The Chris Hedges Report: Why did Democrats give this pro-Trump GOP primary candidate $425,000?

John Gibbs, a former Trump administration official, has received over $425,000 from the Democratic Party. Historian Paul Street joins 'The Chris Hedges Report' to discuss what is taking place on our bizarre political landscape as we head towards the midterm elections.

Paul Street has taught at numerous Chicago-area universities and is the author of 'This Happened Here: Neoliberals, Amerikaners, and the Trumping of America' (New York: Routledge, 2021). He also writes regularly for 'Counterpunch.'
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[@InTheBleakMidwinter]

" There is only one party in the United States, the property party and it has two wings, republican and democrat" Gore Vidal

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Gore Vidal is an PHENOMENAL History Writer and Teacher!

[@mousiebrown1747]

Reclaim the power of the VOTE! Vote AGAINST ALL INCUMBENTS !!! We must find some sign that scares Congress/Senate to force them to represent the voters’ interests. Make the effort to VOTE TO REPLACE INCUMBENTS. They do nothing for us anyway.

[@johnwattdotca]

"Politics is the entertainment division of the military-industrial complex". Frank Zappa

[@pattyanderson1199]

Indeed.

[@lynnwood7205]

Sometimes he would say, "the property party and it has two right wings,"..

[@antimattv]

I would have gladly sat through another 30 minutes of this interview. An excellent guest. Thank you Chris Hedges, thank you Real News Network.

[@kuriadams9138]

Yes, these need to be longer.

[@parkpeterk]

..,.,

[@timwarneka5681]

Agreed!

[@BuddhaGBahia]

totally agree. also, never heard of Paul Street until this interview & was immediately struck by his perspective.

[@michaels.5778]

A breath of fresh air.

[@rhonda6791]

Thank you for this discussion Chris.

[@henrykujawa4427]

"...which candidate they wanna go out and have a beer with." It horrifies me that my best friend once recently said he had that feeling about GEORGE W. BUSH. My God, that man (and every other living President) should be in prison for WAR CRIMES for the rest of his life.

[@robertrichard6107]

Why would I want to go have a beer with a drunken fudge packing cocaine addict?

[@zumaanandrade3961]

They would more than likely stick you for the bill.

[@rebeccajohnson8579]

AMEN, AMEN & AMEN! I understand Bush's GRANDFATHER BACKED & FINANCED HITLER!

[@byronevans1]

​@zumaanandrade3961 they call it democracy?

[@mamiegraziano9737]

I am so grateful for Chris having this connection with Real News. Chris's programs are the best big picture of what is happening in the world. Thank you to all involved and for all the sacrifices you've made to keep your moral bearings.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Thank you for an EXCELLENT interview Prof Hedges...or is it Dr. Hedges!

[@matthewkopp2391]

Reverend Hedges

[@davidstewart8124]

@@matthewkopp2391 Harvard Divinity School. Calvinist. A National Treasure.

[@kuriadams9138]

The movie Idiocracy is quickly becoming a reality. This interview needed to be longer.

[@eltorocal]

Watergate Timeline: June '72: Watergate break-in July '73: Public hearings March '74: Indictments Jan. '75: Convictions All The President's Men (1976) @2:12:00 "Know the results of the latest gallup poll? Half the country never even heard of the word "Watergate"... nobody gives a shit." "Nothing's riding on this except the First Amendment of the Constitution... Freedom Of The Press, and maybe the future of the country..."

[@TexasSapphires]

Judge is more right-wing than you think. Not off the rails, by any means, but still. Trust me. I've sat down and talked with him at length.

[@jamesdante2730]

You could not be any more in tune to reality with this statement. You are spot on.

[@ShaedeReshka]

@@TexasSapphires Indeed. Idiocracy was actually quite reactionary and shouldn't be taken very seriously.

[@TexasSapphires]

@@ShaedeReshka Mike's a cool guy. He's very smart. Has a physics degree. I think he'll agree that his best work is comedy and absurdism, not social or political commentary. I don't know him well but he is the best friend of a good friend and I've hung out with him on several occasions. He's pretty soft-spoken and mild mannered.

[@YouCanNotVoteOutFascism]

Stop donating to democratic and republican candidates and give that to where it'll make a difference...#MutualAid. Stop voting for the lesser of two fascists! #DumpTheDuopoly #DemExit #RepExit #VoteIndependent #VoteThirdParty #BallotInitiatives #GeneralStrike #Solidarity "It's a big club and you ain't in it!" - George Carlin

[@pullmanstandard81203]

It won't make a difference because of the corporate lobby. Corporate donors run the two "parties". It's game over. Only uprisings and mass protests in all cities will be a changing force, not money.

[@rcpilot179]

So either don't vote, or vote for the bigger facist? I hope not. 🙏 everytime I vote, I see it as canceling their vote. Balance. Peace ✌

[@elbertmoreno2159]

Protest voting! -Texas Greens

[@quakefan8810]

👍

[@charlespetite3347]

They gave it because they are all in it together," come on man!!!

[@rebeccajohnson8579]

The Dems have been all in since Bill Clinton, because he was the one who approved NAFTA, 1996 TELECOMMUNICATION BILL, CRIME BILL, just to name the top three Bills that devastated the American workers and our cost of living, and way of life! It's also when the Dems crawled in bed with Wall St!

[@laserbrain7774]

Don't forget 10% for the big guy.

[@eamonanthony6767]

The reason there's RINO's is they get stinking rich twice as quick, why are there no DINO's Charlie?

[@zumaanandrade3961]

Both parties is controled by the same people.

[@rebeccajohnson8579]

@@zumaanandrade3961 U R 1000% CORRECT! These are WHITE RACISTS RUNNING & CONTROLLING AMERICAS RACIST GOVERNMENT & the very reason they do what they do, by INVADING "PEOPLE OF COLOR" COUNTRIES! SO FED UP WITH THESE RACIST WHITE F'S, I CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT IT BECAUSE I AM A PERSON OF COLOR!

