Voting Rights Remain the Critical Barrier to Racial Equality
Voting rights advocates are now forced to focus their efforts on Congress and state legislatures to pass new laws to protect their rights
MintPress Study: NY Times, Washington Post Driving U.S. to War with Russia Over Ukraine
This MintPress study reveals that ninety percent of recent opinion articles in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wall Street Journal have taken a hawkish view on…
Chris Hedges and Louis Hyman on the Harmful Gig Economy
On the show Chris Hedges discusses the gig economy to Louis Hyman, Professor of Economic History at Cornell University.
The Warmongers Miscalculated
The people inside the White House believe they can sell us what we don’t want to buy, but sometimes they miscalculate.
U.S. Approves Massive Arms Sale to Egypt Despite Deteriorating Human Rights Situation
The USD 2.5 billion arms deal was approved despite calls by rights groups and even some members of Congress for a tougher stance on Egyptian president Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, who…
The 13th Amendment’s Fatal Flaw Created Modern-Day Slavery
Slavery still exists in America, but the only people whose labor can be enslaved are those convicted of a crime
Why I’m Leaving America
After six decades fighting for social justice and enjoying the embodiment of the American Dream, this couple are moving on from a lost nation.
The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
Imprisoning the David to Chevron's Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital.
America’s Fate: Oligarchy or Autocracy
The competing systems of power are divided between alternatives which widen the social and political divide — and increase potential for violent conflict.
Hedges: The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
The hijackers who carried out the attacks on 9/11, like all radical jihadist groups in the Middle East, spoke to us in the murderous language we taught them.
Hedges: The Empire Does Not Forgive
The Americans, like the British and the Soviets before them, dug their own graveyard in Afghanistan.
Hedges: The Price of Conscience
Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth.
Hedges: The Collective Suicide Machine and the Fall of Kabul
The return of the Taliban to power will be one more signpost of the end of the American empire — and nobody will be held accountable.
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…