I heard Chris speak at Barnard tonight and he was astonishing. This guy is not only brilliant, but compassionate as well. What he doesn't do is sugarcoat the truth. What many people in this country don't understand is that unless they organize and act, we are doomed to go the way of those who let their country collapse under the corruption of the unfettered elite. Can you say Weimar?

@michaelsix9684

Жыл бұрын

now a decade later, it's much worse, 30 trillion in national debt, endless war, climate change accelerating, weak president, corrupt Congress etc.

@kimpeccable

Жыл бұрын

@@michaelsix9684 not to mention the agenda of the globalists for a one world government via organizations like WEF. Smart cities, CBDCs, carbon taxes, digital passports. Universal slavery is their ultimate goal.

@kimshaw-williams

10 ай бұрын

Yes you can

Here at KZread University, Hedges is one of my main professors.

"Solution is not in voting, but in making those powerful afraid of us." Brilliant analysis, commentary and conclusion.

Absolutely brilliant man. A true truth teller.. Amazing how rare that's become now..

@martinowales9104

5 ай бұрын

Indeed..

@martinowales9104

5 ай бұрын

Edward L Bernay - 🏛🎓🤔

One Of The Greatest Speeches I Have Ever Heard!!!!

The venom and disgust with which Hedges spits out the word "rot" at 3:41 is epic.

Such a powerful speech- this is the first speech in a long long time that has instilled some hope

He's not talking about the death of the democratic party, he's talking about the liberal class keeping quiet while our ideals went down the drain.

@maryrodger5130

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbodriver1015 How does one differentiate between the two parties?

@Hodad3000

3 жыл бұрын

@@maryrodger5130 The window dressing.

@obfuscated3090

2 жыл бұрын

The ideals were academic because (if you are White) being liberal is COMPLETELY OPTIONAL and you can and most do opt out when it's more profitable to not be one. The liberal class are educated such that they do not PERSONALLY NEED a liberal world! Smart people can navigate and do well in any system so we do, and humans evolved to be self-interested savages so we are.

Listen here and now, and again. Honest Chris Hedges, FORTY FIVE MINUTES - to Midnight!

As a veteran of the imperial military and a former American "libertarian" I would like to thank Chris Hedges, Noam Chomsky, and the many other great independent thinkers for lifting the veil of illusion from my eyes.

On the other hand this is his only thesis I take as being controversial for me. I've read almost every book he's written and get so much out of them. I love to hear him articulate about the humanaties the most. I've also gone on to read many authors he writes and speaks about. I owe so much to Chris Hedges.

As always, Chris Hedges is wonderful

The greatest thing about what Chris Hedges is saying is that whether or not you are left or right, he shows where power is and where it SHOULD be. If you want the people to have power and things to be just and right (whatever your opinion is) laws are controlled by people who's only intrest is profit-money, the corporations.

Pure relevance after 12 years, 2012

Wish I could like this more than once.

When the people fear their government, you have tyranny. When the government fears the people, you have liberty. - Thomas Jefferson

As the working poor are "pounded into the ground", prisons become the only place to contain the suppressed rage they have. Because the social contract has been broken much in the same way treaties were broke with Indians. It is the way this culture strips away the very things it promises to deliver, and take once again the spoils away from yet another conflict.

I am listening to this in 2024 and every word he utters is as true ss the day he said it.

As a secular person, I laud Chris Hedges as a great Christian! He speaks truth to power, and should be listened to in earnest.

Brilliant. I'm inspired.

"Patriotism is nothing more than the organized group interests of the privileged class." - Bakunin

Came here to hear Hedges speak on the warning he gave us 13 years ago when I read this book and it opened my eyes in many ways. Now it is 2023, and the truth talkers are all silenced. Just like we were told by all the wise men would happen.

An absolutely stunning presentation that must be be heard far and wide, this is mind bending insight presented by Chris Hedges.

