Democracy doesn’t exist in the United States: Chris Hedges | UpFront
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- Опубликовано: 6 фев 2025
- As Donald Trump returns to the White House, many are raising concerns about the possible decline of liberal democracy.
What then would a second Trump term mean for the next four years for the United States? And what impact will the president's foreign policy have on the Middle East?
This week on UpFront, Marc Lamont Hill discusses these issues with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and former war correspondent Chris Hedges.
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This is probably THE BEST interview I've ever heard Chris Hedges do.
He's allowed to be open without being talked over. Lamont-Hill does an admirable job as a journalist interviewer.
@@HernandogreensOrg I agree. It was an outstanding interview. Chris is passionate and articulate. Marc challenged him several times and Chris became even more articulate and incisive and persuasive. Chris Hedges is one of the most important advocates regarding social justice in the USA today. He educates my moral reasoning and his views guide my understanding of the actions that we need to take as a society. Thank you for this interview. "We need to save our soul." 🙏🏻😥
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Agreed. Marc askes good thought provoking questions that aren't the normal ones interviewers usually do with Chris.
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@@childcaredamm Donald Jr, Eric, Ivanka - yes? What about them?
Audibly said “wow” out loud multiple times. Chris perfectly articulates so many things so many of us have been feeling for years.
I agree with you that said, Doesn't mean Chris is right about everything though.
Al Jazeera is one of the last news stations to actually report on the news, outstanding interview
Globalist propaganda. That’s all it is.
indeed
@@LadieKadie
You mean Israeli, US and UK media!!!
You are right. This interview was outstanding.
Yes. Very interesting coverage as always. This one was great. Just remember the slants every news station has and we will all be better people
Chris Hedges is the most honest journalist / author on American fascism. A brilliant breakdown with zero bs.
Chris Hedges is always worth watching; his deep, well articulated insights are so important. Thank you. It’s downright frightening what is unfolding in the USA.
I can’t face him for much more than 5 of 10 minutes. He’s so crushingly accurate and I can’t quite cope with it.
BOTH literally spoke to the truth of our perpetuated DETRIMENT under this, the literal bread and circus version of having been shocked by the revelation we are already in Rome-
As the Rubicon was crossed by the last generation's commitment to their own version of project 2025, the so called "project for a new American century ", SO imperative to their Cold War mindedness, the literal absence of Democratic function was ushered forth in the y2k election, actively stolen via their megaphone, Fox "news", having not yet become apparent for this antagonist mission of misinformation strategy, when they'd recognized Bush as the winner, ahead of time, while Florida's election workers were deciphering the result.
Then, our 2016 societal pariah, Roger Stone, engaged in the Brooks Brothers riots, astro turfing a faux outcry of Bush supporters that sped up the scotus getting involved, as Brett Kavanaugh and others, argued for Bush & co., therefore, writing what is now history..
Not quite as well k own, the fact that Gore won.
Also, Harris was found to have had over 4million ballots ILLEGALLY PURGED by the injection of wealthy conservative activist types, using the vigilante tactics afforded them by conservative lawmakers in swing states passing the framework to make it possible for them to affect our votes' validity..
In swing states...
Remember how small the margins of fewer people gave Trump the win?
Greg Pallast (sp?) Is the reporter behind this review of course.
Either way..
The dems of course, react belated to the pardoned 1500+ behind that actual attempted coup , on the day that every state's Medicaid portals were shut down...
As though forming a message to oppose last week's news, after what feels like last year, given the amount of money, energy, organization and more, just to cause the degree of chaos abounding..
News cycles can't keep up, by design, and Democrat "leadership" were opposed to even AOC being afforded the position to communicate a meaningful message to the greater amount of eyes, in exchange for preserving their generational representation?
As Republicans actually have the power, because their population of reps includes more younger people to be able to cover the media that's becoming more important than the cable industry and other older modes.
In this effort, we will lose even more bandwidth, FASTER.
As we see the CNN and others ALL preemptively surrender to allowing the most dysfunctional of lies and blatant liars,to join their reporting personnel.
Thereby having broadly NORMALIZED , and degraded our entire nation's ability to think in any way that's good for our mental, social or physical health ..
We are cooled
@@minui8758 haha...I'm just embarrassed that I never knew him...until you know....
💯 AGREE 👍
We in Canada have to stay vigilant too :(
We don't have a "Democratic" party and a Republican party. We have two Republican parties. The corporate Republicans versus the crazy Christo fascist Republicans. One wants to preserve decorum and the Constitution, the other doesn't. Democracy is just a veneer. We've had Oligarchy this whole time. Thank you for opening my eyes to this reality.
