This has aged like fine wine. What a great talk.

@denniseelman9731

2 жыл бұрын

nothing changed and things only got worse with the identity politics

@denniseelman9731

2 жыл бұрын

@@elianamckee It's distracting all of us from what actually has to be done to create a better future. It's truly sad.

@denniseelman9731

2 жыл бұрын

The identity politics makes for an easy game too be played, one that can be easily played - and used - by the people in power: media, politicians, celebrities, capitalists. They'll look good, vitual signaling in their expensive outfits,, they'll be able to keep their fancy positions and nothing will actually change that much.

@bziel25

2 жыл бұрын

He refers to 5 trillion in debt. TODAY WE ARE AT $30 Trillion!!!!!!

@ad2094

2 жыл бұрын

@@denniseelman9731 when was politics in this country not tied to identity? Not saying you do this, but many critique identity politics as some new phenomena of the political Left when identity has always been a mainstay of American politics.

I found this gentleman by accident. But man, what an eloquent prophet of truth. I am going to keep listening to him.

@theclericbeast4603

2 жыл бұрын

More like a false one

@dangale3220

2 жыл бұрын

@@theclericbeast4603 sorry, we are so many times misguided by allowing ourselves to be brainwashed by the so called elite.

@douglascarlson9006

Жыл бұрын

He changed - BIG TIME! He abandoned the working class on all things COVID once the lock downs were declared ... he won't go near it, he won't touch!

@sjonm

Жыл бұрын

@@douglascarlson9006 he's not your governor, president, Senator ot House rep. FYI he speaks out look up the infor

@sjonm

Жыл бұрын

@@dangale3220 for any takeaways, it's up to you to decide. it's a free world remember. nothing is being forced down your throat grab a book and read

This was recorded 8 years ago.....still vibrant and speaking to the heart of our dilemma

Chris Hedges speaks truth to power! And truth is a limited commodity these days.

How can anyone listen and deny what this brilliant man is saying?

@yasminer3288

5 жыл бұрын

nole 89 trump supporters those are the ones who will dismiss Chris hedge

@aracelyemmett3493

5 жыл бұрын

If they have a verbal intellectual bilge filter quite easilydeny. With a filter anyone can see hedges is an intellectual hillbilly who didn't have enough attention as a child. He is the cure for insomnia.

@BaronSaturday66

4 жыл бұрын

If the majority of Christians were more like Chris here, as an agnostic, I would not fear them so much.

@n2cat

4 жыл бұрын

I JUST DID

@brawndo8726

4 жыл бұрын

Because 58:09

Love this man he has both anger and courage..he's stood for justice...what he believes in

I've listened this one before. Even better the second time. Possibly the best of Chris Hedges. I wish I could give this one more thumbs up.

@jamesrussell6638

2 жыл бұрын

I got you b

@zalishaabdool6671

2 жыл бұрын

We Need A Speaker Like You!! We Stand Up...To Support You!! We ❤😍💖❣💕💘 Love You!!

@robertcarpenter7486

2 жыл бұрын

Agree with this conversation

@carlastarkey4775

2 жыл бұрын

@@robertcarpenter7486 I first saw Chris Hedges on Democracy Now 8 years ago. I was frightened and angry and now cannot unsee what he revealed. How we must fight fascism because they are fascists. We are mice squeaking against an avalanche...but squeak we must...

@angelab4652

2 жыл бұрын

Is this great thinker still on thee planet?

8 years later, nothing has changed, if not worse...

@brucepieroni9102

3 жыл бұрын

Much worse.

@MrSp0iler

3 жыл бұрын

@@brucepieroni9102 Well USA makes money and guns, it is all that you need in life to live good.

@lightwishatnight

3 жыл бұрын

@DarkTagMaster @DarkTagMaster so, you're the part of the people Chris (the speaker) is talking about. Can't cope, so retreat to instagram and netflix? That's your strat? You are, indeed, doomed.

@lightwishatnight

3 жыл бұрын

Wasn't this on 2003? This an almost 20 year old talk. 8 years ago was published in KZread. Carl Sagan talked about this in 1995, in his book "The Daemon Hunted World" Chilling, and yet, true. That book is 5 years away from its 30 anniversary.

@MrSp0iler

3 жыл бұрын

@@lightwishatnight Wasnt Carl from Egypt, working in government institutions while peasants die

This good man is saying what I have been feeling for years,THE TRUTH

Chris Hedges never ceases to be relevant. That is the difference between deeply felt philosophical thought and daily sound bites from garbage MSM media. You can listen to this talk in 2040 and it will still resonate.

