Chris Hedges on What it Takes to be a Rebel in Modern Times

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Bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges sits down with Ben Makuch at the Toronto VICE office to discuss what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Hedges discusses his new book Wages of Rebellion, an investigation of the social and psychological factors that cause revolution, rebellion and resistance. From Wall Street corruption to why the elites in corporate media have eviscerated traditional investigative journalism, Hedges tries to make sense of the world we live in.
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  • @thepolicestateendswithme1585
    @thepolicestateendswithme15858 жыл бұрын

    I love when Chris Hedges says: "I don't fight fascists because I will win, I fight fascists because they are fascist!"I couldn't agree more!

  • @briantyson6138

    @briantyson6138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Troll Trollsen is troll upset or troll use logic instead of specious argument? Fuck off.

  • @pathacker4963

    @pathacker4963

    4 жыл бұрын

    So why do we still have "fascists"?

  • @supfisher7576

    @supfisher7576

    4 жыл бұрын

    So wait, how does this make him a rebel? The Government, Corporations, Media, and general normie consensus all fight and hate fascists, lol. He has the backing of the entire system, this doesn't make him a rebel. He hits all of the same old tired liberal talking points, unfortunately for Chris, he is outdated and people no longer care about his rhetoric. It is no different from the Democrats of the 90's. This is just an old boomer virtue signaling about his "activism" days, wow such wow. Nothing more than an empty puff piece, to fan the balls of a cuckold journalist who effectively toed the neoliberal line long enough to get somewhat noticed.. "If everybody in power doesn't dislike you, then you are probably not doing your job", then why Chris does seemingly everyone in power love and support you? By his own logic we are left to conclude, that Chris is neither a rebel nor a "freedom fighter"; for the very system he claims to oppose at every turn supports his "rebellious journalism". 10/10 for the mental masturbation tho.

  • @briantyson6138

    @briantyson6138

    4 жыл бұрын

    @Troll Trollsen How in the world does "Fuck Off" make me sad? I won't ever understand the tribal aspect. There is no need to bring them into this. Who told you?

  • @elizabethbennet4791

    @elizabethbennet4791

    4 жыл бұрын

    bINGO

  • @PeeedaPan
    @PeeedaPan8 жыл бұрын

    glad Vice is covering Hedges. This man is light in these dark times.

  • @yeaaboyy

    @yeaaboyy

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Derrick Wade Hedges is a hypocrite. He doesn't understand struggle.

  • @liamfun1000

    @liamfun1000

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Derrick Wade Why do you have to use word "Dark" its a racist way to describe bad times!

  • @grapeape888

    @grapeape888

    8 жыл бұрын

    +yeaaboyy So a guy who covered stories in the middle of an active warzone doesn't understand struggle? alrighty then.

  • @christopherkettler8727

    @christopherkettler8727

    8 жыл бұрын

    Amen bro he cant even get on tv that much anymore and if they power that he talks about had their way he would be like chompsky persona non grata

  • @Hands2HealNow

    @Hands2HealNow

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Derrick Wade Really considering how awful KZread under google has become I'm actually surprised that its even up hear. I guess there's a certain amount of tracking that they can do on VICE so its ok for them to make money. All the other sites like "Storm Clouds Building" have been stopped from monetizing their videos despite no vulger content. Google is just another tool for the heroine peddling CIA FBI cowards.

  • @penzotoko6619
    @penzotoko66195 жыл бұрын

    Hedges is a national treasure...a shame he's not heard more.

  • @nicolafisher1782

    @nicolafisher1782

    4 жыл бұрын

    He does the rounds of small US entities with MOOCs such as the Sanctuary for Independent Media which is in North Troy Capital District of NYS. US

  • @T-roccBABY

    @T-roccBABY

    3 жыл бұрын

    He's suppressed for a reason. Why let the lemmings attempt to learn about their decaying cage even we can just keep them asleep with bread and circuses.

  • @gregorybarootjian323

    @gregorybarootjian323

    2 жыл бұрын

    He is suppressed intentionally like Ralph Nader do you see them in mainstream media of course not.

  • @elled10024

    @elled10024

    2 жыл бұрын

    A national treasure if you’re Russia

  • @pezeron24

    @pezeron24

    2 жыл бұрын

    The reason why Chris Hedges is not heard more is that he has nothing interesting to say. He's not Christopher Hitchens by any means. He's just a preacher.

  • @legendray2008
    @legendray20088 жыл бұрын

    I like Chris Hedges. More of him please.

  • @IAMinDreams

    @IAMinDreams

    8 жыл бұрын

    the first 27 seconds basically summed him up, a lot to say, shame its all fact bending shit, stay off of vice.

  • @SherLizz

    @SherLizz

    8 жыл бұрын

    I agree!