Do confuse Karl Marx with so-called Marxism. Marx was a thinker who was deeply influenced by the Enlightenment values of reason and individual liberty. He would have been absolutely horrified by what various dictators have done in his name, including Lenin, Stalin, Mao, etc.. Marx was much closer in spirit to John Locke and Adam Smith than he was to Lenin.

You are the video engineer we've been waiting for!

@bobsmith962

4 жыл бұрын

Yes 90s in effect

In addition to Chris' books, this one is an absolute must: "The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness" - Michelle Alexander Chris mentions the issue of major racial bias in the prison system. It is one of the key issues of our time.

@winterrosscharlton I am a baby boomrer myself, turning 51 next month. I did not realize at the beginning of my work life that Reagan was beginning to redistribute wealth upward. It is interesting to me to see that, for example, raising the ceiling for social security taxes and medicare taxes beyond $106,000 is not even discussed. That is an arbitrary ceiling. There is no reason not to raise it and also tax capital gains as well...while maybe not at the same rate as "earned income".

and on top of that he is brilliant.

Man, it's both incredible to hear someone speak out like this and also scary that there aren't many other people doing it. The media, except for NYT out occasional truths,has been destroyed.

Hedge is the only person who I see as telling the complete truth about our modern political and social condition - without compromise. Hats off to you, sir.

@rhonda6791

3 жыл бұрын

Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff. I follow them both.

Truer words were never spoken.

Not many people, if anyone, have articulate the problem this well. Good job.

And here we are today....2022...Some things are so predictable....The Machine is alive and well...And The People, not so much.......Tragic and boring........The banality of Evil......

It takes real guts to say what he does @23:38.

@ghfakar “Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” - Isaac Asimov

Chris talks about the corporatization of many facets of our society, which have the affect of killing the tradition liberal class. Have we lost our will to fight against the big corporations, such as military and oil interests especially? What meaning does the voice of one man or woman have in today's plutocracy? I can relate when Hedges talks about flagrant hypocrisy. It is running rampant in the USA it seems.

I suggest you download this before KZread makes it inaccessible. This is DANGEROUS (powerful).

@kimjohnson8471

2 жыл бұрын

@@SisypheanRoller yeah. It's longer than a tic tok video. Pity.

One thing that would 'scare the powerful' is viable local and regional currencies.The system is defined and sustained by its money and local challenges to its greed and debt based currency would be a huge proactive step!

Actually I was responding to Killdacrawler's post. I certainly concur with your point of view. The question, "what makes America the greatest country in the world" certainly can be answered with a simple "It's not".

I know he said "our job is not to take power..." but damn I'd like to see him give these brutally honest speeches as a presidential canidate.

27:45

Tisk tisk, name calling is no way to argue. You realize he is doing exactly what he says he isn't, which is parroting the liberal class. This is the only book/thesis I don't think he knows what he is talking about. He is liberal, he is white, he tries to act like a badass, like he invented this shit. but he is very smart and extremely well educated and understands what real education is about, which is improving the self and the community.

I wish all conservatives would watch this.

Like Chomsky Chris is a great analyst of our cultures politics. It starts to seem like utter doom and gloom though, and this certainly won't work to evoke peoples adaptive and creative capacities.We need a vision or many useful visions of what can help. I like the Transition Movement myself.

Chris Hedges is pretty much spot on . . . I just wish that the Richard Dawkinses, the Sam Harrises and the Chris Hedges of the world could see that they have far more in common than they think. Why argue over the belief in a God when all agree that religious fundamentalism is a danger internally and externally.

YEAH CHRIS

Those who choose the nominees control the elections. The plutocrats in.partnership with the party leaders choose the nominees. We then determine which of the two corporate owned nominees serve the corporate class as President.

I would really like to see this but it keeps freezing at 3:47

But Obama looked so dreamy in that blue shirt, with his sleeves rolled up!

The difference is Bush will write the Patriot act but not arrest anyone who isn't Arab under it. North Korea and China would write the same kind of law, then carry through with it.