Chris Hedges speaks so eloquently what my angry mind cannot transcribe.

@shoshannamashiach808

3 жыл бұрын

Loved his quote from St Augustine. Used twice today in communications.

11 years ago and rings true to this day. Wish you were the President. Thank you for all you share with the world.

Chris Hedges...voice of sanity and clarity in times of darkness.

@merbst

2 жыл бұрын

A brave voice, alone not enough, yet not enjoined by others.

This is a great monologue. Chris needs to be shared with your friends and family.

@ophelia403

2 жыл бұрын

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@ophelia403

2 жыл бұрын

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@ophelia403

2 жыл бұрын

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@ophelia403

2 жыл бұрын

999

@ophelia403

2 жыл бұрын

✏️🐶

As someone who has stood up to bullying culture in the workplace twice, and sacrificed my job and standing and even friendships to do so, I understand the losses of people who stand up. I hope even my small, and local stance could create an awareness that the systems are abusive and authority is usually abused and needs to be monitored closely and held to account.

@McFraneth

2 жыл бұрын

Me too. I couldn't bear the bullying and cruelty. I found it intolerable and spoke up. My colleagues all turned their backs. I kept my dignity. My doctor said, the workplace is an unbelievably violent place.

@garrettyocom3680

2 жыл бұрын

I just got out of college and started working and I’m amazed the amount of bullying and sociopathic behavior that’s rampant in the workforce. People are afraid to lose their jobs. They work in fear.

@AbtinX

2 жыл бұрын

Do you guys work in an office environment? Sounds completely intolerable

@conniem2394

Жыл бұрын

My son wanted to put me in a mental institute. I wish I would have found Chris years ago to proof that I wasn't the only 1 foresee our future. We don't talk or see each other anymore.

@sheikhhussainshaikhsalleh8429

Жыл бұрын

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He’s 110 % right about the whole system!!

Chris Hedges is so well spoken. And above all, so truthful...

@MrSp0iler

3 жыл бұрын

Yup it is too creepy to see remember what they did to poor child Jackson, I love playing musical instruments but I do it alone not to let profit everyone except me and those that helped me get poverty musical instruments.

@RicoJazz

3 жыл бұрын

Yes, because he's a church preacher.

@hawkpunkpoet8666

3 жыл бұрын

He also gets paid over $20,000 per pop to talk about poverty and the elites.

@humanearthling4661

3 жыл бұрын

@ CryptedSky -- Huh?

@amssaid9583

3 жыл бұрын

Absly,

This may have come out in 2012 yet it is so relevant to 2020. ✨

@DiceBaseballDigest

3 жыл бұрын

More so today.

Growing up we select our heroes,sometimes changing them as we mature,though some remain.My new #1 hero....Chris Hedges.

CHRIS HEDGES SPEECH 15 AUGUST 2012. IT IS NOW 2020. HE WAS RIGHT.

@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858

2 жыл бұрын

_good you're catching up!_

@corryjookit7818

2 жыл бұрын

@@anhumblemessengerofthelawo3858 or catching on ?

What a great man! One voice in an ocean of greed.

The most incredible talk about our world today and our demise!

Honestly the most mind-sobering, thinker I've heard in a long time...

2021, and this is terrifyingly prophetic for not only its time but for today.

"We measure our lives by these celebrities. We seek to be like them. We emulate their look and behavior. We escape the messiness of real life through the fantasy of their stardom. We too long to attract admiring audiences for our grand ongoing life-movie. We try to see ourselves moving through our life as a camera would see us - mindful of how we carry ourselves, how we dress, what we say. We invent movies that play inside our heads with us as stars. We wonder how an audience would react. Celebrity culture has taught us almost unconsciously to generate interior, personal screenplays, and we have learned ways of speaking and thinking that grossly disfigure the way we relate to the world and those around us."

@MesmerGW2

3 жыл бұрын

He said these words around the infancy stage of social media... it's only gotten much worse.

@DiceBaseballDigest

3 жыл бұрын

Kardashian syndrome

@williehaller5840

2 жыл бұрын

Oh yeah?

So many warnings, so many talented analysts, philosophers, writers who said it a million ways, so little heeding. Their genius could not compete with the market logic. What do you do? How do you fight or even resist. Where do you find hope?

Incredibly prescient. Chris Hedges is a true prophet of our age, bravely staring into the abyss, informing us how we got here and how we can heal the malaise. True bravery!

