The Chris Hedges Report: Ukraine and the crisis of media censorship

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  • Опубликовано: 27 янв 2025

Комментарии • 6 тыс.

  • @andrewemery4272
    @andrewemery4272 2 года назад +753

    I'm British. I've worked in many countries, and never fail to be amazed by the false information the BBC puts out, until now I have no trust in the British Broadcasting Corporation.

    • @daphnethurlow5388
      @daphnethurlow5388 Год назад +72

      You are not alone ..they are flat out liars..

    • @terminallychill8029
      @terminallychill8029 Год назад +41

      As an american I used to watch the BBC because I thought they were at least a little more truthful than American new networks. Maybe I was wrong. In any case, I don't know what's real anymore.

    • @andrewwelsh131
      @andrewwelsh131 Год назад

      But everyone knows that it's MI5/6 great way to send spy's all over the world especially in places of trouble not All but I'm sure many in the BBC. Citizen funded no advertisements required, we fund it through the BBC tax and they send agents to your door if you do not have an update license.
      Great idea I'm sure RT, Al Jazeera etc have government operatives working as photographers and journalists if anyone thinks I'm wrong I'd be very interested in why.?

    • @karenkelly8086
      @karenkelly8086 Год назад +10

      Interesting use of English for a Brit!?!?

    • @MeMe-ei7uv
      @MeMe-ei7uv Год назад +9

      Tell me ,when were they false?

  • @malcolmnicoll1165
    @malcolmnicoll1165 2 года назад +372

    "When the truth is replaced by silence, the silence is a lie."
    -Yevgeny Yevtushenko

    • @antonpasternak2042
      @antonpasternak2042 Год назад +8

      Correct my Friend

    • @VishalGupta-fl1wb
      @VishalGupta-fl1wb Год назад +8

      When the silence is replaced by lies, the lies are truth. - everyone told who are told they are lied to

    • @frankschweizerfrankschweiz7133
      @frankschweizerfrankschweiz7133 Год назад

      Yes when the truth is is replaced by science,lies broadcasted millions time on TVs ,Radios,and speeches,And gulable populati9n think it is the truth,In absence of real fact &truth of News,And to an extents,people believe when just just leis and fabricated news comes on News,Hitler did the same thing,to tell his German,they were right,and beople Germany believed this lies till bitter end,and at the end facing defeat and devestation,and since then they (Germans feel guilty and 3ducated in school,never to stand the former enemies,who defeated them,to disgrace,in resul4 of believing Nazi prapaganda,just as what is going on now,against Russia,who suffered under German,then and now again by Dragged Germans,under Nato,What German are taking side with Smerica,are only German politics,But wide population Is against war,snd sendinding weapons,to currupt nob Christian president of currupt ukrains,who known well to manuplate politicians /Christian population in all over Eroupe,as Christian populatio dieing in Ukraine being manuplated by non Christian Currupt Clown Stage conartist,to miss use and abuse all Eropean politicians and warmonger politician,who brainwash thier population,by prapagada ,brainwashing similar to Nazi disinformation.To sacrifice people in divided /civil warned Ukraine,It is battle between,local manplated Ukraines and local ethnic 45% population,who want to live in non nato neutral country,to enjoy benefits as neutral progressive country having good relation with all.with being against Russia or against west,

    • @geoffreytoomey682
      @geoffreytoomey682 Год назад

      Did you see that Ukraine's corrupt Bureaucrats have begun the WEFs transformation from individual Countries to the GREAT RESET of the Global WEF Government? Digital Passports will track your every choice, be a good global citizen, and you will earn free tickets to their latest Propaganda Movie; misbehave in any way, your digital savings will be fined, and your food allocation of Cricket past tablets will be reduced. Pure evil is already in existence in 32 of the UN Member countries!!!!!! When will the Australian POLITICIAN TRAITORS force this slavery onto you and your family? You don't believe the UNs POLITICIAN TRAITORS can remove you from your property into one of their smart digital cities, right? Under the UN agenda 2030 that your government TRAITORS in Labor and LNP agreed to 8 years ago without asking your permission to do so, if the government TRAITORS declare that the ground under your house is contaminated, you will be moved to your new living area in their Smart Digital city with all the other slaves? It’s all there on the WEF website,

    • @starrysafari
      @starrysafari Год назад +1

      ​@Vishal Gupta Why does our mainstream media call our fighters/killers "volunteers" or "aid workers"? if you watched Grayzone, Redacted, Scott Ritter, Grayzone, Patrick Lancaster, Eva Bartlett, Richard Nedhurst, etc., you'd clearly see the evidence of why USA and UK have been training Ukrainian thugs since end of 2013, why East Ukraine population have been bombed for so many years because they are mostly Russian people. Tattoo parlours in Ukraine advertising swastika removals for travellers abroad. Real footages years old where they strip and tie up Russian population on posts, belt them some to death, stamping on heads, just for being Russian. How deepstate Weapons Manufacturers create wars around the globe so then governments can steal tax payers money to send "aid". Which in turn a lot of it goes back to elites incl corrupt leaders such as Boris Johnson and Biden. Our mainstream also gets paid by deepstate

  • @andreyche193
    @andreyche193 2 года назад +1452

    Censorship is a sign of weakness. And extreme censorship and suppression of any real news on Ukraine war that we observe now is a sign of an extreme weakness.

    • @midnightsecretsurfer
      @midnightsecretsurfer 2 года назад +31

      Yes ur math is correct

    • @gene7314
      @gene7314 2 года назад

      Russia will save Ukraine from the horsecrap. Brothers help brothers no one gets left behind. They need to purge the evilness from their sister country hence the slow, methodical, and very careful movement of the Russian army. It is the same people people after all. 🙏
      Ukronazis you can keep your little piece of cesspool that you sold yourselves out to. The rest will be liberated. Zelensky lol... no words for this shill.

    • @ruenrhekwon4554
      @ruenrhekwon4554 2 года назад +26

      @@midnightsecretsurfer Cant see any flaws in his calculations.

    • @NeoFreshair
      @NeoFreshair 2 года назад

      It's not a sign of weakness! Was Covid and vaccines censorship a weakness?
      There's an agenda to keep Ukraine conflict going for years so arm manufacturers can sell hundreds billions of weapons to Ukraine, European countries, middle east and Taiwan!
      Also Ukraine conflict is a perfect recipe to push for climate change agendas and they're telling western societies to go electric and ditch petrol/diesel vehicles, or use public transport and so on!

    • @bilgyno1
      @bilgyno1 2 года назад +40

      Do you mean the censorship of being thrown in jail for calling the 'special military operation' a war?

  • @prschuster
    @prschuster Год назад +134

    I remember, as a child in the 1950s, hearing that there was no freedom of speech in Soviet Russia. Fast forward to the 21st century, and the age of innocence is gone.

    • @dusteedawg2915
      @dusteedawg2915 Год назад

      I member as a child hearing people in Africa and like Iran and China basically lived in tiny huts. BUUUUUULLLLLLLSHIIIIIIIIIT

    • @stevebeer3324
      @stevebeer3324 Год назад +11

      I remember, as a child , hearing that my dads parents had been released from Siberia in the 1950s , when Stalin died. My dad was imprisoned in the Lubyanka prison in 1940, after Stalin had done a deal with Hitler to carve up Poland and western Ukraine between them(1939) and 20 thousand Poles had been murdered by Russian troops in the Katyn forest. My dad was 18 years old at the time and had been studying at a Ukrainian orthodox seminary. (this was how you got a further education as a Ukrainian peasant farmer, but my dad was thinking about becoming apriest before the Russians invaded his country). He was arrested as a political prisoner for being unable to grass up his neighbours for non existent transgressions.. This apparently made him an enemy of the Soviets. He was 18. He had committed no crime except for being a Kulak. ((Ukrainian peasant) His younger brother was shot , in the late 1940s for distributing pro democratic literature.. By this time my dad had settled in England , after fighting with the Polish forces, against the Nazis in North Africa and Italy (Monte Casino). He was not to hear from his parents for another 10 years. Stalin murdered millions of Ukrainians < indeed he murdered millions from other subject nations, afte4r which time he settled many Russians in the areas of Ukraine denuded of its native population- There are great historical parallels with the American treatment of Native American populations. This happened to the grandparents of Ukrainians now fighting against a russia which,on its own, internal Russian tv admits its genocidal intent in Ukraine.

    • @orange1666
      @orange1666 Год назад +2

      @@stevebeer3324replace soviets with Russians !