[@billyhowell1677]

One of the few voices we have left to gives facts. Thank you.

[@Rubylove48]

Love hearing from Paul street.

[@tonymena]

An excellent piece between two of the best journalists around. But, what you don’t hear enough of, is how the U.S. government is sending 10’s of billions of $ in weapons to the Ukraine a corrupt government when we here in the U.S. are facing runaway inflation, high gas and food prices not to mention health care and education issues. And what we the public as individuals can do about it.

[@gs8099]

That's a very important point but the funding is being done bipartisan. Voices for peace, more like self censorship, are banned.

[@Mary95191]

Maybe because the US Govt is also very corrupt. Those in high positions have been corrupt for years and nobody has ever heard of them, until recently, we’ve heard of a few. I don’t know who runs our govt and Biden, but obviously the corrupt do and he fits right in there. Maybe they’re the globalists and not only high US officials, but those from various countries, including China. The reason they hate Trump so much is because he put a wrench in their plans. They wanted to have it completed by the end of Hillary’s 8 years as president. That’s why Biden is doubling down (well not exactly him), he apparently has to have it completed by 2024.

[@Mary95191]

That’s the plan…to continue deceiving us until it’s too late to do anything about it.

[@debbiedogs1]

What we can do is GET INFORMED so the sociopathic money ADDICTS in power cannot keep duping us!! It is CRUCIAL for us to know the EMBEZZLING SCAM the US has done in all countries it takes over. The overview/exposé below - just 6 paragraphs - shows us what is behind the curtain of lies they dupe us with. Information is power, and knowing what the scammers hide from us will mean we can do good OFFENSE, be effective in fighting the corrupt liars, not just keep reacting as the sociopaths keep doing their tyranny and taking everything from us. Here is what the US criminals have done all over the world, since WW2: 1. Take over a country by coup, assassination, lies about government being corrupt or by threat or invasion so they can... 2. Implement their EMBEZZLING scam of "privatization", taking over government services & systems and national assets so the corrupt liars can handle fiat government money & BILL THE GOVERNMENT ANY AMOUNT for running such things; they provide themselves with massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, becoming oligarchs and billionaires. 3. Lie to the public ENDLESSLY to keep us duped. 4. Praise leaders who submit to US corruption & demonize leaders who RESIST or reverse it - like Putin, who reversed the US plundering done under US puppet Yeltsin, like Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, like Gaddafi wanting things nationalized and government money going to THE PEOPLE, like Morales in Bolivia, like Assad who said NO to a US pipeline through Syria, and so on. The demonization of both Russia and China is part of the multipronged US sabotage of the BRICS coalition since 2006. The greedy sociopathic money ADDICTS hate that those two countries are doing fair deals with other countries and helping them escape US control, corruption, privatization and loansharking. Also, vax co's & digital ID systems to control & subjugate us are "privatized" (as are quarantine camps). The scheme was to get TRILLIONS from many govts FOREVER while arranging to squash us so we could never rise up to stop their corruption, tyranny and inhumanity. They tried many pandemics previously to enrich themselves with government money, this was the most coordinated one - and used the most coercion. More specifics re "privatization" embezzling: Yes, in general a government can issue ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY for anything that is physically possible; the corrupt know this and have used that knowledge to scam the public and embezzle government money. They take over government services, conning the public about "saving money" and being "more efficient", but those are lies. The costs actually become higher because the corrupt liars overbill the govt for everything, billing ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and insanely high profits. And they give us REDUCED services, because their sociopathic greed and money addiction means they take more for themselves and do not supply what they are supposed to supply for us. Basically, the US has built a global corruption cartel, taking over countries (and their media) to EMBEZZLE from their governments. The UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were coopted and corrupted in the 70s; the massive embezzling that ensued by taking over the many dozens of government services, support systems, assets and resources they had is what gave rise to the billionaire class in the 80s! We need a successful INTERVENTION on the lunatic money addicts in power who lie, destroy and KILL for more "money fixes". They are totally UNFIT TO GOVERN and should face charges of dereliction of duty, violating the Constitution, embezzling federal money, crimes against humanity, war crimes and more.

[@thaoandtony]

what's most alarming is the intense sentiment of anti-intellectualism that's taken over. People are just so confident, smug, and even chuckling in their embrace of ignorance. The intellectuals left out here - we need more intelligent conversation, more, we need nourishment and this interview was too short.

[@basfinnis]

Same as the Conservative and Labour Party in the UK. They're in it together. Quite disgusting.

[@robertnicholls9917]

Starmer is fake opposition and it's scary to watch the UK fall for the same games we endure here. The good cop bad cop, pimp game works; it's infuriating to watch.

[@ivorykhan159]

Used to be a big champion of Paul's voice and work, until he blocked me on Facebook because I disagreed with him in 2020 that he insist I vote for Biden. I thought that was weird, the block. Weirder than his stance on voting for Joe Biden. Anyway, he's a real sensitive guy.

[@warrenfry1325]

It's amazing to me how many left intellectuals, who are otherwise great critical thinkers, cannot make the connection that it is lesser-evil voting strategies that have brought us to the brink of fascism. Strategic voting is the only left option at this point.

[@cococbdmh]

To expand on the ADD/Attention span bit at the end which John very briefly touched on: Broadly speaking It's not about attention span but rather patience. If people had time to feel relaxed they would read more, because they would know in their body that it feels good or would lead to feeling good with the added benefit of learning something which they can share with their other literate friends. But that's dead now because of jobs and smart phones. The monopolization of industry has created less free time but we think it's our fault because we pick up the smart-phone, but fuck that.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Maybe you should start reading more. You might learn what a "Run-on Sentence" is!

[@kuriadams9138]

@@ellenjeanabare9419 Maybe you should start reading more. You might learn what constitutes a dangling preposition. It's fun being a strict grammarian!

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

@@kuriadams9138 I think you might be referring to a "dangling participle."

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

@@kuriadams9138 I'm not the enemy. For someone who supposedly watches and reads Parenti, maybe it'd be more productive to support each other INSTEAD of trolling.