Thank you, for speaking out and not looking away. We are in the key crucial battle of our lives. Everything we have learned, everything we have done and all that has occurred before and during our lives have prepared us to act in ways appropriate to the times. We must be confident and not give up or give in to corporate fascism. Our Promise We make this promise, Like a stake in the ground Marking our future that is not yet real, Our future will not exist, without us, And our shared will to have it be. Inside the gap between promise and new reality, We act step by step, From now and into the next moment, Inside a field of uncertainty, Our stand, firmly planted, Freedom Larry

I enjoyed his answer to ‘Knowing what you know, what keeps you from blowing your brains out?’ to which he replied ‘Anger and its two daughters hope and courage’

"A dream is something you strive towards - an illusion is something you live within" 44:19

@TheJohnGram

8 жыл бұрын

+mind biz It was a direct quote from Chris Hedges 44:19

@TheJohnGram

8 жыл бұрын

+mind biz See 'dream' sense 1.2 www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/dream and 'illusion' sense 1.1 www.oxforddictionaries.com/us/definition/american_english/illusion

@robertbennet8814

8 жыл бұрын

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@terryl858

3 жыл бұрын

Thant about sums up American

@evonline

3 жыл бұрын

Platitudes? Spare me. Hedges is an insufferable pompous blowhard.

"... then I realized that what my father has given me was FREEDOM! " - CHRIS HEDGES , one of the most brilliant man of America. Thank you for such a POWERFUL speech and this inspiring human being you are! GREETINGS FROM BRAZIL

@RedRider1600

5 жыл бұрын

Lenin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez gave similar speeches.

@RedRider1600

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbodriver1015 Did that go over your head? . . . LoL

Thank you chris . . .this speech is one of the best discription and sad Poetry of our time. Thanks again .

Now is a great time for people to hear this again when considering the plight of so many today and how this has come to be

Thank you Chris Hedges. I recognize I may not be brilliant. However I value the truth and understanding enough to study brilliant. Chris Hedges - brilliant as his words have stood the test of time.

The ending is so moving. I have so much respect for Chris Hedges. If politicians had his integrity the world would be a better place.

@Maxrepfitgm

2 жыл бұрын

They wouldn't be politicians if they had integrity

@DoberDudeProductions

2 жыл бұрын

@@Maxrepfitgm that's a crock. There are politicians with integrity, but not those who serve corporate interests. We need to stop pretending that government, the greatest power of the public, is something inherently bad. The government isn't corrupt because the government is too powerful. Our government is corrupt because the wealthy are corrupt and they have too much power over our government. The mindset that government in itself is bad is a mindset that fuels pro-corporate pseudo-libertarianism in the U.S. Our government has been corrupted by wealthy interests. So we need to further regulate it. Just as industry needs to be regulated so the wealthy don't abuse our natural environment, government needs to be appropriately regulated so the wealthy can't abuse our society. We need to remove money from politics.

2012: "Largest transference of wealth" 2020: "Hold my beer"

@revup5198

3 жыл бұрын

Hedges in brilliant, "Full Spectrum Dominance" by F William Engdahl (2009) does a great job explaining how the problems will be addressed, and it's absolutely horrifying.

@ctsphang

3 жыл бұрын

Cindy S, none of this is funny---but it's all laughable.

@michaelfoley3777

3 жыл бұрын

If ONLY the world would listen to this great man? If only!!!!!!

@xqt39a

3 жыл бұрын

This video is 8 years old and is more true today. The man is a modern day prophet. The end of the empire is almost here. 11/1/2020.

@ep3989

3 жыл бұрын

@@xqt39a It's older. I think it's from 2003

While Chris Hedges, of course, is brilliant as usual, this audience and particularly the people asking questions are also brilliant. Everyone is so thoughtful and well spoken. How rare it is to find such a gathering.

@deeem-tee799

2 жыл бұрын

Amen !......maga hats and the small rube minds under them have no place there.

@eoghanmccarthy7614

2 жыл бұрын

There is no future in american politics. It is evil Throughout. Listen to Chris HEDGES but will you act on his philosophy.

@SaundraRaynor

5 ай бұрын

I love listening to him but wonder why there is no action as of yet to reform our corrupt government.

"Great spirits have always encounted violent opposition from mediocre minds". Albert Einstein. Great spirit in this instance is Chris Hedges.

@fradsig

5 жыл бұрын

LOVE that quote. Thanks for sharing. :)

@n2cat

4 жыл бұрын

NO, HE IS NOT AS GREAT AS ONE WOULD THINK.