    • @Thoradine
      @Thoradine Год назад

      @@stevebeer3324 all you say is bullshit

    • @marybardmess7953
      @marybardmess7953 Год назад

      Thank you for sharing your family story.@@stevebeer3324

  • @darinsingleton3553
    @darinsingleton3553 2 года назад +2807

    As always: "Looking for news in the corporate-media is like looking for love in a brothel.
    Not saying it can't happen. Just that it comes at a price."

    • @cattreeoflife980
      @cattreeoflife980 2 года назад +75

      🎯

    • @bobbyh4957
      @bobbyh4957 2 года назад +140

      Wow! What a metaphor!! First time hearing this!! 😂

    • @ricklee4515
      @ricklee4515 2 года назад +44

      "Love in a brothel" is a result of too much TV such as a movie with Julia Roberts and Richard Gere. Or perhaps a man inundated with feminism his whole life. Nonetheless an interesting concept.

    • @therealrobertbirchall
      @therealrobertbirchall 2 года назад +6

      @@ricklee4515 Piaf Edith

    • @gordonpkm7560
      @gordonpkm7560 2 года назад +14

      @@bobbyh4957 ,your new ..
      The saying is alot older than you then ..

  • @davekirk4618
    @davekirk4618 2 года назад +662

    It's a breath of fresh air to hear real journalists and war reporter's, most of my friends don't even know the war on Dombas has been going on since 2014.

    • @davekirk4618
      @davekirk4618 2 года назад +55

      @@DiegoLinde read my text again, i didn't mention Russia, i said the war on Dunbas meaning the unelected government of ukraine, the azov battalion of nazi's was killing people in Dunbas, i didn't know i had to explain who was doing it because it's fact if you look it up.

    • @davekirk4618
      @davekirk4618 2 года назад +21

      @@DiegoLinde yes we are on the same wavelength, most people only read the false headline, thank you Diego.

    • @SteveG-l7d
      @SteveG-l7d 2 года назад

      I agree with you. It's their job to shine a light on the truth and report the facts without bias. Otherwise they are just an activists or just a puppet spreading propaganda! Nearly all mainstream media is owned by the same two companies. This is where the problem lies. Take notes on how they announce a breaking story from each media outlet. Most aren't reporters, they're teleprompter readers!

    • @davekirk4618
      @davekirk4618 2 года назад +1

      @@SteveG-l7d exactly steve but its also our job to read between the lines and look up facts, ive lost friends who are so brainwashed by the corrupt bbc and other mainstream media.

    • @talisikid1618
      @talisikid1618 2 года назад +2

      Or before.

  • @elizabethh7823
    @elizabethh7823 2 года назад +290

    We have been lied too for decades and those in media have played a huge role!
    Treasonous acts have serious consequences...

    • @davidsalcido383
      @davidsalcido383 2 года назад +1

      “Anti-Semitism (((Explodes))) across the planet 🌎 and CRIMINALS like BiBi Satanyahu wonder why?! 🔯🕎🔯🦍☢️🎉🎉☯️☢️🕉️☪️✝️☢️♐️🛐

    • @Orto-jj2di
      @Orto-jj2di 2 года назад

      Palpatine- it's treason then

    • @anaruizguti
      @anaruizguti 2 года назад +6

      No they don’t. That’s why they keep doing it and cashing in at the expense of real journalism

    • @elizabethh7823
      @elizabethh7823 Год назад +2

      @@IRNoahBody yeah, but you have to do a bit of searching for the truth and decide for yourself.
      It's good to have different opinions on matters important to you, but when certain people and topics are censored , that's when you have to ask yourself why .
      Example ... 2016 election there were claims that Pres Trump colluded w Russia by Dems n Hillary n alot of public heard the accusations and decided for themselves if they believed it.
      But it was much different in 2020 elec
      When the opposition was censored.
      There's alot of examples and the Senate hearings are underway by the rep Congress that are telling us who was involved

    • @ifv2089
      @ifv2089 Год назад +4

      Since 9/11

  • @wildgoose5964
    @wildgoose5964 Год назад +94

    When British politicians can call for Putin to be declared a war criminal without any sense of irony you know you're in a dark place.

    • @okbutthenagain.9402
      @okbutthenagain.9402 Год назад +1

      Name one UK politian who has acted or commited actions that are considered a war crime or are considered to be a war criminal. And don't use Blaire as he got a UN resolution get out of jail card for his antics.

    • @Aluminisence
      @Aluminisence Год назад

      @@okbutthenagain.9402 UK country of saints lawl

    • @AnnoNymus
      @AnnoNymus Год назад +2

      ​@@okbutthenagain.9402lmao you said it

    • @berylanjous6932
      @berylanjous6932 Год назад

      Yes, if Putin is a war criminal, the rest would have to form a nice orderly queue behind him!

    • @berylanjous6932
      @berylanjous6932 Год назад

      @@okbutthenagain.9402 Blair is a blot on the face of humanity. Evil personified!

  • @seekerfloyd7346
    @seekerfloyd7346 2 года назад +254

    Business as usual, boots on the ground, no weapon, true American Hero. Chris Hedges is one of the few GREAT men. May God bless and watch over you and yours.

    • @Toro_Da_Corsa
      @Toro_Da_Corsa 2 года назад +2

      So the real news is back ?

    • @seekerfloyd7346
      @seekerfloyd7346 2 года назад +4

      @@Toro_Da_Corsa If you follow Chris and dig dig deep, you will find the heart of a Saint, and possibly the real truth, REAL news

    • @BlutoandCo
      @BlutoandCo 2 года назад +2

      @@seekerfloyd7346 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
      He is paid by the ruSSian government

    • @matthewhope9363
      @matthewhope9363 2 года назад +1

      “One of the few great men”😂

    • @matthewhope9363
      @matthewhope9363 2 года назад +1

      @@seekerfloyd7346 “and possible the truth” 😂

  • @martinIrish3776
    @martinIrish3776 2 года назад +667

    Essential viewing . Two fine eloquent journalists who remind us of how integrity and courage are utterly lost to the entirety of the mainstream media hacks

    • @jasonnacci4091
      @jasonnacci4091 2 года назад +17

      The mainstream media is my soap opera. I come to Hedges for behind the scenes bloopers.

    • @JohnAllenRoyce
      @JohnAllenRoyce 2 года назад +35

      @Cynthia DeMario don't know if you're a ridiculous spoof or not, but you're giving a spot-on example of what this interview is about. Good job!

    • @barnardcarbajal8506
      @barnardcarbajal8506 2 года назад +5

      @Cynthia DeMario Russia Times US allowed to headquarter in Kansas long ago. Why did you come here? Oh you thinking for yourself. Good.

    • @desperatelyseekingrealnews
      @desperatelyseekingrealnews 2 года назад

      @Cynthia DeMario 3 years no content ? 🤖Sounds legit. Now run along before you get reported for being a knownothing troll with a green eyed monster on your back.

    • @ricochet2977
      @ricochet2977 2 года назад +38

      @Cynthia DeMario
      You’re using Wikipedia as your source 😂

  • @ananke2104
    @ananke2104 2 года назад +712

    Eva Bartlett is one of the best journalist nowadays . She is brave enough to report from the battlefield , risking her life . Also , she is very objective .
    Kudos to Eva Bartlett !

    • @moestietabarnak
      @moestietabarnak 2 года назад +81

      also Patrick Lancaster (american), Anne-Laure Bonnel (french) and Graham Phillips(UK)

    • @republica843
      @republica843 2 года назад

      Eva Bartlett, the talking voice of Sputin's regime. Working out of Moscow. Seriously, she is a trusted voice. And Patrick Lancaster, Scott Ritter, col. Black, and col. Macgregor. Such fine Russian wood suckers.

    • @aaronmcconkey1062
      @aaronmcconkey1062 2 года назад +25

      I love her work! N hedges n greyzone

    • @well9179
      @well9179 2 года назад +48

      She is one among "most wanted" persons by SBU. She, and some other Journalists already on Myrotvorets's Hit List including Lindsey Snell, Graham Phillip, Patrick Lancaster, Christelle Neant, John Mark Dougan, Sonja van den Ende, Giorgio Bianchi, Andrey Filatov of ANNA, Igor Zhidanov of RT, Margarita Simonian of Sputnik, Dmitry Maslak of CGTN, Adrien Bocquet, and Alejandro Kirk of TeleSUR.

    • @michaelgnit8476
      @michaelgnit8476 2 года назад +43

      @@well9179 I'm of Ukrainian heritage and the people that run this list no longer should be allowed to call themselves human. They are not human. That's my opinion and I call myself the Inconvenient Canadian of Ukrainian decent.

