What the roman philosopher cicero called a commonwealth a res publica a public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy.
Chris hedges on police siding with people.
They use the state mechanisms of control.
Ask the iraqi parents of sabiha hamed salih aged 15 and ashwaq hamed salih aged 16 who.
The cost of resistance the governing elites when truly threatened turn the rule of law into farce.
But there s real hope in the streets.
Chris hedges and jimmy dore join tyrel ventura to discuss a number of pressing topics.
The myth of human progress and the collapse of complex societies.
Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief.
Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief.
Truthdig january 26 2014.
By comparison police in england and wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016.
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state.
Canada s national observer spoke about it with chris hedges 63 a pulitzer prize winning journalist and author who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the paper s middle east and balkan bureau chiefs.
The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy.
America faces a historic choice ugly corporate tyranny or revolution these are the good times says hedges compared to what may lie ahead.
By chris hedges.
The interview was edited for length.
Columns by chris hedges at truthdig.
13 2013 what every person should know about war first chapter at the new york times.
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