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By Mike Farrell $11.53
By Michel Warschawski $14.95
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 AP / Carolyn Kaster
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By Chris Hedges — It used to be the country we would flee to if life in the United States became unpalatable, but that was the old Canada.
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By Chris Hedges — We can vote for Romney or Obama, but Goldman Sachs and ExxonMobil and Bank of America and the defense contractors always win. However, the iron grip of corporations over our lives will, eventually, be broken.
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 AP / Dusan Vranic
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By Chris Hedges — On my behalf, attorneys have challenged a law that allows imprisonment of U.S. citizens without trial.
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By Chris Hedges — The true power of the Christian gospel is its unambiguous call for liberation from forces of oppression and for a fierce and uncompromising condemnation of all who oppress.
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By Chris Hedges — The Occupy movement is the force that will revitalize traditional Christianity in the United States or signal its moral, social and political irrelevance.
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 AP / Seth Wenig
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By Chris Hedges — Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak.
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 AP / Bebeto Matthews
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By Chris Hedges — The wealthy and the powerful behind the glass at Goldman Sachs laughed and snapped pictures of us as if we were creatures in a cage, which in fact we soon were.
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By Chris Hedges — In the park and other Occupied sites across the country, middle-class men and women, many highly educated but unschooled in the techniques of resistance, are taught by those who have been carrying out acts of rebellion for years.
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 AP / Eric Gay
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By Chris Hedges — The occupation movement’s greatest challenge will be overcoming the deep distrust of white liberals by the poor and the working class, especially people of color.
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 AP / Ted S. Warren
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By Chris Hedges — There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn.
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By Chris Hedges — The occupation movement is an effort to take our country back. This is a goal the power elite cannot comprehend. That is why they keep asking what the demands are. They don’t understand what is happening. They are deaf, dumb and blind.
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 AP / Louis Lanzano
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By Chris Hedges — Those on the streets around Wall Street are the physical embodiment of hope.
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By Chris Hedges — One of the most important battles in the history of migrant labor is taking place in the fields of Florida and in the produce section of Trader Joe’s and other grocery stores.
Posted on Sep 26, 2011
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By Chris Hedges — Wright says Barack Obama came to him in 2008 and asked, “ ‘You know what your problem is?’ I said, ‘What is that?’ He said, ‘You have to tell the truth.’ ”
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 AP / Richard Drew
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By Chris Hedges — We have still not woken up to whom we have become, to the fatal erosion of domestic and international law and the senseless waste of lives, resources and trillions of dollars to wage wars that ultimately we can never win.
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