Micaela Sahhar reframes monumental events in Palestinian history through an intimate lens of her own family’s displacement during the 20th century.
Hedges Report: Erasing Palestine
Category: Books
Imperial Washington: Ozymandias on the Potomac
Alfred W. McCoy on the role of energy over the past five centuries in fueling imperial supremacy and the current politics of American decline amid China’s green-energy ride to global power.
Hedges Report: Is Israel ‘On the Brink?’
Ilan Pappé discusses his new book and the dynamics causing him to expect that, under a disintegrated and religious extremist Israel, the “Zionist project will collapse in front of our eyes.”
Vijay Prashad: Dealing Arms or Healing Minds?
As poorer nations spend about 6.5 percent of export revenues servicing external debt, while world military and police spending skyrockets, it’s unlikely most countries will have the political will to shift priorities from social destruction to social care.
NUCLEAR WAR — Diplomacy to Stave Off Annihilation
With the last remaining U.S.-Russia missile treaty expiring in February, Chris Wright calls for diplomacy between the two countries to prevent a massive arms race.
Vijay Prashad: Can Mexico’s Dignity Be Restored?
With the promise of the Mexican revolution and the sweeping reforms of cardenismo long erased by decades of neoliberalism can sovereignty be restored to the country?
Vijay Prashad: To Those Who Died So Young
The early deaths of Patrice Lumumba, Franz Fanon and other African revolutionary leaders underline the brutality of imperialism. If a radical appears to lead a people to sovereignty, the radical cannot be allowed to survive.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: When Time Stopped in Hiroshima — and When it Was Stolen
The first atomic bomb burst at 8:15 a.m. over the city of Hiroshima leaving its impression on a watch that disappeared 44 years later, reports Joe Lauria.
ATOMIC BOMBINGS AT 80: How US Spies Secured the Hiroshima Uranium
A dark secret behind the Hiroshima bomb is where the uranium came from, a spy-vs.-spy race to secure naturally enriched uranium from Congo to fuel the Manhattan Project and keep the rare mineral out of Nazi hands, reports Joe Lauria.
The Chris Hedges Report: This Is Not a Drill
“Any opportunity that I get, I will speak out” — Pink Floyd musician Roger Waters on the imperatives of love and resistance in the face of repression.