[@debbiedogs1]

@@ellenjeanabare9419 - then why did you use grammar Nazism regarding the OP, who made VERY valid points? That becomes a distraction and deflection from very good issues raised.

[@wavelength7503]

Great interview,and discussion. Lots of facts in Paul's statements.

[@robertrichard6107]

He's right about parents leaning on higher education issues. I saw it happening at several Occupy Camps, and the students were the ones holding the Occupy Camps together.

[@weblightstudio8215]

The moment someone calls a rifle a weapon of mass destruction they lose their ability to convince me they can see a balanced fact

[@jasonlacroix6083]

They aren't hunting rifles. And they're not fully automatic. But, they are capable of doing some destruction. This really is a stupid argument to avoid allowing some in depth discussion to be legitimate.

[@fs127]

@@jasonlacroix6083 Work on that literacy rate discussed and especially the economic/quality of life issues and I think you'll find the damage that inanimate object does almost disappears.

[@fastfreddy7890]

It’s not about a weapon of mass destruction is similar to the president Bush jr claimed about Iraq Weapons of mass destruction that was nothing but big lies that they told the War and destroyed Iraq even now they don’t have clean water,not enough electricity,basically everything we did say the last 40 years,destruction of Syria,Libya,Yaman,Sudan,Lebanon,Palestine,now Europe,Ukraine and now Our country United States of America and eventually taking us to war with Russia,China,Iran to destroy the world of humanity on earth,it’s like Devil is at work remotely from another planet.People need to read their past history and other countries history,all the super powers in the past .All the politicians from all over the world 99% have sold their soul to the Devil. Please pray 🙏 for our country and the world.have you ever asked yourself why our country is always right and other countries wrong.If you find the answer pleas let me know because I am lost. I love my friends,my neighbors and my nation in America,we are good people and don’t deserve this.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

@@fs127 the economic issues have been going the wrong way for 40 years. I don't know what to do about the literacy problem. The whole gun issue is ridiculous in my opinion. The guns haven't stopped any tyranny so far and I don't foresee any change in that. In my 60 years, a vaccine and widely supported gun legislation is the only thing that agitates the 2 A crowd. They like militarized cops killing people. They like military tyranny in every country we invade. They don't mind CIA assassinations. It seems that they support tyranny in every way.

[@fs127]

@@jasonlacroix6083 Most of that falls back to the strange religious worshiping of authority figures that ended up getting baked into most of our society over the past hundred years. That coupled with the slow creep of policies and actions gave cover for that tyranny to flourish, afterall would you want to organize a posse and threaten harm to a council because they said you can't sleep on a park bench? It's an insidious crawl that guns aren't a great tool to stop. We needed civic engagement to stop it, but that was already waning before a couple world wars took out a large portion of the civic minded population. The unquantifiable benefit our armed society did have was that of defense against invasion (which our geological isolation played a greater role) and not allowing that creep towards tyranny become a full sprint. If you took those people from a hundred+ years ago and tried to enact all the restrictions, laws, and policies we now have you'd see that mobilization to the streets that the gun nuts are always talking about. At this stage I'm just as clueless as you are on how we can realistically right the ship, but disarming while leaving those militarized cops in place doesn't seem like a good idea.

[@MsZorro113]

I’m not an educator just an ordinary retiree but around 2004 my cousin told me that America was being dumbed down. She said it was thru the educational system. I don’t have any stats on this but if you listen to younger ppl the have a different enunciation for many words. So many groups are hypocrites. They don’t have actions that coincide with what they say are their beliefs!

[@kp6215]

Chris many would watch any class you place on any website 👍

[@lukeolson5177]

Holy shit! 54% of people read below a sixth grade level!?

[@rgzhaffie]

What a shocking coincidence that any history, liberal arts, and humanities studies, which tend to be precisely the areas where one might be most likely to learn something that challenges the prerogatives of capital, are also the areas least likely to justify themselves as immediately contributing to your income prospects from employers.

[@drakekoefoed1642]

economics is ok but only the apologetics of capitalism type. you may never mention marx or even tell them that adam smith was against unearned income.

[@troywalkertheprogressivean8433]

🎶accentuate the positive, eliminate the negative 🎶

[@hubreydavid7864]

Easy to corrupt any human with money, because money is a false god.

[@roofdogblues7400]

Money is real and can be traded for goods and services, gods are make believe like the dreams people have about the fake mansions they'll get and how they'll be happy during the false concept of eternity with their friends and family and their imaginary god.

[@christopherderrah3294]

Give money and campaign for candidates that you know and support. Never give money to the Democratic Party. The money will ALWAYS go to the worst actors.

[@mousiebrown1747]

Vote so you will be noticed by VOTE AGAINST INCUMBENTS. Teach them to fear the vote of the public. If possible, elect a truly progressive representative, not a D or an R as they only have loyalty to their party. KICK THE INCUMBENTS OUT! This is a multi election, many year strategy.

[@BadAssElf810]

Even then the money can go to other Dem candidates. AOC recently gave a big chunk of the cash that people donated to her to other corporate Dems after being pressured by the Dem leadership. I think the figure was $150k.

[@christopherderrah3294]

@@BadAssElf810 well, her voting record is not quite as good as her rhetoric.

