I wish Chris would run for office. Need people more like him. A knowledgable and respectful human being, teaching us all.
@intimacycafe2 жыл бұрын
He will never do that because he believes that only the corrupt can survive and thrive in politics. He says the corruption in the political system is so pervasive and over powering it eliminates those who show up trying to do good. In order to stick around you must become complicit in the corruption. That is how people survive in politics.
@solidaritytime36503 жыл бұрын
Chris is a force that gives us meaning
@RobertWGreaves3 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!
@rec92643 жыл бұрын
Aye.
@solidaritytime36502 жыл бұрын
@@douglascarlson9006 lol so who IS on your list of progressive journalists, and why do you think someone without any social media should have commented publicly by now about something that happened earlier this week?
@douglascarlson90062 жыл бұрын
@@solidaritytime3650 LOL! ... No social media? ... he's on Twitter my friend .. check it out!
@douglascarlson90062 жыл бұрын
@@solidaritytime3650 And my short-list is at the bottom of my comment ... right under your nose! You did not fare well here, did you?
@carlitodebrooklyn40783 жыл бұрын
This conversation is absolutely necessary. Thank you for sharing. And thank you, Mr. Hedges, who continues to act as a shining light under this dark, crippling empire of ours. God Bless.
@reprogrammingmind3 жыл бұрын
Hedges is a gift, thank you for having him.
@justmyopinion98833 жыл бұрын
Chris Hedges has a loving heart and a brilliant mind. We are very fortunate to have him.
@carpediem443 жыл бұрын
NO ONE should leave prison in debt. If you served your time, you served your damn time. How ironic that both STUDENTS and PRISONERS both end their time in debt.
@terilee36622 жыл бұрын
It’s even worse than that. My son served 15 years combined prison time /jail for an act he committed in a bad mental health state due to a divorce. Since released he has done mounds of free community service, paid hundreds of probation fees and expenses monthly, attended state mandated classes weekly at the tune of $200 a month, paid for polygraphs and gps monitoring fees in addition to the $10000 fines the courts imposed. He has 2 officers who “harass”him constantly and flaunt their power while wearing their bullet- proof vests and guns. We live in constant state of angst. There is no room for error, mis-understandings, sickness, loss of employment without a threat of violation to him. Even today he has been called into Mesa AZ probation for missing one class and a polygraph due to illness and not being able to secure employment for 16 weeks due to business close downs during the holiday, illness and his felony charge. This is not the America I grew up in! It is more like nazi Germany during the Holocaust.
@rodniegsm15752 жыл бұрын
That's becouse it's a bisnis. That's wy !! Capitalism is killing your society. Its killing family's, its killing children and you know it. But you don't care. If you did you would have change things long time ago
@charlescasaburi53332 жыл бұрын
Some of the things said on this site are so silly that it’s hard to believe that they are seriously meant. So all you have do to get filthy rich is pile up a mountain of debt & then go rob stores until you get caught. Unfortunately there is a flaw in your plan . In the dumbocrat places you live in the chances of even getting arrested let alone convicted are minuscule. Your more likely to get shot by a store owner or killed by another criminal before you reach your goal. There are only so many dumb people in the world especially with money once taxpayers figure out they are on the hook for every dead beat they will flee to red states or hide their money. This is already happening. What about the people who honestly pay do they get a chump sign to wear?
@aoeu2562 жыл бұрын
@@terilee3662 Why not move to Canada or Malaysia...
@olivertaylor87882 жыл бұрын
All are slaves.
@ac72052 жыл бұрын
Standing ovation 👏👏👏 Encore 👍
@monatinnell45703 жыл бұрын
Chris you words are so deep. I’m always amazed at how you continue to touch our hearts our souls our thoughts. You teach me how to think differently. How to become a better individual. Our world is so unpredictable and is not slowing down. But when I find your passages I know I’ve found my peace my center. Your book is enlightening for a country that is imploded in darkness
@dasssjam74132 жыл бұрын
Mr Chris, thanks for the revealation, you are the axample what humankind shoot be none violence, good too hear you speaking on KZbin, stay safe MR CHRIS
@glynncampbell39303 жыл бұрын
Hedges is the greatest radical writer alive. He afflicts the comfortable and comfort the afflicted. May God bless you Chris.
