The 15 rounds of voting it took to install Kevin McCarthy as speaker of the House is part of the carnival of folly that passes for politics.
Chris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
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WATCH: Hedges & Kucinich on Ukraine & the Democrats
Journalist Chris Hedges interviews former U.S. Congressman Dennis Kucinich on his show The Chris Hedges Report about the death of the anti-war wing of the Democratic Party. Aired on the Real News Network.
Chris Hedges: Democrats Are a Party of War
The Democratic Party has become the party of permanent war, fueling massive military spending which is hollowing out the country from the inside and flirting with nuclear war.
Chris Hedges: Support Consortium News
Journalist Chris Hedges explains the value of Consortium News and why he urges readers to back it during our ongoing Winter Fund Drive.
Chris Hedges: Israel & the Rise of a New Fascism
The mask is being lifted from the face of Israel’s apartheid state, exposing a grinning death’s head that portends the obliteration of the few restraints against killing Palestinians.
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
The expedited legislation passed by Congress to avert a strike by railroad unions dealt one more blow in the decades long war waged by the two ruling parties against the working class.
Chris Hedges: Reading Proust in War
Marcel Proust died a century ago on Nov. 18, 1922, leaving behind one of the most remarkable literary investigations into human nature and society.
Chris Hedges: Destroyers of US Democracy
With the U.S. midterm elections on Tuesday, Biden and other establishment politicians hope to paper over the rot and pain of the system they created with the same decorum they used to sell the country the con of neoliberalism.
Chris Hedges: Death of an Oracle
Gerald Stern said poets had a sacred calling. They must not allow the oppressed to remain voiceless, the crimes of the oppressor to go unnamed or memory to be obliterated.
Chris Hedges: My War Never Ends
The war in Ukraine raised the familiar bile, the revulsion at those who don’t go to war and yet revel in the mad destructive power of violence.