What JFK tried to do before his assassination w/Jeffrey Sachs | The Chris Hedges Report
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- We will never know the world that could have been had President John F. Kennedy's assassination never taken place, but an inkling of how things could have been different can be found in the final months of his life. In his new book, To Move the World: JFK's Quest for Peace, Jeffrey Sachs unearths JFK's final political campaign-to establish a secure and lasting peace with the Soviet Union. How far did JFK's efforts go? What sort of progress was made on ending the Cold War, not through the collapse of the Soviet Union, but rather through mutual cooperation and understanding? To answer these questions and more, Jeffrey Sachs joins The Chris Hedges Report.
Jeffrey D. Sachs serves as the Director of the Center for Sustainable Development at Columbia University, where he holds the rank of University Professor, the university’s highest academic rank. Sachs was Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University from 2002 to 2016.
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LOL
He lied about a "missile gap" in order to frighten the electorate - causing Eisenhower to give his famous Military Industrial Complex speech. Who do you think he was talking about in that speech, if not "Saint Kennedy"?
In addition to being loyal servants of the Militlary Industrial Complex, the Kennedy clan was also inextricably linked to Red-baiting Communist Witch-hunter Senator Joseph McCarthy, who infamously stood as Godfather to "Saint RFK's' daughter, as well as having dated two Kennedy sisters.
The Kennedys were among the coldest of cold warriors - they wiretapped MLK under the guise of "Anti-communism" - RFK himself signed off on the illegal wiretaps - this should be viewed in light of RFK's service as an senate staffer/aid to McCarthy!
Why are you so invested in perpetuating the self-serving mythology of the American Empire?
What the world needs now is another JFK - Not an RFK Jr.!
Maybe a Marianne Williamson would be the best choice today!
Thanks Jeffrey, please read my other comments on this video!
@@michaelbartlett6864 LOL No. No more Proglodytes. No more Saint Missile Gap. No more fake "heroes".
@@CockTaco Would you please elaborate on your reply with specifics, because it is quite ambiguous!
This video should be part of every high school history class, but the political establishment addicted to war would never allow it.
I’d like to see history classes show Eisenhower’s farewell address followed by Kennedy’s commencement speech from 6/10/63.
We probably wouldn't even be here if not for it.
Yes, Very sad.
Addicted to war with their suits and ties. Cowardly
The Mongol Horde was a violent blip in history. When you are so out of sync with the rest of the world; you are remembered unfavorably.
These topics are what we need to teach our kids in high schools not the garbage they learn.
AND CAN I JUST ADD, THE FACT THAT WE ARE NOT TAUGHT THIS HISTORY IN SCHOOLS, BUT INSTEAD ARE PROPAGANDISED FROM THE CRADLE, IS EXACTLY WHAT HAS LED US TO HERE AND NOW AROUND OUR WORLD
The compulsory school education curriculum deplores teaching High School students Civics.
Prof. Sachs and Mr. Hedges we are grateful to have you
It takes guts for an institutional man to tell the truth in this country. You have my respect Jeffrey.
Russia is not my enemy. Please let us all live in peace
Peace, nor freedom, comes free.
Great to hear these two sane, eloquent and high profile commentators speaking together These are the kind of people the world needs as leaders, but the mass media tragically ignores ...
Two high class and last intellectuals of America !
Ignore until they can't?. Russell Brand is fighting the good fight too, a lot of us are on the same side. Stalwarts like these..Chris &Jeff, we need.
I listen to Chris Hedges and Jeffrey Sachs every chance I get, too bad we will never see either of them on mainstream media.
Two Soviet military men who saved the world at different times: (Search 'em!)
Vasily Arkhipov
Stanislav Petrov.
The American people and probably the rest of the world too-!
have no idea!
These 2 should have an international holiday to honor them and try to glean lessons from what they did.
@@rogbrogb5341 I could never understand, the US hate towards Russia.
The US could have had a friend,instead they pushed Russia into the arms of China and the Middle East 😢
Great thanks to the Prof. Sachs for his dignity, honesty and professionalism
As an immigrant I can tell you he defines the spirit of a true american.
From the beginning, almost single-handedly, Prof Sachs has sounded the alarm about the lies and dangers surrounding Ukraine. For which, profound thanks, sir.
WE IGNITED THE FUSE IN UKRAINE
@@rogerdorsey7823 oh please the whole thing is staged, they all work together their only one enemy one is the people they want to depopulate.
Jeffrey Sachs one of America's best public intellectuals.
We Hear You JeffreySachs! 👏👏👏👏👏
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I believe that JFK genuinely wanted peace in the world .
He said he would not send Americans to fight in Vietnam. The Pentagon forced that on a still scared LBJ! LBJ said when he approved the Vietnam fighting, "there, you've got your war"!
Then he took aim at Vietnam. Deeds, not words, gentlemen.
And Billy Satanic Graham did not....
I think we martyred Kennedy because of his death. We don’t know how he would’ve been if he wasn’t killed . We romanticize martyrs because he appeared to be a threat so he was killed .