If you liked this, see Hedges on TVO's The Agenda, Death of the Liberal Class? Oct 22, 2010 on KZread. As a former resident of the US and now Canada, Hedges knows what time it is. See Chomsky - Prospects for Democracy 1994

@sanford943

Жыл бұрын

I have no idea if you are still around after 11 years. I found a round table discussion with Hedeges and 3 others from October 25th 2010. I couldn't find the speech. If you have a link I would appreciate it. I did find two speeched that he gave. One on CSpan and one from Powells book store. I am guessing they are smilar to the one he gave on the agenda

@DjWellDressedMan

Жыл бұрын

@@sanford943 kzread.info/dash/bejne/nayc0JlwgLC-abA.html

@DjWellDressedMan

Жыл бұрын

still kicking and Hedges is still calling hte shots, along with Chomsky!!!!!

@sanford943

Жыл бұрын

@@DjWellDressedMan I thought there was a speech there. I did find this round table tonight Thanks I will watch one of the two speeches I found.

I find the argument made here very consistent with my own knowledge and experience. While I'm sure he makes cases elsewhere, as far as this goes, I would bear in mind that name-calling, emotive language and conventional historical memes are not arguments for his tangential positive world view. -Supporter of unacccountable private tyrannies

@wareq Good thing you got him labelled then. Next!

Why not go to amazon for the book, Chris? Lots of independent sellers make their living there.

Ah, question answered -- Nader.

Norman Finkelstein. Ron Paul. Dennis Kucinich.

I'd be liberal, but I'm dead.

Low regulation on smaller business. But strong Anti-trust, Fair-play and anti-exploitation laws

Price controls is bad.. goverment forcing hospitals and medicinal companies into a collective bargaining situation in behalf of the people it represents is great. Price controls should never be used unless the market has become a monopoly or cartel and there is no longer competition.. last ditch thing.

@iriisblue dude i asked my high school english teacher this..and she was like u know the adminstrators wont like that hahaha

Talk about saw it coming I'm amazed at the religious people who see no problem gorgeing themselves on wealth and could care less about the poor. I deserve this money because I've worked so hard for it all these poor people are just lazy. If i was even moderately wealthy I would see it as god blessed me with these money and it is my duty to use to make the world better. USA is the roman empire part 2. The republic has died now were 30 yrs into the empire.

@kemokidding You haven't heard his other talks. He called himself an anarchist in one.

That was a stretch calling Nixon our last liberal president.

READ 'THE SHALLOWS' BY NICHOLAS CARR

@wareq He isn't an anarchist, read his blog on Truthdig. He believes in the rule of law, but seeing as how we no longer have it, you can understand why he feels desperate enough to call himself one.

@malkooth You're joking right? He didn't say Allah. He said I'll ah...and then stopped and went on with what he had to say.

Could be, but the Romney 100ft. bridge gives you longer to look forward to the pain.

Well...that basically tells it like it is here in the ol' u s of a......

Read all the stuff from which he quotes.. He may not be perfect, but who the hell is? One thing I can tell you, CH speaks the truth about american corporatism's "manufacture of consent"

@malkooth Good to hear. :-) I thought surely you must be but I've come across so many paranoid idiots on here, sometimes it's hard to tell.

social democracy will always be controlled indirectly by the corporations it taxes, thus social democracies are always one piece of legislation away from corporatocracies. long live democratic socialism

Goverment should generally be very careful about meddling in how business in run.. Competition is one of the main things that make us better, not just at making money :) The biggest problem at the moment imo is profit motive in politics, Corporations have no business running goverment just like goverment has no business running factories, Its not a straight line from left to right tho, Some things work worse with a profit motive other things would not be possible without it.

First off, the republican party is far more collectivistic than the democrats--they consistently say the same thing with the same language. Right wing America is far more hive minded than the American left. Republicans are the party of collectivist thought; democrats are the party that says society is made of interdependent members working together for a better quality of life for all its citizens. We give our individual efforts, but we also love our neighbors.

ah, you got to it first - but i believe you meant "far from the only" ;)

Watching the audience cringe while the list of horrible betrayals by this administration are counted out... I am so fucking mad.

