Noam, of all people, knows the predatory nature of the ruling class and the cruelty of capitalists, where the vulnerable, especially girls and women, are commodified as objects to be…
Posted by Joshua Scheer I wanted to post this stand‑alone tweet from Chris Hedges for those who wanted to have his thoughts on what’s going on — as the streets…
Posted by Joshua Scheer With Project 2025 in full effect, Chris Hedges explains that Trump is neither necessary nor a real player. The “death grip” on our society is already…
The presidential election in 2024 may be the last free vote taken in the United States. Dictatorships only hold elections with predetermined outcomes or do not hold them at all.…
The numerous attempts by activists in flotillas, to break the siege on Gaza, are a potent reminder that hope comes through acts of resistance and that we must never accept…
The Trump administration is consolidating the familiar machinery of terror of all authoritarian states. We must resist now. If we wait, it will be too late.
We are cursed by what the historian Barbara Tuchman calls the “bellicose frivolity of senile empires.”
Posted by Joshua Scheer In a stark warning about the collapse of organized dissent, Chris Hedges argues that the U.S. has entered an age of authoritarian consolidation, where meaningful resistance…
The evisceration of the rule of law at home and abroad solidifies America as a rogue state.
By Joshua Scheer Lets start with Chris Hedges who calls this for what it is that “America is a Gangster State” writing on Substack that the United States has become…
Once warned against as a looming danger to democracy, the military-industrial complex has evolved into a vast and entrenched system of power that shapes U.S. policy, budgets, and global conflict.…
The British Empire, in steep decline on the eve of World War I, is a cautionary tale for a decayed U.S. Empire a century later.
The Genocide in Gaza has not stopped. It has been rebranded. And that is enough of a linguistic subterfuge to get the world to ignore it.
El Presidente Donald Trump is the gringo version of brutal and corrupt dictators foisted on Latin American countries by their oligarchs and Yankee imperialists.
The Democratic Party and its liberal allies refuse to call for mass mobilization and strikes — the only tools that can thwart Trump’s emergent authoritarianism — fearing they too will…
