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Why Resistance Alone Will Fail

Without organizing the working class under a shared vision and demand for a more fair and just society, we will remain largely powerless to stop the Trump-led takeover by the billionaire oligarchy.   By Les Leopold Feb 13, 2025   Trump and Musk are stirring up a resistance movement among liberals and the left. The […]


Genocide: The New Normal

Israel and the U.S. government will continue the genocide in Gaza for many months until the Palestinians are annihilated or driven from their homeland and Greater Israel is consolidated.   CHRIS HEDGES JAN 6   Joe Biden’s parting gift of $8 billion in weapons sales to the apartheid state of Israel acknowledges the gruesome reality of the genocide in Gaza. This […]


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.   By CHRIS HEDGES 23 DEC   For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion […]


Iran: hijab ‘treatment clinics’ echo historical use of mental illness to control women

Women’s choice to not wear a headscarf is presented to the public as a symptom of mental illness, such as an “antisocial personality disorder”, “histrionic disorder” or “bipolar disorder”.    By Daanika Kamal, Royal Holloway University of London   The opening of a “hijab removal treatment clinic” to “offer scientific and psychological treatment” for Iranian […]


40 Years of Suffering and Injustice Since Bhopal Disaster

We should never forget that Dow Chemical was behind the infamous 1984 chemical leak in India. Neither should we forget the courage of those who have never stopped fighting for justice on behalf of the victims.   By Mark Dummett Dec 02, 2024 Amnesty International   Shortly before midnight on December 2, 1984, a terrible cloud, […]


The Gaza Genocide Reveals That the UN Needs Serious Reform

Though the U.N. was formed following the atrocities of WWII, now it stands largely useless in its inability to stop similar atrocities in Palestine, Lebanon, Sudan, and elsewhere.   By Ramzy Baroud Nov. 19, 2024   Francesca Albanese did not mince her words. In a strongly worded speech at the United Nations General Assembly Third Committee […]


Lee Lakeman and The Whoredom of the Left

The radical feminist Lee Lakeman has spent her life calling out patriarchy for its oppression, the left for its bankruptcy, neoliberalism for its cruelty and organizing women to fight back.   By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 16, 2024   I just got off the phone with the Canadian feminist and activist Lee Lakeman. She is in hospice. The […]


Stand With Working People and They Will Stand With You

Let’s be very clear: the Democrats lost this election because they ignored the justified anger of working class America and became the defenders of a rigged economic and political system.   By Bernie Sanders Nov 12, 2024 the Boston Globe     The results of the 2024 election have confirmed a reality that is too frequently […]


Reclaiming Democracy from Capitalism: Understanding Trump’s Resurgence

Making sense of Trump’s enduring appeal requires examining how market forces have gradually hollowed out democratic promise, creating the conditions for authoritarian alternatives to flourish.   By Peter Bloom Nov 12, 2024 Common Dreams   As Donald Trump has won a historic landslide to once again reclaim the U.S. presidency, the conventional narrative has focused heavily on […]



Fascism in the United States

Trump secures victory, controls both chambers of the legislature. The end of neoliberalism heralds the rise of fascism.   By Taki Manolakos   Citizens of the United States cast their ballots on Tuesday November 5th. We elected a President, Congressmen, Senators, and voted for state offices and ballot initiatives across the country. Focusing on the […]


The Politics of Cultural Despair

It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence.   By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6   In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]



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