(For other postings related to “Hedges”, please “search” this blog – the button is in the upper right corner. After you hit the “enter”, scroll down past the headings. There will be a computer-generated list of summaries of articles re “Hedges”. I am extremely thankful for his work. ) Hedges thinks Quebec protest is big enough to infect Canada […]
(For a listing of the Assange postings, click on Julian Assange, Wikileaks, and scroll down.) Is there a bigger “David versus Goliath” story than Julian Assange (Wikileaks) versus the American military-industrial-congressional complex?! What a cliff-hanger, and for democracy! May 30, 2012: The UK Supreme Court says . . oops! see Assange gets surprise chance […]
Assange is a citizen of Australia. He has been fighting extradiction to Sweden from the U.K. The last paragraphs of the article below provide reason why Assange believes if he ends up in Sweden, the Swedes will simply hand him over to the Americans to face charges of espionage. The article is from the Christian Science Monitor, a reasonably good account, […]
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http://youtu.be/7zotYU21qcU (For my own interest, views of the interview: 2012-04-02, 7:11 pm 302,454 2012-04-04, 1:44 pm 303,425
UPDATE: The leaks by Edward Snowden came in 2013. The revelations by Snowden corroborated what we had already figured out from news reports. But what a splendid act of service in the public good, by Snowden! Any videos of him, and his writings display intelligence and integrity well beyond what you might have expected from […]
Writer Chris Hedges argues that North American culture is dying because it has become transfixed by illusions about literacy, love, wisdom, happiness and democracy. Jim Brown explores Hedges’ ideas about the mechanisms that keep us diverted from confronting the collapse around us. http://www.cbc.ca/ideas/episodes/2011/11/30/empire-of-illusion/ Broadcast: Wednesday – November 30, 2011
Leo writes: The first of this movie is more or less new to me. The last half is something most of us guessed was the problem, but it is so well explained and illustrated, be sure to watch all of it. Sandra speaking: The movie is 2 hours. Click on the icon in the bottom-right […]
Video – 2 hours. http://tinyurl.com/3vobzwq Very good. Transcript below. “It’s extremely important, because information is power. Information is a matter of life and death. We’ve learned that through these remarkable trove of documents that have been released in the last year. The Iraq War Logs, the Afghanistan War Logs, and what’s been called Cablegate, the […]
If you have not heard about “US bid to “shore up” Harper from the day he was elected” (item #1) through mainstream media, is there a reason why it isn’t being covered? In your estimation, is it news that should be reported in a democracy? Item #1 flows out of the massive leaked U.S. Government […]