All posts tagged "Chris Hedges"

Climate change poses an imminent threat to human life, said political philosopher Noam Chomsky – and humans are drawing their own doom ever closer.

Speaking about his lawsuit against the U.S. government over its claim that it may indefinitely imprison anyone it believes to be involved in terrorism, journalist Chris Hedges warned that the 2011 National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) is already having a "chilling" effect on the serious practice of journalism.

Controversy over NDAA centres on loose definition of key words, such as who are 'associated forces' of named terrorist groups.

After publishing a scathing essay criticizing the tactics of some "Occupy" protesters, Pulitzer-winning journalist Chris Hedges appeared on Russia Today's The Alyona Show to discuss what he sees as a "cancer" on the movement: the so-called "Black Bloc."

Less than a month after the National Defense Authorization Act was signed into law, President Barack Obama faces a lawsuit because of its highly controversial provisions regarding the detention of suspected terrorists.

Police arrested at least 17 protesters who were demonstrating outside the Manhattan headquarters of Goldman Sachs on Thursday, according to the Associated Press.