@@salt27dogg Yes we do: he was a dyed in the wool anti communist who took on and ramped up the Vietnam conflict. NO ONE gets near the presidents office without being fully vetted and a company man. He wasn't killed for being anti establishment, that is ridiculous. He was killed by a lone gunman, Oswald.
A privilege to listen to Dr. Sachs. I do admire this gentleman.
What goes through the minds of people, who feel they need to dislike a conversation like this, is beyond me.
It is a national criminal act that the American People should be so largely ignorant of the details that are outlined in this conversation. It is shameful, saddening, disgusting and it is most certainly intentional.
After the graphic scenes of war from Vietnam were broadcast in every American's home, which led to massive anti-war protests, The Security State essentially outlawed that type of journalism.
It's not really even the details that matter. The underlying catalyst of war is fear. When one side strikes, the other becomes fearful and seeks to strike back to ease their fears. Repeat that cycle enough times, and people get lost in the fear and justify the violence. We just need taxpayers to understand their own emotions and how they justify vicious cycles of war. It's not about history, it's about critical thinking. We just need to gain control over our fears.
You can bet with me, most of them are ignorant of real issues, but they are ready to discuss reality show that has no substances.
@@tashalorm4313google order no 00447 . If they did that to their own people what would they have done to Europe ?
They are equally ignorant of the democracies that the US has overthrown as well as the popular movements we have stifled by backing dictators who serve our interests. It evens out. The elites want them ignorant, so that is what they are.
Thank you Jeffrey Sachs.
Sachs has a phenomenal grip on politics/diplomacy, wish we had him during our PolSci lectures
Great discussion, gentlemen. The world needs peace, not war. We are one humanity.
That Kennedy speech is awesome. I happen to think there is more drama in seeking peace then in war. To see one another as human beings with the same basic concerns and fears is powerful.
Well said! Top comment.
Yet his actions were incongruous with that speech. Each successive US president have all been the same -fork tongued and duplicitous. People just choose the nice bits and run with that.
@@BrendanZ-cd4wryou've nailed it, despite our drive to praise past Presidents, to this day, when you consider the many - illegal - wars and military operations, the US (and NATO since its inception) have waged around the world, in countries like:
1945-1949: China
1947-1949: Greece
1948: Costa Rica
1949-1953: Albania
1949: Syria
1950-1953: South Korea
1950-1953: Burma and China
1952: Egypt
1952: Guatemala
1952-1953: Iran
1954: Guatemala
1956-1957: Syria
1957-1959: Indonesia
1959-1963: South Vietnam
1959-1962: Cuba
1960-1965: Congo-Leopoldville
1960: Laos
1961: Dominican Republic
1961-1964: Brazil
1963: Iraq
1965-1967: Indonesia
1970: Cambodia
1970-1973: Chile
1971: Bolivia
1974-1991: Ethiopia
1975-1991: Angola
1975-1999: East Timor
1976: Argentina
1979-1992: Afghanistan
1980-1989: Poland
1981-1982: Chad
1981-1990: Nicaragua
1983: Grenada
1989-1994: Panama
1989: Paraguay
1991: Iraq
1991: Haiti
1992-1996: Iraq
1994-1995: Haiti
1996-1997: Zaire
2000: FR Yugoslavia
2001-2021: Afghanistan
2003-2023: Iraq
2005: Kyrgyzstan
2006-2007: Palestinian Territories
2005-2009: Syria
2011: Libya
2012-2023: Syria
2014-2023: Yemen
2014-2023: Ukraine
2023: Somalia
I often watch his speech to the American University few months before his assassination.Great speech from a great statesman.The most powerful man's yearning for peace
You guys need to stop worshiping JFK and making him into something he wasn't. He was the chief president against the Soviet Union and communism. JFK was simply not a peaceful diplomat. His main policy was the Cold war. That's where his attention was. He did not mention any civil or domestic policy or issues in his inauguration speech.
This speech causes me to weep for what had been lost, what we have thrown away, and what we have forgotten.
"But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and to provide new Guards for their future security."
"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
"Governments derive their just powers from the CONSENT of the governed."
"“Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety”
“Well done is better than well said.”
I to am so angry for what America lost and @jimjessup5041-2 I feel the your sentiments. But what would those generals do without a false war. It’s not their sons fathers daughters mothers who are being killed. And what about the zionists and their billions how on earth could we have peace.
America can still be a leader and competitive with China. It's just the bloated defense industry preventing this from happening. If America had real change, diverge funds away from war and put it into development of infrastructure and economic policy for development of technology. It would put the US ahead of China. America playing world police is a waste of resources, these war profiteers are hurting American industry. China will continue to get the upper hand in deals if the US cannot offer anything other than defense contracts. Logical leaders will pick infrastructure development over US military bases.
RFK Jr is what America needs but due to political bureaucracy, slander, and censorship, he faces difficulty in getting support. If he can get through all the obstacles and get his messages out. America still has hope.
@jimjessup5041 : Me too❤ JFK was in my opinion the best president we ever had. Lincoln was an amazing orator but the American University Commencement Speech brings me to tears at what could have been and what was stolen from our country and the world.