  • @renestover4600
    @renestover4600 Год назад +23

    I have been following Chris Hedges in his reporting and commenting for atleast 20 years, and have the utmost respect for him!

  • @bicyclist2
    @bicyclist2 2 года назад +492

    I'm a massive Chris Hedges fan. He is one of the best social critics I've ever heard. I hope many more people see this very important video. Thank you.

    • @davemartino5997
      @davemartino5997 2 года назад +10

      Why? He’s a propagandist

    • @KanakarisGeorge
      @KanakarisGeorge 2 года назад +6

      @@davemartino5997 Exactly.

    • @shaungold
      @shaungold 2 года назад +5

      And a really bad one.

    • @horstebreedow8608
      @horstebreedow8608 2 года назад

      You are massive

    • @shaungold
      @shaungold 2 года назад

      There are vacancies for Conscription Officers in Ukraine and Russia. Great pay but short life expectancy.

  • @michaelbartlett6864
    @michaelbartlett6864 2 года назад +538

    The 50+ Billion Dollars of weapons we have sent to Ukraine this year is more than the total military budgets of most countries in the world!

    • @LuisFlores-id7tb
      @LuisFlores-id7tb 2 года назад +92

      you guys could have used that for free healthcare

    • @njosborne6152
      @njosborne6152 2 года назад +19

      What’s your point? Would you rather have the battlefield closer to Americans?

    • @Trompicavalas
      @Trompicavalas 2 года назад +74

      @@njosborne6152 Although Russian troop conquered Portugal they would still be an ocean away from America... Elementary geography man!

    • @michaelbartlett6864
      @michaelbartlett6864 2 года назад +1

      @@njosborne6152 Our support of Ukraine brings the possibility of nuclear war to our doorstep. We should NOT be involved in this at all!

    • @Tracymongo
      @Tracymongo 2 года назад +26

      @@Trompicavalas actually Russia and America 🇺🇸 has a closer border at the alaska. Lol 😂. But it’s cold ice everywhere. Russia and America are closer they have been closer for a century now. Lol 😂

  • @maseefmandic9583
    @maseefmandic9583 2 года назад +274

    Thank the Universe we are fortunate enough to still have intelligent reporters like yourself who work so hard to get the truth out and into the real word. 👏👏👏👏👏.

    • @talisikid1618
      @talisikid1618 2 года назад +2

      Thank the universe? A collection of space bodies & dust? Ok…

    • @maseefmandic9583
      @maseefmandic9583 2 года назад +3

      @@talisikid1618 It's better than thanking god, I know that the Universe is there.

    • @Kitiwake
      @Kitiwake 2 года назад +6

      @@maseefmandic9583 oh... The one who made the universe... IF God doesn't exist then how does the universe exist?
      Gotcha😆

    • @maseefmandic9583
      @maseefmandic9583 2 года назад

      @@Kitiwake and who told you that god did it,,,, HIMSELF? Seem that your the one that's been got.

    • @JohnMartin-cb4yz
      @JohnMartin-cb4yz 2 года назад

      How do we know what these guys are saying is the truth. I mean have they been to Ukraine, where's their war footage?

  • @alistairpage-mcgill2723
    @alistairpage-mcgill2723 Год назад +36

    I only came across this video today. It's incredible how many people are still as committed to believing the doublethink now as they were 6 months or a year ago

  • @musashidanmcgrath
    @musashidanmcgrath Год назад +80

    A perfect example of this is the Zelensky 'fundraising' visit to the UK last week. He was there unashamedly, with hat in hand, despite the buried story from some months back that 17 million pounds of military aid, donated by the UK a few months before, had just 'disappeared' without a trace. No inquiry. No investigation. No request from the UK to uncover the whereabouts of that donation. Nothing. It was as if it never happened, and Zelensky was still being paraded around and championed and showered with more millions, no questions asked.

    • @henrikfrandsen6029
      @henrikfrandsen6029 Год назад +5

      Can you link to info about that disappeared military aid. I can't seem to find it anywhere.

    • @hannahz2136
      @hannahz2136 Год назад +5

      I am wondering where the info about stolen donations came from. I mean Ukraine should be even stronger then the media says if it managed to keep winning the war against 3 times bigger country and in the same time steal smth

    • @fusulimoghuf8823
      @fusulimoghuf8823 Год назад

      @@hannahz2136 Mil.of donation fm Germany and other corrupted European countries too. Just open your eyes and ears. Theres definitely No winner in a war between 2 countries engaged in, except others at their side.

    • @denismelezhik2834
      @denismelezhik2834 Год назад +1

      ​@@hannahz2136 clown

    • @denismelezhik2834
      @denismelezhik2834 Год назад +7

      Поймите, на этой войне отмывают огромные деньги как США и Великобритания так и их союзники, ну а Украина берёт себе процент.

  • @JosephKulik2016
    @JosephKulik2016 2 года назад +157

    "The American fascist would prefer not to use violence.
    His method is to poison the channels of public information."
    Vice President Henry A Wallace, 1944

    • @tonycs-9
      @tonycs-9 2 года назад

      Yes,''The progressive woke left destroys everything they touch''...

    • @radiofreered
      @radiofreered 2 года назад +18

      I understand the point Wallace was making here but I also think American fascists kinda like violence.. like a lot

    • @dasbinich2887
      @dasbinich2887 2 года назад +1

      Great evidence

    • @noticing33
      @noticing33 2 года назад

      @@radiofreered eventually yeh they like to make it a big show

    • @jeannedouglas9912
      @jeannedouglas9912 2 года назад

      Didn't someone warn the USA decades ago about any attempt to destroy America will come from within?

  • @DeeMarie111
    @DeeMarie111 2 года назад +482

    Great interview. So grateful for this level of discourse when everything is reduced to being a Putin apologist if you actually desire honest war reporting, not propaganda.

    • @johnward7223
      @johnward7223 2 года назад +6

      This in Russian apologia.

    • @VickiNikolaidis
      @VickiNikolaidis 2 года назад +40

      @@johnward7223 open your mind and listen again, please

    • @someone6162
      @someone6162 2 года назад +39

      @@VickiNikolaidis John is just doing his job as instructed by his masters. He just does as he is told and critical thinking is not allowed.

    • @paulheydarian1281
      @paulheydarian1281 2 года назад +23

      @@VickiNikolaidis
      Vicki dear, it could be that John's - paycheck - comes attached with specific instructions not to have an open mind.

    • @niarlatotepbasset
      @niarlatotepbasset 2 года назад +4

      @john ward, ok, Klaus 🙄…

  • @haleymoore6684
    @haleymoore6684 Год назад +20

    One question...when will the US GOVERNMENT take care if its own taxpayers needs?

    • @abelflores1593
      @abelflores1593 4 месяца назад

      It will only happen after we get rid of Corporations inside the government

    • @Coolidge2329
      @Coolidge2329 4 месяца назад

      Defund Ukraine

  • @andrewwhite1065
    @andrewwhite1065 2 года назад +93

    In a perfect World, both of you would receive a Nobel Peace prize for journalism.
    I thank you.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 2 года назад +1

      They are aiming for hero of the russian federation

    • @gustaafpeeters6173
      @gustaafpeeters6173 2 года назад +3

      I'm afraid that Zelenski has a bigger chance to get a nobelprize.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 2 года назад

      @Mirage_Panzer nope, a simple statement of fact, they demand that ukraine surrenders to genocide, while totally supporting russias narrative that they should have total control over all ex soviet peoples.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 2 года назад

      @Mirage_Panzer Since mass graves keep being found in liberated territory, and thousands (maybe tens of thousands, we don't know) of children have been kidnapped to Russia for 'adoption', and the stated goals of the war are the eradication of the Ukrainian identity, it is surrender to genocide. That's the damn point, to surrender is to die, so stop demanding they die, stop demanding they surrender. Look up the policy of Russification, to see where this idea comes from.
      Also see Putins previous statements on the fall of the soviet union being 'the largest tragedy in history, and Zeihans analysis of russian goals and actions, as well as ofc Peruns analysis of the war.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 2 года назад

      @Mirage_Panzer Except their never was such a policy, you are lying to justify the gencodial war of agression being launched by russia, to destroy ukraine, and seize the land and it's resources in the purest imperialist war we have ever seen,. To 'compromise' is to willingly lie down in the grave, willing hand you children over to be raped, willingly die. Stop claiming you want 'peace' or 'justice' you want genocide, exactly as these two so called journalists do, they want mass graves and telegram videos of gang raped kids, not peace. Also if this is a proxy war, so was lend lease in world war 2, and the regimes are in action, comparable.
      First open lie: the revoultion of dignity was not a 'us cultivated coup' it was a president who had defied the Duma and the law, aiming to make himself a kremlin backed dictator, being overthrown. You know, from that first GRU supplied line, that all that follows was dictated to the so called journalist, by the military intelligence services of the russian federation, and that thye are the intelligence asset of a hostile power.

