'Silent Coup'-How corporations rule the world w/Matt Kennard | The Chris Hedges Report

The 20th Century saw a great global uprising against European imperialism as the former colonial countries shook off their shackles and rose up for independence. More than a half century later, global inequality is sharper than ever before. To understand the current predicament of the vast majority of the world's people, we must understand the intervening decades. Matt Kennard and Claire Provost's book, Silent Coup: How Corporations Overthrew Democracy, looks inside the international architecture of global corporate governance that exists to flout and crush any attempts by the former colonial world to enact development on their own terms. Matt Kennard joins The Chris Hedges Report for a look at this intriguing and essential history.
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[@attovishnu]

Abolish Corporate "personhood" NOW!!!!!

[@Lyra0966]

Absolutely!

[@carycunningham9510]

Welp, there ya go! That fixes that! 😂

[@tomorrowhowever7488]

@@carycunningham9510 Of course not. "Our" legislators will not undo Citizens United. They're all gaining wealth from corporations.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Ain’t gonna happen.

[@bobhope5114]

Who exactly are you addressing here?

[@user-zu8nf1lx3g]

The whole world needs to stand against all this

[@defianceforhumanity]

the simplest of truths

[@theboyisnotright6312]

They will kill you and me if we interfere 😢. They people in charge are EVIL.

[@owensthilaire8189]

The whole world would have to know about it to stand against it. These same corporations are making certain it doesn't.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

@@owensthilaire8189 things will change. It's up to the wealthy if it's by ballot box or ammo box 😊. People are starting to go hungry. I noticed 2 weeks ago was in Walmart and was amazed how many people had carts full of ramen noodles and pasta. I think it's coming soon. Myself, a year ago was saving 30 %of my income. I can't anymore as all expenses have skyrocketed.

[@user-zu8nf1lx3g]

@@owensthilaire8189 year we are working on that .a lot of parts of the problems are being turned into parts of the solutions.what about you. Are you sitting on a fence. Or standing on the side lines. Life or right is out the window. We are the people good people of the world. Evil can not triumph when good people do something.

[@qjtvaddict]

The people of the UK need to revolt against the corporate tyranny

[@bobhope5114]

The Rothschild's will be delighted to crush dissent with overwhelming force...no?

[@AJ-hi9fd]

Corporate Communism is alive and well in the UK, but the majority of people haven’t realised it yet.

[@hawkbartril3016]

You couldn't be more right. What about the facism?

[@paulamcminn5480]

You are not listening. It's everywhere. Need the world dependent on such loans to renege, all at once. USA can then go to war with the whole goddamn world. @@hawkbartril3016

[@archyology]

The whole world needs to

[@peterodonnell4404]

"You can not understand the world today unless you are looking at it through the lens of corporate power." That is truest statement I have heard in a very long time. Corporate power has always been the problem, and it is unquestionably the greatest threat not just to democracy, but to humanity.

[@TheEvdoggy]

Yes. So many "libertarians" want to blame bloated governments for the corruption and creeping Authoritarianism in the West. But they miss the fact that these governments have been totally captured by Corporations. Libertarians deliberately put the cart before the horse to ignore the threats emerging from "free markets" and capitalism; the creation of these monstrous Corporate monoliths.

[@Magik1369]

But Sam Alito and the corrupt and stupid Supreme Court ruled that corporations are people in Citizens vs United. Sam Alito has caused more damage to the USA than any SC justice before him.

[@TheJester-ct5pi]

It's also why you have a plethora of goods relatively inexpensive which has likely improved your standard of living tenfold. The world is not black and white

[@peterodonnell4404]

@@TheJester-ct5pi : That is simply not true. I have seen even over my own lifetime how the standard of living follows an inverse correlation with the degree of corporatisation. There is seldom quality in anything anymore; there is no artisanship; there is no variation; there is no choice. We are surrounded by a plethora of junk for which we pay dearly. Societies that shun corporations, and especially those with high degrees of independence, have higher standards of living in most regards, unless of course our only metric is material ownership. But even if your premise were correct, it is obscene to suggest that this somehow compensates for the murder and suffering caused by corporations. Corporations have no moral purpose. They simply shouldn't be allowed to exist.

[@livingitup9647]

Indeed -- I couldn't agree more. Materialism, with corporatism's endless, insatiable growth model, have been systematically destroying quality of life on the planet and, therefore, most of the benefits stemming from the industrial age. It is the corporate entity, coupled with the usual cabal of psychopathic, power-hungry elites (now globalists) who never cease to want more control over everything on earth, including the masses of humanity. They have figured out how to extract profit from most humans on earth, from cradle to grave. We are headed for, or already in, a neo-feudalism under a steadily creeping totalitarianism.... and most people don't even see it coming.

[@hippychikforever]

If corporations are people, then the CEOs and boards of directors should be held personally responsible for any criminal activity their corporation does. The Sackler family immediately comes to mind.

[@macduece2112]

They do. Remember N R G ?? the Texas based energy company. The CEO committed suicide when he learned he was prison bound. This self-serving act deprived the people who were robbed this POS.👈💯👍

[@martinwhalley3286]

Albeit the Sackler Fam owns PERDUE, buy think, who is THEIR dope dealers? They'd need a connect that had a massive supply, especially if they gave zero fux about THAT epidemic. Imagine Afghanistan, rocks, and not the good fracking kind! Hmm took over in 2003. From 15% of the world OPIUM POPPY PRODUCTION to almost 80% over the next decade.... Oh, so the CIA was Perdue's dope connection. Massive supply + fiduciary responsibility = Opioid Epidemic

[@Wamsuo58u]

Epstein

[@kirilgotzkov2654]

​@@macduece2112 Enron

[@tedmusson5179]

The only way the sacklers look good is in prison denim.

[@johleby8048]

We extend our sincere gratitude to Chris Hedges and our esteemed guest for their dedication to the advocacy against wealth disparity. 🙏❤️🙏

[@MJ-es5vo]

Great interview! A multi-level panorama of control by a cabal of corporations. And their servants/puppets.

[@THEROOTMATTERS]

THIS IS MORE THAN MERE WEALTH DISPARITY. THIS IS PURE BLOOD THIRSTY GREED LEADING TO GENOCIDE. IT IS NOT JUST COMING TO A COUNTRY NEAR YOU. IT IS RIGHT HERE OPERATING IN THE USA. HOLLOWING OUT THE USA.

[@niteriderband4713]

I believe the theme of the interview is how much Corporations have enslaved the US and the world for their devious and greedy profiteering. I didnt realize the enslavement was so complete.

