Rising fascism in the US

Agree. You and he are full of ****.

So you won't admit that you misinterpreted a statement and instead resort to childish insults. Great way to illustrate the very point which was directed against your style of argumentation.

LOL, it seems I’m arguing with Israel.

He and then you claim my posts are ****.
I say yours are and suddenly you’re the innocent victim.

You really should dissuade attacks on posters and stick with the topic.

I’m concerned that some false flag event is planned as a pretext for pushing forward a clampdown on speech, primarily anti-Zionist, pro-Palestinian speech.

1/14/24

I do wonder why this post by Lash was deleted

No, we agreed that your posts are ****. You responded that the two people criticizing you are full of ****:

And then attempt to cover yourself with a lie:

No, that's not what you said.

Um, that's what I was attempting to do – dissuading you from making unfounded accusations and juvenile personal attacks against posters who disagree with you!

Both are horrific offenders. But nutanyahu is quoting bible scriptures indicating that he fully intends to kill and remove Gazans, and to steal their gas fields. And that's right in line with Old Testament solutions, isn't it?

‘Full of’ as evidenced by your posts, which are.
Please attend to your logic and accuracy.

https://able2know.org/topic/317633-239#post-7347400

You left out "full of" in this statement. Accuracy and logic on display. Nice try.

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Israel’s free speech crackdown: ‘War inside of a war’
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/11/12/israel-free-speech-arrests-hamas/
By Loveday Morris
November 12, 2023 at 2:00 a.m. EST

NAZARETH, Israel — The 21-year-old computer science student was beamed into the small wood-paneled courtroom from jail via video link. She had dark circles under her eyes after 11 nights in detention.

To save on personnel during Israel’s war against Hamas, defendants are no longer transported from their cells. Only urgent court cases are being heard. The prosecution of Rita Murad, a Palestinian citizen of Israel, is deemed to be one of them.

Her alleged crimes of “identifying with a terrorist organization” and “incitement to terrorism” center on three Instagram posts that she shared on Oct. 7 when Hamas militants rampaged through communities in southern Israel.

One of the images used in the prosecution of Murad showed Palestinians using an earthmover to pull down parts of the barbed wire-topped barrier between Israel and the Gaza Strip. “While the ‘invincible army’ was sleeping,” read the message in Arabic across the image.

A second showed a montage of Palestinian children: “Where were the people calling for humanity when we were killed?” it read. A third post to her 1,100 Instagram followers showed a group of jubilant Palestinians on a captured Israeli military vehicle. “Gaza today,” read the caption with an emoji of the Palestinian flag.

In “normal times” such posts wouldn’t even warrant a trip to the police station, said Murad’s defense lawyer, Ahmad Massalha, as he waited for her hearing on Thursday.

But these aren’t normal times. Murad faces up to five years in jail if convicted, while a new draft law seeks to strip citizenship for those convicted in cases like hers. In court in the northern Israeli city of Nazareth, she has made accusations of being beaten in prison.

As war expands, Israel's endgame is no clearer

Murad is one of at least 56 people indicted on similar charges. Israeli authorities say they are fighting a second front in the war against Hamas, one set on rooting out anything that could be perceived as sympathy or “incitement” among the population. Rights groups say as many as 100 others have been arrested or detained in the “zero tolerance” crackdown, including one of Murad’s acquaintances who posted an Instagram video about cooking “victory” shakshuka.

According to the Mossawa Center, a rights group in Haifa, Israel, at least 350 Palestinian Israelis have been called to hearings at their workplace and 120 university students are in disciplinary hearings. Meanwhile, ad hoc groups of civilians trawl through social media posts and flag them to the police. [This is also happening on Twitter and FB. Israeli groups have been given editor rights called Community Notes on Twitter--Lash]

Defense lawyers and human rights advocates describe the moves as a McCarthy-style clampdown focused on the 20 percent of the Israeli population that has Palestinian heritage. In the current climate, posting anything that does not sit staunchly with the Israeli state’s framing of the war can lead to arrest.

The groups foresee profound implications for freedom of expression, but also for the fabric of Israeli society as even expressing pro-Palestinian sentiment appears enough to be criminalized in some cases.

