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Chris Hedges: Defeating Trump Is Only the Beginning

Joshua Scheer In this live Q&A, Chris Hedges examines the midterm results and warns that a Democratic victory alone will not extinguish the forces driving American fascism. He discusses the fight against corporate control within the Democratic Party, the influence of the Israel lobby and w...

Iranian Strength Is What Killed The Republicans

Video reading by Tim Foley : Subscribe now Vice President JD Vance made the surprising admission on social media that Trump administration’s war with Iran was what caused the massive Democratic Party sweep of the midterm elections, stating plainly ...

British foreign policy is frozen in the ruins of empire

There has been much debate in Britain in recent years about symbols of empire – pulling down statues, or returning museum artefacts.  But we rarely talk about the fact that British foreign policy is still run by the same institutions which ran the empire.  The Secretary of State for Bus...

Palestine Action ban to be appealed at Supreme Court

The Supreme Court will hear this week from lawyers for Palestine Action co-founder Huda Ammori that the group’s proscription should be quashed. It will be the last legal opportunity to challenge the ban in Britain, with the fate of thousands arrested for allegedly supporting the group hangin...

Chris Hedges: Israel Cannot Be Allowed to Erase Gaza’s Stories

Joshua Scheer Genocide seeks to destroy not only a people but the memory of their lives. Speaking on his Requiem for Gaza book tour, Hedges describes how he and illustrator Joe Sacco interviewed 29 Palestinian families who had escaped to Egypt, documenting the destruction through the people ...

Britain was prepared to use cluster bombs in Sierra Leone

Ministers in Tony Blair’s government were prepared to use cluster bombs in their intervention in Sierra Leone’s civil war in 2000, declassified files show. The “consensus seemed to be ‘so be it’, despite the widespread concerns over UXBs [cluster weapons]”, a Ministry of Defence (MoD) official ...

Reading Ulysses at the Martello Tower

Our Odyssey – by Mr. Fish Chris Hedges ScheerPost DUBLIN: It is a blustery, overcast morning on the Irish coast. I am standing on the roof of the Martello Tower, looking down at bathers diving from a rock into the Forty Foot in Dublin Bay on the beach at Sandycove. I hold James Joy...

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