Hedges: Bless the Traitors
Daniel Hale exposed the widespread and indiscriminate murder of noncombatants in the global US drone war. For his heroism, he faces ten years in prison while those who oversee these…
Hedges: Kucinich Memoir Is a Moving Account of a Battle Against Corporate Power
When the 'boy mayor' of Cleveland took a stand against privatization of public power, the region's elites deployed every weapon in their arsenal against him, including attempted assassination.
Lee Camp: America’s Impressive History of Bioweapons Attacks Against Its Own People
Forget China-bashing conspiracy theories, let's look at the fogging of SF, the microbial attack on the NYC subway and other unpleasantries perpetrated by the CIA and US military in our…
Julian Assange’s Father and Brother on the Public and Personal Urgency of His Case
On this week's "Scheer Intelligence," John and Gabriel Shipton speak to Robert Scheer about the WikiLeaks founder’s grueling struggle to be freed from a London prison as the Biden administration…
Chris Hedges: Julian Assange and the Collapse of the Rule of Law
Chris Hedges gave this talk at a rally Thursday night in New York City in support of Julian Assange. John and Gabriel Shipton, Julian’s father and brother, also spoke at…
Towards a Fuller Awareness of Our Endangered World
In "Under a White Sky," Elizabeth Kolbert’s conversational prose draws readers across earth’s land, waters and air, animating a prismatic what’s-what of human follies and their unintended consequences.
Chris Hedges: “Dying for an iPhone”
The suffering of the working class, within and outside the United States, is ignored by our corporatized media, and yet, it is one of the most important human rights issues…
Lee Camp: How to End the U.S. Prison State Quick and Easy
2.3 million people find themselves behind bars in the U.S. Here's the quick way to get that number down to... zero. (Give or take a few.)
Report: ‘Giving Pledge’ Looks Philanthropic, Acts Plutocratic
Bill and Melinda Gates joined forces with Warren Buffett as the original pledge-funders a decade ago, and now some of the benefits for benefactors of the "Giving Pledge" are becoming…
How America Went From Mom-and-Pop Capitalism to Techno-Feudalism
The crisis of 2020 has created the greatest wealth gap in history. The middle class, capitalism and democracy are all under threat. What went wrong and what can be done?
How People in Trouble Created a Radical Health Care Movement
Scott Tucker reviews "Let the Record Show: A Political History of ACT UP New York, 1987 – 1993" by Sarah Schulman, who was a rank-and-file member of one of the…
Chris Hedges: Israel, the Big Lie
Israel is not exercising “the right to defend itself” in the occupied Palestinian territories. It is carrying out mass murder, aided and abetted by the U.S.