[@misscameroon8062]

silly,rather than extending gratitude against wealth disparity urge him to advocate for educating his listeners of the power of informed citizenry and methods to assure the equality of opportunity for all members of society.This wealth distribution disparity is just a straw man for lefties to fuel discontent and unrest instead of proposing constructive solutions to a problem of social injustice,

[@Uncanny_Mountain]

There's a direct link between Scientology, Trump, and the techniques used by the right wing echosphere, who also tie to NXIVM (Elon promoted it) Epstein (Trump's bff for20+ years) and Saville, (who Brand idolised) and the Monarchy who (Shapiro and Piers Morgan defends). Tate dated Peterson's daughter and Elon went to the same Jesuit University as Trump, and Epstein hooked up Elon's brother, just like he did for Trump. Trump's lawyer Alan Dershowitz said he was introduced to Epstein by Lynn de Forrester Rosschild. Scientology is training these people in the tactics of brainwashing, basically what MK Ultra became, and probably run by the CIA, and Opus Dei, which is basically the same thing. Their principle strategy is Gaslighting. Gaslighting, aka Grooming. Accusation in a mirror (AiM), mirror politics, mirror propaganda, mirror image propaganda, is a hate-speech incitement technique where one falsely attributes to one's adversaries the intentions that one has for oneself and/or the actions that one is in the process of enacting. It was used in Rwanda, Guatemala, Brazil, and Burma, each having ties to Mossad. Trump, Barr, Bannon, Cippolone, Gore, Guiliani, Leo, Alito, Thomas, and Barrett are all Opus Dei. Trump trained alongside Epstein and Roger Stone under Roy Cohn, who used kids to blackmail politicians on behalf of Mossad. Cohn trained under Meyer Lansky, who trained under Hoover. Robert Mercer and Rupert Murdoch are both Knights of Malta. Saville, Bezos, Gates, Koch, Rogan, Walsh, Crowder, Kirk, Fuentes, Dore, Knowles, Kulinksi, Ball, Iverson, Icke, Woods, Watson, Cernovich, Abbott, Jones, Robinson, Woods, Pool, Rubin, Peterson, Posobeic, Duke, Molyneux, Yilanopouse, Gionet, Richardson, Tillerson, Greene, Manaforte, Flynn, Ducey, Acosta, Attwood, Stone, Pence, Desantis, Meadows, Trump, Eastman, Black, Kerik, Melania, Barr, Bannon, Hawley, Gingrich, Abrams, Comey, Cuomo, Kerry, Abrams, Gore, Spencer, Blassio, Pompeo, Bolton, McCarthy, Nugent, Cruz, Rubio, Gaetz, Santos, Tucker, Gutfield, O'Reilly, Beck, Scarborough, Devos, Kasich, Mercer, Murdoch, Rosschild, Ingram, Kelly, Lake, Conway, Coulter, Huckabee, McEnany, Hannity, Spicer, Christie, Prager, Maher, Colbert, Corbett, Hayes, Biden, Harris, Fauci, Pelosi, Menendez, Pirro, Manchin, Cooper, Maddow, AOC, Newsom, Uyger, Dawkins, Hitchens, Hancock, Sitchin, Ventura, Morgan, Cowell, Farage, Johnson, May, Merkel, Blair, Cameron, Brown, Blair, Mogg, Benjamin, Trudeau, Putin, Bolsanaro, Stalin, Lenin, Tito, Trotsky, Hitler. Special mentions (adjucants): Dawkins, Hitchens, Harris, Miller, Watters, Greenwad, Blumenthal, Maté, Camp, Brand, Loomer, Shapiro, Thatcher, Bush, Obama, Merkel, Greer, Summers, Silverstein, Adelson. Greenblatt. Wexner. Also Hindu Nationalists Ramaswamy, Tulsi, Haley, Hirsi, DeSouza, Modi etc. Edward Snowden worked for Pentagon Comptroller Dov Zakheim and was bought to us by Glen Greenwald, who now rubs shoulders with Jesuit Agent Provocateurs Tucker Carlson and Joe Rogan, whose mutual friend with Steven Crowder Brian Callen is the founder of Diligence, a spook Contractor to the CIA. Julian Assange helped Roger Stone and the Trump Campaign in 2016, being the first to suggest challenging the outcome if he lost, and asking to be made the Australian ambassador to the US. Margeret Sunbyrne, the head of the Sun Worship Cult he was raised in was also protected by the CIA in the Australian Supreme Court, on grounds of "National Security" Trump paints himself Orange to represent Apollo. Aleister Crowley inspired NXIvM and Manson, and was a master of mind control, his Protege L Ron Hubbard was the founder of Scientology, which uses the same mind control tactics displayed in right wing media. They were also instrumental in Trump's conception as the Moon Child, born on a Super Wolf Blood Moon on June 14 700 days before the founding of Israel, who he gave sovereignty over the Golan heights on its 70th anniversary, and was inaugurated aged 70 years 7 months and 7 days old. June 14 is the birthday of Osiris, Known as the Day of the Pharoah. Scientology uses the same tricks as Religion and Freemasonry, including isolation through strange acts (rituals/hazing) Gaslighting and intimadation, these can also be seen in right wing propaganda. Peterson's hero's journey comes from the transit of the moon through the zodiac, which is why they're called months. Blame the victim: The strategy is to make the aggressor's feelings the goalposts, everything is oriented around their needs and approval; a war of attrition using subjective language and logical fallacies such as incredulity, which amounts to disbelief, and acting as if this belief is something the victim is responsible for. "Look what you made me do" *In the context of child sexual abuse (CSA) the **_gaslighting_** is often used to convince the victim all the abusive behaviours are fine, normal and an expression of “love” (for eg Patriotism, Christianity, Service). It is used to ensure the victim doesn’t speak out about it and doesn’t fight back. It can also be used in concert with other **_grooming_** tactics like fear and isolation. Ultimately the aim is to legitimise a worldview that is detached from reality, and therefore arbitrary. Now they can call evil good and good evil* *>>Trivializing:* *The victim’s feels are made to feel like they don’t matter, are **_unfounded_** or they are weak for thinking so.* (woke/ lib/ groomer/ infidel etc) *>>Countering: This is quintessential gaslighting.* *They **_directly counter the memories and perceptions of the victim._* *>>Repetitive Questions: The abusive partner makes the victim doubt what they think or feel by asking the same question multiple times.* by doing so they preemptively assume the role of an authority by proxy. *>>Diverting: The abuser diverts the subject and puts the blame into outside circumstances.* *>>No true Scotsman, or appeal to purity* is an informal fallacy in which one attempts to *protect their generalized statement from a falsifying counterexample* by trying to _exclude the counterexample_ improperly. This is the Core of White Supremacist ideology. *"What Others Say" (Appeal to populism)* The abuser tells the victim what other people "think" about the victim, the abuser and/or the situation on whole. Also known as an appeal to populism, the basis of Authoritarian Communism, and Cults, "if many believe it then it must be true" (whether people actually agree with the position and whether it is true or not). Bolshevism itself means "the Majority" and is no different to Fascist appeals to a "Moral Majority" Patriotism is a form of Authoritarian Communism. Other than direct contradiction and disbelief other strategies for Gaslighting include Begging the Question, and the use of Strawman arguments; refuting a reframed argument *different from the one actually under discussion* while not recognizing or acknowledging the distinction. Through the exercise of overwhelming a subject with countless contradicting premises and subjective terms a game of Pigeon Chess is played to deter criticism and break down a person's defences, until they no longer trust their own feelings, and rely solely on an outside source for direction. This is clearly demonstrated in the Maga cult, and is repeated in the convoluted dogma and magical thinking of Evangelism, New Age Spirituality, Ancient Aliens, and Graham Hancock. Always alluding to a secret to be revealed, but always in vague nebulous terms and undefined benefits of a far away place with no means to verify one way or the other. "Trust me bro" Effectively they all play the same role of an Enlightened Guru with deep understanding of life matters who can solve all your problems. It's likely no coincidence Reagan emptied the mental health services in the US, over half of those in Jail and living on the streets have undiagnosed ADHD. Auyawasca and Psychotropics are also a staple in brainwashing, as is telling the target they've been brainwashed and that the Guru has the cure, right wing propaganda uses this language heavily by flipping the script and arguing they are the victims, that they're the ones being silenced and cancelled, that they oppose child abuse while also defending it, that the deep State is out to get them, when they're the Deep State and always have been. Aleister Crowley was a big advocate of using Psychotropics to brainwash, just like the CIA, Opus Dei and MK Ultra. Brand and Trump both use hand waving and holding them outspread in a "settle" gesture called pacing. They can also stare at an opponent, "asserting dominance" to put the target on the back foot and unsure how to respond. Peterson does this a lot, along with rapid fire speech, and using an insulting or demanding tone. By using these tactics as well as loaded language (Newspeak) and inference (plausible deniability) only to move the goalposts and reframe when challenged. Trump's Mentor Roy Cohn admitted to using kids to blackmail politicians on behalf of israel, and trained under him alongside Epstein and Roger Stone. Trump's Jesuit mentor was Norman Vincent Peale, a 33rd degree Master Freemason. He was born June 14 during a Super Wolf Blood Moon to Fred Christ and Mary McKleod, he keeps a book of Hitler's speeches called _My New Order_ and uses it verbatim at his rallies. The Von Drumph family come from the same place as Hitler, Vienna Bavaria, Capital of the Holy Roman Empire. He paints himself Orange to represent Apollo; the Dawnbringer of Aleister Crowley's Golden Dawn. Jamal Kashoggi's Mossad brother Adnan sold Trump a Superyacht for Russian Roman Abromavich, who was also paying Boris and Farage for Brexit. Most of israel's govt are non religious Russians.

