Tim Hjersted

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ADDED Dec 30, 2025

Chomsky Reassessed?

One of the late acts of Noam Chomsky’s incredible life was to become one of thirty initial co-signers of a document titled “Twenty Theses for Liberation.”

ADDED Dec 29, 2025

From Powell to Venezuela: The High Cost of Evidence-Free Escalation

We are witnessing the reemergence of a dangerous repetition: one where the pattern of assertion becomes the prelude to action, and where action can lead to irreversible consequences.

ADDED Dec 29, 2025

The US Backed a Coup in This Country to Hurt China & Help Israel

In Cold War Two, the USA is pressuring countries to cut ties with China and recognize Taiwan separatists. Donald Trump blatantly meddled in Honduras' 2025 election and backed a political...

ADDED Dec 29, 2025

If Jesus Were Born Today, Would He Survive the American Police State?

If Jesus were born in modern America, under a government obsessed with surveillance, crackdowns on undocumented immigrants, religious nationalism, and absolute obedience to a...

ADDED Dec 28, 2025

Reagan: The Man Who Sold the World (2025)

Ronald Reagan is remembered as the "Great Communicator," the man who brought optimism back to America. But behind the smile was a ruthless counter-revolution.

ADDED Dec 27, 2025

Trump Isn’t Planning to Invade Venezuela. He’s Planning Something Worse

Rather than launching a military invasion that would provoke public backlash and congressional scrutiny, Trump is doubling down on something more insidious.

ADDED Dec 26, 2025

These Are the Worst Pirates on Earth

The US government is seizing oil tankers and stealing Venezuela's crude. Donald Trump boasted that the USA will "keep" the oil and the ships. This is piracy. Ben Norton explains how...

ADDED Dec 26, 2025

The Epstein Files Are Way Worse Than You Think | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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ADDED Dec 25, 2025

The Story of Christmas Is About the Poor Overcoming the Powerful

In Jesus’ own words, Christianity is a faith where the first shall be last and the last shall be first. It is meant not for the rich, the satisfied, and the powerful. Rather it is first...

ADDED Dec 24, 2025

Can We Cure Ourselves of the Deadly Viruses of Greed and Militarism?

The sicknesses that caused the Iraq War and the Wall Street crash are alive and well in American society, mutating from administration to administration.

ADDED Dec 24, 2025

'Beyond Dehumanizing': ICE Docs Expose Plan to Hold 80,000 People in Warehouses

The proposal does not treat detainees “as people but just things to be warehoused like Amazon packages,” said one critic.

ADDED Dec 24, 2025

What Christmas Once Meant—and What It Could Mean Again for a Divided America

Christmas, once a time to gather, reflect, and renew our obligations to one another, and the social rituals that once cultivated empathy and reinforced civic responsibility, have been...

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

Why I'm Done With Twitter | Kat Abughazaleh

I'm sick of using a website that rewards white supremacy, is swarmed with bots, and doesn't even work. So as of today, I'm no longer using it. You can find us literally anywhere else...

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

The 60 Minutes Story the Trump Administration Doesn't Want You to See

This is a 60 Minutes Story about how the Trump administration violated our constitution and people's basic human dignity. Acting like this does nothing to make us safer, and in fact only...

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

How to Make a Fascist (2025)

This epic four hour doumentary explores the "ingredients" that contributed to the rise of fascism, focusing on Germany and Italy. It argues that fascism wasn't a simple anomaly but...

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

LA Teachers Union: No Endorsements for Genocide Enablers

“Politicians should not be rewarded for enabling a genocide nor in perpetuating Israel's periodic bombing attacks on Palestinians.”

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

Can a New 'New Deal' Wipe Out Corporate Control of the Democratic Party?

The exploding popularity of progressive politicians and the policies they embrace is not an anomaly. It's a signpost.

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

'The Law Must Be Enforced': Epstein Survivors Speak Out Against Trump DOJ Cover-Up and Delay

Epstein survivors criticize Trump administration for withholding files related to their case, demand accountability and enforcement of the law.

ADDED Dec 23, 2025

How Leftists Can Reclaim Self-Improvement

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Toward a Liberation Psychology

The following is an excerpt from Get Up, Stand Up: Uniting Populists, Energizing the Defeated, and Battling the Corporate Elite (Chelsea Green, 2011) by Bruce E. Levine. In this book...