@not2tees At YTU Hedges is the chancellor he took Noam Chomsky's old job.

I'm really curious as to who Chris Hedges voted for in '08. Anybody know?

@sanford943

Жыл бұрын

I would assume he didn't vote for McCain. Might not even have voted for Obama. Pretty sure he voted for Nader. If my some miracle Kuncinch was the nominee he might have voted for him

This is way beyond Socialism vs Capitalism Its about Democracy vs Totalitarianism If things actually worked US would be better off somewhere in the middle between Socialism and capitalism with a strong core of Democracy.

Lets elect Chris Hedges president, we need an alternative to Barack Obama and the republican nominee. Americans elect is putting the winner of the ballot in every state, please educate yourself about this movement on Americans Elect's website. But also, join the facebook group I just started so we can pool our energies and come up with a plan to get him elected! Facebook search "Chris Hedges for President Americans Elect"

Be ready for the wellfare state to kick in. Unemployment runs out this year. The people in the gulf might be "reintegrated" into other parts of the country. Where there are no jobs. Things might get a bit hairy. Two words: Victory gardens.

yeah but he didn't need to say any of this. he could've just gone to work for exxon too.

@ghfakar I concider Asimov a great writer and a much smarter man then me, So I used a quote I liked. Im not saying that the hybrid systems that work well in Europe would work in USA but atleast know what your talking about, Its fine to have an ideology but it should be tempered over time by facts. I think the entire perception and meaning of words like "social" and "liberal" is different to Americans then to Europeans.

you should get out more. yes he's fighting good fights, but he sure as shit doesn't belong alone on a pedestal.

see: " America's Darkest Secret " The Nine Stages of American Autogenocide (Revised January 13, 2009) Martha Rose Crow, M.S.

12:04 is that john malkovich?

@nanogod goo dto know i don't got time to watch it.

12:17 'Freudian slip' ? ..."deemed to be [what?]"

2023

I think the liberal-progressives need to look up how Obama critiqued and criticized the Clinton Administration in the 1990s--because the things Obama says are not unlike Hedges's criticisms. Than I would suggest the liberal-progressives consider such a think as political reality and political economies. If Obama remains spineless in his second term, if he doesn't present an ardent discourse for progressive issues, we will see if he is a transitional figure or not.

@AndrewMann552 sorry to let you know that it's not the thinkers americans look up to.

message in a bottle. molotov.

@TreeLuvBurdpu "This guy ... has no idea ... what drives the Tea Party." Really? What drives it then? "He has no concept of what drives a free individual & can think only in terms of "class"." Class is a reality right-wingers pretend does not exist. Rarely if ever are working people looked at as "heroic individuals." Right-wingers promote ideas such as "individuals" & "free will" to keep working people from uniting & forming a viable alternative to capitalism.

@PtAltmVansanTarr Then YOU should join Occupy same as the "young" Chris Hedges.

I haven't noticed the death of either party. This man must think there is an Anti-Corporation Party out there somewhere.

also, taibbi's debunking of truthers was very disappointingly scattershot. still no comprehensive effort that i'm aware of.

I can agree with almost all of what he says except for his Pro-abortion views and his attack on Heath Insurance companies.

@sanford943

Жыл бұрын

why would you disagree with attack on Health Insurance Companies. They are even worse today

Wait, what? Hedges has traveled to & reported from dangerous places around the world, as well as been an impassioned & vocal supporter of far-left solutions to our absurd societies problems. I respect he & Chomsky greatly. So tired of the Left's splitting hairs/litmus test bullshit. We're always divided on shades of ideology, and the Right always wins.

this country is slowly going back to old british parliment..we could prevent this if we just open our eyes..we let goverment grow in power in the wrong areas..

@brightsuperstition I see where you are coming from, but if you read his blog you realize he is just out to restore the pre-2000 concensus in American society.

@AmerikanPatriot and execute the Constitution while you're at it...and to use the rhetoric that folks who seem to resemble you like to you use: If you don't like Freedom of Speech and Press, feel free to move.