Chris Hedges: The Mirage of Justice
If you are poor in America, you will almost never go to trial—instead you will be forced to accept a plea deal offered by government prosecutors. If you are poor, … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The American Empire — Murder Inc.
Terror, intimidation and violence are the glue that holds empire together. Aerial bombardment, drone and missile attacks, artillery and mortar strikes, targeted assassinations, massacres, the detention of tens of thousands, … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Creeping Villainy of American Politics
The threefold rise in hate crimes against Muslims since the Paris and San Bernardino attacks and the acceptance of hate speech as a legitimate form of political discourse signal the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Apocalyptic Capitalism
The charade of the 21st United Nations climate summit will end, as past climate summits have ended, with lofty rhetoric and ineffectual cosmetic reforms. Since the first summit more than … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Age of Demagogues
The increase in nihilistic violence such as school shootings and Friday’s lethal assault on a Planned Parenthood clinic, the frequent executions of poor people of color by police, and the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History
The release Thursday of the 5,544-page text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership—a trade and investment agreement involving 12 countries comprising nearly 40 percent of global output—confirms what even its most apocalyptic … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism
Sheldon Wolin, our most important contemporary political theorist, died Oct. 21 at the age of 93. In his books “Democracy Incorporated: Managed Democracy and the Specter of Inverted Totalitarianism” and … Continue reading
Chris Hedges and Rachel Moran: Prostitution — Being Raped for a Living
— In this episode of teleSUR’s Days of Revolt, Chris Hedges speaks with author and former prostitute Rachel Moran about the violence and disempowerment inherent in prostitution. “People who depict … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Death by Fracking
DENVER—The maniacal drive by the human species to extinguish itself includes a variety of lethal pursuits. One of the most efficient is fracking. One day, courtesy of corporations such as … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: A Pipeline Straight to Jail
The defeat of the Harvard University debate team by a team from the Eastern New York Correctional Facility in the Catskills elucidates a truth known intimately by those of us … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: What it Means to be a Socialist
Chris Hedges gave this speech September 20. 2015 at a Santa Ana, Calif., event sponsored by the Green Party of Orange County. We live in a revolutionary moment. The disastrous … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Where is our Jeremy Corbyn?
The politics of Jeremy Corbyn, elected by a landslide to lead Britain’s Labour Party after its defeat at the polls last May, are part of the global revolt against corporate … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Real Enemy is Within
If you are not dedicated to the destruction of empire and the dismantling of American militarism, then you cannot count yourself as a member of the left. It is not … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: The Great Unraveling
The ideological and physical hold of American imperial power, buttressed by the utopian ideology of neoliberalism and global capitalism, is unraveling. Most, including many of those at the heart of … Continue reading
