Chris Hedges "Fascism in the Age of Trump"

Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10, 2017 on fascism and empire in the age of Trump.
www.mediasanctuary.org
Chris Hedges is the best-selling author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker. The quote reads: "The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug."
Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, has written twelve books, including the New York Times bestseller Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. Some of his other books include Unspeakable (2016), Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative to Revolt (2015), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and the best selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2008). In 2011, Nation Books published a collection of Hedges’ Truthdig columns called The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
Hedges previously spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges’ original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009 and again in 2011. The LAPC also granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists.”
Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.

[@jabarshaikmahomed5306]

Oh my god i am 76 yr old i never heard a such a speech so honest and truth has has been spoken i pray for his safety may god bless him

[@Jackson-tb1jy]

Yooo you got that old person wisdom. His life probably is in danger.

[@realevilcorgi]

blessed comment

[@abistonservices9249]

Glad i'll soon be 77 years of age, i think we need AI to take us over maybe, not looking forward to being young again, only the young can sort this out now! - imagine communists like China or Russia top dogs, your freedom will be gone then, as capitalism declines. Hope America comes to it's senses soon. Doubt it, as long as big business is the monkey on it's back. 🤨

[@ladymuck2]

And one year later.

[@MaggieTheCat01]

Chris Hedges is the most knowledgable and eloquent speaker I’ve ever heard on the topic of corporate totalitarianism.

[@griselidesmartinez9689]

Chris Hedges, you have given me a voice. I have observed all this, but you said it brilliantly!

[@guangxitan3104]

what a great analsis!

[@griselidesmartinez9689]

@@guangxitan3104 Thank you so!

[@ghostlyphantasm2352]

Populism is very VERY powerful in a society of oppressed/depressed and divided people. We need an information revolution - but they took over the internet and the press.

[@sallyramage8439]

His chosen words are sublime. Wonderful.

[@alfonsoachiyahburneyisrael742]

THIS MAN SPARES NOBODY... SO GREAT TO HEAR SOMEONE SPEAK TRUTH WITHOUT FEAR

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

I never once heard him say everybody.

[@RedRider1600]

Hedges is a moron. He is not speaking truth. He is full of crap.

[@glengubernat1752]

RedRider1600 LOL, you’re a mental slave and a fascist.

[@hailtothechief7080]

@@RedRider1600 must be nice to live in a country where people can state their opinion without fear

[@RedRider1600]

Hailto Thechief Yes, it is. What is your point?

[@thomasjensen6243]

Everytime I listen to Chris, tears roll down my face....not for me, but for the fear I feel for my 13 year old son.

[@jenniferbringman9054]

My 8 and 11 year old grandkids!

[@RussCR5187]

The situation is beyond bad. Climate change is coming on more and more forcefully right at a time when: 1) the governments of the world have become exceptionally dysfunctional, and 2) the pandemic has caused a major distraction. Did I say that the situation is beyond bad?

[@CaptZdq1]

Lamentably, there is reason to feel that way, mostly bcz of the totalitarian plutocratic grip put on the world using Covid as the excuse.

[@RussCR5187]

@@MelissaLim89 If that book paints a rosy picture, then it is describing the eye of the hurricane. The calm before the storm. I would bet real data on the relentless drastic reduction of Arctic sea ice, destruction of the Great Barrier Reef, increasing frequency and severity of forest fires and weather disasters, and other very real examples of rapidly worsening climate change, are not covered. Neither are the ever-widening wealth gap, the record debt levels of both individuals and corporations, the decimation of the middle class in the U.S., and other very real examples of how an uncaring ruling class (the 1%) has totally abandoned the vast majority of ordinary citizens (the 99%). Sorry, but that's the way it is with eyes fully open.

[@RussCR5187]

@Allison Bauch I agree. The version of hope most people cling to has been called "hopeium". When I think about hope I think of two quotes: “Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.” -- St Augustine “Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is the ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed.” --Vaclav Havel, former dissident and first president of the Czech Republic.

[@CapovillaPierpaolo]

Accurate, cultured, elegant, smart, and finally truly honest. Magnificent speech.

[@DJK-cq2uy]

Isn't he a reverend..trained in that?

[@csurams84]

​@@DJK-cq2uyso... Better than a dumbass spouting off a bunch of nonsense

[@creativegaze]

Wow! I just stumbled upon this while going down the rabbit-hole in my isolation. This feels even more relevant today than it did three years ago.

[@lunafringe10]

there is no isolation, only in the mind. I love it, streets not packe with huge crowds,

[@Monk-Amani.]

You didn't have the time to become aware three, eleven years ago.

[@ehiggins360]

Hedges is boss. It’s just so depressing though! To me him, and Cornell west are the epitome of social sciences.

[@renestar99]

YOU SHOULD SEE WHATS GOING ON HERE IN EUROPE. AND PEOPLE DONT DO ANYTHING TO STOP THIS CRAZINESS . I am being called a racist ( my wife and ex wife are black my kids are brown) the world will be Muslim in 30 too 60 years. in the name of MONEY and IGNORANCE

[@Michael_Dominic]

that's the point of the lecture. it's not some kind of fantasy, US is really in danger.

[@PIANOSEEDS]

Realizing that his father had given him freedom and calling that resurrection brought tears to my eyes. Chris Hedges is an American treasure.

[@steppenwolf3252]

Global treasure.

[@mrsoshadabaadman]

Prophetic. I appreciate his nihilism separated from toxic optimism and artificial meritocracy. A difficult but necessary reality check!

[@taniabrandon1642]

💯 % "Top Notch" In a nutshell.....

[@billiebleach7889]

I listen to speeches like this all day, while driving my bus through city traffic. Relaxing, enlightening and sometimes quite moving. I get smarter by the mile...

[@morrisrider7730]

@Elms College Student and your an illiterate idiot savant you dim wit. A wit with Dunces and a Dunce with wits, you dumb child. What are you studying, ignorance as a way of life? Stfu and gtfo for Douche bag.

[@johnbrattan9341]

@Elms College Student You're ignorance is appalling.

[@SamXander23]

@uh ok um? Who exactly deserves to be mowed down? Are you endorsing yet another mass shooting?

[@denowl6970]

Billie Bleach They listen to him in Russia?

[@billiebleach7889]

Den Owl Russia?

[@LenBerman]

This needs to go viral. Everyone should share it on social media

[@Contact_Info]

Its false.

[@Contact_Info]

@ Never.

