Gaza is just the beginning, the author said in a recent speech at Princeton in which he offered a sweeping indictment of a global order collapsing into what he calls “technologically advanced barbarism.”
Chris Hedges: The New World Order
Tag: authoritarianism
Australia’s Hate (Free-) Speech Bill
The bill calls for one to be imprisoned for causing theoretical discomfort in a theoretical person, writes Christina Maas. It removes proof of harm, rewrites fear as legal standard, and shifts the burden of innocence to the accused.
Jonathan Cook: Britain Has Officially Criminalized Journalism
Reporting facts in Keir Starmer’s Britain can now land you in jail for 14 years as a terrorist. This is what authoritarian governments do.
Chris Hedges: The Banana Republic of the United States
Every dictatorship is a grotesque opera buffa. No encomium is too outrageous. No bribe too small. No violation of civil liberties too extreme. No stupidity too absurd. All dissent, no matter how tepid, is treason.
Chris Hedges: Trump’s Greatest Ally is the Democratic Party
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will be swept aside.
Due Process & Trump-Ordered Murder
After a hitch in the administration’s speedboat-killing operations, there are now living plaintiffs with standing to challenge the president’s authority, writes Andrew P. Napolitano.
Craig Murray: 36-Minute Trials & No Jury
Watching 2,000 upstanding citizens, most of them elderly and many infirm, hustled through this mass-injustice process will be a defining moment in the U.K.’s headlong slide into fascism.
Trump’s Military Occupation of America
Nick Turse covers the U.S. president’s push in the direction of a genuine police state as he deploys armed forces in U.S. cities and proclaims he is waging a “war from within.”
Jonathan Cook: Freedoms We Took for Granted in Britain
Now that we have proved to be too defiant and rebellious, Keir Starmer’s government is ripping up the rulebook on protest in order to protect Israel.
New Report Details Western Repression of Anti-Genocide Dissent
The Paris-based International Federation for Human Rights documents the crackdown on the Palestinian solidarity movement in France, Germany, the U.K. and U.S. since Oct. 7, 2023.