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The Real News Cancels Chris Hedges’ Show Because of his Criticism of the Biden Administration and its Role In Committing Genocide: How the United States Purges Its Most Courageous Voices
Today on his Substack site, Chris Hedges posted the following: “I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My… Continue reading
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Silenced Voices of Reason and Power: Recommended Listening and Reading For This Final Week of 2023
My self-described “mission” here on my blog is not to change anyone’s mind or to harshly or unfairly judge those who think differently from myself. My self-education and life-lessons have taken me, personally, to these places, to ask these questions and to draw these conclusions. Yes, this space has also been – and will continue… Continue reading
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Chris Hedges’ Lecture At The Sanctuary For Independent Media On “The Genocide in Gaza”
As the United States’ Congress passes a resolution equating “anti-zionism” with antisemitism – despite the fact that most zionists in America are Christian zionists – and as the governments of Israel, the U.S. and much of the Western World work diligently to silence any dissent or criticism of the ongoing ethnic-cleansing and overtly genocidal actions… Continue reading
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Removing Historical and Cultural Context From Friedkin’s THE FRENCH CONNECTION: aka The Dangerous Re-Writing of Our Past at the Expense of Our Present
As a lover of cinema and not a lover of censorship or rewriting history under the pretence of political-correctness, I was immensely disappointed and a bit enraged to see that a sequence containing racial slurs was recently removed from the film THE FRENCH CONNECTION. This censored version is now streaming on multiple platforms without any… Continue reading
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What I bring with me into the voting booth tomorrow
Thoughts one day before the election: Months ago, I committed to voting for Hillary because of the unique threat Trump poses. I’ve been vocal about my decision to vote for Hillary and have written about why it is important to stop Trump and have asked others to vote for Hillary as well. I have also… Continue reading
About Me
Filmmaker, live music photographer, writer, film/video editor, acting teacher, traveler and political junkie who finally realised that the United States government and its two ruling parties has undergone what Chris Hedges refers to as “a corporate coup d’etat in slow motion.”
This site is dedicated to my thoughts, observations and inspirations regarding politics, film and music.
Recent Posts
- Quote Of The Week: “We Celebrate Our Religion, Our Nation, Our Identity, Our Superiority, By Negating And Erasing Yours.”
- The Staggeringly Dangerous Language Of An Empire In Collapse: How Anti-Genocide Protestors Are Framed As Anti-Semitic Terrorists – And What You Can Do About It
- The Real News Cancels Chris Hedges’ Show Because of his Criticism of the Biden Administration and its Role In Committing Genocide: How the United States Purges Its Most Courageous Voices
- The Biden Administration, Israel, and NATO Race Toward World War While American Citizens Shrug Their Shoulders, Tighten Their Blindfolds, and Repeat “But Trump”
- Appalling Quote of the Day: The Existential and Violent Artifice of Hillary Clinton