[@williams.1980]

At least we can look at all of the progress and democratic improvements we have realized with the electoral success of the Democrats right? Sarcastic. It's hard to motivate myself to get galvanized about resisting electoral momentum of the Magas and the Repubs when the opening of the talk starts with a disclaimer that we are fully captured by a oligarchy authoritarianism. I dare say that progress has absolutely nothing to do with championing this completely disingenuous electoral charade we have in this fully captured and customizable system. Again, we are shown off the top why, if we actually believe that championing the Dems is somehow the answer, that bankrolling the capture of elections for far right candidates is our best strategy. Paul quickly gave an exposition about the capture and authoritarianism and its worsening conditions before he got into a discussion about this satanic perversion of an electoral process we have. IMO, any progress that will become possible will come from more extrapolation and exploration and analysis and investigation into the process of capture, wealth transfer, dispossession, exploitation, through the capture and control of all of the relevant peripheral elements. What do I mean by peripheral elements? I essentially mean you and me and our neighbor and my cousins neighbor. If you can control "history", education, entertainment, medicine, the "science" of money and economics, the "science" of democracy, the "science" of information and entertainment and taxation and war and security etc. etc. etc. You control anything without having to put your hands on it. In short, by essentially dictating and controlling all of the things that influence and inform and inspire the people. You make possible the capturing of govt', financial system, regulation, social welfare, public health, democracy, the employment and weaponization of "science", education as well as higher academics, popular movements. That reminds me. Remember how easy it is to make all media become Islama-phobic? Russia-phobic? China-phobic? Remember how easy it is to get all media to be anti-communist? What if the media was actually put to use for the sake of public health? Do you think we would have an opioid epidemic like we do? I could go on and on and on. So, rallying for elections is like the fire engine arriving to see a building that has burned to the ground.

[@Damacles9]

Hear, hear!! Truth.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Well said!!! Follow the Money if you can. I recently watched a Documentary about The Male Psychopathy beginning with Armon Hammer in The Hammer Family. Their Sexual Sadism has GOT to go back further then Armon! I'm pretty sure the youngest Hammer, Armie Hammer (the Actor), has actually killed. If by some chance he hasn't killed yet, just wait a little bit. He will!

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Btw Armon Hammer was a Psychopathic Oil Barron who was RESPONSIBLE for MANY deaths after one of his Off-Shore Drilling Rigs Blew Up! Sound Familiar???

[@wavelength7503]

Nicely articulated and written.but my good man, it is what is being pointed out, a thousand times over. Except all is much more under control by corporations . As it all points to, corporation power/ control. I believe The Canadian Philosopher/ writer Marshall McLuhan long before many including Noam Chomsky were understanding the power of media. McLuhan spoke on the power of the internet, and they influence) power it would have over society long before most of us new what it even ment. Let's be honest that the majority of intellectuals, scholars are subsidies by major corporations through their foundations. What has been left out of this conversation, and most. It is the influence of all art, and artists, and their voices, be it literally or through their work. Today this voice has been muzzled by so many in so many ways, and made to seem insignificant, and mundane. So I will add, and leave you with some artistic value that says, and displays visual, voice through art form on the issue.. Available On KZbin: "Democracy" by Leonard Cohen Jackson Browne - "Lives In the Balance " Tom Paxton - When Princess Meet (1973) The Future , Leonard Cohen Tapestry - Don McLean ( with lyrics) This is a very powerful video with lyrics, but sorry to say don McLean has become an affiliate with NRA. How unusual of a transform

[@williams.1980]

@@wavelength7503 Thank you.

[@mkl01_99]

Great discussion, thank you. I noticed recently that nearly all popular movies and TeeVee dramas feature borderline personalities and gross selfishness. Sitcoms are not that funny.

[@dannyweilthereisnorussiaga6594]

No, sitcoms are tragedies, an not the Sophocles kind. Popular culture is a reflection of the seedy, little cut-rate carny we call America. Listen to music from the last century, the thirties for example when there were no computers. Tragically people have not been given an education in thinking critically and thus look to answer questions and not question answers. We are familiar with the Master-Slave dialectic: The two roles ineluctably get switched. "Whoever has colonized should not be surprised to find himself colonized in turn. Whoever destroys the identity of another does not strengthen his own but makes it more vulnerable, more threatened still, in a world which has lost a little more of its diversity.” “The money power preys on the nation in times of peace, and conspires against it in times of adversity. It is more despotic than monarchy, more insolent than autocracy, more selfish than bureaucracy. It denounces, as public enemies, all who question its methods or throw light upon its crimes.” ---- Abraham Lincoln

[@cargotrailerkenny]

Thanks as always Chris, anything you decide to touch is quality information from a very intelligent perspective. The stat on the reading ability of more than half of Americans is startling. I knew it was bad just by talking to people but I had no idea the dumbing down has been so successful.

[@mamiegraziano9737]

The stats on ever reading a book after high school or college graduation are just as sad.

[@robertnicholls9917]

I came across this channel by happenstance. I love your production and content, very sincere and serious.

[@steventakach8128]

How can the audio portion of your talks with your guests be improved? Thank you

[@JR-ly6bx]

can you give an example of trumps 'Authoritative' Presidency? Or 'Far-Right-Wing' policies? people love to throw those words around but never give specifics.

[@domingodeanda6113]

Muchas gracias.

[@JSB1882]

That is the kind of conversation that is needed. It reminded me of when I used to watch Bill Moyers.

[@victorialeif9266]

When children are gunned down in Pre- School, and nothing is done about it, then, yes, people are right to feel fear about public assembly, or lately, being in public places at all!

[@mamiegraziano9737]

I push through the fear, because I know I need community, music, dance, discussion and so much more to maintain my health. I'm more likely to get injured in traffic or just trip and fall, anyway. That's life.

[@BillsMafiaExperience]

They want the fear and probably manufacture a lot of it. It will be much easier to forcibly inject or enslave or slaughter an unarmed populous. The moronic idea that the overwhelming majority of people who own firearms are far right-winger is nonsense. They might be the loudest owners. Not necessarily the most or best armed as a whole. Also, most right-wing leaning people are not insane psychopaths. And I am a leftist saying that. The establishment wants to divide us and keep us from going after the real bad guys, the authoritarian fascist oligarchy.

[@cheri238]

Thank you again, Chris Hedges for having the historian Paul Street on. I am listening on May 18, 2023 with all that happened between the date this came on and now. Unfortunately, times are squarely aligning up with corruption of greedy powers of corporations and crooked poltiticans.

[@rivolinho]

Chris went from On Contact, a format which was ridiculously time constrained to another 30 minute slot which is far too limited to really get into the detail on these complex topics. Chris, get an hour slot!

