Chris Hedges: The Unraveling of the American Empire

 US leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another, a trajectory mirroring the sad finales of other historical imperial powers. America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units …

Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth

Chris Hedges: The Ruling Elite’s War on Truth American political leaders display a widening disconnect from reality intended to mask their complicity in the seizure of power by global corporations and billionaires. The flagrant partisanship and discrediting of truth across the political spectrum are swiftly fueling the rise of an authoritarian state. The credibility of …

BREAKING: Kevin McDonald on Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi — Media as Propaganda and Censorship Bureau: the Jewish Angle

Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi: Media as Propaganda and Censorship Bureau: the Jewish Angle Undiscussed by Hedges and Taibbi is the very prominent role of Jews in all this. . . . Also unmentioned is the role of the ADL in pressuring media companies to censor speech they don’t like. This has been going on …