  • @christopherkettler8727

    @christopherkettler8727

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** salon sometimes and try to follow people you know are good like this guy hedges,jeremy shcahill,glenn greenwald,naomi klein etc etc....there are some good journalists out there democracy now amy goodman but you have to take everything with a grain of salt and know that good people can get it wrong too through no fault of their own

  • @pgavin66mpls

    @pgavin66mpls

    8 жыл бұрын

    +legendray2008 "those of us of who care about the truth" well, in that case the conversation around truth goes on without you, hedger. this dude is a monotheist charlatan minister. he's al sharpton with an education. he wandered around MENA trying to get a vibe and whilst never asking the difficult questions. of course he never would because he denies the link between belief and behavior. dude lacks basic integrity and intellectual honest around the biggest question of all - the crippling and gravely retarded ideology called faith ,that has put a veto on relations between peoples. like Al Sharpon, he lives in the prison of his parents abject slave desires. Chris hedges? sell short!

  • @stevencoardvenice

    @stevencoardvenice

    8 жыл бұрын

    Fuck hedges. I want more hipster please

  • @ennui1812
    @ennui18127 жыл бұрын

    He nailed me with "declasse intellectual". My upper middle class roots are out of sync with the physical reality of precious little opportunity for my children's generation. Make no mistake, corporate America, we know what is happening to us!

  • @Johnconno

    @Johnconno

    7 жыл бұрын

    It must be a nightmare for you, I Feel Your Pain and agree with your name.

  • @andyo6770

    @andyo6770

    7 жыл бұрын

    ennui1812 I don't know where you got that , but that's like a perfect rap verse right there: /My upper middle class roots /Are out or sync /With the physical reality /Of precious little opportunity /For future generations /Make no mistake U.S. /The corporate America /Is out to get us !

  • @Stbuster31

    @Stbuster31

    4 жыл бұрын

    the guy is brilliant that's why he was fired from the NY Times

  • @finnleason6916

    @finnleason6916

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@jrmurphypoet Kia Ora bro, I tautoko that whakaaro

  • @cckeneally

    @cckeneally

    4 жыл бұрын

    3 years on and holy shittttt

  • @daveydogooder1260
    @daveydogooder12608 жыл бұрын

    I don't really watch VICE, but I'll listen to Hedges any day. Some really great points here.

  • @skepticalthesensible

    @skepticalthesensible

    3 жыл бұрын

    Yes I almost sub than seen this was so old of à video and was vice .. making the guy reporter at start of video who asked if for hedge he really felt journalistes tell news in their bent ways of perspectives and is to sell what they belive and want to vent on basically.. And on vice of all places ..the reporter tried to look shock that journalisme could ever be defined as so ..because you know ..vice is so alt right and conservative at times its just so obvious.. yes this was sarcasme about them always reporting news with a dem supporting perspectives and liberal bias vibe checking all constantly when pick what to report on and how to frame it..not that you needed the sarcasme explanation as all know of vice bias and sold out long ago ..a shame if they stuck to actually just doing documentaires to prove their ideology and case instead of ended up just another saying what other médias and gov desires like rest of news Chanels on our old TV networks.. lol they all start off new, hip , truth tellers, hard hitting news, than when they make bank they sell off as gained to much power of influence to not hijack towards narratives that work in gov favor not truth or better for citizens ..when they mention politics and so forth now so clear today .. RIP vice

  • @DivergentStyles

    @DivergentStyles

    2 жыл бұрын

    Usually Vice has a lot of pro war and corporate propaganda, I'm suprised they let Chris Hedges on the show.

  • @totonow6955
    @totonow69554 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges will tell you like it really is. He has done the work and seen the real facts.

  • @gswovoka6286

    @gswovoka6286

    4 жыл бұрын

    Totally agree. Those who are unfamiliar with him should make the effort to find one of the many interviews of him where he talks about how he became who he is.

  • @42Mrgreenman

    @42Mrgreenman

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@gswovoka6286 Indeed, when he recounts the fall of Yugoslavia and the Stasi state with the wall it's downright chilling when you line up the parallels...

  • @kennethbryan9953

    @kennethbryan9953

    3 жыл бұрын

    It is time to destroy the corporations,the Capitalist system it is killing you,in slaving,you raping you, stealing from you, improvish you,will you rise up to destroy your slave masters or will you be exterminated by your slave masters. Will be turn ground into food for the rich?Regulate, control,oppress, your slave masters.

  • @timrichardson518

    @timrichardson518

    3 жыл бұрын

    He keeps saying he has “seen societies fall“ -sounds to me like he has seen one society, Yugoslavia - which was a 45 year train wreck by the time it came apart in the 1990s

  • @unityforce300

    @unityforce300

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@timrichardson518 upvote

  • @brentmacdonald4891
    @brentmacdonald48918 жыл бұрын

    Hedges is brilliant in his description of the pathology of the super rich, as well. One of the true voices of rebellion in this age, as so many are corrupted by money and access.

