Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.
日益严重的社会不平等正在加剧全球各地的抗议活动。全球统治阶级决心阻止这些抗议活动使用可以让他们失望的武器——罢工。
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The mounting social inequality is fueling protests around the globe. The global ruling class is determined to prevent these protests from employing the weapon that can bring them down — strikes. The ruling oligarchs are terrified that, for tens of millions of people, the economic dislocation caused by
没有任何机构能像英国君主制那样有效地掩盖帝国的罪行，支持阶级统治和白人至上主义。
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. The global oligarchs are not sure the next generation of royal
一个运转良好的民主国家可以轻易地击败唐纳德特朗普和他的分身。失败的民主和破产的自由主义确保了他们的优势。
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping
过去文明的考古遗迹，包括伊利诺伊州史前卡霍基亚神庙的遗迹，都在提醒我们的命运。
CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois (Scheerpost) - I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of visitors. My shirt is matted with sweat. I look out from the
北约的大规模扩张，不仅在东欧和中欧，而且在中东、拉丁美洲、非洲和亚洲，预示着无休止的战争和潜在的核浩劫。
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine in
全球统治阶级正在巩固一个他们在没有责任的情况下统治的世界，我们沦为农奴，气候危机加速，大规模死亡正常化。
It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels, wallow in profligate consumption, including our consumption of livestock, and make new wars as if we are
1 月 6 日听证会的电视场面不会恢复民主或阻止极右翼的崛起。听证会是一个注定失败的政治阶层的绝望策略。
PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose first of six televised hearings began last Thursday, is spectacle replacing politics. There is nothing substantially new in the accusations. The committee lacks prosecutorial power. No charges have been filed by Attorney