[@benvanrossum656]

I will

[@benvanrossum656]

@@Contact_Info what is false ?

[@julieveitch7375]

One of his best. Listening to it during this crisis just increases its validity. Stay well all.

[@breathnstop]

wonderful. i feel hopeless until I hear Chris. listening to him is my church.

[@Hanfgurkenhasser]

Listening to Chris *makes* me hopeless. 😆

[@balduran7841]

@@Hanfgurkenhasser No, it opens your eyes to the reality of the decline, hang on tight, it's a long way down.

[@isabellcaputo954]

Brilliant and tragic. Chris Hedges and Noam Chompsky so necessary for the soul. So grateful.

[@Shelora]

“To resist evil is the highest human achievement, and the ultimate expression of love.” Chris Hedges

[@robholderman2874]

Sadly to say sometimes you have to fight fire with fire ... The end of the equation is injecting God unto every foreign endeavor ... ( God alone can change the hearts of mankind on any given part of the world )

[@dubskj01]

He was quoting James Cohen when he said that...just sayin 😎

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@@robholderman2874 Sorry, but these are serious topics. Your imaginary friend has no place here.

[@antediluvianatheist5262]

@J. Milton Jeffreys Because we have evidence to support the natural beginnings of the universe. If you have evidence, you don't need faith. Those claiming a supernatural beginning have a much worse problem. Natural forces exist. They can be demonstrated. Not one supernatural force or event has EVER been demonstrated, not once in history. So until that changes, 'supernatural' is off the table. Ever been to a party? a gathering of friends? Did it end? So why even bother going if it's going to end one day? My life has meaning to me, and those around me. Arrogance is assuming that 100 billion galaxies with 250 billion stars in each, was made as a pretty backdrop for us.

[@northyland1157]

Evil is when somebody works really hard to make some money. Then the government comes in and steals it.. and gives it away to somebody who didn't work hard at all. Taxation is thieft.

[@defeatsthepurpose9478]

"When things get bad, the elites will retreat into their compounds and leave us on our own." These words are prescient and imperative for our understanding of what is happening around us today and what will continue to happen until we fight.

[@maryschott9765]

Unfortunately we will be left with fighting each other, the rich have already bought passports and property elsewhere.

[@Wearewhatyoucreated]

When he said "we must be able to see our face in the face of the oppressor" i got insane goosebumps. Thats forgiveness of a kind which is surely living on the cusp.

[@dondressel4802]

I’m 62 and have lived through the better years I cannot believe what I’m seeing what is happening in my country the United States The greed is rampant and people are living on the streets while our two parties in government are fighting while not accomplishing a damn thing

[@peacheswilliams4539]

Do some research and find out why.

[@kennedymillsap3109]

Great straightforward and also let the people know that I listen to him he was telling the truth and not just listen to him but see how dig a ditch it we are in this country almost all unreversible

[@philgwellington6036]

@Bret 1959 You are Bret. But with nukes. Enjoy a peaceful day, by day.

[@isismccain915]

And you think Hillary Clinton and her corporate globalist agenda would be best for humanity? Sir, do you understand what corporate globalism is? The entire world is moving away from corporate globalism and it's agenda of governance by means of unelected elitist bureaucrats appointed by the Rothschild private central banks and the mega corporations. Donald Trump is leading that way. Please do not confuse him and the "current" U.S. with the old corporate globalist minions such as Barack Obama, the Bushes and the Clintons. Each individual nation's sovereignty will be respected in this new world that is about to unfold. Please don't be fooled into believing that China is leading the way to a more sovereign and democratic world. China was created by the same corporate globalists that tore Serbia up over 20 years ago, and is still meddling in Serbia, Kossovo, etc. China is still run by the Communist party which serves that country as a board of directors would serve a mega corporation. There is absolutely no democracy, none whatsoever, in China. The Chinese people are a smart and a good people. They too need to rise up and throw the shackles of their authoritarian government off, like Russia, which had communism imposed on it by the corporate globalists in 1917, did. Behind the scenes my friend, Presidents Putin and Trump are working together to rid this world of that corporate globalist menace.

[@dondressel4802]

ISIS McCain I agree with you on that

[@jonathanbecker8935]

I wish every American could hear Chris Hedges' explanation of what our country is doing to itself and the world. I'll share his words with everyone I know! My wife is a pastor, and I will get her to share them with her congregation and denomination. His time in the Middle East and many other places has obviously engrained in him an empathy for the most vulnerable populations which most Americans will never feel. So I see now that every day I don't do something, I am also complicit in being part of the problem. Thanks Chris. I will do better. I will do my part to try to create change.

[@llb6234]

Chris Hedges is a very intelligent man but he is a leftist so be careful. Communism is dangerous and will not turn out like they promise.

[@joeshow8815]

I guess about 50 % of Americans would listen but still would have no clue what Chris was talking about.

[@T-aka-T]

@@llb6234 "LEFT" is not communism! Honestly. The US terror of communism has led to the WORST health services in the western world, and everyone sits there saying "we are the greatest" and refusing to have a decent health care system for all Americans out of this irrational fear of "socialism/communism". Now look at the situation under trump's denial and slow response to the Corona virus in a truly crappy health care system (where he also dismantled the pandemic response unit!). Americans are dying from ignorance and their "fear of communism". -- As at the end of March. Just watch April. And he will keep blathering. And the GOP will keep trying to destroy Obamacare. Better to fear another term of the GOP!

[@garyc3233]