[@vincentquintero6464]

excellent discussion tanks real news and chris hedges

[@simbad909]

It's good to hear from ppl still allowed to give their opinion expressing their observations.. but we're closer to seeing that revoked than encouraged due to what comes from the top.. solution is either unite against or join it.. good luck

[@kiskakuznetsova503]

I watched this in May 23, I was surprised to see that this was from last Sep. So prescient.

[@eddasturrup4912]

THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS INFORMATION...... GOOD QUESTIONS...... VERY WELL SAID...... ABORTION IS NOT GOING TO WIN FOR THE DEMOCRATS..... SHOULD FOCUS ON COST OF LIVING AND HELPING OUT THE FAMILY.... ISSUES CONCERNING WOMEN AND CHILDREN..... FOCUSING ON AND TAKING CARE OF THE NEEDS OF "HOMELESS FAMILIES.... " ECONOMIC RESOURCES FOR SINGLE MOTHERS (PARENTS )TO RETURN TO SCHOOL...... TO FINISH UP THEIR EDUCATION...... SO THAT THEY GET JOBS MAKING LIVING WAGE....... CUT DOWN ON THE COST OF HOUSING......... THANK YOU FOR SHARING THIS VERY RICH DISCUSSION............ WE NEED JUST ONE MORE BOOK ON THINKING SKILLS...... I HAVE ALWAYS HAD CONTROL OF MY REPRODUCTIVE ....... NESS......!!!!!!!!!!! I DONT NEED THE SUPREME COURT TO TELL ME HOW TO TAKE CARE OF MY BODY......WITH SELF-RESPECT..... ( A FEMALE SHOULD ALWAYS HAVE AN OBGYN, FAMILY DOCTOR AND PLEASE TAKE YOUR MOM'S AND GRANDMOTHER'S ADVICE ABOUT HOW TO LIVE IN 'THIS OLD WORLD.... " STAY CLOSE TO YOUR FAMILY...(MALE AND FEMALE)....!!!!!!!!!!!!! "LET * US RAISE OUR CHILDREN THE WAY THAT THEY SHOULD GO.............................................. " THANK YOU AGAIN CHRIS .... IN CHRIST AND THE LOVE OF GOD.... 😇🕊️🕊️🕊️😇

[@The_Brew_Dog]

Typing in all caps is ridiculous.

[@geoffdein2894]

What an interesting conversation. How confused it seems when unable to see just who is pulling the strings, including your own

[@debbiedogs1]

We can clear things up when we see what the lying sociopathic money ADDICTS have been doing. If you want to end the wars, help improve things in this country (and others, by removing US aggression and corruption), we need to know what the corrupt establishment HIDES. It is CRUCIAL for us to know the EMBEZZLING SCAM the US has done here in all countries it takes over. Read the overview/exposé below - just 6 paragraphs - to see what is behind the curtain of lies they dupe us with. Information is power, and knowing what the scammers hide from us will mean we can do good OFFENSE, be effective in fighting the corrupt liars, not just keep reacting as the sociopaths keep doing their tyranny and taking everything from us. Here is what the US criminals have done all over the world, since WW2: 1. Take over a country by coup, assassination, lies about government being corrupt or by threat or invasion so they can... 2. Implement their EMBEZZLING scam of "privatization", taking over government services & systems and national assets so the corrupt liars can handle fiat government money & BILL THE GOVERNMENT ANY AMOUNT for running such things; they provide themselves with massive exec salaries and insanely high profits, becoming oligarchs and billionaires. 3. Lie to the public ENDLESSLY to keep us duped. 4. Praise leaders who submit to US corruption & demonize leaders who RESIST or reverse it - like Putin, who reversed the US plundering done under US puppet Yeltsin, like Chavez and Maduro in Venezuela, like Gaddafi wanting things nationalized and government money going to THE PEOPLE, like Morales in Bolivia, like Assad who said NO to a US pipeline through Syria, and so on. The demonization of both Russia and China is part of the multipronged US sabotage of the BRICS coalition since 2006. The greedy sociopathic money ADDICTS hate that those two countries are doing fair deals with other countries and helping them escape US control, corruption, privatization and loansharking. Also, vax co's & digital ID systems to control & subjugate us are "privatized" (as are quarantine camps). The scheme was to get TRILLIONS from many govts FOREVER while arranging to squash us so we could never rise up to stop their corruption, tyranny and inhumanity. They tried many pandemics previously to enrich themselves with government money, this was the most coordinated one - and used the most coercion. More specifics re "privatization" embezzling: Yes, in general a government can issue ANY AMOUNT OF MONEY for anything that is physically possible; the corrupt know this and have used that knowledge to scam the public and embezzle government money. They take over government services, conning the public about "saving money" and being "more efficient", but those are lies. The costs actually become higher because the corrupt liars overbill the govt for everything, billing ANY AMOUNT, providing massive exec salaries and insanely high profits. And they give us REDUCED services, because their sociopathic greed and money addiction means they take more for themselves and do not supply what they are supposed to supply for us. Basically, the US has built a global corruption cartel, taking over countries (and their media) to EMBEZZLE from their governments. The UK, Australia, Canada and New Zealand were coopted and corrupted in the 70s; the massive embezzling that ensued by taking over the many dozens of government services, support systems, assets and resources they had is what gave rise to the billionaire class in the 80s! We need a successful INTERVENTION on the lunatic money addicts in power who lie, destroy and KILL for more "money fixes". They are totally UNFIT TO GOVERN and should face charges of dereliction of duty, violating the Constitution, embezzling federal money, crimes against humanity, war crimes and more.

[@mariaborbon8421]

Noam Chomsky lives in Tucson, Arizona. We are blessed to listen to him live.

[@moestietabarnak]

because they can do bad things and still claim the other arty is worse...

[@LauraKamienski]

Woman = Adult Human Female. Protect women and girls! Protect lesbians! Protect our spaces!

[@laserbrain7774]

They need more prisons.