  • @charlescasaburi5333

    @charlescasaburi5333

    2 жыл бұрын

    Where do you people get the idea that you are the enemies of the super rich. The super rich are your buddies 65% of their votes & 70% of their contributions go to leftists. BLM & antifa are largely funded by the super rich . Hellyweird & Soros are 2 obvious examples but far from the only ones.

  • @joeclarke9662
    @joeclarke96627 жыл бұрын

    Ben Makuch looks like he is on the verge of tears

  • @michaelpalin8953

    @michaelpalin8953

    7 жыл бұрын

    "Oh man!, oh man!, oh man!, I'm talking with Chris Hedges!, eeeeeeeeek!" XDDDDDD

  • @mikeisapro

    @mikeisapro

    4 жыл бұрын

    I see what looks like skepticism and contempt, and a sort of Tucker Carlson-esque perpetual feigning of some confused intrigue.

  • @matthewkopp2391

    @matthewkopp2391

    4 жыл бұрын

    I think it might be gas or constipation.

  • @katthudson9131
    @katthudson91314 жыл бұрын

    “When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying a cross.” - James Waterman Wise

  • @michaelhez8562

    @michaelhez8562

    4 жыл бұрын

    Agree Katt; but question the tense. It is and came to America, a long time ago.

  • @notsoancientpelican

    @notsoancientpelican

    4 жыл бұрын

    Katt Hudson I believe that quote is from Sinclair Lewis

  • @notsoancientpelican

    @notsoancientpelican

    4 жыл бұрын

    Correction: I made a check and now it appears that neither Lewis nor Wise said those exact words, but rather something similar to them. But, they should have!

  • @mshakespearek

    @mshakespearek

    3 жыл бұрын

    operation paperclip.

  • @RagingCajun985

    @RagingCajun985

    3 жыл бұрын

    That happened already in the 50's fascism is the reason my we don't speak french in Louisiana anymore. Is the reason why black people where terrorized back then.. fascism

  • @dilligaf24824
    @dilligaf248248 жыл бұрын

    I stopped watching Vice News a few month ago when I saw Obama being plastered all over their site. The interviewer at the time didn't even have the testicular fortitude to ask him any serious questions. That's exactly what Hedges pointed out towards the end of this video and that is if you get to comfortable in bed with the enemy then he will eventually call the shots. Hedges was very careful to answer that last question, but I believe that he seamlessly warned VICE about their direction.

  • @daedrick

    @daedrick

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Laz Andres Mesa Great post!

  • @notundermywatch3163

    @notundermywatch3163

    8 жыл бұрын

    yes, sir. That's exactly what I sensed in Mr Hedges ' final words of this interview and yes, I was equally shocked and disappointed by the Obama interview. I thought it was an awful move from Vice. Naive and pretentious and the potential beginning of a slippery slope... I also dislike the fact that Eddie Moretti can sit 52 min with Cody Wilson and we get served 16 min with Chris Hedges hosted by a kid who scoffs when he says revolution is America's last hope... In my opinion we will lose Vice eventually, it's just a question of time. That Obama move is not the kind of thing you ever recover or come back from. Vice will end up becoming a liberal propaganda tool to harness the youth, heat up LGBT activists and SJW with begger mentality, no longer a greety raw independent media of truth.

  • @dilligaf24824

    @dilligaf24824

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Kriztofer Plitzkin Words of wisdom. Thanks!

  • @stevencoardvenice

    @stevencoardvenice

    8 жыл бұрын

    exactly. smith is above his pay grade when he sat down with obama. plus 2008 was SEVEN years ago. this could be forgiven back then. but not now

  • @dilligaf24824

    @dilligaf24824

    8 жыл бұрын

    Thanks, Mark.

  • @laritagaskins394
    @laritagaskins3944 жыл бұрын

    I have always held a deep respect for Christ Hedges; He tells the TRUTH!

  • @xm8lover
    @xm8lover8 жыл бұрын

    Hedges is the man. Im glad vice did this interview

  • @JuanMercado91
    @JuanMercado915 жыл бұрын

    3 years later and Chris nailed it. Vice has become another mouthpiece for power. I doubt they would ever have him or anyone like him on again.

  • @juliagoolia5604
    @juliagoolia56043 жыл бұрын

    Now just discovering this man. Ihave gained So much insight watching interviews with him.

  • @Shiba643
    @Shiba6438 жыл бұрын

    I love Mr. Hedges so much. He puts the conflict I feel around me into words better than I could ever hope to.

  • @mjsalem922
    @mjsalem9222 жыл бұрын

    We need to get this word out to the public.

