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.
Chris Hedges: The Empire Self-Destructs
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Chris Hedges: The Western Way of Genocide
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.
WATCH: For Once Trump Gets It Right on Censorship
Robert Scheer discusses Trump’s executive order banning government censorship and a range of free-press matters with Consortium News’ editor in chief Joe Lauria.
The Chris Hedges Report: America’s Academic Gulag
“Putting dangerous technology in dangerous hands” — MIT PhD students Prahlad Iyengar and Richard Solomon discuss their school’s collaboration with Israel’s extermination campaign and how dissidents are being suppressed.
Chris Hedges: The Ceasefire Charade
Israel plays a cynical game. It makes phased agreements with the Palestinians that ensure it immediately gets what it wants. It then violates every subsequent phase and reignites its military assault.
Stealing Credit for the Gaza Ceasefire
There’s little doubt Donald Trump’s intervention was the main reason for the Gaza ceasefire but predictably Joe Biden, who facilitated genocide until the bitter end, is saying it was him on his way out the door, says Joe Lauria.
Chris Hedges: Fire Weather
Welcome to the age of the “Pyrocene” where cities burn and water does not come out of the hydrants.
Chris Hedges: Genocide — The New Normal
This will be a Hobbesian world where nations that have the most advanced industrial weapons make the rules. Those who are poor and vulnerable will kneel in subjugation.
Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
The late U.S. president may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Chris Hedges Report: Big Tech’s Complicity in Genocide
Saima Akhter, Hossam Nasr, Tariq Ra’ouf — formerly of Meta, Microsoft and Apple, respectively — recount their in-house struggles over the genocide, which ultimately led to each of their dismissals.