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Chris Hedges - The Myth of Human Progress and the Collapse of Complex Societies (2014/01/28)

By Chris Hedges

Editor’s note: The following is the transcript of a speech that Chris Hedges gave in Santa Monica, Calif., on Oct. 13, 2013. To purchase a DVD of Hedges’ address and the Q-and-A that followed, click here.

The most prescient portrait of the American character and our ultimate fate as a species is found in Herman Melville’s “Moby Dick.” Melville makes our murderous obsessions, our hubris, violent impulses, moral weakness and inevitable self-destruction visible in his chronicle of a whaling voyage. He is our foremost oracle. He is to us what William Shak ... Read more »

Category: Politics | Views: 500 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/01/28 | Comments (0)

Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech (2014/01/28)

Seattle's Socialist City Councilor Offers Radical Response to Obama Speech

In rebuttal to State of the Union, Seattle's Kshama Sawant challenges key assumptions and policies presented in presidential address

- Jon Queally, staff writer

Though Republicans tied themselves in knots and exposed their party's extensive internal rifts by offering four separate rebuttals to President Obama's State of the Union on Tuesday, a development that received less attention was the short response to the speech offered by recently-elected Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant.

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Category: Politics | Views: 439 | Added by: LIBertea | Date: 2014/01/28 | Comments (0)

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