…And what we were never informed of.
Thank you, Chris Hedges and Mr. Jeffrey Sacs . I bought the book, and it is extremely informative . Thank you. My middle brother was in the Navy and was in the Bay of Pigs. My brother told me about that particular Russian submarine and the story.
The ruthlessly around his presidency was unforgivable.
President Kennedy's assassination was a loss for our country. He will never be forgotten in American history. A great statesmen we have had not since, regrettably.
I have the book, "R.F.K The Man Who Would Be President,"
written by Ralph de Toledana in 1967.
Excellent critical analysis by Mr. Jeffrey Sacs on Ukraine.
We saw it coming when we left Afghanistan the way we did and on to the next war. In the 400 years of our country, we had only twenty years of peace. (Twenty years)
I'm listening to this again and it is a very important part of American history.
It may have been a different world for all of us today, if President Kennedy had lived.
Many at the top including the military and Alan Dulles had it out for President Kennedy.
In retrospect, where did Robert McNamara stand with President Kennedy and Vice- President Johnson?
Under the Johnson administration, the USS Liberty Navel Ship AGTR-5, 1967 6-day, was hit by Israei forces.
James A. Ennes, Jr., wrote a book, "Assault on the Liberty, "The True Story ofthe Israeli Attack of an American Intelligence Ship. A few documentaries were made about this horrible incident and nothing was done for all these great men who were on that ship to come to.their aid after the Israelis forces hit that ship. The attack lasted more than two hours, killing 34 Americans and wounding 171 others. The men on that ship were asked to sign an oath that they could never repeat what happened. It was a cover up on purpose.
My brother, Tommy Wayne Wheeler, was aboard the ship, and he was one of the fortunate ones that live.
Unfortunately, his beautiful soul and mind mind was harmfully damaged, and he passed away on July 3rd,1983.
Many families were affected by this incident.
All sides are betraying the American people today both the Repulicans and the Democrats and those of powers of greed and wars for profits.
May we alll find peaceful solutions now while we can.
Just like what lived in President Kennedy's soul, and Dr. Martin Luther KingJr, Malcolm X, and Mandella and others.
I will not vote blue or red in the election of 2024. If Cornel West doesn't make it. I will be voting for watermelon.
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22:03 22:16 22:21 😢
RFK Jr 2024
Kennedy's speeches bring tears to my eyes, and I was born 3 years after he was gunned down. An amazing man.
I was lucky to meet and shake hands with Kennedy. In 1960 I was a hostess at the Democratic convention in Los Angeles. Four of us were selected to accompany him to the stage for his last speech before the election at East Los Angeles Junior college. I was honored to meet him as well as Adlai Stevenson who I picked up at the LA airport.
No words to state how powerful and honest all at once this interview was: THANK you Prof. SACHS, GREAT JOB Mr. HEDGES.
He’s sane sort as Kennedy a coward it was lemay and others that should have ruled the day.the Soviet’s nuclear weapons couldn’t hit anything.Kennedy didn’t save the world he’s the one that put us in this situation.he’s no hero just ignorant
Sachs is a Nobel winner.
@@dthomas9230 so what look at that history.see what Stanford university said about mlk in 2002 another Nobel winner
The speech spoken at American University was beyond eloquent. It is my favorite speech of all time. It meant everything to me. I was 10 years old, one mile from Carlswell AF base when we came within hours from nuclear war. My father, packed our car and spoke with SAC to find out the time frame to remove us from ground zero, much less the nuclear fallout. It couldn’t be done in time. The back channel deal the Kennedy’s did with Khrushchev saved America and the world. Allen Dulles killed the Kennedy’s, therefore. My elementary school had us doing drills with moms in cars picking up all the kids and driving out of ground zero. I think of where we are today. Nothing has changed since the assassination of the Kennedy’s. Power truly does corrupt and it truly does corrupt absolutely…Lord Acton, Truman…Years later when my father was elderly I asked him about how we almost came to nuclear war and said, Dad why didn’t you get us out of the country to South America. He said it wouldn’t have mattered the earth would have been devastated at the level of nuclear material released. He would have known. He was a Nuclear Engineer.😮
I was 6, and agree with most of what you have to say & I salute you for showing the courage to name Dulles... NO ?, if you have read several contrasting views as the years have past, he certainly ordered & oversaw the whole "mission", then had the audacity to control the Warren Commission as well; should have been called the Dulles Commission. I gotta stop, getting going & a Rant is coming... Take care
As far as I am concerned, Pres. Kennedy's speech at American University is the one that sealed his fate. The Military Industrial Complex, the CIA, and far-right elements of the U.S. military simply were not going to let Mr. Kennedy ruin their gravy train and their power within our government.
What a great leader JFK was and how tragic that we don’t have leaders who care for the future of humanity.
To get to the point. Kennedy's final decision was his decree to take away the Federal Reserve's right to print dollars. A right that the initiators of the FED had granted themselves in Congress on December 23, 1913. On a day when very few people were still present in Congress, most of them were already on Christmas vacation.
