American Gulag: Inside the U.S.’ Massive Prison System, with Chris Hedges
For a supposedly developed, democratic nation, the United States locks up an extraordinary number of its citizens. Close to one quarter of the world’s prison population is in the United States. Even...
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Chris Hedges: Russia, Ukraine and the Chronicle of a War Foretold
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Russia Was Baited Into War but That Does Not Absolve Its...
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications, as was the case in...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) —Rulers divide the world into worthy and unworthy victims, those we are allowed to pity, such as Ukrainians enduring the hell of modern warfare, and those whose...
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Chris Hedges: Waltzing Toward Armageddon with the Merchants of Death
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Lie of American Innocence
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is...
View ArticleChris Hedges: American Commissars
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The ruling class, made up of the traditional elites that run the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, is employing draconian forms of censorship on its...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Jesus, Endless War, and the Rise of American Fascism
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Democratic Party – which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full control of the White House and...
View ArticleChris Hedges: No Way Out but War
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism....
View ArticleChris Hedges: America’s Gun Fetish
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Guns were a ubiquitous part of my childhood. My grandfather, who had been a master sergeant in the army, had a small arsenal in his house in Mechanic Falls, Maine....
View ArticleChris Hedges: Society of Spectacle
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose first of six televised hearings began last Thursday, is spectacle replacing...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Triumph of Death
It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We...
View ArticleChris Hedges: NATO — The Most Dangerous Military Alliance on the Planet
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion...
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Chris Hedges: Strike, Strike, Strike
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Return of Fascism
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Energy and food bills are soaring. Under the onslaught of inflation and prolonged wage stagnation, wages are in free fall. Billions of dollars are diverted by...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) —The Congressional decision to prohibit railroad workers from going on strike and force them to accept a contract that meets few of their demands is part of the class...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Israel and the Rise of Jewish Fascism
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed coalition government of Jewish extremists, fanatic Zionists and religious bigots represents a seismic change in Israel, one that will...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Democrats Are Now the War Party
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Democrats position themselves as the party of virtue, cloaking their support for the war industry in moral language stretching back to Korea and Vietnam, when...
View ArticleChris Hedges: America’s Theater of the Absurd
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Our political class does not govern. It entertains. It plays its assigned role in our fictitious democracy, howling with outrage to constituents and selling them...
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