“It’s McCarthyism on amphetamines,” said Ari Remez, a spokesman for Adalah, an Israeli legal rights organization tracking 215 cases of arrests and investigations, drawing a comparison to the “Red Scare” in the United States in the 1950s when public figures and others were screened for loyalty and sometimes blackballed for any hints of Communist sympathies.

“The criminalization is on a totally different level,” he said.

Spearheading the effort is Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s far-right national security minister, who has been convicted himself for inciting racism and supporting a Jewish extremist terrorist organization. Even in the emotionally charged atmosphere post-Oct. 7 — that has brought crowds to the streets chanting “Death to Arabs!” — none of the 56 indictments on alleged incitement cover accusations of hate toward Palestinians. [Ben Givr, security minister tweeted today: Hague Schmauge--Lash.]

Ben Gvir’s task force, formed in February to tackle online incitement, has been expanded, said Mirit Ben Mayor, a spokeswoman for Israeli police. Police also are being handed new powers. A law passed by the Israeli parliament last month makes even passively looking at content that praises or calls for terrorist attacks online “in a way that indicates identification with the terror group” punishable by a year in prison.

“It’s a war inside of a war,” said Ben Mayor. “We have one war that’s going on physically, with our soldiers there. And while that war is going on, there’s another war that goes on on the net.”

But Israeli authorities contend that free speech is being upheld. “Freedom of expression and criticism will be preserved even when the guns are roaring,” said Shlomi Abramson, head of security at the State Attorney’s Office.

The investigations are all “clear cases of support for horrible and horrific acts of terrorism or identification with a terrorist organization that has committed criminal acts against the citizens of the country,” he said. “One publication, even a status or a story that is deleted after 24 hours, is enough for us to open an investigation and prosecute in the appropriate cases.”

‘Israeli narrative’
The corridors of the district court in Nazareth, a city largely populated by Palestinian Israelis, are filled with lawyers and family members of those facing the full weight of the Israeli law for their posts.

On a bench outside a courtroom on the first floor, Maisa Abd ElHadi, a Palestinian Israeli actress who has been indicted in connection with two Instagram posts, waits nervously. She says she can’t speak to journalists. Murad’s family also declined to comment; too scared in an environment where many fear that a wrong word can lead to jail.

Yarmok Zoabi, 57, the owner of a restaurant in Nazareth, on Thursday. Zoabi spent a night in jail late last month over a WhatsApp status picture that showed a fist with a Palestinian flag. (Heidi Levine for The Washington Post)

Even the owner of a hummus restaurant — where some of the defense lawyers regularly grab lunch — spent a night in jail late last month over a WhatsApp status picture that showed a fist with a Palestinian flag, and was eventually released without charge.

On Thursday, Murad blew kisses to family and friends before an expected hearing on whether she’d be released on bail. The proceeding was postponed until Sunday. She is one of three students from Israel’s prestigious Technion in Haifa — the oldest university in Israel — to be arrested in connection with their social media posts and appear via video link to the courtroom in Nazareth in recent weeks.

The cases are a “blatant abuse of the criminal procedure” said Nareman Shehadeh, a defense lawyer with Adalah, who said that people can face prosecution “merely for not adopting the Israeli narrative on the events that led up to it.” She called it part of a “campaign aimed at sending a threatening message against these students.”

Their posts were flagged by other students who compiled a presentation of social media messages and images they found problematic for university and police authorities. [Remind you of anything? Neighbors turning neighbors in.--Lash] Jewish students say they are scared. The “Israeli army won’t be able to protect us within the campus. They can’t put soldiers into the campus,” said a 21-year-old physics student who spoke on the condition of anonymity amid fears of reprisals.

One Technion student, a 21-year-old woman who studies data science, shared a single Instagram post to 20 friends of a captured Israeli military vehicle. The post added an Arabic turn of phrase used on birthdays and holidays.

The student was arrested at her home and was handcuffed and blindfolded, according to family members and her lawyer. “It’s something you’d expect to see for a murderer, not an Instagram post,” said a cousin, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to protect his privacy. Police later returned for a night raid on her family home, emptying drawers and cupboards and leaving the contents strewn across the house.