[@carpediem44]

Thank you for the truth about Oxfam and other corporate-linked NGO parasites.

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

I concur when you use the word "parasites". When people talk of the "elites" I wish everyone use parasites. A very fitting & more accurate description.

[@jonathanash4280]

I am currently reading Silent Coup and I would recommend it to anyone. This is not the stuff of fringe politics but one of the most important issues today that concernes us all. The Coup that no longer should be silent!

[@coolioso808]

Good one. Also a few other good reads include: - The New Human Rights Movement by Peter Joseph - Moneyless Society by Matthew Holten - Ubuntu Contributionism by Michael Tellinger I also want to read Zero Marginal Cost Society by Jeremy Rifkin, Less is More by Jason Hickel, and The Sickness is the System by Richard Wolff.

[@makoriasati4980]

Privitasation being pushed on weak countries by IMF is actually THEFT of Public Property and giving it to a few Thieves locally and internationally through Multicoporations which end up using the stolen loot to grab political power to that Country. Individual wealth must have a capping. Who ever works for a company that person has a share equal to the time spent with that company. The world is controlled by Fake Democracy. If there was Democracy real then workers could be having power to vote for whoever becomes the Managing director, which has never been done.

[@analogman9697]

The real coup began in 1913 at Jekyll Island and the beginning of the Fed, which is and always has been in private hands.

[@coolioso808]

@@mehrimazedeh yeah, no problem. I'm sure you will enjoy any of those books you choose to read. Ubuntu Contributionism was like the book I wish I would have read 10 years ago. Answered so many questions I had while growing up observing how absurd the society was, how weird everything was. I couldn't quite put my finger on it. Yeah, I blamed corporations, still do, to some extent, but when I looked deeper to the core of the problem, it all made more sense! The core problem is right in front of us, every day, 'silent' enslavement: Money. Did you know central banks can be owned privately? Seems crazy. Like the rich of the world have enough, but they can also own the money supply? They don't even need to be elected by the people! The perfect crime! Politicians take all the blame usually. I'm sure you have heard of these banksters before though: Rockefellers, Rothschilds, Carnegie, JP Morgan, etc. Craziest story I've heard is what happened to Nikola Tesla while working for JP Morgan on an energy device called the Wardenclyffe Tower. Of course tycoon JP Morgan stopped this device before it could really get completed and tested! Abundance of energy without fossil fuels!? Then how are people going to be controlled if they don't have the fossil fuel industry to bow down to? Yep. The rabbit hole goes deep! If you are ready. You can dive in.

[@jharvey9898]

Put your trust in Jesus Christ. He and heaven are forever.

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Chris, I see what you're up to; you're finding people to interview who are saying the same things you've been telling us for years and even decades now- and you're giving them the chance to bring their own evidence to bear on the issues. Well done! This is extremely important work and I am incredibly grateful for your efforts.

[@tedmusson5179]

U$a... IMF... CIA... FBI... R.I.P. R.I.S. (where S = shame)

[@jasonlacroix6083]

What does it matter what Chris does or says? This interview has reached 150k people in two weeks. The non mainstream media like Rogan, the Turks and whatever one people listen to, talk up a bunch of nonsense like gender, woke, Trump, etc.. Plus, the ever shortening attention spans can't focus for 30 minutes, which is the minimum time it takes to really get into an issue.

[@warrenthomas1253]

What I find hard to understand is why anyone has to tell us what is obvious. I'm a 56 year old man with a GED education that has smoked weed on and off since I was 13 years old. I didn't know the fine details of any tools/law's the elite were using but I have understood exactly what they were up to and the results of their actions. I've listened to I was a burnt out crazy pothead since I was a teenager by my highly educated family and associates. Some might think this is funny there's nothing funny about hundreds of millions human beings allowing 1% of the people to steal the world from the 99% . Just keep on obeying authority and don't question your betters. Don't be shocked when you find out this 1% are members of the 33% degree of masonic order of Mason's .