Quotes and Notes:
5:22 Chris: “Does democracy exist? I don’t think it exists. It’s a veneer. It’s the end of the Roman Empire. You have the symbols, the iconography, and the language of a democracy. But internally corporations and oligarchs have seized all the levers of power. I looked at this election as a battle corporatists and oligarchs.”
7:28 Chris: “As Aristotle wrote, once you create an oligarchic system with those kinds of inequities then your only two choices are tyranny or revolution.”
9:47 Chris: “All the writers of totalitarianism ground the rise of totalitarian movements: Hannah Arendt, Fritz, all of them, in despair, which is what’s happened to a significant part of the country, then you reach out for magical thinking. That’s what Trump offers.”
11:59 Wokeness vs Class war
***13:15 March: Why has Liberalism failed?
Chris: “I would go back to the Cold War. So what you did is you created the Cold War Liberal. The Cold War Liberal was used to eviscerate the Left. And remember, with the breakdown of capitalism in the 1930s you had powerful, especially Union movements, the old CIO, the Wobblies, the Communist Party, which we’ve written out of our history.
We were just talking about the great W.E.B. Du Bois, and he was persecuted and stripped of his passport, and arguably America’s greatest intellectual, I would say. So the distortion of liberalism, and when Chomsky writes about Liberalism correctly, he says Liberalism is allowed to exist within a capitalist order because it’s a safety valve. It ameliorates the suffering enough to allow capitalism to go forward which is what FDR did. FDR was pressured into the New Deal reforms by the Left. And that’s not conjecture because I’ve read his private letters to his brother where he says, ‘If we don’t push through these kinds of reforms, including providing employment for 12 million Americans, public works, Social Security, 8 hour workday’, all of that was being pushed by sit-down strikes, radical unions. He said, ‘If we don’t carry out these reforms we will get Revolution.’ Those are his words. That was the fear, the spectre of the 1917 Revolution loomed large even in the 1930s over the Western World.”
14:55 creation of the faux Liberals, Clintons are classic example, political engine behind corporate oppression, while also using woke garbage
15:15 Woke Garbage? The corporations love it! Superficial. Identity politics furthering goals of the corporate State.
16:25 Chirs: “Wokeness in the hands of the ruling class has been used as a cudgel to punish and scold the working class.”
16:50 CIA ad, trans, binary can torture people too.
17:15 Identity politics does not deal with the mechanism of oppression which are primarily economic.
22:08 Mega churches bankrolled by the billionaire class. Because with Magic Jesus, you don’t need a labor union.
***33:19 Marc: Does it demand a more radical response than what we’ve traditionally done?
Chris: “Yeah. It demands a more radical response because we have to destroy the system. We have to destroy the ruling class. And the only mechanism we have to destroy the ruling class is by disrupting economic, social, and political life. That comes through mass mobilization, primarily through Labor and especially through the strike. We have to rebuild militant labor movements that shut the country down. That’s the only way out of this. And the oligarchs have understood this for a long time. It’s why they have made war against organized labor for a long time. Only 11% of the US workforce is unionized but we have to regain that militancy.
We have to understand who our enemy is and that if we don’t break the back of that enemy things are going to get worse, and worse, and worse. And we have to understand the only power we have is collective and it will require sacrifice. We had the bloodiest labor wars of any industrialized country. Hundreds of American workers were killed. Thousands, probably tens of thousands were blacklisted. We’ve got to look back. Because the capitalist class, they’re going to use every vicious mechanism they have.
You saw, without that corporate money Bernie Sanders would’ve run against Trump the first time around and I believe he would’ve won. But they destroyed it. They destroyed that possibility.
34:50 Marc: Are you hopeful? Are we on the precipice of a radical moment of resistance? Are we on the verge of toppling power?
Chris: “No. Because the Left has been so decimated. So we don’t have the Left we had in the 1930s.”
But we must fight anyway:
"We have to protect our own dignity. The soul is real and if we don't stand up to these rapacious forces of radical evil our soul will die. And we may not win but we must save our soul."
@@emeraldcity789 The adj. "rapacious" was also used by Walt Mossberg to scold early Google guys.
I never tire of listening to Chris Hedges. Great interview Marc. You are one of the best.
Democracy only exists in Qatar with Al Jazeera 👏 😂
To Aljazeera journalists, Islamic republic of Iran, North Korea, Venezuela as well as Hamas and Hezbollah there is no democracy in the United States. To them, there is democracy and human rights only in Iran, Palestine, Yemen and North Korea.
