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The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
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Hedges: Preparing for Violence and the Coming American Fascism
The rage and nihilism that come from the frustrations of American life are expressed through violence.
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Hedges v. Obama: Fighting the Militarized State
This law, if it is not struck down, will essentially replace our civilian judiciary with a military one, meaning people will not have a chance to get a lawyer or see the inside of a courtroom.
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Hedges: The “Dual State” That Edward Snowden Enabled Us To See
A debate this week at Oxford University centers on whether the NSA whistleblower helped or harmed the public good – but on a deeper level, this debate revolves around our nation’s loss of liberty.
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Hedges: Overthrow the Speculators and Build Public Banks
We can wrest back control of our economy and our political system from corporate speculators with local movements that decentralize economic power through the creation of hundreds of publicly owned state, county and city banks.
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Hedges: Jeremy Hammond and the Revolutionaries In Our Midst
Hammond appears for sentencing Friday in Manhattan and could face 10 years in prison for hacking the security firm Stratfor and exposing its infiltration, monitoring and surveillance of nonviolent protesters for corporations and the security state.
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Hedges: Our Invisible Revolution
It appears that political ferment is dormant in the United States. This is incorrect. The battle of ideas is percolating below the surface.
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Hedges: The Folly of Empire
The last days of empire are carnivals of folly. The politicians and court propagandists, hired to be the public faces on the sinking ship, mask the real work of the crew, which is systematically robbing the passengers as the vessel goes down.
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Hedges: The Origins of Our Police State
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state, as cops arrest 13 million people a year while carrying out random searches with no probable cause.
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Hedges: The Sparks of Rebellion
With the decimation of U.S. manufacturing along with the dismantling of our unions and opposition parties, we will have to search for different instruments of rebellion.
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Chris Hedges: The Origins of Our Police State
The tyranny of law enforcement in poor communities is a window into our emerging police state. These thuggish tactics are now being used against activists and dissidents.
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Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
Activists are continuing the fight but are exhausted, balancing careers and a movement, that, to most, has become a personal battle.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
To win the climate argument, advocates must show how Covid-19 bailout funds could be redirected – instead of making similar mistakes as the 2008 financial crisis.
The most analogous failure to the impending economic turbulence is the financial crisis of 2008, caused, primarily, by the deregulation of the financial industry.
The world has lost an incredible thinker and doer. I have lost an amazing friend. A void exists where before it was filled with David's optimism, humour and joy.
Posted 6 days 12 hours ago
He wrote about crushing debt, pointless jobs and the negative effects of globalization. And he played a leading role in the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Kevin fought to bring truth every day. We must not lose this struggle.
