Chris Hedges Keynote Speech (Humber Liberal Arts @ IFOA)

[@johnbolger2625]

Thank you for hosting Chris Hedges.

[@billhammett174]

He is the most serious and important "public" intellectual in America today...

[@RebecaEigen]

Totally.

[@russiatellsonlytruth373]

Who worked for the Kremlin until they pulled the plug on his RT program in March. He’s also known for plagiarism.

[@martinjanecek4950]

dont forget Chomsky.

[@thuster123456789]

@@martinjanecek4950 I thought the same thing but Chomsky is not so public.

[@douglascarlson9006]

Not the same guy since the lockdowns ... I've followed him as closely as ANYBODY these past 10 years and he's not the same guy! Just look at the people introducing him ... they're so pleased with themselves ... They think they've got a real catch here when Hedges is in fact Hedges being paid to make these speeches ...

[@jann9507]

Interesting to see how a Canadian college/ university invites Mr Hedges while we in the US have dumbed ourselves down into self aggrandizement. I’m referring to the fiasco at Rockford college in Illinois where the students didn’t bother to listen let alone understand his speech warning them about the risks of war at the very start of the Gulf war - 20 years ago. Kudos Canada!!

[@saskk2290]

I don't think Canadians would have reacted much differently. Our history is also taught in a nationalist way

[@StephanieSoressi]

Too many modern minds will not wait until 13.21, when finally, the one we tuned in for finally takes the podium.

[@GabrielHellborne]

Funny he should mention Jeff Sachs. He's another man I deeply admire, one who was part of the problem, and realised what he was actually doing, and turned against it to an extent. At least I hope I'm perceiving this right. Anyway, as always, my respect to a modern day prophet who's not stopped fighting for us no matter what.

[@coronaphone710]

He just says goodbye already

[@douglascarlson9006]

Sachs has demonstrated backbone since the lockdowns, but Hedges ran the other way ...

[@douglascarlson9006]

Hedges no longer has the spine that Sachs has and Stephen Cohen had ...

[@MartinRodriguez-fd2cy]

😅o😊😊😊 6:18 😊😊😊

[@deborahkatrinawarner9719]

Thank you Chris Hedges 😊❤

[@AZeeee]

Thank you so much for having him!

[@Furious1Auto]

💯% on point. Literally Chris Hedges is my favorite speaker currently. I see honesty. I feel zero party bias, and and adequately criticizes both and their system of control and devision. The control of the elite. The deterioration of our social structure and removal of all our fail safe, and the inevitable conclusion as a society if relief is not offered up freely in effect. Not solely in name. Great discussion 👏

[@peruorgullodeespana5766]

Congratulations on the speech Mr Hedges.

[@mouksb2000]

Thank you for making this accessible! Wonderful speech n discussion.

[@djagemenona.k.aagieh]

Chris Hedges keep on my brother. your steadfast and unwavering thoughts. If a prophet was a man, you are certainly the true prophet of our times and beyond.

[@raushaunrigsby1181]

Do you realize that this video was made in 2016? Please tell me that you realize this as if not, it's pretty disturbing.

[@kimshaw-williams]

"Retreating into a mythical past" ... what a wonderful wordsmith...

[@livefreedom1776]

A past where we had representation, where poor and middle class had a voice. That was not mythical it’s called the Constitution.

[@douglascarlson9006]

You've been lobotomized by the "Hedges myth" ... he threw the working class under the bus with COVID ... and of course, you didn't notice ...

[@dellitaogunsola9544]

@@livefreedom1776 Not everyone had representation or a voice.

[@livefreedom1776]

@@dellitaogunsola9544 that’s very true, that’s the reason the American colonies went to war with England. Taxation without representation. Thank you for your feedback.

[@dellitaogunsola9544]

@@livefreedom1776 So, is that the reason they kept people enslaved and disenfranchised?

[@chrisadams3228]

Chris Hedges please come to Australia.

[@drphilgood05]

Hearing his insight about Russia at 1:08:00 is prescient.

[@livefreedom1776]

Chris is correct Hillary, Clinton, and the neoliberals wanted a war with Russia, never happened when Trump was in office but as soon as Joe Biden got in look what happened.

