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My War Never Ends
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 31 Oct 2022
Writing on War and Living in a World from Hell
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Stop Worrying and Start Loving the Bomb
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Oct 2022
23 Oct 2022 – The longer the proxy war in Ukraine continues, the closer we come to a direct confrontation with Russia. Once that happens, the Dr. Strangeloves running the show will reach for the nukes.
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The Thin Red Line: NATO Can’t Afford to Lose Kabul and Kiev
Pepe Escobar | Strategic Culture Foundation – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Oct 2022
12 Oct 2022 – Russia will not allow the Empire to control Ukraine, whatever it takes. That’s intrinsically linked to the future of the Greater Eurasia Partnership.
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The Greatest Evil Is War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022
29 Sep 2022 – I flew to Kansas City to see Tomas Young. Tomas was paralyzed in Iraq in 2004. He was receiving hospice care at his home. I knew him by reputation and the movie documentary Body of War. He was one of the first veterans to publicly oppose the war in Iraq.
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The Puppets and the Puppet Masters
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 10 Oct 2022
9 Oct 2022 – Merrick Garland and those who work in the Department of Justice are the puppets, not the puppet masters. They are the façade, the fiction, that the longstanding persecution of Julian Assange has something to do with justice. Like the High Court in London, they carry out an elaborate judicial pantomime.
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The Return of Fascism
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Sep 2022
24 Sep 2022 – As in the 1930s, a bankrupt liberalism, grotesque social inequality and declining living standards are empowering fascist movements in Europe and the U.S.
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The Historic Collapse of Journalism
Patrick Lawrence | Consortium News - TRANSCEND Media Service, 19 Sep 2022
Accuracy no longer matters. Witnessing no longer matters. Conformity matters.
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Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022
11 Sep 2022 – No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
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Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Sep 2022
4 Sep 2022 – The U.S. posits itself as a champion of opportunity, freedom, human rights and civil liberties, even as half the country struggles at subsistence level, militarized police gun down and imprison the poor with impunity, and the primary business of the state is war. This collective self-delusion masks who we have become. Under inverted totalitarianism, there is no attempt, unlike fascism and state socialism, to address the needs of the poor.
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Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Aug 2022
28 Aug 2022 – Permanent War Requires Permanent Censorship
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A Hall of Mirrors
Patrick Lawrence | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2022
19 Aug 2022 – I have long wondered why our mainstream journalists, correspondents and commentators give so similar accounts of things. This has been especially so in the Ukraine crisis: Keeping readers and viewers a safe distance from reality is a touchy matter. One slip and the shroud shreds.
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We Are Not the First Civilization to Collapse, but We Will Probably Be the Last
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Aug 2022
14 Aug 2022 – The archeological remains of past civilizations, including those of the prehistoric Cahokia temple mound complex in Illinois, are sobering reminders of our fate.
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The Invention of Capitalism
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Aug 2022
As Official Narratives Go…
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When the Just Go to Prison
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Aug 2022
31 Jul 2022 – When those who expose the crimes of the state are criminalized and sent to prison, tyranny is inevitable. Daniel Hale’s imprisonment is a microcosm of the vast gulag being constructed for all of us.
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War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022
22 Jul 2022 – The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
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The Dawn of the Apocalypse
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jul 2022
24 Jul 2022 – We were warned for decades about the death march we are on because of global warming. And yet, the global ruling class continues to frog-march us towards extinction.
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War with Iran
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Jul 2022
15 Jul 2022 – The United States, Saudi Arabia and Israel, responsible for military fiascos, hundreds of thousands of deaths and innumerable war crimes in the Middle East, are now plotting to attack Iran.
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NATO: The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
The Chris Hedges Report – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Jul 2022
10 Jul 2022 – The massive expansion of NATO, not only in Eastern and Central Europe but the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia, presages endless war and a potential nuclear holocaust.
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Fascists in Our Midst
Chris Hedges | Substack – TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2022
26 Jun 2022 – Supreme Court rulings, including the overturning of Roe v. Wade, herald the ascendancy of Christian fascism in the United States.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 27 Jun 2022
Meanwhile in the USA
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The Triumph of Death
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jun 2022
The global ruling class is cementing into place a world where they govern without accountability, we are reduced to serfdom, the climate crisis accelerates, and mass death is normalized.
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How to Defeat the Billionaire Class
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jun 2022
30 May 2022 – There are ways to defeat the billionaire class and many of these tactics have been pioneered or refined by Socialist City Councilwoman Kshama Sawant and the Socialist Alternative party in Seattle.
