Chris Hedges "Wages of Rebellion"

Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke in Troy NY on Friday, May 29, 2015, part of the Spring 2015 season at The Sanctuary for Independent Media.
www.mediasanctuary.org
Chris Hedges, whose most recent book "Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt" (Nation Books) was published on May 15, 2015 is also 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."
Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In "Wages of Rebellion," Chris Hedges--who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books "Empire of Illusion" and "Death of the Liberal Class"--investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, and resistance. Drawing on an ambitious overview of prominent philosophers, historians, and literary figures he shows not only the harbingers of a coming crisis but also the nascent seeds of rebellion. Hedges' message is clear: popular uprisings in the United States and around the world are inevitable in the face of environmental destruction and wealth polarization.
Focusing on the stories of rebels from around the world and throughout history, Hedges investigates what it takes to be a rebel in modern times. Utilizing the work of Reinhold Niebuhr, Hedges describes the motivation that guides the actions of rebels as "sublime madness"--the state of passion that causes the rebel to engage in an unavailing fight against overwhelmingly powerful and oppressive forces. For Hedges, resistance is carried out not for its success, but as a moral imperative that affirms life. Those who rise up against the odds will be those endowed with this "sublime madness."
From South African activists who dedicated their lives to ending apartheid, to contemporary anti-fracking protests in Alberta, Canada, to whistleblowers in pursuit of transparency, "Wages of Rebellion" shows the cost of a life committed to speaking the truth and demanding justice. Hedges has penned an indispensable guide to rebellion.
Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, has written twelve books, including the New York Times best seller “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt” (2012), which he co-authored with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. Some of his other books include “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). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. 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.

[@heididickens9924]

It is Sept 7 2021 and I am now sitting here reading 1984 for the first time. I have been watching much of Professor Hedges, Cornel West. Do not watch shows anymore, do not want a cell phone.. I have internet to talk to my son who I have not seen in seven years. But I am trying to make the effort to learn something. Thank you Professor Hedges for speaking so honestly. Oh and I am using my library card for the first time in a long time. I am 62 year old Canadian. it is not too late to learn.

[@MrCTruck]

I used to hate watching old videos because it didn't contain the most recent events but in 2021, six years after this video was published, the phenomena he refers it sounds exactly as if it were recorded a month ago. It's truly profound...

[@alonsocalderon117]

to understand the present and the future, you must understand the past

[@truthaboveall7988]

Watch Michael Parenti on US empire or any others

[@eisvogel8099]

"It's better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." Thank you, Mr. Hedges.

[@uttaradit2]

'Its better to lie on your back and screw a lot of women' Thank you Buckowski.

[@domingodeanda233]

Chris, you are loved by millions around the world.

[@obailemi]

I’d vote for Chris to be President.

[@ibpn4284]

"the more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws" Tacitus 56 AD - 120 AD

[@AxmedBahjad]

Ibpn The more corrupt the state is, the more laws it has.

[@Brianbeesandbikes]

the more corrupt the state, the more common good laws are violated while elitist laws are written

[@pcjenkin]

"Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges." In times of war, the law falls silent. - Cicero.

[@pastyman001]

The previous UK Labour government expanded the Tax code laws to record levels

[@MrSp0iler]

Medical industrial complex- Richard Wolff. Also, J are hated because they are immoral look at stalin lenin trotsky and what they did to russian people in name of social justice that people believed in, same in France. People backing trump are J too. If you look carefully, you see immense suffering where J live because they are gods chosen thus they can do whatever they want, at first you pity Marie Curie but look to what discovering radiation led to. You dont need to look for satan in afterlife. My family has such parts, too. You are forbidden to criticize J. J are loyal only to themselves and they dont do casual peoples work- they go into government or finances and dont care for common people unless they need to overthrow government and become higher than common people. Worse is only egyptian mafia in swiss mountains that grows fanatics with religion (church wars).

[@laurenkeyes1677]

Dr. West sent me! This is brilliant!!

[@hailmaryrecordings8255]

Awesome

[@ChooseCompassion]

He definitely sent you the right place. I am also a huge admirer and follower of brother West

[@dutchmaster4309]

Kanye West?

[@williehaller5840]

Mayor West?

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

​@@dutchmaster4309 Cornell West

[@janhansen5438]

He is spot on, and even more relevant today!

