1.26.2016
***** The Suicide of the Liberal Church
1.20.2016
***** MUST READ. Chris Hedges The American Empire: Murder Inc.
1.05.2016
The American Empire: Murder Inc. The reality of empire rarely reaches the American public.
12.21.2015
The Creeping Villainy of American Politics
12.05.2015
Optimism, especially the naive optimism fed to us by the corporate state, engenders self-delusion and passivity and is the opposite of hope. Rebels who are self-aware, who are possessed of sublime madness, are also often plagued by a gnawing despair. When the movie producer Abby Mann, who wanted to film Martin Luther King’s life story, asked King facetiously, “How does the movie end?” King responded, “It ends with me getting killed.” As Mann recalled, “I looked at him. He was smiling, but he wasn’t joking.”36. Chris Hedges
Optimism, especially the naive optimism fed to us by the corporate state, engenders self-delusion and passivity and is the opposite of hope. Rebels who are self-aware, who are possessed of sublime madness, are also often plagued by a gnawing despair. When the movie producer Abby Mann, who wanted to film Martin Luther King’s life story, asked King facetiously, “How does the movie end?” King responded, “It ends with me getting killed.” As Mann recalled, “I looked at him. He was smiling, but he wasn’t joking.”36
The denunciation of the rebel is a matter of self-preservation for the liberal class. For once the callous heart of the corporate state is exposed, so is the callous heart of its liberal apologists. And the rebel, who has few friends, is the constant target of the liberal establishment. Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class
The denunciation of the rebel is a matter of self-preservation for the liberal class. For once the callous heart of the corporate state is exposed, so is the callous heart of its liberal apologists. And the rebel, who has few friends, is the constant target of the liberal establishment.
12.02.2015
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: Our terror is delivered daily to the wretched of the earth with industrial weapons. But to us, it is invisible. We do not stand over the decapitated and eviscerated bodies left behind on city and village streets by our missiles, drones, and fighter jets. We do not......
Chris Hedges, Wages of Rebellion: Our terror is delivered daily to the wretched of the earth with industrial weapons. But to us, it is invisible. We do not stand over the decapitated and eviscerated bodies left behind on city and village streets by our missiles, drones, and fighter jets. We do not listen to the wails and shrieks of parents embracing the shattered bodies of their children. We do not see the survivors of air attacks bury their mothers, fathers, brothers, and sisters. We are not conscious of the long night of collective humiliation, repression, and powerlessness that characterizes existence in Israel’s occupied territories, Iraq, and Afghanistan. We do not see the boiling anger that war and injustice turn into a cauldron of hate over time. We are not aware of the very natural lust for revenge against those who carry out or symbolize this oppression. We see only the final pyrotechnics of terror, the shocking moment when the rage erupts into an inchoate fury and the murder of innocents. And willfully uninformed, we do not understand our own complicity. We self-righteously condemn the killers as subhuman savages who deserve more of the violence that created them. This is a recipe for endless terror.
11.30.2015
***** he moral bankruptcy of our elites, especially members of our self-identified liberal class, have shattered this equilibrium.
11.28.2015
US journalists nothing more than ‘courtiers to the powerful’
11.25.2015
***** Chris Hedges: ‘Rebels share much in common with religious mystics. They hold fast to a vision that often they alone can see. They view rebellion......‘
Rebels share much in common with religious mystics. They hold fast to a vision that often they alone can see. They view rebellion as a moral imperative, even as they concede that the hope of success is slim and at times impossible. Rebels, a number of whom I interviewed for this book, are men and women endowed with a peculiar obstinacy. Willing to accept deprivation and self-sacrifice, they are not overly concerned with defeat. They endure through a fierce independence and courage. Many, maybe most, have difficult and eccentric personalities. The best of them are driven by a profound empathy, even love, for the vulnerable, the persecuted, and the weak.
Revolutions take time. They are often begun by one generation and completed by the next. “Those who give the first check to a state are the first overwhelmed in its ruin,” Michel de Montaigne wrote in 1580. “The fruits of public commotion are seldom enjoyed by him who was the first mover; he only beats the water for another’s net.”
11.19.2015
***** If you have not yet read the book by Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class, I implore for you to do so as soon as possible. I have just finished it. I am immensely critical, profoundly critical, of the left in this country for its timidity, cowardice, and in action. You may recall.......
If you have not yet read the book by Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class, I implore for you to do so as soon as possible. I have just finished it. I am immensely critical, profoundly critical, of the left in this country for its timidity, cowardice, and in action. You may recall that about me. Hedges has done the scholarship of which I was profoundly unaware. Things are much much much much worse than I had understood. This book provides the hundred year historical underpinnings of how true opposition has been systematically and totally wiped out. Remember how in Star Wars at one point all of the Jedi throughout the galaxies are executed. That's what has happened over the last hundred years. The longer we delay in facing the horrible truth that we are not an opposition, but that an opposition has existed in the past, and learn to stand on the shoulders of the past, we are not becoming the hope that is needed.
11.13.2015
Must watch for all us and our supporters. Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader.
11.08.2015
***** What is the breaking point? The criminal war of aggression in Iraq? The escalation of ....
What is the breaking point? The criminal war of aggression in Iraq? The escalation of the war in Afghanistan? Forty-five thousand people dying a year because they can't afford health insurance? The hollowing out of communities and the movement of jobs to fascist and communist regimes overseas that know how to put the workers in their place? There is no breaking point. And when there is no breaking point, you do not have a moral compass.
11.05.2015
***** The hunting down and murder of the Jedi. It has happened, here in America, systematically, over the last hundred years. Read the book by Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class. This is no joke. This is where we are.
***** The hunting down and murder of the Jedi. It has happened, here in America, systematically, over the last hundred years. Read the book by Chris Hedges, death of the liberal class. This is no joke. This is where we are.
10.30.2015
***** vid. Must watch. Chris Hedges. 'I think a revolution in North America is possible. I hope it is. It is all we have left.'
10.19.2015
**** MUST WATCH. Blumenthal, Hedges. Media 'Sadism and Savagery I've Never Seen Before': Max Blumenthal & Chris Hedges Discuss 2014 Assault on Gaza As tensions rise in the occupied territories, last summer's brutal siege of Gaza can't be forgotten.
10.05.2015
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters
9.24.2015
2014 Journalist Chris Hedges disinvited from U. Penn over Israel-ISIS comparison
9.15.2015
***** must read article.... Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks....
http://m.truthdig.com/report/item/a_time_for_sublime_madness_20130120
Reinhold Niebuhr, as Cone points out in his book, labeled this capacity to defy the forces of repression “a sublime madness in the soul.” Niebuhr wrote that “nothing but madness will do battle with malignant power and ‘spiritual wickedness in high places.’ ” This sublime madness, as Niebuhr understood, is dangerous, but it is vital. Without it, “truth is obscured.” And Niebuhr also knew that traditional liberalism was a useless force in moments of extremity. Liberalism, Niebuhr said, “lacks the spirit of enthusiasm, not to say fanaticism, which is so necessary to move the world out of its beaten tracks. It is too intellectual and too little emotional to be an efficient force in history.”......