Chris Hedges

Biz gökten füzeler yağdırıyoruz, evlerinde birbirine sarılıp büzüşerek bekleşen aileleri yakıp kül ediyoruz. Onlar bir kafesin içinde büzüşüp bekleşen pilotu yakıp kül ediyorlar.

Ekolojik çöküş ve yokoluştan kendimizi kurtarabilmek amacıyla radikal değişimleri gerçekleştirebilmek için şunun şurasında en iyi ihtimalle birkaç yılımız kaldı.

Irak - Şam İslam Devleti'nin karalara bürünmüş savaşçıları, çökmüş bir orduyu ve dehşete kapılmış Iraklıları önlerine katıp Bağdat'a doğru ilerlerken, Amerikan imparatorluğunun hortlak çehresini aynadan bize geri yansıtıyor.

Mazlumların bağırlarına bastıkları inanç sistemleri müsamahasız olabilir, ama bu inanç sistemleri küresel elitlerin onların üzerine bindirdiği adaletsizliğe, devlet şiddetine ve kıyıcılığa karşı bir cevap. Düşmanımız radikal İslam değil. Düşmanımız küresel kapitalizm.

Dünya Bankası tarafından yayımlanan rapora göre, karbon salımını durdurmak için acilen radikal önlemler almalı ya da bütün ekosistemin çöküşüne, gezegenin üzerinde yaşayan canlıların milyonlarcasının yerinden yurdundan olmasına, acı çekmesine ve ölümüne hazır olmalıyız.

Welcome to the revolution. Our elites have exposed their hand. They have nothing to offer. They can destroy but they cannot build. They can repress but they cannot lead. They can steal but they cannot share. They can talk but they cannot speak.

Benim direnişim nefretten değil, sevgiden kaynaklanıyor: Şirketlerin çarpık kâr kültürünün anlamsız ve aşırı duygusal bulduğu şeylerin hepsine duyduğum sevgiden: Çocuklara, göllere, ağaçlara, ötücü ardıç kuşunun ormanın derinliklerindeki şarkısına...

Protests are rending the fabric of the U.S.-backed dictatorships in Tunisia, Yemen, Jordan, Egypt and Libya. They are flickering to life in the U.S. in states like Wisconsin.

The extraction and burning of coal in 26 states is perhaps the most urgent environmental concern facing the United States.

The uprising in Egypt, although united around the nearly universal desire to rid the country of the military dictator Hosni Mubarak, also presages the inevitable shift within the Arab world away from secular regimes toward an embrace of Islamic rule.

Corporations gain very lucrative profits from war, even wars we have no chance of winning.

We may feel, in the face of the ruthless corporate destruction of our nation, our culture, and our ecosystem, powerless and weak. But we are not. We have a power that terrifies the corporate state.

There is no hope left for achieving significant reform or restoring our democracy through established mechanisms of power. The electoral process has been hijacked by corporations.

Any act of rebellion, any physical defiance of those who make war, of those who perpetuate corporate greed and are responsible for state crimes, anything that seeks to draw the good to the good, nourishes our souls and holds out the possibility that we can touch and transform the souls of others.

We who turn ourselves into objects of worship and build ruthless systems of power to control the world around us will get what we are due

The human species during its brief time on Earth has exhibited a remarkable capacity to kill itself off.

Time is running out for Israel. And the Israeli government knows it. The Jewish Diaspora, especially the young, has a waning emotional and ideological investment in Israel.

Cultures that do not recognize that human life and the natural world have a sacred dimension, an intrinsic value beyond monetary value, cannibalize themselves until they die.

The numbers of so-called refuseniks are proliferating with groups such as the Courage to Refuse, Shministim and New Profile supporting those who will not serve in the Israeli Defense Forces.

We owe Ralph Nader and Cynthia McKinney an apology. They were right about Barack Obama. They were right about the corporate state. They had the courage of their convictions and they stood fast despite wholesale defections and ridicule by liberals and progressives.

Haberde objektiflik saplantısı muhabirleri suya sabuna dokunmayan etkisiz bir gözlemci veya bir röntgenci haline sokar. Bu durum, empati duygusunu, adalet tutkusunu ve arayışını yok eder. Muhabirlerden beklenen, hissetmeleri ve ve kendi duygularını ifade etmeleri değil, sadece izlemeleridir.

Corporate forces, long before the Supreme Court's decision in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, carried out a coup d'état in slow motion. The coup is over. We lost.

War is brutal and impersonal. It mocks the fantasy of individual heroism and the absurdity of utopian goals like democracy. In an instant, industrial warfare can kill dozens, even hundreds of people, who never see their attackers.

There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen will do it.

The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban.

Şirket güdümlü devlet, aslında büyük bir sosyal ve ekonomik reform gerekirken, çevre krizini bize bir kişisel tercih meselesiymiş gibi pazarlamaya çalıştı.

The crisis of global heating is a social problem. It requires a social response.