[@jimnutter6901]

I can’t imagine a more important being on this planet in these times. He condenses the wisdom of the greats.

[@guillermorivas7819]

Hedges was great in this. The Q&A was riveting.

[@tomgreg2008]

Guillermo Rivas I agree. This is the best talk of his that I've seen.

[@mhikl4484]

The man speaks from his heart.

[@p8entlyobvious383]

God bless you Chris

[@KilgoreTroutAsf]

Rise, like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number! Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you: Ye are many-they are few!

[@oliviacadena2036]

🦁🦁🦁🦁🐈🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁🦁‼️‼️

[@christsrevenge8030]

Kilgore Trout. Anti Zionist.

[@stevebrindle1724]

Great Shelly poem about the Peterloo massacre! Tis not human nature blasts the flower of man, but Statesmen, kings and Priests! Today we can add banksters to this list

[@williehaller5840]

@@stevebrindle1724 weak this guy's a Nazi ?

[@kolbpilot]

Electronic hallucinations. Damn almighty Chris, if you ain't one sharp cookie. Spot on !

[@ewalker1057]

I just love to hear Chris Hedges. When he spoke about the fear of Nixon, I knew our Movements of the 1960's did well. The power in a democracy is the people. It is direct rule by the people. There is no legislature. There are no taxes unless the people say so. There are no wars unless the people declare. How taxes are spent, the people say so. That is what was meant by "all power to the people."

[@killbigtechskillbigfakesbanks]

I agree with with everything Chris says. Amazing speech

[@abdi3300]

Much love from Germany …. Sir Chris Hedges !!!

[@shaunlanighan813]

A year of Covid and Utube and I still haven't found anyone speaking like this: to the barricades!

[@glm4054]

I Love how he gives this speech in a church with beautiful stained glass windows...His Is a holy mission.🙏🌍🎆🗡️🔥🐦🐾🌠🌠

[@valerieangell7588]

Gad,I love being an old lefty.You get to identify with all the best people!

[@JamieNixx]

That’s true! I am a lot older than I look. Of course, not that this was your point, lol.

[@lcdemack]

Tho Chris is fantastic, his talks and ideas discussed in his talks do tend to replay the same narrative. Given that, it's why I love this new recording so much - there's new, off the cuff discussion here. I'd guess it is typical amongst many speakers as we know it is for politicians "Staying On Message" to repeat much of the same rather than a difficult attempt at new thoughts each time, but after listening to many of Chris' talks, I'm just dying to hear more that I haven't already. Still and regardless, I just think Chris is so legit and so to be admired.

[@oliviacadena2036]

👍👍👍👍👍❤️❤️. I agree with you.

[@morqwal]

wow. i wasnt expecting to feel good coming out of this.

[@postmanlondon]

When I listen to somebody as erudite as this I realise that my whole life has been wasted. I struggle to even read these days I because I lack concentration but this man read all three parts of the Gulag Archipelago- I didn’t know there were three parts but at least I read the first part when I was younger. I wonder if there is any correlation between him not watching TV, not engaging in social media and his obvious intelligence?

[@PoetDoc8]

At least you are here now, listening and learning, like the rest of us. Hedges is a genius not only in mind but heart.

[@jordanallen3078]

We might not know the name of every "owner," but their puppets are HYPER obvious. .

[@rickgarza4167]

He doesn't watch tv because he knows it's all propaganda. Democrats and Republicans are both on the side of elite. They both are in deep of the billionaires and oligarchy.

[@mattja52]

@Suzie Q It's unfortunate when the populace is dumbed down it's easier to control them. That's the purpose of the media, it's not required for you to think, it tells you what to believe. Subliminal seduced minds via Norm Chomsky's Manufacturing Consent. A controlled intellectual is a very useful tool and one that is not obedient must be terminated. Tyranny doesn't care about the revelation of itself when it's settled comfortably in its position. You have two options, revolution or obedience, they will not go gentle into the night. I'm reminded of John Milton's Paradise Lost, his political allegory, "Yet from those flames no light, but rather darkness visible."

[@glencoveney6145]

Just shows the power of the intellect. Trump be warned,!

