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Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution

corinna barnard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 18:00:06 +0000

As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. As we stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism, we face two stark choices. By Chris Hedges in Mexico City ScheerPost There are two ways to confront global capitalism.…

Big Media and Independent Journalism

Consortiumnews.com — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 17:00:21 +0000

Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests. Truly independent media depends on money from small donors. No wonder that it reports…

Fusing the US Military and the IDF

corinna barnard — Fri, 05 Jun 2026 16:23:43 +0000

A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod. …

A Lawless System of Brutality

corinna barnard — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 21:00:35 +0000

Andrew P. Napolitano on the torture-linked confession of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a lawless system of brutality that profoundly violates natural rights, the Constitution’s guarantee of due process as well as federal law. By Andrew P. Napolitano America’s longest current criminal…

Sumud as Collective Endurance in Gaza

corinna barnard — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:00:16 +0000

In Gaza the extended family provides the central means by which endurance, mobility and survival are continuously negotiated amid extreme disruption during Israel’s genocidal war, writes Abdalrahman Kittana. By Abdalrahman Kittana Al-Shabaka In the summer of 2003, on the wall…

Vijay Prashad: Over a Billion Disabled People

Elizabeth Vos — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 16:00:00 +0000

People with disabilities are not marginal to society but central to it — and the injustices they face reveal the failures of a world that treats human dignity as subordinate to profit. By Vijay Prashad Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research A…

The World After America

corinna barnard — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 12:00:32 +0000

Alfred W. McCoy on the the causes and consequences at home and abroad of U.S. global decline. By Alfred McCoy TomDispatch.com While Washington’s war with Iran drags on, month after month, without any end in sight, the world is witnessing the…

Hedges Report: On Mutual Aid & ‘Palaces of the Crow’

Michele Steinberg — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 17:00:47 +0000

Against the violent landscape of World War II, author Ray Nayler poses fundamental questions about human existence. Is our natural state war against all, or is it grounded in mutual aid? By Chris Hedges ScheerPost “We tell the stories that…

JOE LAURIA: Mutual Aid or Mutual Assured Destruction

Consortiumnews.com — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 16:00:49 +0000

WATCH: Cooperation is more important than competition in human survival, argued Peter Kropotkin. After competition brought two world wars, mutual aid twice sought to rescue humanity. Will there be a third chance? The following is the full text upon which…

Nobody Wants to Live Next to a War Criminal

Elizabeth Vos — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 10:00:53 +0000

Declassified UK and the International Centre of Justice for Palestinians (ICJP) have launched a major campaign to demand the end of impunity for British nationals who fought for Israel in Gaza, writes John McEvoy. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Earlier this…