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American military commanders measure progress by the swelling size of the Afghan army, although the force is said to be poorly trained, sympathetic to the Taliban and the scourge of local populations.

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]]> 2009-11-09T11:09:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091102_opium_rape_and_the_american_way/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091102_opium_rape_and_the_american_way/ afghanistan, book, bush, chris hedges, corruption, democracy, drugs, election, government, hamid karzai, hedges, law, malalai joya, military, money, obama, opium, rape, security, terrorism, war, women, Chris Hedges' Columns

The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban.

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]]> 2009-11-02T11:02:23+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091026_war_is_a_hate_crime/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091026_war_is_a_hate_crime/ afghanistan, chris hedges, congress, democrats, gay, hate crime, hedges, iraq, lgbt, military, money, obama, pentagon, politics, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

The first major federal civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, passed last week, was attached to a measure funding ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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]]> 2009-10-26T09:59:34+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/ carbon emissions, chris hedges, climate change, derrick jensen, environmentalism, global warming, industrial capitalism, kyoto protocol, wounded knee, Chris Hedges' Columns

The oil and natural gas industry, the coal industry, arms and weapons manufacturers, industrial farms, deforestation industries, the automotive industry and chemical plants will not willingly accept their own extinction. They are indifferent to the looming human catastrophe.

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]]> 2009-10-19T07:24:07+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091011_the_victims_of_pornography/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091011_the_victims_of_pornography/ avn, book, chris hedges, culture, empire of illusion, hedges, las vegas, love, pornography, religion, sex, Book Excerpt

Pornography does not promote sex. It promotes masturbation. It promotes the solitary auto-arousal that precludes intimacy and love. Pornography is about getting yourself off at someone else’s expense.

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]]> 2009-10-12T05:48:28+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_celebrating_slaughter_war_and_collective_amnesia/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_celebrating_slaughter_war_and_collective_amnesia/ afghanistan, book, bush, democracy, hedges, history, holocaust, iraq, korea, museum, vietnam, war, wwii, Chris Hedges' Columns

War memorials and museums are temples to the god of war. They sanitize the savage instruments of death that turn young soldiers and Marines into killers, and small villages in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq into hellish bonfires.

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]]> 2009-10-05T09:26:49+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090928_the_war_on_language/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090928_the_war_on_language/ arabic, book, culture, debate, economy, english, hedges, iran, iraq, language, media, religion, speech, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

Those who seek to dominate our behavior first seek to dominate our speech. They seek to obscure meaning. The English- and Arabic-speaking worlds are each beset with a similar assault on language.

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]]> 2009-09-28T08:20:42+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090921_globalization_goes_bankrupt/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090921_globalization_goes_bankrupt/ bailout, chris hedges, debt, fascism, g-20, global economy, globalization, national guard, pittsburgh, protest, wall street, Chris Hedges' Columns

The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that have lost faith in the mechanisms of democratic change. You can’t blame them. But unless we on the left move quickly, this rage will be captured by a virulent and racist right wing, one that seeks a disturbing proto-fascism. 

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]]> 2009-09-21T06:22:08+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090914_stop_begging_obama_to_be_obama_and_get_mad/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090914_stop_begging_obama_to_be_obama_and_get_mad/ afghanistan, congress, corporations, democrats, health, history, iraq, media, military, obama, politics, right wing, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

The right-wing accusations against Barack Obama are true. He is a socialist, although he practices socialism for corporations.

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]]> 2009-09-14T08:20:57+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090906_food_is_power_and_the_powerful_are_poisoning_us/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20090906_food_is_power_and_the_powerful_are_poisoning_us/ congress, corporations, economy, environment, farms, food, government, hedges, history, military, Chris Hedges' Columns

Our most potent political weapon is food. If we take back our agriculture, if we buy and raise produce locally, we can begin to break the grip of corporations that control a food system as fragile, unsafe and destined for collapse as our financial system.

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