The Trump administration is laying the groundwork for blacklisting and criminalizing all left-wing, progressive, anti-war and anti-imperialist dissent.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Phantom Leftwing Enemies
Category: Fascism
Monsters Playing Victims
Ramzy Baroud on Danny Danon and the mountain of evidence that cannot be shouted away about Israel’s systemic use of sexual violence and other abuses against Palestinians.
Chris Hedges: Requiem for America on the 4th of July
Britain Detains US Human Rights Lawyer
Britain continues on its authoritarian road by targeting pro-Palestine journalists, activists, academics, doctors, musicians, former MPs and lawyers, seizing property and using “the process as punishment.”
Hedges Report: On Mutual Aid & ‘Palaces of the Crow’
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?
Hedges Report: The War on Terror Created the Age of Trump
Matt Kennard shows in his new book that the bipartisan War on Terror laid the groundwork for the Trump presidency and the rise of fascism — now, with extremists empowered, we face the consequences.
Chris Hedges: Israel Seizes Pro-Palestine Activists
The rule of law has been buried under the rubble in Gaza, allowing Israel to brutally abduct 175 humanitarian activists aboard Sumud Flotilla, 500 nautical miles from Gaza.
On Blackshirts & Reds: Remembering the Class Analysis of Michael Parenti
On Saturday, a memorial service will be held in Berkeley, Calif., for Michael Parenti, radical historian, social scientist, author and public speaker. Ann Garrison takes a look at one of his many invaluable works, Blackshirts and Reds: Rational Fascism and…
Chris Hedges: Trump the God
Trump’s portrayal of himself as Jesus, or anointed by Jesus, is typical of cult leaders. Cult leaders are immune from rational and fact-based critique. That’s why all the chatter about fissures in the MAGA universe misreads Trump cultists.
Chris Hedges: Kuwait Holds American Journalist
Kuwait has arrested a fearless Palestinian-American reporter for doing his job and is threatening to imprison him under a set of new and harsh national security laws.