Chris Hedges "Fascism in the Age of Trump"
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- Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10, 2017 on fascism and empire in the age of Trump.
www.mediasanctuary.org
Chris Hedges is the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."
Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, has written twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. Some of his other books include Unspeakable (2016), Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative to Revolt (2015), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). In 2011, Nation Books published a collection of Hedges’ Truthdig columns called The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
Hedges previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges’ original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009 and again in 2011. The LAPC also granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists.”
Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.
When I first saw Chris nearly twenty years ago, he was in a church that wasn't even half full.
His speech turned my blood cold. Since then, I have seen everything he said coming true. I have not lost that feeling of dread .
I served in the Marine Corps, I'm glad I made it out in one piece. Now I look at everything differently. Thank you Chris Hedges.
A most astute man.
Oh my god i am 76 yr old i never heard a such a speech so honest and truth has has been spoken i pray for his safety may god bless him
Yooo you got that old person wisdom. His life probably is in danger.
blessed comment
Glad i'll soon be 77 years of age, i think we need AI to take us over maybe, not looking forward to being young again, only the young can sort this out now! - imagine communists like China or Russia top dogs, your freedom will be gone then, as capitalism declines. Hope America comes to it's senses soon. Doubt it, as long as big business is the monkey on it's back. 🤨
And one year later.
Chris Hedges is the most knowledgable and eloquent speaker I’ve ever heard on the topic of corporate totalitarianism.
Once again Chris speaks to the TRUTH!
THIS MAN SPARES NOBODY... SO GREAT TO HEAR SOMEONE SPEAK TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR
I never once heard him say everybody.
Hedges is a moron.
He is not speaking truth.
He is full of crap.
RedRider1600 LOL, you’re a mental slave and a fascist.
@@RedRider1600 must be nice to live in a country where people can state their opinion without fear
Hailto Thechief
Yes, it is.
What is your point?
Accurate, cultured, elegant, smart, and finally truly honest.
Magnificent speech.
Isn't he a reverend..trained in that?
@@DJK-cq2uyso... Better than a dumbass spouting off a bunch of nonsense
Chris Hedges, you have given me a voice. I have observed all this, but you said it brilliantly!
what a great analsis!
@@guangxitan3104 Thank you so!
Populism is very VERY powerful in a society of oppressed/depressed and divided people.
We need an information revolution - but they took over the internet and the press.
His chosen words are sublime. Wonderful.
Thank u, Mr Chris hedges for speaking the fearless truth, stay safe, love regards ❤
Realizing that his father had given him freedom and calling that resurrection brought tears to my eyes. Chris Hedges is an American treasure.
Global treasure.
Brilliant and tragic. Chris Hedges and Noam Chompsky so necessary for the soul. So grateful.
This needs to go viral. Everyone should share it on social media
Its false.
@ Never.
I will
@@Contact_Info what is false ?
Everytime I listen to Chris, tears roll down my face....not for me, but for the fear I feel for my 13 year old son.
My 8 and 11 year old grandkids!
The situation is beyond bad. Climate change is coming on more and more forcefully right at a time when: 1) the governments of the world have become exceptionally dysfunctional, and 2) the pandemic has caused a major distraction. Did I say that the situation is beyond bad?
Lamentably, there is reason to feel that way, mostly bcz of the totalitarian plutocratic grip put on the world using Covid as the excuse.
@@MelissaLim89 If that book paints a rosy picture, then it is describing the eye of the hurricane. The calm before the storm. I would bet real data on the relentless drastic reduction of Arctic sea ice, destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, increasing frequency and severity of forest fires and weather disasters, and other very real examples of rapidly worsening climate change, are not covered. Neither are the ever-widening wealth gap, the record debt levels of both individuals and corporations, the decimation of the middle class in the U.S., and other very real examples of how an uncaring ruling class (the 1%) has totally abandoned the vast majority of ordinary citizens (the 99%). Sorry, but that's the way it is with eyes fully open.
@Allison Bauch I agree. The version of hope most people cling to has been called "hopeium". When I think about hope I think of two quotes:
“Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” -- St Augustine
“Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is the ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed.” --Vaclav Havel, former dissident and first president of the Czech Republic.
Prophetic. I appreciate his nihilism separated from toxic optimism and artificial meritocracy. A difficult but necessary reality check!