[@bluegalactic]

thank you chris

[@ryanhansen4294]

Now that is a man I would listen to and follow, you have my ear and my sword brother. You lead the way and I’ll follow.

[@hudson8865]

Thank you very much.

[@juancananey8348]

HEDGES FOR PRESIDENT!!

[@hermenutic]

Amen: Gob bless you Chris Hedges. I did go to hear one of the Berrigan Brothers (I think it was Philip) at Hendriks chapel about 1969 when he was on the lam from the FBI. Non-violent resistance must be the keyword or we are no better than the anti-human attitude of the state. U.S. foreign policy has been an example of the service of the state to capital to the extent that human life is negotiable. This has to end. Human life is worth more than wealth.

[@dragonfly1929]

I love his man !

[@drakedoragon3026]

I wish Chris would go more in-depth about the parallels of the US to Rome since the Constitution is modeled after Rome's. He touches on this a bit in other talks, but since he's so well read, it'd be informative to others who are not on this subject. Of course there are conflicting debates on what the leading cause was, but a few factors most seem to agree on is the "bread & circus" mentality (think celebrity culture) and the expansion of their military, galavanting around the globe causing the implosion of their society due to the expense of supporting the military, which since the US spends around half of its GDP is very similar, but of course the saving grace for the US, thus far, is the petrodollar for oil and the dollar in general as the preferred global currency, which is used not because of its value, per say, but if a country tries to abstain from using it, military force is used. Some books that I think should be required reading for high school kids, which will never happen as the ruling class doesn't want educated critical thinking masses, should be: War Is A Racket, Confessions Of An Economic Hitman, Propaganda, Manufacturing Consent, A Brave New World, 1984, & Democracy Incorporated, just to name a few. Book reports should follow, with a deep discussion on these. So few people are truly aware of the fragility and dangers ANY empires can succumb to if not held in check. Power in the hands of the few always leads to oppression and the abuse of its citizens as materialism and greed, which we are experiencing today (2020) become an obsession. We talk about, in general, addictions, such as drugs, sex, gambling, which is by design as these are generally middle class and poor concerns, yet noticably and conveniently left out of the discussions is the Power Addiction because this, of course, is a ruling class addiction, so this is suppressed to keep the masses from rising up. Sadly if the masses do wake up to the rouse being played on them by the ruling class, bloodshed may follow, which terrifies the ruling class, so, as we are seeing today, huge investments in robotics and AI are being done (these of course are tested and used in the military first, then sprinkled down into the private sector), which will be used to further control the masses, but I surmise this is just a temporary use until the masses are no longer needed. If you notice, abortion is seldom talked about from the right or left, in support or in defense, and I'm going to predict this will continue as other issues will be used to distract from this (I'm not taking a side here, just pointing out my hypothesis), so as to continue the ruling classes agenda, which yes, they have one, all ruling classes, no matter what country, has to have one to rule others or the class system crumbles, but I surmise the ultimate goal is a total technocratic tyrannical society as China is putting in place, which the US, Russia, any ruling class system is striving to accomplish. This isn't some conspiracy theory, it's just what history has shown us power in the hands of the few always tries to accomplish. This isn't new, we are just more aware of this through the speed of information and through independent journalists if one is willing to leave their bubble or msm news silo and take a look. This current plandemic (spelling intentional), is just a drill to see how the masses will react and it's working like a charm, for it's much easier now to control people's minds than bodies through force (notice how slavery wasn't really abolished, just repackaged and called "human resources", to create economic slaves) to serve the ruling class to make them even more wealthy, which is proven by the wealth gap we see today. The virus is the big news topic of the day, but if we look up the definition of virus and are willing to open our minds, it's apparent that the most dangerous virus is the human and the host is Earth, but I surmise that once humans push it to far it's quite possible that Earth and nature will push back, hence why there is such a rush by the ruling class to move to a pure technological state to ensure essential resources are extracted before Earth and nature snuffs out humanity. One area that might be the ruling classes Achilles heal is the potential of other intelligent life, which, if it has been observing humanity, will see it as a threat and not allow its expansion, which in fairness is probably the best thing for humanity since we have not been able to become compassionate for others on a global level nor evolve to said state.

[@nikanj6]

Phenomenal lecture. So much truth

[@anderslarsen4912]

When Chris said: "Camden, New Jersey"...I did a quick image search. My God. That looks like the favela I lived in, when I lived in Rio, Brasil.

