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Chris Hedges is a Public Menace

"Liberalism by definition is counterrevolutionary. In times of crisis it calls for the pacification of struggle and the return to normalcy. It posits that both right wing calls for ethnic cleansing and the resistance to that as equally menacing to the liberal order of society."

The Ugly American Goes to Chiapas: Correcting Hedges on the Zapatistas

"Given that Hedges is so intertwined with the left establishment that they will indulge in a cover-up on his behalf, it’s worth looking at just what kind of man they’re covering for."

FLASHBACK: If He Can’t Lie, It’s Not His Revolution: Chris Hedges vs. Emma Goldman

"Reading this passage, it’s striking how little has changed. It isn’t difficult to imagine, say, Rebecca Solnit – "philosophic" anarchist and Obama campaigner – being feted at the White House in reward for her work bashing radicals, while at the same time "criminal" anarchists like Marie Mason and Oso Blanco rot in prison."

Let Them Eat Pizza [“People’s Climate March” & “Flood Wallstreet”]

"The single-minded focus on carbon emissions over other issues, such as pollution, habitat destruction, and overextraction of everything from lumber to fish to minerals simply enables more of the same destruction to proceed even as it pretends to challenge the status quo, Naomi Klein and Chris Hedges notwithstanding. In fact their supposedly more radical critique of capitalism is a red herring, and an insidious deflection of the true dimensions of the tragedy of the commons that has ensnared humans into ecocide. "