but your are falling for the same old stuff..and so is he...half truth all the way... not even close... i must answer this one last...do tell the congregation ...they probably half foreign illegals that this type guy supported us to do anyway..and yes, they 'will' have your job...and house, and be able to blame you ...if you like that...hard as is, i would try to fight it...from kennedy wrong..if we did correct, we would never have had most of these problems to start with...sorry i and others think you missed.. jimmy carter letting iran fall...just look...he though shah was bad ...or couldnt support??..france did wrong [nato?] by harboring [thats a form of sanctuary] ayatollah khomeni[sp] sad how many killed and now you got what this guy supported...he thought...do you like iran now?? wild fanatic religion leader.. death to america everyday... carter should have reacted earlier and more correct... it was ambassador , i think name brown , a lady, who led saadam to thinking we would not be pressing him, and he thought we weak as usual..and invaded Kuwait...look what that cost us..B Clinton did that... you research and you will see which guy brown the gov chase out of Iraq. that already had a bead on Bin Laden, and he was right...look also from her, what that cost us right... please take a clearer look.. skip the heart feeling talk...clearer look...this has gone on in the world forever...one who beat it early and correctly as should...read history... was Catherine the Great of Russia...they got this stuff on their borders, dont have time to play...she was asked by the ppl to save the christians being slaughtered and badly mistreated by the muslims [any country] and ''not just a few'' thousands as we now see also...and Catherine sent the army who fought against 3-1 odds and won and pushed the muslims back off the christians there...and with their army help, saved them... dont know where that is do you? that is now called the 'country' of Bulgaria... which also would have been gone....and slaughter mass happened to Armenians long later after that...sad the world did nothing....so dont always blame russia either... then you need think...what kind of congregation belief do you really have...?? this guy hedges is basically calling you the ''religious right'' and telling that you are wrong ... i think you should see that....bc...christian is not wrong the way i see it...or secular with good citizenship...thats what built america... we could go way deeper...hard to say quickly, i wish ... muslims do not think like you do...keep looking overseas... you see the violence it creates...on its own also...we dont need that... or invite it here...europe, basically fallen now due to this guy here type of talk... too late we fear..it started with swedish organization thinking they were helping...wrong...now bad...and that also led to s africa falling wrong...did not get done correctly.... let us hope we wake, not ''woke'' [myoriginal] your congregation dont need this guy... sounds like a fighter ..but not... so so easy to blame...and not be part of fix...

[@julieveitch7375]

What a great, thoughtful post. Thank you.

[@allancrow134]

Hedge's books and commentary will age well. Truth eternal.

[@carlastarkey4775]

When I first saw Chris nearly twenty years ago, he was in a church that wasn't even half full. His speech turned my blood cold. Since then, I have seen everything he said coming true. I have not lost that feeling of dread .

[@marccano5061]

I served in the Marine Corps, I'm glad I made it out in one piece. Now I look at everything differently. Thank you Chris Hedges.

[@sallyramage8439]

A most astute man.

[@morrisrider7730]

Chris Hedges, I followed Abby Martin (The 'Philadelphia Move Massacre') with your very sobering and absolutely on point Discourse, I was stunned and appalled by what should be an award winning programme. You have my thanks and respect, Thank You Sir.

[@ruthrivera6655]

Thank you Chris Hedges. You speak profound truth. I'm listening.

[@recordsare]

Would love transcripts of these Very carefully written

[@helene420]

Chris Hedges is a brilliant speaker. Could listen to him everyday.

[@spiceinsights]

This is such an important talk. Chris Hedges is an inspiration to the true movement for resistance

[@InvestingForTomorrow24]

"The world is a dangerous place to live;not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." Einstein

[@mooglemy3813]

Einstein also said nuke power is s hell of a way to boil water. The Twilight Zone is real and its upon us now.

[@leemayzes1200]

Are you doing something? If not why not? If not you are part of the problem. kzbin.info/www/bejne/pYO9e3qOfZyqsMk

[@Laffingbooda777]

Nukes had kept the world from another world war due to fear of mutual destruction was one side effect of atomic energy we did not expected....Amen ...??? lol

[@brianries88]

No mr. Einstein the world is a dangerous place because Adam and Eve disobeyed God our Creator in the Garden of Eden and were warned ahead of time that the consequences would be that evil, death, and decay would be loosed upon us and the Earth. Its too bad you died in your sins by not accepting Christ as your Lord and saviour, I pray you did before you died otherwise what a waste of a mind as yours.

[@gazumper1314]

people like him

[@MrIzzyDizzy]

The possibility that we may fail in the struggle , ought not to deter us from the support of a cause we believe to be just." ~ Abraham Lincoln

[@uncannyvalley2350]

Then the Vatican had him murdered

[@jenniferbringman9054]

Uncanny Valley The Vatican agrees with him!

[@RussCR5187]

"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out. It is the ability to work for something because it is good, not because it stands a chance to succeed." --Vaclav Havel, author, poet, and first president of the Czech Republic.

[@GrandmaCathy]

100%!!

[@targeted4truthjahsun]

He gets choked up at 30 minutes into it. It shows how much what he's reporting is bothering him. This is a powerful speech. Everyone should listen to this NOW. SHARE FAR AND WIDE.

[@MsAngelOne]

This man is telling the truth and speaking truth to power. l am not afraid to die, we die daily l just want to have some peace in the mist of the storm.

[@jesperkthomsen]

Extraordinary! The Land of the Free needs a Sanctuary for Independent Media.

[@kerrympay]

Truth shall set you free!

[@dewaynestafford5507]

A peoples book to bypass fedbook

[@ProlificThreadworm]

@Jakob Heinrich crypto? Naah only government - printed paper is real money amirite

[@nicktrice4921]

@@ProlificThreadworm You know you are... ;) Btw, great username! I can relate.

[@ChrisMclean126]

Epic speech. Thank you Chris!

[@davidsalcido383]

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[@wendysfitness]

Exactly how I feel. To be at the part of life, the golden years, where I thought I’d find happiness, and witness the willingness of my peers to follow a pied piper, heartbreaking.

[@umibrahimibrahim4966]

The strongest honest and genuine speech ever, to tell yourselves. I love you man.

[@jforozco12]

im glad and thankful to hear an american citizen telling the truth for a change it breaks a lot of stereotypes

[@herbertkroll1266]

Hedges also keeps a lot of stereotypes in place to hide the fact that he agrees with most of President Trump's policies.

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

@@herbertkroll1266 I think it's more of a question of no one is of one piece. Tucker Carlson just demanded explanations from the Senator who sold his stock in sectors to be affected by the pandemic while telling everyone it was all rightt. Well i'm with him on that, but i still think he's a stinking piece of shit ithat should be left on a boat to the graces of gods i don't believe in. Or, you know, demonetized and exposed.

[@THEFXR]

@@Vinjoxx Textbook AOC fan boy. Wait till your 30 something air head, becomes a 40 something airhead and she starts to look like Madonna before she shaves.

[@bupkus123]

Joe Cool Ah, yes, he must after all be a communist, since he does speak of the disease we are all afflicted with, the spiritual isolationist.

[@karenskinner9044]

Americans are all over KZbin speaking truth to power. The Humanist Report, The Last American Vagabond, Secular Talk, We Are Change, News 4 a Change are just a few worthy of listening to.

[@bigbrother5044]

I need to have this speech to read it again and again .

