Chris Hedges - Tyranny or Revolution

Tuesday, June 02, 2026

The psychosis of permanent war results, as it has in the U.S., in the curtailing of civil liberties and punishing economic austerity. Dissent is equated with treason. State power serves the dictates of empire rather than democracy, which devolves into farce, or in our case, a tawdry reality show.

The rollback of the New Deal, the closest we came to a social democracy, began in the mid-1940s. Cold War anti-communism and corporate opposition converged to make war on organized labor and the New Deal left.

This assault culminated in the Second Red Scare.

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"As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. We stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism.

If the Trump administration succeeds in rigging or invalidating the midterm elections, the last possible exit door within the political system will be slammed shut."

"The genocide in Gaza is an unequivocal message sent from the industrialized nations of the north, which spent billions to sustain Israel's mass slaughter, to a global population that subsists on a few dollars a day:

We don't care about humanitarian law. We don't care about human rights. Your lives mean nothing to us. We will use any tool, including genocide, to protect our monopoly on wealth and power.

What do we do? How do we resist? Can we halt this descent into madness and mass death?"