@xxdrleek10

3 жыл бұрын

"encounted"???

@tomrhodes1629

3 жыл бұрын

"First you will be troubled. Then you will be amazed. And then you will rule over all." Jesus Christ in The Gospel of Thomas. Chris is "troubled," because he has seen behind the curtain WITHIN the illusion. But when he eventually sees behind the curtain OF THE ILLUSION (that is this temporal world), he will be "amazed" that The Mind that is All ("God") is in total control. He will then OVERCOME this world, and will rule in Unity with The Mind that is All. This is the journey of EVERY soul. A teacher and prophet of God has spoken in these "end times".....the end of one cycle of time before the beginning of the new. Give me a "click" if you want to know more...

@miguelchippsinteligente6072

3 жыл бұрын

Tesla referenced human energy 🌪👻jesus christ referenced living waters 💎🤍science described water memory 🌊👨‍🎓existence reflecting psychologically,psalms16:24 k,j 👻💎🤍👨‍🎓🗽💖🌪🌪🌪

Audience question: "With all that you know, what keeps you from blowing your brains out?" Chris: "Anger."

@johnmiller7453

6 жыл бұрын

Mike it's pure cowardice and fear. But the desire to be gone from this hellish nightmare is real.

@lindacianchetti3599

5 жыл бұрын

Mike D focus, too. Desire is prayer. Prayer is always answered. Be very careful what you are actually focusing on because that which you are desiring shall manifest in abundance.

@lindacianchetti3599

5 жыл бұрын

Mike D sobriety. Chris has stayed quite sober in the midst of millions of luring intoxications.

@abrambadal8997

5 жыл бұрын

Why not beleive in destroying the evil-dooers instead of destroying ourselves ?? It is wrong to kill the victims , and only right to beleive in delivering all of us from slavery they designed for us on this planet !!! They will surely loose and we will certainly win !

@bn5369

5 жыл бұрын

@@johnmiller7453 what hellish nightmare if I may ask? You live in a country where millions are dying to get to.

Everything he predicted has come true.

@KingMinosxxvi

3 жыл бұрын

It was long already true.

@KingMinosxxvi

3 жыл бұрын

@Erasmus the blasphemous I agree. However, I didn't realize this from 2003.. That's pretty pescient

@dankyden

3 жыл бұрын

@@KingMinosxxvi its not, he talks about the obama administration

@KingMinosxxvi

3 жыл бұрын

@@dankyden Ok that makes more sense. Thanks

@jamessinton7718

3 жыл бұрын

He literally predicted trump at 41:44

Watching this November 2020, amazing how prescient this lecture would become.....

Chris Hedges nails it again.

Chris Hedges is AWESOME! WHERE HAS HE BEEN ALL MY LIFE?

In 2020 I found a hero. I'm in awe of this man. Who'd a thunk?

It's now 2021 and everything Chris says in this discussion has come true.

@DonDeering

2 жыл бұрын

He's like a doctor who understands the disease but he can't or won't recommend the cure, working-class struggle.

@laurayoung8001

2 жыл бұрын

@@DonDeering The cure is you. It's inside you. Consumer addiction and addiction to our outside, not what we have on the outside.

@DanielAvalos02

2 жыл бұрын

It was always true why do you think he was saying it then ?

@merbst

2 жыл бұрын

2022! woo hoo

@merbst

2 жыл бұрын

@@DanielAvalos02 Imperialism = Capitalism + others

I salute Chris for his edifying presentation. The barest suggestion of a choking gasp and the catch in his voice in the concluding sentence, is by far the most fitting tribute he pays to his magnanimous father who epitomized the enduring values of echt liberal education.

Chris, watching this in 2023 + it’s pure GOLD! Love your passion. Keep that going in ‘23!!!

Wow, this is 2021 and Mr Hedges was right about everything 9 years ago. I wish I could see the dots and connect them as clearly as he did (does)!

@kos965098

2 жыл бұрын

💯

@pauldreamchaser9783

2 жыл бұрын

An this is 2022 he right 6 years ago, USA is going down starting with this OIL price increase and the SAUDIs and UAE 🇦🇪 refusal to comply , my opinion is this , America couldn’t even make people wear masks 🎭 , China or highly controlled states gonna win unfortunately

"We must become as militant as those seeking our enslavement."

@gummipalle

8 жыл бұрын

+Kevin Pacifico Gonzaga ...."and become slaves to ourselves..." Argh... we cant win....

