Chris Hedges: Don’t Deify Jimmy Carter
Jimmy Carter may have done good works out of office, but in power he fomented a series of domestic and foreign policy disasters.
Chris Hedges: How Fascism Came
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price.
Patrick Lawrence: The Centrists Cannot Hold
What is unfolding now in France is unfolding one or another way across those Western powers that form the walls of the neoliberal fortress.
President of Refugees International Condemns Biden Admin for Role in Gaza
Jeremy Konyndyk details how Biden and his cabinet ignored their own standards set years ago and facilitated the suffering of millions of Gazans.
John Kiriakou: Iraqi Abu Ghraib Torture Victims Win $42 Million in Lawsuit Against US Contractor
They were tortured by CACI employees over a period of several weeks using techniques including electric shock, stress positions, starvation, attack dogs, and humiliation through forced nudity.
Chris Hedges: Organized Oblivion
Gaza is destroyed. It will not, at least for the Palestinians, be rebuilt. Those who lived there will spend their lives, like survivors of the Armenian genocide, desperately trying to…
The Democratic Party Faces Its Day of Reckoning
Into the 21st century, the Democrats continued pushing the lie that they were fighting for working people.
Patrick Lawrence: Notes of a Non-Voter
America is now what it has been for a long time. To suggest there was some great shift this week is simply to demonstrate the extent to which one has…
Chris Hedges: The Politics of Cultural Despair
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for…
Ellen Brown: Our Fragile Infrastructure: Lessons From Hurricane Helene
Publicly-owned state and federal banks are possibilities for future disasters, but they will be too late for the flood victims of Western North Carolina and Eastern Tennessee.
‘Haunted by Our Genocide From Half a World Away’
I feel suffocated by this genocide. I live half a world away from Palestine in nowhere Arizona, yet everywhere I go, it’s there. Whether I’m trapped in an endless cycle…
Chris Hedges: Genocidal Scorecard
The latest U.N. report chronicles Israel’s advances in its genocidal assault in Gaza. Israel is intent, the report warns, on expelling the Palestinians, recolonizing Gaza and turning on the West…
Chris Hedges: Israel’s War on Journalism
Israel’s genocide includes the most draconian censorship and intentional murder of journalists since the creation of the modern war correspondent. The consequences will be catastrophic.
Patrick Lawrence: Harris Comes Out of the Closet on Israel
Empire abroad, democracy at home: It has never been more than an impossible dream.
Chris Hedges: The Choice This Election Is Between Corporate and Oligarchic Power
There is a civil war within capitalism. Kamala Harris is the face of corporate power. Donald Trump is the mascot of the oligarchs. Either way, we lose.