That was the background to his murder. It is significant that the first act of his successor, Lyndon B. Johnson, was to withdraw this decree.
Since then it should be clear to everyone that it is not just any president who controls the USA, it is the masters of the Fed. Who are these initiators of the FED, both Hedges and Sachs know this. It is equally interesting who still runs this FED today and who ran it in the past.
It's about the rule of money. Which companies are best suited for this? Correct. The military. The military is purely a consumer machine. The only thing they need is conflict. And nothing is easier than creating conflict.
They are Zionists. And Zionists are by no means Jews and certainly not the Jews. They are people of all kinds. People who rely primarily on a statement from the Torah/Bible, namely that they are the "chosen people", chosen to rule the world.
He would 100% sorry his nephew RFK Jr in this incoming election, and you should too. Both parties are subservient to the military industrial complex, pharmaceutical companies, and the other ultra wealthy forces of our world.
Two brilliant minds - Sachs and Hedges. Sachs wears many hats - economist, author, diplomat, geopolitical analyst and teacher extraordinaire. Hedges is an extraordinary journalist and writer. Brilliant conversation and more than that - a valuable history lesson.
A HUGE fan of Professor Sachs! A great man of integrity!
Yesssssss!
Me too, but it would be interesting to hear what he says about his beloved NYT (that published the Pentagon Papers) when it said 'MLK jr. crossed the line in his Anti-War Speech at Riverside Church' April 1967.
This interview is marvelous. Sachs is exquisite throughout. And it's extremely gratifying to see the brilliant Chris Hedges expand his own perspective to realize that President Kennedy was not just another ruling class Cold Warrior, but a unique and great statesman. Thank you both.
@literary la:Well said 🔥
Goes nowhere
Chris has perfected the Russell Brand technique
We've gotten so good at identifying the problems
Yet no one offers a way forward
Chomsky too. He made voice to text tech so the Saudis could use our smart bombs
@@Uncanny_Mountaincan you elaborate?
@@codyvandal2860 I was a big fan of Hedges, but his support for the People's Party and lack of specificity indicates he's not really a journalist but an avatar of the State, like Sanders, offering the semblance of hope but not actually telling you what the goal is
Russell Brand does the same thing, so does Jimmy Dore, Rogan, Status Coup, Assange, Snowden, Chomsky, Ughyar, Kulinksi, Icke, Hancock, Peterson, Walsh, Crowder
It's a Cult tactic taught in Scientology
Long winded diatribes that lead nowhere, change little. He doesn't name names, doesn't identify patterns, doesn't have a solution
The whole thing is an exercise in tail chasing, rabbit holes, and "revelations"
We got so good at talking about the problem
But no one takes the next logical step
Seems intentional
There's more, so don't play Judge Judy with me, I know stuff that would blow your mind
Stuff Hedge ought to know, yet never mentions
Then hangs out with right wing affiliates that are known cointelpro
Also take note of the comment sections in this video and one by Brand, or Piers, or Tucker, or Elon
Always the same vapid affirmations, no nuance or discussion, just empty eyed seal clapping
Very Orwellian
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(Via CBS News)
Thanks for having Jeffery Sachs on your show. It was great!
Thank you Professor Sachs for your wonderful explanation of JFK and the truth of what’s really happening today.
❤
Every “failure” that Sachs talks about, in the end, is hugely profitable for the USMICC. These failures are deliberate.
No, no they are not, and humans did land on the moon in August of 1969.
Of course you know that the term "Military Industrial Complex" was created by Eisenhower so as to caution Kennedy against making bad decisions.
Chris shows his interviewing skills here. He asks questions at the right time to keep things moving but mostly remains silent and gives Jeff the floor.
Yes, he stopped at the moments I queried too. But unfortunately left a few seriously misinformed statements out there by Sachs to go unquestioned.
Thanking God that people like Jeffrey Sachs and Chris Hedges still have a platform - The Real News Network.
Thank you Chris and Professor Sachs. Glad we have u both.
Kennedy's words got me weeping. So poignant, powerful and relevant to these very troubled times
It’s probable he never wrote one word of what brings tears to your eyes.
@@kingrhs1• But he delivered them. In the end there is but One Author. Peace.
@@kingrhs1a speechwriter would have helped but the sentiments were his.
@judithburgess952: Me too. From the optimism, restraint and wisdom of the Kennedy era to the madness of now - how did it come to this ??
@@kingrhs1 There was one important peace speech verifiably written only by JFK and Ted Sorensen.
Thank you, Chris and Jeffrey. Without people like you willing to have these conversations the world has no chance to survive the US obsession with hegemony.
What was his solution?
Must have missed it
Exactly what is happening people are really stupid not to see what is happening when people stop talking and take action the world will be destroyed by by themselves
The PrometheUS syndrome…
You need to ask why the US ruling class has an obsession with hegemony? Whose material interests are served? What would it mean if the USD ceased to be the reserve currency of the world? How would the US finance its debts if US Treasury Bonds weren't the safest financial instrument.
