Chris Hedges

Traduction du texte de Chris Hedges : Why I'm Suing Barack Obama, publié dans [Alternet]

Ce texte se réfère à la nouvelle loi ratifiée par Barack Obama et donnant le pouvoir au Pentagone de poursuivre tout citoyen US qu'il estime être un " terroriste" ou avoir montré de la sympathie pour un mouvement que les États-Unis ont classé dans leur liste des mouvements terroristes.

Peut-on attaquer le Président Obama et le ministre de la Justice... en justice ? C'est ce que vient de faire le grand journaliste, écricain et militant américain Chris Hedges - Prix Pulitzer en 2002 et connu pour ses ouvrages sur le terrorisme et son analyse de la politique étrangère américaine - en dénonçant la loi NDAA (National Defense Authorization Act) sur la détention indéfinie et sans procès, comme étant une loi "illégale".

By Chris Hedges 

October 17, 2011 "Truthdig " - - There is no danger that the protesters who have occupied squares, parks and plazas across the nation in defiance of the corporate state will be co-opted by the Democratic Party or groups like MoveOn. The faux liberal reformers, whose abject failure to stand up for the rights of the poor and the working class, have signed on to this movement because they fear becoming irrelevant.

Chris HEDGES

Il n'y a plus d'excuses. Soit vous rejoignez les protestations qui se déroulent à Wall Street et dans les quartiers financiers d'autres villes du pays, soit vous vous retrouverez du mauvais côté de l'histoire. Soit vous vous élevez, de la seule manière qui nous est laissée, c'est à dire la désobéissance civile, contre le pillage opéré par la classe criminelle de Wall Street et contre la destruction de l'écosystème qui permet l'existence de la race humaine soit vous devenez un complice passif d'un crime inouï.

Par Chris Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges (né le 18 septembre 1956 à Saint-Johnsbury, au Vermont) est un journaliste et auteur américain. Ancien correspondant de guerre, il est reconnu pour son analyse de la politique américaine et moyen-orientale. Le discours enregistré sur la vidéo ci-dessous, et dont nous reproduisons plusieurs extraits, a été prononcé en mars 2010.

L'incursion et le bombardement de Gaza n'ont pas pour but de détruire le Hamas.

By Chris Hedges
May 30, 2011 "Truthdig " -- The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming, which is disfiguring the ecosystem at a swifter pace than even the gloomiest scientific studies predicted a few years ago, has been confronted by the power elite with equal parts of self-delusion. There are those, many of whom hold elected office, who dismiss the science and empirical evidence as false.

By Chris Hedges

May 16, 2011 "Truthdig ' -- The moral philosopher Cornel West, if Barack Obama's ascent to power was a morality play, would be the voice of conscience. Rahm Emanuel, a cynical product of the Chicago political machine, would be Satan. Emanuel in the first scene of the play would dangle power, privilege, fame and money before Obama.

Your Taxes Fund Anti-Muslim Hatred

By Chris Hedges

May 09, 2011 "Truthdig " -- News personalities, politicians, self-appointed experts on the Muslim world, and law enforcement and intelligence officials, as well as the Christian right, have successfully demonized Muslims in the United States since the attacks of 2001.

By Chris Hedges
April 25, 2011 "TruthDig " - - When did our democracy die? When did it irrevocably transform itself into a lifeless farce and absurd political theater? When did the press, labor, universities and the Democratic Party-which once made piecemeal and incremental reform possible-wither and atrophy? When did reform through electoral politics become a form of magical thinking? When did the dead hand of the corporate state become unassailable?

By Chris Hedges

April 11, 2011 "Truthdig " -- A nation that destroys its systems of education, degrades its public information, guts its public libraries and turns its airwaves into vehicles for cheap, mindless amusement becomes deaf, dumb and blind. It prizes test scores above critical thinking and literacy.

By Chris Hedges

March 28, 2011 "Truthdig " -- The uprisings in the Middle East, the unrest that is tearing apart nations such as the Ivory Coast, the bubbling discontent in Greece, Ireland and Britain and the labor disputes in states such as Wisconsin and Ohio presage the collapse of globalization. They presage a world where vital resources, including food and water, jobs and security, are becoming scarcer and harder to obtain.

By Chris Hedges

March 14, 2011 "TruthDig " -- The liberal class is discovering what happens when you tolerate the intolerant. Let hate speech pollute the airways. Let corporations buy up your courts and state and federal legislative bodies. Let the Christian religion be manipulated by charlatans to demonize Muslims, gays and intellectuals, discredit science and become a source of personal enrichment.

By Chris Hedges

March 07, 2011 "Truthdig " - - I have walked through the barren remains of Babylon in Iraq and the ancient Roman city of Antioch, the capital of Roman Syria, which now lies buried in silt deposits. I have visited the marble ruins of Leptis Magna, once one of the most important agricultural centers in the Roman Empire, now isolated in the desolate drifts of sand southeast of Tripoli.

By Chris Hedges

February 28, 2011 "Truthdig " -- I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling end over end through their small, delicate frames, appear to me almost daily like faint and sadly familiar ghosts.

By Chris Hedges

February 07, 2011 "Truthdig " -- -Empires communicate in two languages. One language is expressed in imperatives. It is the language of command and force. This militarized language disdains human life and celebrates hypermasculinity. It demands. It makes no attempt to justify the flagrant theft of natural resources and wealth or the use of indiscriminate violence.

By Chris Hedges

January 21, 2011 "Press TV" -- American wars will continue until the country's giant corporations, which pay the politicians in Washington's corridors of power, become financially unsustainable, says senior fellow at the Nation Institute, Chris Hedges.

Hedges told Press TV's U.S. Desk in a Wednesday interview that the economy will fail "because we're paying for it through debt, through borrowing."

By Chris Hedges
January 11, 2010 "Truthdig " -- Power does not rest with the electorate. It does not reside with either of the two major political parties. It is not represented by the press. It is not arbitrated by a judiciary that protects us from predators. Power rests with corporations.

By Chris Hedges

January 03, 2010 "Truthdig ' - -Ralph Nader in a CNN poll a few days before the 2008 presidential election had an estimated 3 percent of the electorate, or about 4 million people, behind his candidacy. But once the votes were counted, his support dwindled to a little over 700,000. Nader believes that many of his supporters entered the polling booth and could not bring themselves to challenge the Democrats and Barack Obama.

By Chris Hedges

December 27, 2010 "Truth Dig " -- The two greatest visions of a future dystopia were George Orwell's "1984" and Aldous Huxley's "Brave New World." The debate, between those who watched our descent towards corporate totalitarianism, was who was right.