[@lynnwood7205]

Geez, Kurt Vonnegut, Philip K. Dick, Sinclair Lewis, Gore Vidal, now seem like optimists.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

It seems as though they were REALLY Psychics who, very accurately predicted & WARNED us of the future upon us NOW with others like Gibson & Orwell & even The Brothers who wrote the script for The Matrix. Matrix 3 should have been left out unless you happen to enjoy a fallen Jesus Anti-Hero Journey.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Could even throw Mark Twain in there.

[@theresabarzee1463]

Fabulous. Where to get the books and articles!? W/o amazon, please.

[@jgalt308]

How about a public library?

[@fruitingfungi]

​@@jgalt308 😂😂😂😂😂. Best answer ever.

[@TheZenGarden_]

Because both wings have been controlled by the same predatory bird since the 28th president.

[@karenreaves3650]

DC is foreign land owned by the Queen and the Vatican Jesuits Rothschild Bank, Since 1871. President Trump has restored our Original Constitutional Federal Republic 1776. Promises made Promises kept. Our Republic cannot operate out of DC. Time you learn what that means.

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@karenreaves3650 Maybe you're not aware yet but the former chosen bone spurred one is no longer president, and the current president dissolved your "1776 Commission". So actually you're motto should be promises made promises broken. Which also means you probably should take you're own advise, because its obviously time for you to learn what that means.

[@davidstewart8124]

I can't listen to Paul Street without thinking he's going to quickly segue into trying to sell me a used car.

[@joemurray8902]

This is the second broadcast I have watched from TRNN and mind is blown again!

[@nedda102]

Good Reporting 🥰

[@elisabethwall7755]

Thank you for a very interesting and important discussion. We see the same patterns in Sweden. We also have great difficulties in finding qualified personnel for many various professions, e g. teachers and health care workers.

[@rgzhaffie]

Has anybody tried to disaggregate non-native English speakers from the adult literacy data?

[@titaniumman1201]

Because that is who they want to run against?

[@karenangelisashaw7347]

Interesting point of view. What system has lifted more people out of poverty than capitalism?

[@BillsMafiaExperience]

Capitalism creates poverty. It's steals the wages from the working class whose exploited labor supports the opulently wealthy and their gluttonously luxurious lives.

[@dainty_af]

Had to pause to say that in reference to entertainment media & manufacturing consent- I think the rise & oversaturation of superhero movies & shows have been very effective for the elite. Not only are these programs commercials for the MIC, they reinforce the good/bad binary & the ideas that not only does it take extraordinary powers, wealth, tools, etc to affect real change, but that someone else is going to show up, do it & save us. It's complete bullshit & socially engineered helplessness.

[@kp6215]

I am socialist female but at 71 this “woke” is insane

[@MuantanamoMobile]

“woke” means different things to different people both bad and good, I believe this is deliberate since both corporate parties have nothing substantive to offer voters. For instance to some rightwing extremists or neo-liberals advocating for very basic human rights already spelled out in the constitution is seen as being "woke".e.g... These include the right to life, the right to a fair trial, freedom from torture and other cruel and inhuman treatment, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, and the rights to health, education and an adequate standard of living.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

As a mid 50's male, I'm right there with you. It's ridiculous. I vote third party because I see them as the only way out of this duopoly of corporate owned governance.

[@moety2]

The obsession with “woke” is absurd. The things they talk about does not effect peoples lives or changes their standard of living. I have 2 republican coworkers that talk about wokness all the time. I’ll be honest, I joke with them about it from time to time because the topics are just silly. The topics are not serious. What it seems to do at best is just makes them uncomfortable. They use it like word communism. It shuts down any reasonable conversation because the word has a negative connotation. I wish they focused and gave the same energy to topics that actually effects their lives as much they whine about woke.

[@ianpotter2942]

@@jasonlacroix6083 can we suggest that capitalism bred fascism? as capital presents itself as finacial autocracy i.e. one cant discuss pay differences among employees, or other nondisclosure agreements required for employ even at fast food restaurants. seems all of it is an entrainment of mind and spirit to surrender to authority.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

@@moety2 well said. It's a revolving door of woke, CRT(which they dont know what it means), LGBTQ, raxism and guns. Don't ever forget about the guns.

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

Chris Lynn Hedges has covered a couple Wars but BEFOREHAND learned to speak Bedoin Language, Spanish, & More. He has WON many AWARDS for his JOURNALISM! He's taught University Classes INSIDE of Prisons. He has MASTERED English Language then moved forward to Master MORE Languages! He has KEPT his Moral Integrity as a REAL JOURNALIST when there aren't MANY left.

[@Damacles9]

Long live Hedges!

[@jgalt308]

A real journalist reports the facts...that ability has no connection to knowing what they mean... and Hedges has never demonstrated he has a clue what the words mean.

[@coding7196]

In parts of North America the younger public are semi-literate. In a place where avarice is praised, it does not pay to teach and the best teaching is out in the sticks, in rural, farming areas. In rural, farming areas the teachers can afford the types of housing which only billionaires can afford in a big city. Also, social watchers say that young people are used to finger foods so much that they cannot easily handle a knife & fork!

[@ernstthalmann4306]

Spectacular analysis

[@pullmanstandard81203]

Unfortunately the literacy crisis here is with all walks of life and not a right or left issue. Not everything falls under the left/right paradigm which both of the speakers seem to rely on to make their ideas valid. Exclaiming on how shocked they are by the Boogeyman does not offer solutions nor have any real thought out ideas to be discussed here. This seems to be a progressive/left version of a FOX morning sofa talk program.

[@rezakarampour6286]

Search . ' The Elites Who Govern Us Regardless of Who Wins Election . '

[@pullmanstandard81203]

@@rezakarampour6286 Ok, will do. Thanks for your time.

[@katherinejones850]

Unconscionable! F that shite!

[@mousiebrown1747]

Please VOTE AGAINST INCUMBENTS! Teach them to fear the voters’ power! REMOVE INCUMBENTS IN NOVEMBER! Let them know the VOTER is in charge!