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No Way Out but War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 May 2022
Permanent war has cannibalized the country. It has created a social, political, and economic morass. Each new military debacle is another nail in the coffin of Pax Americana.
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Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of U.S. Fascism
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 May 2022
9 May 2022 – The Democratic Party is hoping to thwart an election by running against the Supreme Court decision on abortion. The Christian fascists believe military power, and its “manly” virtues, are blessed by God. No military budget is too big. No war waged by the US is evil. Violence is the primary form of communication. Vengeance is the highest good.
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Bar None
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022
22 Apr 2022 – No Comment
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The Age of Self-Delusion
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 9 May 2022
The US and Russia, faded relics of the Cold War, unable to accept their terminal decline, launch futile and self-defeating wars to reclaim their lost imperial power.
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Getting Back to Work
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022
8 Apr 2022 – Amazon
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Alice Walker and the Price of Conscience
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 May 2022
25 Apr 2022 – Alice Walker was disinvited to the Bay Area Book Festival after Zionist groups threatened to carry out protests. The public and presenters are complicit in her blacklisting if they attend. Boycott the Bay Area Book Festival. That is the least we owe a literary and moral titan.
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U.S. Commissars
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Apr 2022
18 Apr 2022 – Social media platforms are aggressively censoring all who challenge the dominant narrative on Ukraine, the ruling Democratic Party, the wars in the Middle East and the corporate state.
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The Pimps of War
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022
11 Apr 2022 – The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a suicidal war with Russia.
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Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Apr 2022
Indeed…
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Let Us Now Praise Amazon Unionists
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 11 Apr 2022
4 Apr 2022 – The only way to halt the global assault on the human rights of workers is to unionize.
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On Being Disappeared
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 4 Apr 2022
28 Mar 2022 – The entire archive of On Contact, the Emmy-nominated show I hosted for six years for RT America, has been disappeared from YouTube. I received no inquiry or notice. I vanished. In totalitarian systems you exist; then you don’t. Are we a more informed and better society because of this wholesale censorship?
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The Marriage of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022
25 Mar 2022 – I was in London as a guest of Julian Assange and Stella Moris for their wedding, but even on that day the authorities continued their relentless campaign of cruelty against Julian.
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Chris Hedges | ScheerPost – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Mar 2022
21 Mar 2022 – The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. Our hypocrisy makes a rules-based world, one that abides by international law, impossible.
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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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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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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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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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Got MLK?
Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jan 2022
17 Jan 2022 – MLK Day in Anglo 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
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.
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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Oct 2021
And Jesus said…
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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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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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Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 13 Sep 2021
Never Remember…
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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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Mr. Fish | ScheerPost - TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Aug 2021
Good luck!
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How Not to Do Activism
Michael Gecan | Boston Review - TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jul 2021
The calculus of power isn’t defined by hits or clicks or tweets. It is measured in relationships and meaningful reactions over time. While social media can be a useful tool in organizing, it is not a strategy. Real change depends on finding a large group of local leaders, not a single charismatic person.
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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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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.
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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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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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Mr. Fish – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021
One moment insider, the next…
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This Isn’t Goodbye
Mr. Fish | Scheer Post - TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Jan 2021
Troy Revisited – 20 Jan 2021
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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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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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The Zionist Colonization of Palestine
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 2 Mar 2020
24 Feb 2020 – For more than a century Zionists and, later, Israelis have pursued a project to seize and ethnically cleanse Palestinian land.
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What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Feb 2020
10 Feb 2020 – The global security state, which is not bound by the rule of law, will target all who defy it.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Feb 2020
28 Jan 2020 – Neoliberalism, the latest utopian project, aims at concentrating wealth in the hands of the few while reducing the many to peonage.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 20 Jan 2020
13 Jan 2020 – The United States’ descent toward tyranny mirrors the experience of Germany and Italy in the 1930s.
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War with Iran
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 6 Jan 2020
3 Jan 2020 – The assassination of Gen. Soleimani has opened a Pandora’s Box containing existential dangers to the American Empire.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Dec 2019
15 Dec 2019 – Global finance capital has seized control of the economies of most nation-states. The citizens watch, helplessly, as money and goods are transferred with little regulation across borders, as jobs in manufacturing and the professions are shipped to regions of the global south where most workers are paid a dollar or less an hour and receive no benefits, … Civil disobedience is the last tool we have to prevent corporate tyranny and save the planet.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 25 Nov 2019
18 Nov 2019 – Roger Hallam, a co-founder of Extinction Rebellion, understands corporate power and knows how to fight it. It is up to us to act.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Nov 2019
11 Nov 2019 – Once oligarchs seize power, they dismantle outside controls to create a corrupt economy and finally a corrupt state. Tyranny follows.