  • @HARobbJr
    @HARobbJr 2 года назад +168

    I am an American and a Christian. What I have sadly come to recognize is the role of the American Church in shaping public opinion about this war and maybe every war. They have endorsed the Ukraine cause as just and noble. Am I the only one who is waking up?

    • @adrinathegreat3095
      @adrinathegreat3095 Год назад

      I think many are waking up, here in the UK many are aware that the BBC is nothing more than a propaganda tool used by the government

    • @johnlaube3459
      @johnlaube3459 Год назад +21

      Whatever label it is given. It is always about power and control. Sadly

    • @margyeoman3564
      @margyeoman3564 Год назад

      Yes, I live in Canada, and some of our church sons have American wives and associations. This is when Bush went after Iraq.
      While we Canadians saw this was likely wrong, the American girls were all for Bush and 'America's noble war'.
      All I could think was. Are you nuts?

    • @averageanimefanboy9473
      @averageanimefanboy9473 Год назад +15

      Maybe because Ukraine didn't invade Russia.

    • @rob5197
      @rob5197 Год назад +35

      ​@@averageanimefanboy9473 u still don't get it - - it all started 2014 - - do some research - - reactions always follow actions - - get it ? Sometimes there are justifications for that

  • @stephenvanwoert2447
    @stephenvanwoert2447 2 года назад +280

    Thanks for the excellent conversation. Thr runup to the Gulf War was a turning point for me. The media bias, the steady drumbeat for war, was sickening.

    • @gigie555
      @gigie555 2 года назад

      It wasn't just the Bush invasion of Iraq, but also the bombing of Serbia before that, that made me realise the mainstream media was not being very honest and they were pushing a government agenda. This is not the same media that was more open during the Vietnam war. Funny thing is during the invasion of Iraq, I never heard the media mention "Unprovoked". But since the war in Ukraine that word is often heard. I would say the Russian invasion of Ukraine was "very provoked" by NATO and by Ukraine itself, in attacking the Russian speaking people of Donbas.

    • @ollymark11651
      @ollymark11651 2 года назад

      Exact same for me. I was pro-west and the US during the first Gulf War. Followed it and the aftermath very closely-WMD inspectors, punitive sanctions, Iraq becoming the most surveilled country in the world, etc. And yet we were told that Saddam Hussien could possibly strike London with a WMD within minutes. Clear to me we were being fed a crock of shit, and my long-held belief in the western establishment crumbled. I finally saw them as the power mad, murderous liars they are.

    • @westsidesmitty1
      @westsidesmitty1 2 года назад

      Yes, and all the more because, some of us (coming off US war crimes in S.E. Asia) were foolish enough to believe that the US people had learned a definitive lesson with regard to the MIC and the corporate media. All it took was some synchronized drum beating by the corporate press and some deliberate lies about ''babies torn from incubators''. And every time these people were successfully stampeded, the false flags got more outrageous. Now, these sociopaths, ''elites'' as they style themselves, neither fear the masses nor have any respect for their discernment. The people seem as mentally vacuous as their parasitical ''elites'' are corrupt, bumbling, and mad. To make matters even worse, the (order of magnitude) tens of trillions that are ''missing'' were most likely spent on huge DUMBs (deep underground military bases)- clean water, nuclear power, high speed rail (even universal healthcare!), where these psychopaths believe they can retreat to (as some 7.95 Billion of us die) and upload their ''brilliance'' into some transhuman cyborg and live forever. Kushner gave a speech on this latter part just last week! ''They'' are quite mad, and cruelty is the trademark kink of their screwy death cult.

    • @mtmc823
      @mtmc823 2 года назад +7

      Well said my friend

    • @katpuss6564
      @katpuss6564 2 года назад

      As have been the drums of war against Russia, China and Iran......

  • @boldertash
    @boldertash Год назад +28

    The vietnam war had so much footage and yet now when every person is a cameraman nothing comes out of the Ukraine

  • @mra682
    @mra682 2 года назад +48

    Uk gas prices up 210% on last year. They blame Putin yet imposed sanctions which drives up the price

    • @kdawg9477
      @kdawg9477 2 года назад +3

      To avoid a bigger war cause by Pootin, it is a better price to pay then a missile flying towards London

    • @Freeedy
      @Freeedy 2 года назад +14

      We only get 3% of our gas from Russia. This huge increase has nothing to do with the Ukraine SMO and is all caused because of Tory bill that introduced price capping. I believe this is pure & simple grift by our leaders and the energy companies.

    • @GizaByrd
      @GizaByrd 2 года назад

      @@Freeedy yep! I agree - have you seen this recent video by Russell Brand, talking about how much profit the energy companies are still making at the expense of their customers? It's just ludicrous! 🤬ruclips.net/video/KJuEb1o3TQ8/видео.html

    • @scalarnai
      @scalarnai 2 года назад +5

      @@Freeedy Hear hear

    • @criticaldan8579
      @criticaldan8579 2 года назад

      @@kdawg9477 dumbest statement ever. Missiles would fly back, smarten up.

  • @passinthru4788
    @passinthru4788 2 года назад +408

    Thanks, Chris; always a breath of fresh air when you expose the hypocrisy of the media

    • @darrylbunch6929
      @darrylbunch6929 Год назад

      He exposes the media on the media & the media let's him expose the media on the media. Sounds counterproductive. Same as we are gonna launch a full investigation of ourselves..

    • @danielcreveuil9811
      @danielcreveuil9811 Год назад +2

      Who is media who is (are) owenrs ? Few bunchs of... Censure

    • @brandaonb4249
      @brandaonb4249 Год назад

      Jews did 911!

    • @petergreen5337
      @petergreen5337 Год назад +3

      Well said and well OBSERVED.

    • @ezriderspewstruth8867
      @ezriderspewstruth8867 Год назад +2

      Oooooo this looks Sooo Good. TRUTH IS FEW N FAR BETWEEN

  • @desmondfaria4095
    @desmondfaria4095 2 года назад +117

    Chris and his guests are honest people, and they always try to tell the truth.
    Keep it up. Brilliant.

    • @evertvdb000
      @evertvdb000 2 года назад

      nah, i do'nt think so

    • @canteluna
      @canteluna 2 года назад

      BULLSHIT. They are propagandists giving ONLY a Marxist-Left perspective. You think these propagandists are not omitting FACTS from their reporting? Think again.

    • @evertvdb000
      @evertvdb000 2 года назад

      @Adam Jacobs nobody, and certainly NOT you.

  • @RHGKGL
    @RHGKGL Год назад +8

    Like the great John Mayer said: “ when you trust television, what you get is what you got”

  • @jeffreywhitman1298
    @jeffreywhitman1298 2 года назад +91

    Most MSM journalists are actually activists PRETENDING to be reporters… perfect description! This is why I avoid the majority of MSM and instead have come to rely on independent podcasts and citizen journalists. God bless you, gentlemen and all those who practice journalistic integrity!

    • @L98fiero
      @L98fiero 2 года назад +4

      I watch to see how absurd the narrative is, none of them are reporters _or_ activists, like Chris said, they are careerists, willing to to whatever it takes to keep the job or get to the top of the ladder, regardless of how dishonest they have to be.

    • @gordonpkm7560
      @gordonpkm7560 2 года назад

      ,,32 Journalist have DIE'D in Ukraine in just over, 6mnths
      they got your podcast, it's news ...
      You need to wake up bud ....

    • @Brett_S_420
      @Brett_S_420 2 года назад +2

      Yeah, because who better to accurately report the news than people who are unburdened from things like a journalist's fancy degree or the ethical standards that come with it, & the need to actually go to the places to document what they report about?
      I would much rather hear what some one on RUclips based on 3rd and 4th hand sources or just some speculated or some completely made BS. Way better..

    • @L98fiero
      @L98fiero 2 года назад

      @@Brett_S_420 Those fancy degrees are just that because there is no integrity behind them, either from the 'journalist' nor their employer and FWIW, the 'journalists' with their fancy degree and the ethical standards are seldom ever where the news actually happens, I've seen 'war correspondents' reporting on the war in Ukraine while in Lviv, that's reporting or journalism? NONE of the 'journalists, are actually near the front lines unless on a guided tour by the military of the side they support, Eva Bartlett and Patrick Lancaster are exceptions but then they aren't MSM 'journalists' either. As someone pointed out, when he went to one 'journalism' school at a major university, they actually had a class on 'spin'!