[@GrandmaCathy]

Yes, apt comparison.

[@danielhall6373]

I wish I had known about this

[@ToddAndelin]

Its just yeah Chris has this depth and breadth and this humility...

[@lorenzbroll0101]

And 6 years later it all comes to pass.

[@jt4369]

The respect that I have for this man is difficult to place into words. Like him, I lack the sanguine optimism of many on the left that the future will be better. But I would even go farther than Hedges: even resistance will fundamentally change nothing. At most, it will simply retard the rot, delay the inevitable point of no return. Hedges calls out to people to stand up and exercise non-violent protest in number sufficient to resist and even overthrow what he calls the corporate coup-d'etat. There are several possible outcomes assuming that sufficient numbers --whatever they may be -- are galvanized to take action: On one end, nothing truly changes. In the middle, the movement plants the seed of hope in people that could be nurtured and cultivated into something that has the hope of bearing fruit in the future. Towards the other end, a total overthrow of venal corruption from top to bottom. None of these-- in my opinion --- will lead to real, lasting change. The reason has everything to do with human nature. Human beings are, by our very nature and instincts, venal and corruptible. We segregate ourselves into factions and interest groups. We do this in state politics, and we do this even among those we call our friends. In a word, these ignoble qualities are so basic to the human being and so homogeneously spread out through the population that failure to bring forth Hedges compassionate society is virtually all but baked into the recipe from the very beginning. There is a reason there are so few people like Fred Rogers. Material wealth and short term pleasure seeking is seductive and it stimulates those centers of the brain like a siren. Few people can or even want to resist. Any real changes will be fleeting. Human beings are not built for mass compassion. Any feelings of warmth by your average person are reserved for himself or his immediate own. And one cannot effectively legislate that sort of behavior either---nor would we want that. That, as we know, is the very outline of tyranny. And this is why I would categorize myself as a "moral coward" to use Hedges' words. I don't have the bravery to fight that fight I have convinced myself is lost before the first shot has been fired. The fight against corporatism is as in vain as trying to keep the tides at bay with a spoon. Once corporatism is overthrown, it will be replaced with something else in short order. Or, more insidiously, the corporate corruption will morph into something else and thrive in the new environment. I point to our current political state today in which leftist outrage bears all the trappings of fascism, yet most are blinded to that. Or it may recede into the background and camouflage itself, waiting for a more fertile time in which to burst out again. This thing we call "evil"---it's far simple to simply use that term. It's us. Only a few can really see and understand the human condition. Most cannot. And until that composition of the human species changes, nothing will *really change.

[@carmenonea3800]

evolve your consciousness

[@pcjenkin]

"Afghanistan; the graveyard of empires." Or as some translations have it, "Where Empires go to die."

[@solidaritytime3650]

Looking back from the year 2020, wishing it was only this bad.

[@kathleenhillock9366]

I agree. Keep the faith my friend.

[@amyanderson4099]

Welcome to the rez. .Russell Means

[@pastyman001]

The UK is about to renew Trident by spending about £120bn , mainly in USA for sub mounted missiles, where the Russians can track the sub noise now and where the missiles can only be fired in the air by the British and the americans would have to agree to target them ( somewhere/anywhere?) or they fall into the sea for future generations to worry about. Meanwhile they make the UK the most targeted place in the world by square mile. All so politicians can strut on the world stage and that after any major exchange of missiles, the UK might be able to take out a few 3rd or 4th rate targets not already destroyed. Perhaps a bus station in Siberia? And the Generals don't want this cold war relic.

[@geoffreynhill2833]

Five years ago and Chris gets it right about Barack Obama. The gift of prophecy!

[@nemesisurvivorleon]

Yo, we made it in and got to watch this before the state banned it.

[@stevenfinnegan4429]

Hedges is the most qualified person on the planet to be president of the US. I hope one day it will happen.

[@payetteman]

That would take an act of God, but it would mean this nation had finally come to its senses.

[@p8entlyobvious383]

It would ruin him.

[@p8entlyobvious383]

He would be assailed from all sides and would need a lot of protection. He would get knocked off . How would Chris clean out the administration? Night of long knives? The only way to fight oppression is with oppression. Fire with fire . This is where the corruption sets in but it is inevitable. The age of Irrationalism is coming to the fore again and is cyclic in human history to some degree.

