Monthly Archives: September 2016

The Courtiers and the Tyrants

Posted on Sep 18, 2016 By Chris Hedges   President Barack Obama is joined by presidential nominee Hillary Clinton after he spoke at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia in July. (Carolyn Kaster / AP) Thomas Frank’s marvelous scorched-earth assault on the … Continue reading

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We the Plutocrats vs. We the People

Sept 12, 2016 Bill Moyers Sixty-six years ago this summer, on my 16th birthday, I went to work for the daily newspaper in the small East Texas town of Marshall where I grew up. It was a good place to … Continue reading

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A Message to Working People From a Former Labor Secretary

Sept 6, 2016 Robert Reich Your typical wage is below what it was in the late 1970s, in terms of what it can buy. Two-thirds of you are living paycheck to paycheck. Almost 30 percent of you don’t have steady … Continue reading

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America the Illiterate

Aug 31, 2016  by Chris Hedges We live in two Americas. One America, now the minority, functions in a print-based, literate world. It can cope with complexity and has the intellectual tools to separate illusion from truth. The other America, which constitutes … Continue reading

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