“It’s a witch hunt,” said Shehadeh, who is representing the student. She said the image was deleted when the details of the killings emerged. Detaining suspects during the investigation has become the norm rather than the exception, she said.

Ben Gvir has publicly berated the judge who released the actress ElHadi to house arrest last month. “This is what domestic enemies look like,” Ben Gvir tweeted of the judge.

The third Technion student, Bayan al-Khateeb, 23, was the one who posted about cooking shakshuka, a popular egg-and-tomato dish. She added it to Instagram Stories with a soundtrack that’s been widely used on posts about cooking successes. “Today we eat victory shakshuka,” she wrote on the clip of a bubbling skillet.

“Everybody knows I’m a bad cook,” she explained. “And on the 8th of October, I succeeded to make a shakshuka. What I meant was it was a victory in cooking, not a victory happening in the country.”

Khateeb was suspended from university pending an investigation, and arrested two weeks later. She described being held in a cell that was designed for four people but had nine. “All were there for social media cases,” she said. She said she was strip-searched three times over the course of her detention, and was woken up every hour to be counted.

Investigators asked why she’d put a Palestinian flag on her post. She said she opposed violence.

Inside the horrific hours of the Hamas rampage

“It hurts all of us that innocent people were murdered,” Khateeb said, adding that some of her closest friends are in the Israeli army. “I feel like now I’m in a different war. One where I have to defend myself and my identity.”

Khateeb had hoped to attend Murad’s hearing on Thursday, but was caught up in her own six-hour hearing at university, where she is fighting to continue her studies.

“In the immediate aftermath of the deplorable events of October 7th, and facing allegations of social media posts condoning terrorism, Technion officials promptly denounced such expressions in the strongest terms,” the university said in a statement, saying that three individuals have been suspended “pending a conclusive judgement.”

Khateeb is afraid, though, of returning to campus and of being rearrested.

“I sleep in my clothes,” she said. “I’m afraid that at any moment they can come and take me away.”

Not far from the Nazareth courtroom on Thursday were more reminders of the constraints. Mohammad Barakeh, chairman of the Higher Arab Monitoring Committee, which consists of parliamentarians and political representatives, was detained on the way to a downtown demonstration calling for an end to the war. Four other prominent Palestinian political leaders in Israel were arrested.

“We used to know where the line was, and the line was the law,” Mudar Younis, head of the National Council of Arab Mayors in Israel, said at a meeting Thursday.

“We can’t understand what’s happening with our students, with our employees,” said Younis, fearing far-right groups in Israel seek to stir up communal strife between Jews and Arabs. “We are very worried about what is happening but even more about what tomorrow will bring.”

“There is no freedom of speech,” he said.
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If we don't stop playing small games
If we comply with our governments' ridiculous speech restrictions
If we don't stand up now, protest, vote differently, speak OUT, stand up for one another

We'll all face what Israel does to its citizens.

"We thank God that it has come to us, instead of to our enemies; and we pray that He may guide us to use it in His ways and for His purposes."

Harry Truman. talking about the atomic bomb.

Yup, you can't get more secular than that.

I wouldn't want my kid to be subjected to the new Antisemitism Brigade at Harvard. Would you?

Universities are supposed to be bastions of free thinking...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/us/harvard-antisemitism-larry-summers.html
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Critics Protest Harvard’s Choice to Lead Antisemitism Task Force
[wtf? antisemitism TASK FORCE?? A stupid billionare has been using his money to toy with people's jobs, rules, and lives at Harvard.--Lash]

Bill Ackman and Lawrence Summers decried the choice of Derek J. Penslar, a professor of Jewish history, who had signed a letter describing Israel as an apartheid regime.

By Anemona Hartocollis
Jan. 22, 2024

A Harvard task force on antisemitism has gotten off to a rocky start, with complaints that the professor chosen to help lead the panel had signed a letter that was critical of Israel, describing it as “a regime of apartheid” for its treatment of Palestinians.