@GalacticNovaOverlord2 жыл бұрын
I would say Michael Parenti is better But Chris is the greatest active radical writer
@robertbartlett19582 жыл бұрын
well said
@sumayyabhorat7902 жыл бұрын
Mr. Hedges is a remarkable human being... May God Protect and Guide him, ALWAYS ♥️
@MrJBK993 жыл бұрын
Excellent conversation, thank you.
@nunyabizness82463 жыл бұрын
Thank you Mr. Hedges. I just wrote Steve donziger...he is in fci danbury.
@noelwhitman17883 жыл бұрын
Chris Hedges and Cornell West are two of the greatest men of our times.
@ungratefulninja45352 жыл бұрын
What you said! Also. Abby Martin & Angela Davis are two of the greatest women of our times.
@GalacticNovaOverlord2 жыл бұрын
Michael Parenti too
@elleh34952 жыл бұрын
I cried so many times during this video...😪Chris is so elegant in his delivery of what he's seen and learned.
@dragonheart93443 жыл бұрын
Chris on point as always been following him for years,a pure soul truly
@LustStarrr3 жыл бұрын
Same. His recent convo with Lee Camp from Redacted Tonight was particularly good, too.
@carolwagnersudol78353 жыл бұрын
Chris Hedges is a great man.
@douglascarlson90062 жыл бұрын
No he's not! ... HOW CHRIS HEDGES FAILED US He's no longer a truly committed activist, not since the lock-downs ... Many times he has urged us to resist tyranny, even when things look bleak ... but now that tyranny is in our face, he's MIA ... Let us review a few of his more revealing quotes: "I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and the mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ... (we can't vax ourselves out of this pandemic - AND HE KNOWS IT!) BTW, he has refused to comment or stand with the working class against the illegal and unconstitutional vax mandates and passports ************** "Let us stand up and resist so future generations will at least say ‘they tried.’ We cannot do this alone ... together we have a chance" ... BTW, he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the book THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ************** In a 2020 interview, he said he told indigenous pipeline protesters to "park your cars in their path, remove the engines and walk away" ... BTW, he did not even mention the Canadian trucker convoy until a March 2022 interview with Jimmy Dore - one month after the protests actually ended ... ************** In his AMERICAN SADISM speech, he revealed his disdain for those of us who now openly question the motives and tactics of our elected officials ... He said the loss of mainstream media credibility "has given rise to spontaneous groups, as well as the lunatic fringe that embraces conspiracy theories" ... ************** From his book WAGES OF REBELLION, he said: “I do not fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because they are fascists” ... BTW, he will now only consent to occasional "hands-off" interviews with persons who will NOT ask him why he now refuses to confront the larger issues of tyranny ... - Amy Goodman - Katie Halper - Briahna Joy-Gray - RJ Eskow - Krystal Ball - Kyle Kulinski ************** After a 2014 speech, he was asked to comment on 9/11 and insulted our collective intelligence by saying "Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" ... ************** But he knows he can maintain his place in the independent media food chain by: 1) ripping on AOC & CIA 2) talking about Assange 3) talking about Snowden 4) talking about Donzinger 5) talking about Ukraine I miss the pre-pandemic Chris Hedges ... many times these past 10 years I went to bed with his words ringing in my ears ... He's said many awesome and memorable things that helped me understand and accept our current predicament ... And although his work with prison inmates is laudable, it is not nearly significant enough to offset the effects of his selective silence on these devastating working class issues ...
@I999-g2s2 жыл бұрын
The story of Lawrence Bell was harrowing. I made sure my 14 year old daughter listened to it. Land of the free. Greatest democracy in the world. A beacon for the globe.