@TheSoulBlossom

3 жыл бұрын

@José Pedro Coelho lol

@yandunker4273

3 жыл бұрын

You are already enslaved by defense industry brainwash.

@yandunker4273

3 жыл бұрын

@@TheSoulBlossom See the English interview of Dr.Judy Mikovits on www.brighteon.com/channels/patrice

@duggydugg3937

3 жыл бұрын

Step 1 identifying the creeps enslaving u s with unnecessary debt

This man need to be protected at all cost! Long live the real USA.

Anecdotally : I introduced the incites and wisdom of Chris Hedges to an old friend of 60 years who happened to be not only the nicest person I have ever known but a life-long Presbyterian minister. His reaction : it was "too strong" for him to digest. I wept.

@saransong5547

2 жыл бұрын

😢

@vaska1999

4 ай бұрын

That *is* sad. We need pastors of courage.

@katadam2186

Ай бұрын

Draw a small map/algorithm chart. This happened then it went here ; IF /Then/Go To

Note to self: don't watch Chris Hedges before bed. Now I'm laying here with heart palpitations, due to sheer anger and hopelessness.

@onamemmet

2 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's not a fount of hope.

this speech feels historical. It will be examined and discussed well into the future.

@RashidLanie8

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry but the case against MJ regarding children has yet to be proven. It’s a pity that the wise CH shamefully bought into the media hit piece on MJ. Everything else he states about MJ is unfortunately true. Be that as it may, because of his unproven MJ child charges against history won’t embrace this speech as a standard of our times, imho.

@mindsigh4

2 жыл бұрын

@@RashidLanie8 i know, right? he really goes out on a limb here with Jackson, making all those assumptions, but he probably thinks O.J. Simpson is a killer too.🤷

Excellent lecture! Chris Hedges signed his work with Excellence well done Sir!

Of his many harangues of our socioeconomic culture, this is one of Hedges’ most brutal and blunt. I’ve played this for people who don’t normally hear such criticism of American life, and usually about halfway-through they decide they can’t handle it anymore, that it’s “too depressing.” I’ll say too bad, it’s the truth, harsh as it may be. A lot of people can’t handle the truth. This willful avoidance of reality is part of the problem….and this is nearly a decade or go. We never truly recovered from the ‘08 crash, and all the problems that Chris speaks of here has only gotten worse. In this talk he accurately predicts the Trump phenomenon, among other things.

Brilliant! I think the man at the end asked maybe the most important question for the american people: are you going to live with spending more than 50% of your budget on a military empire (you spend more on military than rest of the world all together) while people live in poverty, are dying from need of medical care they cant pay them self, your education system are failing... the list goes on? Greetings from Norway - hopefully you will fix this - for all the world.

@mariaelenajarrin246

3 жыл бұрын

Mjusiq™ this country definitely will not. It’s divided against itself. The family unit is destroyed and corporate America is destroying religion. No morals and all forms of hate and civil unrest. The lies are catching up with them. We were fools to believe

@eddyk6853

3 жыл бұрын

If you are still here in Sept 2020. No, nobody has been saved. If anything, it's a lot worse now...

@mypetcrow9873

3 жыл бұрын

2020 here. We have the answer and that answer is Yes.

He is absolutely brilliant!!!

Every Democrat wondering how we got Trump should watch this

@cwo2mdfay

3 жыл бұрын

You do know he's talking about celebrity culture, which is almost entirely in support of the Democratic Party.

@Sullifly

3 жыл бұрын

@@cwo2mdfay I don't think you hear what Mr. Hedges is saying. @Lisa is absolutely correct.

@trevotbauer8486

3 жыл бұрын

and why we have biden

@Guitar.Gemini

3 жыл бұрын

We fetishize demagogues.

@Smecksee

3 жыл бұрын

@@cwo2mdfay Celebrities are more likely to be left wing. I feel like the people more likely to be celebrity obsessed though are from the right.

Such a great speech about Michael. Hedges always has the best takes. Love him

@RashidLanie8

3 жыл бұрын

I’m sorry but the case against MJ regarding children has yet to be proven. It’s a pity that the wise CH shamefully bought into the media hit piece on MJ. Everything else he states about MJ is unfortunately true.

I’d like to think I would be remembered as a parent who gave their child freedom. What a beautiful and hopeful speech. Feels like I’ve just left a Sunday service. 🙏

Wow. We need more and more Americans to listen and understand what this man has said. Not everyone is searching for the truth but for those that are here it is!

@truther001

2 жыл бұрын

If he was a real truther, he wouldn't be allowed to give speeches or write books. Just more controlled copposition.