💯 % "Top Notch"
In a nutshell.....
Wow! I just stumbled upon this while going down the rabbit-hole in my isolation. This feels even more relevant today than it did three years ago.
there is no isolation, only in the mind. I love it, streets not packe with huge crowds,
You didn't have the time to become aware three, eleven years ago.
Hedges is boss. It’s just so depressing though! To me him, and Cornell west are the epitome of social sciences.
YOU SHOULD SEE WHATS GOING ON HERE IN EUROPE. AND PEOPLE DONT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS CRAZINESS . I am being called a racist ( my wife and ex wife are black my kids are brown) the world will be Muslim in 30 too 60 years. in the name of MONEY and IGNORANCE
that's the point of the lecture. it's not some kind of fantasy, US is really in danger.
I listen to speeches like this all day, while driving my bus through city traffic. Relaxing, enlightening and sometimes quite moving. I get smarter by the mile...
@Elms College Student and your an illiterate idiot savant you dim wit.
A wit with Dunces and a Dunce with wits, you dumb child.
What are you studying, ignorance as a way of life?
Stfu and gtfo for Douche bag.
@Elms College Student You're ignorance is appalling.
@uh ok um? Who exactly deserves to be mowed down? Are you endorsing yet another mass shooting?
Billie Bleach They listen to him in Russia?
Den Owl Russia?
"When things get bad, the elites will retreat into their compounds and leave us on our own."
These words are prescient and imperative for our understanding of what is happening around us today and what will continue to happen until we fight.
Unfortunately we will be left with fighting each other, the rich have already bought passports and property elsewhere.
Chris Hedges is a brilliant speaker. Could listen to him everyday.
I’m 62 and have lived through the better years
I cannot believe what I’m seeing what is happening in my country the United States
The greed is rampant and people are living on the streets while our two parties in government are fighting while not accomplishing a damn thing
Do some research and find out why.
Great straightforward and also let the people know that I listen to him he was telling the truth and not just listen to him but see how dig a ditch it we are in this country almost all unreversible
@Bret 1959
You are Bret. But with nukes. Enjoy a peaceful day, by day.
And you think Hillary Clinton and her corporate globalist agenda would be best for humanity?
Sir, do you understand what corporate globalism is?
The entire world is moving away from corporate globalism and it's agenda of governance by means of unelected elitist bureaucrats appointed by the Rothschild private central banks and the mega corporations. Donald Trump is leading that way. Please do not confuse him and the "current" U.S. with the old corporate globalist minions such as Barack Obama, the Bushes and the Clintons. Each individual nation's sovereignty will be respected in this new world that is about to unfold.
Please don't be fooled into believing that China is leading the way to a more sovereign and democratic world. China was created by the same corporate globalists that tore Serbia up over 20 years ago, and is still meddling in Serbia, Kossovo, etc. China is still run by the Communist party which serves that country as a board of directors would serve a mega corporation. There is absolutely no democracy, none whatsoever, in China. The Chinese people are a smart and a good people. They too need to rise up and throw the shackles of their authoritarian government off, like Russia, which had communism imposed on it by the corporate globalists in 1917, did.
Behind the scenes my friend, Presidents Putin and Trump are working together to rid this world of that corporate globalist menace.
ISIS McCain I agree with you on that
Chris Hedges, I followed Abby Martin (The 'Philadelphia Move Massacre') with your very sobering and absolutely on point Discourse, I was stunned and appalled by what should be an award winning programme.
You have my thanks and respect, Thank You Sir.
Hedge's books and commentary will age well. Truth eternal.
At last.Somebody is telling it like it is.Truth will overcome
I am 70 years old and have been waiting for this words of truth and wisdom as spoken by Chris Hedges. A big thank you. Please continue to speak out. The world needs more like you.
I am clapping and standing!!! Thank you Chris!!!
Yes.
wonderful. i feel hopeless until I hear Chris. listening to him is my church.
Listening to Chris *makes* me hopeless. 😆
@@Hanfgurkenhasser No, it opens your eyes to the reality of the decline, hang on tight, it's a long way down.
Thank you, Mr. Chris Hedges. Peace to you.
