Posts Tagged ‘hedges’

Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion Of Julian Assange

Authored by Chris Hedges via ScheerPost, The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited […]

CHRIS HEDGES: ISRAEL’S TROJAN HORSE

MARCH 20TH, 2024 CHRIS HEDGES Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the […]

Chris Hedges: Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust-What Holocaust, The 66 Million Plus Humans Holocausted by The Red Russian Khazarian Jew Joseph Stalin?

If one looks at the world census of members of the Jew Cult religion before and after World War Two, there are simply not six million Jews from Europe missing. There are not five million Jews from Europe missing. There are not four million Jews from Europe missing. There are not three million Jews from […]

CHRIS HEDGES: LETTER TO THE CHILDREN OF GAZA

NOVEMBER 9TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Dear child, It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you. You have never been […]

CHRIS HEDGES: ISRAEL’S CULTURE OF DECEIT

OCTOBER 19TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab […]

CHRIS HEDGES: THIS WAY FOR THE GENOCIDE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN

OCTOBER 17TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street by street, apartment block by apartment block, there is only one rule — kill anything that moves. The talk of safe zones, the reassurances of protecting […]

Clyburn hedges on Harris, says she is ‘part of’ Democrats future: ‘It’s not a given’

Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) hedged questions over Vice President Harris’s leadership role in the Democratic party, saying she is “part of” the party’s future but that “it’s not a given” she will be the successor to President Biden.  When asked Sunday by NBC’s “Meet The Press” moderator Kristen Welker if he sees Harris as “the… […]

CHRIS HEDGES: HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM CREATED THE LIBYAN NIGHTMARE

SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2023 Source CHRIS HEDGES Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only one to die.  […]

Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine And The Crisis Of Media Censorship

The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis, and its effects on Western media institutions are increasingly concerning to advocates of a free press. The press in the US and most of Europe parrot the opinions of a ruling elite and oversees a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real […]

The Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers speak out against America’s misguided wars

We are not a good and virtuous nation. God does not bless us above other nations. Victory is not assured. War is not noble and uplifting. The clash between the reality of combat and the Disneyfied version of combat consumed by the public, one that propels many young men and women into war, creates not […]

The Chris Hedges Report: Breaking The Cycle Of American Violence

American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world’s largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan argues that childhood abuse, and the shame it engenders, is the engine that fuels America’s deadliest epidemic. This abuse and shame, he […]

The Chris Hedges Report: Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia

In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look, are already apparent in our world today. Feffer follows them to their logical conclusion. The climate is at war with the human species and every other species. […]

Chris Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold

I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President Mikhail Gorbachev reached out to Washington and Europe to build a new […]

Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange

December 27th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian […]

Chris Hedges: American Satyricon

Above photo: Jeenah Moon/Reuters. The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence. The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell which began this week in Manhattan will not hold to account […]

Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time

October 30th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source 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 video link from London. The […]

Chris Hedges: The Call

This excerpt is from Chris Hedges’ newest book, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.” On September 5, 2013, I pulled my old Volvo wagon—a bumper sticker reading “This is the Rebel Base” stuck on the back by my wife, a Star Wars fan—into the parking lot at East Jersey State Prison in Rahway, New […]

Chris Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State

October 07th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron […]

Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience

By Chris Hedges Source Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced […]

Chris Hedges Speaks On ‘American Sadism’

Above Photo: mediasanctuary.org / YouTube. Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27. [embedded content] Sadism defines nearly every cultural, social, and political experience in the United States. It is expressed in the unchecked greed of an oligarchic elite that has […]

Chris Hedges: Julian Assange And The Collapse Of The Rule Of Law

Above image: Mr. Fish. 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 to speak in truth extinguishes the […]

Chris Hedges, Alan MacLeod on Media Bias and the Christian Right’s Obsession with Israel

By Mnar Muhawesh Adley Chris Hedges and Alan Macloed join MintCast to talk about Israel, Christian Zionism, and media bias. [embedded content] mages from the Israeli onslaught against Palestine have dominated both news broadcasts and social media as the world expresses its outrage over the bombing of civilian targets. While the latest violence was triggered […]

Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire

By Chris Hedges Source US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers. Princeton, New Jersey (Scheerpost) — America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf […]

Chris Hedges: Bandaging The Corpse

By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. March 13, 2021 | Educate! Above image: By Mr. Fish. Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral. The established ruling elites know there is a crisis. They agreed, at least temporarily, to throw money at it with the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 bill […]

Chris Hedges: The Age Of Social Murder

Above image: Illustration by Mr. Fish. The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial. The two million deaths that have resulted from the ruling elites mishandling of the global pandemic will be dwarfed by what is to follow. The global catastrophe that awaits us, already […]

Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes To Die

Above image: By Mr. Fish. Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins. The Rev. Will Campbell was forced out of his position as director of religious life at the University of Mississippi in 1956 because […]

Chris Hedges On The Roots Of Rage In Tinderbox America

[embedded content] Former New York Times reporter Chris Hedges went on the Jimmy Dore Show this week to discuss the roots of rage in Tinderbox America. “The reaction by CNN and the mainstream media was quite frightening,” Hedges told Dore. “All they did was demonize the people in the crowd, which isn’t in any way to condone what they […]

Is Big Tech too powerful? Chris Hedges & Ramesh Srinivasan debate Twitter & Facebook banning Trump

“To allow these companies to essentially function as de facto platforms for censorship and manipulation … harkens back to the way civil liberties were eviscerated in the wake of 9/11.”

Chris Hedges: The Collective Suicide Of The Liberal Class

Above image: By Mr. Fish. No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing. Liberals who express dismay, or more bizarrely a fevered hope, about the corporatists and imperialists selected to fill the positions in the Biden administration are the court jesters of our political burlesque. They long ago […]

Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War On Truth

By Chris Hedges, ScheerPost.com. November 23, 2020 | Educate! Above image: By Mr. Fish. American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Joe Biden’s victory instantly obliterated the Democratic Party’s longstanding charge that Russia was hijacking and compromising US […]

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