ADDED Dec 22, 2025

Who’s the Real Criminal at Sea? Trump’s Tanker Grab vs. the Houthis’ Anti-Genocide Blockade

How can Washington claim the right to seize or blow up vessels, disrupt maritime trade, and kill civilian boaters—while bombing Yemen and condemning its de facto Houthi government for...

ADDED Dec 21, 2025

Rogue State: USA Believes It Doesn't Have to Follow International Law

Donald Trump imposed sanctions on the International Criminal Court (ICC) and demands that the Hague modify its founding charter to guarantee the US impunity for its war crimes. The...

ADDED Dec 21, 2025

In Defense of Noam Chomsky

Behind the sensational headlines and photos circulating online without context lies a more complex story—one that demands we distinguish between actual evidence of wrongdoing and...

ADDED Dec 20, 2025

A Possible Strategy for Stopping War on Venezuela

Critics of state violence become most dangerous when they directly jeopardize the state’s capacity to inflict violence. The most common and tangible way that happens is when soldiers...

ADDED Dec 20, 2025

For People of Color, Citizenship Offers No Protection Against ICE’s Techno Terrorism

The only thing that definitively clears suspicion for ICE is biometric identification. The presumption is that people may lie, documents may be forged, but biometric scans are objective...

ADDED Dec 20, 2025

The Invisible Doctrine: The Secret History of Neoliberalism (2024)

Neoliberalism – a business-backed ideology committed to cutting taxes, busting trade unions, gutting government regulations, and privatizing public services – is the dominant political...

ADDED Dec 20, 2025

The Fundamental Asymmetry of the Left vs Right Divide

Let’s be plain. The left and the right are not two equal teams with different tastes.

ADDED Dec 20, 2025

Tools for Growing the Commons

The true strength lies in the careful combination of these tools into multi-layered, living systems—creating the conditions not just for protection, but for long-term flourishing.

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

A Letter to Liberals: On Lesser Evils and the Courage to Demand Better

We hear it constantly: "You're too harsh on Democrats. You're helping Republicans by criticizing our side. Now is not the time—we need unity against the rising threat of fascism."

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

Authoritarianism Feeds on a Bloated Military Budget

Squeezed domestic spending and extravagant military spending have widened inequality, with dire consequences for democracy.

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

A Letter to Conservatives: On Power, Principles, and the Path Forward

Our ask isn't that you become a progressive. It's for both loyal Democrats and loyal Republicans to stop defending their party uncritically and to challenge the rot in both parties...

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

How Peter Thiel Is Destroying Democracy

This is Peter Thiel - a major player in Silicon Valley who wants to transform humanity. But what does he actually want? What’s his problem with democracy? And is there an endgame? - fern

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

Should We Destroy the Machines?

Over the past year, Silicon Valley has gone fully mask off in favor of fascism and oligarchy. Gone are the days of the Valley’s veneer of idealistic futurism, where technology was...

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An Anarchist Guide to Christmas

Can we reclaim Christmas for the masses?

ADDED Dec 19, 2025

How Liberalism Enables the Far-Right

In many parts of the world we're living it, seeing it rise, meanwhile the establishment is unable or unwilling to do anything about it. There is also a lack of grassroots organizing or a...

ADDED Dec 18, 2025

Trump Admits He Wants to Take Venezuela's Oil — and Give It to US Corporations

Donald Trump imposed a naval blockade on Venezuela and admitted that he wants to take the country's oil and give it to US corporations: "They took our oil rights. We had a lot of oil...

ADDED Dec 18, 2025

Taking Power Amidst the Turbulence (w/ Dylan Saba) | The Chris Hedges Report

As American hegemony transforms into something that will be determined by “the forces of historical contingency,” how can regular people fight back against the increasingly violent Empire?

ADDED Dec 18, 2025

The Video The UK Government Doesn't Want You To See

Hunger Strikers are Dying for Gaza & no one’s allowed to talk about It.

ADDED Dec 17, 2025

Breaking: Trump Plots Assassination Of Americans | The Kyle Kulinski Show

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A Last Chance for Resistance

The crawl toward despotism within a failed democracy is always incremental. No regime planning to utterly extinguish civil liberties advertises its intentions in advance. It pays lip...

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