Columbo: Somebody killed the Gulf of Mexico, Sir. Your fingerprints are all over the place.
Barack Obama: Sorry Lieutenant. Did you ask Bobby Jindal, Mary Landrieu. or Ken Salazar?
Everything we see today could have been predicted—and was—by a simple examination of class dynamics under capitalism. And a better grasp of the system’s inexorable dynamics leading to the chaotic barbarism and crimes against nature we witness in all continents. By Chris Hedges Posted on May 24, 2010 HERE’S TO THE GREEKS. They know what to do [...]
As far as the American masses are concerned, it’s almost as if Chomsky didn’t exist. Which is exactly the way the guardians of orthodoxy like it. Chomsky reserves his fiercest venom for the liberal elite in the press, the universities and the political system who serve as a smoke screen for the cruelty of [...]
We are bound to a party that has betrayed every principle we claim to espouse, from universal health care to an end to our permanent war economy, to a demand for quality and affordable public education, to a concern for the jobs of the working class. And the hatred expressed within right-wing movements for the [...]
The Health Care Hindenburg Has Landed By Chris Hedges Posted on Mar 22, 2010 Rep. Dennis Kucinich’s decision to vote “yes” in Sunday’s House action on the health care bill, although he had sworn to oppose the legislation unless there was a public option, is a perfect example of why I would never be a politician. I [...]
By Chris Hedges Posted on Mar 8, 2010 There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism. Electoral politics are a sham. The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners. The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair. Editor’s Note: While we think this [...]
It’s time for a radically different type of politics.* By Chris Hedges WE OWE RALPH NADER and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives. Obama [...]
January 25, 2010 A totally hollowed-out formal democracy* has replaced the deeply flawed old-style democracy. We’ve gone from bad to worse, and the show’s still far from over. By Chris Hedges Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d’état in slow motion. The [...]