I wish every American could hear Chris Hedges' explanation of what our country is doing to itself and the world. I'll share his words with everyone I know! My wife is a pastor, and I will get her to share them with her congregation and denomination.
His time in the Middle East and many other places has obviously engrained in him an empathy for the most vulnerable populations which most Americans will never feel. So I see now that every day I don't do something, I am also complicit in being part of the problem. Thanks Chris. I will do better. I will do my part to try to create change.
Chris Hedges is a very intelligent man but he is a leftist so be careful. Communism is dangerous and will not turn out like they promise.
I guess about 50 % of Americans would listen but still would have no clue what Chris was talking about.
@@llb6234 "LEFT" is not communism! Honestly. The US terror of communism has led to the WORST health services in the western world, and everyone sits there saying "we are the greatest" and refusing to have a decent health care system for all Americans out of this irrational fear of "socialism/communism". Now look at the situation under trump's denial and slow response to the Corona virus in a truly crappy health care system (where he also dismantled the pandemic response unit!). Americans are dying from ignorance and their "fear of communism".
-- As at the end of March. Just watch April. And he will keep blathering. And the GOP will keep trying to destroy Obamacare. Better to fear another term of the GOP!
but your are falling for the same old stuff..and so is he...half truth
all the way... not even close... i must answer this one last...do tell the
congregation ...they probably half foreign illegals that this type guy
supported us to do anyway..and yes, they 'will' have your job...and house,
and be able to blame you ...if you like that...hard as is, i would try to fight
it...from kennedy wrong..if we did correct, we would never have had most
of these problems to start with...sorry i and others think you missed..
jimmy carter letting iran fall...just look...he though shah was bad ...or
couldnt support??..france did wrong [nato?] by harboring [thats a form
of sanctuary] ayatollah khomeni[sp] sad how many killed and now
you got what this guy supported...he thought...do you like iran now??
wild fanatic religion leader.. death to america everyday...
carter should have reacted earlier and more correct...
it was ambassador , i think name brown , a lady, who led saadam
to thinking we would not be pressing him, and he thought we weak as
usual..and invaded Kuwait...look what that cost us..B Clinton did that...
you research and you will see which guy brown the gov chase out
of Iraq. that already had a bead on Bin Laden, and he was right...look also
from her, what that cost us right... please take a clearer look..
skip the heart feeling talk...clearer look...this has gone on in the world
forever...one who beat it early and correctly as should...read history...
was Catherine the Great of Russia...they got this stuff on their borders,
dont have time to play...she was asked by the ppl to save the christians
being slaughtered and badly mistreated by the muslims [any country]
and ''not just a few'' thousands as we now see also...and Catherine
sent the army who fought against 3-1 odds and won and pushed the
muslims back off the christians there...and with their army help, saved them...
dont know where that is do you? that is now called the 'country' of Bulgaria...
which also would have been gone....and slaughter mass happened to Armenians
long later after that...sad the world did nothing....so dont always blame russia
either... then you need think...what kind of congregation belief do you really have...?? this guy hedges is basically calling you the ''religious right'' and
telling that you are wrong ... i think you should see that....bc...christian
is not wrong the way i see it...or secular with good citizenship...thats what
built america... we could go way deeper...hard to say quickly, i wish
... muslims do not think like you do...keep looking overseas...
you see the violence it creates...on its own also...we dont need that...
or invite it here...europe, basically fallen now due to this guy here type of talk...
too late we fear..it started with swedish organization thinking they were
helping...wrong...now bad...and that also led to s africa falling wrong...did
not get done correctly.... let us hope we wake, not ''woke'' [myoriginal]
your congregation dont need this guy... sounds like a fighter ..but not...
so so easy to blame...and not be part of fix...
What a great, thoughtful post. Thank you.
“To resist evil is the highest human achievement, and the ultimate expression of love.” Chris Hedges
Sadly to say sometimes you have to fight fire with fire ... The end of the equation is injecting God unto every foreign endeavor ... ( God alone can change the hearts of mankind on any given part of the world )
He was quoting James Cohen when he said that...just sayin 😎
@@robholderman2874 Sorry, but these are serious topics.
Your imaginary friend has no place here.
@J. Milton Jeffreys Because we have evidence to support the natural beginnings of the universe.
If you have evidence, you don't need faith.
Those claiming a supernatural beginning have a much worse problem. Natural forces exist. They can be demonstrated.
