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This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame.
Politically correct speech and symbols of inclusiveness, without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system.
In 1990, Lawrence Bell was 14, orphaned & living in an abandoned house when three Camden cops pressured him to sign a confession of murder. Sunday, thanks to the dogged work of his laywer, he was freed, writes Chris Hedges.
Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria discussed the week’s events in London with Chris Hedges.
Assange and WikiLeaks allowed us to see the inner workings of empire — the most important role of a press — and for this they became empire’s prey, writes Chris Hedges of Truthdig.
On his program “On Contact,” journalist and author Chris Hedges interviews Joe Lauria, CN editor, on the moves to prosecute Julian Assange using the Espionage Act; the media’s cravenness and the latest on Assange’s condition in London.