Christopher Hedges

Sarah Palin Meets The Matrix

by Propagandee November 27, 2009

Proving you don’t need to know how to read a book to write one When a nation becomes unmoored from reality, it retreats into a world of magic. Facts are accepted or discarded according to the dictates of a preordained cosmology. The search for truth becomes irrelevant. Our national discourse is dominated by manufactured events, [...]

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The Rise And Fall Of Corporate Feudalism

by Propagandee July 2, 2009

A decade ago, I was marooned along with a couple of dozen of other international tourists on the rocky lava islet of Palea Kameni, off the legendary Greek island of Thira (Santorini). While we were soaking in its geothermally heated pool, a violent storm suddenly blew into the Aegean. We were told that there was [...]

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