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with Chris Hedges
Romero Institute on Nov 23, 2014 Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Defending Our Civil Liberties (#NDAA)
Permanent War
Sheldon Wolin: Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist? Part 1, interviewed by Chris Hedges
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Rest in peace, Sheldon Wolin, Oct. 21, 2015
TheRealNews on Oct 21, 2014
Journalist Chris Hedges interviews political philosopher Sheldon Wolin, who says democracy cannot exist without continuous opposition and vigilance on the part of the citizenry.
Chris Hedges: The Global Culture of Violence: What Is The Path to Peace and Justice?
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with Chris Hedges
Brookly Society for Ethical Culture on Oct 1, 2014
Chris Hedges speaking at the Brooklyn Society For Ethical Culture Charley Horwitz Platform. “The Global Culture of Violence: What Is The Path to Peace and Justice?” Sept. 28, 2014. http:/bsec.org
Chris Hedges: The Future Collapse + Perpetual Imperialistic War = Bombs on Subways in the West
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with Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Building Different Relationships Before It’s Too Late
ontheearthproduction on Sep 29, 2014
Journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges took time during his September 13, 2014 appearance at Fighting Bob Fest in Baraboo, Wisconsin, to talk about the human race’s sustainability or potential collapse in the age of unstoppable climate change, corporate domination, and perpetual war.
Chris Hedges: The Psychosis of Permanent War “Effectively Gets the Masses To Call For Their Own Enslavement”
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with Chris Hedges
by Michael Welch
Global Research
December 27, 2013
On this, the holiday edition of the Global Research News Hour, we present a talk by Chris Hedges.
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He is also the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, Continue reading
Recipe for Endless Profits to War Profiteers and Their Legally-Bribed Politicians by Ed Ciaccio
by Ed Ciaccio
Dandelion Salad
Featured Writer
February 10, 2013
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Ingredients (or should it be Ingreedients?):
Imperialist ideologues of all political parties
Arms manufacturers (war profiteers)
Politicians with no conscience nor regard for international laws or the Constitution
Corporate media
What Will We Do Now Without The Fearless Leader? by Daniel N. White
by Daniel N. White
Guest Writer
Dandelion Salad
December 29, 2011
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I mean the United States, not North Korea, of course. The Koreans will get along if not fine, at least no worse than before Kim Jong Il’s recent departure from the scene. No, the United States faces a crisis it is completely unprepared for. We have had entirely too much invested in demonizing Kim and his nation and what with the recent exit of Gadaffi from the scene, and Saddam’s and Osama’s too, all the leading bugbears of the US’ national security (read: permanent war fear and of late permanent war) state are gone, and we must ask ourselves what are we to do now, with them all gone? Who can replace them? How can we replace them in time to keep people from asking embarrassing questions about our gross overexpenditures on our transparently incompetent and incapable military? Continue reading
Eva Golinger: The Goal is Regime Change
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RTAmerica on Dec 23, 2011
On Friday in Syria’s capital, Damascus, two suicide car bombs shook the city. The attacks are in the midst of the arrival of the Arab League’s advanced team and claimed the lives of 40 people. Protesters in the country are rising up against the Basher al-Assad regime, and the Arab League team was deployed to assure the Syrian government had stopped cracking down on protesters. Are these bombings an isolated incident? Eva Golinger, lawyer and author, joins us to discuss what is going on.
Kucinich on Defense Authorization Act: It “Authorizes Permanent Warfare Anywhere In the World” + Lee Camp: Life, Liberty & Indefinite Detention Without A Trial
by Congressman Dennis J. Kucinich
Washington, Dec 14, 2011
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Congressman Dennis Kucinich (D-OH) today outlined his opposition to H.R. 1540, the Fiscal Year 2012 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in a speech on the House floor. The NDAA contains unprecedented language that would authorize the military to indefinitely detain individuals without charge or trial – including U.S. citizens and those captured on U.S. soil. It also “affirms” that the U.S. is in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda, the Taliban and “associated forces” (that are undefined), setting the stage for permanent global warfare.
Michael Parenti: Welfare for the Wealthy (2005)
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with Michael Parenti
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Michael Parenti Blog
www.michaelparenti.org
Nov. 27, 2011
Appleriver3 on Jan 3, 2008
How corporate America feeds out of the public trough while preaching virtues of self-reliance to the rest of us.
The crime of making Americans aware of their own history by William Blum
by William Blum
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
www.killinghope.org
Oct. 4, 2011
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The crime of making Americans aware of their own history
Is history getting too close for comfort for the fragile little American heart and mind? Their schools and their favorite media have done an excellent job of keeping them ignorant of what their favorite country has done to the rest of the world, but lately some discomforting points of view have managed to find their way into this well-defended American consciousness.
Laying the Groundwork for the Next War: Yemen by Sibel Edmonds
by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
September 13, 2011
Last Tuesday, following his visit to ground zero, Obama’s New Defense Secretary Leon Panetta warned the public of upcoming 9/11-like terrorist attacks. After a decade of war with Al Qaeda, the potential for another devastating terrorist assault “remains very real,” Panetta said, and added that the nature of the terrorist threat has evolved to the point that Al Qaeda “nodes” outside Afghanistan and Pakistan are now the most dangerous, before delivering the most significant part of his fear mongering propaganda-speech: “Yemen has risen to the top of the list.”
9/11 Paved the Way for America’s Permanent Wars of Aggression by Finian Cunningham
by Finian Cunningham
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
11 September 2011
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Whether 9/11 was an inside job or an amazing terrorist success, the fact is that either way the atrocity is intimately linked with US state terrorism.
The attacks on the Twin Towers in 2001 were a seminal event that paved the way for permanent wars of aggression by the US and its puppet allies – wars that have made a travesty of international law, taking state criminality to new heights and resulting in mass murder of innocents. That is state terrorism, by any definition, that is out of control, which no alleged original crime can justify.
Twisted up by a super coup d’etat by Bruce Gagnon
by Bruce Gagnon
featured writer
Dandelion Salad
Organizing Notes
August 27, 2011
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The Boston Globe had a blaring headline on August 14: ‘Doomsday’ defense cuts directly affect panel members – Large military contractors are in their states.
Put your ear to the railroad tracks and you can hear the train coming. Now that the new 12-member Congressional “Super Committee” has essentially been given the power of God (and the Devil) the military industrial complex, and their appendage called the corporate media, are swinging into action. Continue reading
Massive Perpetual Wars against Fantastical Dwarfed Terrorists by Sibel Edmonds
by Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
Originally published by Boiling Frogs Post
August 5, 2011
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For almost 10 years we have been engaged in a massive and many-fronted war advertised as a war on terror-war on Al Qaeda. Recent reports put the total cost to America of this war on terror at around $3 trillion. This is not counting un-countable covert operations with secret budgets, and it does not include the war in Libya or covert wars elsewhere.
