Chris Hedges: Saudi Wahhabism a Tool of U.S. Foreign Policy

Chris Hedges and Paul Jay discuss the history of Saudi promoted Jihadism and blowback as ISIS attacks their former allies

[@regiszzz1234]

I Muslim. I want to tell every body and every religions. A lots of Muslims don't likes so much Wahabi. Wahabi is not true Sunni Iislam.

[@user-vr6io5xb9e]

Because The House Of Saud is Jewish (Sabbatean) origin and installed by the British Crown. Sabbataism was founded by Kabbalist Jew Sabbatai Zevi (born in Turkey and exiled after his atrocities in Ottoman Empire)

[@chrissnyder3809]

So much truth and education.... great video

[@johnbullock3399]

Chris Hedges for President. The people of America will support you. We need intelligent leadership not crooks like we have had for the past 30 plus years. America needs you.

[@jimdandy3573]

I second that

[@mnguardianfan7128]

I like the idea of having someone who has a frickin clue AND has the gonads to make changes, but I'm pretty sure that most people would hate him. Politically it would not be tenable, unfortunately. The closest we could realistically get to him would be Bernie or Elizabeth Warren.

[@randallgerber8797]

Sorry, but according to the DNC power structure, voices in dissent with parasitic capitalism have gone as far as they are allowed. When things get bad enough for enough people, there will be a revolution or civil war and the nation will largely fail. Then the next cycle will begin - however, considering the time in human civilization, the odds are the globe will be devastated.

[@betrousaltaweel]

John Bullock Chris Hedges wouldn't win an election. Nor would he want to win an election. Hedges (like Chomsky) doesn't provide solutions to anything they just ramble on and on about how things are done wrong because thats much easier to do.

[@chrisparker5796]

He is smarter than you will ever be Ben.

[@azizullahzeerak1753]

Wow, he is a true patriot and honest scholar on US foreign policy. His background and role as an investigating reporter and long working historian the Middle East and elsewhere as a major reporter has given him great insight. Unfortunately most Voting Americans have no interest in listening to people like him, since they are so ignorant of the world affairs and the ability to understand this in depth analysis. Most listen to news "shows" and looking for those simplistic and pointless blips lasting under one minute, which is their attention span for such topics. That is partly why we have Morgan's like trump getting such enormous votes.

[@MS-in3sl]

holy sh*t, what did they do here, get Chris on the webcam in his study at six in the morning before that first cup of coffee. not easy being such a busy man...

[@moto2kx2]

Don't forget the spearhead role of the banksters in all of this.

[@EroomYrrah]

Buddy in England ''The Artist Taxi Driver''...he has a channel out here... ''It's about bombs, banks and barrels of oil.''

[@moto2kx2]

I know him.

[@mrmtn37]

Hedges/Ventura 2021

[@GreasyVid]

Wahhabism is linked to the nationalism of Saudi Arabia, this helped the british dismantle the ottoman empire.

[@daisyduke5121]

"the Saudi-Iranian rivalry is a dream come true" I think that may be oversimplifying things.... Saudi Arabia has been hinting at refusing USD as payment for oil for awhile now, which may very well be why Saudi Arabia has been increasing their rate of arms procurement......

[@Deccom]

The decision by the US Gov. to roll back the Law allowing Foreign Governments to be sued, such as the case is now because of the release of the 28 pages from teh 9/11 report, has lead to a major disagreement between KSA and USA. Saudi Arabia has increased weapons purchases as a means of protection due to the de-stability of the region, but also the fact the US public will not allow government to sanction anymore Military Force in the region should things go tits up against the Saudis, basically KSA have been told arm yourselves as we don't know if we can come to your rescue, also the fallout over the law change has meant that the Petrodollar could be on the brink of not collapse, but major instability over the next couple of years. There are multiple cases going to the courts in the next few months in relation to Saudi co-operation/28 page release. See what the Saudi Foreign Minister has been saying, also what has been threatened with the Saudis saying they will dump 750 Billion worth of bonds onto the market. The amount of property owned by the Saudi Royal Family, i.e. the Saudi Government, could lead to assets being seized all over the US if these cases get a go ahead, not just a victory in court, but just the green light to bring cases to trial will trigger assets being seized and put into the hands of the state. The Saudis see this as a major fuck over by the US, after all the money they've pumped into the US in buying property and assets, the powers that be have suddenly changed the rules of the game in allowing them to be sued. They are looking down the line and seeing what could become a major asset grab by the greedy USA. This is definitely going to escalate over the coming months into a whole new pandoras box of problems for the Saudis.

[@conquerorofbabylon]

Added to the too smart list

[@Kaodusanya]

he has been on that list for a very very long time. i love listening to Chris Hedges, he conveys the urgency of the downfall of this empire.