  • @southernsolarflair
    @southernsolarflair4 жыл бұрын

    “ One revolts not for what they can achieve but for who they can become” - Chris Hedges is the man

  • @gold88fish88
    @gold88fish884 жыл бұрын

    Hedges is a national treasure. America, listen to his speeches

  • @peruface
    @peruface8 жыл бұрын

    THIS GAVE ME CHILLS

  • @samre7870
    @samre78703 жыл бұрын

    the look on the interviewer's face though, full of fear, struggling to get how serious the situation is. priceless

  • @jaredvincent3323

    @jaredvincent3323

    2 жыл бұрын

    I see a completely vacant mind

  • @rkheno
    @rkheno7 жыл бұрын

    That's very refreshing to know that there's at least few journalist like him who's speak the real truth in this fucked up world.

  • @Orf

    @Orf

    7 жыл бұрын

    Arkheno agreed

  • @davidheras1682

    @davidheras1682

    7 жыл бұрын

    Matt- see you everywhere on the comments section

  • @Johnconno

    @Johnconno

    7 жыл бұрын

    Two? Maybe Three?

  • @GodzillaGoat

    @GodzillaGoat

    7 жыл бұрын

    Arkheno he is really conical. We can turn this around. Women's march showed hope.

  • @ahmsuli12
    @ahmsuli125 жыл бұрын

    This video should be viewed a minimum 50 million at least

  • @MIDixons
    @MIDixons3 жыл бұрын

    Why can't I like this twice?!? Chris Hedges is a national treasure.

  • @ZachyStugotz
    @ZachyStugotz8 жыл бұрын

    Brilliant man. Thanks Vice for interviewing Mr. Hedges.

  • @Pipe_dream_reality
    @Pipe_dream_reality8 жыл бұрын

    Get a cause then rebel against your oppressors. Respect to Chris Hedges.

  • @higgpigg4326
    @higgpigg43268 жыл бұрын

    Mr.Hedges is a brave dude

  • @nassemthegreat9582
    @nassemthegreat9582 Жыл бұрын

    Thank you for interviewing Chris Hedges!

  • @jonathanbrowne8849
    @jonathanbrowne88494 жыл бұрын

    ANY KZread Channel that has Chris Hedges on I will instantly subscribe to and click the bell. Chris Hedges is an absolute HERO and one of the last clear representatives of integrity and the need for it on this earth.

  • @sisyphusvasilias3943

    @sisyphusvasilias3943

    4 жыл бұрын

    Remember this interview was four year ago and VICE as seen changed ownership and leadership. VICE is now domestic propagana in private ownership by Rubert Murdodch (FOX news) Ratheon and other M.I.C. corporations. Some more information on VICE kzread.info/dash/bejne/nY2utaqiob3fccY.html

  • @vibefrequencyable
    @vibefrequencyable4 жыл бұрын

    One of the best interviews i have ever seen.

  • @shipod
    @shipod8 жыл бұрын

    I had the opportunity to sit down with Chris back in 2013. He told me that he is not a journalist or a rebel for the purpose of making the world a better place, but because he sees it as a "moral imperative."

  • @SYLBM

    @SYLBM

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shiloh Silverman what do you think of his plagiarism and lack of apology?

  • @OriginalMindTrick

    @OriginalMindTrick

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Katerina Garin Just google it. It's not a very pretty story.

  • @shipod

    @shipod

    8 жыл бұрын

    +SYLBM I don't know.

  • @OriginalMindTrick

    @OriginalMindTrick

    8 жыл бұрын

    ***** People can be both assholes and make big mistakes and still have something valuable to bring to the table.

  • @pgavin66mpls

    @pgavin66mpls

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shiloh Silverman "those of us of who care about the truth" well, in that case the conversation around truth goes on without you, hedger. this dude is a monotheist charlatan minister. he's al sharpton with an education. he wandered around MENA trying to get a vibe and whilst never asking the difficult questions. of course he never would because he denies the link between belief and behavior. dude lacks basic integrity and intellectual honest around the biggest question of all - the crippling and gravely retarded ideology called faith ,that has put a veto on relations between peoples. like Al Sharpon, he lives in the prison of his parents abject slave desires. Chris hedges? sell short!

  • @ULYSSES-31
    @ULYSSES-318 жыл бұрын

    "you've seen some pretty dark shit" The hipster interview lost me there.

  • @stevencoardvenice

    @stevencoardvenice

    8 жыл бұрын

    LOL I thought the same thing at the time. sooooo hipster. still worth watching the rest though

  • @UnderBridge

    @UnderBridge

    8 жыл бұрын

    +THOMAS CARNACKI Indeed... he wanted sound so "rebel"...