@dingusdingus2152

2 жыл бұрын

Nobody's listening. Nobody understands anything. Nobody cares.

@joeching

2 жыл бұрын

LICENTISM West’s licentism is a social system based on licentiousness. Asia’s fengjian culture is that based on safeguarded progress, In opposite to fengjian culture’s harmony with nation, licentism has manifested itself in uncontrolled rebellions. Human civilization has been sustained by fengjian for thousands of years and is still no end in sight. But licentism arrived on the scene around the founding of America, and, the way licentism is rebelling against everything in sight made it clear that humanity wont be last very long. The emerging situation in Ukraine is shaping up to be the beginning of the end of the struggle between licentism and fengjian. This struggle’s root can be traced back to the two world wars we fought. Mass destructions aside, it’s the war of propaganda that distinguished the two factions, licentism ahd fengjian, of the wars. But the potent lies in the propaganda have cursed humanity to the current status of approaching an unavoidable mutual annihilation. The licentism faction called themselves liberal democrats. Being the victors, as only to be expected, they also won the rights to designate the fengjian faction nations with derogatory names, such as Nazi Germany, Fascist Japan, communist China, and in recent days, Muslim terrorists. Then after the WWII ended, the licentism nations was able to justify themselves, with the underlying meaning of these derogatory names, to station troops on and militarily contain the fengjian nations. However, the most troublesome schemes by the licentism nations is the continual instigations of what we now know as color revolutions, aimed at regime-changing fengjian nations. The two most major color-revolution attempts by America were the 1989 on China and 1991 on the Soviet Union. China survived, but Soviet Union didn’t. And what a difference it made to the two largest fengjian countries! Even the most powerful alliance in the fengjian faction, Russia and China, is no match for the color-revolution scheme of the licentious liberal democracies of America and Europe. Base on the negative impacts around the world of color revolutions, it is a generally agreed, as demonstrated by the recent effort by Russia to liberate itself by way of Ukraine’s latest color revolution, that sooner or later there will be a showdown big enough to bring an end to human civilization. And there is no way out. Why? We lied too much, especially in name callings, particularly regarding those names, nazi, fascist and terrorist. Who, in history’s truth, are they? They are nothing but the past fengjian nations who have individually resisted the onslaught of licentism, namely Germany, Japan and the Muslim countries. Nevertheless the major stakeholders of fengjian have always been: China, Russia, Japan and Germany. THEY CONSIST OF AN OVERWHELMINGLY MORE POWERFUL GROUP THAN THE LICENTIOUS LIBERAL DEMOCRATIC ALLIANCE. In 2007 Japan was found to be “not guilty” in WWII, based on the Japanese Imperial Army’s war records, that America finally decided to release 70 years after the war. And the good behavior of Germany, in contrast with the equally bad behavior of America, especially in terms of the same kind of lying propaganda being exhibited in its support of Ukraine’s current color revolution, is injecting doubts into the question: “How evil are Nazis, fascists and terrorists?” Shouldn’t that all fengjian be united to liberate their own kind. Russia has started in Ukraine against Europe and America. China has implied “no ceiling” in its support of Russia. Isn’t it time to formally send a message to Japan and Germany that if the four major fengjian countries unite, it will be the game-over for America’s dream of world domination?

18:18 Damn 8 years ago that was actually generous in comparison to crap that's going down now!

What a brilliant ,brave,unselfish man! A modern day prophet looking deeply into our pathetically disillusioned realities.A superb diagram of our insanely grotesque situation of the rape of our greatest integrities.The reminder that we should stand against the slaughter of our better instincts.

1:18:20 "St Augustine said that hope has two beautiful daughters - anger and courage. Anger at the way things are and the courage to make sure they don't remain that way." Then such moving anecdotes in conclusion

This is my favorite Hedge's video on KZread. He's really hitting on all cylinders in this one. Preach Chris!

This speech from 2012 . In 2020 Chris Hedge's scripture has become FULFILLED

I hate that he's right. Here we are.

Such an amazing speaker.

How - like HOW - can someone who is of sane mind dislike this video? Beggars belief. Courtiers I guess.

@solangeb3787

5 жыл бұрын

Halliburton lobbyists and rich people.

@Ghryst

3 жыл бұрын

how? like, HOW? easy, theses a little button next to the like button, you just click it, its pretty simple really.

Amazingly well written, still poignant and relevant today. Timeless and powerful, this is a statement about the next great Age, the Kali Yuga.

@Devachandra9

3 жыл бұрын

This IS the Kali Yuga.

