestinian being interviewed on these same issues.”
→ read full articleBorder Children: ‘They Don’t Speak English, but They Understand Hate’
Amy Goodman – Truthdig,
21 Jul 2014
The United States has a long and sadly bloody history of destabilizing democratic governments in the very countries that are now the sources of this latest wave of migration: most notably in Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. In the 1980s and 1990s, U.S.-supported military regimes and paramilitaries killed hundreds of thousands of citizens in those countries.
→ read full articleIsrael Is Captive to Its ‘Destructive Process’
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
21 Jul 2014
A mass movement demanding boycotts, divestment and sanctions is the only hope now for the Palestinian people. Such a movement must work for imposition of an arms embargo on Israel; this is especially important for Americans because weapons systems and attack aircraft provided by the U.S. are being used to carry out the assault.
→ read full articleNomads of the Digital Age
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
14 Jul 2014
At the heart of his case, and of so many others, is the question of whether the Internet will remain a free and open platform for communication, or a commodity controlled by a few corporations, censored and surveilled by the U.S. national-security apparatus.
→ read full articleMaya Angelou, Still She Rises
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
2 Jun 2014
In remembering Maya Angelou, it is important to recall her commitment to the struggle for equality, not just for herself, or for women, or for African-Americans. She was committed to peace and justice for all.
→ read full articleThe Power of Imagination
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
19 May 2014
The lusts of capitalism will have to be tamed or destroyed. And there will have to be a recovery of reverence for the sacred, the bedrock of premodern society, so we can see each other and the earth not as objects to exploit but as living beings to be revered and protected.
→ read full articleClimate Science’s Dire Warning: Humans Are Baking the Planet
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
7 Apr 2014
The IPCC, over 1,800 scientists from around the world, collects, analyzes and synthesizes the best, solid science on climate and related fields. The prognosis is not good. Evidence is mounting that we will experience more extreme weather events, including hurricanes and droughts, mass extinctions and severe food shortages globally.
→ read full articleU.S. Sailors and Marines Allege Fukushima Radiation Sickness
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
24 Mar 2014
In an unusual development, more than 100 U.S. Marines and Navy sailors have joined a class action suit, charging TEPCO with lying about the severity of the disaster as they were rushing to the scene to provide humanitarian assistance.
→ read full articleCIA Spies and Tortured Lies
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
17 Mar 2014
“With Sen. Dianne Feinstein we’re seeing another ‘Merkel Effect,’ where an elected official does not care at all that the rights of millions of ordinary citizens are violated by our spies, but suddenly it’s a scandal when a politician finds out the same thing happens to them.”
→ read full articleHonoring the ‘Accomplices’ to Truth Who Caught Clapper in a Lie
Robert Scheer - Truthdig,
3 Mar 2014
On Sunday [16 Feb 2014] it was announced that the prestigious George Polk Award for National Security Reporting would be given to the four journalists—Glenn Greenwald, Ewen MacAskill, Laura Poitras and Barton Gellman—most active in reporting about the content of the NSA documents leaked by Snowden.
→ read full articleThe Comcast-Time Warner Merger Threatens Democracy
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
24 Feb 2014
The public has confronted monstrous mergers before, and blocked them. So, too, have they faced corporate attempts to stifle the fundamental freedom of the Internet. Freedom of speech, freedom to connect and communicate, is the lifeblood of a democracy. The fight to preserve and expand the diversity and vibrancy of our media system is one that cannot be left to bought-out regulators and corporate lobbyists.
→ read full articlePete Seeger: Troubadour of Truth and Justice
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
3 Feb 2014
Pete sang truth to power through the epic struggles of most of the last century, for social justice, for civil rights, for workers, for the environment and for peace. His songs, his wise words, his legacy will resonate for generations.
→ read full articleAaron Swartz: The Life We Lost and the Day We Fight Back
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
27 Jan 2014
A year after Internet freedom activist Aaron Swartz’s suicide at the age of 26, a film about this remarkable young man has premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. The film, titled “The Internet’s Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz,” directed by Brian Knappenberger, follows the sadly short arc of Aaron’s life.
→ read full articleObama’s New Normal: The Drone Strikes Continue
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
30 Dec 2013
There has been yet another violent attack with mass casualties. This was not the act of a lone gunman, or of an armed student rampaging through a school. It was a group of families en route to a wedding that was killed. The town was called Radda—not in Colorado, not in Connecticut, but in Yemen.
→ read full articleMandela: The Man and the Movement
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
16 Dec 2013
Mandela was a devoted friend of Fidel Castro, who always supported the ANC. The U.S., on the other hand, did not remove Mandela from its “terrorist watch list” until 2008, 14 years after he was elected president of South Africa.
→ read full articleWorld Fights Back against the Biggest Brother in History
Sonali Kolhatkar - Truthdig,
2 Dec 2013
The United States’ vast and indiscriminate worldwide surveillance of ordinary people and heads of state has no historical precedent. Now countries around the world are fighting back using the United Nations as a vehicle for change.
→ read full articleCorporate Lobbyists Flood Warsaw Climate Talks
Amy Goodman - Truthdig,
25 Nov 2013
“This is perhaps the most corporate climate talks we have ever experienced. But what’s different this time is the level of institutionalization, the degree to which the Polish government and the U.N., the UNFCCC, have welcomed this with open arms and have actively encouraged it.”
→ read full articleFeeding the Flame of Revolt
Chris Hedges - Truthdig,
25 Nov 2013
I was in federal court in NYC on 15 Nov 2013 for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison.“The hypocrisy of ‘law and order’ and the injustices caused by capitalism cannot be cured by institutional reform but through civil disobedience and direct action,” Hammond told the court. “Yes, I broke the law, but I believe that sometimes laws must be broken in order to make room for change.”
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