  • @stevencoardvenice

    @stevencoardvenice

    8 жыл бұрын

    seen some dark shit, brah

  • @stevencoardvenice

    @stevencoardvenice

    8 жыл бұрын

    I mean let's face it. vice is global news for hipsters. so we can't really complain

  • @aurelienani204

    @aurelienani204

    8 жыл бұрын

    +THOMAS CARNACKI they're two liberals interviewing each other, you can smell the sense of superiority and ego in the room, even though both are nobobies

  • @got2bharmony
    @got2bharmony4 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges' analysis of the current situation is well informed and eloquently communicated. Few know of him or what he has to say because the system is so fixed and will not get any exposure in the mainstream media. Some will see him as depressing, I see him as one of the few hopes we have for a better future. The challenge is how the ideas and narrative of Chris can be communicated to the majority. Very difficult when the majority have been dumbed down and distracted with smoke screens and hatred.

  • @mikeoxsbigg1
    @mikeoxsbigg18 жыл бұрын

    I didn't like him in the intro but the rest was awesome. This guy has it right. I only hope I'm alive to see smug corporations go down.

  • @juleshitchen9089
    @juleshitchen90898 жыл бұрын

    people can have it all 'up there', but if they can't articulate themselves accurately or make themselves interesting to listen to then their knowledge loses its effectively. This guy is easy to listen to and gets his point across through simplification. sign of a true intellect

  • @GetMikeNyce
    @GetMikeNyce8 жыл бұрын

    Nice to see Chris Hedges on VICE . good outlet for more people to know about him

  • @acetate909

    @acetate909

    Жыл бұрын

    This comment aged horribly.

  • @jawadkashem1436
    @jawadkashem14364 жыл бұрын

    Thanks Vice for giving this legend a platform to speak .

  • @MyCatFooed
    @MyCatFooed8 жыл бұрын

    I may disagree with Hedges politically, but I'll say that he's spot-on regarding the how & why shit goes down the way that it does!!

  • @Shermingtan
    @Shermingtan8 жыл бұрын

    The interviewer looks like John Snow being stabbed when the guest talks and the camera focuses on him.

  • @mcrettable

    @mcrettable

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shermingtan WTF JON DIED?

  • @imgoingonholidaytovietnam3631

    @imgoingonholidaytovietnam3631

    8 жыл бұрын

    +mcrettable oh shit you didn't know

  • @joebazooks

    @joebazooks

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shermingtan he's high on something. look at his pupils

  • @SOPERFECTT

    @SOPERFECTT

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shermingtan LAMO

  • @Blueswailer

    @Blueswailer

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Shermingtan Aaahahahah, holy shit, he does!

  • @samrexroat8473
    @samrexroat84737 жыл бұрын

    love Chris Hedges, he's extremely intelligent and well spoken. it's people like him that will be the beginning of the REAL change that needs to happen in society today.

  • @freeinformation9869
    @freeinformation98697 жыл бұрын

    It will soon be time for a new interview I believe.

  • @itsolivier

    @itsolivier

    7 жыл бұрын

    indeed vice is falling off again, if they can pull of another interview it would be like Chris handing them a giant stick when they are holding onto the edge of the a mountain cliff

  • @wadegoodwin6773
    @wadegoodwin67734 жыл бұрын

    Perhaps the most complete, social development intellect in the Western Hemisphere. If the world didn't have a Chris Hedges, we'd have to invent him. A natural successor to the now incomparable Noam Chomsky. Wade Goodwin, The FAIR Digest, South Africa

  • @LOLyoulooked1
    @LOLyoulooked13 жыл бұрын

    This is still so relevant

  • @TheMdog8
    @TheMdog88 жыл бұрын

    Such a top bloke and nice to see him smile once in a while

  • @justmadeit2
    @justmadeit27 жыл бұрын

    Chris seems like a bright guy from the clips ive seen on him on y. tube. Ive added some of them to my favourites folder

  • @mantonio121773
    @mantonio1217738 жыл бұрын

    VICE could position themselves as our generations MTV, but way bigger and more important. They should (if they have any balls) put things on their network from Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist the movie), Jacques Fresco, Cornell West, more Chris, Robert Reich, Richard Wolfe, etc...

  • @Beccalotte1021

    @Beccalotte1021

    7 жыл бұрын

    If they weren't mainstream media themselves, then they might do that. They are very much Neoliberal agenda themselves.

  • @mantonio121773

    @mantonio121773

    7 жыл бұрын

    Beccalotte1021 Well they are owned by Disney, Rupert Murdoch, Discovery Channel. I keep trying to warn people that they are mixing right wing propaganda with liberal content. Ever notice how much geopolitical content gets mixed in? Pay Attention.

  • @hopedream11

    @hopedream11

    4 жыл бұрын

    Zeitgeist is a right wing conspiracy movie so no to that but Richard Wolff and Robert Reich? And Cornell West? Yes to them

  • @antifacisme
    @antifacisme8 жыл бұрын

    funny how hedges is actually covering what is happening to vice at this moment.. :v

  • @Beccalotte1021

    @Beccalotte1021

    7 жыл бұрын

    Indeed.