[@Jay...777]

Silent Coup is a major piece of the puzzle in understanding realpolitik, hegemonic power & our fate as fodder for the Empire's last gasp. World domination it seems requires our servitude.

[@katiekane5247]

Or our elimination 🤔

[@Jay...777]

@@katiekane5247 Effective Altruism beloved by billionaires, would say its the most efficient way to meet our future requirements.

[@karengrice2303]

His final sentence was telling! So interesting that all the elites have untouched homes on large swaths of land in Maui and the low and middle income people had their homes burned down under very suspicious circumstances. It makes me wonder if they are attempting to separate and isolate themselves from the rest of us because of their evil behavior. Greed is truly the root of all evil.

[@suspendeddisbelief401]

They are not "elites" though they love you to use this word. They are PARASITES, they live off the work, attention & suffering of others.

[@RojaJaneman]

They could do that anywhere in d world. Without suspicious activities

[@defianceforhumanity]

@@RojaJanemanyou are correct and they do do it all over the world…it’s just not obvious or suspicious as you say to those that believe life is better being willfully ignorant. Propaganda and manipulation is certainly a powerful tool.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

That whole fire smells like a planned disaster.

[@macduece2112]

​@@defianceforhumanityI like the term "wilfull blindness."

[@davidgood7621]

If we want to survive as a species, corporations all have to be capped.

[@user-sf7yp3pu9e]

Too late-200 years ago, maybe

[@davidgood7621]

Maybe on the second coming

[@gferraro100]

Corporations now rule us all. The government is nothing more than a PR firm that works for them now.😢

[@anthonyeden2677]

The hunter shall become the hunted.

[@DavianSinner]

This was covered in the film "Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery", when Number 2 said to Dr. Evil in response to his desire to conquer the world, "You don't realize there is no world anymore! It's only corporations!"

[@Inkulabi]

Many movies allude to it such as Network (1976)

[@Suburbangeek]

Oh, behave!

[@Inkulabi]

@@Suburbangeek someone's playing a prank on me!

[@scottdavis3571]

The Corporations pretty much own people now. We have only empowered them to bring back a sort of neo-slavery, where we are paid a small wage for our work.

[@limitisillusion7]

Ownership is a concept bound to currency and depends on the perception of the people using that currency to accept it. Power can override that ownership with nothing but organization. Power is found in numbers. Organization is found through free thought. That's why the corporationa control thought in mainstream media... And people are inevitably getting sick of it. Just stop watching mainstream media, and voting for the people they tell you to vote for. It's that simple.

[@goldilocksminer8393]

The wage is only necessary so that they don't have buy food to keep their slaves alive and working. Contract their sustenance to the slaves themselves, so to say.

[@macduece2112]

It's called: a "service fee" provided by corporation(s) for your "service."

[@JuanMercado91]

​@@limitisillusion7that's the start of it but it is not that simple unfortunately.

[@USARealityCheck]

It is dangerous for corporations to "rule the world" because they are not subject to Constitutions granting personal freedoms and rights. When they lobby and fund politicians, they expect legislation in their favor which generally involves relaxing environmental rules or rules contrary to consumer protection and personal freedoms. Also, there may be rules allowing the reduction of free speech to curtail public outcry and reaction.

[@mikehayne538]

Good one. I am going to watch Citizen Kane. I think he was alone at the end except for servants. Just working for money was unfulfilling.

[@whiskeystraw]

Corporations get a huge boost in US since Americans decided to trust Billionaires more than the public servants we should be voting for. This all arranged by the Unaccounted for billions of dollars in political donations allowed by a mostly bought and paid for U.S. Supreme Court. So what corporation problems? Bribery, rigging the laws or pay the fines is how big biz gets its way.

[@EWischan]

This is why I'm 100% for a citizens dividend. Citizens created the landscape for corporations to take advantage of. ALL citizens deserve a piece of that pie.

[@terrytari1891]

Oh Billionaires love me because the bible tells me so!

[@theboyisnotright6312]

The whole system needs reform. I just hope it won't get violent, but they will use force to maintain their power. 😢

[@platosbeard4449]

The USA was established as an oligarchy by oligarchs (then they went by the various titles of land “speculators”, that is land thieves, such as George Washington, plantation owners, that is, slavers, such as Thomas Jefferson, and big business financiers, that is bankers, such as Alexander Hamilton). Of course as is the typical practice, the oligarchs coopted the masses of settlers into fighting the crown in their behalf but the oligarchs stood to benefit the most and indeed, the emerging empire that was established concentrated political power in the hands of wealthy landowners who, through the states they controlled, selected the members of senate, the electors for the electoral college which ensured that it was from their ranks that the president emerged, who then appointed the judges to the courts (such judges duly approved by their senate). That system remains largely intact today although it suffered some minor rollbacks (such as the senators having to stand for election by the dirty masses). So no, US Americans did not later on decide to trust billionaires, they have always been led by oligarchs and have assisted such oligarchs in the rape and pillage of the earth.

[@theboyisnotright6312]

I have been thinking and if you look at it. The "leaders" stupidly allow us to vote. We can vote in who we want, that means we can vote in working class. It's no coincidence that when working class people do manage to upset the apple cart and elect one of our own the media destroys them. Look at AOC. Her ideals are good and she isn't one bit stupid, yet they portray her as a bimbo, dumb bartender, ect ect. You don't have to agree with her policies, but that is what we need. The reason they let us vote is because they control who runs. So although you have a choice it's not really a choice.

[@BeaHindebars]

Here in the UK we are building 20,000 new prison cells, I believe they are preparing for mass disobedience.

[@shiddykiddy]

That "silent coup" reminds me of the big corporations and wealthy trying to overthrow the Franklin Roosevelt administration while he was in office. Thank you Smedley Butler 🙏

[@macduece2112]

Roosevelt is a large part of the problem. Indeed, he coined the phrase: the new deal. Woodrow Wilson is another scumbag that come to mind.👈💸💯💸👍💸✔️

[@cathjj840]

They did manage to sabotage the guy who was supposed to succeed FDR, and it's been a slow unknitting ever since.

[@Busto]

"It's much, much easier covering up atrocities when they are committed by corporations"

[@Owl350]

ABOLISH CITIZENS UNITED !

[@brianneece4418]

When I was a kid a video game came out called final fantasy 7, and it blew my mind because aside and underneath all of its fantastical content of powers and essentially magic, the corporate evil is the plot device. A company runs the world, assassinates resistors, controls resources, there’s a gigantic wealth inequality and oppression…it’s honestly so realistic. And I now wonder just how much and how far back in the worlds literature/ story telling, how far back will you find companies ruling the world. Also, in that game anyone fighting against it was deemed a terrorist and shown as such in the media and their paramilitary group was always sent after them.

