A trio of Stoics from Ancient Greece offer philosophical opposition to today’s turbo capitalism in this excerpt from “Raging Twenties, Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism.”
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Slave, The Orator & The Emperor
Category: Arts
The UK Military’s Secrecy Problem
Richard Norton-Taylor says a new book illustrates how the military establishment tries to censor, bully and threaten publishers and journalists.
Chris Hedges: The Evil Within Us
Those who blind themselves to their capacity for evil commit evil not for evil’s sake, but to make a better world. This collective self-delusion is the story of America.
WATCH: CN Live!—New Season, Episode 1: Dissident Intellectual
The premiere episode of Season 3 of CN Live!, looks at the career of Richard Falk, a former UN special rapporteur on Palestine, & an outspoken critic of U.S. foreign policy.
PEPE ESCOBAR: The Raging Twenties: A New Map of Dystopia
Pepe Escobar’s new book Raging Twenties: Great Power Politics Meets Techno-Feudalism tells the story of a new phase of the U.S. empire.
The Truth is a Joke Zionism Can’t Accept
Lawrence Davidson considers the conflation of an ethnocentric political ideology with Judaism, a multi-ethnic and multi-cultural religion.
MLK & Fred Hampton Versus J Edgar Hoover
James DiEugenio tracks the FBI boss and his renegade violence against any sign of a Black Messiah through two current films.
Using Das Kapital as a Pillow
Many Marxists in colonized zones had never read Marx, writes Vijay Prashad in this sampling of influential leftists, many from peasant societies, who built theories appropriate to their own context.
Chris Hedges: Battling White Supremacy in the Ring
Chris Hedges reviews Gerald Horne’s book, The Bittersweet Science, on racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing.
THE ANGRY ARAB: Expelled from US in 1969 for His Support of Civil Rights: Who is George Hajjar?
Almost unknown in the U.S., Hajjar heckled Ben-Gurion, joined the civil rights movement in the South, and lost his job with the PLO for allegedly insulting Arafat.