  • @prodbyglider
    @prodbyglider8 жыл бұрын

    That vice guys face😭 HE CRI EVRYTYME 😭

  • @debbiezenaida
    @debbiezenaida7 жыл бұрын

    Read his book American Fascists - BRILLIANT.

  • @pragmaticcynicism6911
    @pragmaticcynicism69114 жыл бұрын

    Back when Vice was still independent.

  • @PIPA1302
    @PIPA13024 жыл бұрын

    You gotta love this guy....

  • @neilblockhead
    @neilblockhead7 жыл бұрын

    Best moment: 9:20 - 9:40. Spot on! Interviewer looks totally out of his depth, like he prefers the "happy thoughts" Hedges talks about, including how low his beard should be, and how many roll ups his trouser legs should have. God bless the modern PC, magazine buying, computer game-playing adults of today.

  • @danthemansmail
    @danthemansmail4 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges, our very own prophet of doom, and the only journalist in America that knows and is willing to tell the truth and damn the consequences.

  • @TheWadesauce
    @TheWadesauce8 жыл бұрын

    Ben, that was hardly unsolicited advice, you literally asked him what he thought of your channel

  • @acceptingWhatIS
    @acceptingWhatIS2 жыл бұрын

    "There is news and there is the truth. If you care about TRUTH eventually you are going to run into problems.” Chris Hedges

  • @bluzshadez
    @bluzshadez7 жыл бұрын

    This is 16 minutes and 34 seconds of valuable information. I've learned so much from Chris Hedges. So, it's true! Not everything is what it seems. Watching this taught me to question every information. Not to be paranoid, but to give the benefit of the doubt on important things.

  • @kingsdaughter777
    @kingsdaughter7774 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Mr. Hedges. So well said. And using a developed vocabulary instead of crude cursing.

  • @legalfictionnaturalfact3969

    @legalfictionnaturalfact3969

    4 жыл бұрын

    Oh, stfu. People talk how they like. Deal with it.

  • @dabay200
    @dabay2004 жыл бұрын

    Hedges is a legend - one of the best journalists ever. Such a humble person.

  • @ChairmanMeow1
    @ChairmanMeow18 жыл бұрын

    This entire interview gave me such an information overload. Chris Hedges is a smart human. Gonna take me a while to work this all out.

  • @TheDavidDaoud
    @TheDavidDaoud8 жыл бұрын

    I'm at 11:27 and I'm suddenly remembering a Nigerian guy I met in Israel at Ramle Immigration Prison. He was there as a foreign worker who had exceeded his visa, I had been working in Nablus in the West Bank of Palestine at a major university there and got caught at a checkpoint. But we were both about to be deported. 25 of us were on a bus on our way to Ben-Gurion airport when this guy started up singing an impromptu song "Green Peppers for Breakfast", with a big smile. He really cheered me up!

  • @deedee2567
    @deedee25673 жыл бұрын

    Thank you Chris Hedges for voices the truth. It takes integrity and courage!

  • @big3ye378
    @big3ye3784 жыл бұрын

    Chomsky is a sage, too honest for the mainstream media, and deservedly quoted here.

  • @beingsshepherd

    @beingsshepherd

    3 жыл бұрын

    He endorsed Obama's reelection bid and the official narrative on 9/11, plus trivialises the JFK assassination.

  • @big3ye378

    @big3ye378

    3 жыл бұрын

    @@beingsshepherd Yeah he has failed us like the rest of academia... back then I didn't realize the vastness of the corruption and war on the people

  • @annpacey105
    @annpacey1058 жыл бұрын

    This is my favourite Chris interview yet. And I've seen a lot!

  • @jeanzeibak8613
    @jeanzeibak86134 жыл бұрын

    I love Chris Hedges truth

  • @tarnopol
    @tarnopol4 жыл бұрын

    Excellent first question. Bodes well for the interview.

  • @jamesmccormick875
    @jamesmccormick8753 жыл бұрын

    Chris is great. He is spot on with what is going on in this country. It starts with people waking up and realizing that blind partisanship is exactly what is destroying and undercutting any advancement for We the People.

  • @Goddeify
    @Goddeify8 жыл бұрын

    Thankyou Vice. This man is one of the world's best.

  • @jadovaoliaro
    @jadovaoliaro8 жыл бұрын

    Top guy

  • @Stonedead1991
    @Stonedead19918 жыл бұрын

    "I like how Hedges tells it like it is."

  • @_Citizen_K
    @_Citizen_K4 жыл бұрын

    Unfortunate click bait title ' What it takes to be a rebel in modern times.' Lame. However, a great interview with Hedges.

  • @mooncat.787
    @mooncat.7874 жыл бұрын

    Have to do some research into this fella. He's lights are on and burning brightly.

  • @mooncat.787

    @mooncat.787

    4 жыл бұрын

    pippin1962 Thanks for that. Will take a look.

  • @DraganBakema
    @DraganBakema8 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges, what a monologue.

