Donald Trump’s threat to cancel the midterm elections is not a feign. He ruminates about defying the Constitution to serve a third term; he is determined to retain absolute control.
Chris Hedges: The Last Election
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Chris Hedges: Trumpland
The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.
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.
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.
Chris Hedges: You Saved Julian Assange
After 14 years of persecution, the WikiLeaks publisher is free. We must honor the hundreds of thousands of people across the globe who made this happen.
Chris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power
The ruling classes always work to keep the powerless from understanding how power functions. This assault has been aided by a cultural left determined to banish “dead white male” philosophers.
Chris Hedges: Crucifying Julian Assange
This is a sermon the author gave on Sunday in Oslo, Norway, at Kulturkirken Jakob (St. James Church of Culture). Actor and film director Liv Ullmann read the scripture passages.
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: Stop Pretending US Is a Functioning Democracy
There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains.
Chris Hedges: Assange & the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at the event, which was held at The People’s Forum.