    • @gladeloy3341
      @gladeloy3341 2 года назад

      + many are married to intelligence agents & George $oreAss minions, if not "retired" intelligence agents themselves !

  • @arlosmith9504
    @arlosmith9504 2 года назад +60

    "The press... slavishly echoes the opinions of a ruling elite." This also applies 100% to the way China is reported. I would really like to see your discussion of that too.

    • @robbrewer2036
      @robbrewer2036 Год назад

      Yep if you are a thinker you can see the b's propergander being used as an excuse for war with China. Just look at which country has attacked so manny sovereign countries it's not China.

    • @dennistofvesson6351
      @dennistofvesson6351 Год назад

      I don't now what country you live in and how it works there but here in Sweden there has been very lille involment by the government in what the news reports and there are laws to protect the media from such things. If you don't like what he media says your are free to say that as loud as you want.

    • @faustociola2974
      @faustociola2974 Год назад

      ​@@dennistofvesson6351Theoretically that is supposedly the system throughout most of the west. Here in Australia all our mainstream media has a lazy, selective form of reporting. Whether privately owned or government funded media, they all report news one sided. They definitely copy one another when it comes world affairs. And they've been caught doing so on many occasions. Especially when a report is later proven to be false, yet all stations prematurely broadcast the same false report.

    • @gelinrefira
      @gelinrefira Год назад +1

      China is the existential threat to the plutocratic bourgeoise elite in the west. They are probably the only power in the world left that can break neoliberals stranglehold on the world. The neoliberals are deathly afraid of what might happen to them if their hegemonic control is ever broken.
      This is life and death to them because if they ever lost that control, especially the media control, we will be waking up from our propaganda induced stupor and we will start eating the rich. Literally and figuratively.

  • @lukefletcher9644
    @lukefletcher9644 2 года назад +38

    A level of integrity we don't often see from many modern day "Journalists"

  • @d23bw
    @d23bw Год назад +108

    I love Patrick Lawrence's way of open thinking as he's speaking. Brings a depth to his words. Thanks Chris Hedges for this.

    • @StephenGrew
      @StephenGrew Год назад

      Definitely!!

    • @10101wonderer
      @10101wonderer Год назад

      Communists, trying to turn the people of Ukraine into slaves, used economic methods,
      deprived people of the means of production, the opportunity to exist independently.
      confiscated banks.
      factories and businesses were confiscated from entrepreneurs.
      farmers, independent peasants destroyed.
      moscovites called hard-working peasants kulaks.
      confiscated their property. confiscated lands, livestock, wheat, farms, equipment.
      this could not have been done without terror.
      so the moscovites carried out repressions with millions of victims.
      drove Ukrainian people to concentration camps.
      free Ukrainian peasants were driven to collective farms. with forced labor. where people worked not for money but just for punishments.
      to finally break the people of Ukraine, the moscovites organized 3 famines!
      1 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR in 1921-1923
      2 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932-1933
      3 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SR in 1946-1947
      in 1937-1938 the moscovites shot the Ukrainian intelligentsia in Sandarmokh.
      the communists tried to make a god of Lenin.
      poisoned children in the kindergartens with the stories by Bonch Bruevich about Lenin.
      hung stars with a portrait of little lenin, calling the children "октябрята".
      sang songs about Lenin: our party is the helmsman, Lenin is always with you, etc.
      The first thing Putler did in Genichesk, which was occupied by the Nazis in Muscovy, was to erect a statue of Lenin.
      the priests do the same.
      Christianity is another's slave-owning religion! imposed on the people of Russ Ukraine by blood and sword by the usurper of power, serial mass murderer and rapist, mega villain Volodymyr.
      religion in Ukraine is separated from the state by the Constitution!
      organizers of this disgrace, are you completely crazy? lost your conscience?
      who gave you the right to mock free Ukraine like that ?!
      who gave you the right to mock free Ukrainian atheists?
      Neither communists nor priests should be allowed to make their concentration camp out of Free Ukraine!

  • @burlingtonpark4136
    @burlingtonpark4136 2 года назад +77

    Thank you Chris and Patrick for shinining light on this toxic and shameful darkness.

    • @Bazball1080
      @Bazball1080 Год назад +1

      totally agree. thank god people are out there combatting tge myth that putin is not a great guy

  • @TexasRiverRat31254
    @TexasRiverRat31254 2 года назад +139

    Thank you both for your integrity over the years. Chris, good to see you again after RT was taken down unfairly.

    • @pinkfloyd870
      @pinkfloyd870 2 года назад

      RT lolololol ..... that is moronic

    • @lostintashkent
      @lostintashkent 2 года назад +1

      have you seen much national Russian TV lately? how do you compare this to RT?

    • @ernieb820
      @ernieb820 2 года назад

      🤣 rt is taken down for acusing the jews of Ukraine of being the new Nazi Party. For covering up war crimes. Don't be silly.

    • @philipcamp1370
      @philipcamp1370 2 года назад +1

      True they were a propaganda chanel for putin !

    • @onepersonmusic
      @onepersonmusic 2 года назад +1

      @@philipcamp1370 Is there propaganda channel(s) for Biden? Oh, sorry, there is no such a thing as a propaganda in US, my apologies. Let me just tune to CNN and hear the angelic voices of truth...

  • @mikaels6009
    @mikaels6009 2 года назад +431

    I accidentally came across this video and I'm so glad I did! great conversation and substance. hearing so much logic is so refreshing in a time where the facts and truth are intentionally ignores and many times admonished. great job guys!

    • @thatsaltylife9855
      @thatsaltylife9855 2 года назад +11

      Same here.. 🔥

    • @georgeszschalig4625
      @georgeszschalig4625 2 года назад

      Can you define substance sir?
      These guys running the show have never put a foot in Ukraine for a coverage, risking their lives.
      Theysat comfortablilly in their leather armschairs in AC offices, without any risk and copycat RT to sell their garbage.

    • @Eventual-Visitor
      @Eventual-Visitor 2 года назад

      Listening to actual real journalists, a profession that is getting rarer and rarer, makes us understand the level of lies and propaganda our brain is subjected to each and every day if one is lazy enough to not do his own research to try to discerne the truth, or the closest one can get to it, amongst the brutal censorship and relentless propaganda of the mainstream media. The only way to even try to get close to the truth is without a doubt following the few remaining real journalists still in existence, meaning the independent ones.

    • @andrewhedgecock5986
      @andrewhedgecock5986 2 года назад +2

      There's no logic of truth here.

    • @jeannotnelson4048
      @jeannotnelson4048 2 года назад +8

      duraan and redacted are also excellent

  • @scarter176
    @scarter176 Год назад +195

    Thanks to Chris for trying to get the truth out there

    • @10101wonderer
      @10101wonderer Год назад

      Communists, trying to turn the people of Ukraine into slaves, used economic methods,
      deprived people of the means of production, the opportunity to exist independently.
      confiscated banks.
      factories and businesses were confiscated from entrepreneurs.
      farmers, independent peasants destroyed.
      moscovites called hard-working peasants kulaks.
      confiscated their property. confiscated lands, livestock, wheat, farms, equipment.
      this could not have been done without terror.
      so the moscovites carried out repressions with millions of victims.
      drove Ukrainian people to concentration camps.
      free Ukrainian peasants were driven to collective farms. with forced labor. where people worked not for money but just for punishments.
      to finally break the people of Ukraine, the moscovites organized 3 famines!
      1 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR in 1921-1923
      2 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SSR in 1932-1933
      3 The Holodomor in the Ukrainian SR in 1946-1947
      in 1937-1938 the moscovites shot the Ukrainian intelligentsia in Sandarmokh.
      the communists tried to make a god of Lenin.
      poisoned children in the kindergartens with the stories by Bonch Bruevich about Lenin.
      hung stars with a portrait of little lenin, calling the children "октябрята".
      sang songs about Lenin: our party is the helmsman, Lenin is always with you, etc.
      The first thing Putler did in Genichesk, which was occupied by the Nazis in Muscovy, was to erect a statue of Lenin.
      the priests do the same.
      Christianity is another's slave-owning religion! imposed on the people of Russ Ukraine by blood and sword by the usurper of power, serial mass murderer and rapist, mega villain Volodymyr.
      religion in Ukraine is separated from the state by the Constitution!
      organizers of this disgrace, are you completely crazy? lost your conscience?
      who gave you the right to mock free Ukraine like that ?!
      who gave you the right to mock free Ukrainian atheists?
      Neither communists nor priests should be allowed to make their concentration camp out of Free Ukraine!