[@cathjj840]

Life mirrors art, said Oscar Wilde more or less.

[@sinkpehnarossfire454]

🌎: "Before the VaticanBankGroup and the British Empire? Not sure, but those two are still in more control than we consider. They were the two groups that owned the most property on the planet. Then, they maneuvered amidst the Pilgrims and more. Indentured Servitude for all the new lands people. Change some laws and that can help, plus current Pope is making a difference. Just a thought. "

[@mackbedunduk1305]

The neo-liberalism (based on the Washington Consensus) that has long been defended and enforced by any means on behalf of spreading what is so-called “the true democracy” by the collective west has made this phenomenon even fluent, more entrenched and widespread.

[@oldishandwoke-ish1181]

Yes!!

[@LittleOrla]

When corporations were given the same rights as persons in 1986 I knew that we had made a grave mistake.

[@jamesryan4325]

Your best interview yet. How illuminating. We need to address this obsession with the holy $. This is end stage capitalism played out. Really dystopian like stuff.

[@delife_bkk]

Too late too far too deep 😢 FEET centers set the world for 4legs for over 20 years in my view. After putting 4legs in MONEY and LAW then setting more rules, middle men, third parties like hrm, psycho, feet hunters ++ to bark, bully, and threaten and more and nonsense programes by IT, AI, processing++ by smart 4legs. This is the world you, uk, us, eu ++ set as leaders w/o payback for FAILURESSSS

[@coolioso808]

Out of the darkest times can come the brightest light. We have to be the ones who turn on the light, however. And keep the light on! One way to do that is community mutual aid networks of cooperation, collaboration and co-ownership. Like the One Small Town Contributionism model, it's available, ready and set for people to join and contribute to.

[@bobhope5114]

So much more to come!

[@jamesryan4325]

@@coolioso808 Thanks for this! Great ideas, I will read up!

[@karenapaxagape1686]

Reading Silent Coup now. I can't read it at night because it is so upsetting and it keeps me awake to know that this evil persists with little to no acknowledgement by mainstream media.

[@IreneMcGuire-zu1vp]

They OWN the media!

[@charleskesner1302]

It's always good to hear from Chris. He tells it like it is. When will people wake up?

[@archmage_of_the_aether]

When? Never. Waking smacks of effort.

[@presidentrepublic2479]

Never. People are born slaves. Thats why capitalism wins always

[@carycunningham9510]

We live in a corrupt oligarchy with a distracted, divided, and disarmed population. Why do you think "waking up" matters?

[@LilouDesigns]

We'll look round... I'm guessing never!

[@ttystikkrocks1042]

Many of us HAVE woken up; the issue now is how do we deal with the fact of corporate led global Fascism?

[@danv.872]

Blackrock, Vanguard, State Street.

[@mamiegraziano9737]

Chris, Please take care of yourself and remember you are loved and so needed in our community. Time to get to know Matt more. Thank you.

[@haleymoore6684]

They need us more than we need them...

[@UniDeathRaven]

We dont need em at all, thats the beauty of it.

[@Mary-il6zz]

They need our ignorance and passivity

[@Oo27254]

That could and is changing with technology.

[@user-sf7yp3pu9e]

@@Oo27254 yeah, it’s getting worse

[@mikemccarthy1638]

“Corporate colonization of the State” - the best characterization of the phenomenon I’ve heard recently. When I was with the Labor Department in the Nixon-Ford years in Florida, a “right-to-work” (for less) state, the term that occurred to me was, “private Communism”.

[@amp9672]

thank you Chris. I binge-listened every possible interview you did this summer and you really changed me. You'll the only person who makes me feel that faith isn't antithetical to being marxist. You have so much humanity talking about war, about everything. Love you so much, we are so lucky to have you ❤☭

[@peterhardie4151]

Yes, life changing indeed. A modern day prophet.

[@dorianphilotheates3769]

Faith and Marxism ARE antithetical - mutually exclusive in fact. Belief in the supernatural or “spiritual realm” is diametrically opposed with dialectical materialism, the cornerstone of Marxist philosophy. Still, that’s not to say that a “person of faith” cannot be in accord with certain Marxist ideas and principles.There are plenty of capitalist atheists and agnostics (as well as all manner of professed theists, deists, pantheists, animists, spiritualists, witchdoctors, etc.) but atheism is absolutely essential to Marxism.

[@patrickholt2270]

Caleb Maupin and his CPI are charting a Christian-friendly Marxist-Leninist course. Mr. Maupin is himself a believer who often refers to scripture and the faith in his talks while calling for a Marxist revolution. Those who know more about church history and the history of Marxism and socialism are aware that this is not a new thing or all that rare. Some terms you can put into a search engine are - Radical Discipleship, Social Gospel, Christian Socialism, Christian Communism, Liberation Theology and Christian communes. Obviously scripture is full of condemnations of class society, private wealth, the oppression of the poor by the rich, profiteering etc, and the first church is shown practising communism, living as a commune, as the direct and immediate result of annointing of the Holy Spirit at Pentecost after the ascension (Acts 2, repeated Acts 4 in case anyone thinks that's an aberration). The internet has been scrubbed of some of the history, like the Christians For Socialism movement which swept around the world in the early 1970s is very hard to find records of. But it is the fact that most of the communist parties in the world have removed their prohibitions on people joining the party who aren't atheists, and on non-atheism in their ranks. Fidel Castro for instance was impressed to do so during the 1980s after extended converations with Liberations theologians, detailed in his book Fidel and Religion (1985). The contribution of believers, including clergy, to the Sandista Revolution in Nicaragua, and to the Sandinista party in government and out of it, helping keep it the decisive mass force in Nicaraguan life, is a matter of record. This is also the story with the parties of the 2nd International at their foundation and up until the split with the 3rd International after WW1. After all, if Liberation Theology was so reactionary, or insignificant, then the CIA wouldn't have been tasked with assassinating so may LT clergy and nuns in the 1980s, and they wouldn't still be facing persecution from fascist governments and corporations around the world.

[@numbersix8919]

I don't think it's so important to be an atheist. Liberation theology was developed in Central and South America, and it isn't a problem in any way.

[@riteoffinality]

@@dorianphilotheates3769 As much as I find Marxist thought to be mostly correct, doctrinal Marxists' low-key intellectual belligerence is one of the main reasons why the left fails, time and time again, to achieve any lasting solidarity and proletarian power, ironically. FWIW, you should ease up a bit comrade, and we might have some actual success and progress towards a better world, if not total Council Communism.

[@corinnagast4004]

Masai are thrown of their own lands even killed because corporations want their land. This happening to all the original inhabitants around the World!!!