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Eric Zuesse – TRANSCEND Media Service, 28 Oct 2019
23 Oct 2019 – The military-industrial complex didn’t entirely control the U.S. Government back in 1971 when its absolute right of censorship was rejected by the U.S. Supreme Court in the Pentagon Papers case; but, now, after 9/11, it finally does, and thus democracy has become totally eliminated in today’s America.
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The Age of Radical Evil
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 21 Oct 2019
14 Oct 2019 – All life, including our own, has become expendable, sacrificed on the altar of profit in a culture of death. “Radical evil, worse than merely treating others as objects, renders vast numbers of people superfluous. They possess no value at all and when no longer of utility to the powerful, discarded as human refuse.” — Hannah Arendt
→ read full articleSaving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 30 Sep 2019
Friday’s [20 Sep] climate strike by students across the globe will have no more impact than the mass mobilizations by women following the election of Donald Trump or the hundreds of thousands of protesters who took to the streets to denounce the Iraq War. This does not mean these protests should not have taken place. But such demonstrations need to be grounded in the bitter reality that in the corridors of power we do not count.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 22 Jul 2019
15 Jul 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 24 Jun 2019
On Friday [14 Jun 2019] I was in a small courtroom at Westminster Magistrates’ Court in London. Julian Assange, held in Belmarsh Prison, appeared on a video screen directly in front of me. He listened intently as Ben Brandon, the prosecutor, seated at a narrow wooden table, listed the crimes he allegedly had committed and called for his extradition to the United States to face charges that could result in a sentence of 175 years. The American, British and Swedish judicial systems have been manipulated and corrupted to ensure the publisher is extradited to the U.S.
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The Thought Police Are Coming
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 17 Jun 2019
11 Jun 2019 – The oppression of WikiLeaks publisher Julian Assange heralds a frightening new totalitarianism.
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Manufacturing War with Russia
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 3 Jun 2019
3 Jun 2019 – Despite the Robert Mueller report’s conclusion that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia during the 2016 presidential race, the new Cold War with Moscow shows little sign of abating. The demonization of Putin and Russia was designed to poison bilateral relations, boost U.S. war industry profits and make détente impossible.
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Reckoning with Failure in the War on Terror
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service, 15 Apr 2019
8 Apr 2019 – The endless conflict is the final gasp of the American Empire, signaling the end of hegemony abroad and democracy at home.
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Gilets Jaunes/Yellow Vests: Only the Struggle Matters
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 8 Apr 2019
1 Apr 2019 — The uprising in the streets of Paris illustrates the importance of resisting corporate oppression, no matter what the outcome.
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Chelsea Manning and the New Inquisition
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 1 Apr 2019
18 Mar 2019 — The whistleblower is back behind bars as the government continues to try to hide its crimes.
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Worshipping the Electronic Image
Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 18 Feb 2019
17 Feb 2019 – Our post-literate culture has crippled us intellectually and produced a president whose babble replicates the nonsensical diatribes of the age.
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Confronting the Culture of Death
Chris Hedges – Truthdig, 28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – We must face down the corporate capitalism that is destroying humanity and the ecosystem itself. Salvation is in resistance. Chris Hedges, an ordained Presbyterian minister, gave this sermon Jan. 20 at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada.
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Chris Hedges | Truthdig – TRANSCEND Media Service, 7 Jan 2019
31 Dec 2018 – We can resist the radical evil enveloping our lives and our planet only when we acquire the faith that resistance always weakens the oppressor and empowers the oppressed.
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Banishing Truth
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 31 Dec 2018
24 Dec 2018 – The decay of American journalism, captured by corporate power, has marginalized and often silenced its most courageous reporters. Investigative journalism depends not only on reporters such as Hersh, but as importantly on men and women inside the systems of power who have the moral courage to expose lies and make public crimes.
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Neoliberalism’s Dark Path to Fascism
Chris Hedges - Truthdig, 3 Dec 2018
26 Nov 2018 – The financial elites have engineered a monumental con job that threatens to rip away the remainder of our freedoms. Neoliberalism transforms freedom for the many into freedom for the few. Its logical result is neofascism, which abolishes civil liberties in the name of national security and brands whole groups as traitors and enemies of the people.
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Crucifying Julian Assange
Chris Hedges | Truthdig - TRANSCEND Media Service, 12 Nov 2018
12 Nov 2018 – The media’s refusal to defend the WikiLeaks publisher is a betrayal of press freedom.
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