Chris Hedges on Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines

The Cancer in Occupy

2012-02-06T08:24:00+00:00

The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.

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Corporations Have No Use for Borders

2012-01-30T11:20:00+00:00

It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable, but that was the old Canada.

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Chris Hedges and Lawrence Lessig: Getting Money Out of Politics

2012-01-26T00:24:00+00:00

One invented Creative Commons, the other occupied the commons. Together, they talk about strategies for ridding our democracy of corrosive corporate dollars.

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Thank You for Standing Up

2012-01-23T08:29:00+00:00

We can vote for Romney or Obama, but Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and Bank of America and the defense contractors always win. However, the iron grip of corporations over our lives will, eventually, be broken.

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Why I’m Suing Barack Obama

2012-01-16T08:44:00+00:00

On my behalf, attorneys have challenged a law that allows imprisonment of U.S. citizens without trial.

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James Cone’s Gospel of the Penniless, Jobless, Marginalized and Despised

2012-01-09T09:49:00+00:00

The true power of the Christian gospel is its unambiguous call for liberation from forces of oppression and for a fierce and uncompromising condemnation of all who oppress.

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Chris Hedges Lays It All Out

2012-01-02T07:29:00+00:00

C-SPAN goes in-depth with Chris Hedges during this three-hour interview, probing the author’s entire body of work. It is a comprehensive and fascinating discussion with one of the most important reporters on what he characterizes as our collapsing corporate empire. Hedges’ column returns next Monday.

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Chris Hedges Occupies Princeton

2011-12-19T22:49:00+00:00

Chris Hedges tells a gathering of smarties, “I feel that I’ve learned as much from the movement as I’ve given to it, if I’ve given even very much to it.”

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