Chris Hedges: On Being Disappeared
The entire archive of six years of my show On Contact has been removed by YouTube.
Opinion
The American Empire Self-Destructs
But nobody thought that it would happen this fast.
War Propaganda About Ukraine Becoming More Militaristic, Authoritarian, and Reckless
There is no propaganda as potent or powerful as war propaganda.
Chris Hedges: The Execution of Julian Assange
He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
Despite “The Cease Fire”, Israel Intensifies Its Deadly Aggression Against Palestinians
Despite the ceasefire, Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu’s own future depends on inciting the fascist settlers and Israeli hyper-militarized police to provoke new unrest in intensifying tensions against Palestinians. This reality makes the ceasefire fragile.
The Selective Prosecution of Julian Assange
As the extradition hearing for Wikileaks Editor-in-Chief Julian Assange unfolds, it is increasingly clear that the prosecution of Assange fits into a pattern of governments selectively enforcing laws in order to punish those who provoke their ire.
Covert Regime Change: Why is a US Government-funded NGO Petitioning to Change the Thai Constitution?
If Russia was funding an NGO in the US petitioning for the US Constitution to be rewritten, one could expect an immediate and extreme backlash across the media exposing this. Yet in Thailand where US government-funded groups are doing precisely this in regards to the Thai constitution – the media not only conceals US funding, it spins the move as “pro-democratic.”
The COVID-19 Chronicles: China
With the US spiraling downward, a downward trajectory merely steepened by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (Covid-19) outbreak, we’d expect other nations to suffer likewise.
Democracy in Name But Not in Practice: Election Fraud & Voter Suppression in the 2020 Democratic Primary
What these comparisons show is that there are discrepancies between exit polls and vote counts by computer. The question is why do these discrepancies always favor the DNC? If the discrepancies were random, then the comparison between Sanders and Biden would be random. But they are not random. The DNC’s candidate always gains in the counting. And that is highly suspicious.
Not only have exit polls been way off, but Bernie Sanders has won every single caucus state where votes are hand-counted except one: Iowa, Nevada, and North Dakota. American Samoa is the only caucus Bernie didn’t win; fellow progressive Tulsi Gabbard won the territory.
The Democrats’ COBRA Proposal Is an Insurance Industry Bailout
We keep handing more money to the very for-profit insurance industry that is failing us.
Bernie Sanders Suspends His Campaign: What Happened and What Now?
Once again, disenfranchised American voters are left without a candidate that represents their values, but instead of staying home or voting against those values, there is another option, writes Sam Husseini.
Michel Chossudovsky: After the Lockdown — A Global Coronavirus Vaccination Program…
What is the next step in the evolution of the COV-19 Crisis?
A coronavirus vaccine program was announced in Davos at the World Economic Forum (January 21-24) barely 2 weeks after the cornonavirus was identified by the Chinese authorities on January 7.
Bailouts for the Rich, the Virus for the Rest of Us
The rich will reap benefits while workers get sick and die. It is finance capitalism that is being bailed out in the tune of $5 trillion, while some eligible Americans might receive a single measly $1200 check that is supposed to save them from economic catastrophe.
Coronavirus Proves It: We Need Medicare For All
Health care rationing isn’t what awaits us in a single-payer system. It’s happening now in our failed for-profit system.
Voter Suppression Alive and Well on Super Tuesday 2020
You might remember voter suppression from being a big issue in, well, pretty much every American election ever. And Super Tuesday was no exception.