Tag: Chris Hedges

Mike Palecek, The Hoax is In

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Mike Palecek                    Mike Palacek, The Hoax is In (153News.Net) Thank you, all. The hoax is in. It’s been in since Nov. 22, 1963. It’s coming down to the wire. Except, the hoax is in. And by all appearances there is no way we can win without a miracle. It’s Hail Mary time.   … My wife is busy making masks while watching “The News,” with Lester Holt. Last summer, 2019, I was banned from my son’s house for July 4th after…

Chris Hedges: The Unraveling Of The American Empire

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Chris Hedges America’s defeat in Afghanistan is one in a string of catastrophic military blunders that herald the death of the American empire. With the exception of the first Gulf War, fought largely by mechanized units in the open desert that did not — wisely — attempt to occupy Iraq, the United States political and military leadership has stumbled from one military debacle to another. Korea. Vietnam. Lebanon. Afghanistan. Iraq. Syria. Libya. The trajectory of military fiascos mirrors the sad finales of the Chinese, Ottoman, Hapsburg, Russian, French, British, Dutch, Portuguese and…

Chris Hedges, The Mueller Report Ends a Shameful Period for the American Press

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Chris Hedges The Mueller report’s categorical statement that Donald Trump and his campaign did not collude with Russia ends one of the most shameful periods in modern American journalism, one that rivals the mindless cheerleading for the Iraq War by most of the press. It further erodes and may prove fatal to the credibility of a press that has steadfastly rendered most of the country invisible and functions as little more than an array of gossiping courtiers to the elites. “ ‘[T]he investigation did not establish that members of the…