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Chris Hedges on How to Move Forward

Staff / Truthdig Jul 25, 2013 After a series of interviews discussing such issues as corporate control of America and the grim realities facing the economy and environment, the Real News Network's Paul Jay asks the Truthdig columnist what he thinks is "the key link for what's next." Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: ‘The Left Has Been Destroyed’

Tracy Bloom / Truthdig Jul 22, 2013 "In 2008, in a piece you wrote, 'Why am I a socialist?' you wrote this: 'The inability to articulate a viable socialism has been our gravest mistake," host Paul Jay says to the Truthdig columnist during the latest installment of an interview on The Real News Network's "Reality Inserts Itself." He then asks: "Do you still believe that?" Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Chris Hedges: Flee Society’s Dazzling and Deadly Fantasies

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Jul 21, 2013 The American people's collective inability to overcome commercial illusion and confront the grim realities of the economic and environmental crises means they will remain slaves to fiction and its apocalyptic outcomes, Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges told Paul Jay on The Real News Network's new show, "Reality Asserts Itself." Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Eat Your Cat Food, Mrs. Robinson

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Apr 12, 2013 The new cost-of-living index proposed in Obama's latest budget is really a means to push lower living standards on people who need Social Security, University of Missouri economist Michael Hudson says. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

Banking: From Public to Private and Back Again

Alexander Reed Kelly / Truthdig Mar 30, 2013 Once upon a time American banks supported the economy by financing the growth and development of industry. For the last many decades they've had the opposite effect by plowing money into existing assets and loading the economy down with debt. The consequences have been disastrous, economist Michael Hudson told The Real News Network this week. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )