Those who blind themselves to their capacity for evil commit evil not for evil’s sake, but to make a better world. This collective self-delusion is the story of America.
Chris Hedges: The Evil Within Us
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Chris Hedges: Bandaging the Corpse
Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
Chris Hedges: The Age of Social Murder
This is the largest crime against humanity ever committed. It is being committed in front of us. And, with few exceptions, we are willfully being herded like sheep to the slaughter.
Chris Hedges: Cancel Culture, Where Liberalism Goes to Die
Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
Chris Hedges: Battling White Supremacy in the Ring
Chris Hedges reviews Gerald Horne’s book, The Bittersweet Science, on racism, racketeering and the political economy of boxing.
Chris Hedges: Papering Over the Rot
The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions. New window dressing will not end oligarchy.
WATCH: Hedges & Chomsky on the State of the Empire
On his program On Contact, Chris Hedges speaks to Noam Chomsky on terrorism, militarism, media & the state of America’s empire, at home and abroad.
Hedges Talks to Greenwald on Censorship & the Incoming Biden Administration
The two Pulitzer-prize winning journalists discuss what to expect from Joe Biden and the role of the Democratic Party in pressuring social media companies to censor its content, on the program On Contact.
DOJ Now Says There Was No Plot to Kill Elected Officials
Fevered reporting about efforts to abduct and even kill members of Congress and the vice president are without foundation, the Justice Department admitted, after prosecutors falsely asserted such a plot in court, Joe Lauria reports.
WATCH: Chris Hedges and Joe Lauria Discuss Julian Assange
Chris Hedges and CN Editor Joe Lauria discuss Judge Vanessa Baraitser’s decisions to both block WikiLeaks’ publisher Julian Assange’s extradition to the United States and to deny him bail.