The Tasks of The People-Powered Movement for 2014

By Kevin Zeese and Margaret Flowers, Popular Resistance Jan 10, 2014 In this stage of America's current social-political movement, which could take many years, our primary task is to build national consensus through broad and deep grass-roots organizing. Dig deeper ( 14 Min. Read )

Locking Out the Voices of Dissent

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Jul 15, 2013 With Occupy crushed, the corporate state aims to deny public space to any group that might trigger a new popular uprising. If this repression wins out, the resulting silence may be replaced with the thunder of violent resistance. With Occupy crushed, the corporate state aims to deny public space to any group that might trigger a new popular uprising. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )

Rise Up or Die

Chris Hedges / Truthdig May 20, 2013 We must either defy the corporate state or accept our extinction as a species We have been stripped of the power to express dissent or effect change Rebellion is the only way to remain fully human. Dig deeper ( 8 Min. Read )

Watch ‘Obey’: Film Based on Chris Hedges’ ‘Death of the Liberal Class’

Staff / Truthdig Feb 22, 2013 The movie explores the rise of the corporate state and the future of obedience in a world filled with unfettered capitalism, worsening inequality and environmental changes. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Corporate Rule Has ‘Infected’ AFL-CIO Leadership, Labor Activist Contends

By Thomas Hedges, Center for Study of Responsive Law Feb 6, 2013 Under its current president, the organization has failed to address the mounting threat against labor in the United States from the loss of bargaining rights to the refusal to adjust minimum wage standards to the push against implementing the "card check" union organizing system, Harry Kelber says. The organization has failed to address the mounting threat against labor in the United States, Harry Kelber says. Dig deeper ( 3 Min. Read )

Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 4, 2013 The corporate state uses debt to keep workers -- especially the working poor -- frightened and disempowered. Only through a campaign for a minimum wage of at least $11 an hour can Americans begin to regain economic, social and political control.Only through a campaign for a minimum wage of at least $11 an hour can Americans begin to regain economic, social and political control from the corporate state. Dig deeper ( 11 Min. Read )

Occupy Ark

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Katrina, All Over Again

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Dec 3, 2012 Hurricane Sandy, if you are poor, is the Katrina of the North. It has illustrated the depraved mentality of an oligarchic and corporate elite that, as conditions worsen, retreats into self-contained gated communities, guts basic services and abandons the wider population. Hurricane Sandy, if you are poor, is the Katrina of the North. It has illustrated the depraved mentality of an oligarchic and corporate elite that retreats into self-contained gated communities, guts basic services and abandons the wider population. Dig deeper ( 7 Min. Read )

Ralph Nader: Raise the Minimum Wage

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 27, 2012 Ralph Nader believes that the call to raise the minimum wage has the potential to divide the Republican Party, which has not been split on any major issue in Congress since Obama took office.The Occupy movement may be able to forge a powerful alliance with millions of working men and women around a national call to raise the minimum wage to $10 an hour. Dig deeper ( 5 Min. Read )

Relax, Everything Is OK

Staff / Truthdig Nov 12, 2011 The 20th-century French novelist and philosopher Albert Camus once wrote: “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” For the unfortunate few deprived of the experience, a few megaphone-wielding British agitators took to the streets of London to make things clear. (more)Albert Camus once wrote: “At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.” A few rabble-rousers want to make sure you get the point. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Long Live the New American Revolution

Scott Tucker / Truthdig Oct 8, 2011 The stitched-together movement that is overflowing from the Wall Street protest can have a huge impact if it holds firm against a malevolent corporatism and the political hucksters who dangle promises of “hope and change.” The movement stemming from the Wall Street protest can have an impact if it holds firm against a malevolent corporatism and political hucksters. Dig deeper ( 19 Min. Read )

Recognizing the Language of Tyranny

Chris Hedges / Truthdig Feb 7, 2011 The corporate state does not have a Politburo or raving dictator, but it shares one aspect with despotic regimes and the collapsed empires that have plagued human history. Dig deeper ( 6 Min. Read )