Chris Hedges: Ukraine: The War That Went Wrong
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Empires in terminal decline leap from one military fiasco to the next. The war in Ukraine, another bungled attempt to reassert U.S. global hegemony, fits this...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Rage Against The War Machine Speech
On Feb. 19, 2023, Chris Hedges spoke at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC at a bipartisan anti-war rally called “Rage Against the War Machine.” Hedges was joined by prominent anti-war figures on...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Ukraine’s Death by Proxy
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — There are many ways for a state to project power and weaken adversaries, but proxy wars are one of the most cynical. Proxy wars devour the countries they purport to...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Donald Trump Problem
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Donald Trump — facing four government-run investigations, three criminal and one civil, targeting himself and his business — is not being targeted because of his crimes....
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Hypocrisy of the Christian Church
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — We are not here to debate the moral squalor that defines the life of the hedge fund billionaire and chair of the seminary’s trustee board, Michael Fisch. We are not here...
View ArticleChris Hedges on Weapons to Ukraine, Military buildup to China and Pentagon...
The war in Ukraine is well into its second year, and the United States is insistent on pumping billions more into the quagmire that has already seen thousands of lives lost and millions displaced. The...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Imminent Extradition of Julian Assange and the Death of...
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — High Court Judge Jonathan Swift — who previously worked for a variety of British government agencies as a barrister and said his favorite clients are “security and...
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Chris Hedges: Journalists Abandoned Julian Assange and Slit Their Own Throats
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) —The persecution of Julian Assange, along with the climate of fear, wholesale government surveillance and use of the Espionage Act to prosecute whistleblowers, has...
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Chris Hedges: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. – The Israel Lobby’s Useful Idiot
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — The long nightmare of oppression of Palestinians is not a tangential issue. It is a black and white issue of a settler-colonial state imposing a military occupation,...
View ArticleChris Hedges: The Pedagogy of Power
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — I am standing in a classroom in a maximum security prison. It is the first class of the semester. I am facing 20 students. They have spent years, sometimes decades,...
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Chris Hedges: Humanitarian Imperialism Created the Libyan Nightmare
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob...
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Chris Hedges: Why Our Popular Mass Movements Fail
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — There was a decade of popular uprisings from 2010 until the global pandemic in 2020. These uprisings shook the foundations of the global order. They denounced corporate...
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Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — The indiscriminate shootings of Israelis by Hamas and other Palestinian resistance organizations, the kidnapping of civilians, the barrage of rockets into Israel, drone...
View ArticleChris Hedges: This Way for the Genocide, Ladies and Gentlemen
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street by street, apartment block by apartment block, there is only one rule —...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Israel’s Culture of Deceit
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Exterminate All the Brutes
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — During the siege in Sarajevo, when I was reporting for The New York Times, we never endured the level of saturation bombing and near total blockage of food, water, fuel...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza
Dear child, It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah....
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Chris Hedges: Israel’s War on Hospitals
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel is not attacking hospitals in Gaza because they are “Hamas command centers.” Israel is systematically and deliberately destroying Gaza’s medical infrastructure as...
View ArticleChris Hedges: Israel’s Trojan Horse
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced...
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Chris Hedges: The Crucifixion of Julian Assange
Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees...
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