@AbtinX

2 жыл бұрын

We await Kalki

@waldwassermann

2 жыл бұрын

@@AbtinX Yes

@shamanamarshall1469

2 жыл бұрын

What is that?

@AbtinX

2 жыл бұрын

@@shamanamarshall1469 it's the end, and the beginning

I’m watching Chris every minute I can. I was shocked when rt, on contact was snatched from us. It was the equivalent of a Sunday service for me. It has just made me more determined to get all his material I can.

@stevemartin4249

2 жыл бұрын

Feel the same here in Japan. Chris gves a grim but necessary critique of our collective illusions and conceits. I like Jimmy Dore and Russell Brand too ... but the gravitas of court jesters just doesn't compare.

@GalacticNovaOverlord

Жыл бұрын

@@stevemartin4249 i suggest Michael Parenti as well

this man is a giant.

@RedRider1600

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah, he's up there with Lenin, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, Fidel Castro, and Hugo Chavez.

@9000ck

4 жыл бұрын

@@RedRider1600 Again an ad hominem without attempting to counter the argument. Try harder.

@Johnconno

3 жыл бұрын

Chris is 5' 9" at best.

@scowlistic

3 жыл бұрын

His bravery, to stare into the abyss and honestly report what he has seen, is second to none.

@Johnconno

3 жыл бұрын

@@RedRider1600 Ride This. 👊

Chris, you help us/those who are capable, to see so clearly the reality of our times. Almost 10 years later, and given the current state of American and world affairs, this lecture is even more poignant. Thank you so much.

1:12:10 Awesometacular question from the 'recovering Irish Catholic.' Many thanks for posting.

@williehaller5840

2 жыл бұрын

Awesometacular is a fun word

Powerful commentary on our society. Chris Hedges should be our national conscience. He is a true prophet.

He touches on some of the same points as Antonio M. Most people will attack you if you point out these realities. Great piece.

"I realized what it was that my father had given me, through the difficult lessons of my youth. The 'Will' to stand up for my freedom." Chris Hedges - the best unelected President the United States has ever had.

@erigerontriteleia

2 жыл бұрын

Or put another way - The best president the US should have but never has.

Wow, amazing how accurate this is. The end of the Q&A was quite touching.

Can't believe this was 9 years ago, still so relevant.

You give me hope Mr. Hedges. Your father must have been a real hero too. Never quit what you do, it is brilliant. I am/was part of a youth debating these issues, but we never felt any moral backing from what I call "adult and organized society" It always felt to me that if I had doubts, I was a conspiracy nutcase and a filthy marxist who should stay in school, whatever that means. It is invigorating for the soul to hear you, a genuine and honest person, speak to power against the grain. Thank you brother.

The Roman Emperors realised this and provided the Coliseum to distract the masses.

@JGARCIA2012FULL

5 жыл бұрын

But they had to pay for it, now YOU pay for the distraction with your own money, brilliant.

@sherryburrows882

5 жыл бұрын

We have cage fighting and NFL football.

@patriciagriffin1505

3 жыл бұрын

Yes and our current politicains are doing the same.. slaughtering people in plain sight

@edduardozamboga4082

3 жыл бұрын

What did they realize hoss tell me southerncross100 tell me

@gking407

3 жыл бұрын

@@edduardozamboga4082 if people aren’t distracted they’ll go after their real enemy, their leaders.

I want all my dem friends listen to this on loop. Calling this talk prophecy is an understatement.

Absolutely fantastic stuff. And the Q&A is excellent as well. I find myself listening to more and more Chris Hedges and his material is always incredibly insightful, thoughtful and often very moving. And this is very prescient, sadly. Brilliant. Thanks for posting.

Amazing analysis of the flaws of modern society! So well said.

One idea that's heavy, that I want to incorporate more into my worldview, is that these struggles for human rights and autonomy and accountability of the powerful may be perpetual; we may never reach an endpoint. It may sound pessimistic but it helps me keep a perspective where I'm not making my peace of mind wholly dependent on the behavior of the powerful. And it sort of inoculates me against being emotionally destroyed after a defeat, and naively optimistic after a success.

Just when you think there is not one real journalist left... you find Chris Hedges.

@PK-re3lu

3 жыл бұрын

I think there are about 5 left in the US :)

Thanks for uploading this, it was really interesting. I hadnt really heard of chris hedges before but he speaks some truths that we don't hear often enough.

