Chris Hedges | Snowden Debate | Oxford Union
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DEBATE TOPIC: This house would call Edward Snowden a Hero
ABOUT CHRIS HEDGES: Christopher Lynn "Chris" Hedges is an American journalist specializing in American politics and society. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002) - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010) and his most recent New York Times best seller, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012).
Hedges is currently a columnist for news website Truthdig and a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.
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Wow, Chris Hedges was magnificent! He eloquently describes why whistleblower Edward Snowden, who swore an oath to the U.S. Constitution, had no choice but to expose the NSA's crimes no matter what the personal cost.
furballbear and Cato goes into exile alas the Republic is no more
Snowden and Hedges are both true American heroes. Period. In a sad country that really needs heroes, they are rare indeed!
In an idiocracy that confuses true heroes with true villains likeTrump
@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster #chrishedges for President #RUNCHRISRUN
@@readmelancholystrumpetmaster 1:52 trumps son background
The both liars , without capitalism there no middle class , why most social democracy countries middle class is small
@@coopsnz1 Go live in Scandinavia, then come back and say this.
Hedges is one of the best journalists in the world. It's a shame the BBC doesn't know what real journalism is, I don't think Oxford does either.
bravo Chris Hedges!
Thank you Chris Hedges for having the moral courage to expose and not fear evil. You are a true hero !
I luv Hedges.
BRAVO! Excellent speech. Amen Chris Hedges. Amen.
This man is a titan. It makes me think there is still hope for the Americans
Only criticism is not enough
How about now?
lol...
😔...
@@Bisquick He still has moral and intellectual fortitude.
@@slavikslavko6059 Man was at Occupy Wall St. ...arrested at Standing Rock...And every major protest over the past 20 years
Whatever goes on here in America is also by complicity of other countries, both ally and foe alike, and perpetrate the turpitude of American Imperialism. If you weren’t having hope for Americans a few years ago, those who are a truly informed citizenry here, know good and well most citizens of our allied countries are just as hopeless of cause as you felt/feel we were/are. We collectively are complicit until we take direct action as nations against the highest levels of corruption all governments are perpetrating against their citizens.
As always, Chris Hedges is brilliant.
A journalist with intelligence and a moral code. He is the rarest of men.
Still listening in 2018, Mr. Hedges.
Still listening in 2022
@@kimberlycrichton2932 2023, hedges is a personal hero
I always get chills when I hear this man speak!
Oh my god, William Binney AND Chris Hedges in a debate at Oxford Union?
I can die a happy man now.
P.S. - Is there any chance we can have the full, unabridged events put up in the future? Would be great for immersion's sake!
If only there were more people like Chris Hedges in the world.
Mr. Hedges and Mr. Snowden are heroes.
More power to you gentlemen!
Yes Chris Hedges is the man.
Imagine having to follow that.
Bravo!!! Thank you so much Chris!
Mr. HEDGES looks sharp & speaks even sharper...
Unshakeable integrity, Chris Hedges Thank you.
Say what you want about the NSA but they are the only department in government that really listens.
lol
You want a rimshot for that?
I can't help but wonder how many of these stuffed shirts in the audience Chris Hedges is actually referring to when he talks about the levers of power.
All of them!!!
Right on!
May we have the FULL debate please ?
Thank you
I am assuming there were no rebuttal speeches. The haphazard organization of the speakers was confusing. I was not sure the correct order. I do know the speakers for the proposition (Hero Snowden) won the debate by a vote of the audience. I have to assume that it is impossible to make a valid case against the proposition since none was made. The opposition speakers resorted to logical fallacies, irrelevant evidence and misdirection to make their points. That seemed to be the only way they were able to keep talking. They lost the debate but are still winning in the halls of Congress and Justice. Sick!
Did someone actually try and oppose THAT?
Utterly brilliant, thank you Chris
I sobbing with rage listening to Hedges speech. It's so clear this is unconstitutional. It needs to end. There is no one to appeal to to make it end. We must do it through electing our own officials who can fight for us.
We must hold the Supreme Court accountable for its own moral turpitude.
@@ttystikkrocks1042 You can't because they are appointed for life. They are complicit in the corruption.
@@jonn9103 we must. The future of our nation depends on it.
Please tell me we have more gems like him and he is not alone!
be such a jewel.
Photography by Zoya Ralph Nader, Noam Chomsky, Thom Hartmann and many others
Plenty of them. But you won't encounter them without rigorous and prolonged research. Such people and their views are suppressed and obscured; deliberately so by Google algorithms. Inverted totalitarianism.
Peter Hitchens and George Galloway are others who inspire through virtue....
Glenn Greenwald who broke the Snowden revelations in the first place with Laura Poitras. Jeremy Scahill, Amy Goodman, Naomi Klein. These are other outstanding truth-telling, power-challenging, journalists. John Pilger is another one.
Mr. Hedges you give me hope.
5:58 Whoa! Jesus was there?!
He must be a fan of Chris Hedges also.
