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Chris Hedges: Welcome to The Asylum

"When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die. Let the seas be emptied of life. Let one useless war after another be waged. Let the masses be thrust into extreme poverty and left without jobs while the elites, drunk on hedonism, accumulate vast fortunes through exploitation, speculation, fraud and theft. Reality, at the end, gets unplugged. We live in an age when news consists of Snooki’s pregnancy, Hulk Hogan’s sex tape and Kim Kardashian’s denial that she is the naked woman cooking eggs in a photo circulating on the Internet. Politicians, including presidents, appear on late night comedy shows to do gags and they campaign on issues such as creating a moon colony. “At times when the page is turning,” Louis-Ferdinand Celine wrote in “Castle to Castle,” “when History brings all the nuts together, opens its Epic Dance Halls! hats and heads in the whirlwind! Panties overboard!”"

Welcome to the Asylum 

Chris Hedges on "Empire of Illusion"

Social critic and author of "Empire of Illusion", Chris Hedges talks about the end of literacy and the triumph of spectacle in American culture.

Sometimes Civil Disobedience is the Only Way to be Heard

Leah Bolger is a 20-year veteran of the U.S. Navy who retired in 2000 at the rank of Commander. She was elected as the first female president of Veterans For Peace. Bolger has been involved in several national efforts and she has been arrested several times for acts of civil disobedience, most recently in a hearing of the Super Committee, where she called on the Committee to "End the Wars and Tax the Rich."

Bill Black: Our System is So Flawed That Fraud is Mathematically Guaranteed

The French Election and the Eurocrisis

Paul Krugman: Europe’s Economic Suicide

"Just a few months ago I was feeling some hope about Europe. You may recall that late last fall Europe appeared to be on the verge of financial meltdown; but the European Central Bank, Europe’s counterpart to the Fed, came to the Continent’s rescue..."

Europe’s Economic Suicide 

OAS Human Rights Organization Agrees to Hear Gitmo Case

Could Challenge NDAA

The Federal Reserve's Role in the Recovery

A very interesting and thoughtful article on the Fed's role in the economic recovery and why the debt reducing chorus is completely misguided.

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The Federal Reserve Turns Left 

Hedges: "No Outcry Within Media" on NDAA

Speculation and Criminal Manipulation of Food and Commodities Prices