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From the author's address at the anti-war demonstration on Feb. 19 in Washington: "A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpCBkOUjAEc By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com Idolatry is the primal si

Idolatry is the primal sin from which all other sins derive. Idols tempt us to become God. They  demand the sacrifice of others in the mad quest for

Chris Hedges spoke at the Washington DC anti-war rally on Feb. 19 alongside an array of other notable speakers.

New Age, a Dhaka-based leading English language daily newspaper, is a major source of news of Bangladesh and international affairs

An unsparing look at some glaring deficiencies in reserach and training in medicine.

ZeroHedge - On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero

There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the imperial presidency, the courts or the penal system, that can be defined as democratic. Only the fiction of democracy remains. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost.com There is a fatal disconnect between a political system t

A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.

There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation.Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy.

Read Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3 and Part 4. By Adriana Gamondes Mixed Metaphors: Gates’ Inverted Totalitarian Corporate Conquistadors As mentioned in Part 2, Bill Gates’ investment in a fracking tech corporation and Operation Neptune Spear corresponded with...