A Staggering Number of Inmates Have Died in Louisiana Prisons
Hundreds of incarcerated people have died between 2015-2019 in Louisiana jails and prisons due to lack of government oversight and accountability.
A Week of Really Bad News — Now, Let’s Get to Work
After a week of bad news, the author suggests a class-conscious struggle for peace must also become a political revolution against the corporate state.
Ten Years Later: Lessons for Today from the Occupy Movement
The Occupy Movement, which took place ten years ago to demonstrate social resistance to harmful systematic policies and practices around the world, has a tremendous impact that is still being…
Humanity ‘Way Off Track’: WMO Says Atmospheric Carbon at Level Unseen in 3 Million Years
The new report has "a stark, scientific message for climate change negotiators at COP 26," said the head of the World Meteorological Organization.
Chris Hedges and Slavoj Zizek on the Pandemic’s Ramifications
On this week’s “On Contact,” in the first of a two-part interview, Chris Hedges discusses the social, political, cultural economic ramifications of the pandemic with the philosopher Slavoj Zizek. Below…
How Biden Enabled Israel’s Ethnic Cleansing of Palestinians
President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken have already shown their cards when it comes to Israel no matter what they pay lip service to now.
The Leaders From My Afghan Tour Are on to Bigger, More Bankable Things
Unable to stomach 24/7 coverage of an election that barely broached America’s longest-war, I got to reminiscing about the colonels and generals from my 2011-12 Afghan adventure; wondering--like Garth Brooks--"What…