    • @WestCoastUSA546
      @WestCoastUSA546 Год назад +2

      What truth? " there are good sources" without naming the sources?😂🤡

  • @Brett_S_420
    @Brett_S_420 2 года назад +113

    Respect to both Chris & Patrick for their bravery in both war & disseminating the
    truth.

    • @SuperReznative
      @SuperReznative 2 года назад +1

      God bless and keep them safe, in Jesus name.

    • @gordonpkm7560
      @gordonpkm7560 2 года назад

      ,,2,ruski hasbeen propagandist, spewing Lies an garbage ...
      Not a f..word of respect for the 32journalist who have died in Ukraine ... reporting this war for you to bitch about...

  • @pierremoreau986
    @pierremoreau986 2 года назад +291

    This is a very important report. Great to hear Eva Bartlett mentioned, add Patrick Lancaster and Graham Philips to the list of credible correspondents in Ukraine.

    • @Dr.AnonymousPro
      @Dr.AnonymousPro 2 года назад +21

      Add: Jacques Baud, Laurent Brayard, Bruce K. Gagnon, Pepe Escobar, Ray McGovern, John Mearsheimer, George Eliason, Johnny Miller, Vanessa Beeley.

    • @BroonParker
      @BroonParker 2 года назад +11

      @@Dr.AnonymousPro Alina Lipp

    • @emmanuellegilson40
      @emmanuellegilson40 2 года назад +1

      Il y en a d autres Christelle Néant une française qui habite dans le Donbass depuis 6 où 8 ans qui a vu et filmé récemment l armée Ukrainienne a essayé de l éliminer ils ont tiré sur sa voiture mais elle s en est sortie les français et d autres se sont cotisés pour lui acheter une voiture et lui faire parvenir pour pouvoir continuer son travail de reporter au départ ils étaient une dizaine beaucoup ont quitté l Ukraine suite aux menaces de mort reçu par l Ukraine. Lancaster lui a eu la bonne idée de mettre sa famille à l abri en Russie lors de ses déplacements il est accompagné par un militaire Russe qui le protège.

    • @Dr.AnonymousPro
      @Dr.AnonymousPro 2 года назад +15

      @@BroonParker Yes, how could I forget her! Roman Kosarev, Anne-Laure Bonnel, Scott Ritter, Brian Berletic, Afshin Rattansi, George Galloway, Fiorella Isabel, Aaron Maté, Max Blumenthal ! George H. Eliason!

    • @ovalraw
      @ovalraw 2 года назад

      @@Dr.AnonymousPro and John Mark Dougan
      ruclips.net/user/JohnMarkDougan-BadVolf

  • @louisehoff
    @louisehoff 2 года назад +193

    such an essentially important thing to discuss: how real journalists cover war and friction on the ground vs. the type of career journalists seeking that hemingway moment in the hotel bar where they take their marching orders.

    • @vortex162
      @vortex162 2 года назад

      And then there are “career journalists” who just want to report what mainstream ( real journalists ) DON’T report! You think their ambition is to be a “caree🙄journalist”? “Real” Journalism has become a cheap term for brainstream media! What “career” journalists accomplish is to simply bring issues to the attention of the general public something that “real” journalists= presstitutes Deliberately FAIL to do. Deception is their trademark!

    • @louisehoff
      @louisehoff 2 года назад +1

      @@vortex162 ill amend my sentence

    • @ksgsherley8932
      @ksgsherley8932 2 года назад

      So right you are L.H.

  • @razzyhass3541
    @razzyhass3541 Год назад +6

    I was a reporter for 20 years and always fought my chief editor for telling public the truth . He said the survival of every press media was depend on the "news" its reporters wrote...
    Btw, I always read Eva Bartlett reports and I believe she is reporting the truth. I highly respect her as a brave, professional journalist who still holds the ethic code of journalism.

  • @KevinFitzMauriceEverett
    @KevinFitzMauriceEverett 2 года назад +70

    “A highly skilled and popular politician will serve his own interests, those of his supporters and contributors, those of his party, and those he prefers-all before those of the voters-because promises mean nothing once you are elected and out of reach.” -Kevin Everett FitzMaurice

    • @vonfloryanzia138
      @vonfloryanzia138 2 года назад +4

      Awesome words of wisdom Kevin an guest. Learned something from your video 🤔 . Thank you for that. It's good to hear what the reality is /was for a change.💕
      I'm

    • @kellynestegard5208
      @kellynestegard5208 2 года назад +1

      I think you could edit out 'highly skilled and popular'. Bigger truth.

  • @Markjogo
    @Markjogo 2 года назад +52

    Thank you gentlemen … “Pursuit of truth no matter where it lies “ ..

  • @marimar1255
    @marimar1255 2 года назад +56

    Thank you Gentleman for your work
    It feels good to hear that there are still real journalists with the Courage to speak up

  • @freon500
    @freon500 Год назад +21

    Thank you, guys! I wish I could do more for the true investigative writers that you are, you are my lifelong heroes bringing heartfelt smiles of admiration as you blow the whistle or point out incongrouties on our social systems and their often grotesque players, on the one hand, and on the other, shinning light on the best paths forward and on those leading us there.

  • @patriciadunmore9767
    @patriciadunmore9767 2 года назад +84

    Listening to the citizens of the Donbas being interviewed by Eva, Patrick and Graham gives you a true picture of what is happening.
    Politicians and the media in Australia give an entirely different picture.

    • @Basuliic
      @Basuliic 2 года назад

      Oh, listen to actual people freed from Russian rule cities. Read reports from real agency's, not this amnesty shit where founder quited in shame of what they've become. Russians or Chinese reporters are so biased its enraging.

    • @Blue1Sapphire
      @Blue1Sapphire 2 года назад +1

      Unfortunately Australia always follow the US lead. The US under the democrats are neck deep in corrupt practices in Ukraine starting with bio weapons labs.
      All of the lies will not end well for the west. It is not hard to see that the west is falling due to the increase in moral decadence from all angles.

    • @fnuppyfnup
      @fnuppyfnup 2 года назад

      @@aramisio2 you know some people have lived under nato usa bombs and know very well who is the number 1 sponsor of terrorism.

    • @LK-le1jf
      @LK-le1jf 2 года назад

      ​@@aramisio2 у вас чуб отклеился

  • @jg3798
    @jg3798 2 года назад +167

    The world would be a better place with more journalistic type conversations like this.

    • @julianciahaconsulting8663
      @julianciahaconsulting8663 Год назад

      back in the conservative 1980s i would never have guessed that it would be the Left that would be the ones who would bring unprecedented Censorship to North America....

    • @MeMe-ei7uv
      @MeMe-ei7uv Год назад +2

      😂😂😂😂

    • @CenterZero_DeadSecurity
      @CenterZero_DeadSecurity Год назад

      ​@@MeMe-ei7uv 🥸

    • @orange1666
      @orange1666 Год назад

      @@MeMe-ei7uvwhy are you such a pr1ck ?

    • @myparceltape1169
      @myparceltape1169 Год назад

      They have got to make a living.

  • @andrewteasdale8185
    @andrewteasdale8185 2 года назад +110

    As an aspiring writer Patrick"s point about not confusing activism for journalism was a little painful to hear but such a huge help. The type of balanced writing both allude to is another way to say integrity. Thank you both for showing us mere mortals the path to good journalism.

    • @audreyroche9490
      @audreyroche9490 2 года назад +1

      Depends what u doing activim for some time's it can get a bit on the ridiculous side am all for rights changing words is just getting ridiculous

    • @mayibuye2908
      @mayibuye2908 2 года назад +2

      It's important to remember there are different types of journalism. The job of a reporter on the field is to tell people what is happening, not what he wants them to believe. An opinion columnist however can try to persuade or influence public opinion.

  • @isabeltoro2070
    @isabeltoro2070 Год назад +23

    Thank you for bringing light into “all” the obscure corners of journalism and the way it is practiced ( i guess self preservation is humanly more important than being loyal to the truth)

  • @sstchan924
    @sstchan924 2 года назад +38

    During the Vietnam war , the first casualty of war was truth. Embedding newspaper reporters with the small army units was the most clever way preventing them from getting the over all picture of the war if they were allowed freely to investigate on their own as traditionally in previous wars. Since then all news on foreign wars was controlled and propagandized.

  • @zincminus3793
    @zincminus3793 2 года назад +46

    Thanks you Patrick for pointing out the difference between a reporter and an activist posing as a journalist!

  • @dustins.5940
    @dustins.5940 2 года назад +61

    We have money for wars but can't feed the poor. I'm limited amounts of funds go towards ukraine.

