Even as the gloomy realities of war and hunger threaten to dull the light of humanity, the red sparkling dance of our struggles illuminates the path forward.
Vijay Prashad: Frankenstein Disavows His Monster
Tag: Neoliberalism
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.
An Ignored US Diplomat’s Warning on Russia
In an interview with Natylie Baldwin, E. Wayne Merry reflects on his 1994 State Department telegram concerning Western relations with post-Soviet Russia.
Chris Hedges Report: How Fascism Came
The loss of basic democratic norms began long before Trump, which paved the road to an American totalitarianism. He is the symptom, not the disease.
Patrick Lawrence: The Center the Centrists Can’t Hold
What is unfolding now in France and Germany is happening one or another way across the Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
Vijay Prashad: The Eighth Continent of Sleaze
The Global North and its corporate executives have wielded the concept of “corruption” against the Global South, whose social wealth it injects into the Continent of Sleaze.
Vijay Prashad: Swimming in Mud in 5th Circle of Hell
Instead of solving the problems of the majority, the “far right of a special type” — a right that is intimately tied to liberalism — cultivates a politics of anger.
Tooth-Fairy Politics
Trump or Harris, the outcome of this election was never going to make a meaningful difference to the victims of the U.S. empire, whatever we were told, writes Jonathan Cook.
Capitalism’s In-House Critic: Hedges’ Monbiot Interview
Capitalism would need to invent a Guardian, if it did not already exist, writes Jonathan Cook. And in turn, The Guardian would need to invent a George Monbiot if he was not already one of its columnists.
The Chris Hedges Report: The Secret History of Neoliberalism
“It disenchants us with everything which cannot be measured in dollars and cents” — George Monbiot on his new book, Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism.