Chris Hedges : Calling All Rebels

Student Natalia Garcia protests last week on the campus of the University of California at Berkeley during a day of nationwide demonstrations against cuts in education funding.

There are no constraints left to halt America’s slide into a totalitarian capitalism.

Electoral politics are a sham.

The media have been debased and defanged by corporate owners.

The working class has been impoverished and is now being plunged into profound despair.

The legal system has been corrupted to serve corporate interests.

Popular institutions, from labor unions to political parties, have been destroyed or emasculated by corporate power.

And any form of protest, no matter how tepid, is blocked by an internal security apparatus that is starting to rival that of the East German secret police.

The mounting anger and hatred, coursing through the bloodstream of the body politic, make violence and counter-violence inevitable.

Brace yourself.

The American empire is over.

And the descent is going to be horrifying.

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