Jesus Christ! They say Jesus is always watching you... Maybe he was using the CIA system ... He's bummed out now 😂
lmao 🤣🤣
I respect Mr. Hedges
Chris Hedges for President!
The Empire of Illusion is under attack. Thanks Misters Snowden and Hedges.
Hail Snowden!
THE MOST IMPORTANT JOURNALIST IN AMERICA. Thank you Chris Hedges.❤️
Can't believe it's was seven years ago
Thank you for explaining that Edward Snowden did what needed to be done to expose crimes & should have been treated as Ellsberg was.
First they came for Snowden....
You are bigger than the whole universe Chris. You quench our thirst for truth. Alas, Americans, some, needless to say, those fallen victim to accident of birth, or own volition, chosen to close their mind and eyes and all senses, continue to accept being fed garbage by authorities. Will there be a Public awakening before the empire implode!?
Only by listening to great minds like Chris hedges will we have a chance to make a leap forward as human beings...
Brilliant speech!… 👏👏👏
This needs hundreds of millions of likes and billions of views because they affects the world over.
I am exhilarated to see how many comments say Hedges rocks, because he is truly a great journalist. Surely one of the best, IMO.
His dad was pretty amazing too.
Beyond brave.
I need like a 3 hour, uncut, unedited discussion between Hedges and Michael Hudson. A state of the union address, raw, not sugar coated.
Thank you. Hoping for another Snowden update.
Hear, Hear.
To gauge one’s level of consideration is to review one’s peers, in referencing the Vietnam conflict fighter pilot to quoting Al Gore innately, exceptionally speaks of, highlights remarkable conscientiousness ☂️🙏🌅
U are GREAT!
Yes!!!!
Lol - is that Toobin in the crowd? He must be biting his lip.
Little did his fellow colleagues know that he’d be famous for “Toobin’ “ Zoom with his private bedroom activities.
As a solitary individual is the ACTUAL courage of the righteous group
MAGNIFICENT!
Where can I see the whole debate?
Good question. I subscribe to the Oxford Union debates and the cut them up into individual testimonies. It would be nice to at least watch them in the order of their actual appearance in case they're commenting on the last speaker.
Oh man I actually managed to find it after a bit of searching, unfortunately it was hard to find and I forgot to save it to my favorites otherwise I'd share it. It was a pretty good debate.
A larger than life figure, captivating just amazing
A New England Yankee with a Progressive heart.
the truth
Not uploading the whole video is borderline criminal.
czcams.com/video/Q7iQZOSpv4A/video.html
God bless Chris Hedges
Being a professional critic of the establishment will get you an invitation to a debate at an elite institution with a bunch of windbags in bow ties.
Bravo!
Damn that man. Love him.
wow! nice speech reality based bravo!
Wow!!
Thank you for a lecture from Chris Hedges. Oxford union redeemed itself after lectures from the likes of Bannon and Ann Coulter
A fearless man speaking truth to power...
CHRIS HEDGES FOR PRESIDENT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
How do you debate that?
You can't debate empirical reality
I louve you CH
"The esteemed opposition" lol they should've warmed up the bus right then
I heard a lot of Hedges lectures.
I love this one. He is Hedges the Calvinist preacher and journalist all in one. He is in other lectures. But here we see it clearly the merger of the two.
This was a “debate,” so someone actually tried to refute Hedges’ eloquent dissertation?
What an astonishing man...
good man
One needs a home grown special ops militia to protect and serve that man, along with others well spoken and sound like him.
Bring back the constitution to its original version with all the benefits for an equal, modern and tolerant man.
What is Toobin doing there, what a hack.
Fantastic speech !
BASED AND RIGHTEOUS
Where's the whole debate? (Or has it been carved up in little bits for Americans?)
Going to look up Hugh Thompson ...
I love his humanity
Chris Hedges never lets s down
Whut a baddazz.
🌹👍
Would that he had a mic to drop, because _damn_
💚👏🏽
snowden, the last american hero? or are there more?
Chris Hedges is admirable.
i thought that chopper jockey was a canadian?
CZcams or "DemocracyNow"
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I hold Chris as the best who second starts there I have learned so much from this man I’ve never met, but I am grateful for.
Debate on Snowden? There is no debate. Only debate would be on for how long should we put those who call Snowden a traitor in prison
Don’t forget the Marine Corp Captain Charles B Johnson that climbed an Israeli tank , drew his firearm and single handedly stopped the Israeli tank column in Lebanon.
Hedges is Brilliant and as brutally honest as ever. Thank God for heroes like Snowden and Hedges who stand up to our corrupt regimes.
i would admire snowden much more if he had published all that he had. there is no 'just enough' of spy society.
May God give America what it deserves
CHRIS HEDGES YES MOST WHISTLEBLOWERS ARE HEROS!!!
wtkjr.!!!
ooo yeahhh baby!
4:23 it was a Soviet joke, now it is true in the US? Et tu?
TELLS IT LIKE IT IS.