The Terror We Give Is the Terror We Get
Photo by U.S. Army Staff Sgt. Daniel St. Pierre We fire missiles from the sky that incinerate families huddled in their houses. They incinerate a pilot cowering in a cage.…
Chris Hedges
Malcolm X Was Right About America
Photo from Public Domain NEW YORK—Malcolm X, unlike Martin Luther King Jr., did not believe America had a conscience. For him there was no great tension between the lofty ideals…
Killing Ragheads for Jesus
A combat operation in Fallujah on the 9th of Nov 2004 • Photo by SFC Johancharles Van Boers “American Sniper” lionizes the most despicable aspects of U.S. society—the gun culture,…
A Message From the Dispossessed
28 Millimeters Portraits of a Generation, Braquage, Ladj Ly by JR, Les Bosquets, Montfermeil, 2004 The terrorist attack in France that took place at the satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo was…
Why We Need Professional Revolutionists
Photo by David Berkowitz No revolt can succeed without professional revolutionists. These revolutionists live outside the formal structures of society. They are financially insecure—Vladimir Lenin spent considerable time in exile…
A Society of Captives
Photo by Tony Webster Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plans to launch a pilot program in New York City to place body cameras on police officers and conduct training seminars to…
Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time
Photo by Jeff Vanuga My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate—“God grant me abstinence, but not yet.” But with animal agriculture as the…
The Coming Climate Revolt
Photo by John McDaid Chris Hedges made these remarks Saturday at a panel discussion in New York City titled “The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out?” The other panelists were Bill…
The Coming Climate Revolt
Chris Hedges made these remarks Saturday at a panel discussion in New York City titled “The Climate Crisis: Which Way Out?” The other panelists were Bill McKibben, Naomi Klein, Kshama…
The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals
Photo by Neil Palmer The climate change march in New York on Sept. 21, expected to draw as many as 200,000 people, is one of the last gasps of conventional…
The Last Gasp of Climate Change Liberals
The climate change march in New York on Sept. 21, expected to draw as many as 200,000 people, is one of the last gasps of conventional liberalism’s response to the…
The ghoulish face of empire
Subscribe to our free e-newsletter HERE. This piece was originally published on truthdig and is republished here with the author’s permission. The black-clad fighters of the Islamic State of Iraq…
Noam Chomsky: American Socrates
This piece was originally published on TruthDig and is reposted here with the author’s permission. Noam Chomsky, whom I interviewed last Thursday at his office at the Massachusetts Institute of…
Our sinister dual state: Chris Hedges
On Thursday the former National Security Agency official and whistle-blower William E. Binney and I will debate Stewart A. Baker, a former general counsel for the NSA, P.J. Crowley, a…
Feeding the Flame of Revolt
NEW YORK—I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that…