[@dzonutube]

you then should vote 3rd party...the story is proof we have a one party system ruled by a handful oligarchs- voting an incumbent out and replacing them with anther corporatist as AOC has shown.

[@LauraKamienski]

I would love to read this book. Waiting to find a used copy. Pricy!

[@mikestander2413]

I watch every episode just for the theme song! The content is always good, too, though.

[@robertjantz3728]

I wonder why Real News took down my One Big Club quote by Carlin 🤔

[@TheZenGarden_]

Because the Truth has always been the enemy of the "big club".

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

@@TheZenGarden_ All grammatical Marks go inside the quotation marks. Example: ? goes inside of " Example: . goes inside of "

[@ellenjeanabare9419]

@@TheZenGarden_ Example: ! goes inside of "

[@TheZenGarden_]

@@ellenjeanabare9419 🍎

[@Acharmedlife]

Bizarre is right

[@jasjay873]

lol. one of the few people you will see Mr. Hedges basically "speechless" the ideals and values shared are clearly in symmetry. Dr. Chomsky being a huge a contribution as well. Mr. Hedges guest as such similar oration ability there isn't much left to say....when you agree with him anyway. Excellent interview.

[@nixoni.bogaine155]

This says it all. If you can’t figure it out, I can’t help you. Nobody can.

[@ExtraordinaryLiving]

Good interview, yet I wish the audio quality could be better ... it sounds very choppy when Paul Street speaks, and this makes it quite difficult to listen. Is this a production problem?

[@claudesledge5545]

The Real News Network...every now and then there's a stellar analyst who's presentations are definitely captivating , if not worthy of study, and Chris Hedges is one. Now,were I will disagree with his guest's statement, "Capitalism is Authoritarianism" is due to the generalized view of Capitalism -sans the difference between Laissez-faire Capitalists versus Crony-Capitalists. It is my understanding that the latter is Authoritarianism,in scope.

[@magstar19]

I had trouble understanding this guest, audio was choppy.

[@jgalt308]

It was mostly rhetorical B.S. so no loss.

[@rcquakes30]

Because they care about democracy.

[@DatHoodCook]

Ok, what about Biden!?

[@JO-bw5wx]

Election is not who you like. But is about who you need that can do the job correctly up there.

[@dannyweilthereisnorussiaga6594]

Agreed. Questions of preference require no evidence. If I ask if you want vanilla or chocolate ice cream you do not have to give evidence for your conclusions. Questions of fact: is two plus two four or five, are monological and have one answer. Is it a fact this podcast exists or not? Questions of fact require exchanges of points of view and an examination if there is a factual dispute. but the real questions we face in life, like the horror we face now are not questions of preference or questions of fact; they are questions of reasoned judgment. Reasoned judgment is multi-logical (many points of view) requires attitudes and cognitive disciplines like learning to enter into other points of view to assess their logic, questioning ones' own pov and that of others and a host of cognitive skills. but more than anything questions of reasoned judgment require evidence for their claims. And this is where we find the problem. Most if not many people not only have no evidence for many of their claims and beliefs they have not been taught the necessity of evidentiary thinking and thus treat questions of reasoned judgment as questions of preference. And there are consequences. Fascism is one.

[@lucymacgillicuddy9488]

Perhaps they need to be more responsible for themselves

[@missmayte281]

Oh my. This is my first time watching you. What a piece of work you are.

[@jasonlacroix6083]

Towards the end of the discussion, they mention the short attention spans exhibited by students. I can see that by the number of views that Chris's channel gets. It's always right around 30k. Compared to the hundreds of thousands of views that Ben Shapiro, Jordan Peterson or other conservative Tik Toks get. I prefer the more informative long form method myself. But, it's obvious that most don't.

[@debbiedogs1]

Real News Network does not know how to fix the audio?? It is terrible!!

[@peteygonemadarts4765]

Ironically Americans in general as a whole have never had a reading level above that of an 8th grader . Sophisticated papers like the NY Times is written at an 8th grade level but most papers ( or online outlets ) are written at a 5th or 6th grade level . Another problem is when I went to school I was educated but today it's more about left or right propaganda.

[@jonathang1604]

Stupidest thing I've ever read.

[@michaelroberts7770]

Which public schools are teaching right propaganda, I'll bring my children there... And for your sophisticated NY Times, when was the last time they printed anything true and unbiased? Just look at all the lies coming out of Ukraine, easily verifiable lies told with no shame at all... Like the Russians shelling Nuclear Plants they themselves occupy...

[@peteygonemadarts4765]

@@michaelroberts7770 they were not completely biased when I was in school . As far as Right-wing propaganda sure it's not as heavy as left wing propaganda but it exists . For example children are still taught in school we're a free market . This is why youth today buy into the idea that the free market has failed . We're not even a top 20 free market nation . Last time I checked we were number 24 . It's possible because of some of the pro small business measures Trump signed in we're now 19 or 18 but that will reverse in next year or 2 . People equate Nazis as fascist which isn't completely correct . Fascism is more like Mussolini where as Hitler was a racist hugenisist ( like the founder of planned parenthood ironically 🤔 people don't like connecting those dots ) . Fascism is actually on the economic level a hybrid socialist government controlled market that allows free market consumerism controll the profit . Here in America we actually have a quazi Fascist market that borders a free market system with socialist and communist tools in place to manipulate the market via regulations weaponized to profit corporate America while stifling free market competition. I'm not anti regulations per se but our regulatory system is a weaponized system much like our Johnson welfare and police system ( Johnson is actually the God Father of our modern constitution crushing police and prison system ... not Nixon like people are taught or think )

[@peteygonemadarts4765]