Not one supernatural force or event has EVER been demonstrated, not once in history. So until that changes, 'supernatural' is off the table.
Ever been to a party? a gathering of friends? Did it end?
So why even bother going if it's going to end one day?
My life has meaning to me, and those around me.
Arrogance is assuming that 100 billion galaxies with 250 billion stars in each, was made as a pretty backdrop for us.
Evil is when somebody works really hard to make some money. Then the government comes in and steals it.. and gives it away to somebody who didn't work hard at all. Taxation is thieft.
One of his best. Listening to it during this crisis just increases its validity. Stay well all.
This is such an important talk. Chris Hedges is an inspiration to the true movement for resistance
Chris Hedges,what an amazing speech.....it’s exactly how I feel.....but could have never articulated it.....so thank you so much and God Bless You....🙏🙏🙏
The possibility that we may fail in the struggle , ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." ~ Abraham Lincoln
Then the Vatican had him murdered
Uncanny Valley The Vatican agrees with him!
"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is the ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed." --Vaclav Havel, author, poet, and first president of the Czech Republic.
100%!!
The strongest honest and genuine speech ever, to tell yourselves.
I love you man.
He gets choked up at 30 minutes into it. It shows how much what he's reporting is bothering him. This is a powerful speech. Everyone should listen to this NOW. SHARE FAR AND WIDE.
Thank you Chris Hedges. You speak profound truth. I'm listening.
Would love transcripts of these
Very carefully written
I am 61 and this is one of the best talks by Hedges.
To resist evil is the highest act of love
This man is telling the truth and speaking truth to power. l am not afraid to die, we die daily l just want to have some peace in the mist of the storm.
I need to have this speech to read it again and again .
Yinka let me know if you find it!
Have you guys found it? I need it in text also.
Simply me too !!!!!
"The world is a dangerous place to live;not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Einstein
Einstein also said nuke power is s hell of a way to boil water. The Twilight Zone is real and its upon us now.
Are you doing something? If not why not? If not you are part of the problem. czcams.com/video/oRZJGXH7wzg/video.html
Nukes had kept the world from another world war due to fear of mutual destruction was one side effect of atomic energy we did not expected....Amen ...??? lol
No mr. Einstein the world is a dangerous place because Adam and Eve disobeyed God our Creator in the Garden of Eden and were warned ahead of time that the consequences would be that evil, death, and decay would be loosed upon us and the Earth. Its too bad you died in your sins by not accepting Christ as your Lord and saviour, I pray you did before you died otherwise what a waste of a mind as yours.
people like him
When he said "we must be able to see our face in the face of the oppressor" i got insane goosebumps. Thats forgiveness of a kind which is surely living on the cusp.
Thank you Mr. Hedges for your courage, your brilliant speaking and writing. Thank you for speaking the Truth.
Extraordinary!
The Land of the Free needs a Sanctuary for Independent Media.
Truth shall set you free!
A peoples book to bypass fedbook
@Jakob Heinrich crypto? Naah only government - printed paper is real money amirite
@@ProlificThreadworm You know you are... ;)
Btw, great username! I can relate.
He speaks like a preacher! Very powerful! Love it!
Among his other achievements, he is and ordained minister and grad of Harvard Divinity School.
So true so good i can listen tot His speech for a hundred times!
The quote he mentions by Fosseli Grossman bring a tear to my eyes. Such hope in the face of danger.
If my father was still alive I would owe him an apology, because he was right.
The rich get richer, and more powerful. Only a chosen few own and run everything, and boy you ain't shit. So shut up try to make a few bucks and be happy with what they let you have, cause they could take that too.
And that's what we face today,
These people are coming for it all...
Hello Mexico!
these "people"
@Gayle Elizabeth wish that was so but each day it becomes more likely he was right all along.
A wise man told me the same thing! So I'm just going to move on and be happy with the little that I have. 🙏
@Gayle Elizabeth This isnt about politics. This guy is just stating facts.
This is, hands down, the most moving thing I've heard in my adulthood. Every word that has been spoken is an undeniable and naked truth. Thank you for awakening the humanity in us that has been warped by special interests, lobbyists and propaganda. Much appreciated Mr. Hedges!
Every word, yes, M'am. It is a stunning speech and breathtaking in its brilliant scope.