[@LiloUkulele]

Yinka let me know if you find it!

[@sergioaacm10]

Have you guys found it? I need it in text also.

[@akbarfarzin9857]

Simply me too !!!!!

[@byaklangakwasinton8775]

To resist evil is the highest act of love

[@amyhankins1453]

Thank you, Mr. Chris Hedges. Peace to you.

[@jesusmind1611]

This is the finest thing I have ever heard. Thank you Chris I want to shake your hand, send you ten dollars, share a coffee, shed a tear. I have a dream too, thank you.

[@marcoantoniorodriguesfaria9952]

Nada pertencente este Trump .ele que deu Gop .

[@jonathancook8343]

Wow, that was awesome, this guy is on a par with our great historical orators.

[@contactkeithstack]

Jonathan Cook he's a great speaker but he borders on being a dramatist. He takes truths, corporate influence in democracy, imbeciles in bureaucracy, military industrial complex, and the influences and protections of the wealthy, but he turns these up to 11 and concludes "the US will not exist in 10 years", and Davos will choose and become the rulers of the fascist super structure that rises from the ashes. My dad worked for a company who's owner attended Davos. He's not an illuminati who makes the real choices behind the facade of democracy. He's just a wealthy business owner who has influence in economic policy, too much influence (not him personally but as a group) probably. I've read 2 of Hedges books, listen to his speeches. He should not be a civic leader. He's misleading and destroying faith in institutions that are not obsolete or too weak to rejuvenate our country. Orwell gave a vision of where democracy can go if it's not tended too, he did not falsely state the United States was 10 years from being Oceania.

[@jonathancook8343]

I don't blame him for being dramatic, our world is dying and we are causing it; by whatever means, if he can stir up some actual concern, he will have done the state some service.

[@pretorious700]

Pompous, self congratulatory, and pedantic. Pretty much a political diatribe disguised as populism. Please, get a clue.

[@mhikl4484]

+contactkeithstack As Andrew Burr says above, America is a Constitutional Republic... not a Democracy. A Constitutional Republic is not a Democracy by definition.... It can choose to be, or it can become an oligarchy. It has chosen the path of the latter. And that is why the USA will be gone, split into little warring states in 10 years. The ultra wealthy, the small fascist fraction* will make sure of that as they strip away what's left of the nation's soul and wealthy. * Rothschilds, Waltons, Koch Brothers, etc.

[@jamestcatcato7132]

Contact. Careful reading of Orwell will show that he was against ALL ideologues INCLUDING Demock-rats AND Demockery, he was also right about America becoming Oceania, but that wasn't hard, seeing as it REALLY happened in 1947.

[@johne.mckenzie9344]

Once again Chris speaks to the TRUTH!

[@jeremymiller4004]

The quote he mentions by Fosseli Grossman bring a tear to my eyes. Such hope in the face of danger.

[@surfsidefl2000]

Having listened to these lectures once again that I listened to two years ago, it's enlightening to listen to them again in March, 2020. It's as if he wrote the script in advance.

[@surfsidefl2000]

@mildred gomez Personally, I knew what he was saying was 100% spot on back then. But I am a no one. No one will listen to me.

[@aylbdrmadison1051]

@surfsidefl2000 : The thoughtful and mindful tend to listen and feel far less need to shout and make themselves seen. But those who do shout, because they have such a major lack of confidence in their own beliefs, are fewer in number. They only _seem_ to be greater in number, in much the same way that those who seek power over others, are those who more often attain it unfortunately. Remember that hope is eternal.

[@surfsidefl2000]

@@aylbdrmadison1051 Always pay attention to internet responses. The more curse words and insults being used the less confident the person is of their position.

[@DBEdwards]

THat is the trait of GENIUS

[@briangriffin8106]

I'm an average person.I don't even have a college degree. Not to take anything away from the speaker. But even I could see this coming. Once Walmart and The Home Depot started running small businesses out. And when we attacked Afghanistan and Iraq. I knew it was the beginning of the end. A George Carlin quote has stuck with me for years, " America is finished "

[@nash984954]

"A person is rich in the things they can do without." "If you have one true friend, just one, you're wealthier than you know."

[@normalizedinsanity4873]

Without doubt...well said

[@williamgood8210]

Man you said it.

[@jimmychopsticks8568]

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[@n.g.h.calmarena7013]

Read Albert Camus, "The Rebel." The author certainly would have appreciated Chris Hedges.

[@cameronmcguire1599]

Camus! If only more people made their own minds, rather than let others program our beliefs. The best propaganda isn't propaganda to the fanatic.

[@tommytomtom5531]

@@cameronmcguire1599 I'm telling hannity you said that

[@cameronmcguire1599]

@@tommytomtom5531 Not Hannity! Even the nut jobs think he goes a bit too far.

[@dasssjam7413]

Thank u, Mr Chris hedges for speaking the fearless truth, stay safe, love regards ❤

[@MrCaseyrose77]

I am clapping and standing!!! Thank you Chris!!!

[@sallyramage8439]

Yes.

[@archvaldor]

I really feel for Chris Hedges on a personal level. Unlike say Blyth, or Chomsky, whom seem to revel in being intellectual bad boys, Hedges seems to be at heart a very conservative man in the true sense of the word, driven to the extremes by the rabid greed and sociopathic nature of mainstream politics. The corruption of it seems to visibly torture him. It takes a special kind of courage to take an unpopular stand like he does.

[@tellthetruthna8523]

+Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks Very astute observations. I think he is the saddest man alive. He seems to carry the pain of every poor soul he has ever met.....and millions he has never met.

[@ursulaplatt5000]

He is a journalist.

[@chioma3100]

He is a liberal in the truest sense.

[@stevemartin4249]

Chris is a morally autonomous and socially mature being who has transcended 'conservative' and 'liberal'. And this speech is from an intellectual giant and a brutally honest member of homo sapiens - which is rapidly approaching its shelf life as a species. But this John Coltrane-torrent of ideas may be over estimating how well-read the majority of us may be, or how much we can cognitively handle, minute-by-minute. Meh, maybe I am just confessing my own limits Would love to hear a dummy's guide to Chris Hedges, a bit of a sparser Miles Davis approach, with enough empty space between ideas to give this dummy a chance to fill in the gaps for myself. Have read only a fraction of his many references, much less channeled them to the point of spiritual cleansing and action. Thank god for KZbin videos, the pause button, and replay. And this will be replayed over and over.