[@markvietti]

hes a good man but he lives his life led by a man made god..

[@tadijamatek2469]

payetteman 8 w

[@paulnyssen6448]

We have five years to get the entire planet working and as one on saving life on Earth. We cannot waste time with movements and people who opportunistically are only trying to hitch divisive and previously failed political agendas onto the climate problem. We need the poorest and the richest in these times joining hands and recognising their common humanity. 'Love thy neighbour as thy love thyself' would be a good starting point, and it goes both ways.

[@Ersill]

Is there a transcript ? If so, please reply/message! Thank you a great deal!

[@mediasanctuary]

+Ersill No transcript. Sorry!

[@anderslarsen4912]

Europeans ought to pay attention to mr Hedges. European political leaders are no less prone to act on the behest of corporations to the cost of citizens.

[@lechat8533]

30 Thumbs Down... BUT 7 0 1 THUMBS UP !!! (4/23 - 2020)

[@subversivelysurreal3645]

The effectiveness of #RalphNader is consistency undervalued. I am young, yet I will always argue with #ChapoTrapHouse, that #ChisHedges is so very valuable!. Please stand up for your own views...people will respect you... enough to respect what you’re saying., hopefully backed up by what you have DONE 👉🏾If that isn’t the point, I don’t know what is.

[@jamescreek1319]

Subversively Surreal so many people are right wingers and even people who are union workers are supporting trump and the republicans it’s crazy that they are supporting their own destruction and slip n slide into poverty by the very people that they support it’s actually dangerous to ones livelihood and even physical health these people are capable of terrible violence and are at least detrimental to your ability to gainful employment because of your own beliefs and support for the opposition of the ruling elite and corporations and banking criminal institutions that if you express your own opinion you will risk being ostracized from the workplace and jobs that you are trained to do no matter how good you are , political opinions and beliefs must be kept private and or I find I have to keep my own to my self I’ve already experienced that cold shoulder effect from fellow workers and management on high paying good jobs because they think of me in a derogatory way because I don’t agree with their politics. And instead of having a civil discussion with you they will hate you and give you a hard time and even fire you on trumped up reason for expressing your political opinion. It’s terrible state of affairs but a reality check that I have encountered in the workplace I work in the oil and gas pipeline building business for subcontractors of the Big oil gas and power companies. It’s a chilling effect on free speech and the right to be safe in the workplace even though I am a union member over half of my own union members and friends are right wing supporters of the Republican Party that’s been trying for decades to destroy and eliminate Labor Unions

[@najahaishah1988]

And stand up

[@kooisengchng5283]

Not watching tv gives him more time to read and contemplate - it is the cogitation that makes him a remarkable mind. The more you spend time on social media the worse you get - mind wise.

[@elainewalters5017]

The police and military have to come down on the citizens side, please God this happens. Trouble is I fear they won't do this soon enough. Despite being brave they are terribly brainwashed to act as instructed when under pressure.

[@cbx500cbx]

Reading wealth of Nations, can't believe how complex capitalism was even then. We were taught that people traded, things rather than cash. Again I think it was two economies even then, but we were only taught about the one for us. ( Why cause class envy).

[@1828tolstoy]

Why is this country so violent.

[@barkeater7867]

only 25,000 views. no comments in 4 years.

[@killbigtechskillbigfakesbanks]

Amazing moral righteous intellectual

[@vladimir0700]

Gibbon’s Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire -yeah, I read that when I was a mere toddler-lol

[@najahaishah1988]

Let’s rebel

[@jeanmacdobea2614]

we need to reduce then need for money in the world and have a part based on something else i believe

[@johnhelm6231]

Good job five stars

[@Johnconno]

Wages of Fear

[@pastyman001]

Chris Hedges is an electronic hallucination

[@quasimodo96]

Idiotic, you.

[@Klaevin]

this has only become more true with the advent of Covid 19. who knows? maybe it'll be even truer with Covid 20

[@Bob-fj7lr]

If I ever saw Cornell West at a Burger King, I'd piss my pants

[@Frisbieinstein]

Somethng for me to look forward to.

