Chris Hedges
“No Offence, But You Sound Like a Leftwing Nutbar”
by Nick Glossop on October 12, 2011
Whilst attempting a reasoned discussion of the Occupy Wall Street protest movement, Chris Hedges correctly and politely observes that the Fox-News-type posturings of poop-flinging howler monkey commentator Kevin O’Leary are a disgrace to the CBC.
(To be perfectly fair, O’Leary has been under considerable stress of late, on account of an infected and faulty paradigm.)
What Hedges didn’t get to say in the on-air farce interview.…
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Chris Hedges Interviewed at Occupy Wall St Protests
by Andrew Loewen on September 26, 2011
I can tell you as a former reporter for the New York Times that on the inside they’re very, very frightened. They do not want movements like this to grow. And they understand at some level, whether subconscious or in some cases even overt, that the criminal class in this country has seized power.
Hedges mentions “disproportionate use of force” by Wall Street’s security forces, the NYPD. Here’s a clip …
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Toward a Politics of Solidarity: Left Forum 2011
by Cyrus Lewis on March 6, 2011
Left Forum is perhaps the premiere annual conference of the left in North America. And it is certainly the largest. Last year’s conference attracted some 3,000 attendees, showcased more than 200 panels, and featured the likes of Rev. Jesse Jackson, Noam Chomsky and Arundhati Roy.
Left Forum emerged from the Socialist Scholars Conference (SSC), which was originally established in the 60s by, among others, Frances Fox Piven (yes, the selfsame …
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