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By Chris Hedges — AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues and defense contractors.
Posted on Mar 4, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Love, the defining and most glorious element in human life, reminds us of why we have been created for our brief sojourns on the planet.
Posted on Feb 19, 2012
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 AP / Evan Vucci
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By Chris Hedges — There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement.
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — The Black Bloc anarchists, who have been active on the streets in Oakland and other cities, are a gift from heaven to the security and surveillance state.
Posted on Feb 6, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 30, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 23, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 16, 2012
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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.
Posted on Jan 9, 2012
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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.
Posted on Dec 5, 2011
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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.
Posted on Nov 15, 2011
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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.
Posted on Nov 7, 2011
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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.
Posted on Oct 31, 2011
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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.
Posted on Oct 24, 2011
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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.
Posted on Oct 16, 2011
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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.
Posted on Oct 9, 2011
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