[@madfoxcityemnau6414]

Yessss

[@deborahkatrinawarner9719]

Thank you for educationing us. 😊❤

[@josephsomers2858]

I think Chris's wife is Canadian and his daughter goes to a University in B.C He is from Western New York. is a Minister and a fabulous Gentleman

[@douglascarlson9006]

He's using you ... not the same guy since the lockdowns ... a real sell-out!

[@douglascarlson9006]

@@DD_93 I posted all the details and his duplicitous head-scratching quotes on that writer's platform ... YT has been blocking my carefully researched criticisms of him for the past two years and I can't even mention that other platform by name here ... I used to love this guy, but not anymore ...

[@olivermanor1053]

This is from 2016, right? Can whoever loads up please add the date of original publication? This is annoying …

[@cargotrailerkenny]

first thing I thought of when I clicked on this because I keep up on Chris H. throughout the years and I am familiar with all his raps. I went ahead and googled it and yes it is from 2016. so , yeah, it kind of wasted some of my time and find it annoying too.

[@Brianbeesandbikes]

At 1:30:00 they talk about the Clinton/ Trump campaign, so it's mid to late 1016

[@kateyoung1757]

ditto

[@richardjarrell3585]

I wish the date of the speech were given in the description

[@wayneworkman3436]

I think they mention 34th edition of OFOA so it could be after 2014. Hedges mentions Trump a lot

[@Dermsurg1]

It was a week before the 2016 US election😢

[@dougn2350]

This must have been recorded in October of 2016. Chris refers to a race between Hillary and trump.

[@nilesbutler8638]

Fuuuudje! Chris always depresses me because he is spot on about nearly everything he talks about.

[@marccano5061]

I know, but we have to face it. I can't even talk about this with any of my siblings, and 3 out of 4 are university graduates

[@myleswalsh6854]

Would America even notice if a civil war broke out? (Over 40 mass shooting in January alone.)

[@marccano5061]

Holy s**t! I know they're often, but this is a serious social malaise

[@heathcliffearnshaw1403]

Listening closely but can anyone tell me what P.E.N. mentioned by Chris stands for?

[@slw4410]

The name PEN is an acronym standing for “(P)oets, playwrights, (E)ditors, essayists, and (N)ovelists.”

[@raushaunrigsby1181]

Do the people commenting even realize that this video is 7 years OLD? They're certainly NOT making comments as if they do.

[@johnst3296]

Prophetic ....

[@sarahdeshay1394]

Chris is one of the members of our AI society that is aware enough to figure out that we humans are just the authentic beings latest AI and have developed to the point that we can not only reproduce but we are on the verge of creating the next level of AI and are afraid of it. Could it be that humans are nothing more than a self absorbed,or should I use the term failed form of AI, that has developed to the point of self destruction? Either way Chris can definitely see and interpret his surroundings better than almost everyone else, while most of society never has a single original thought of their own. A man worth listening too and considering his views.

[@douglascarlson9006]

WAS worth listening to ... But I essentially agree with your perspective ...

[@The.world.has.gone.crazy...]

Chris himself starts @ 13:12

[@julienkinsale4957]

Chris Hedges has been flaming the two parties in the US for a while now, but the complicity of the Democratic party in the Gaza genocide proves him on point in his assessment of the war economy of the US administrations.

[@franklinmccraw2726]

The destructive process started when europeans reached these shores; the full manifestation just took half of a millennium.

[@JazzManLaf]

2016 Keynote Speaker Chris Hedges New York Times Reporter & Author The Price of Truth in Journalism in a Post-Fact World Fleck Dance Theatre 207 Queens Quay West 3rd Floor, Queen's Quay Terminal. October 28 9:00am.

[@johnkauai5865]

Who is not recalling that Kagen and Nuland are Ukrainian Banderites?

[@raushaunrigsby1181]

You do realize that this video was made in 2016 don't you, did you hear the references about Micheal Moore believing Trump will win the presidency? This video is 7 years old.

[@MD-bu3xc]

Yes, Chris Hedges is a prophet. Sometimes very hard to listen to but that's what prophets do.

[@faribrad]

long and blustery intros....get to it guys, omg!