The problem for Hedges and Sachs is there silence on the crisis of US capitalism. Why can't they say anything about it?
The contradiction of an integrated world economy divided into competing nation-states cannot be resolved peacefully under capitalism. Germany was the primary aggressor in WWI and WWII because its economy developed late and when that exceeded its borders the world had already been divided among the other imperialist powers. It had to fight for its 'place in the sun'. Today the US is the primary aggressor because, like every great power before, it will not relinquish its wealth, power and privileges without using all the might, force, terror and violence at its disposal.
There is a force that can stop it. Imperialist war abroad means class war at home. Workers, students and youth are going to be confronted with either supporting the war plans or compelled to consider the need for a revolution. If the principles of the US Declaration of Independence were applied today the government would be overthrown by next week. But the next revolution must be to overturn the anachronistic profit system so workers can democratically control the product of their collective labor, it must be socialist. To do that the most class conscious layers must urgently study history and learn its lessons.
Please read the World Socialist Webs Site for more. fight to build the Socialist Equality Party.
It is encouraging to know that there are people with this level of consciousness and who insistently tell us that there is always a ray of hope for peace. Chris and Professor Sachs do an admirable service to the planet! And we are deeply grateful for that!
An absolutely brilliant interview. I've been writing on many of these same subjects for decades, but this is an incredible video. Everyone, and I mean everyone who is interested in history, the security state, nuclear war, Russia, NATO, the war in Ukraine, or peace needs to watch this. Seriously. Watch it and then pass it along.
Excellent work! In less than an hour, Sacks lays out the history of the Cold War from it’s inception at the end of WW11 to the current state of play in Ukraine, a masterful précis from a man who had a front row seat during that crucial decade after the fall of the Soviet Union. Bravo!
He's my age
These comments sound like what I read on Brand or trump videos
Same tactics?
@@Uncanny_Mountain ?? please explain
@@LindaEckertBallard I think Russiagate ate his brain. I believe he is trying to imply we are all paid Russian trolls... Comrade.
@@LindaEckertBallardWhy do you expect other people to explain when you contribute nothing yourself?
I’d like to offer a correction re the Soviet sub story, not to nit-pick, but because the man who refused to fire the weapon’s name should be revered worldwide: Vasily Arkhipov. I may mix up details, but this is the gist: The political officer in fact agreed with the sub’s Captain. Arkhipov was the sub’s Exec. Soviet policy for a sub launch required 3 inputs (don’t know if it actually required 3 keys): the sub’s skipper, the political officer, and the executive officer. In point of fact, Arkhipov was outranked by BOTH men willing to launch, yet stood his ground on the premise that, having been out of communication, they had no way of really knowing what was happening at the surface.
Add to that, that the boat had been harried by at least one US vessel, I believe for a matter of days, and nerves were beyond the ragged edge. That one, sane, courageous, honorable man, under tremendous pressure in so many ways, outranked AND under orders, quite literally saved the world. By refusing the easy thing.
He should NEVER be forgotten:
Vasily Arkhipov.
He recently died sadly
@@slchu9259 First Vasily Arkhipov died in 1998. Also, don't forget Stanilas Petrov saved us from nuclear war, when he didn't report the incoming USA missiles in the former USSR. He reported to them, it was a false alarm detected by the system.I bet if it was the other way around, the world will be in chaos. People there you have it.
The US Navy surface ships had been dropping practice, or signalling depth charges to attempt to force the vessel to surface which it eventually did.
The Star Trek Federation flagship should be the Arkhipov.
Thank-you for his story on the sub, and his amazing and wonderful heroism, not jumping to conclusions, keeping reason in the forefront under incredible pressure- yes, every student should know his name, and inspiring courage!! A world class hero!
Outstanding discussion. I always learn so much listening to these 2 men
👍 👍
Jeffery Sachs is wonderful; thank-you for all your efforts, Jeffery.
Every episode better than the last. Thanks!
I love the expanded format allowing Chris to dive in even deeper than the 30-ish minute format allowed.
Agreed!
It's called "fund raising"....
thanks for the excellent commentary, chris and professor sachs.
Sachs is one of the greatest history teachers and political analysts of our times.
Brilliant. Impossible to disagree with anything. Speaking so honestly and with such clarity and facts is a lost art especially among the excuse and shame for journalism now taking place in the US.
Such effusive enthusiasm
And then what happened?
#globalnews $worldnews
#worldnews
The US always TALKS about peace. What they actually DO is war.
speaking honestly and doesnt mentioned that he was responsible for the economic destruction of russia in the 90s? he likes to brag that he was sitting in the room with russian leaders and advising them, he just ignores the outcome of his advise. there is a reason russians hate him.
Sachs is a true American Heroe
That Sachs sure carries a good tune! 🎶🎶 Thanks for a great discussion!
"We want unipolarity." Sachs hits the nail on the head with this. I thought we coulld actually get the peace he speaks of, and there was perhaps a brief window of it when I was in Russia, although the gears were already grinding to bring us to where we are. US foreign policy continues to be a shit show for everyone, including Americans.