[@sjoncb]

+Kaffi O yes indeed

[@marimbadearco]

Great content, how about some maps, photos of figures as their names come in, anything but just 2 talking heads. Time for TRNN to get more professional to broaden their audience -- sure needs to get out there to counter the corporate bullshit.

[@davidhutchinson6377]

you're right.....a video editor and other pros are needed.

[@Gracchi]

These wahhabi/salafist ideas also can be traced , through al-quida, muslim botherhood ,and before that, the Hanbali school of thought.

[@dickhamilton3517]

ibn Abd al Wahhab was an actual person, a preacher back in the 18th century - he started this. The Muslim brotherhood isn't salafist at the beginning - it started as pan Arab socialism, pretty much like the Ba'ath parties in Syria and Iraq, but not so secular, without their rejection of political islam.

[@grinningchicken]

Ibn Wahab was a Hanbali scholar a student of ibn Taymiyah and extreme literalist. He was banished for his extreme views but taken in by bandits who used his teaching to have an excuse to wage war against other Muslims.

[@GreasyVid]

ISIS had already tried to take Syria in the 80's just refer to the hama massacre, back then they were the muslim brotherhood.

[@thomashuth1612]

Mr. Jay did’nt do his historical homework.

[@georgedavis1]

There is no solution

[@rantingratchell7348]

How disgusting......Good job guys......

[@moto2kx2]

Nailed it! Interesting how Cheney in the 1990's said attacking Iraq will destabilize the Country and area but then was instrumental and in the attack on Iraq a decade later and the USA plays the dumb card.

[@naveenchenna]

yeah, in between he became the CEO of Halliburton, the profits to Halliburton changed his policies

[@ashish714]

Chris Hedges needs to work inside the White House!

[@lybrebel7593]

Ashish Patel white house is gun lobby so ISIS is created to live not to die. More ISIS attack more gun selling.

[@TheLatiosnlatias02]

No, because AIPAC is holding the strings of those in the White House. Hedges and Abby Martin are those I feel trustworthy

[@jasonhirthler]

The Real News Network provides an invaluable alternative source of news, but Paul Jay shouldn't talk so much in his interviews. Script your questions ahead of time, keep them relatively short and keep each to a single question.

[@docsmith8540]

Hedge's suggestion the US had anything to do with the overthrow of the Morsi government in Egypt is completely wrong. Quite the opposite in fact as the Obama administration and its ambassador protested Morsi's overthrow quite vigorously - their shock at Morsi's demise appears genuine suggesting Obama didn't see it coming! Al- Sisi acted after one of the biggest reported demonstrations in history in Cairo and within a heartbeat of Morsi turning Egypt into an Islamic state (run by the Muslim Brotherhood of course). The bumbling disaster of US foreign policy in the Egyptian context was supporting the Islamist supremacist Brotherhood to use the democratic process to take over the country in the first place.

[@BenETaylor]

Close your eyes as you may; this fucking great mess will not go away.

[@Arrbyy]

What does 'high security' mean to huge 'private' security orgs, who governments use (I know nothing about Turkey's airport security) when they are all about profits, and cost cutting therefore. I know about one. It's 'all' about cost cutting and profits. The marketing/advertizing of it's services will always sound super. So what?

[@Morbius1963]

US foreign policy "one bumbling disaster after another". Will this change with President Hillary? I think the word "bumbling" might change.

[@Elonmuskasseater69]

lol nice

[@JeffreyPappas786]

It might be dangerous to generalize all contemporary sufis as peaceful. The Gulen movement (as reported by Boiling frogs/newsbud) is a good example, Muhammad Yaqoubi issued the fatwa for Assad, the Naqshibandi army opened up Mosul for Isis, and Habib al Jifri, is currently in Chechnya preaching to the president and his comrades for reasons unknown.

[@GreasyVid]

nobody is generalizing Sufis. the ottoman empire was based on Sufism and they almost conquered Europe. the point is Sufism or sunni traditionalist do not advocate terrorism like the wahhabis

[@bigjim10235]

I never knew Sufism was that influential especially on the Ottoman empire. To me Sufism was on the edge of Islam, a minority vastly outnumbered by mainstream Islam. It's good to learn more on top of what little I learned long ago.

[@GreasyVid]

+Jim Schmidt yes many ottoman sultans belonged to sufi orders, this was one of the reasons why the wahabi movement labelled them apostates. the gulen movement who are accused of a coup advocate for the return of ottoman Sufism. a common misconception is that Sufis are all pacifist.

[@lybrebel7593]

Jeffrey Pappas Kapnismologist and Polyhistor Salafism has to branchs 1- the educational which Unarmed, just pumping ideas! But its the theoretical teaching of the second brunch. 2- the Jihadi Salafi is the practical armed wing of the Wahhabism! ---- So even the educational brunch is connected to the terrorism.