@lindacianchetti3599

5 жыл бұрын

justmadeit2 He speaks pure truth we are kept from hearing, daily.

brilliant. i hope we can start having this conversation, but everyone should pay attention to how it is framed by the mass media. it is our job to make sure the conversation takes place. thanks mr hedges for putting pen to paper on a topic widely recognized but rarely addressed.

"Hope has two beautiful daughters, Anger and Courage ...... ." St Augustine of Hippo. I shall remember this.

@humanearthling4661

3 жыл бұрын

@ Ken C -- Please do.....

I was raised in NYC and studied in US universities. Was also a US Army. I have now lived in central and South America for 11 years. The effect that the United States empire has had and is having in the Americas is horrendous. The violence spread by the US and the deaths is just unbearable. It will be a good day when American hegemony is no longer. The price of United States empire has been a river of blood and tears.

@ikongchin3088

Жыл бұрын

TRUTH IS and has never been accepted by the sheeple who are and were brain washed to enrich n empower the GREEDY n SELFISH to OUR collective demise. Blame no 1 else but your ass licking self.You were created MAN but choose to accept that you are HUMAN thus turning your backs on JAH.

@vaska1999

4 ай бұрын

Too, far too few Americans know this.

Mr Hedges thank you for your life saving words. Very worried about the future, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania people are rioting again. Several killings over the last two weeks. Four were within a mile from me.

Fifteen years ago and it sounds like he could have delivered this yesterday. Thrilling and depressing at the same time.

@permaculturemom8706

3 жыл бұрын

@@jimbodriver1015 Guess I'll have to listen again. Thought he referenced those dates. Just because it was posted at a certain time doesn't mean it happened then.

To settle the beef. This was filmed on WED, MAR 3, 2010 (1:22:36) There was a different talk that Chris gave at the same venue in 2003. The publisher has clearly just confused the two.

Chris Hedges has the same effect on me as Bill Clinton (who used to bring me to tears) & Barack Obama once did. The difference is: Chris Hedges (who also brings me to tears) is the real deal; the other two are charlatans whom I voted for twice. Well, I've learned my lesson in how to spot a phony.

Old but GOLD. Respect Sir.

My town sounds like Camden. We used to have 3 grocery stores and lots of corner stores. Now we don't have any grocery stores. The neighborhood corner stores have closed and the two convienence stores goods are way overpriced. We had what began as a theater with a stage with vaudeville shows and later movies was turned into a disco and finally torn down, replaced with a small medical office building that was never very successful and is now empty. Our hospital had been updated at least four times. I was born there. My children were born there. There was a senior apartment building with a waiting list across the street from the hospital. The hospital was torn down and a new hospital was built outside our town in the middle of nowhere. Seniors have no way to get there except by ambulance which they can't afford. The apartment building no longer has a waiting list. We had our own electric plant. It's just sitting there now and we are hooked up to the nearest big city and, of course, the cost went up. We used to have a hotel, lots of stores. It was a nice little town. Then we had an influx of money from the federal government. We didn't know quite to do with it so our city council put a lot in their pockets and used the rest to tear down the whole town. No hotel, no stores. It was horrible. They turned the town into a badly designed shopping mall. The ceilings were too low. It felt like walking in a cave. Nobody wanted to shop there. The new stores went out of business. Now it has all been changed into government offices. Government offices don't pay taxes so we have no tax base. All the factories are gone. There are no jobs. There are people sleeping in their cars, moving when it's time for the cops to come by. Homeless people try to hide their tents in various places near parks and the river. Some of us let people camp in our backyards until the police or community development people notice. Then we get threatened about what will happen to us if we do it again. Our town is gone. This is some different place with people who hate everybody else. People without empathy.

@aldebaranredstar

2 жыл бұрын

Sad situation🥲

He predicted our future very accurately

@GalacticNovaOverlord

Жыл бұрын

Yep, and no one listens. Everyone kneels to capitalism.

Here we are, ten more years into the illusion and yet, so many remain blind to it.

Chris is so smooth!! His patience is impeccable.. I am in awe!

I love Chris Hedges Elegance and Prose, there are few men today who write and speak useing the full command and power of the English language. However while I can appreciate the power and depth of his speech, a good majority of Americans cannot comprehend or pay attention to Chris. To be Blunt it's time for masses to take up the Torch, the Sickle, and the baseball bat, and meet in every town square. Organize and let them see 200,000,000 million hurting Americans looks like and what they will get if thing don't turn around, for there will be no corporate America left or even exist if it's not corrected because 250,000,000 Angry Americans can make the changes needed in one night, and it won't be pretty.