[@jeanneeber]

Archvaldor's Warcraft Hacks He’s an EMPATH! The natural born enemies of Greedy Controlling & Entitled Narcissists.

[@vladimir0700]

“Trying to crush a small kernel of human kindness” -- yeah, and a pretty small goddamn kernel it is too!!!

[@shirleyreedy5751]

At last.Somebody is telling it like it is.Truth will overcome

[@user-pm6zt6cw4l]

A great and courageous man. A very lonely voice in this crazy world.

[@chrisweidner4768]

Hopefully not as lonely now as before. All the best and spread his word. I had the pleasure to live in South Korea for 2 years. Wonderful people and culture.

[@daikayll1897]

Lonely voice ? Naaah. I've been banging on about you yanks for ages !

[@Lunatic4Bizcas]

@James Mathis : Your skewed view of reality and your self delusion is part of the problem. You need to look at the world around you and the world abroad beyond what you see under your nose. It's your choice to make.

[@asyersathanas666]

@@chrisweidner4768 fucking disgusting sexpat!

[@phillipgaley4416]

You remember in 2008, . . . when the stockbrokers refused to write contracts for the failure of GM? If we are to believe what they said, they thought that, such contracts would produce psychic pressure for GM's failure, . . . and as easily, the profit-making plan which some others had set in motion. So, the Chinese are hoping that, the U.S.A. will attack and defeat China, . . . Well, not the very small percentage of the Chinese who are overlords, of course, . . . but the ones who are killing themselves, . . . . the millions in slave labor factories, . . . long hours and, crowded into apartments like rabbits in rabbit hutches, . . . the ones who are forbidden to get on Wikipedia and all of this. Untold millions of the Chinese, . . . sensing the freedom, . . . out there, . . . somewhere, . . . wondering, just wondering, . . . why they also, . . . can't have freedom. But they know, . . . they know. Socialistic communism brings out the real stupidity in its adherents, . . . Mao was going to supplant brain power with Manpower, . . . in order to produce steel, he then had the Chinese people to cut down their forests, . . . all for low-grade pig iron, . . . contaminated with sulfur, . . . fit only for fishing weights, . . . And, to ship out for refining abroad, just too little, . . . Now, the Chinese are trying to reforest, . . . But sadly, Chairman Mao's desertification, continues, . . . THEN, Mao didn't know anything about planting, . . . the birds ate the seed~KILL THE BIRDS! EXPLOSION IN INSECT POPULATION ! FAMINE! BUG BITES! Of all insects worldwide, as vectors for disease, mosquitoes kill the most people! Fascism is the combination of business and governance, . . . Whatever name you call it, it's always the same. Socialistic fascist communism is like a battle tank, . . . Never, can it change into a comfortable Cadillac, . . . in fact, it can't change at all, . . . It's like a dry branch and half-rotten, . . . appropriate only to the fire pile. Except the U.S.A. will never attack; so, God will tell China to attack, . . . China and Russia, . . . Which is why the tu-160's are now in Venezuela. I kind of think, the reason why this Chris Lynn Hedges character adds the flavor of the Hitlerian style is, he's a little bit pompous and likes the applause. Deceiving and being deceived, Chris Hedges paints his colorful and disjointed word picture like any chalk artist does, his perspective drawing on a sidewalk, . . . viewable as a seeming reality only from one point of perspective and distance. Ike got the "military industrial complex" phrase from General MacArthur's farewell address~the phrase not available from any printed source, . . . to be heard only on the RCA Victor Red Label recording~made at the time. @HANS @Tim Brown @Olivia Gomez @Victorseafog @Al Loomis @Jesus Jimenez Hernandez @JAM McGuire @KeepitReal! @Koukle Partali @Ursula Rue B @Charity Achusim @Steve Martin @bigbike @Jeanne 54 @Steven Yourke @The Chetson Firm @Chris Weidner @Dai Kayll @James Mathis @Lunatic4Bizcas @Pastar of Muppets @Chris McLean @Tellthetruth n/a @Buster Friendly @Joe Marshall @vernon padilla @Yvonne Schwartz

[@meadowlarkascending]

Brilliant, completely on-target, and echoes everything and more that many of us have no doubt been realizing for at least a couple of decades, if not more. Thank you for this, Chris Hedges, you courageous humanitarian.

[@MS-in3sl]

Chris Hedges is spot on: he’s identified the situation alright, only his solution of ‘Resistance’ is presented exclusively in the Christian context. Hardly helpful when this ‘evil’ that must be overcome is something like orthodox satmar fundamentalism and isreali zionism. This type of evil must be fought with its own weapons.

[@annettewatt3990]

B.

[@partridgefamilybus2021]

He is deceptive. Chris Hedges is pushing belief in "climate change" which should tell you all you need to know about who he works for. This is no friend to America. The leftist are trying desperately to collapse the country so they can bring in their global utopian nightmare. Don't believe the hype. Trump was elected with overwhelming support because Americans realized the fascism that had infiltrated their country over the previous Obama years. While the problem is not partisan, it is ideological. Fascism, socialism, communism are all LEFTIST ideologies. The right supports LIBERTY, the left is pushing TYRANNY and they will lie, steal and go to any lengths to trick you. Wake up America, these people are not your friends.

[@amyfisher6647]

Thank you Mr. Hedges for your courage, your brilliant speaking and writing. Thank you for speaking the Truth.

[@ehiggins360]

Dang, no one can paint a depressing and frustrating scenario like Hedges. Just amazing.

[@amcd85]

Except reality

[@pmsingel6018]

Weird hearing someone speak truth

[@KarlLind]

Yes, that's how far we've all been led astray

[@kenjsr1]

He's making himself an enemy of the stinking rich. I'm surprised that he hasn't been disappeared. 🤔

[@logicalcritik2144]

Its weird hearing a white person speak the truth!

[@dondressel4802]

Americans are in denial of what is going on because we are to busy with our lives just trying to get by with each paycheck to paycheck I’m nervous as hell because I just got my report on our pension fund which is only 57.2% funded So with calpers here in California is a trillion dollars in debt and that’s not even my pension fund The shit is eventually going to hit the fan

[@daikayll1897]

Thinking about yourself again Don ?!! What goes round comes around. Not your fault ? Blair,Bush,Cheney,Rumsfeld,Campbell,Bush snr.,Churchill. The Empiricalists. We let it happen. I've just watched a programme on BBC about the Iraqi people and the mental illness engulfing the country after the invasion and war and occupation by our war machine. So fuck your pension Don ! And mine too.