Harvard’s new interim president, Alan Garber, announced the formation of two “presidential task forces” on Friday, one to combat antisemitism and the other to combat Islamophobia and anti-Arab bias. The move came less than a month after his predecessor, Claudine Gay, was forced to step down over plagiarism accusations and criticism that she had been weak on reining in antisemitism. [Interesting hypocrisy re Ackman's own wife featuring college presidency and plagiarism--Lash]

But the choice for co-chair of the task force, Derek J. Penslar, a professor of Jewish history at Harvard, was met with opposition from Lawrence H. Summers, a former Harvard president, and Bill Ackman, a hedge fund manager whose relentless criticism of Dr. Gay helped bring about her downfall.

Dr. Penslar was among nearly 2,900 academics, clergy members and other public figures who signed an open letter in August, before the Hamas attack on Oct. 7, condemning the Israeli government and saying that it was determined to “ethnically cleanse all territories under Israeli rule of their Palestinian population.”

“Meanwhile,” the letter, written by a group called Academics4Peace, said, “American Jewish billionaire funders help support the Israeli far right.” [Gee, was he ever correct.--Lash]

The same group circulated another letter in December with a call for a cease-fire and an exchange of hostages and prisoners in the Israel-Hamas war. Dr. Penslar did not sign that version.

Tensions at America’s Colleges Over Israel-Hamas War

Harvard: A task force on antisemitism got off to a rocky start at the school, with complaints that the professor chosen to help lead the panel had signed a letter describing Israel as “a regime of apartheid.”

Columbia: The university and the N.Y.P.D. are investigating reports that pro-Palestinian student demonstrators were sprayed with a foul-smelling chemical during a protest, leading the school to bar the people accused of the attack from campus.

Congressional Investigation: House Republicans are embarking on an expansive inquiry into institutions of higher education in America, targeting the academic elites they have long viewed as avatars of cultural decay — all in the name of combating antisemitism.

M.I.T.: Sally Kornbluth testified in December at a tense congressional hearing alongside Gay and Elizabeth Magill, who was then president of the University of Pennsylvania. She has so far not faced the kind of concerted effort that helped bring down the other two.

The dispute over his selection shows that the long-running debate over what constitutes antisemitism still rages, with Dr. Penslar’s stance at odds with his critics.

Dr. Penslar said in a statement that he saw the task force as “an important opportunity to determine the nature and extent of antisemitism and more subtle forms of social exclusion that affect Jewish students at Harvard.”

But in a Dec. 29 opinion essay in the campus publication The Harvard Crimson, Dr. Penslar called for “a better understanding of what is — and is not — antisemitic.”

“Conflating criticism of Israel with antisemitism,” he said, “magnifies divisions within our Harvard community and stymies a common struggle against hatred.”

Harvard said in a statement that Dr. Penslar approached his work “with open-mindedness and respect for conflicting points of view.”

But for donors and critics, his worldview did not seem to fit the job description.

Mr. Ackman posted that with Dr. Penslar’s selection, Harvard “continues on the path of darkness.”

Jonathan Greenblatt, chief executive of the Anti-Defamation League, posted of Dr. Penslar’s appointment: “Lessons in how NOT to combat antisemitism, Harvard edition.”

Dr. Summers said in a social media post on Sunday that he had no quarrel with Dr. Penslar’s scholarship, and that he believed he was “a person of good will without a trace of personal antisemitism.”

“However,” he said, “I believe that given his record, he is unsuited to leading a task force whose function is to combat what is seen by many as a serious antisemitism problem at Harvard.”

Dr. Summers criticized Dr. Penslar for having a narrow view of antisemitism and for underestimating the university’s antisemitism problem.

“Could one imagine Harvard appointing as head of antiracism task force someone who had minimized the racism problem or who had argued against federal antiracism efforts?” he wrote. “This is yet another example of a double standard between antisemitism and other forms of prejudice.”

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This is a big deal to me--and a serious blow to freedom in general, freedomo of speech, freedom of peaceful assembly... Rights this country was founded on.

More at the link, but you have to have a subscription.

A task force against criticism of war crime participants. What better way to say "I'm with 'em!"

Any loyalty to war criminals simply means that you share their view of . . . things.

Wonder what they have against Gazan women and children.

