Trauma

The Quiet Casualties Of War: Americans At Home

April 8, 2026 Kenneth A. Carlson, Scheer Post. Strategize! Austerity, Inflation, Trauma, Wars and Militarism

By the time most Americans encounter war, it arrives not with the thunder of artillery but with the quiet click of a gas pump. The price rolls upward in glowing red numbers. A family of four hesitates in the grocery aisle, comparing brands of eggs and milk. Parents postpone vacations. A small business owner rethinks hiring another employee. No bombs fall here; no air raid sirens pierce the night. Yet the costs ripple through American life all the same. In this quieter sense, we too are casualties of Donald Trump’s war on Iran. War has always traveled far beyond the battlefield.

A Successful General Strike Requires Trauma-Informed Mutual Aid

March 5, 2026 Sahaja Serpent, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! General Strike, Mutual Aid, Trauma, Trust

The dream of a national general strike to paralyze multiple major industries or corporations is gaining traction. Across the nation, voices are rising with a righteous call for collective action at scale, especially in the wake of ongoing local economic strikes and protests against the ICE occupation of Minneapolis. The Day of Truth and Freedom on Jan. 23 gave a glimpse of the power of everyday people to make the system tremble. Over 50,000 people poured into downtown Minneapolis in the middle of the workday, braving temperatures of 20 below zero.

Palestinians Will Not Let The Genocide Kill Their Hopes

November 21, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Art, Children, Genocide, Palestine, Trauma

In the United Nations’ Humanitarian Situation Update #340 on the Gaza Strip (12 November 2025), there is a section on the distress experienced by more than 1 million Palestinian children in Gaza. The most common symptoms among children reported in the assessment are ‘aggressive behaviour (93 per cent), violence toward younger children (90 per cent), sadness and withdrawal (86 per cent), sleep disturbances (79 per cent), and education avoidance (69 per cent)’. Children account for about half the population in Gaza, where the median age is 19.6 years.

Clutching At Pearls, The World’s Largest Criminal Enterprise, The US, Cracks Down On Crime

August 24, 2025 Jon Jeter, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Crime, Poverty, Racism, Trauma, Violence

Sociologists correlate high homicide rates to high unemployment and poverty rates; known historically as the Black Belt, Chicago’s predominantly African American South side is home to both. Characterized by disinvestment schemes such as tax increment financing districts which divert property tax money from the neighborhoods to white elephant projects that benefit the wealthy, southside Chicago was also home to the late police commander, Jon Burge, whose detectives extracted confessions from more than 100 people, mostly Black, by shocking them with cattle prods, smothering them with plastic typewriter covers and pointing guns in their mouths while pretending to play Russian roulette.

How To Create A Justice System Rooted In Care

July 13, 2025 George Payne, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! Community Safety, Police, Police abuse, Trauma

What if justice begins not with punishment, but with care? What if our failure to care for the communities harmed by police — and for the officers themselves — is the quiet crisis sustaining a system that brutalizes everyone it touches? We need to talk about the emotional cost of policing. But not in isolation. We need to talk about George Floyd. Breonna Taylor. Tyre Nichols. We need to talk about the rage that floods the streets when a routine stop turns deadly, when a mental health crisis becomes a fatal encounter. These are not isolated incidents, they are systemic patterns. And yet, they are also deeply personal, carried out by individuals who are sometimes breaking under the weight of the very system they represent.

The Tears Of Our Children

January 3, 2025 Vijay Prashad, Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. Educate! Children, Palestine, Premature Death, Sudan, Trauma, Wars and Militarism

A scientific study from 2017 found that deep childhood traumas can mark a person both physically and psychologically. Trauma reroutes children’s developing nervous systems, causing them to be highly alert and anxious even decades later. This process, the authors write, generates a mechanism called ‘enhanced threat processing’. No wonder studies of children who lived through earlier wars show that they disproportionately suffer from medical conditions, including heart ailments and cancer. In March 2022, five doctors from Afghanistan, India, Ireland, and Sri Lanka wrote a heartfelt letter to The Lancet in which they reminded the world of the plight of the children of Afghanistan.

Chris Hedges Report: Enduring The Trauma Of Genocide

December 14, 2024 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Genocide, Israel, Palestine, Trauma

While the trauma that Palestinians continue to face in Gaza is sustained, brutal and seemingly never-ending, the universal susceptibility to trauma unites humanity as much as it divides the self. Dr. Gabor Maté, renowned physician and expert in trauma and childhood development, illustrates this point articulately on the latest episode of The Chris Hedges Report through attempting to make sense of the psychology, trauma and reason behind the actions of Palestinians, IDF soldiers, WWII survivors, Nazis and even himself.

Meet The Indigenous Leader Using Psychedelic Medicine To Heal Traumas

November 26, 2024 James K. Rowe, Waging Nonviolence. Create! Health Care, Indigenous culture, Psychedelics, Trauma

When you’ve endured a living hell, then a visit to heaven on earth can provide a healing counterweight. This premise underlies Rueben George’s psychedelic healing work with Indigenous peoples harmed by colonial dispossession and violence. Rueben is a well-known Indigenous leader in Canada, having led opposition to a major fossil fuel pipeline that captured national attention and became a flashpoint in multiple election cycles. Despite fierce resistance, the Trans Mountain pipeline was recently completed and now pumps oil from the Alberta tar sands to the Pacific Coast over lands and waters long governed by Rueben’s Tsleil-Waututh Nation.