[@nkenchington6575]

Matt Kennard opened my eyes further. He's done fantastic work.

[@luciavalente1002]

I've read all of Chris Hedges' books. He is an amazing author and speaks truth. When I listen and watch the news, I continue to ask myself why journalists do not highlight WHY events happen. For example, there is a current issue in the US and Europe of mass migration of people trying to get into the countries illegally. It is tragic and it is an issue for the countries receiving this flood of people. Yet, never have I heard any MSM journalist state WHY this is happening. If there was more information shared with the general population about WHY people have to leave their respective country (due to all of the issues being discussed in this video), perhaps it could, possibly, begin the change that is needed......

[@cathjj840]

You've answered your own question: the situation is by design, or at least very useful to the corporate powers among whom are the establishment media outlets.

[@garrettchristensen8074]

"The last human left will be the CEO of WORLD CORP. He'll proud proclaim, ' We did it! !'. & look around & realize to his horror , there's nothing left to consume" - Michael C.Ruppert. R.I.P.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

No, they'll need servants,worry about bio weapons (covid) more than nuclear.

[@dentonfender6492]

I've listened to Matt Kennard on the Jimmy Dore Show in the past, and he is very knowledgable. Good guest!

[@juneelle370]

Real journalists are real life heroes. ❤️ Just like all whistleblowers and people who stand up for truth from whatever position they are in, in any way they can with whatever talent they have that places them at some risk in some way. Thank you both 💜

[@markymouse007]

Yes!!! And to ALL THE REAL ONES out there...Thank and for the love of GOD keep it up. We see you, we recognize you and we love and need you

[@Marius_vanderLubbe]

Surely the only assurance in all of this is that the people have the numbers. There has to be a final straw that these corporates know hangs over them, that if they employ, the masses will rise up and finally rid themselves of this filth.

[@katiekane5247]

THIS!

[@julieru8953]

You know what's so scary!? It's happening literally everywhere...I was planning to move back to Berlin, Germany after 14 years in a Beach City in LA. However, Germany deals with exactly the same issues..maybe less homelessness, but it's rising. This summer I saw tents on a sidewalk for the first time ever- in the middle of the city. Rents are also skyrocking and almost no housing available. School and day care places have a severe shortage of staff. Its so sad to see! This is a plan, no coincidence. They want us to be on the bottom to 100% control us. We need to act NOW!

[@cathjj840]

No schools or day care spots?! that's ironic in a country with such a declining demography that many economists are predicting a severe declassing of Germany from powerhouse to limp wimp.

[@julieru8953]

@@cathjj840 definitely day care spots, but I just heard from a friend that there is no spot for their son in the neighborhood school. They have to walk 25 minutes now instead of a 3 minute walk.

[@CommunistConsensus]

I like the way Matt used the term "public money" rather than "taxpayer money", because there is no federal taxpayer money recirculated back into the private sector, ever.

[@OhAwe]

Sarcasm?

[@katiecannon8186]

@@OhAwe Actually, the U.S. & Uk (and other countries, but not all counties) just “print” money. Taxes just help regulate inflation & inequality by removing excess government spending. During WWII we suppressed bank lending to make more room for non inflationary government spending. As well as using other inflation dampening tools we no longer use.

[@OhAwe]

@@katiecannon8186 What do you think the word "actually" means? What you've said doesn't contradict what I've claimed, at all. "Taxes remove excess government spending"? What?

[@katiecannon8186]

@@OhAwe Let’s say our government decides to spend a 💵 to pay you to build a highway. Now you have a 💵 Now let’s say our government taxes you a 💵 You give that 💵 back to our government Now you don’t have a 💵 In other words, taxes remove government issued 💵 from the economy Right?

[@OhAwe]

@@katiecannon8186 "because there is no federal taxpayer money recirculated back into the private sector, ever." This is the comment I answered. I asked if they were being sarcastic because it's so wrong. I've no clue wtf you're on about.

[@borisnegrarosa9113]

Fantastic insights. This guy should win the Nobel peace prize

[@user-ns6js4hn3e]

I don't think they have a Nobel category for this....hmmm....but if followed thru by public pressure, Peace would work, cuz that's what this would strike.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Kennard modern day hero.

[@cathjj840]

I just have a feeling we might have to pass through a pretty violent revolutionary period to get to the peace part.@@user-ns6js4hn3e

[@viorelteodorescu]

The Golden rule: whoever has the gold makes the rules

[@dansonthetube]

Great that you allowed the extra time to let this conversation expand 👏

[@cheri238]

Thank you, Chris Hedges & Mat Kennard, speaking truth to corporate powers of greed. American history on all sides. Great job, Mr. kennard connected the dots of understanding. Thomas Samuel Kuhn, American historian of science and technology "The Strucure of Scientific of Revolutions" 1966. One of the most influential works of history and philosophy was written in the 20th century. He had a PHD. in physics, and born July 18, 1922, Cincinnati, Ohio - died July 17, 1996. 1. Pre- science 2. Normal Science3. Model Drift. 3. Model Revolution 4. Paradigm change Anomalies (violation of expectation) The model uses itself mostly for paradigm markets economy of democracy, a collection of national goverments and some central coordination like the UN, The World Bank, is no longer solving the worlds top problems. The model was good enough to navigate through the Industrial Revolution, 2 World Wars, the Great Depression, and the Cold War. The model shows no sighs to serve the global sustainability problem because to fill the gap of the silent spring of 1962. This gap is so large and difficult, and this new field to solve is thus not the sustainability problem itself but finding the new paradigm to solve it. EnvironmentalIsm and civilization may not know, but they both are in search of a new paradigm that works. Interesting, I found in discovering him. Three paradigms have to dominate sociological thinking because they are structural functinalism and symbolic interactions. 1. Individual difference 2. Group behavior 3. Organizing behavior 4.Human factors 5. Cognitive Science Five paradigm shifts 1. Educational Equity 2.Fixing Marginalized Families > Eradicating Marginalized Practice 3. Color blindness- self education 4. Learning about other cultures 5. Celebrating diversity - Committing to Equity. Cornel West for president 2024. Free Julian Assange and all political prisoners and whistle blowers bring Snowden home. Who are we? American is in decay with politicians on both sides , media , corporation power and banks. We can and must be better than this. Thank you both again for your knowledge and wisdom.

[@Skybij]

Corne West made ex campaign manager of Witch Clinton his new campaign manager. Jimmy Dore covered it, look it up.

[@TraditionalAnglican]

I don’t think Cornell goes far enough in taking on the Military & Censorship Industrial Complexes, the Surveillance, Security & Bio-Medical Security States, Big Pharma & Regulatory Capture.