@danielofthepeople36323 жыл бұрын
This is Chris Hedges’ most powerful and profound talk I have ever heard. One of my favorite quotes: 12:30 “you have to find your song….you have to know your own history because the dominant culture will never tell you your history. Especially if you are oppressed. They will seek to erase, deny and fabricate the history”
@Tocqueville693 жыл бұрын
That quotation is inspired by Orientalism[Edward Said]...Which is a work that has inspired Hedges writings as well. I can't wait to read this new one.
@l.w.paradis21083 жыл бұрын
Two of the best human beings alive
@whowhat92 жыл бұрын
More of this, please.... the exposure of the loving of the human spirit...🙏✌️
@boricintron13 жыл бұрын
Every Democratic Party supporter needs to hear this. So do Republicans.
@enaid543 жыл бұрын
It should be made public the profiteers of the private prison system! Who are the plantation owners?
@l.w.paradis21083 жыл бұрын
Flint Taylor's book is magnificent as well.
@Gardeniasf9Ай бұрын
Thank you for sharing.
@alvinfrazier41522 жыл бұрын
Chris Hedges is a real American, a true citizen of liberty , humanity, and love for his fellow man.
@pohakumana3 жыл бұрын
Skip to 5:35 to get past the interviewer's long winded intro.
@Acode79402 ай бұрын
Superb! Thank you. I will get the book.
@theotherview17163 жыл бұрын
Men have been paying the price too long for this. Justice now!
@domingodeanda61133 жыл бұрын
Hola Chris, muchas gracias.
@zmscott25072 жыл бұрын
It's an outrage how our government is such a tremendous failure. There's so so many talented, intellegent, well read, and wonderful people out there, none of them are in our government though.
@jasondelvaux30362 жыл бұрын
5:45 - Chris begins to speak.
@danieldykstra41003 жыл бұрын
Last time I saw someone this intelligent utterly humble, in our society....hmmm nope
@thisperfectworld3 жыл бұрын
@Chicago Humanities, what date did this take place?
@irish93723 жыл бұрын
The few downvotes on this video have to be from the prison warden an a few private prison lobbyists
@livefreedom17763 жыл бұрын
When you treat someone like an animal that is how they act.
@herbntou2 жыл бұрын
I love Chris hedges
@davidantonsavage62072 жыл бұрын
And on the subject of "finding your song" there is the West African tradition of the griot to appreciate.
@oldindianchief94033 жыл бұрын
Religion is morally ambiguous. Let's consider solving these issues without indoctrinating individuals into religious thinking.
@Pyasa.shaitan3 жыл бұрын
Capitalism should have ended back in 1929. Now it's just a playground for the already rich and connected.
@biometronome70103 жыл бұрын
It's an amazing book with stories of great people whose lives have been systematically ruined by capitalism.
@nicholasrecord65023 жыл бұрын
Speak out about floors that have the ability to shock people's feet. Copper is being taken from mines right now to make that happen in homes just like it happens in jails and prisons. Stand against whoever supports cruelty and violence without touching people. That isn't skin in the game that's cowardly shit.
@Mariama_B4 ай бұрын
So heartbreaking 💔 😢
@malenedietl3369 Жыл бұрын
Wow, this is incredible, so much we never really hear about in detail. I am from Denmark, so my society is a bit different from the american. But now what I write or ask I hope ppl wont kill me: how can Chris Hedges be allowed to put so much knowledge and awareness into his students in prison? Is it because the prison administration knows that it is a lost case allready, inmates will never be able to make use of it, or what? Chris Hedges is not a little man with no say. A man like Chris has made a difference in peoples life. Do you understand my question? America never fails to surprice and I don't understand the system.... I keep scrolling back in this video to listen again and again, wow...
@kimeldiin19302 жыл бұрын
And the us thinks itself having the moral high ground in relation to the various dictatorships.... ( us consciously being in low case)
@hsingkao20242 жыл бұрын
For-profit private prisons? Some business tycoons make money when human beings are put into jails? How extreme a capitalistic nation can be?
