Tag: Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges: The Folly of a War With Iran

Iran has a large arsenal of ballistic missiles it can unleash on Israel, as well as on American military installations in the region. While initial waves can be intercepted, repeated attacks would swiftly deplete the Israeli and U.S. air defense…

Chris Hedges: The Rule of Idiots

Thomas Paine writes that a despotic government is a fungus that grows out of a corrupt civil society. This is what happened to past societies. It is what happened to us.

Chris Hedges: The New Dark Age

The Nazis are scapegoats for a Western heritage of mass slaughter, as if genocides in the Americas, Africa and India are  mere historical footnotes. In fact, genocide is the currency of Western domination.

Chris Hedges: Trumpland

The dynamiting, by the Trump administration, of decayed and corrupt institutions will mark the end of the American experiment and the shift from inverted totalitarianism to dictatorship.