The year 2020 has caused many white people to realize we live in a racist system. The Green New Deal is about systemic change for all, and deconstructing racism must be front and central in this agenda.
Chris Hedges
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Requiem For a Species: Why The Game is Up
The long struggle between the human species and the Earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a painful lesson about unrestrained greed and self-worship.
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New Documents on Activist Surveillance "Just the Tip of the Iceberg"
The security and surveillance state overseen by Barack Obama has empowered the FBI and the Department of Homeland Security to obstruct the activity of citizens who question corporate power.
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Morsi: Egypt's New Pharoah
What's happening now in Egypt is the story of most revolutions.
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Stand Still for the Apocalypse
Ahead of a dire World Bank report, Chris Hedges warns that the political and corporate elites in the industrialized world continue to place short-term corporate profit and expediency before the protection of the planet and human life.
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Elites Will Make Gazans of Us All
Gaza is a window on our coming dystopia, as elites establish a world where most will be hungry and live in fear while a few will gorge themselves on delicacies in protected compounds.
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An Exit Strategy from Two-Party Rule
The November election is not a battle between Republicans and Democrats. It is a battle between the corporate state and us.
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At Planetary Crossroads, A Call to Arms: Join the Blockade!
We must immediately obstruct this pipeline or accept our surrender to forces that, in the name of profit, intend to cash in on the death throes of the planet. Keystone XL is part of the final phase of extreme exploitation by the corporate state.
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Presidency, Inc.: Why No Candidate Will Save Us
Corporate power, no matter who is running the ward after January 2013, is poised to carry out U.S. history’s most savage assault against the poor and the working class, not to mention the Earth’s ecosystem.
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Victory—For Now—in Suit Against the NDAA
It is deeply disturbing that the Obama administration, rather than protecting our civil liberties and democracy, insists on further eroding them by expanding the power of the military to seize U.S. citizens and control our streets.
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Growth is the Problem
The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let's not revive it.
