Renowned American journalist Chris Hedges has linked the US government’s terror tactics in clamping down on opposition to the United States decline and decaying status as a modern-day empire.
“Empires, when they decay, employ the savage forms of control on those they subjugate abroad, or those demonized by the wider society in the name of law and order, on the homeland,” the Pulitzer-winning veteran journalist wrote on X on Sunday.
It came hours after US federal agents shot and killed another citizen in Minneapolis, amid a massive crackdown on protests in the city.
Minneapolis Police Department Chief Brian O’Hara said that a 37-year-old man died in hospital on Saturday after being shot multiple times.
The man’s parents identified him as Alex Pretti, an intensive care unit nurse who was a Minneapolis resident and a US citizen.
Hedges compared the recent “murders” committed by US federal government forces in the US homeland to those carried out by the “American execution squads” killing of Afghans and Iraqis abroad.
“The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province,” he wrote. “They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution squads for decades.”
“It would not come as a shock to any of the students I teach in prison. Militarized police in poor urban neighborhoods kick down doors without warrants and kill with the same impunity and lack of accountability,” he added. (more...)
The murders of unarmed civilians on the streets of Minneapolis, including the killing today of the intensive-care nurse Alex Jeffrey Pretti, would not come as a shock to Iraqis in Fallujah or Afghans in Helmand province. They were terrorized by heavily armed American execution… pic.twitter.com/NEw3gd85DT
— Chris Hedges (@ChrisLynnHedges) January 25, 2026
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