I'm a lifelong Democrat who went to school when education was the objective . Therefore I know as a liberal I am not a progressive . I actually have more in common with conservatives as a Liberal but we differ on issues as well . Ironically progressives and conservatives put government power above constitutional powers afforded the people . For example most conservatives will tell you STOP AND FRISK is constitutional. It's not . It's actually part of why the 4th amendment exists because part of how the British seized guns from the colonist was STOP AND FRISK . At same time progressives use welfare , regulation and taxes to keep the poor and minority groups locked in inner cities . This is why stories of ESCAPING WELFARE are such a big deal . Another example is gay marriage. We have a separation of church and state as well as religious freedoms that government can't violate . But the states decided they wanted marriage licensed . Because of this the states can not deny CIVIL MARRIAGES conducted by the state because ALL MEN HAVE EQUAL RIGHTS AND ALSO USE OF GOVERNMENT. So no matter an individuals personal view they have to as an agent of the government treat all citizens equally ... BUT churches can not be forced to perform gay marriages because they have absolute control , via the constitution, over their doctrine . Furthermore businesses owners who are not receiving subsidies ( paid by the tax payers ) or contracted by the state can legally practice and evoke religious freedoms and protections . For example Jack's neighborhood bakery DOES NOT HAVE TO MAKE A CAKE FOR A GAY MARRIAGE BUT BECAUSE WALMART IS SUBSIDISED BY THE CITIZENS THEY DO HAVE TO MAKE THE CAKE . That is how our constitution works . It's a work of genius in its simplicity that is easily applied today by those that first and foremost except everyone is equal and everyone has individual rights that apply based on simple rules of how they are or are not in any capacity engaged in activities sponsored by the state that is WE THE PEOPLE . 🤔

[@cardinal8268]

Agreed. Was this partly due to the "plain language" theory? I write things for work and am always asked to dumb it down and use "plain language" because people didn't understand a few words. One actually called asserting "there is no such word." I replied "before you embarrass yourself telling me that isn't a word you might want to look it up before making the call. The writing stands. "

[@ralphbernhard1757]

There is only one elite class. They fight their faux "battles" as a giant show for the TV crowd, yet after hours most of this "elite class" meet up and it's all smiles and backpats...

[@bige7323]

Boy was he wrong.

[@rd264]

this is about the treadmill that people in the US are confined to their whole lives and the rejection of solutions like Medicare for All

[@beckyelliott2871]

DO NOT UNDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES CASH THIS CHECK, OR USE IT IN ANY WAY UNTIL THE REASON AND THE GIVER CAN BE VALIDATED AS LEGITIMATE, IT IS WITHIN

[@mattdale81861]

This guy is hilarious

[@andreschang8526]

Hasn't Counterpunch discontinued?

[@celestepalm6949]

Look into a mirror long enough, and the term "magical thinking" won't be so funny anymore... Liberals of faith recognize secular liberals need to be less disparaging on religion, or they will lose what's left of their Baptist, Catholic, & Jewish base.

[@rezakarampour6286]

Search . ' The Elites Who Govern Us Regardless of Who Wins Election .'

[@celestepalm6949]

@@rezakarampour6286 Yes, I know that's true. I'm speaking to the secular liberals that don't.

[@doktormcnasty]

Why is closed captioning disabled on this clip?

[@VegLuv]

Why would one assume that an engineering degree would lead to a loss of critical thinking?

[@OguzDemirelli]

Personality politics not policy politics. Nothing will change till we change it. Join DSA

[@pauladams1829]

WTF America

[@robertrichard6107]

Gibbs moved to Bryon Center? Can't he afford Grand Rapids Public School Taxes?

[@kathleankeesler1639]

Interesting

[@grantbablitz9835]

I can tell you a story Technicals in Somalia. Jowhar 1998, Sheik Ali Dhere showed up uninvited with three technicals that day. To a very bizarre conference I assisted in organizing for Green Beret Wayne Long. As MSF logistics I was asked by Major Long to uninvite the Sheik so I did. That night three looters lost their right hands and left feet and those trophies were hung in front of the Islamic Court for all of the invited guests to see as we drove to the conference hall.

[@jonathankammer9078]

100%

[@kaudsiz]

When Chris Hedges is man-spreading you know it’s getting real

[@stutzbearcat5624]

What the hell is wrong with the audio? And Chris please - get up on that mic a little more. Or crank the trim knob a notch. Thank you.

[@Hasan_Piker_Fan]

Time to crank up the ol' wood chipper.

[@mctwain5319]

Out of curiosity and reason ; please if you can , make a video about the great projects completed in Afghanistan. During US occupation and where the Trillions of US dollars went ? Then show the great projects that the US accomplished in her homeland such as unaffordable housing for the rich or luxury multistory apartments , or walls of commuter traffic to and from rural cities to apartheid gentrified former orchard villages to now urban business and levitt communities .Such as Southern California or Bay area California . All these brilliant “Capitalist” free market projects and achievements have to be fairly showcased as well!!! 👏🏻

[@mousiebrown1747]

Show your POWER with your VOTE! KICK OUT ALL INCUMBENTS IN NOVEMBER!

[@fastfreddy7890]

Vote for which one Democrat or Republicans,they are the same just different name,that’s it.look Biden give Ukraine $60 trillion dollars that I think is much more than that but say it is,why don’t we have tge millinery industrial complex and others like wall street and cooperation’s to pay that money since the war is for them not us only the hi gas prices ,mortgage rates ,hi prices on housing ,Etc is for us.Wake up America 🇺🇸.

[@wavelength7503]

What has been left out of this conversation, and most. It is the influence of all art, artists, and their voices, be it literally or through their work. Today this voice has been muzzled by so many in so many ways, and made to seem insignificant, and mundane. So I will add, and leave you with some artistic value that says, and displays visual, voice through art form. On KZbin "Democracy" by Leonard Cohen Jackson Browne - "Lives In the Balance " Tom Paxton - When Princess Meet (1973) The Future , Leonard Cohen Tapestry - Don McLean ( with lyrics) This is a very powerful video with lyrics, but sorry to say don McLean has become an affiliate with NRA. How unusual of a transformation.

[@Wib0]

Can it get me some money so I can buy some more food for my nieces and nephew..? Your art sucks.

[@realdemocracy11]

Very interesting. John needs a better microphone. Too much reverb mud.