@willyriley86192 жыл бұрын
Everything he has said has happened to me I have over 45 felonies 20 some years in prisons ad jails .because of the adjustments in sentencing all of them are now mistameaners. Charges I describe as getting high without a permit.starving without permission. As such! I had officers apologize that I did too much time for what I did and they were sorry that I was left in those little rooms by myself.
@pohakumana3 жыл бұрын
Chris, why would you not know prisoners have LOTS of time to learn and practice writing, what else can you do to keep sanity? It's a natural human reaction. I'm writing my memoirs now.
@clifover3 жыл бұрын
Why would you not know that he DOES know it?
@pohakumana3 жыл бұрын
@@clifover because he was not a prisoner
@mocatree2 жыл бұрын
You will never hear an American politician speak like this. How sad.
@olivertaylor87882 жыл бұрын
Very traveled man.means well.chris is correct on seeing what's going on,but I have yet to hear his fix for the problems America is facing today.Everyone can see the why we are here,but nobody knows the way home.Lost isn't the word for this.For there is no fix.lost sheep on a sea of greed and corruption..All will drown for no land of home is left...
@lawrencebolt35402 жыл бұрын
I've never understood why white supremacy so desperately needs other people to do its own work for it. Then turns around and calls those people who do the work, "lazy". Then sing songs and tell folktales about how brave and pure it is. It's quite a head job. 🤷
@buddinganarchist3 жыл бұрын
He will say such good things but then say awful things. Mumia a total mind wasted in our prison hell.
@MindRebelion2 жыл бұрын
organize and unionize now!
@rhandthevoidoids2 жыл бұрын
Chris!
@ernieoliver56402 жыл бұрын
Does Chris get started at some point?
@vfigueroa304210 ай бұрын
As Black persons, it's easy to be discouraged. Politicians from both major parties have made our lives tough. And his comments that prisons are cash machines (privatized) are Eye-opening. Come on Americans, we can do better.
@vfigueroa304210 ай бұрын
Plus, from 370,000 to 2,300,000 in less than 50 years? Sad.
@cullenreynolds7453 жыл бұрын
The most Authentically Righteous and Valuable American public figure for Truth & Justice !? You'll get no argument from me. I could summarize what Chris Hedges means to me As... "My Religion... being as I am, & have been here, raised in the united states consumed as I am with Truth, after having discovered my own about myself first , in spite of the influences on me from my own American experience, & that done onto those for whom I am witness, .... by its agents, status quo realities, & of it's self-declared 'men of God'. I hear God coming from the heart & mind of his experience from his articulated insight & shared witnessing. Through all the religious schools, churches, and encounters with "men of God" in my life I've not ever heard, felt or seen that to any degree much beyond platitudes, & CERTAINLY not one which presented such depth of Truth of fact & reality to which Godliness demands itself attend to , over the vague sentiments & soliloquies of the safely distanced stage. I have however seen & experienced horrors of evil & hell from enough of them to have believed in the devil, Speaking metaphorically Long before any ability to believe in any God/Higher Power. Chris Hedges speaks to everything that is ungodly in our society.... And thus he speaks Godly, for Truth and Justice as from a righteous God & of the Godliness Within me,... (again which I was forced to cultivate & develop Within me in spite of my Soo American experience & of its 'men of God') That yearning for & Cultivation of Godliness Within me ........ which has always put me at odds with this American society, from which everything I've experienced as such = has been a validation felt like a crucifixion during which Chris's voice is heard as from the sky, but felt in the Soul such that the cross can be beared with a literal sense of Gods comfort, support, & Calling out to me that am on His Path, if not in God-like perfection Nonetheless in righteous pursuit of Godliness Within myself the Eternal value of which is worthy of suffering through anything.