  • @carriontorch8564
    @carriontorch85648 жыл бұрын

    I've Always loved PBS programming (esp. re: the arts, and science.) But I can't help thinking that Some of their corp. donors (e.g., Koch, ADM), Have to have an effect on any journalism that pertains to their "interests" (see: $$$.)

  • @laritagaskins394

    @laritagaskins394

    4 жыл бұрын

    I'm in agreement Carrion.. that is an excellent observation and point! We have to weigh all sides!!

  • @Stbuster31

    @Stbuster31

    4 жыл бұрын

    "some". PBS is a propaganda wing of the State without all the flair and fluff of CNN, Fox News and MSNBC and the big three letters, NBC, CBS, ABC

  • @rbrinks5

    @rbrinks5

    4 жыл бұрын

    DM R where are we supposed to get unbiased news then?

  • @taylorlayton4508

    @taylorlayton4508

    4 жыл бұрын

    @@rbrinks5 IMO PBS news hour pretty good as getting facts and headlines go. I think some people think it's a propaganda wing of the state because it's not always proclaiming a progressive revolutionary line, but not all news call for propaganda.

  • @nji7772

    @nji7772

    4 жыл бұрын

    Absolutely true. I know it gets tedious to investigate who the board is, ect. I did do this for PBS. I like some of the programs but I consider while watching what their bias is. Also, depending upon what show, I keep in mind their historical shows can be quite inacurate. So, PBS is only one source of part of an entire picture.

  • @whatitisnt8270
    @whatitisnt82705 жыл бұрын

    the empire is crumbling.

  • @PorscheAbraham
    @PorscheAbraham3 жыл бұрын

    Wise man. Love this! Thx for sharing

  • @Jim-nw2sr
    @Jim-nw2sr4 жыл бұрын

    Thank God for the truth tellers like Chris Hedges ❤️🙌🏻 Thanks for posting 👍🏻

  • @sunshine_burn7208
    @sunshine_burn72088 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges is the man!!!

  • @FrankFloresRGVZGM
    @FrankFloresRGVZGM8 жыл бұрын

    Please investigate a resource based economy.

  • @neightneight1280

    @neightneight1280

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Cutie Patootie Senpai Research the brutality they've BEEN committing to preserve it; just more of that and worse. Prepare, brothers and sisters

  • @ralphklien9593

    @ralphklien9593

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Frank Flores Exclusively resource based economic models - in the general sense of that phrase - are basically veiled communism. The only mechanism to regulate, distribute, or control resources is either a government or corporation; both will be just as hard to control as the current forms of them are now. I did some serious digging on the RBE economic model four or five years ago so I'm not exactly current with my information but ideas like the "Venus Project" are basically pipe dreams which neglect to address or blatantly disregard fundamental operational, philosophical, and ethical problems within the model. In the extreme, RBEs would be an almost neo-feudalism, but with mass surveillance and advanced algorithm technology with robot police.

  • @trubblefoundit7056

    @trubblefoundit7056

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Ralph Klien Something to consider when waxing economic... Communism and capitalism differ only slightly, if at all. Current tax rates and the interbreeding of government and corporations in America land the US further on the socialist portion of government spectrum than most "communist" countries. There has not been, in fact, a true communist country to exist (nor has there existed the mythical "free market"). So-called communism/socialism thus far has merely been the control of an entire country's ways and means by a few decision-making elites while the product of the country's economy is "distributed evenly" among the citizen participants. Neither America's oligarchy-hiding-behind-reality-show government, nor any socialist country's here's-what's-left-for-you-slaves-after-elite-plundering system are actually one rigid form of government or another (facets projecting a spectrum). Humans are so black and white in their understanding, yet everything in nature has been found to register more spectrally. When envisioning an ideal economic scene for humanity, I think we have to consider scale first. Smaller organizations are naturally more transparent. Local organizations are naturally more responsive to local people and conditions. Someone in a DC penthouse has none of the practical knowledge or technical experience required to solve even the simplest of problems for a community thousands of miles away in a different climate and market. This is compounded when the communities are all small and unique, yet are bundled in with millions of faceless people in attempts to manage entire countries with blanket programs and extremely inefficient supply chain mock-ups. Things become more convoluted as you gain distance from ground zero. I argue that we should be arranging our governments at community scale, with greater private citizen participation. When you break down food and energy infrastructure, you find that efficiency is born out of localized production and minimal transport. When you look at nearly all human activities, true efficiency (not the distortions offered by the market and its many manipulators) starts with minimizing travel distances. The money system may tell you it is more efficient to use slave labor in China to process poultry raised AND sold in America, but the obvious technological and resource inefficiencies are overlooked because it is CHEAPER to engage in this enormously wasteful and DANGEROUS act. Though the proposed systems you mentioned are, "pipe dreams," they are the first looks into rearranging society to serve all of society, instead just serving high society. Speaking of pipe dreams... Do you think that the first poor Rothschild banker ever dreamed that his actions would enslave the entire world and all its people? Well that pipe dream is the apocalyptic nightmare of today. Nature has a tendency of generating designs that flow more efficiently over time. It is observed to be equilibrating in all things. The creative commons and local food and energy trends are the beginning of a re-routing of flows (which have been bottlenecked into the pools of the elite) which will help the economic system of our world achieve equilibration. Nature flows in interconnected tree-like patterns, and when human activity mimics this, efficiency is found. Generating production at community-scale, as opposed to global-scale, will decentralize control and generate greater income equality and public health wherever locally controlled systems are in place.