But not rich Americans/ Not Americans who own defense stocks.
What an unambiguous, honest assessment of what happened! This is what we need to hear.
I hope your assessment is correct. But how would you know? Were you there? Do you see the problem?
Best history lesson from cold war to modern context. Thank you!
NATO is an agreement by free nations to live in peace and to not attack each other? Why shouldn't it be expanded and how to nation's agreeing to live in peace pose a threat to Russia?
@@MinusEighty On paper or as you naively believe. Unfortunately that’s not the case in reality with dubious NATO. Research her deeds in Bosnia, Kosovo, Afghanistan etc, and maybe you haven’t heard of Libya too?
@@tbos. You would prefer a reconstituted Soviet Union?
The best words I heard on CZcams especially the words of Jeffrey Sachs. .
Hearing an intelligent telling of the other side of the Ukraine/Russian conflict has been refreshing. I love the passion that Jeffrey exudes!
An amazing talk. Thank you so much. I'm from former Czechoslovakia and can confirm these events...❤
Are you Slovakian? Slovaks usually tend to be much more opposed to US hegemony than their Czech counterparts.
President Kennedy sent us the American Peace Corps Volunteers who taught us English, physics, and chemistry. I will never forget when our American teacher told us the morning after, that JFK was assassinated. It was a shocking moment for all of us and never went away ifrom my memory.
And now you get the National Endowment for Democracy... the complete opposite of the American Peace Corps.
A peace corp, that’s a novel idea.
Can you see why ‘they’ killed him.
This should definitely shown in theatres/community settings like the BA interviews. It is stunning and profound.
Thanks to Jeffrey Sachs and to TRNN for having him on the program for this fascinating topic.
Sachs... a man with a huge intellect and a bigger heart... keep up your amazing lectures of truth.
yes, his heart was so big, that he advised the russia nation into economic selfdestruction leading to millions of death ppl commiting suicide or drinking to death. the dark history of sachs is that he was personally responsible for that desaster. he had the trust of the russians but not the balls to step down and continued foreign policies.
@@klauskinski5969 true, he failed badly. Have you knowledge of Prof Mason Gaffney advisor to the Duma and the Georgist/Tolstoy land value tax economic solution Sachs blocked.
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no, because everything sachs touched economicly is stupid anyway or when can kill it not even worth conserding. dont need to follow the poison pill. nobody knows him for his brilliant economic mind to be honest.
truth. you meant to say truth
I would say he's walking the path of redemption.
You didn't mention the fact that JFK's peace speech was delivered June 10, 1963 at the American University. More noble words have never been spoken!
They should add a link to the speech or at least pin this comment to the top.
A visionary American President anticipated how important it was to say publicly that more than 20 million Russians gave their lives fighting Nazi Germany. The healing power of words had a miraculous effect.
Soviet leader Khrushchev recognised the power of Kennedy’s words and a series of nuclear test ban treaties followed.
@@daiu48 Absolutely true!
The Gulf of Tonkin "incident" was less than a year after JFK was murdered. Weapons of mass destruction. 20 years in Afghanistan. Ukraine. It's above politicians.
Thank you Prof. Sachs for sharing this important part of American political history.
What a truly bakanced, logical, wonderful person Mr Sachs is.
Chris, first thank you for your support J. and Stella Assange.
Thanks so much for that report about J.F. Kennedy with Prof. Sachs.
Love and peace
As moving and amazing as this anecdote is, it only helps to emphasize the depravity of our contemporary geo-political environment. In retrospect it seems like America has been consciously TRYING to do the "wrong" thing ever since. It is hard to imagine how we could bungle things so badly otherwise.
America has been doing the "wrong" thing before, during and after Kennedy, as a matter of principle.
If you understand, which I'm sure you do, the incredible penchant for greed and power human nature inherently entails it's easy to imagine.
The capitalist empire cannot tolerate a rogue peacemaker in a high place. Astronomical profits take precedence.
@@MaxwellPowers666 penchant: a string instinct or liking for...
So which is it: an instinct or liking for?
And what are its motivational drivers? ( or origins? )
Do you really believe that depravity is unique to our contemporary geo-political environment?
Chris, you and Professor Sachs are the "cream of the crop". 🙏❤ Thank you for sharing the greatest of President Kennedy. I was privileged to be alive when he was President. 😊
Wow, thank You all.
Thank you Jeffrey 🙏😊
As as Irish woman, I thank Mr Sachs for writing this book . We the people of Ireland remember JFK tour of Ireland June 63.
I am move to tears over his speech of peace . His speech in our Dail Government equally moving .
Lord have mercy on Jack and Robert souls. Ireland has never forgotten the magnificent of our distant cousin's.
President Putin greatly admires President Kennedy .
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From: Patrick McCarthy, retired from The Canadian Armed Forces: Thank you for your comment
Unfortunately, in this world peace is not the way to make money.
President Putin greatly admires President Kennedy ." Nope, he doesn't. What makes you think the does. Who are Putin's favourite ideologues?
@@adrianseanheidmann4559 the better question is, who are Trumps? I think we all know the answer to that.