As a black man I have never been more impressed & elated by hearing a man speak on so many topics.
This gentleman is a brain trust of liberation
followed him for years...he tells it like it is...most well-read person I know...owns 0 TVs...you can tell.
@DeRussellMasina wish more black kids take him as inspiration instead of rappers
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@@captainnemo8072 sure 👍🏾
You being black is irrelevant. You may say, 'as a person...'. Being black had nothing to do with this intellectual conversation.
Oh boy - probably the most important political interview there will be this year - Hedges is brilliant and sums up the world order of things for us plebs to easily understand.
Well said!
💯 AGREE 👍
Absolutely! His books are amazing and were a dire warning for what’s happening right now in the U.S.
one of the most important WITHIN THE PARAMETERS OF PERMISSIBLE DISCOURSE.
If the real truth was spoken, Lamont-Hill, Hedges, and Al-Jazeera would be closed by tomorrow morning.
The very fact that u are here watching this interview proves that u are farrrrr from a pleb junk_rig_sailor
As a Democrat, my first reaction to Mr. Hedges' comments regarding the Democratic Party and their alleged complicity in a second Trump term would be a strong negative. But, by patiently following the interview to the end, my reaction is, "Well, I think Mr. Hedges has nailed this. Mr. Hedges' is correct." Kudos to Mr. Hill for his interview skills and objectivity. This interview should be required viewing. (And, it is interesting that I rely on Al Jazeera these days to find real, unbiased, objective reporting of current events. Thank you!)
I'm having the exact same reaction. But I'll watch the whole interveiw.
If you are a Democrat, you are definitely part of the PROBLEM
Well done! Dem voters' bubbles are bursting all over the place, and it's about time folks wake up to realise they are replicas of each other, just different flavours and costumes.
@@huascar66 I am a democrat too, and I have always admired how right is Chris Hedges about our sad weak party. Bernie Sanders is one of the few true progressives who care about the working class and the American people, the rest of the Democratic Party have become puppets of the corporations :( as Dems, we must demand that our party becomes a real left wing party again!
Wow I have to say: this my first introduction to Chris and I am completely impressed. As a black queer woman began organizing after the murder of Trayvon martin as a college kid, he spoke directly to me.
1. Identity politics will not save us and actually it is a divisive strategy that is keeping us distracted.
2. Radical revolution is needed and labor movements must happen. So when I witness Tabitha brown defend target or other liberal agendas, I am exhausted by our lack of discipline and commitment.
3. As someone who is always optimistic, I fear, as Chris mention, we are headed through dark times bc of our unwillingly to organize and break the back of the oligarchs.
Lastly, the soul is real. I believe in our goodness and divine power. Dr MLK said “the arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice.”
And I believe in my heart of hearts even though these days will be dark, the good will win again even if it is not in my lifetime.
This was the most grounded, clear, no bs position I’ve heard. Thank you Chris and Marc for having this
So true please share this interview on as many platforms as you use, this needs to be heard by the masses not the few and yet organisations is so needed.
YES!!!!
As he implicitly suggested - our generation, we, must make the sacrifice.
Chris walks the walk. He's been going into prisons for years as a volunteer teacher.
thank you. I agree re identity politics keeping us distracted. Yes we need militant labor groups, and must sacrifice - I'm willing. I hope we can organize - I'm 15 months new to knowing anything....there must be a way to organize....we just need to figure it out.
And the soul is so real. Talking with a friend about why I did not vote dem....he did the whole lesser evil stuff - I just said at a certain point your soul wakes up, you can't fake your conscience anymore, its the deepest soul choice to not vote against Trump, I realized almost primal like protecting ones child.
I was only introduced to Chris Hedges a couple of years ago - but without doubt, he's one of the most articulate, intelligent, insightful thinkers and commentators on the current parlous state of our humanity. And his analysis is always deeply grounded in history, politics, lived experience - and compassion.
Free US FROM AIPAC!
AIPAC was created by Isreal to buy out all American politicians and bring the US under the thumb of Isreal. Now Isreal rules the US
Why? After all, it's currently in the interest of the U.S. to support Israel (the largest unsinkable aircraft carrier of the U.S.)
@@DaveJones-100
Because it is foreign organization and one of the most greedy and immoral one!!!!
@@DaveJones-100if you have friends you don’t need force. if people like you, especially in the middle east, they will not leave you. if everyone hates you, one day you will get the hit from which you will not stand up.
