Christian extremists in America bond with Jewish extremists in Israel not over religion but a shared fascism. Fascism can only be defeated with a rival militancy — a militancy communists, anarchists and socialists in the 1930s exhibited — one that offers an alternative vision and does not compromise with despotic power. CHRIS HEDGES March […]
First we got a mafia economy. Then we got a mafia state. We must rid ourselves of the ruling criminal class or become its victims. By Chris Hedges Feb 15, 2025 Kiss the ring. Grovel before the Godfather. Give him tribute, a cut of the spoils. If he and his family get rich you […]
We share the pathologies of all dying empires with their mixture of buffoonery, rampant corruption, military fiascos, economic collapse and savage state repression. By Chris Hedges The billionaires, Christian fascists, grifters, psychopaths, imbeciles, narcissists and deviants who have seized control of Congress, the White House and the courts, are cannibalizing the machinery of state. […]
Without organizing the working class under a shared vision and demand for a more fair and just society, we will remain largely powerless to stop the Trump-led takeover by the billionaire oligarchy. By Les Leopold Feb 13, 2025 Trump and Musk are stirring up a resistance movement among liberals and the left. The […]
America’s democracy was destroyed by the two ruling parties who sold us out to corporations, militarists and billionaires. Now we pay the price. By CHRIS HEDGES 23 DEC For over two decades, I and a handful of others — Sheldon Wolin, Noam Chomsky, Chalmers Johnson, Barbara Ehrenreich and Ralph Nader — warned that the expanding social inequality and steady erosion […]
Making sense of Trump’s enduring appeal requires examining how market forces have gradually hollowed out democratic promise, creating the conditions for authoritarian alternatives to flourish. By Peter Bloom Nov 12, 2024 Common Dreams As Donald Trump has won a historic landslide to once again reclaim the U.S. presidency, the conventional narrative has focused heavily on […]
It is despair that is killing us. It fosters what the Roger Lancaster calls “poisoned solidarity,” the intoxication forged from the negative energies of fear, envy, hatred and a lust for violence. By CHRIS HEDGES Nov. 6 In the end, the election was about despair. Despair over futures that evaporated with deindustrialization. Despair […]
Joe Biden was discarded by the same billionaire class he assiduously served throughout his political career. The Democrats will anoint another amoral politician, probably Harris, to use as a mask for outsized corporate greed, the folly of endless war, the facilitation of genocide and the assault on our most basic civil liberties. By CHRIS HEDGES 22July, 2024 […]
The choice now facing the citizens of the United States is the same binary choice facing the citizens of every other polity on our planet: either revanchist self-destruction or progressive self-renewal, either the plutofascism of the 2,067 billionaires or the democracy of the 8 billion, either the planetary extinction of the human species or the […]
The Trump administration’s new order for F-1/M-1 visa holders has suddenly brought the lives of a million foreign students in the US to a standstill. Nearly 20 percent of these students are from India. What does this order mean for the students, and what message does it have for the wider Indian diaspora? Anindya Dey […]
লকডাউনের প্রয়োজন অনস্বীকার্য। জাতির উদ্দেশ্যে ভাষণে প্রধানমন্ত্রী অনেকবার তা বোঝানোর চেষ্টা করেছেন। অনেক উদাহরণ দিয়েছেন এবং কোনো পরিস্থিতিতেই এই সিদ্ধান্তের বিরোধিতা করার ইচ্ছা লেখকের নেই। রাজ্যেও মাননীয়া মুখ্যমন্ত্রী মমতা বন্দ্যোপাধ্যায় অনেক প্যাকেজ ঘোষণা করেছেন। আপৎকালীন পরিস্থিতিতে এইসব প্রয়াসকে সাধুবাদ জানাচ্ছি, তবুও কিছু প্রশ্ন করতে হল। লিখেছেন ঝচীক। স্মৃতির সরণি বেয়ে যখন একবার তিন বছর […]
ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালের সদ্যপ্রকাশিত রিপোর্ট অনুযায়ী ডোনাল্ড ট্রাম্পের ভেনেজুয়েলা আগ্রাসন লাতিন আমেরিকার রাজনৈতিক মানচিত্র পাল্টে ফেলার পরিকল্পনার প্রথম পদক্ষেপ মাত্র। ভেনেজুয়েলার পর ট্রাম্পের পরবর্তী টার্গেট কিউবা। কিউবার উপর নতুন অর্থনৈতিক নিষেধাজ্ঞা আরোপের পরিকল্পনা চালাচ্ছে ট্রাম্প সরকার এবং কিউবাকে “আতঙ্কবাদী রাষ্ট্র” ঘোষণা করার পরিকল্পনাও প্রায় শেষ। কিউবার পর নিশানা নিকারাগুয়া, দাবি ওয়াল স্ট্রিট জার্নালের। গত নভেম্বরে […]
The economic measures marked by return of protectionism, dismantling of social security network and the trade war with China to combat the stagnation in American domestic economy are more a sign of desperation for the Trump administration rather than rational economic steps to effectively revive the economy. Despite rhetoric and bravado, in reality, the American […]
Sushovan Dhar Warsan Shire, a 24 year old Kenyan-born Somali poet, writer and educator based in London, in her debut book, Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (2011) observes, “No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark.” Three years back, the photographs of Aylan Kurdi sent us shock-waves. The images […]