    • @amossimon3438
      @amossimon3438 2 года назад +12

      U.s. and places like Canada.also so rich but has so many homeless .They must deal with there internal problems.

    • @rykson161
      @rykson161 2 года назад +2

      Typos are a bitch but seems like we can read between the lines

    • @kirstinstrand6292
      @kirstinstrand6292 2 года назад

      This US Proxy War is a method to enforce AUSTERITY on US citizens, while attempting to maintain the US Petrodollar and global hegemony.

    • @barbh1
      @barbh1 2 года назад +6

      No running water in Jackson, Mississippi.

    • @svetlanak7766
      @svetlanak7766 2 года назад

      The aid is not reaching the people because it is stollen! Check the other bloggers like Graham Phillips, Reducted etc to see the other side of the news.

  • @jr260cc5
    @jr260cc5 Год назад +9

    And let us never forget what General Smedley Butler said, "War is a Racket". In his book he discusses how everybody, meaning the politicians, suppliers, and financial institutions all make enormous profits at the expense of the poor soldiers who are sent to fight.

    • @00vTv00
      @00vTv00 Год назад +1

      True, and that book was from the 30's, and it has only gotten much worse today.

    • @jr260cc5
      @jr260cc5 Год назад

      @@00vTv00 amen to that

  • @alexak3327
    @alexak3327 2 года назад +13

    This is called real reporting. I have not watched mainstream media and news now for many years. My daughter is a journalist, we have listened to CBC here in Canada and watched Eva Bartlett, and these are the people/journalists who I have watched and she has aspired to. Thank you for all you do.

    • @lah6739
      @lah6739 2 года назад +1

      As a Canadian, I see that the CBC has fallen into line on reporting on the war in Ukraine. The CBC has become part of the propaganda machine. I'm so disappointed.

    • @alexak3327
      @alexak3327 2 года назад +1

      @@lah6739 I have also been disappointed by CBC in the past couple of years. You are right they have been bought out ! Such a shame.

    • @waysaund
      @waysaund 2 года назад

      CBC has become a shadow of its former self. It's all about complying to dominant narratives. On geopolitics they used to have learned, independent minded guests. Now they just trot out the usual suspects from government and military circles who parrot the official line. The other day Matt Galloway of The Current interviewed Evelyn Farkas, executive director of the McCain Institute and former Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Russia, Ukraine, and Eurasia. Everything she said went unchallenged; not one tough question was asked.

  • @neilfriedman
    @neilfriedman 2 года назад +223

    Love Patrick Lawrence's writings on Sheerpost. I'm in south africa, and I remember Patrick going to jail for not releasing the name of his informant in an article he had written in a large daily newspaper. Keep up the great work Patrick

    • @anonymike8280
      @anonymike8280 2 года назад

      Did the publisher go to jail? I've worked as a reporter. You're supposed to die for your publisher, if need be. But the publisher has no risk, except a financial one.

    • @barriereid9244
      @barriereid9244 Год назад +17

      It is what those of us who ARE journalists do. Other than that; like my bureau partner, we pay with our lives. I have a spot marked on my world map where he died and is; allegedly, buried.

    • @starrysafari
      @starrysafari Год назад +1

      Why does our mainstream media call our fighters/killers "volunteers" or "aid workers"? if you watched Grayzone, Redacted, Scott Ritter, Grayzone, Patrick Lancaster, Eva Bartlett, Richard Nedhurst, etc., you'd clearly see the evidence of why USA and UK have been training Ukrainian thugs since end of 2013, why East Ukraine population have been bombed for so many years because they are mostly Russian people. Tattoo parlours in Ukraine advertising swastika removals for travellers abroad. Real footages years old where they strip and tie up Russian population on posts, belt them some to death, stamping on heads, just for being Russian. How deepstate Weapons Manufacturers create wars around the globe so then governments can steal tax payers money to send "aid". Which in turn a lot of it goes back to elites incl corrupt leaders such as Boris Johnson and Biden. Our mainstream also gets paid by deepstate.,

    • @googooler
      @googooler Год назад +7

      So sad. 💐😥

    • @dennistofvesson6351
      @dennistofvesson6351 Год назад +5

      @neilfriedman Well South Africa doesn't have the best reputation when it comes to human rights and coruption. It's sad that you haven't been able to fully set your country free but I have hopes for you.

  • @aacvieira
    @aacvieira 2 года назад +75

    I think the main problem of censorship and deception about Ukraine is the loss of credibility of the media and institutions. This (at least for me) will last the rest of my life.

    • @martinwarner1178
      @martinwarner1178 2 года назад +13

      For a long time, I have rejected BBC in any form. Even to the extent of NO TV in my life. I thrive on such as your comment, and others, on news items as this one. The comments say it all. Peace be unto you.

    • @42Mrgreenman
      @42Mrgreenman 2 года назад +1

      It seems to be what always happens with those who are hungry for control...they are the agents of their own destruction...by media sacking their credibility in favor of a favorable public opinion, they actually make it so people don't hate them for their position on a SINGLE issue but instead hate them even more for their lack of reliability on ALL issues...

    • @jbon123
      @jbon123 2 года назад

      Word to the Mothership

    • @keithparker1346
      @keithparker1346 Год назад

      Even if the west accurately reported on Russia Ukraine you still have that huge hypocrisy of condemning a country invading another when it's what theyve promoted since before I was born

  • @martinleepgg
    @martinleepgg Год назад +7

    Now 1 year old, this summary is on point.

  • @Alien2799
    @Alien2799 Год назад +18

    I have just stumbled upon two wonderful human beings. I look forward to following you and learning the truth. Thank you so much!

  • @gary7vn
    @gary7vn 2 года назад +64

    I am 65 and the war on Russia in the Ukraine is by far the most censored war in my lifetime.

    • @la7dfa
      @la7dfa 2 года назад

      War on Russia? Is it not Russia who invaded Ukraine in 2014, and 2022? Ukraine has EVERY right to defend itself.
      If you want to read what Russia thinks, they have lots of "news sources". A pity they are not allowed to write anything independently, but only the official narrative. For them, it is no WAR. Just a special operation where they want to free Ukraine. For them, Ukraine is not even a real country, just untermench...

    • @tmsphere
      @tmsphere 2 года назад +3

      Dude you must be 12 then if thats the case, or you've started watching the news at age 63..

    • @gary7vn
      @gary7vn 2 года назад

      @@tmsphere Ludicrous and idiotic response, 'dude'.

    • @gary7vn
      @gary7vn 2 года назад +14

      @@tmsphere Name calling is not an argument. Do you have an argument 'dude'?

    • @gary7vn
      @gary7vn 2 года назад +9

      @@tmsphere For sure, 'dude' given your low info status, you fervently believe all the lies about Russia.

  • @rlm66101
    @rlm66101 2 года назад +109

    You guys are both awesome--thank you for your tireless efforts to inform!

  • @simsnqta
    @simsnqta Год назад +7

    You can always follow Patrick Lancaster for real news from the battle front.

  • @NicheID
    @NicheID 2 года назад +109

    This was a thought provoking dialogue between two seasoned investigative reporters. That style of reporting that they discussed is completely missing in mainstream media hence the reason you’re seeing more people gravitating to indie media 🙏.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding 2 года назад +1

      Funny how they failed to mention all the journalists who died or were injured at the start of the war. Clearly not relevant to why you would have a military escort. 🙄 Very balanced.

    • @onepersonmusic
      @onepersonmusic 2 года назад +4

      @@annaredding No one needs to mention the obvious. The risk of dying or being injured comes with the job... For those that are scared, thay need to work at McDonalds. Leave the war-journalist's job to the brave...

  • @katrinweigel3796
    @katrinweigel3796 2 года назад +107

    Thank you so very much for your excellent talk, lightening up the bias in activist mainstream media as you put it. It’s a personal relief to me to realize there are still true press people out there.

    • @D-E-S_8559
      @D-E-S_8559 2 года назад +2

      I am so deeply shadow banned by the minions of the tech lords, that I can't even say something as true and banal as 'Jesus Saves'....

    • @dirkvanrensburg7315
      @dirkvanrensburg7315 2 года назад

      ruclips.net/video/__TflC5-p4M/видео.html

    • @A.M.7886
      @A.M.7886 Год назад

      @@D-E-S_8559 Maybe that's because he never saved anyone from anything,😃😅😆😀😃😂😆😅😂🤣😅😆

    • @barbarascis1129
      @barbarascis1129 Год назад

      ​@@A.M.7886 maybe because you're soulless 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • @friendsofjesus1609
    @friendsofjesus1609 2 года назад +23

    Keep feeding us with the truth.