[@salvadorsalustiano5911]

Outstanding; a very unique, original, coherent and informed thinker that defies any knee-jerk labeling attempt. Bravo, Sir; thank you very much.

[@freeme905]

Art Hephner agreed, he probably has some good points but I can barely listen to him. Have a great day.

[@SherifEH]

@Art Hephner I feel sorry for you if you can listen to Chris Hedges for up to an hour and not see what is being done to (presumably) your country.

[@ramons.86-187]

They're many non facts in Hedges speech, you can start with WTC that was an inside job assisted by Israeli & USA funding of the radical Jihadist ISIS , with sleeper cells in this Country to turn it into 3rd World (AKA) Agenda 2020 but now paused to 2030 . Globalist NWO are still at work with tools of Homeland Security, Google ,Fb ,Cell Phones wit new 5G ( control of Neurological & Biological Alterations ) to CONTROL how you Think,Act and Feel. A Trojan Horse ( mark of the beast ) to turn us into Sheep. Not True ? Can you live without going online or be without a cellphone for 1 week or 4days ? ? If not ,Then your a Sheeple.

[@DBEdwards]

Beautiful. Beautiful. Chris Hedges instills in me HOPE, TRUTH, REALITY. This man is so honest DIOGENES would be impressed!

[@stephenescamilla2015]

Unfortunately most Americans don't want to even hear what Chris has to say let alone believe his speeches.

[@garrettrains1164]

The truth hurts...

[@annnunley9777]

I feel I'm caught up into something I never imagined or wanted

[@maverickbull1909]

same

[@bamadixiedelightlucyq777]

Same here. However I still will vote for President Trump before I would vote for the left. President Trump has just made a statement about the wars and that we have no place in that part of the world. We should not be policing anyone. Im at least holding faith in my Lord Jesus Christ that the prayers that went up to the heavens would help us heal our lands and our hearts and that he would forgive us. Only he can turn this ship around and its going to take us working together. The things I hear like global warming and carbon footprint I think of how many years its been used to get money to further global New World Order takeovers and the ones that brought it to us is the very ones that called us to war. We can't start or stop the global warming or weather that has seasonal changes always different from year to year but the studies show its got a pattern and its always the same in its changes over the decades. The twisted of what is good is bad and right is wrong and up is down. However out of this has been seen and it would not have been seen if we didn't have President Trump to show us the hypocrisy and enslavement of our people and the need to spread our love to our people everywhere even if its not safe because if we don't give our love to the ones that are lost and in despair we will lose this and I'm seeing the conversation begin and the outreach of our people wanting to help each other and Thats the unity that makes us stronger and gives us the strength to prevail and forgiveness is what we work towards everyday and to not give up especially in the face of oppression and suppression of our own people. If we stay distant from those that are over the top the more they will grow even more with people that feel badly and if one is bigger than that anger and is willing to reach out and ask them to forgive us from our failures and maybe they can see that we did not know that what they had gone through might be different from ours and they can open up to wanting to know what happened to you and why you feel your way and that is the opening of what is needed to be done to start to heal. God Bless

[@mypetcrow9873]

That’s an appropriate response.

[@leemayzes1200]

@@bamadixiedelightlucyq777 Trump is God's agent for change. For breaking up the Globalists (deep State) the evil of sex - trafficking and pedophilia - which is global - the hatred of Christians - the battle for free speech the scam of climate change and more.- Here's how the left has ruined America and some things rising up - kzbin.info/www/bejne/aIvTdX-fYt-FfNE & it's follow up.

[@branchingvine]

We all are...so, since we are, let us unite and have one another's backs, regardless of the color of one's skin. Time for all of us to become brothers and sisters against the global industrialist's and their puppet governments they use to control the people and enslave them!

[@JustAnotherHappyGuy]

The beauty of words that speak against oppression and injustice is that it resonates at any point in time...

[@sallyramage8439]

I hang on to every word that Mr. Hedges speaks. A very wise and most ethical gentleman.

[@js-td8gt]

I, for one , am willing to sacrifice all that I have to resist the evil elites. If it takes rebellion to do so, then so be it.

[@cantfindamerica877]

If my father was still alive I would owe him an apology, because he was right. The rich get richer, and more powerful. Only a chosen few own and run everything, and boy you ain't shit. So shut up try to make a few bucks and be happy with what they let you have, cause they could take that too. And that's what we face today, These people are coming for it all...

[@robertgraham3576]

Hello Mexico!

[@gifyifhkhmcucyk6865]

these "people"

[@cbx500cbx]

@Gayle Elizabeth wish that was so but each day it becomes more likely he was right all along.

[@leonrozay5392]

A wise man told me the same thing! So I'm just going to move on and be happy with the little that I have. 🙏

[@endgame6979]

@Gayle Elizabeth This isnt about politics. This guy is just stating facts.

[@mamamac5267]

Chris Hedges,what an amazing speech.....it’s exactly how I feel.....but could have never articulated it.....so thank you so much and God Bless You....🙏🙏🙏

[@FredlocksAsher2012]

great speech Chris, "real talk" as we would say in Jamaica

[@earlwashington8104]

I wish I had one thousand ears to consume the wisdom and sad truth of Chris Hedges words. emw

[@avecmoi9429]

I am 61 and this is one of the best talks by Hedges.

[@fndngnvrlnd]

BRILLIANT. INDEPTH. HISTORICAL TRUTH. FEARLESS FACTS. INCISIVE ANALYSIS. GREAT MAN.

[@fndngnvrlnd]

@jbaz77777 thanks 💕

[@mannscott215]

Im glad to see that since I shared your video 2 days ago you've gotten 15000 views, trust me you will be getting alot more. You will get to that million mark.

[@phuongmaivothi5338]

This man is courage and wonderful speech. May God bless him!

[@jerryolais7780]

It's like the epitaph of America's decline, yet we are in this illusion that this is not U.S.

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

I've never been to church, but this is what i imagine a real pastor sounds like. Or at least one i would feel inclined to go listen to. Thank you for sharing.

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

@David Chorak He describes it dramatically, but if it sounds like doom it is because shit is pretty bad. It's to avoid downplaying how bad it is. And it is not being a star eyed idealist to point it out. Regarding China, if i can agree with Tucker Carlson that those senators deserve jail, you can reach it. An authocrat government is ultimately shit. But they didn't sell their system piecemiel for votes. When 2008 came you could have an organised response (a lot of shit was built very quickly). Same now w/ the virus . Which, even if it is downplayed, cannot have reached the proportions of Italy or Spain. Granted i'm loose w/ the word preacher. I mean someone want to listen to, someone who mixes truth and eloquence and sounds human i guess. sorry for the long answer.