Amin. Amin.
Protect this man at all costs!!
They will absolutely want to get him! Like JFK. Like the Jesuits in Nicaragua. Like Jesus himself etc. “You kill the prophets and stone the ones God sends to you” is as true as when it was first said
BOTH of them!
We need him to fix the government make him president
Chris, run for president
If you're avoiding the news due to recent events, this summary of Chris Hedges is all you need to sum up everything right now. As expected from former Harvard Divinity School Graduate, NY Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief, his insight is always precise and humane. Ignore his words at your peril.
The sum of all fears
Incredible interview, and I agree with Hedges on every point down to his description of NYT. As a journalism student in the early 2000s, I backed away from that publication after lots of critical analysis of the content. And today we see people still gobble it up as if wishing things were normal. They are not. Hedges is a lighthouse.
Love, love ,love this man's intellect and honesty.
Marc you are becoming an extraordinary interviewer. Incredibly impeccably cohesively prepared with the most critical investigative thought provoking questions that we viewers are starved hungry to get answers from those who are deeply invested in passionately committed to with years of studied researched read written traveled and investigative work.
'We have to be more radical, we have to destroy the system' Chris Hedges
There is no justice for 6 year ols Girls in peaceful countrys.
The system is sick. Old white grandpas that seem benign are actual monsters and war criminals
@Muhammad-muskim that vigil getting targeted was absolutely disgusting. America is currently falling off the precipice into fascism - nothing bought that home to me like the news a vigil to commemorate a murdered 5 year old girl had been used as an opportunity to check immigration status
We can Replace the system with a Green Party Left Alliance.
Exactly.
That word radical is considered a bad word.
Sanders won't dare be radical.
He is just interested in incremental changes.
Surface modifications, Cosmetic changes. I consider Sanders a fraud.
The problem is the system.
Incremental change is an
Inadequate solution.
Upheaval of historic proportions achieve significant change.
This is my first exposure to Chris Hedges, and I am so grateful for it. It's opened my eyes to an even more significant layer of things I hadn't fully realized before with the corporate democrats.
I've been reading Chris Hedges, listening to occasional interviews for over 20 years. His perspicacity, wisdom, empathy, and holistic knowledge and perspective is unparalleled. In my lifetime, perhaps only John Pilger is in his class as a voice of justice, peace, and compassion. Chris is one of the great humanitarian heroes of the 20th and 21st centuries.
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So true please everyone share this interview on lall the platforms you use. So the words can spread to many as this needs to be heard MSM wouldn’t show this so it’s up to us as he said.
@@ulex-q9p I completely echo your sentiments. I have only discovered Chris Hedges recently and I find him spellbinding to listen to. John Pilger was an absolute legend of a man
Al Jazeera is the last media channel that can still be called free press.
I challenge you to find this question being raised and given a full episode on any American media outlet, from CNN to Fox News.
@@Timberking-cd9rp Exactly.. all of them have picked sides. That’s why I hate listening to them.
I hope that you all will agree that This is probably THE BEST interview I've ever heard Chris Hedges do.
He's allowed to be open without being talked over. Lamont-Hill does an admirable job as a journalist interviewer.
Free Palestine river to sea
He rarely lets Hedges finish.
@@jameslawrie3807 He is the one Chris was talking about lol... the visceral reaction to woke garbage phrase Haha
Calmer heads prevail. Every time I listen to Chris Hedges, I learn something new. Thank you for an outstanding interview.
I'm not really sure "The entire system needs to be destroyed by more extreme measures" is exactly "calmer heads", even if it's a reasonable inference.
Thank you, Marc, for hosting Chris Hedges. Great interview
I'm embarrassed to say I'd not heard of Chris Hedges before this interview. What an incredible, thoughtful analysis of politics & foreign policy. I'm going to read everything he's written. 👏🏻
Respect to Al Jazeera for doing this.
Good on Al Jazeera to bring on Chris Hedges. Probably the most ethical, informative and experienced intellectual we have in the west.
Two of my favorite journalists discussing such a important conversation
Chris Hedges is an absolute genius, and so articulate, I never tired of listening to him, or reading him and it really does warm my heart and give me hope for humanity that people like him exist
Hedges is ON POINT
Greetings from Switzerland…
I’m in my 60s and I’ve been reading an average of two books a month since I was 28 yrs old. However, watching Chris Hedges mentioned this and that book left right and centre as he was answering the questions really blew my mind! I am in awe at his intellect. Respect and admiration to you Sir…👌👍
I feel like I need to step up my game….😩😩🤦🏻♂️🤦🏻♂️
Great interview Marc Lamont-Hill, truly professional, friendly, descent, well prepared, good listener. Greetings from South Africa 🇿🇦
Chris has opened my eyes literally. His intellect is of the highest class
ABSOLUTELY!