@douglascarlson90062 жыл бұрын
Oh really? ... THE CHRIS HEDGES PLAYBOOK ... Let us first review a few of his more revealing quotes: "I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and the mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ... BTW, he has refused to comment on or stand with the working class against the illegal and unconstitutional vax mandates and passports ************** "Let us stand up and resist so future generations will at least say ‘they tried.’ We cannot do this alone ... together we have a chance" ... BTW, he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the book THE FOURTH INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION ************** In a 2020 interview, he said he told indigenous pipeline protesters to "park your cars in their path, remove the engines and walk away" BTW, he did not even mention the the U.S. and Canadian trucker convoys until a March 2022 interview with Jimmy Dore ************** After 2014 speech, he was asked to comment on 9/11 and insulted our collective intelligence by saying "Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" ************** He knows he can maintain his place in the "independent media" food chain by: 1) attacking AOC 2) talking about Assange 3) talking about Snowden 4) talking about Ukraine That's all he has to do, that's it! His work with prison inmates is laudable, but not nearly significant enough to offset the effects of his selective silence on these issues ...
@15clank2 жыл бұрын
He used the book as a coaster anyone else notice that
@justanotherfella45852 жыл бұрын
He touches on my bafflement of the the American description of a left wing in their political system.
@sandralima32352 жыл бұрын
Chris, I often listen to you, and I agree with most of your views. However, whenever you speak about this cruel prison system and our laws, you must acknowledge the percent of prisoners that have ruined lives and committed atrocities and must be put away for the benefit of most of us. If you generalize the prison population as benign and passive victims, you will fail to make your message 100% credible.
@AndrewStergiou2 жыл бұрын
Left wing celebrities like Chris Hedges only know other Left wing celebrities like himself. He is constantly promoting himself and his books writing (good and well enough). But it is amazing I am impressed that he seems not to know any regular people and lives his life as he does: Sorry I am not a fan his life like many "left-wing" celebrities today seem all self-serving as much as any conservative except the pay differs.
@ledaswan59902 жыл бұрын
You don’t consider the prisoners his friends? The people he calls his friends.
@homey12122121212 жыл бұрын
@@ledaswan5990 I’m
@manatee25002 жыл бұрын
Only a few left wing celebrities have been Russian agents.
@ryanharvey98003 жыл бұрын
This will get 100k views at most so he's speaking to the deaf
@l.w.paradis21083 жыл бұрын
If some of those who do go on to teach in prisons and halfway houses, those few will matter.
@tomjohn87332 жыл бұрын
When Chris Hedges speaks, a wise man listens, until one eliminate the injustices of poverty and lack of education and opportunities, society can not hope to curb the violence, but the ruling class is so removed from reality that there only solution is mass incarceration and authoritarian rules….sadly
@mikemestas98352 жыл бұрын
conformity is the fashion----bob dylan
@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL3 жыл бұрын
This guy is just depressing as hell. He exists to demoralize the working class.
@joecalta36793 жыл бұрын
He is speaking truth. What he does to help these prisoners is bringing light into darkness. As far as demoralizing working class, many are already demoralized but the first thing one has to do to fix it is to identify whether the tyranny is self imposed or from external forces or some combination of the two. Do you believe we should just delude ourselves?
@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL3 жыл бұрын
@@joecalta3679 Once you realize that trade deficits are profitable dollar exports for banks, and our government sanctions it, you understand everything you need to know. I don't need this Debbie Downer to remind me of how bad it will get for the working class.
@johnlock5723 жыл бұрын
You know that's his thing right? Saying Chris Hedge is depressing is like complaining about Russian novels being long and broody. If you like cheerful optimism, you'd better go elsewhere
@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL3 жыл бұрын
@@johnlock572 With all the air time he gets. it's obvious someone's paying him to keep the working class dejected and hopeless.
@DUCKSAREEVILLLLLLLL2 жыл бұрын
@Alice Amell OK, what has he motivated you to do to stop the consolidation to the parasitic financial sector?