The American people clearly spoke, and the drubbing Democrats received requires looking beyond just issue polls, voting patterns, campaign strategy, or get-out-the-vote tactics.
Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig: Getting Money Out of Politics, Part 1
The Pulitzer Prize winning journalist interviewed Harvard professor and MayDay SuperPAC founder Lessig Lawrence about his plans to break the hold of big money on American elections.
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Cecily McMillan Verdict Proves Dissent Is Dangerous – And More Important Than Ever
Nonviolent protest and exposure are two vital tools at our disposal – now it’s time to wake from our dream and resist.
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America's Kangaroo Justice: Welcome to The Post-Constitutional Era
Our corporate masters, unchecked by state power and dismissive of the popular will, do not see the fires they're igniting – and the Supreme Court's refusal to hear Hedges v. Obama is a signpost on the road to dystopia.
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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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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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Thank You, Anarchy: Notes from the Occupy Apocalypse
Part pamphlet, part meditation, and part dispatch from the vortex of a fiery volcano, Nathan Schneider's book hits the ground running and doesn’t end until Occupy itself comes to an end. But maybe it hasn’t ended.
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Noam Chomsky: Smoke and Mirrors, or Civil Liberties Under President Obama
Obama's attack on civil liberties go well beyond anything I would have anticipated, and they don't seem easy to explain. He doesn't gain anything from it – he doesn't get any political mileage out of it.
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The Shame of America’s Gulag
Until we slay the beast of corporate capitalism, our prison industry and the horror it perpetuates will only expand.
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The NDAA and the Death of the Democratic State
If the corporate state is handed the tools under the National Defense Authorization Act to use deadly force and military power to criminalize dissent, then our decline will be one of repression, blood and suffering.
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Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage
Debt peonage must be broken if we are going to build a mass movement to paralyze systems of corporate power.