Beautiful. Beautiful. Chris Hedges instills in me HOPE, TRUTH, REALITY. This man is so honest DIOGENES would be impressed!
great speech Chris, "real talk" as we would say in Jamaica
Epic speech. Thank you Chris!
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This man is excellent in telling the truth !!! Keep telling the American Masses the Truth !!!
These are not mass meetings. He speaks truth to a small minority who most likely do not have the skills or contacts to make use of the insights. Many informed socialists have long held similar views. I meet it , hear it in London. Neoliberalism is destroying any chance of restoration of progressive movements. That is why we have Boris, a cynical narcissist. And you have Trump. They are both cause and consequence. My son is in China learning mandarin, because he is an internationalist and those able to communicate across cultures will be vital in overcoming the obstacles that are preventing us finding solutions for humanity.
This man is courage and wonderful speech. May God bless him!
Exactly how I feel. To be at the part of life, the golden years, where I thought I’d find happiness, and witness the willingness of my peers to follow a pied piper, heartbreaking.
End the fascism
Having listened to these lectures once again that I listened to two years ago, it's enlightening to listen to them again in March, 2020. It's as if he wrote the script in advance.
@mildred gomez Personally, I knew what he was saying was 100% spot on back then. But I am a no one. No one will listen to me.
@surfsidefl2000 : The thoughtful and mindful tend to listen and feel far less need to shout and make themselves seen. But those who do shout, because they have such a major lack of confidence in their own beliefs, are fewer in number. They only _seem_ to be greater in number, in much the same way that those who seek power over others, are those who more often attain it unfortunately. Remember that hope is eternal.
@@aylbdrmadison1051 Always pay attention to internet responses. The more curse words and insults being used the less confident the person is of their position.
THat is the trait of GENIUS
I'm an average person.I don't even have a college degree. Not to take anything away from the speaker. But even I could see this coming. Once Walmart and The Home Depot started running small businesses out. And when we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew it was the beginning of the end. A George Carlin quote has stuck with me for years, " America is finished "
One of the best speeches ever!! Chris Hedges is the GOAT!
I wish I had one thousand ears to consume the wisdom and sad truth of Chris Hedges words. emw
Chris Hedges is a good & wise man. I'd listen if & when he speaks.
This is the finest thing I have ever heard. Thank you Chris I want to shake your hand, send you ten dollars, share a coffee, shed a tear. I have a dream too, thank you.
Nada pertencente este Trump .ele que deu Gop .
Unfortunately most Americans don't want to even hear what Chris has to say let alone believe his speeches.
The truth hurts...
Loved your wisdom and honesty from the moment I met you in Sarajevo all those years ago...even when I disagree with some of your points.
BRILLIANT. INDEPTH. HISTORICAL TRUTH. FEARLESS FACTS. INCISIVE ANALYSIS. GREAT MAN.
@jbaz77777 thanks 💕
Outstanding; a very unique, original, coherent and informed thinker that defies any knee-jerk labeling attempt.
Bravo, Sir; thank you very much.
Art Hephner agreed, he probably has some good points but I can barely listen to him. Have a great day.
@Art Hephner I feel sorry for you if you can listen to Chris Hedges for up to an hour and not see what is being done to (presumably) your country.
They're many non facts in Hedges speech, you can start with WTC that was an inside job assisted by Israeli & USA funding of the radical Jihadist ISIS , with sleeper cells in this Country to turn it into 3rd World (AKA) Agenda 2020 but now paused to 2030 . Globalist NWO are still at work with tools of Homeland Security, Google ,Fb ,Cell Phones wit new 5G ( control of Neurological & Biological Alterations ) to CONTROL how you Think,Act and Feel. A Trojan Horse ( mark of the beast ) to turn us into Sheep. Not True ? Can you live without going online or be without a cellphone for 1 week or 4days ? ? If not ,Then your a Sheeple.
Im glad to see that since I shared your video 2 days ago you've gotten 15000 views, trust me you will be getting alot more. You will get to that million mark.
Chris knows life is a serious thing. It took me so long to realize this simple thing.
Chris Hedges, thank you, we need you...be present. Chris for ever! Bravo , you are a great human being!