[@paulettescott9042]

Love ❤️ your assessment of the World 🌎, it people like you that give me hope in our Humanity. I am 62 years old and really would love for my Grandchildren to inherits a better world 🌎 than we have now. Thanks again. Love conquers All😢 .

[@cheri238]

@@paulettescott9042 🙏❤️🌍🕊🌏🙏🎵🎶📚

[@bluzcompany2293]

At the turn of the century a group on Wall Street laid claim to this country, quote we own it and we intend to keep it .

[@uradragon]

"The government isn't making policies, the corporations are" time and again in America while the politicians get rich from legal insider trading.

[@shahlaahy4372]

Thank god to have a few journalists such as you two!

[@gerhard7323]

Mussolini described fascism as when the interests of corporations and the state could barely be separated by a cigarette paper. We seem today to have dispensed with the cigarette paper even and the real genius is we've all been sleepwalked into this with barely a shot being fired in its name on our streets and without a jackboot hitting the cobbles.

[@Wamsuo58u]

Jack boots are on the cobbles everyday to maintain social control. They're called the police wym. Also many revolutions and revolts have happened with the governments and corporate mercenaries brutally destroying them.

[@cathjj840]

This has been a specific, extremely well-funded and concerted incremental effort over more than 80 yrs (New Deal era) if not more (WWI and before). See James Corbett, among others.

[@brehgankage6242]

Always great to hear from Matt Kennard. This guy has important things to say about how corporations influence politics and decisions on the highest level.

[@annesaunders3851]

Thank you, Chris, for talking to Matt Kennard. He is a great truth teller of our time in UK.

[@nigelholmes5572]

if the citizens of all the countries were truly educated properly.. half of the worlds corporations would have been hanged by now.

[@marilynmesange1610]

I’m reading Silent Coup, everyone should, read this! Fantastic investigative journalism . Bravo and congratulations to Claire and Matt. Their book and thorough research opens our eyes to understand how corporatism has replaced Colonialism, and how the various treaties our government sign us into, bind us under international laws for the benefit of special interests at the expense of the wellbeing of citizens and our environment.

[@tyvanhworkout]

I knew that corporations had taken over, but not to the extent of the agreements with governments all over the world as outlined here! The picture is even clearer now...wow! Great interview, thank you! Also, what I can't understand is, who are the people who work for these private security and private military firms, and why do they do it? Aren't they the least bit concerned, or curious as to how this undermines our democracy and the future of the 99%?

[@simon_does]

Generally they are from another country and therefore often do not care about the individuals they are committing atrocities on.

[@tyvanhworkout]

@@simon_does Thanks for the response!

[@helifynoe9930]

Ah yes, the Big Corruptorations.

[@dansonthetube]

In the UK, even at a local level, #environmentalpermits and #planningpermission for contracts of #nationalsignificance are routinely granted on the grounds that the local authority 'SAY' they may otherwise face costly legal challenges. #Democracy is important but is routinely ignored!

[@Scriptorsilentum]

since when did the british - the British! - give a rat's ass about bigshots?! since when did the british get scared of bigshots in jackboots let alone pinstripes carrying satchels?

[@naomidoner9803]

​@@Scriptorsilentum doesn't the British monarchy worship kind of contradict your comment?

[@cathjj840]

@@Scriptorsilentum Ever since the assinine rats undermined and took over the government, media and all the money, while off shoring it and colluding with the Americans and other assorted supranationals - that's when.

[@mrzooks2383]

This was a real lightbulb moment video for me, it helps show the history and nature of organisations like the WEF, precedent for ESG etc

[@scooble]

Very good book. Special Economic Zones have been implemented which effectively means corporations can create their own mini country within a country, with its own laws, own tax, own police...

[@PetaloudesTouYialou]

Yes, Boris Johnson & his obsession about 'free-ports". They didn't happen, thankfully, and he got booted out. But we know they are shady AF, and serve oligarchy and generally tax evading individuals and corporations. Who is to say they do not traffic arms or even people through these 'zones'. 😞

[@Wamsuo58u]

Company towns to the max

[@Sojournersantini]

Remember boys and girls only you can prevent corporate espionage

[@davesantos2514]

Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the "Climate Crisis."

[@katiekane5247]

Literally every crisis we have was manufactured for the effects they've had. The corporations make money all the way around.

[@IreneMcGuire-zu1vp]

True!

[@dansonthetube]

I am familiar with Matt who appears an unlikely expert but always delivers 👏 Great work as ever #TCHR ❤

[@nathansestack3258]

happy Birthday Chris Hedges, You're appreciated

[@Winston.Smith101]

Thank you; enough is enough of this worldwide corruption

[@OneBlurryLens]

Professor Noam Chomsky has been saying this for decades. Did people just finally realize this now?

[@cathjj840]

Kennard's easier to understand, and besides, we've had decades more of it slowly sinking in.

[@7Samadhi777]

The corporations are the cabal….

[@arendjedonk863]

Thank you very much for your outstanding piece of real journalism.

[@EllinJimmerson]

The assassination of Berta Cáceres also is linked to her environmental activism; Dole Foods played a role in the coup against Zelaya. I so appreciate both you for this interview.

[@cathjj840]

In Colombia, rural organizers, social workers, activists for the people's cause are the most targetted for extra-judicial elimination. Even the smidgeon of power they seek to wield is viewed as dangerous, and the rate of attrition is more than alarming.

[@EllinJimmerson]

@@cathjj840 , yes.

[@pitchforkparty]

One of the best interviews yet, Chris! The more I learn about the world, the more the words, "workers of the world, unite," resonate. Always thought they sounded odd, utopian, delusional. Now I realize, it's that, or we become a third world planet.

[@cathjj840]

Let's hope the re-emergence of unions and their increasing successes in favor of working people is a harbinger for more good things to come. A lot more, in ever more domains.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

The right should also wake up, too, not just the left.

[@simon_does]

There is no "right" or "left", those are just divisive propaganda terms. The truth is everyone is as unique as a fingerprint and should be acknowledged as such.

[@CautionHighWavesAhead-]

@@simon_does That's a very interesting point.

[@whereswendy8544]

Isreal and Nazis seem to show up in all these corporatocracy issues, over and over.

[@rangylillian]

Behind the gubment -> corporations. Behind corporations -> Banks. Bankers rule the world. They control corporations and governments via the flow of credit.

[@michaelscott1060]

This is brilliant it articulates exactly what some of us thought and explains why we are where we are today. My suspicion prior to seeing this was we have evolved into Mussolini’s definition of fascism.

[@Mike-B.]