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

@David Chorak I can understand where you're coming from think, but I really don't sense that hatred in his speach.. seems to me to be directed at a system, negligence and abuse of power.. nor do i feel it to be "doomsday" rhetoric, i mean objectively he doesn't say the world is coming to an end or anything, just where things are bad.. It doesn't move me to panic or abandon, quite the contrary. But i'll happily discuss particulars. And would like to hear Chomsky on this, do you have a link.

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

@David Chorak yeah chomsky was my introduction to any of this. But specifically him talking about C.H?

[@JoaoSantos-lv4rc]

@David Chorak they have several interviews together actually im very excited to watch now lol. maybe it'll transpire what you mean.

[@ronilittle7028]

David Chorak WOW! I love what you said! You should be giving speeches! BEAUTIFUL! 😉

[@faithalessandri968]

I wish I'd been paying attention back then. I was numbing myself with drugs and alcohol and sex. But now I'm sober, and I'm here and I'm awakened!!

[@MHiggins]

Chris Hedges was spot on on every single thing he said. He didn’t miss any one point. The pandemic has shown the world just what is waiting for us when the climate crisis gets out of control.

[@zhe2en171]

He speaks like a preacher! Very powerful! Love it!

[@sydneyb.267]

Among his other achievements, he is and ordained minister and grad of Harvard Divinity School.

[@antonyirvine9338]

This man is amazing!

[@kristinschaible5224]

Thanks Chris I am a independent TV producer being tortured in the USA for warning people about the future, everything came true and everyone took a bribe to use me, God bless you love Kristin

[@karinbiow9110]

Listening to this today is very grounding. As a senior person who is unable to retire, ever, without family or community to lean on, I feel acutely the abandonment by my culture…and I’m still aware that I’m one of the luckier people on this planet. I’m not fleeing bombs and immediate starvation. My mother could live on her social security…but my $1500 a month barely covers my rent. I feel so disillusioned about the world my children are inheriting, and by my own naivety in believing that our country was moving towards justice and equality, while it was doing the opposite. I only wish that I could find the energy and time to get more involved in social change movements, especially now, when it looks like we’re catapulting towards a Trump dictatorship, and what Biden offers is only marginally better. I’m so angry at the system which has failed most people, other than the wealthy.

[@kallasusort2986]

And "What if" the human's all got together and went up against the Industrial Complex and said "NO MORE WAR" "What if the human's decided to help each other. To Lift them up instead of tearing others down. "What if" love prevailed. FEAR MAKES HUMANS EASIER TO CONTRL - LET THAT SINK IN

[@forreal245]

Like the song "Imagine" by J Lennon. And that's just what it is...your imagination.

[@dickvansteijn4115]

What if won,t happen. You will be powerless. Don,t give up your Second Amendment rights!!!

[@foxmulder7616]

They could shut down all grocery shipments and water delivery, electricity, etc. They've made humans dependent instead of independent like they always were

[@charliejeans2413]

That is what Gesara or Nesara was created to do. 1951. 130.nations deposited in underground facilities in the Philippines in TRUST" millions of tonnes of gold, diamonds platnium and art works. To be returned in 2012. GOLD STANDARD. Is return to sovergn law, sovergn wealth. The end of fiat currency, debt promisary notes. All gov and banking and the Fed are bankrupt, the world over under martial law. We are all occupied by the private banks, under bankruptcy. Your corporate identity registered at birth is your given name, the surname and family name are owned by the Vatican. Using all 3 names is trading while bankrupt. You should only use your given name. Everytime you use all 3names together you are guilty of fraud. But we were never taught these things. Anyway look up Q-U-E-E-N-S K-O-R-A-N DOCUMENTS ON FACE BOOK has the details and more. Then look up lawfulpath.com "Silent weapons for quiet wars" a builderburg product designed to destroy us through financial constraints. NASA is a "flywheel" as in a hamster wheel. An entertainment device to funnel money through while giving the people something to watch on TV. Oh gets a whole lot more interesting. Pearl harbour, the ships were paid 100x the market price for amour plating, one round would shatter the steel like glass ! The boats were a ponsey scheme,, and had to be sunk to ensure tge funding to pay for new ones. Does anyone believe the Japanese sunk the floatilta then turned around went home then surrendered ! Monet changers is an excellent read into the corporate hijacking of the nation's. All $$, now it's not about more money, it's about killing us to hide the lies and treason. Cheers.

[@pawpads9397]

Kalla Susort i just said that on my FB page no one is going to save us but ourselves all about community

[@karrasue]

Even when I read a Hedges article, I hear his oratory tone, his resonance is eloquent and stylized of that of speakers of our recent past. And I adore it. It brings the filth of the topic to a state worthy of digesting. It flings mud at the guilty, while making the accused 'feel' lower than otherwise would. Bravo, once again, Mr Hedges.

[@rivermark5436]

I really like Hedges... but his delivery is like from a church pulpit... and literally puts me to sleep.... it's pattern is a "kind" of monotone droning to me.

[@egongefferie9194]

He has it MLK had it !

[@Spiral.Dynamics]

There’s an old saying and I forget where I heard it but it goes something like, Where is the best place to store food? In your neighbor’s belly. 🌹 🌹

[@danpollard4210]

Are there any Jeffersonian Democrats left?

[@jgdooley2003]

THe whole idea of Marshall aid was to build up devastated post war Europe in order to prevent a future war by turning potential enemies into prosperous allies. Other people call it sharing and caring and working together. George C Marshall was a visionary.

[@uncannyvalley2350]

*#GeorgiaHolodomor*

[@huazhang8306]

So true so good i can listen tot His speech for a hundred times!

[@htfvintage4664]

1. Get out of all wars 2. Get rid of the not federal reserve bank. It would be a real nice starting place.

[@MrDuffy81]

YES!!!

[@Tracy-le9fl]

Get rid of government as we know it.

[@saxglend9439]

Bernie Sanders sabotaged Ron Paul's reform the Fed bill.

[@MrDuffy81]

@@saxglend9439 How so?

