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Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Mar 2022
14 Mar 2022 – The Cold War, 1945-1989, was a Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another, and the global corporations able to equate predatory capitalism with freedom. The doctrine of permanent war dominated our lives then–and now.
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Orwell Was Right
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
13 Mar 2022 – From free speech to “spheres of influence” to our passion for endless war, we’ve become the doublethinkers 1984 predicted.
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Worthy and Unworthy Victims
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Mar 2022
7 Mar 2022 – Dividing the world into worthy and unworthy victims is a tactic used to justify our crimes and demonize our enemies. Conflicts will not be solved until all nations abide by international law and all victims are deemed worthy.
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See Saw
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Mar 2022
21 Feb 2022 – Please clarify…
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Assange Affirms the Existence of another Kind of Human Nature
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
** Statement made at the Belmarsh Tribunal on 25 Feb 2022 ** Beyond his great public service with WikiLeaks, it is his unwillingness to surrender his integrity and dignity that is key to understanding why the powers that be continue to crucify him.
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Chronicle of a War Foretold
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Feb 2022
24 Feb 2022 – After the fall of the Soviet Union, there was a near universal understanding among political leaders that NATO expansion would be a foolish provocation against Russia. How naive we were to think the military-industrial complex would allow such sanity to prevail.
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US Democrats, the More Effective Evil
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Feb 2022
14 Feb 2022 – The US is a de facto one-party state where the ideology of national security is sacrosanct, unsustainable debt props up the empire, and the primary business is war.
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Oliver Stone: American Exceptionalism Is on Deadly Display in Ukraine
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Feb 2022
11 Feb 2022 – The creator of the Showtime documentary series “The Putin Diaries” speaks to Robert Scheer about the escalating crisis in Ukraine.
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BREAKING: Joint Russia-China Statement Articulates United Opposition to Western Alliance
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
4 Feb 2022 – Today’s joint statement is a historic articulation of the major shift underway from the unipolar world that has existed since the fall of the Soviet Union.
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Heeding James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses’
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Feb 2022
31 Jan 2022 – A century after its publication, the timeless novel warns us about the poisons of nationalism and idolatry and the commonality of our sojourns between birth and death.
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Let’s Not Have a War
Matt Taibbi | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Jan 2022
25 Jan 2022 – The U.S. foreign policy establishment, chasing decades of failures, appears to be seriously considering the unthinkable in Ukraine.
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Got MLK?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – MLK Day in Anglo America
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PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 Jan 2022
27 Dec 2021 – Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian Assange. Melzer’s integrity and courage, for which he has been mercilessly attacked, stand in stark contrast to the widespread complicity of many human rights and press organizations, including PEN America.
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The Execution of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
20 Dec 2021
13 Dec 2021 – He committed empire’s greatest sin. He exposed it as a criminal enterprise. He documented its lies, callous disregard for human life, rampant corruption and innumerable war crimes. And empires always kill those who inflict deep and serious wounds.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
10 Dec 2021 – The British High Court in London today overturned an earlier lower court decision blocking the extradition of Julian Assange to the United States. The ruling sends the case back to Magistrate’s Court with instructions to allow the extradition to be approved or denied by the British Home Secretary Prita Patel.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Dec 2021
6 Dec 2021 – The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence.
→ read full articleThe Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
1 Nov 2021
28 Oct 2021 – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. If he is extradited, it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. He exposed the truth. He exposed it over and over and over until there was no question of the endemic illegality, corruption and mendacity that defines the global ruling elite. And for these truths alone he is guilty.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
18 Oct 2021
And Jesus said…
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Instascam
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
Big Brother 2021
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Oct 2021
6 Oct 2021 – Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron nemesis Steven Donziger to six months in prison Friday [1 Oct]. Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.
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USA’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
4 Oct 2021
27 Sep 2021 – The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
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The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Sep 2021
10 Sep 2021 – The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them. We did not, and do not, grasp that we are the mirror image of those we seek to destroy. We too kill with an inchoate fury.
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The Empire Does Not Forgive
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
6 Sep 2021
30 Aug 2021 – The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan. The Taliban is about to be confronted with the wrath of a wounded empire. The Cuban, Vietnamese, Iranian, Venezuelan and Haitian governments know what comes next. It isn’t pretty. It will be paid for by the poorest and most vulnerable Afghans. Joe Biden: “We will not forgive, we will not forget, we will hunt you down and make you pay.”
