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.
The extent to which the U.S. has embarked on a departure from reality is only a question for empires in their waning decades.
As Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza accelerates, its lies fall away and the West’s so-called humanitarian values are revealed as meaningless.
Zionist extremists and Christian fascists, who are united and now hold senior positions throughout the Trump administration, embody a global movement to the extreme right.
“An abusive exercise of power accompanied by humiliation” —Katherine Franke, former law professor at Columbia, on the university’s handling of Mahmoud Khalil, for whom she served as disciplinary adviser.
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.
Chris Hedges, Jill Stein and Kshama Sawant spoke at the Workers Strike Back conference in Seattle, Washington, on Saturday.
Donald Trump’s dismantling of the Deep State presages the formation of something far worse.
These billionaires will make a fortune “harvesting” the remains of the empire. But they are ultimately slaying the beast that created American wealth and power.
The Gaza genocide portends a dystopian world where the Global North’s industrialized violence sustains its hoarding of diminishing resources and wealth, argues Chris Hedges.