[@gadthefunny]

​@@bigjim10235Saladin was a Sufi. Sultan Mehmed II who conquered Constantinople was a Sufi. Emir Abdelkader and Omar al-Mukhtar who led the armed resistances against the invading French and Italians respectively, etc...

[@mindmymind]

Your title closes all matters ..U.S.A. USES K.S.A. as a tool .. Tools don t kill ...the user kills.

[@dan-1617]

What's so called "Wahhabism " mean? Seriously.

[@TheLatiosnlatias02]

Wahhabism = Roman Catholic / Protestant if you see it that way

[@ryansiam9557]

@@TheLatiosnlatias02 protestant

[@MrMahlerman]

He leaves out the obvious US-backing and involvement and obscures the obvious. I like Mr Hedges a lot, but there is a lot of uncited material being presented as fact, and this goes to the heart of the issue, so it is warranted. Yes, you can say this led to that, but how did this lead to that? And where is the supporting documentation? I mean, I believe the US is using Saudi Arabia exactly as described, but to validate the blood-thirsty willingness to explode oneself for no ultimate effect is not natural or normal even as a response to terrorism. The desire to get out of a death situation maybe, but then who is doing the recruiting? Like the so-called Orlando "ISIS". I have stopped at about halfway through, because the US role should be more prominent.

[@user-vr6io5xb9e]

Hopefully USA’s nearing exit from the Middle East will be more magnificent than Afghanistan withdraw. I can’t wait.

[@wayneh1562]

Sufis are Sunni Muslims , they follow a mathhab(Islamic school of thought) and in spirituality follow a Sufi Tareeqa

[@j.philipjimenez3395]

I think it is somewhat naive to talk of "bumbling disasters". What looks like a disaster through the lens of common sense is rather, I'm afraid, a fully intended consequence. The US did not "lose" in Afghanistan. The war, like the war in Vietnam, was almost entirely a CIA operation. In reality, "we" captured and held valuable drug turf. Enormous streams of illegal drug revenue was guaranteed by maintaining the farce that it was a war in the traditional.sense. This revenue fed ths beast, along with N. Korean amphetamine production, illegal arms sales and human trafficking. It is quite impossibls to understand the truth of "US policy" without abandoning traditional common sense and looking at the destructive behavior of the British Empire (of which, the present criminal establishment in the US is a direct heir)--and more specifically the British East India Company, whose psychotic campaign to inventory the world and sweep aside any challenge to its criminal might was empowered on an ideological level by social Darwinism. The situation in the Middle East must be interpreted not by the light of reason (in the sense of being life affirming) but by an unflinching examination of the global British crime syndicate--which is the most forward element in a much greater criminal network involving other more powerful European families. Through such an examination, the term "blowback" becomes utterly untenable except as recruitment propaganda. It attempts to ascribe an organic causal relationship where none exists except as convenient fiction which works to the advantage of oligarchy. All the terrorism mentioned here is quite emphatically inorganic and is even at times absolutely faked (Orlando). Terrorism is a tool of the elite and nothing more. It plays into the common person's need to make sense of a completely berserk intl system which is infintely more criminal than anything else. The dark players rely on decent, intelligent pundits like Hedges to only partially explain the melee we are witnessing. These partial explanations assuage our sense of helplessness but fall far short of any real understanding. The give-away here is that Hedges thinks there will (as of the date of tbis presentation) no real difference between Clinton and Trump. This view is naivete masquerading as world-weary sophistication. We have seen (though not on MSM) that Trump is a sharp and defiant departure from the "Criminal Empire" model that Clinton embodies. The Afghan war is being shut down not due to any military defeat, but due to Trump's declared war on illegal drugs, which he is winning. He is winning this war, as well as the war on human trafficking, illegal arms sales, etc.. If he keeps fighting and winning, we will see a global transformation--away from predatory social Darwinism and toward freedom and development.

[@belvansingh7875]

Us control whole Europe from wahbisim through secret plan😅

[@betrousaltaweel]

Libya would've been a failed state without any NATO involvement, even bother NATO became involved in the Libyan civil war the Libyan Rebel groups were already open,y stating that they would never enter peace talks. Gadaffi had lost control of most of Libya before there was any NATO involvement.

[@cindyfinlayson4197]

Ignoramus

[@belisarius2930]

After all, this is never about religion, This guy is the worst apologist I have ever seen.

[@belisarius2930]

Shan Ri Ha Duck Duck

[@criztu]

this dude is clueless

[@davidr.a.2759]

The interviewer makes some stupid claims that are characteristic of hate speech. Chris has an agenda, and he throws in some empty claims with no evidence at all.