There is a very enlightening piece in the New Yorker by David Remnick on what's going on in Israel now. Here

Public enemy #1 of liars
Chris Hedges tells the truth about Israel, genocide, Biden’s culpability, and the future as he sees it.

https://youtu.be/SKz2e7vp7CM?si=TH0Q7uhx1ceSEyOz

If you are so inclined, start at minute 6.

"Russia has every right to feel threatened, betrayed, and angry," he recently said, too.

To be honest, I just read diagonal through the transcript of RT's American voice.
Might well be that I missed some points which weren't already sent by the pro-Russian misinformation campaigners in German-language posts from an estimated 50,000 fake accounts on X, tic-toc and tlelegram.

Hedges is right about Russia. You’ve just bought the false narrative produced by the US for their casus belli to make war on Russia & China.

You believed the wrong people.

I don't know about that, Lash. Walter is probably the most well-informed person on this site when it comes to European history and international politics – he always presents solid documentation to back up his statements. You, on the other hand, have used questionable sources – Stew Peters, Joe Rogan, the Murdoch Press – on a number of occasions. I don't think Hedges is credible – he's a self-righteous, condescending, fire-and-brimstone End Times rabble rouser embraced by the morally-certain and factually-challenged who eagerly consume his holier-than-thou brand of religionist rhetoric to replenish their own personal store of sanctimony.

Walter is well informed about many things.

But he is wrong about Russia.
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Btw, you just spewed a bunch of baseless invective against Hedges.
Prove any of those accusations against him.

Here’s some material, hightor. Prove something to be a lie.

https://www.chrislhedges.com/about

Chris Hedges, the son of a Presbyterian minister, was born on September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont. He grew up in Schoharie, a rural farm town in upstate New York. He was a scholarship student at The Eaglebrook School in Deerfield, Massachusetts, a pre-prep boarding school, and at the boarding school Loomis-Chaffee in Windsor, Connecticut. He was the captain and MVP of the Loomis-Chaffee cross country team. He also wrestled and ran track. He founded an underground newspaper that was banned by the school authorities and saw him put on probation.

Hedges graduated from Colgate University with a BA in English Literature and went on to receive a Master of Divinity (MDiv) from Harvard University. During his time at Harvard he lived in the depressed community of Roxbury in Boston where he ran a small church. He was also a member of The Greater Boston YMCA boxing team. He was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2009 from Starr King School for the Ministry in Berkeley, California.

Hedges began work as a freelance journalist, writing for newspapers such as The Washington Post and covering the Falkland War from Buenos Aires for National Public Radio (NPR). He covered the wars in El Salvador, Nicaragua and Guatemala from 1983 to 1988, working from 1984 to 1988 as The Central America Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News.

In 1988 Hedges took a sabbatical to study Arabic. He was appointed the Middle East Bureau Chief for The Dallas Morning News in 1989. In one of his first stories for the paper he tracked down Robert Manning, the prime suspect in the 1985 bombing death in California of Alex Odeh, head of the Arab-American Anti-Discrimination Committee’s Western office, in the Jewish settlement of Kiryat Arba in the Israeli-occupied West Bank. Israel, until Hedges discovered Manning, said it had no knowledge of Manning’s whereabouts. Manning, linked to the militant Jewish Defense League and allegedly behind several murders, was extradited to the United States in 1991 where he is serving a life sentence.

“Daniel Berrigan told me that faith is the belief that the good draws to it the good. The Buddhists call this karma. But he said for us as Christians we did not know where it went. We trusted that it went somewhere. But we did not know where. We are called to do the good, or at least the good so far as we can determinate it, and then let it go.”

Hedges was hired by The New York Times in 1990. He covered the first Gulf War for the paper, where he refused to participate in the military pool system that restricted the movement and reporting of journalists. He was arrested by the U.S. military and had his press credentials revoked, but continued to defy the military restrictions to report outside the pool system. He entered Kuwait with the U.S. Marine Corps. He was taken prisoner in Basra after the war by the Iraqi Republican Guard during the Shiite uprising. He was freed after a week. Hedges was appointed the paper’s Middle East Bureau Chief in 1991. His reporting on the atrocities committed by Saddam Hussein in the Kurdish-held parts of northern Iraq saw the Iraqi leader offer a bounty for anyone who killed him, along with other western journalists and aid workers in the region. Several aid workers and journalists, including the German reporter Lissy Schmidt, were assassinated and others were severely wounded.