[@saxglend9439]

@@MrDuffy81 kzbin.info/www/bejne/kH_YeYWvntVmn6M

[@stay68pl]

This man is excellent in telling the truth !!! Keep telling the American Masses the Truth !!!

[@jasmineluxemburg6200]

These are not mass meetings. He speaks truth to a small minority who most likely do not have the skills or contacts to make use of the insights. Many informed socialists have long held similar views. I meet it , hear it in London. Neoliberalism is destroying any chance of restoration of progressive movements. That is why we have Boris, a cynical narcissist. And you have Trump. They are both cause and consequence. My son is in China learning mandarin, because he is an internationalist and those able to communicate across cultures will be vital in overcoming the obstacles that are preventing us finding solutions for humanity.

[@iambobbycrowder4783]

Very Sobering and Realistic view of Today's World. Thank you Mr. Hedges.

[@marccano5061]

I recently discovered Chris,,,I'm really sorry he wasn't on my radar years ago!!! 😕 I love Chris and I listen to him over and over and take notes. He articulates what I've suspected for a very long time.

[@brandiebraxton4232]

This is, hands down, the most moving thing I've heard in my adulthood. Every word that has been spoken is an undeniable and naked truth. Thank you for awakening the humanity in us that has been warped by special interests, lobbyists and propaganda. Much appreciated Mr. Hedges!

[@JoelApplegate]

Every word, yes, M'am. It is a stunning speech and breathtaking in its brilliant scope.

[@Anna-ef4dv]

There has been so much that was and still is about the US, and in my heart I hear the New world symphony, and am filled with grief.

[@nolawest5183]

His words touched my 💔 heart! Soo well presented... Amazing what we've become all in the cheap name of Power! Sad to say, He Is So Right!

[@Mis-AdventureCH]

Loved your wisdom and honesty from the moment I met you in Sarajevo all those years ago...even when I disagree with some of your points.

[@godivachoco6509]

I am 70 years old and have been waiting for this words of truth and wisdom as spoken by Chris Hedges. A big thank you. Please continue to speak out. The world needs more like you.

[@johnbergeron8679]

Words got us here and words will make us well if you believe it there is only one savior and that is Jesus Christ read the Holy Bible man does not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God in Jesus is the truth the life and the way to the heavenly father

[@henrybartlett1986]

This is a terrible but complete summary of our collective condition. Finding the courage to face this is difficult. Can we cast about our world for kindred spirits or does a lonely road await?

[@jaaksavat7916]

Resist

[@grazianop2706]

Chris knows life is a serious thing. It took me so long to realize this simple thing.

[@akbarfarzin9857]

I Agree with you Dearest!!!!you Right 100% !!! Thankful!!!🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@danthemansmail]

Chris Hedges is the best of us, morally and intellectually.

[@abrahamWeizfeldPhD]

How do you define "us".

[@mhikl4484]

Jordan, your nation empire is dying. Gone by 100 years after Germany's filthy flag became the image of its shame; now it is USA's flag that is the ugly face of your dying nation's false steps. Unless a Roosevelt, possibly Bernie Sanders, comes to lead this beleaguered nation out of desperate times, your nation will break apart into minor states. Roosevelt was old and wise; Sanders is even wiser. So there may yet be a future for a United States of America.

[@charliebright8027]

your a vulture waiting for your waterloo with the rest neo's.

[@danthemansmail]

Jordan your ignorance is showing. Time to go change your diaper.

[@danthemansmail]

The human race

[@damienbahr3507]

Excellent speach, he's nailed the situation we find ourselves in, in 2020

[@lorebay2593]

Just Fittin like a prophecy.

[@soniapinkney1342]

He articulated what millions of spiritual ppl are thinking or have been thinking .. Even if you're a Republican .u know something is very wrong in this country and dont really know what to do...

[@briankellogg7241]

Screw the 2 party system we are going too lose

[@woodie6408]

And in 2022, just kittin.............

[@ElisabethArana]

Then, now and always. Long Live Mr Chris Hedges

[@tegridyfarms9972]

One of the best speeches ever!! Chris Hedges is the GOAT!

[@ingridhildebrandt8053]

Die ehrlichste Rede die ich jemals gehört habe. Gott schütze diesen Mann. Danke von ganzem Herzen.

[@miguelpazos2334]

A long list of sinful chickens is lining up at the door, coming home to roost. The past always catches up with us.

[@vicksss807]

@mildred gomez The republican party wants a monarch.......and Trump represent their values, their morals and the monarchy they been wishing for... So, God bless our king Donald J.. Trump..The best king to represent the US anywhere in the world..

[@melissajordan2998]

Indeed. Slavery, America's original sin. What you sow, you will most definitely reap.

[@oliverabbott5804]

True, but I think that you miss the point the chris hogans is an IDIOT.

[@ericanderson7346]

@@vicksss807 Fuck that, this country fought a revolution to get away from monarchy

[@abelincoln332]

The first mistake we made in 1971, Nixon took us off the gold standard. It was like taking a steroid shot for pain, instead of fixing the real problem!

[@karapana8398]

who is "we"?

[@ProlificThreadworm]

The first mistake in America was writing a constitution to represent everybody without giving them the courtesy of asking for consent

[@zapster2412111]

@@ProlificThreadworm The Constitution is dust in the wind compared to humanity admitting they have the capability to live and take care of one another peacefully.

[@cynthiasoroka1838]

Abe Lincoln NIXON Believe and TRUSTED his Advisors to take US Off the Gold Standards.

[@pcuser1031]

Abe Lincoln , if Nixon hadn't taken us off the gold standard, all of the gold we supposedly have stored up, would all be gone. He took us off the gold backed dollar, because all of our gold was being taken overseas by foreigners who held our Federal Reserve Notes but traded them in for our gold. What we need now is an audit of our gold in Fort Knox and other depositories. And we must do it in a way that recognizes that Tungsten weighs very close to what gold weighs, and takes into account the existence of the gold plated tungsten bars popping up here and there.

[@TheMonolake]

Im 64 one of the greatest speeches ive ever heard so resonant now april 2020 right up there with MLK

[@sylvesterajah4900]

Chris Hedges' public discourse is simply brilliant, and he convincingly and thoroughly, and completely exposes all America's international criminal acts, and the unlawful invasions, and occupation of foreign countries under false pretexts. He articulates the issues and the failures of American democracy, economy, and its decline military power so powerfully and honestly . His address was superb and par excellence . Hopefully the Democrats and Republicans would listen and learn from this public lecture on how to govern the country.