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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: Last Chance to Stop the National Defense Authorization Act
We have begun the third and final round of our battle to get the courts to strike down a section of the NDAA that permits the military to seize U.S. citizens, strip them of due process and hold them indefinitely in military facilities.
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America's Disappeared: The Poor and the Prison System
When you are poor you can instantly disappear into the subterranean rabbit holes of our vast jail and prison complex.
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The Business of Mass Incarceration
Poor people, especially those of color, are worth nothing to corporations and private contractors if they are on the street. In jails and prisons, however, they each can generate corporate revenues of $30,000 to $40,000 a year.
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Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent
The goal of the corporate state is to criminalize democratic, popular dissent before there is another popular eruption.
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning
The documents that detail the crimes, torture and killing Manning revealed, because they are classified, have been barred from discussion in court, effectively removing the fundamental issue of war crimes from the trial.
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The New State Agitprop Film About Wikileaks
The film does a grave disservice to whistleblowers Julian Assange and Bradley Manning.
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Hedges: Rise Up Or Die
We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species.
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Hedges: The Death of Truth
The global assault on Wikileaks is part of the terrifying metamorphosis of the “war on terror” into a wider war on civil liberties — a hunt not for actual terrorists, but for all those with the ability to expose the mounting crimes of the power elite.
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The Persecution of Lynne Stewart
The near total collapse of our judicial system, wrecked in the name of national security and “the war on terror,” is encapsulated in the saga of this courageous attorney.
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Sweatshops on Wheels: This is What Privatizing Public Transit Looks Like
The deterioration of the nation’s public transportation, like its health care, education, social services, public utilities, bridges and roads, is part of the relentless seizing and harvesting of public resources and programs by corporations.
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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.
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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.
