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Hedges: No Way Out but War
Hedges: No Way Out but War Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana. Original Illustration by Mr. Fish — “No Guts No Glory” The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly […]
Chris Hedges: Waltzing to Armageddon
Chris Hedges: Waltzing to Armageddon The Dr. Strangeloves, like zombies rising from the mass graves they created around the globe, are once again stoking new campaigns of industrial mass slaughter. Bus burning on a road from Kharkiv to Kiev as Russia invades Ukraine on Feb. 24. (Yan Boechat/VOA) The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was […]
Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Scheerpost) – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via […]
The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. Original illustration by Mr. Fish Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights […]
Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum. A society that prohibits the capacity […]
The Myth of Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies-Chris Hedge
The Myth of Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies – Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth
Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Original illustration by Mr. Fish. (Scheerpost) Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising U.S. […]
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges: The Cost of Resistance You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response by ruling elites. Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance […]
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges: American Bloodlands The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates. Fires and tear gas at the Mark O. Hatfield federal courthouse perimeter fence during protests over the police killing of George Floyd in Portland, Oregon, July 22, 2020. (Tedder, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons) By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com […]
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange LONDON—On Friday morning I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison and dressed in a pale-blue prison shirt, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. Assange, his gray hair and beard neatly trimmed, slipped on […]
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange The arrest Thursday of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange are ominous. They presage a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially […]
Goodbye to the Dollar
Goodbye to the Dollar The inept and corrupt presidency of Donald Trump has unwittingly triggered the fatal blow to the American empire—the abandonment of the dollar as the world’s principal reserve currency. Nations around the globe, especially in Europe, have lost confidence in the United States to act rationally, much less lead, in issues of international […]
Crucifying Julian Assange
Crucifying Julian Assange Mr. Fish / Truthdig Julian Assange’s sanctuary in the Ecuadorian Embassy in London has been transformed into a little shop of horrors. He has been largely cut off from communicating with the outside world for the last seven months. His Ecuadorian citizenship, granted to him as an asylum seeker, is in the […]
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom Mr. Fish / Truthdig The failure on the part of establishment media to defend Julian Assange, who has been trapped in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London since 2012, has been denied communication with the outside world since March and appears to be facing imminent expulsion […]
The Coming Collapse
The Coming Collapse Mr. Fish / Truthdig The Trump administration did not rise, prima facie, like Venus on a half shell from the sea. Donald Trump is the result of a long process of political, cultural and social decay. He is a product of our failed democracy. The longer we perpetuate the fiction that we […]