Mr. Hedges, I have been a study of yours for over 15 years. THank you again. And now, I'm taking history classes and your comparison on the fallen empires' overreach is so relevant. I hope one day to be so eloquent in discussing these topics. Thank you. Widely sharing.
Dang, no one can paint a depressing and frustrating scenario like Hedges. Just amazing.
Except reality
I will share, share, and share this important message. Thanks!!
im glad and thankful to hear an american citizen telling the truth for a change it breaks a lot of stereotypes
Hedges also keeps a lot of stereotypes in place to hide the fact that he agrees with most of President Trump's policies.
@@herbertkroll1266 I think it's more of a question of no one is of one piece. Tucker Carlson just demanded explanations from the Senator who sold his stock in sectors to be affected by the pandemic while telling everyone it was all rightt. Well i'm with him on that, but i still think he's a stinking piece of shit ithat should be left on a boat to the graces of gods i don't believe in. Or, you know, demonetized and exposed.
@@Vinjoxx
Textbook AOC fan boy.
Wait till your 30 something air head, becomes a 40 something airhead and she starts to look like Madonna before she shaves.
Joe Cool Ah, yes, he must after all be a communist, since he does speak of the disease we are all afflicted with, the spiritual isolationist.
Americans are all over CZcams speaking truth to power. The Humanist Report, The Last American Vagabond, Secular Talk, We Are Change, News 4 a Change are just a few worthy of listening to.
OMG Chris Thanks for bringing words to my feelings and thoughts in such an eloquent way. It's always an opening of the heart to listen to you. Thank you so much for sharing your understanding and wisdom in this way namaste.
I, for one , am willing to sacrifice all that I have to resist the evil elites. If it takes rebellion to do so, then so be it.
I recently discovered Chris,,,I'm really sorry he wasn't on my radar years ago!!! 😕 I love Chris and I listen to him over and over and take notes. He articulates what I've suspected for a very long time.
This man is amazing!
This Speech is so TRUE,, THANK YOU Chris Hedges, Thanks for Sharing, We need to hear these speeches on LOCAL & MAINSTREAM MEDIA
You’re right about everything you’ve aver said, good sir. My brain is bigger bc of Chris Hedges, & others like him. ✊
A prophet of our times
"A person is rich in the things they can do without."
"If you have one true friend, just one, you're wealthier than you know."
Without doubt...well said
Man you said it.
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Listening to Mr Hedges speak has brought me to tears
Very Sobering and Realistic view of Today's World. Thank you Mr. Hedges.
Chris Hedges' public discourse is simply brilliant, and he convincingly and thoroughly, and completely exposes all America's international criminal acts, and the unlawful invasions, and occupation of foreign countries under false pretexts.
He articulates the issues and the failures of American democracy, economy, and its decline military power so powerfully and honestly .
His address was superb and par excellence .
Hopefully the Democrats and Republicans would listen and learn from this public lecture on how to govern the country.
Wow, that was awesome, this guy is on a par with our great historical orators.
Jonathan Cook he's a great speaker but he borders on being a dramatist.
He takes truths, corporate influence in democracy, imbeciles in bureaucracy, military industrial complex, and the influences and protections of the wealthy, but he turns these up to 11 and concludes "the US will not exist in 10 years", and Davos will choose and become the rulers of the fascist super structure that rises from the ashes.
My dad worked for a company who's owner attended Davos.
He's not an illuminati who makes the real choices behind the facade of democracy.
He's just a wealthy business owner who has influence in economic policy, too much influence (not him personally but as a group) probably.
I've read 2 of Hedges books, listen to his speeches.
He should not be a civic leader. He's misleading and destroying faith in institutions that are not obsolete or too weak to rejuvenate our country.
Orwell gave a vision of where democracy can go if it's not tended too, he did not falsely state the United States was 10 years from being Oceania.
I don't blame him for being dramatic, our world is dying and we are causing it; by whatever means, if he can stir up some actual concern, he will have done the state some service.
Pompous, self congratulatory, and pedantic. Pretty much a political diatribe disguised as populism. Please, get a clue.
+contactkeithstack
As Andrew Burr says above, America is a Constitutional Republic... not a Democracy. A Constitutional Republic is not a Democracy by definition.... It can choose to be, or it can become an oligarchy. It has chosen the path of the latter.