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The Collective Suicide Machine
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
26 Jul 2021 – The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the U.S. empire — and nobody will be held accountable. Two decades of combat, one trillion dollars spent, 100,000 troops deployed, high-tech gadgets, artificial intelligence, cyberwarfare, Reaper and the Global Hawk drones with high-resolution cameras, Special Operations Command, elite rangers, SEALs, black sites, torture, electronic surveillance, satellites, attack aircraft, mercenary armies…
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The Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
27 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced today to 45 months in prison.
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Debt to Society
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Aug 2021
Good luck!
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
19 Jul 2021
12 Jul 2021 – Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these war crimes continue their killing spree.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
5 Jul 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27.
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Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Jun 2021
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally on 10 June 2021 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.
→ read full article“Dying for an iPhone”
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
7 Jun 2021
31 May 2021 – The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is ignored by our corporatized media, and yet, it is one of the most important human rights issues of our era.
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Israeli Defense Farce
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 May 2021
Antisemitism – 13 May 2021
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Israel, the Big Lie
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 May 2021
14 May 2021 – Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.
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The CIA Has Been Taking Over for Decades—Even Former Presidents Tried to Warn Us
Lee Camp | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
3 May 2021
26 Apr 2021 – For generations the Intelligence Community has been a runaway truck–crushing everything in its path, creating coups around the world, killing thousands, and intruding on the lives of average citizens. Even the president who created the CIA and dropped atomic bombs on people, even THAT guy felt the CIA was a grave danger just after he saw a president get whacked live on prime time in Houston. I wonder why.
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The Unraveling of the American Empire
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Apr 2021
19 Apr 2021 – America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers.
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The Evil within Us
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Mar 2021
22 Mar 2021 – Millions of largely white Americans, hermetically sealed within the ideology of the Christian Right, yearn to destroy the ‘Satanic’ forces they blame for the debacle of their lives. And one such evangelical just killed eight people in Atlanta.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Mar 2021
12 Mar 2021 – The ruling elites agreed to throw money at the crisis with the $1.9 trillion Covid-19 bill known as American Rescue Plan (ARP). But the Biden’s bailout will not alter the structural inequities and other fundamental underpinnings of America’s death spiral.
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The Age of Social Murder
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Mar 2021
2 Mar 2021 – The ruling elites, despite the accelerating and tangible ecological collapse, mollify us, either by meaningless gestures or denial.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
22 Feb 2021
15 Feb 2021 – Elites and their courtiers who trumpet their moral superiority by damning and silencing those who do not linguistically conform to politically correct speech are the new Jacobins.
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Papering Over the Rot
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Feb 2021
1 Feb 2021 – The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. The staggering concentration of wealth at the top has deformed our governing institutions — new window dressing will not end oligarchy.
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The Empire Is Not Done with Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
11 Jan 2021
4 Jan 2021 – The arrest eviscerates all pretense of the rule of law and the rights of a free press. The illegalities, embraced by the Ecuadorian, British and U.S. governments, in the seizure of Assange were ominous. They presaged a world where the internal workings, abuses, corruption, lies and crimes, especially war crimes, carried out by corporate states and the global ruling elite will be masked from the public. They presaged a world where those with the courage and integrity to expose the misuse of power will be hunted down, tortured, subjected to sham trials and given lifetime prison terms in solitary confinement.
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The Great Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
21 Dec 2020
20 Dec 2020 – The real lesson we should learn from the rise of a demagogue such as Trump and a pandemic that our for-profit health care industry proved unable to contain is that we are losing control as a nation and as a species. Joe Biden and the systems managers of the deep state and empire are returning to power. Trump and his coterie of buffoons, racists, con artists and Christian fascists are sullenly preparing to leave office.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Dec 2020
7 Dec 2020 – No one can, or should, take them seriously. They stand for nothing. They fight for nothing.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
30 Nov 2020
23 Nov 2020 – American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. Despotisms fear the truth. They know it is a mortal threat. If we remain determined to live in truth, no matter the cost, we have a chance.
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Anglo American Requiem
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
9 Nov 2020
5 Nov 2020 – Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards the rich and hostile to the poor and minorities, the capitalist democracy offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. $1.51 billion for the Biden campaign and $1.57 billion for the Trump campaign — to make us think there are choices. There are not. The empty jousting between a bloviating Trump and a verbally impaired Joe Biden is designed to mask the truth. The oligarchs always win. The people always lose. It does not matter who sits in the White House. America is a failed state.
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David Vine: Tracing America’s Brutal Imperialist History through Its Military Bases
Robert Scheer | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
2 Nov 2020
30 Oct 2020 – A political anthropologist puts a much needed pin to the balloon of American exceptionalism with an invaluable guide to a country that, long before Orwell came along, said war was peace – and interventionism was the highest form of anti-colonialism.
