Authored by Chris Hedges via ScheerPost, The Crucifixion of Julian Assange – by Mr. Fish Prosecutors representing the United States, whether by design or incompetence, refused — in the two-day hearing I attended in London in February — to provide guarantees that Julian Assange would be afforded First Amendment rights and would be spared the death penalty if extradited […]
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CHRIS HEDGES: ISRAEL’S TROJAN HORSE
MARCH 20TH, 2024 CHRIS HEDGES Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Piers allow things to come in. They allow things to go out. And Israel, which has no intention of halting its murderous siege of Gaza, including its policy of enforced starvation, appears to have found a solution to its problem of where to expel the […]
Chris Hedges: Israel’s Genocide Betrays the Holocaust-What Holocaust, The 66 Million Plus Humans Holocausted by The Red Russian Khazarian Jew Joseph Stalin?
If one looks at the world census of members of the Jew Cult religion before and after World War Two, there are simply not six million Jews from Europe missing. There are not five million Jews from Europe missing. There are not four million Jews from Europe missing. There are not three million Jews from […]
CHRIS HEDGES: LETTER TO THE CHILDREN OF GAZA
NOVEMBER 9TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Dear child, It is past midnight. I am flying at hundreds of miles an hour in the darkness, thousands of feet over the Atlantic Ocean. I am traveling to Egypt. I will go to the border of Gaza at Rafah. I go because of you. You have never been […]
CHRIS HEDGES: ISRAEL’S CULTURE OF DECEIT
OCTOBER 19TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — Israel was founded on lies. The lie that Palestinian land was largely unoccupied. The lie that 750,000 Palestinians fled their homes and villages during their ethnic cleansing by Zionist militias in 1948 because they were told to do so by Arab leaders. The lie that it was Arab […]
CHRIS HEDGES: THIS WAY FOR THE GENOCIDE, LADIES AND GENTLEMEN
OCTOBER 17TH, 2023 Source Chris Hedges Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — I have been in urban warfare in El Salvador, Iraq, Gaza, Bosnia and Kosovo. Once you fight street by street, apartment block by apartment block, there is only one rule — kill anything that moves. The talk of safe zones, the reassurances of protecting […]
Clyburn hedges on Harris, says she is ‘part of’ Democrats future: ‘It’s not a given’
Rep. James Clyburn (D-S.C.) hedged questions over Vice President Harris’s leadership role in the Democratic party, saying she is “part of” the party’s future but that “it’s not a given” she will be the successor to President Biden. When asked Sunday by NBC’s “Meet The Press” moderator Kristen Welker if he sees Harris as “the… […]
CHRIS HEDGES: HUMANITARIAN IMPERIALISM CREATED THE LIBYAN NIGHTMARE
SEPTEMBER 18TH, 2023 Source CHRIS HEDGES Washington DC — (Scheerpost) — “We came, we saw, he died,” Hillary Clinton famously quipped when Muammar Gaddafi, after seven months of U.S. and NATO bombing, was overthrown in 2011 and killed by a mob who sodomized him with a bayonet. But Gaddafi would not be the only one to die. […]
Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine And The Crisis Of Media Censorship
The Ukraine conflict has plunged the world into a geopolitical crisis, and its effects on Western media institutions are increasingly concerning to advocates of a free press. The press in the US and most of Europe parrot the opinions of a ruling elite and oversees a public discourse that is often unhinged from the real […]
The Chris Hedges Report: Soldiers speak out against America’s misguided wars
We are not a good and virtuous nation. God does not bless us above other nations. Victory is not assured. War is not noble and uplifting. The clash between the reality of combat and the Disneyfied version of combat consumed by the public, one that propels many young men and women into war, creates not […]
The Chris Hedges Report: Breaking The Cycle Of American Violence
American society is the most violent of any nation in the industrialized world. Nothing we do, from administrating the world’s largest prison system to militarizing our police, seems to help. Dr. James Gilligan argues that childhood abuse, and the shame it engenders, is the engine that fuels America’s deadliest epidemic. This abuse and shame, he […]
The Chris Hedges Report: Splinterlands’ Climate Dystopia
In his dystopian novel Splinterlands, John Feffer looks ahead to life on planet earth in the year 2050. The signs of societal breakdown in the not-so-distant future, if we look, are already apparent in our world today. Feffer follows them to their logical conclusion. The climate is at war with the human species and every other species. […]
Chris Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold
I was in Eastern Europe in 1989, reporting on the revolutions that overthrew the ossified communist dictatorships that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union. It was a time of hope. NATO, with the breakup of the Soviet empire, became obsolete. President Mikhail Gorbachev reached out to Washington and Europe to build a new […]
Chris Hedges: PEN America and the Betrayal of Julian Assange
December 27th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Careerists and Democratic Party apparatchiks successfully leverage corporate money and backing to seize and deform historic rights organizations into appendages of the ruling class. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Nils Melzer, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Torture, is one of the very few establishment figures to denounce the judicial lynching of Julian […]
Chris Hedges: American Satyricon
Above photo: Jeenah Moon/Reuters. The Maxwell trial will not hold the powerful men complicit in the rape and abuse of countless girls by the Epstein ring accountable or challenge the oppressive systems which fuel the scourge of male violence. The trial of Ghislaine Maxwell which began this week in Manhattan will not hold to account […]
Chris Hedges: The Most Important Battle for Press Freedom in Our Time
October 30th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source If he is extradited and found guilty of publishing classified material it will set a legal precedent that will effectively end national security reporting. WASHINGTON, D.C. (Scheerpost) – For the past two days, I have been watching the extradition hearing for Julian Assange via video link from London. The […]
Chris Hedges: The Call
This excerpt is from Chris Hedges’ newest book, “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.” On September 5, 2013, I pulled my old Volvo wagon—a bumper sticker reading “This is the Rebel Base” stuck on the back by my wife, a Star Wars fan—into the parking lot at East Jersey State Prison in Rahway, New […]
Chris Hedges: The Anonymous Executioners of the Corporate State
October 07th, 2021 By Chris Hedges Source Imprisoning the David to Chevron’s Goliath is the latest outrage by a US judiciary now engineered to always favor the interests of capital. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Judge Loretta Preska, an advisor to the conservative Federalist Society, to which Chevron is a major donor, sentenced human rights attorney and Chevron […]
Chris Hedges: The Price of Conscience
By Chris Hedges Source Drone warfare whistleblower sentenced to 45 months in prison for telling the American people the truth. PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Daniel Hale, a former intelligence analyst in the drone program for the Air Force who as a private contractor in 2013 leaked some 17 classified documents about drone strikes to the press, was sentenced […]
Chris Hedges Speaks On ‘American Sadism’
Above Photo: mediasanctuary.org / YouTube. Chris Hedges gave this talk on American Sadism at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy, New York on Sunday June 27. [embedded content] Sadism defines nearly every cultural, social, and political experience in the United States. It is expressed in the unchecked greed of an oligarchic elite that has […]