Perfect. This video should be compulsory for all who tub thump for war in Ukraine. Sachs is a treasure - he really is.
Well he was one of the US advisers that made crippled Russia with neoliberalism.
I wonder why he had that change of heart.
Googling the "Holodomor" should be compulsory reading for people who NATO THUMP, and push Russian propagancda.
@@GalacticNovaOverlord older? learning? smarter?
I can't help but be fascinated by this podcast. When it pops up, I have to watch again!
Brilliant! Just superbly brilliant. Thank you Jeffrey Sachs and of course Chris Hedges. Peace is the ONLY way.
This was a great episode, thank you. I learned so much.
Wow, this discussion is great, and so needed right now. Thanks, Chris, Jeffrey (and Julian).
An amazing and historic presentation. Great work Mr Sachs and great thanks to Mr Hedges!
Great overview from Jeffery Sachs 👍
Those who are pushing for NATO expansion onto the borders of Russia are playing a high stakes poker game and our lives, our treasure, and perhaps the survival of humanity are the table stakes. The greed and hubris required to make such wagers seems likely to eventually lead to disastrous outcomes.
Both the U.S. and Russia + China should instead co-operate and focus all their energies 24/7 in order to take care SERIOUSLY of the Global Warming… The one and only kind of ‘war’ still worth fighting nowadays. A matter of life and death for the whole human species (but not only), and we’re already several decades late about it.
@@fabiengerard8142 Class war is worth fighting, and it's a prerequisite for world peace.
*This is simply a masterpiece! Required viewing by all who TRULY want to know what’s going on, masterfully spoken by two giants of our time! It’s nothing but a privilege to listen to these two highly eloquently knowledgeable men!*
Giants? hmmm.
Anyone who informs us through this hedgmonic, dominating, cheating, lying, thieving, demonic implemented shitstorm is held in the highest esteem and IOU. By ME. .
Enjoy them now. They are the last of the Real Journalists.
Deductive reasoning and critical thinking are now, lost arts.
Intellectual, moral, independent and articulate giants in a media full of bought talking heads.
Adlai Stevenson was the understated hero in the Cuban Missile Crisis. President Kennedy was wise to incorporate his sound counsel over the brash recommendarions of the Joint Chiefs and the CIA. The experiemce tempered JFKs perspective and strengthened his resolve to pursue peace and survival. Thank you for presenting this insightful interview. American schools would do well to include it as component of its historicsl curricula.
I’m so glad I found this. I’m going to rush out and buy Mr. Sach’s book. Thank you.
Chris, we miss you you’re not talking to anybody you’re the glue that holds it all together my educated professor and much much more!!
The fact this interview is not on a MSM platform says a lot about what those outlets are about and who's in charge of the messages they craft for the public consumption. I know why they are on the real news network and that's why I have been a subscriber since day 1 of my introduction to the network. Thanks Max, Chris and Dr Sachs for being a bastion of truth.
it's also about how VERY FEW own the entire MSM
And I'd say thanks Noam in addition, guys, because our venerable "modern Socrates" definitely made these truth-tellers possible, in the first place. All most remarkable and bravest men, including the late Dr. Ellsberg, of course. 🙏🏻🙏🏽🙏
Dudes like Tom Brokaw belong to Council of Foreign Relations.
The best conversation I have ever heard about Kennedy's magnificent July 63 Speech for Peace. Thank you x
There was also a Soviet early warning system failure in the 1970s I think, that reported a full scale US nuclear attack on the CCCP. The protocol was a full scale counter-launch but the launcher took lots of risk to wait for confirmation and narrowly avoided armageddon. He was later awarded the honour of HERO OF THE SOVIET UNION. Mankind owes a lot to this fellow.
Yes, I remember that!
JFK was assasinated for trying to make the world a better place for mankind to live in peace forever.
No, he was killed by a nut job, a lone gunman and there is ZERO evidence of a conspiracy. Accept that.
Only Jesus will achievement that .
He was assassinated because it was gonna take money away from war profiteers, aka neo cons, aka the cia, aka national intelligence agencies, aka the military industrial complex.
It is such a pleasure to spend time listening smart honorable people
Just think how much better off humanity would have been if we could have followed through on Kennedy’s dream? Because we have selfish greedy people behind government and largely in government, we have massive corruption so that no one’s dreams today can be fulfilled. Think about the lost potential in every human being! We live under an oppressive system. If our system was generous and supportive of all its citizens so everyone could have a good quality of life and realize their dreams, it would be an entirely different world.
China prior to 2014: first time?
Well said Karen, Agreed !!
So refresh the tree?
We have too many voting for anti-democratic Republicans.
Huh. I was thinking how much better off we would be if the soviet submarine Captain had launched the nuclear torpedo, ending humanity.
Great interview!! Thanks a lot. These two great men of honour, Chris Hedges and Jeffrey Sachs mean that the truth about our history is still spreading!!!!
Greetings and full support from Slovakia!!
Thank you Jeffrey Sach.