If he literally opened your eyes he must have had his fingers right there on your eyelids.
Noam Chomsky, Richard Wolff
Chris Hedges ain’t come to play on today! Period. And I’m here for every last minute.
I will tell you right now! This will never ever be shown in ANY media news outlet here in the United states.
Probably because it’s so stupid it’s laughable
@@Peace216how so peace? Enlighten us 🤓
America government would never let people have an enlightened or considered opinion of their own. Them ones are dangerous to them. Free thinking a big no no for congress.
@@jaysonturner-williams8490this is the exact same trump derangement syndrome we saw in his first term. Nothing they said came true
@@Rabbi84skin
“Enlightened?” This is globalist cult speak. It’s garbage and it’s why Trump does have a following!!!!
One of the best interviews I've listened to. Thank you for bringing Chris Hedges on 😊
There was a large hardcover book that was a classic. It was in every high school and college , library in America. It was called: The Labor Wars by Sydney Lens. He said he dedicated it to his mother, Sophie, " whose life was wasted in a sweatshop".
It was removed , banned, during the Ronald Reagan Administration.
Thank you for the heads-up on this book. I intend to read it, as my beloved Mother worked in a textile sweatshop in the early 70's--in New York City, U.S., NO LESS! It is sad to know that such a book is still relevant in the 21st century with the extreme income inequality in the U.S. today.
@@evelync177sad to say my mother did the same as both mothers mentioned only in Britain from the 50s upwards till she died just before retirement. Share this interview on as many platforms as you use this needs to be heard by the many as only we the people can stop those at the top the elites with financial non spending as money is their Only love. Boycotts must continue. Protest and strikes we can only bring them down with denying them that love money, that they are killing people worldwide to get. While using them as slave Labour.
@@Dorothy47 thanks for sharing the book ✌️
Noting so I can read
Thank you for sharing this book with all of us.and also you're understanding.
Have admired Chris's ability to make the situation digestible for a general audience for a long time... Thank you for giving him the space to tell it like it is. We are not experiencing this current reality in a vacuum but from within thousands of years of history of class and racial conflict... Chris's voice, experience, and knowledge are invaluable
"The rise of oligarchy has left society with two choices: tyranny or revolution, as Aristotle warned. History shows that democracies often drift into oligarchy through wealth concentration and corporate influence. While reform is sometimes possible, it requires strong institutions and bold leadership. The key question is whether meaningful change is still achievable or if only radical action can restore balance."
Excellent !
Meaningful change?
Achievable???
The working class in America does not even have a political party through which it can speak with it's own voice.
What are you talking about???
Bold leadership?
Are you going to get bold leadership from the Democrats????
Man, Chris hits it right on the head about political parties in this country. I’m 70 years old and I can’t believe how bad off the country is. Maybe it’s all we’ve ever been but for sure all we are now is a military police state run by corporations.
Chris Hedges says it like it is
This man communicates so clearly cutting through the muck! And he pulls no punches on ANYBODY. I love him 💗
Probably the greatest interview in recent memory!
So true share this an all platforms you use so the words of Chris Hedges can be heard as MSM will not show it, please people share and we all need to organise and get involved sin stopping the powers that be from bringing us into a fascist regime nay authoritarianism.
Privatized city services are awful, he’s right
Two of my favorite journalists. Marc Lamont Hill. Chris Hedges. This is a treat.
Thank you. 😊
Outstanding interview. Great to see Chris Hedges reaching a wider audience- his incredible clarity of vision should be shared far and wide.
Thank you Chris Hedges!
Very impressed by Lamont Hill's questioning.
"We may not win, but we must save our soul "
(Because it is real
And
Because it will die)
Brilliant Chris Hedges.
Prophetic
I wasn’t familiar with Chris Hedges before this, and I’m so impressed. He’s consistently on point, topic after topic. Thanks for the enlightening interview, Al Jazeera!
Awesome interview. I could listen to Chris Hedges all day long.
"We have to protect our own dignity. Our soul is real."
That is the most articulate and accurate analysis of US politics past and present I think I’ve ever heard. Par excellence Mr Hedges.
Chris is a national treasure.
Important words : WE MAY NOT WIN, BUT WE HAVE TO SAVE OUR SOUL !!!!