[@ed19742006]

You little people cant resist the empire

[@musicloverkathy]

I would be remiss if I failed to ask you if you've thought about the work of the late Andrea Dworkin, who died ignominiously in the streets of New York. The first thing I experienced was a great sense of relief that I was not the only person who put words to my thoughts about the oppression of women. Her last book SCAPEGOAT which is virtually banned spoke to the Palestinian genocide. Because she and Catherine McKinnon took on the porn industry, Andrea became the most hated woman in the US. McKinnon, being a beautiful academic was more acceptable than Andrea whose body offended men and women both. It's almost impossible to speak about her without scorn from all sides. To me she was a visionary who changed the lives of women.

[@mainstreet3023]

Can we stop them?

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

Never alone

[@Loralynalice]

Videos without sub titles are useless - at least 17% of the population of U.S. are deaf - Medicare doesn't cover hearing aids (nor dental either and good heariing aids cost between $2000-$3000 - ones that work, that is. I would love to be able to learn what Mr. Hedges had to say.Alice Thomas

[@solidaritytime3650]

#PassiveAbleism

[@quasimodo96]

Likely due to lack of resources of the posting institution. Perhaps you could offer your services. The non-hearing would undoubtedly appreciate your access support.

[@glm4054]

💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘💘

[@johnhoward6393]

Prosecutors and police don't enforce laws against elected officials or serving officials of the state or officials who fail to prosecute.

[@sinequanon5586]

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[@HillbillyHippyOG]

A truly radical idea would be to tattoo a tiny peace sign prominently and permanently somewhere on our faces; take a selfie, and post it with #wethepeople or another pithy phrase with a similar sentiment... maybe #powertothepeople. This permanent tattoo would (a) symbolically affirm the peaceful intentions of the movement, (b) appeal directly to the younger crowds who like tattoos and are mainly the ones leading this new charge to socialism, (c) being permanent would demonstrate the level of commitment by the wearers... there's no better way to fly a bird at corporate America than to get a permanent facial tattoo that basically eliminates your eligibility to ever work for corporate America (d) make it bleeding obvious that WE are in the majority. If everyone around you is sporting a facial tattoo, its hard for MSM to ignore it or to convince trusting audiences that the movement is just a few noisy radicals. The tattoo could be 1/4"... small and cheap. Ideally, more and more peace selfies would circulate around social media gaining more and more attention. The associated phrase should lead people to a website/youtube channel/social media platform with information and videos that primarily explain and de-vilanize socialism, and show how the real problem is not left vs right, black vs, white, Christian vs. non-Christian, straight vs. gay, men vs. women, or even tree-hugger vs. capitalist. It is elite vs. the rest of the world. btw, I've worn a peace sign prominently on my person every day for years now. The idea being that I never know when even a peaceful pacifist like myself will run afoul of authority, and I'd like for that authority figure to have to rationalize the use of violence against me while staring at those symbols of peace. I've intended to have the symbol actually tattooed on myself for a long-time but have been waiting for a friend who lives in another state to come and preform the task. HOWEVER, if there's a social media guru out there who knows how to spark such a trend - I will waive my wish to have a particular person preform the task and be among the first to circulate a selfie. I'm middle-aged, broke, and have few ideas of my own, but point me toward the revolution wherever it begins - I'm in.

[@PC_Ente]

Such a brilliant man and he's still eating at Burger King...?

[@robertlarocca8697]

He is a vegan and hopefully he had a veggie burger.

The Gulag Archipelago isn't "amazing" as u so blithely said! Gloss over it as expected!

[@dabbyj509]

Your words are why we payed to have this connection but of course corporate stole it like they did are constitution. civil disobedience is all we have...

[@MrCTruck]

21:06 it's trillion according to IMF website

[@carlousmagus5387]

Nuclear Power is great energy.

[@billiebleach7889]

The “good” folks of the Ochrana can be proud of themselves...even more than a century later, people are still wondering wether the Protocols are true or not. 😱😂

In a church, that is sacrilige!

[@p8entlyobvious383]

It makes me real sad. There is just no way out. There is no solution .the world and everything in it is just going to have to suffer .

[@jimmyolsenblues]

I wish I could go back in time and explain to Chris Hedges that Trump would win.

