Chris Hedges: Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States

Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States

As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy. What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president’s foreign policy have on the Middle East? This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill discusses these issues with Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and former war correspondent Chris Hedges.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EDKRGkgLsI

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Kelly Denton-Borhaug: The True Costs of America’s All-Consuming War-Culture / Chris Hedges: Chronicle of a War Foretold

Can Capitalism and Democracy Coexist? Chris Hedges interviews political philosopher Sheldon Wolin

Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion

Chris Hedges: The Four Horsemen of Gaza’s Apocalypse

Chris Hedges: Letter to the Children of Gaza

Chris Hedges: The Horror, The Horror

Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them

How With This Rage. BY CHRIS HEDGES (2005)

Chris Hedges: Worthy and Unworthy Victims / Noam Chomsky: US Military Escalation Against Russia Would Have No Victors

The Palestine Exception to Academic Freedom Must Go

Patrick Lawrence: Authorized Atrocities / Late-Imperial Duplicities

Gaza and the End of Western Fantasy

Thanks to Gaza, European philosophy has been exposed as ethically bankrupt / South Africa is testing the west’s claim to moral superiority

All That’s Left of You review – deeply moving epic of Palestinian intergenerational trauma

Trump’s Gaza proposal rejected by allies and condemned as ethnic cleansing plan

A Massive Database of Evidence, compiled by a Historian, Documents Israel’s War Crimes in Gaza

Rashid Khalidi: ‘Israel Has Created a Nightmare Scenario for Itself. The Clock Is Ticking’

Albert Einstein on Jews in Palestine (1932-49)

Michael Brenner: The West’s Reckoning?

A Conspiracy of Silence / The Killing Floor of Gaza

Michael Brenner: Europe-Jews-Muslims

Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah after Gaza

The Death of Liberal Zionism