Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is an award-winning journalist who has covered wars in the Balkans, the Middle East, and Central America. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig.com and is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. He is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, which was a finalist for [...]
Truthdig, Posted on Jul 18, 2011
America’s Disappeared
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/americas_disappeared_20110718/
By Chris Hedges
Dr. Silvia Quintela was “disappeared” by the death squads in Argentina in 1977 when she was four months pregnant with her first child. She reportedly was kept alive at a military base until she gave birth to her son and then, like other victims of the military [...]
Truthdig, Posted on Jun 20, 2011
This Hero Didn’t Stand a Chance
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/this_hero_didnt_stand_a_chance_20110620/
By Chris Hedges
Tim DeChristopher is scheduled to be sentenced in a Salt Lake City courtroom by U.S. District Judge Dee Benson on July 26. He faces up to 10 years in prison and a $750,000 fine for fraudulently bidding in December 2008 on parcels of [...]
Duty to Warn
Fascism Anyone?
By Gary Kohls, MD
Over the past two years I have written several columns (including last week’s offering) warning about the many early signs of fascism that have been appearing in America (as well as other militarized and capitalist nations around the globe). American elites that have been in charge of domestic and [...]
Truthdig, Posted on Jul 4, 2011
Ralph Nader Is Tired of Running for President
http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/ralph_nader_is_tired_of_running_for_president_20110704/
By Chris Hedges
The most important moral and intellectual voices within a disintegrating society are slowly discredited when their nonviolent protests and calls for justice cannot alter intransigent and corrupt systems of power. The repeated acts of peaceful civil disobedience, efforts at electoral and [...]
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The illegal state murder of Humberto Leal Garcia
9 July 2011
The execution of Humberto Leal Garcia, carried out Thursday by the state of Texas, is symptomatic the deep-going crisis of American capitalist society, characterized by criminality abroad and brutality at home.
Leal, a [...]
Ethnic Cleansing of Black Libyans
[Black Star News Editorial]
The “rebels” in Misrata in Libya have driven out the entire Black population of
the city, according to a chilling story in The Wall Street Journal today under the headline “Libya City Torn by Tribal Feud.”
The “rebels” now eye the city of Tawergha, 25 miles away, and vow [...]
Civil War
By The Rev. Alexander Sharp
Dear Friends:
The debt crisis looming in Washington makes clear that we are in the midst of a new civil war in this country. The divisions between us are deep, even spiritual.
The fight is not really over the size of the deficit, nor even about expenditure cuts. It is about [...]
Deal With It
They Died in Vain
By RAY McGOVERN
Many of those preaching at American church services Sunday extolled as
“heroes” the 30 American and 8 Afghan troops killed Saturday west of
Kabul, when a helicopter on a night mission crashed, apparently after
taking fire from Taliban forces. This week, the Fawning Corporate
Media (FCM) can be expected to beat a [...]
Duty to Warn
The Hiroshima Mythology and The Glorification of American Militarism
Gary G. Kohls, MD
Saturday, August 6, 2011, is the 66th anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima, the whole truth of which has been heavily censored and mythologized ever since the news of the event was broadcast to the millions of war-weary Americans who were justifiably [...]