Chris Hedges spoke at a rally and march in support of Gaza in New York on Saturday. A Harvard divinity school grad, he invoked God’s Covenant. Here are excerpts from his speech: God’s covenant in the Promised Land was not made, finally, with any race or religion. It was not
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The Disaffected Lib: When You Run Out of Stuff
One of the most recurring themes on this blog over the past six years has been the prospect of running out of stuff. As the first truly global civilization, mankind is running out of stuff. Not everything, mind you. We’re running out of stuff that we need but we’re building
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: What’s Old Is New Again. The Return of the Workhouse.
Stephen Harper has a prison fetish. Despite steady declines in crime rates in Canada over the past four decades, Steve is hell bent on building new prisons. We like to mock him for this but maybe we shouldn’t be so quick to dismiss it as the product of a whacked-out
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: Chris Hedges Call for Revolt
Writer, war correspondent, religious scholar, Chris Hedges has become increasingly radicalized over the past dozen or so years although he would argue it’s society that has truly changed, particularly through the influence of religious fundamentalism and the capture of political power by the forces of corporatism. Whatever the balance of
Continue readingThe Disaffected Lib: The Moral Fragmentation of the Liberal Class
Chris Hedges lambastes liberals for selling out America in last week’s elections.The presidential election exposed the liberal class as a corpse. It fights for nothing. It stands for nothing. It is a useless appendage to the corporate state. It exist…
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