And that is why the USA will be gone, split into little warring states in 10 years. The ultra wealthy, the small fascist fraction* will make sure of that as they strip away what's left of the nation's soul and wealthy.
* Rothschilds, Waltons, Koch Brothers, etc.
Contact.
Careful reading of Orwell will show that he was against ALL ideologues INCLUDING Demock-rats AND Demockery, he was also right about America becoming Oceania, but that wasn't hard, seeing as it REALLY happened in 1947.
Chris Hedges is an amazing truth speaker and human being. God bless him!
Hahahahaha... No.
You literally support a stuttering and stammering idiot.
Your people are disappearing before your eyes and you don't care. You will never care, because you have never understood.
FUCK YOU AND YOUR GENERATION. But just remember, that one day that out of the white man's ruin we will rise again and we will NOT remember you.
You are garbage. You are a disgrace. You are dead to me, since what good do you serve?
@@oliverabbott5804 wow what are you on
@@billhanna8838 wow is right! lol Oli, man, you gotta lighten up!
@@aKaMizK I think HE lit up ?
WOW..WELĹ DONE MY GOOD MAN💛🌎🌍MUCH LOVE TO YOU AND ALL
Brilliant! Clear, concise, crisp, factual, historically accurate, ....SAD. Thank you for clarifying what I knew but was not able to express. I will study and listen to this over and over again.
Mr. Hedges is spot on correct in his analysis. Thank you, MediaSantuary for posting this sobering, and sadly very accurate, video.
So true! Thanks Chris for the heartfelt and brilliant speech!
Very very inspiring! He is awesome,brilliant.
To resist evil is highest value for humanity and also the highest spiritual value for humanity
Chris Hedges what a fearless incisive analysis. May there be changes for the better. May you be well guided.
Brilliant, completely on-target, and echoes everything and more that many of us have no doubt been realizing for at least a couple of decades, if not more. Thank you for this, Chris Hedges, you courageous humanitarian.
Chris Hedges is spot on: he’s identified the situation alright, only his solution of ‘Resistance’ is presented exclusively in the Christian context. Hardly helpful when this ‘evil’ that must be overcome is something like orthodox satmar fundamentalism and isreali zionism. This type of evil must be fought with its own weapons.
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He is deceptive. Chris Hedges is pushing belief in "climate change" which should tell you all you need to know about who he works for. This is no friend to America. The leftist are trying desperately to collapse the country so they can bring in their global utopian nightmare. Don't believe the hype. Trump was elected with overwhelming support because Americans realized the fascism that had infiltrated their country over the previous Obama years. While the problem is not partisan, it is ideological. Fascism, socialism, communism are all LEFTIST ideologies. The right supports LIBERTY, the left is pushing TYRANNY and they will lie, steal and go to any lengths to trick you. Wake up America, these people are not your friends.
listen to this every morning when i wake up!
haha!
this one is bleak as all hell.
This man is the truth!100%
Thankyou Mr Christopher Hedges. You give me hope in the human worth. You are a beacon in a dark world.
I've never been to church, but this is what i imagine a real pastor sounds like. Or at least one i would feel inclined to go listen to. Thank you for sharing.
@David Chorak He describes it dramatically, but if it sounds like doom it is because shit is pretty bad. It's to avoid downplaying how bad it is. And it is not being a star eyed idealist to point it out. Regarding China, if i can agree with Tucker Carlson that those senators deserve jail, you can reach it. An authocrat government is ultimately shit. But they didn't sell their system piecemiel for votes. When 2008 came you could have an organised response (a lot of shit was built very quickly). Same now w/ the virus . Which, even if it is downplayed, cannot have reached the proportions of Italy or Spain. Granted i'm loose w/ the word preacher. I mean someone want to listen to, someone who mixes truth and eloquence and sounds human i guess.
sorry for the long answer.
@David Chorak I can understand where you're coming from think, but I really don't sense that hatred in his speach.. seems to me to be directed at a system, negligence and abuse of power.. nor do i feel it to be "doomsday" rhetoric, i mean objectively he doesn't say the world is coming to an end or anything, just where things are bad.. It doesn't move me to panic or abandon, quite the contrary. But i'll happily discuss particulars. And would like to hear Chomsky on this, do you have a link.