“We may not win, but we must save our soul.” - Christopher Hedges
Thank you Chris it is privileged to listen to you.
Well done Marc the best interview
Chris Hedges is a treasure to this world
Chris was definitely on a roll! Great piece.
Much more powerful than when he reads his sermons! Sadly, he won't get many opportunities like this. Thank you, Marc and AlJazeera!
Wow I almost turned this off. It’s so important to hear. More power to you 🩵💙🇺🇸👊🏼
Both of you are moral and intellectual giants. I’m very grateful for this conversation.
Great, great interview. Marc is one of the best question-asker of all time! And Chris Hedges is in top form, as always!! Hats off to both!
Great interview Marc, and thank you and Al Jazeera for honest and good journalism!
Marc is smart af, great interview
UK Postal Service since privatisation has been stealing our mail despite charging us a small fortune to send parcels or letters which never arrive!
@@rahabhassan6541 my grandson worked for the post office and was required to work 10 to 12 hours a day seven days a week. What happened to the 40 hour work week? I think this is all because of Amazon
Marc is a Great Journalist, This is Sharp, Focused, On Point & Direct with his interview. Chris Hedges Author, American Fascists' explains everything so clearly, lifting the fog from what is taking place right now in the us. If these 2 Guys where running the country, The Sun Would be Shinning here again. Both of these Gentlemen are Shinning Lights from their posts in an Awesome Direction!!! GREAT JOB BOTH OF YOU, THANK YOU FOR WORK MARC & CLARITY CHRIS HEDGES, CONTINUE AWESOMELY FOREVER!!!
if enough people don't show up for the system it will collapse.
Yes yes yes yes yes yes !
Best interview yet...great job Lamont!
I love that he says 'destroy the system'. So few activists say this or even think it is necessary. The idea that I should vote within a system I want to destroy is abhorent to me.
Chris Hedges' realism is razor sharp.
Thank you, AJ
Mr Hedges is a class act and honestly one that needs to be platformed more often. Not only is he an intellectual of the highest magnitude, but he has also mastered the way of communicating to a broader audience, not mincing his words and speaking honestly and with INTEGRITY.
Thank you Marc Lamont Hill for your questions. IMO they open Hedges' strong arguments wider than the narrower economic focus of say, Chomsky.
The best explanation I have ever heard
Two legends!!
"We may not win, but we must save our soul." (Hedges) Astounding.
The best political interview I've seen in a long time
Incredible interview! Wow. I agree with everything Hedges said, and I really appreciate the interviewer for giving voice to my inner thoughts. Thank YOU!
Excellent interview with Chris Hedges. Mr. Hedges echoes President Jimmy Carter who was asked about whether a Democracy still existed in the U.S. and replied, "It (the U.S.) is an oligarchy with unlimited political bribery." I agree wholeheartedly with Chris Hedges that we the people--the poor & middle working-class--must save our souls.
Wise words from Jimmy Carter. But why does Chris say that all the issues are rooted in Carter?
@ Chris Hedges didn't say all the issues are rooted in President Jimmy Carter, just the ones Lamont-Hill wrongly credited to Reagan. History supports the many visionary ideas by Carter that elevated America to a prominent geopolitical place. You would be wise to research Jimmy Carter & see for yourself.
Chris Hedges always on point. Great interview !
Chris Hedges reminds me of John Pilger, his analysis is always illuminating Truthful journalism is sadly the exception not the rule in these times, Chris Hedges is exceptional.
Wow! This interview is the most important thing I watched this year so far!
This man is a Real True speaker, Impressive. 🙏
2 of my favorite intellectuals. Love you guys. They tried to silence you but you both stayed strong.
Marc a great journalist. We need journalist like him.
Man I love Chris Hedges
No matter what nation you have, the people, if they so desire, can change the nature and direction of their society. That's the core principle that we need to stick to Chris.
Chris Hedges speaks absolute truth to power. These are the worst of times and not the best of times.
Hedges on fine form here
You can tell how much Cris respects Mark Lamont by how articulate and incisive his points were made
This is one of the best interviews I've watched. Thanks Chris for your courage and passion!
You must watch, thank you for this interview
Thank you Chris Hedges for such an informative discussion.
Chris Hedges is a top journalist, well informed, has comprehensive knowledge and presentation
Rarely see Chris so enthusiastic. Awesome 🤟
Thank you both! ❤
Two people i could listen to for hours.
Love it! Chris & Mark is killing it. We need both of you more than ever.