The Language We Use To Describe Japanese American Incarceration During World War II Matters

January 16, 2024 Tamiko Nimura, Smithsonian Magazine. Educate! Concentration Camps, Criminal Justice and Prisons, History, Human Rights, Internment Camps, Japan, Pearl Harbor, Racism, Trauma, World War II, WWII

Out the front windows of our bus, we could see acres of sun-dried grasses during a hot and arid Northern California summer. On either side of the road stood barbed-wire fences, like the ones many of our family members spent years behind, surrounded by armed guards and guard towers, living in crowded tar-paper barracks with little to no privacy. “How many of you have been here before or were here during World War II?” our tour guide asked. A few Japanese Americans—in their 70s and 80s, or even older—raised their hands. Many of us were stunned by what the tour guide said next, almost in passing: “Welcome back.”

Our Collective Trauma Is The Road To Tyranny

September 4, 2023 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Strategize! Capitalism, Chris Hedges, mental health, Trauma, Tyranny

Corporate capitalism, defined by the cult of the self and the ruthless exploitation of the natural world and all forms of life for profit, thrives on the fostering of chronic psychological and physical disorders. The diseases and pathologies of despair — alienation, high blood pressure, diabetes, anxiety, depression, morbid obesity, mass shootings (now almost two per day on average), domestic and sexual violence, drug overdoses (over 100,000 per year) and suicide (49,000 deaths in 2022) — are the consequences of a deeply traumatized society. The core traits of psychopaths — superficial charm, grandiosity and self-importance, a need for constant stimulation, a penchant for lying, deception, manipulation and the inability to feel remorse or guilt — are celebrated.

Repairing America’s Trauma Epidemic By Confronting Sexual Violence

August 6, 2023 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Legal System, Sexual Violence, Trauma, Violence

The pervasiveness of trauma in American society is intimately linked to the ubiquity of sexual violence in our culture, and ultimately, the politics that buttresses this reality. In the second installment of a two-part discussion, acclaimed psychiatrist Dr. Judith Herman returns to The Chris Hedges Report for a discussion on the political implications revealed by her medical expertise: the need to confront the violence of our present system by reconstructing society itself. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a psychiatrist who studies trauma and developed the diagnosis for complex PTSD. She is the author of several books, including her most recent, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice.

Chris Hedges Report: America’s Trauma Epidemic And Its Broken Politics

July 30, 2023 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Chris Hedges, Failed State, mental health, Trauma, Violence

Violence is ubiquitous in American life, and so is the trauma that follows in its wake. From the domestic sphere to the public sphere, interpersonal violence, particularly of a sexual nature, is all-too-common in the US. How does the resulting trauma manifest, and how does this trauma shape everything from our personal relationships to our politics? Specialist Dr. Judith Lewis Herman joins The Chris Hedges Report for an in-depth discussion on how trauma distorts the mind and the body politic alike. Dr. Judith Lewis Herman is a psychiatrist who studies trauma and developed the diagnosis for Complex PTSD. She is the author of several books, including her most recent, Truth and Repair: How Trauma Survivors Envision Justice.

He Saw A US Helicopter Gun Down Fellow Journalists In Iraq

July 1, 2023 Chris Hedges, The Real News Network. Resistance Report Iraq, Journalism, Trauma, Wars and Militarism

Former Reuters journalist Dean Yates’ career has taken him around the world and up-close-and-personal with some of the century’s worst tragedies and atrocities. From the 2002 Bali bombings and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami, to the frontlines of war in Lebanon and Iraq—Yates’ experiences have taken a deeply personal toll. The killing of two Iraqi journalist colleagues by a US Apache gunship finally pushed him over the edge. After years of dealing with PTSD, substance abuse, and psychiatric hospitalization, Yates has written a new memoir about his journey, Line in the Sand. Dean Yates joins The Chris Hedges Report to discuss his new book, his career, and his healing journey.

Chris Hedges: Sammy Goes To School

May 15, 2023 Chris Hedges, Scheer Post. Educate! Higher Education, Mass Incarceration, Prison Industrial Complex, Trauma

Newark, NJ - We know the story. The absent father who leaves when his son is five-years-old and moves back to Puerto Rico. The single mother, rarely at home because she works long hours to keep her three children fed and pay the rent. The poverty. The crime. The instability. Later, the stepfather who drinks, uses drugs and beats his stepchildren. The child acting up. Dropping out of school. Joining a gang. The robberies. The one that went wrong and left a man dead. Prison. The students I teach in prison have variations of the same story. They are funneled into the maw of the prison-industrial-complex, the largest in the world, and spat out decades later, even more lost and traumatized, to wander the streets like ghosts until most, unequipped to survive on the outside and without support, find themselves back in the old familiar cages.

We Need A Climate Movement That Addresses The Trauma Of Fighting

March 7, 2023 Charlie Wood, Waging Nonviolence. Strategize! climate crisis, Climate Justice, Environment, Trauma

I used to think trauma was something that only applied to people exposed to extreme situations like war, genocide, abuse or crime. Yet, living on planet Earth pretty much guarantees you some trauma. Trauma comes from the Greek “traumat,” which means “wound.” It is an emotional wounding that results from experiencing or witnessing a highly stressful, horrifying event or series of events where one feels a lack of control, powerlessness and threat of injury or death. This sounds disturbingly similar to what humans are increasingly living through with climate change.

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