[@p8entlyobvious383]

It's not Capatalism that is the problem . It is unbridled Capatalism, unregulated Capitalism . Its human greed and avarice no matter what system . Look at the Weimar system . One of the fairest democracies !!look what happened to it ! There will always be some form of Capatalism. I'll give you 2 of these for five of them . That is trading ! that is Capatalism ! It is human nature to get the best deal for oneself unless there are regulations or morals.

[@patrickkelly7612]

P8lenty obvious You pontificate your ignorance. A wiser person would keep it to themselves.

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

Trade is not capitalism. Learn basic economic terms lol

[@tonykerzmann183]

Read my response on Facebook and Google !!

[@ustymkarma4460]

"fear that all the wahoos will descend on Washington" well that did not age well at all.

[@leiapeison]

Political genius

[@Sam26412]

Americans have mountain of debt to pay. We have no time for this.

[@solidaritytime3650]

So... Wait... No Guillotines? Anticlimactic, but far preferable.

[@LawFirm1970]

EXCELLENT

[@johnclarke5459]

Posturing ain't Revolutioning! Ask Robespierre. Danton and Saint Just!

[@alloomis1635]

chris is a respectable man, but he does his listeners no favor by referring to the usa as any kind of democracy. the reality that it is not any kind of democracy is the fundamental problem facing the nation. the 'doublethink' involved in associating democracy and the usa is the strongest tool in the rule of plutocrats.

[@billyhead8405]

Protect free speech if the president can be censored your next

[@phixxxer11]

Without ralph nader we have no george bush. Thank you mr Nader. NOT!!

[@coryhinman5134]

there in Chris' description of prepping for his talk with Wolin is the reason he;s such a terrible interviewer, this notion he must "compete" with his subject instead of just giving a few prompts to get the subject talking.

[@solidaritytime3650]

The anarchists would love him, if he quit representing us.

[@HellerVali]

Is this guy an anarchist or leftist? Let me know...

[@kathleenhillock9366]

He has no label. He doesn't identify with anything but human rights. He doesn't just point out what is destroying us. He instructs us in solid solutions.

[@kathleenhillock9366]

Independent 😁😁😁

[@GalacticNovaOverlord]

He's probably an anarchosocialist

[@franklinblunt69]

Hedges often speaks about these matters but is very selective & often ignores or fails to provide explicit details, beside he's dishonest so not deserving of trust; he's very questionable as to his ethics & integrity, beside seemingly harmless since he hasn't motivated anything or anybody but merely critical while he may become readily compromised. Considering the crowd he elicits, they aren't capable while they relish & readily fall for his dubious divisions, such as left or right (which he readily disparages & blames despite the prominent issues he mentioned are caused by those people whom are characteristically left or human) along with mistaken distinctions he promotes as absolute & prominent when they may be undeserved & individual not as a group, terrible logic. Those people don't won't to have any responsibility, be involved with any consequences, or risk anything but only want to feel better than anybody else among those dubious divisions so that they can allay their fear, dismiss their guilt, & transfer the blame for the aberrant conditions. Externalizing is very prominent, like attention deficiency, so nothing that he mentions will hold, motivate, or matter the moment they exit this safe space. He mentions ClimateCon, but doesn't criticize it as another exploited scam rife with fraud, externalizing, greenwashing schemes, market scams, propaganda, kleptocracy, & corruption (especially among corporateered NGOs et al, whether global but blatantly among domestic organizations) along with dangerous geo-engineering schemes, without accountability or resolution of actual environmental & resource or socio-economic issues, that have also become biased & discriminates against innocent people due to their perceived "whiteness", gender, & skin color. Consider the suppression & ignoring the abuse, harm, & hardship endured by such people perceived as "white"; Hedges is dishonest guilty of that bias, prejudice, discrimination, & misinforming propaganda while only promoting & distorting BIPOC beside indulging their abuses & racially-motivated hate crimes. He blatantly misinforms about history & the present, he should get challenged about the lies he promotes. Nobody in that crowd or elsewhere has any semblance of Truth, much less innate courage, ethics, & virtue to actually begin or persist in a deserved rebellion, impose accountability, or enact viable change of obviously failed & corrupted institutions along with the involved individuals amid the aberrant conditions which have exacerbated, as sheeple are willingly duped, deluded, apathetic, & indulgent, to wit CoronaCon et al scams & schemes entrenching bribery, corruption, austerity, disparity, systematic injustice, perversions, distortions, while spite has become blatantly evident from cities, counties, states, NGOs, profiteers, leeches, parasites, ... As he infers, considering financial & other crimes, corporatocracy, despotism, kleptocracy, malfeasance, wanton conflict imposing global & domestic tragedy, austerity, disparity, & injustice over past three decades (enacted, indulged, & enabled prior to 2005) yet only few were aware & dared to confront & condemn them but the masses were pathetically complacent & indulgent if not complicit. As an honorable USN retiree enduring injury, crime, injustice, abuse, yet upon confronting those involved I endured terrible retaliation, reprisal, abduction, torture, persecution while nobody (such as would be characterized by Hedges & those in his audience) had provided support or exposure despite their awareness. Few actually walk the walk as they talk the talk. When people are supposedly aware, even by witnessing this, why don't they act? Except turn away from involvement & merely whine as if hopeless, ... as worse, they then espouse their supposed intelligence & dubious intellect as if they are aware more than anybody else? Failing in their duties & responsibilities, much hypocrisy, & immorality either way, no respect for them whom are willingly oppressed in ScAmerika.