→ read full articleThe Politics of Cultural Despair
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
26 Oct 2020
19 Oct 2020 – The physical and moral decay of the United States and the malaise it has spawned have predictable results. We have seen in varying forms the consequences of social and political collapse during the twilight of the Greek and Roman empires, the Ottoman and Hapsburg empires, Tsarist Russia, Weimar Germany and the former Yugoslavia. Voices from the past, Aristotle, Cicero, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Joseph Roth and Milovan Djilas, warned us.
→ read full articleThe Cost of Resistance
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
28 Sep 2020
22 Sep 2020 – Two of the rebels I admire most, Julian Assange, the WikiLeaks publisher, and Roger Hallam, the co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, are in jail in Britain. That should not be surprising. You can measure the effectiveness of resistance by the fury of the response. Julian courageously exposed the lies, deceit, war crimes and corruption of the ruling imperial elites. Roger has helped organized the largest acts of mass civil disobedience in British history.
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American Bloodlands
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
14 Sep 2020
8 Sep 2020 – The tinder that could soon ignite widespread violent conflagrations throughout the United States lies ominously stacked around us. Millions of disenfranchised white Americans, who see no way out of their economic and social misery, struggling with an emotional void, are seething with rage against a corrupt ruling class and bankrupt liberal elite that presides over political stagnation and grotesque, mounting social inequality.
→ read full articleHow Corporate Tyranny Works
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
31 Aug 2020
25 Aug 2020 – Those, like environmental lawyer Steven Donziger, who fight the corporate control of our society on behalf of the vulnerable, find that the institutions of power unite to crucify them.
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Something’s Rotten in the Corporate States of America
Robert Scheer interviews Barbara Freese | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Aug 2020
21 Aug 2020 – A new book by Barbara Freese explores eight stories about the unfettered corporate greed that has corrupted modern society and led to an astounding loss of life.
→ read full articleAmerica’s Death March
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
17 Aug 2020
10 Aug 2020 – Regardless of the outcome, the election will not stop the rise of hypernationalism, crisis cults and other signs of an empire’s terminal decline.
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Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
27 Jul 2020
22 Jul 2020 – This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame. Robert “Kabir” Luma was 18 when he found himself in the wrong car with the wrong people. He would pay for that misjudgment with 16 years and 54 days of his life, locked away for a crime he did not participate in and did not know was going to take place. Released from prison, he was tossed onto the street, without financial resources and, because of fines and fees imposed on him by the court system, $7,000 of debt. He ended up broke in a homeless shelter in Newark–filthy, infested with lice and bedbugs.
→ read full articleDon’t Be Fooled by the Cancel Culture Wars
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
13 Jul 2020
13 Jul 2020 – The cancel culture–the phenomenon of removing or canceling people, brands or shows from the public domain because of offensive statements or ideologies–is not a threat to the ruling class. Hundreds of corporations in the hands of white executives and board members pumped out messages condemning racism after George Floyd was choked to death by police in Minneapolis. But without a concerted assault on corporate power, will do nothing to change the system.
→ read full articleMy Student Comes Home
Chris Hedges | Scheerpost – TRANSCEND Media Service,
29 Jun 2020
29 Jun 2020 – When Lawrence Bell, an orphan living in an abandoned house in Camden, New Jersey, went to prison he was 14-years-old. Barely literate and weighing no more than 90 pounds, he had been pressured by three Camden police detectives into signing a confession for a murder and rape he insisted at his trial he did not commit. It made no difference. He would not be eligible to go before a parole board for 56 years. It was a de facto life sentence.
→ read full articleGaslighted by the Ruling Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
15 Jun 2020
15 Jun 2020 – There is only way to defeat these forces of occupation and the ruling elites they protect. It is not through voting. It will come from the streets, where tens of thousands of courageous men and women, facing arrest, indiscriminate police violence, economic despair and the threat of Covid-19, are fighting for not only an end to racism, but freedom.
→ read full articleThe US Ruling Class Have Destroyed Our Capitalist Democracy and Replaced It with a Mafia State
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service,
8 Jun 2020
2 Jun 2020 – What the Roman philosopher Cicero called a commonwealth, a res publica, a “public thing” or the “property of a people,” has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy. We are serfs ruled by obscenely rich, omnipotent masters who loot the U.S. Treasury, pay little or no taxes and have perverted the judiciary, the media and the legislative branches of government to strip us of civil liberties and give them the freedom to commit financial fraud and theft.
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