@David Chorak yeah chomsky was my introduction to any of this. But specifically him talking about C.H?
@David Chorak they have several interviews together actually im very excited to watch now lol. maybe it'll transpire what you mean.
David Chorak WOW! I love what you said! You should be giving speeches!
BEAUTIFUL! 😉
It's worth noting that, as a social scientist, Hedges comments on what he sees before him. Wealth is an illusion. One bed, one meal, one pair of shoes - that is rich beyond belief
Profound and blunt, not bored for a moment listening to him.
Thank you Chris Hedges - I've had wafts of these thoughts over the years, but could never articulate my misgivings. Mr. Hedges, this was stunning and coherent! My Mother (84) and I watched together. She didn't say much, but she was nodding her head the whole time. Our system has a way of numbing/drowning/distracting us to the truths you spoke. Thanks again.
yes , and its all double talking dem's like this guy hedges...you cant hear it??
he supported every bit of what he dont even know he talking about is
why it happened...he quoted the muslim guy abu'' as if he was morally
superior to us...listen and you hear the run hide, dont take the blame
for political correct swamp that has led to all this...he part of it, did nothing..
bc truly, i know he cant see the forest for the trees, bc he is clinging to dem
philosophy...way past normal lies...just believing ''hope and dreams'' ..not reality..
that has been the problem...obama did it for 8 yrs...and pushed some of
this ''guilt racism' junk talk about muslims dreaming also...there has and will be
more than ''just a few'' bad...obama and this type guy allowing muslims
now into usa unchecked is insane..while we are at war with them in their own
country..and trying shift blame... must change belief, .'' when dem's quit
sanctuary illegal...and we need stronger cia...not snowden types ratting
you and your gov out ...that is treason my friends...same for chelsea girl...
need jail time...we used to and still do get trouble in military just for
attitude.. we have chance to make america some'' greater again... this
type ''journalist'' is not ... he is what has helped it sink..dosnt want to face it...
wake up, this guy 'is' one of the dividers...current collapse 2020 now
proves it... or keep ''dreaming''' into the swamp...trump ''has'' the right idea,
even with some wrong attitudes, way better... we need ''stop all immigration''
bc of dem's letting so many ''illegal''s in...until we can handle it...and yes,
muslims need checking more than others...we are at war and dont want to be..
this guy certainly wrong about that also...and so sad we cant follow our
legal immigration policies and quotas correctly bc of this guy type thinking..
wake up some... this guy needs to stop being 'white guilty'' and white apology'
this kind of talking is exactly what drags us into wars and tells the
enemy that they are right...such as in vietnam...wanting one country should
have been democratic as we wanted...sorry it ddnt and so many americans
duped into thinking ho chi minh was a good guy ...it was a total miss
of attitude created like this and jane fonda types...who total ddnt think right...
and played with ppls lives like a game....we never should have been there
in that capcity...i dont think either...but communist were way more dirty nasty
killlers than us....in the end it proves again...its up to the people of the country
to do their own fighting.... lets change that now also....simply this guy needs
to quit blaming america and others to start with... takes too many words..
he used a lot.... cia, yea, simply if you remember...it was these type ''journalists'
that exposed cia men/women names out to the world and got many of our
good cia killed and their contacts...same in UK where the near top guy was
finally the one doing it for payoff...many killed in russia...and that guy had
no remorse either when caught.....we must get smarter...and punish leakers...
there is a whistle blower system...use it...some tough, but got to go there....
many of though have been backstabbed by this type guy...and dont know it....
ive seen at job...and many have caught them at it...women specially...pray we fix
@@garyc3233 I agree he acts like he has all the answers I don't trust him either
@Humanity Galatica Then go move to another country where it's fascistic - I guarantee you, you won't like it.
@Humanity Galatica Not full-on fascist, but with strong elements of it.
www.reference.com/world-view/fascist-countries-today-ac9ac75f624f8773
@Humanity Galatica see above, bottom feeder. Israel is run by literal bolsheviks, and your entire political platform puts them at the center. Did I mention israel is the canaanite word for Saturn?
Incredibly powerful speech. Good job Chris God bless!
All that he brought forth, all that he predicted, the inconvenient brutal Truths, hurtful at best, came through.
Im 64 one of the greatest speeches ive ever heard so resonant now april 2020 right up there with MLK