The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.
Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age
Category: Racism
Exterminating Israel’s Helots
Palestinians are today’s Helots to Israel’s Sparta, condemned to be trampled on. When the response to genocide is more genocide, you are what you claim to be against. Exterminating children as the world looks on results, writes John Wight.
Inside US Detention-Center Brutality
An inside look at a Miami detention center where ICE sends immigrants targeted for detention and deportation under the Trump-Vance plan. Mark Dow reports.
Chris Hedges: Reinforcing the Lies of US History
Lust for conquest and wealth — behind the enslavement of Africans and the Native American genocide — is sidelined to tell the story of the valiant struggle by European pioneers to build the greatest nation on earth.
‘Failing Up’ From the White House
For the latest examples, look at where two of the most disastrous foreign policy officials from the Biden administration just landed, write Edward Ahmed Mitchell and Ismail Allison.
Trump’s Retaliation Against South Africa
As a warning to other countries, Washington’s ouster of Ambassador Ebrahim Rasool may well backfire, writes Medea Benjamin.
Jonathan Cook: Gaza Is Our Holocaust
If Hamas struck a hospital treating Netanyahu it would not be justifiable. But the laws of war are forgotten when Israel violates them.
The Chris Hedges Report: On the Precipice of Darkness
“Industrial violence, which is decimating the Palestinians, will become ubiquitous” — from the author’s recent address at the Sanctuary for Independent Media.
The Chris Hedges Report: ‘Perfect Victims’
“Obfuscating the killer” — Mohammed El-Kurd on his new book and the kind of journalism that transforms Palestinians into humanitarian subjects, avoiding a critical discussion of Zionism as the root of the occupation and the suffering.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s War on Education
The U.S. president’s cuts to education under the guise of fighting anti-Semitism are an effort to enforce totalitarianism in the minds of future generations. Questions are not to be asked, myths are to be enforced.