  • @ralphklien9593

    @ralphklien9593

    8 жыл бұрын

    I agree and fully understand your many points. I too am an anarchist at heart. The main issue is the state. There will always be unconquerable problems when the state is our God.

  • @davyrobb5966

    @davyrobb5966

    8 жыл бұрын

    +Troyous Ricciardi agreed

  • @epicbenstudios
    @epicbenstudios8 жыл бұрын

    I've been reading through Chris Hedges' work for quite some time now, and I will not hesitated to say that his views on society, especially American, are eons ahead of his time. I admire him greatly.

  • @k54dhKJFGiht
    @k54dhKJFGiht3 жыл бұрын

    Active Measures - Psychological Warfare - Subversion - Yuri Bezmenov - 40 years ago, he prophetically explained everything going on today in shocking detail.

  • @drumstick74
    @drumstick748 жыл бұрын

    Turn off the TV

  • @samkim8451
    @samkim84514 жыл бұрын

    Chris is the best🌹👍✌️🇨🇦The only difference between me and Chris he is five years in front of me maybe 10 .If the people find out Chris Hedges trust me the day after is going to get a revolution

  • @msykutera
    @msykutera7 жыл бұрын

    Very enlightening interview. Keep up!

  • @bhattmagandhi
    @bhattmagandhi8 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges is the ideal definition of a journalist, all journalists should marvel at his courage to speak the truth. I love this guy!!

  • @henryVIIIification
    @henryVIIIification8 жыл бұрын

    I love this guy. I had almost forgotten about him over time and many distractions. I agree it is past time for a revolution. More of the same and in time there will nothing left but a slave camp for multinational corporations. We are the ants and it's time the ants recognized their Constitutional rights and a government for the people. Not for corporations but for the people. Corporations are just fine with me but people are far more important. Corporations have been given the rights of people and that should be in question. Corporations are businesses not people. People have priority over corporations. As gas runs an engine we are the gas that runs the engine and we should be given that respect and honor. The common man is uncommon. I think we may have our priorities out of balance. If the feet are not comfortable and well taken care of the whole body including the head will suffer.

  • @jesuschristpose896
    @jesuschristpose8964 жыл бұрын

    He is right, we went underground, but we have not forgotten and we will not forget, the people should never be afraid of their government, the government should always fear its people.

  • @castelobranco2255
    @castelobranco22557 жыл бұрын

    someone capable of critical analysis thank you CH

  • @susylove7739
    @susylove77392 жыл бұрын

    Great talk! Thanks from Holland. We need you too!

  • @mrzack888
    @mrzack8888 жыл бұрын

    Chris gonna have his own show on RT starting June 11th

  • @phaedrussmith1949
    @phaedrussmith19493 жыл бұрын

    "The revolutionary of the future will be the person who thinks, because they don't want us to think." -John Trudell

  • @OfficialTruDru
    @OfficialTruDru5 жыл бұрын

    Chris Hedges is making lots of Sense on this.

  • @SongwritersAndPoets
    @SongwritersAndPoets8 жыл бұрын

    Thanks as always Mr Hedges and Vice for making this happen

  • @MaoRuiqi
    @MaoRuiqi8 жыл бұрын

    Good interview Ben, although your admiration for your guest, was a bit too obvious...

  • @Eltalstro
    @Eltalstro3 жыл бұрын

    And here we are in 2020.

  • @ungratefulninja4535
    @ungratefulninja45354 жыл бұрын

    Much respect to Chris an People of conscious...be the Change

  • @SebastianRust
    @SebastianRust8 жыл бұрын

    YES!!!! I'm ready!!! LET'S DO THIS!!!

  • @domingodeanda233
    @domingodeanda2334 жыл бұрын

    This guy kicks ass.

  • @mayzter8765
    @mayzter87654 жыл бұрын

    When Vice still had a soul....

  • @JuanHernandez-ry9dr
    @JuanHernandez-ry9dr4 жыл бұрын

    Superb intellectual. I tip my had to his knowledge and integrity. Bravo !

  • @patrickalaggio3560
    @patrickalaggio35607 жыл бұрын

    Excellent interview. Thank you gentlemen.

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