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"This legal lynching marks the official beginning of corporate totalitarianism"  — from a talk the author gave at a rally in New York on World Press Freedom Day. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost The detention and persecution of Julian Assange eviscerates all pretense of the rule of la

I’ve read a lot of smear since Fox News dismissed Tucker Carlson as its premier evening news presenter late last month. How could I not? It was everywhere, and more fecal matter is being flung Carlson’s way as we speak.

The war industry, a state within a state, disembowels the nation, stumbles from one military fiasco to the next, strips us of civil liberties and pushes us towards suicidal wars with Russia and China. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost America is a stratocracy, a form of government domi

The longer the corporate state erodes the social bonds that provide a sense of purpose and meaning the more inevitable an authoritarian state and a Christianized fascism becomes. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost Political paralysis is snuffing out what is left of our anemic democracy.

American universities are appendages of the corporate state. Educators are increasingly poorly paid, denied benefits and job security while senior administrators pay themselves obscene salaries. By Chris Hedges in New Brunswick, N.J. Original to ScheerPost Here are some of the senior admin

Today on TAP: The Jack Teixeira episode demonstrates the bloated incompetence that a trillion dollars of annual military spending purchases.

David Lance Goines, who created artwork for Chez Panisse and took on a key role in the Berkeley free speech movement, died at age 77.

This talk was given ahead of Easter Sunday on Holy Thursday at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary's trustee board. By Chris Hedges The Chris Hedges Report We are not here to debate the moral

"At what point does a beleaguered population living near or below the poverty line rise up in protest?" From the author's talk on April 4 at the Independent National Convention in Austin, Texas. By Chris Hedges Original to ScheerPost The United States is undergoing the most vicious clas

The politicians and shills in the media who orchestrated 20 years of military debacles in the Middle East, and who seek a world dominated by U.S. power, must be held accountable for their crimes. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Two decades ago, I sabotaged my career at The New York Tim