Hedges became the Balkan Bureau Chief for The New York Times in 1995 reporting from the besieged city of Sarajevo. He later covered the war in Kosovo. He and his photographer, Wade Goddard, were the first journalists to travel with armed units of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA) at the inception of the insurgency mounted against the occupying Serbs.

During the academic year of 1998-1999 Hedges was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University where he studied classics.

After 9/11 Hedges was sent to Paris where he covered Al-Qaeda in Europe and the Middle East. He was part of a team of reporters for The New York Times in 2002 that won a Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. That same year he won an Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

In 2003, shortly after the war in Iraq began, Hedges was asked to give the commencement address at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois. He told the graduating class "…we are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige, power and security." He went on to say that "this is a war of liberation in Iraq, but it is a war of liberation by Iraqis from American occupation." As he spoke, several hundred members of the audience began jeering and booing. The crowd started to sing God Bless America. His microphone was cut twice. Two young men rushed the stage to try to prevent him from speaking and Hedges had to cut short his address. He was escorted off campus by security officials before the diplomas were awarded. This event made national news and he became a lightning rod not only for right wing pundits and commentators, but also mainstream newspapers. The Wall Street Journal ran an editorial which denounced his anti-war stance and the The New York Times issued a formal reprimand, forbidding Hedges to speak about the war. The reprimand condemned his remarks as undermining the paper's impartiality. Hedges resigned shortly thereafter.

From 2006 until 2020 he wrote a weekly column for the progressive web site Truthdig. He and the entire editorial staff were fired in March 2020 after they went on strike to protest the publisher’s attempt to remove the Editor-in-Chief, Robert Scheer, and demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union.

Hedges was ordained in 2014 as a Presbyterian minister to work in prison ministry. The theologian James Cone preached at the ordination along with Cornel West. The service was oriented towards the victims of mass incarceration. The family and friends of many of the students Hedges taught in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University in New Jersey prisons attended the service.

He became vegan in 2014, writing that the “animal agriculture is responsible for more greenhouse gas emissions than all worldwide transportation combined.”

Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He has taught in the B.A. program run by Rutgers University for men and women in the New Jersey prisons system since 2013. The Passage Theater in Trenton produced the play Caged in 2018 which Hedges helped his incarcerated students write about their struggles with poverty, police violence and mass incarceration. The play was published by Haymarket Books in 2020.

Hedges is the author of twelve books that include the best seller, War is A Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), which is an examination of what war does to individuals and societies. His other books include What Every Person Should Know About War (2003); Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America (2005); American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007); another New York Times best-seller, I Don't Believe in Atheists (2008); Collateral Damage (2008), which he co-wrote with Laila Al-Arian, Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012); which he co-wrote with Joe Sacco and was also on The New York Times best-seller list, The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (2013); Wages of Rebellion (2015);Unspeakable (2016); where he was interviewed by David Talbot, and America The Farewell Tour (2019).

Hedges was active in 2011 Occupy Wall Street. He and Cornel West held a People's Hearing of Goldman Sachs that culminated with a march on Goldman Sachs where Hedges and other activists were arrested.

In 2012, after the Obama Administration signed the National Defense Authorization Act, or NDAA, Hedges sued members of the U.S. government, asserting that section 2021 of the law unconstitutionally allowed presidential authority for indefinite detention without habeas corpus. He was later joined in the suit, Hedges v. Obama, by activists including Noam Chomsky and Daniel Ellsberg. In May 2012 Judge Katherine B. Forrest of the Southern District of New York ruled that the counter-terrorism provision of the NDAA is unconstitutional. The Obama administration appealed the decision and it was overturned. Hedges petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case, but the Supreme Court denied certiorari in April 2014.

Hedges is married to the Canadian actor Eunice Wong. They have two children. Hedges has two children from a previous marriage. He lives in Princeton, New Jersey.
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