Prisoners often work inside jails and prisons for nothing or at most earn a dollar an hour. The court system has been gutted to deny the poor adequate legal representation. Draconian drug laws send nonviolent offenders to jail for staggering periods of time. Our prisons routinely use solitary confinement, forms of humiliation and physical abuse to keep prisoners broken and compliant, methods that international human rights organizations have long defined as torture. Individuals and corporations that profit from prisons in the United States perpetuate a form of neoslavery. Chris Hedges: The Business of Mass Incarceration – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
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Chris Hedges: Mind Rape and the Christian Right – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
July 24, 2013
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Chris Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
July 16, 2013
The security and surveillance state, after crushing the Occupy movement and eradicating its encampments, has mounted a relentless and largely clandestine campaign to deny public space to any group or movement that might spawn another popular uprising. The legal system has been grotesquely deformed in most cities to, in essence, shut public space to protesters, eradicating our right to free speech and peaceful assembly. Chris Hedges: Locking Out the Voices of Dissent – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
Chris Hedges: We Are All Aboard the Pequod – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
July 8, 2013
The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shakespeare was to Elizabethan England or Fyodor Dostoyevsky to czarist Russia. Chris Hedges: We Are All Aboard the Pequod – Chris Hedges’ Columns – Truthdig
Feingold Correctly Predicted Patriot Act Abuse in 2001 (Video) – Truthdig
June 11, 2013
When the Senate passed the Patriot Act after the 9/11 terrorist attacks in 2001, only one senator voted against it: Russ Feingold, a Democrat from Wisconsin. At the time, Feingold expressed concern over where it could lead. Feingold Correctly Predicted Patriot Act Abuse in 2001 (Video) – Truthdig
Robert Reich: What We Need Now: A National Economic Strategy for Better Jobs – Truthdig
June 11, 2013
Jobs are returning with depressing slowness, and most of the new jobs pay less than the jobs that were lost in the Great Recession. Robert Reich: What We Need Now: A National Economic Strategy for Better Jobs – Truthdig
Democracy: The Only Threat to the TPP – Truthdig
June 7, 2013
The Trans-Pacific Partnership is an international trade agreement that would allow corporations operating in any country to appeal to a global tribunal to sue governments for financial “damages” wrought by laws that regulate the firms’ activities. Democracy: The Only Threat to the TPP – Truthdig
At World’s End and Back Again – Truthdig
June 7, 2013
Here may be the most commonplace sentence anyone could write about graduation day in any year: when I think back to my own graduation in 1966, an eon, a lifetime, a world ago, I have no memory of who addressed us.
Millions of Verizon Phone Records Secretly Collected Daily (Video) – Truthdig
June 7, 2013
The National Security Agency is collecting the telephone records of millions of American customers of Verizon via an order that requires the company to hand over the records on an “ongoing, daily basis,” Glenn Greenwald reports in The Guardian. Millions of Verizon Phone Records Secretly Collected Daily (Video) – Truthdig
Plenty Of Surprises As World Warms – Truthdig
June 6, 2013
Nobody knows for certain what climate change will bring but on the basis of the latest research by plant ecologists, one thing has been established: there will be surprises. Plenty Of Surprises As World Warms – Truthdig
