By refusing to acknowledge or name the genocide in Gaza, and persecuting those who do, the liberal class in the U.S. provided the bullets to their executioners.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Useful Idiots
Category: Censorship
WATCH: Oliver Stone — ‘They Always Kill the Socrates’
American film director Oliver Stone addressed the Znanie Youth Forum in Moscow ahead of the 80th anniversary of Victory Day for the Allies in World War II.
The Chris Hedges Report: The West as Israel’s Police
Richard Medhurst — his journalism tools now confiscated and under “terrorism” investigation for his reporting on Palestine and Lebanon — discusses his experiences in the U.K. and Austria.
Chris Hedges: Trumpland
The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.
Vijay Prashad: The Historical Revision of Buchenwald
On April 11, 1945, the U.S. took over the Buchenwald concentration camp. But it was communist prisoners who organised and liberated the Nazi camp. Today, such heroic victories of anti-fascist resistance are under attack.
Craig Murray: This Hell
Major parties in most Western “democracies” support Israel’s genocide. This represents a radical shift in philosophy and structural movement among governments of the worst kind.
Losing Academic Freedom
The neoliberal university doesn’t need overt censorship, writes Samyuktha Kannan. It’s perfected the art of silent control. It’s not that one is explicitly told what can’t be written — it’s that over time, one simply learns what is too dangerous…
Chris Hedges: Surrendering to Authoritarianism
Elite universities cowering before Trump’s crackdown on free speech continue their history of supporting plutocracy, delivering us into the arms of fascism.
‘I Am a Political Prisoner’
“My arrest was a direct consequence of exercising my right to free speech,” Mahmoud Khalil writes in his letter from ICE detention.
The Chris Hedges Report: Media-Led Autocracy
Ralph Nader says that when you shut out the civic community, you shut down democracy. He places responsibility for that happening, first and foremost, on the mass media.