[@richanother673]

Please, type in Greta Thunberg connects climate, ecological, and health crisis.

[@michaelburke2238]

Red Caps

[@michaelkahn8903]

a journalist and author sues Obama? where are all those wonderful civil rights lawyers who are in the newspapers? why is a journalist doing this? a sad commentary on our legal system and the lawyers that are connected to it. what is credited for good work to Hedges, is a condemnation of lawyers

"you cannot understand capital unless u have read Marx's "capital"....so in effect u said that no one can understand capital if Marx hadn't existed and blessed us with his book? That is a ridiculous claim!

[@GrandmaCathy]

Justice Democrats.

[@tommyb1959x]

Ice gone by 2020? It's 20/20 and the ice is thick as ever covering more Hector's. I like this guy and his view of the wars but as far as climate change he's a wacko bird

[@angelwirelivecom]

I love everything you say, except man made global warming. It is a ruse.

[@angelwirelivecom]

@multigrooves Maybe not 100%, but close. www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2019/03/SvensmarkSolar2019.pdf kzbin.info/www/bejne/haizdop8j5aCpaM

[@angelwirelivecom]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/haizdop8j5aCpaM www.thegwpf.org/content/uploads/2019/03/SvensmarkSolar2019.pdf

[@GrandmaCathy]

Wait until he finds out about Trump's internment camps.

[@merlin3921]

The content of this video is pathetic and awful propaganda. War and capitalism are not synonymous with each other. War is politically based while capitalism is economically based. Yes, it's true that some companies (military contractors) benefit from war but the driver in that gain is not capitalism. The United States started to deviate from capitalism in the late 1800's. What we are seeing today (and have for many many years) is massive government legislation is all areas of life - completely contrary to capitalism. There is a vast growing movement to legislate everything. And folks like Michael and Chris are devoted to spreading completely misguided propaganda. For what, I wonder. I also wonder how altruistic they are with their fortunes.

[@coolconfuzer]

Neil M YES!!!!!!!!!!

[@Zombiesomnomnom]

Don't be a stalwart capitalism defender. There is no such thing as a free market. There will always be a hidden hand. Where there is surplus there must also, somewhere be a deficit. You're the one swallowing propaganda my friend.

[@coolconfuzer]

Zombiesomnomnom You can blame govt for that.

[@unlawfultyrant1099]

+Neil M all wars are banker wars

[@nlsupernovaable]

read marx capital. untill you do, you should not make comments about capitalism. even though i do not completely agree with what he sees as an alternative, his critique of capitalism is spot on and we are living his vision to the smallest detail. capitalism is dying. it is eating itself from within because it needs endless growth of profits. if we do not cut ourself loose from its brutal exploitation it will all end in a planet not able to support life or in the very best case a new darkage similar to the one left behind after the collapse of the roman empire. we have been trough this allready, learn from the past. history repeats itself when the last generation that lived any phase of history has died off and cannot longer warn us with their experience.

[@joearcher8771]

a psuedo intellectual. Can't argue with a divinity degree. should have been a community organizer.