[@angelvalentin447]

To open the coconut’s !!!!!!!😂😂😂😂😂

[@imspartacvs]

Thanks you for sharing. There is so much to digest that I just dont know where to start and I suppose thats the problem. There is SOOOO much. Im saddened by it really. Saddened that I am not smart enough, or part of IT, to be involved except as a bystander to it. Am I an active participant? As I said... lots of thoughts to digest but I suppose at the end of the day I just want to stick my head in the sand... until there's a guy with a gun at my door step... and then I'm going to have to make the decision is it him/her or me :( The evolution of Democracy... it's a process that needs to work through to its conclusion... Im, Spartacvs

[@sorellatoronto7278]

Cool

[@okeeydokeeey321]

Stop with the scam adds against the old.

[@chessmaster2649]

I do believe in reform

[@robertcircleone]

Video after video I try to message you, Chris Hedges but my messages always disappear. I can put messages on other videos so I don't know if it's me or you that's being silenced. So I am trying again now. My message is that we need proper representation. And I know how it can be done. I think I know. I can't be sure until the idea is tested in the real world. If this message stays up I will add to it later.

[@Guitarpima]

1:33:46 isn’t that what Christianity is all about? What kind of guy was Jesus? What kind of guy was Eugene debs? They are trained to hate people that help people.

[@majidjiu1727]

C. . H. 🏋👏✊️🏋

[@albertog7245]

Chris Hedges: the unfiltered awful American/World truth. I'm glad I never brought children into this world.

[@ДмитрийВербицкий-у7д]

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[@jamiepr3z138]

so just because he was a war correspondent and newspaper journalist, we can leave him out of the camp conspiracy theorist.

[@Dermsurg1]

So prescient...scary

[@cavecanem7075]

Disagre....

[@sinistril]

Chris, you make note of the fact that if the current situation is left unchecked, then a revolution is not just necessary but inevitable, and note that nobody knows how a revolution will begin. You also note that you support movements, ie. Black Lives Matter; however, you make note of the fact that Trump (and his supporters) could trigger this revolution. Have you considered that Black Lives Matter is not going to tow the line of non-violence and will be the start of this revolution? Black Lives Matter is not really an alternative vision, but rather, a leftist movement that appears to be unable to connect with the right to find an alternative and fair vision of the country. Most major revolutions, not all, but most including the rise of Stalin, Hitler, Mao, etc come from the left. It may only take, like you said, one innocuous act like a violent protester getting shot by a police officer during a rally to create a more concentrated form of violence, and one that could start a chain reaction throughout the country. While I appreciate that you advocate against violence and fundamentalism, many people in these movements do not agree and are being stoked by the corporate media in such a way that they will likely only move further away from being a peaceful movement. If you accept that Black Lives Matter and other such movements may lead to a violent revolution in America, do you believe that supporting such movements is truly a way to a solution? If you do not, then what is the end goal of these movements that is going to help appease the disillusioned right? Would it not be better to support movements that will create jobs and prevent this inevitable violence? One more question, how do you feel about Trump's stances which appear to move more positive;y towards a semi-"coalition" between USA/Russia to fight groups like ISIS and a more isolationist USA that hasn't really been seen under the last 4 presidents?

[@MrManny075]

Why did they create the patriot act? They know what you had for breakfast, the rich meet in secret all the time to find a way to protect their wealth, and they know the poor can take it away they know what the French did to their king,

[@albertog7245]

Hedges, in his other lectures, has advocated for non-violent revolution. A type of revolution that eventually wins over the sic 'em dogs (my description) known as the military. A violent revolution, his has stated, would only bring down the force of the military on such a revolution. He has also stated that all successful revolutions, historically, have been non-violent.

[@albertog7245]

@12:10

[@Brianbeesandbikes]

What motivations are there for BLM to work WITH the far right? BLM is an anti capitalist/ imperislist/ sexist movement that has largely gotten coopted by msm narratives. Trumpism may mouth placating words just like German Nazis did adding the word 'socialist' to their name, but that's just bait to lure the naive and easily fooled while actual Nazis crush unions.

[@arikcarlo]

It's clear that Chris Hedges cherry picks what he considers political injustice in America. No condemnation by him of Donald Trump's invitation of anti-Semites Kanye West and Nick Fuentes to Mar-a-Lago. Or does this cherry picker consider this a detail not to be concerned about?

[@livefreedom1776]

This speech is from 2016, not that your wrong, I noted his contradictions in his own speech.

[@nappa3550]

If you watch him more he is very critical of Trump, most of these seem from past years.