Chris Hedges: The Death of Israel
This is not a war against Hamas. It is a war against the Palestinians. The objective is to kill or remove 2.3 million Palestinians from Gaza.Â
The Trump movement is turning America fascist w/Jeff Sharlet | The Chris Hedges Report
Lauren Boebert make the term "American fascism" easy to ridicule and dismiss, but Sharlet implores us to take these Christian fascists seriously as an existential threat to what is left of our anemic democracy.
Chris Hedges Report: Israel’s Long War on Gaza with Norman Finkelstein
Israel's 17-year blockade of Gaza and its crucial significance to understanding the events of the past two weeks discussed.
Chris Hedges: Palestinians Speak the Language of Violence Israel Taught Them
The collective retribution against innocents is a familiar tactic employed by colonial rulers....Death for death. Atrocity for atrocity. But it is always the occupier who initiates this macabre dance and trades piles of corpses for higher piles of corpses.
Chris Hedges: Text of Hedges talk in Washington, D.C. at the Rage Against The War Machine rally
Those in power must feel our wrath, which means constant acts of non-violence civil disobedience, social and political disruption. Organized power from below is the only power that can save us.
How the war machine took over the Democrats w/ Dennis Kucinich | The Chris Hedges Report
The new Democrats, especially with the presidency of Bill Clinton, became shills not only for corporate America, but the arms industry. The massive military budget, $858 billion in military spending allocated for fiscal year 2023, is an increase of $45 billion over the Biden administration's budget request, and nearly $80 billion more than the amount appropriated by Congress for the current fiscal year.
Chris Hedges: Know Thine Enemy
Why does any legislator believe railroad workers should be forced to use what few vacation days they may have if they fall sick and request permission to be absent days in advance, as if illnesses are scheduled events? Congress members and their staff do not work under these conditions.
This is not a drill: The Music and Politics of Roger Waters
The rock legend and Pink Floyd co-founder shares everything from his musical origins to his opinions on the war in Ukraine, experiences of US government surveillance, and his ongoing ‘This Is Not A Drill’ tour. Roger Waters performs onstage at Crypto.com Arena on September 27, 2022, in Los Angeles, California. Kevin Winter/Getty Images POSTED IN More
The Chris Hedges Report: Julian Assange’s Father on Looming Extradition and Imperative of Mass Resistance
A society that prohibits the capacity to speak in truth extinguishes the capacity to live in justice.
Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History
The point of social hierarchy and aristocracy is to sustain a class system that makes the rest of us feel inferior. Those at the top of the social hierarchy hand out tokens for loyal service, including the Order of the British Empire (OBE). The monarchy is the bedrock of hereditary rule and inherited wealth.
The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the Resurgence of American Militarism, with Andrew Bacevich
"The insistence is upon the United States exercising global primacy of continuing to be number one, a position we've become accustomed to having ever since the end of World War II. I think that conviction remains and is taken seriously, so it's less about a mission to spread democracy [and] it's more about a conviction of history having chosen the United States uniquely to preside over the future of humankind."
Chris Hedges: The Age of Self-Delusion
The war in Ukraine is intimately linked to the real existential crisis we face – the climate crisis. The latest UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report warns that greenhouse gas emissions must peak by 2025, and be nearly halved this decade, to thwart global catastrophe….Triggered by war in Ukraine, soaring energy prices have pushed the US and other countries to call on domestic oil producers to increase fossil fuel extraction and exacerbate the climate crisis. Oil and gas lobbyists are demanding the Biden administration lift prohibitions on offshore drilling and on federal lands.