You guys have transcended greatness here. Great work by the authors. These are the types of intellectual risk-taking that is required in these times. Also see Naomi Klein taking risks -- that's it, we need everyone on full throttle presently. Great to see young writers taking such strides. GREAT WORK! Thanks Chris.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

I used to think Klein was bought, but now I am persuaded that she means well. She doesn't know how detached and contemptuous she has become. I can't understand it, actually. A lot of strong people were brought down by the pandemic, and now we know we cannot count on them when times get truly tough. Chris is nothing like that. He's real.

[@Mike-B.]

Real or not, we need all hands on deck now. More than anything, my point is that these intellectuals can be real and still fall short if they are not willing to take chances -- and take them now. We have to swing for the fences here. Trump is on deck, the economy is going down, and the Unions are at bat. We need all that any and everyone can muster so as to let them become an even bigger disaster.

[@VB-ds4bp]

Parasite class gonna parasite.

[@carlywright5127]

That is concise and what it comes down to. PARASITIC

[@jvs333]

Back in the 90s I read a book titled “When Corporations Rule the World” funny how much of it is unfolding. I don’t recall the authors name but it was an interesting read back then, now even more

[@foro6102]

They made a movie about it called Idiocracy. 😅

[@l.w.paradis2108]

I think this is reversion to the mean. Those with property held the vote for themselves until they found a way to grant it to the rest of us while maintaining full de facto control of the reins of power. This is what they always do. The real vote mirrors a corporate election: not one man, one vote, but x shares, x votes. They don't even have to work particularly hard to hide it anymore.

[@limitisillusion7]

It had already unfolded back then. There have always been smart people. They were calling it out back then. George Carlin was a notable one that used his intelligence for good. There were also smart people who were running those corporations and the government using their intelligence for evil. Reagan was a notable one.

[@vanforeman3829]

David Korten wrote that book.

[@l.w.paradis2108]

@@vanforeman3829 Thanks!!

[@TheRJRabbit23]

The corporations are making policies instead of the governments

[@rjgarnett]

Noam Chomsky has called "free trade agreements" investor rights agreements for many years. These agreements use quasi-legal dispute settling tribunals to enforce investor rights on sovereign nations.

[@jamesmccoy3326]

Corporations are responsible for the taxes .. not the people..

[@rachaeldelvaille3886]

"Corporate Rights Agreements" is exactly right 🤬🤬🤬👹

[@wdfusroy8463]

I wish he would discuss the case of STEVEN DONZIGER, who won a $7 billion award to pay for huge environmental damage in the Ecuadorian Amazon, but who has been prosecuted and persecuted in NY state by lawyers and judges on direct retainer for the guilty corporation, Chevron Oil, and who is still required to wear a ankle- bracelet to this day!!

[@cathjj840]

Actually, it's finally off and he's been out and about, but that doesn't mean he can freely do what he needs and wants to continue doing. His is one of the most egregious cases that illustrates what Kennard is exposing.

[@GladysAlicea]

An extraordinary guest, Chris. You're a great truth teller and humanitarian; thank God we have you. I knew about the horrific acts of United Fruit in Guatemala, El Salvador and corporate power. Still, until I heard the end of this interview, I always hoped that if all of humanity boycotted corporations and protested en masse against inequality and corporate power, TPTB would finally understand. I now realize how naive I was and how short our window of time is. As more private militias are created, we, the people, will have no choice but to surrender all. Many will refuse, thus Revolutionary War 2 is likely.

[@brusselsprout5851]

One of the most honest expose on the current conditions. Thank you for the truth. It’s like salve on my sore brain. Much much much respect!

[@elderbob100]

One day Matt will wake up and say "Wow, was I surprised when I found out all those conspiracy theories were true!'

[@cathjj840]

Didn't that already happen, and that's why he's been inspired to research and publicize it all?

[@harpran346]

So true. Wish Indians would realize how we are still ruled by external powers such as big.corporations, big.pharma.

[@colettemccoy2921]

Finally someone gets it who can explain it in such an eloquent informative digestible mini documentary thx

[@websciencenl7994]

Couldn't we use 'their' strategy to take back the democratic power by starting a corporation as a cooperative where the members are citizens as shareholders with democratic vote?

[@7Samadhi777]

Yes, let’s start immediately….

[@stephaniefrancis6080]

Like, buy a share in the corporation intead of voting? It might just be more effective.

[@Wamsuo58u]

Yes the cooperative movement

[@cathjj840]

And re-unionizing.@@Wamsuo58u

[@mk4922]

Shadow legal system....says it all😢

[@KAZVorpal]

The politicians CREATED corporate law. The problem isn't corporations buying politicians, it's that the politicians own industries via corporations.

[@ianwood8465]

Great to see this interview Chris; Matt is an intrepid reporter and I hope his book does well. He gave an hour-long interview with Novara Media; a left-wing new media outlet in the UK whose small group of independent journalists produce great content. It is Inspiring to see people are catching up with the Voice that has led the way on the issues That being the critical voice, your voice and writing.... That of Mr Chris Hedges. Thank you for all you do Chris !

[@zed6224]

Probably the most important topic of today. Well unpacked. Thanks Chris and Matt.

[@EllinJimmerson]

Kennard is spot on about free trade agreements. What people don't understand, as he well explains, is that FTSs off-shore national sovereignty, making the corporations which have home offices in signatory can overwhelm local environmental and other efforts just with the presumption that such efforts have the potential to undermine corporate profits.

[@charlotteburns7143]

Now a book i must read. Matt Kennard has voiced all that we suspected.

[@howwwwwyyyyy]

Superb reporter,a rarity in these times.

[@user-pk6fh5us1x]

Superb journalism, thank you Matt, keep up the good work.

[@brianwheeldon4643]

Matt that was Great. Thanks so much Chris for this interview. People everywhere need to look at corporate power in their own country. Private security is ready and willing to enforce for a price almost any atrocity in the global south. It's coming here too. The legislation is being put in place in the UK

[@anonmon6236]

unfortunately with how unhealthy people are nowadays, and the ridiculous bureaucracy public healthcare is no longer feasible

[@TheRobynbrown]

It was Mussolini who defined Fascism as "corporations running Government" ! Guess that is an apt description that defines what we've got.

[@pragmaticpoet]

The bit I understand of categorical political concepts is that corporate control IS fascism 😎

[@PresidentPaul2024]

I’m ordering all 3 books, now! Thank you for this excellent and eye-opening interview!

[@katiecannon8186]

Add Stephanie Kelton’s book “The Deficit Myth”. Essential.

[@mikehayne538]

Now age 70, I lived alright in the USA, nothing fancy. Interested in FBI and secret police. What do they do? Are there offices of agents keeping files on us?

[@6TROPIC]

The major problem with the masses is they stop in their reasoning about corruption. Yes the government has been corrupt for decades but who corrupts the government? Corporations do. It’s so frustrating to watch people never take the next steps.