I love seeing these 2 brilliant and courageous men in conversation w each other on this all important subject of peace.
I tried to get this speech in my documentary Good Thinking in 2012 and could not get the permissions to use it. So so disheartening. It remains most remarkable, and what is needed today. But JFK made several amazing speeches building the peace in the years before this. ... one was at the UN right after Sec. General Dag Hammärskjold was murdered (1961. another horror of the Wests dark world), and JFK was getting too close to ending the darkness that was upon those who work toward peace. Also two months before he is murdered he speaks at the UN again about going to Space with the Soviets. That most likely was the final seal of his fate, that and signing the directive to pull out of Vietnam. One MUST read James Douglass's book JFK, and the Unspeakable. Goes over much of this very clearly.
So there was an arbiter function at that media outet that determined what thinking is good. Easiest it to work with a channel system that do not censor truth.
Timely. Important. Well done. Should be mandatory at schools. Thank you.
Mr Jeffrey thank you sir, I understand A LOT about history since finding your lectures online.
Finally speaking truth to POWER we the people need to take our power back from these parasitic scoundrels
The POWER is deaf...and this is just a piece of rhetoric with which you agree...
you can not take back what you lost if you have no clue how you lost it...
nor does there seem to be any consistent understanding of what would be done
should this occur.
@@jgalt308 No they are not deaf according to Woodrow Wilson
Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of somebody, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it.
Woodrow Wilson
@@jgalt308 What if the entire world answer 1 poll question of
What would you prefer
WAR
PEACE
I say 99.9% call for peace and 1 tenth call for war
"parasitic", of whom are you speaking?
@@nuqwestr Take back the entire government from the parasitic shills working for the 13 families then we get then
This is extraordinary. I was still at school when JFK was murdered. I've heard that even Khrushchev wept on learning of the death of "that fine young man". Thanks, Jeffrey & Chris. (Green Fire, UK) 🌈🦉
I heard that the Vietnamese were not that upset about it.
Wasn't Khrushchev and John F KENNEDY having Talks about Disarmament in 61,62, and 63. I believe that THEY WERE.
@@nickcharles1284 Well, after all Kennedy was behind agent orange.
@@nickcharles1284on the contrary, they were. It was only JFK who wanted to withdraw the troops and end the war in Vietnam, but he was murdered by the war-loving LBJ. He and all other presidents after him have been waging some war or the other in other countries.
If you read his overall view on Vietnam, he was for 'withdraw' ONLY after a US victory. Which is to say, never withdrawing. Also powers that be do not need to murder presidents, they have all the time in the world, so you just get a more company minded man in power in a few years. Notice that under Nixon, we did withdraw from Vietnam, yet he was not assassinated. We withdrew from Afghanistan, and as far as I know Biden is still alive. @@nivieb9
The drop from the Kennedy Brothers representing America in negotiations to Joe Biden and Anthony Blinken is profoundly breathtakingly depressing
Very interesting interview! Thank you very much for providing Jeffrey Sachs' brilliant testimony about Kennedy, US relations with the Soviet Union and today with Russia. Very wise and illuminating words.
Beautiful. Moving. Stirring discussion here, Chris! Thanks for asking these questions of Jeff Sachs and allowing him to speak❤
Excellent piece of work, shared and shared again.
Brilliant analysis and description of history events. Everybody should be aware, that peace is possible.
The problem is the vast majority of Americans can't read. Those who can will not study history. They want everything in a 10 second word bite from the Propaganda MSM's and then immediately switch to watching sports or playing video games.
Always like to hear from Professor Jeffry Sachs.
Thank you for this excellent interview, Chris. I am even more thankful to Professor Jeffrey Sachs for his honesty. The entire world knows today that the US doesn't care about spreading democracy and freedom in other nations. It's sole interest is in military domination and to grab the natural resources for its economic and military hegemony. The World has been a witness of this brutal behaviour on many occasions in the Middle East, Latin America, Africa and Asia.If you ask people around the World, which country they fear would be the most likely to trigger a nuclear armageddon, I'm willing to bet that the US would win hands down.
Word.
Well, in Canada, we have a long-standing belief that Russia would start a nuclear war.
Now, with the military industrial complex rampped up , and a string of war-monging fools for US presidents, I'd say the US too.
I think you have it wrong. The united states isn't Dominant, b. Cause when Israel ATTACKED us in 67. WE DID NOTHING. YET WE CALL OURSELVES A SUPER POWER BY.. ONLY ATTACKING COUNTRIES THAT CAN'T DEFEND THEMSELVES/ NON NUCLEAR CAPABLE COUNTRIES. FACTS ARE A BIT CH. PEACE AND LOVE ❤️🙏 PEOPLE
that may infact B the corporadoes not the pols ("doesn't care about spreading democracy"). They often have them on their purse strings for re-election funds. Yes some fear the other races ("military domination") in foriegn lands but they seem few.
The USA did try to help people create better governments and higher standards of living through 1970. Maybe not always intelligently, but from Henry Clay forward, many US Statesmen tried.
Sachs! Hedges! This is the episode I've been waiting for.