  • @uwanttono4012
    @uwanttono4012 2 года назад +10

    Am very happy that I came across this substack because it refuses to recycle the slanted garbage of the MSM (and I'm a liberal btw!! I appreciate honest, independent journalism and Chris Hedges background and working career is testimony to the integrity of this vlog. So a new subscriber here!

  • @tommartin7333
    @tommartin7333 2 года назад +122

    Thanks for keeping a spotlight on the American proxy war and Ukrainian war crimes.

    • @myparceltape1169
      @myparceltape1169 Год назад +3

      It will be even better when they follow the missing arms.

    • @mdog6726
      @mdog6726 Год назад

      @@myparceltape1169…and money.

    • @wendellrider1212
      @wendellrider1212 Год назад +3

      @@myparceltape1169UKRAINIAN WAR CRIMES!? You can’t tell the difference between these and the wars for profit of the last 30 years.
      Can’t you tell the difference?

    • @myparceltape1169
      @myparceltape1169 Год назад

      @@wendellrider1212
      It's good that you are on the spot to honestly report and not allege.

    • @Romana6794
      @Romana6794 Год назад +1

      ​@@myparceltape1169
      Still waiting to hear exactly what role we are to attribute to 300,000 Russian combo troops attacking contested villages and cities populated by surrounded civilians and non-combatants. Scorch doors artillery bombardments eviscerating infrastructure, public housing blocs and roadways used for evacuation.

  • @colinturney8046
    @colinturney8046 2 года назад +69

    This interview is standing the test of time . Way ahead of its time

    • @colinturney8046
      @colinturney8046 Год назад +5

      Wars niiether funny or a joke

    • @davemartino5997
      @davemartino5997 Год назад

      @@Will_14_years_ago You got new sense of humor then

    • @joeyfotofr
      @joeyfotofr Год назад

      No it actually has not stood up to the test of time.
      Putine has just been charged with very specific war crimes dealing with genocide,
      based upon actual evidence...jt

    • @colinturney8046
      @colinturney8046 Год назад

      @@NYCWatcher1 what does ppp mean

  • @andrewhoult4630
    @andrewhoult4630 Год назад +4

    Chris hedges and your fellow colleague are the real deal the real proper journalists we need today

  • @s42682
    @s42682 2 года назад +32

    UGHH I have lost my sense of direction into the happenings of the world without Chris. I am happy to be listening to him once again.

    • @steveelim
      @steveelim Год назад

      I'd argue some people lose their direction when they start listening to Chris. He is such a foil and a check on mainstream media sometimes it confuses people. Making Ukraine out to be the bad guys is a prime example.

  • @davidpearson7610
    @davidpearson7610 Год назад +40

    First time listening and I am glad I did! Very good interview and a little insight into what journalists must be going through no days!

  • @dansonthetube
    @dansonthetube 2 года назад +76

    Great piece as per usual from CH 😇

    • @GIU-REH-ON_666e_Phara_Dynastie
      @GIU-REH-ON_666e_Phara_Dynastie 2 года назад

      A few weeks ago I sent a mail to the Ukrainian Embassy in Paris, saying that together with a French friend, we are organising a truck load full of medicals and food to the Ukraine, and as a white South African without a country anymore, I explained the Ukrainian Embassy, that I don't have a passport anymore to do the trip from France to the Ukraine, and if they could assist in closing the passport gap somehow, and today I just got a bullocks answer back from them, in which they didn't even reply me. So unfortunately we cannot come due to that arrogant Ukrainian Embassy personal, which is really proving me, that the Ukrainian people are being betrayed by their own Government and by their own authorities just like us here in the West and even just as the Russians get betrayed by their own political leaders. This is really sickening, because we were ready to go. The name of my channel is my real name, and I'm not hiding anything. For total intel on Putin watch the 8 hour RUclips documentary "The Swiss Beast - Home of the Devil; Part 7 Switzerland's Sleeper Agent Putin" on RUclips channel "HomieLand Sickurity" on the powers behind the screens explaining the endless lies of our leaders and their Pharaonic Swiss origins giving all the orders out of the Alps and their Swiss medeval Military Orders out of the Motherland.

    • @lightsout176
      @lightsout176 2 года назад

      Who is Jay Epps?

  • @raphaelprotti5536
    @raphaelprotti5536 Год назад +2

    In schools that teach journalism a current trend is "advocacy representation" which is a euphemism for teaching how to write propaganda.

  • @currawong2011
    @currawong2011 2 года назад +111

    So good to hear something other than the unanimity we are being presented with in the Australian (and Western) media.. Thank you, much appreciated.

    • @thetruthshallsetyoufree1700
      @thetruthshallsetyoufree1700 2 года назад

      Yeah. Good to hear Putin’s propaganda repackaged and disseminated via gullible western journalists

    • @redwolf7929
      @redwolf7929 2 года назад

      I just can't watch Australian media.I look at all the talking heads and call them media prostitutes.

    • @thecelt4807
      @thecelt4807 2 года назад +3

      lived in australia 42 years ...youve given back my faith thought i was alone cant agree more with you ...what a shock when you actually see it and how people many of which are ya mates are just assleep chowing down the BS ...best regards the celt

    • @stephenleyden9559
      @stephenleyden9559 2 года назад

      Went to the assange protest in Melbourne last Saturday. SBS was the MSM outlet to mention it. The commercials and the ABC all ignored it in an attempt to give the impression that no one cares about JULIAN.
      The ABC is controlled by ASIO and the American RULING CLASS.

  • @RaysDad
    @RaysDad 2 года назад +21

    Patrick Lawrence was a very good guest. Thanks for having him on.

  • @salomiepieterse1785
    @salomiepieterse1785 2 года назад +38

    Very good journalism rare to find in media

  • @emilie658
    @emilie658 Год назад +14

    This is true journalism, with honest passionate journalists. based on humanity, facts and independence

  • @gabrielalexanderkhoury73
    @gabrielalexanderkhoury73 2 года назад +89

    After the dissolution of the USSR the US started expanding NATO eastwards towards Russia's borders. Ukraine was the next target. Victoria Nuland contributed $5bn to fund the Kiev riots in 2014. Ukrainian Russians were under attack and suffered discrimination. Russia sees Zelinsky as US agent and is obliged to protect the Russian population.

    • @kateoneal4215
      @kateoneal4215 2 года назад +11

      Thanks! I'm amazed to see so many uninformed people on this site-- I just finished writing essentially what you've written here to another one.
      Do you catch THE DURAN reports? ( RUclips)

    • @raskolnikov1461
      @raskolnikov1461 2 года назад +3

      @@kateoneal4215 ❤️✊

    • @raskolnikov1461
      @raskolnikov1461 2 года назад

      @Cynthia DeMario How?! Why USA arming the worst of every nation?? Nazi and fashists? They killed thousands during these 8 years. You know nothing how deeply connected Russia and Ukraine. They share literature, history, music, families mixed. You can never tell a Ukrainian from Russian apart. Why USA broke every paper where they agreed to to expand close to Russian borders?!

    • @raskolnikov1461
      @raskolnikov1461 2 года назад

      @Cynthia DeMario You like when brothers kill brothers?? Sisters hate sisters?! This is what USA is brewing around the world again and again and again for profit. Brotherly wars 😢

    • @raskolnikov1461
      @raskolnikov1461 2 года назад

      @Cynthia DeMario Unfortunately no. You clearly clueless and cruel hearted to say this. No need to understand me, go ahead just listen to your Biden and Zelensky news.

  • @drphilgood05
    @drphilgood05 2 года назад +28

    Outstanding segment Mr. Hedges. Thank you for what you do!

  • @chrishewitt8305
    @chrishewitt8305 2 года назад +31

    We need the truth, especially when it challenges ourselves. Thank you.

    • @dennistofvesson6351
      @dennistofvesson6351 Год назад

      @chrishewitt8305 The trouth is in peoples minds a very subjctive thing. One can think one thing is true but someone else that the same thing is absolutely false. For example in this war. I belive that Russia is fully responsible for the invasion while some think that USA is the bad guy. I respekt that they have their opinion and can only try to make them se what I se. If they don't it's their right to do so.

  • @ellenmass5934
    @ellenmass5934 Год назад

    Yes, Patrick Lawrence is very effective with his deliberateness of conviction and assuredness which comes from thoroughness.

  • @keithwielkiewicz7721
    @keithwielkiewicz7721 2 года назад +15

    Thanks for staying honest and not bending the knee to the mainstream propaganda machines.

  • @wytrose4602
    @wytrose4602 2 года назад +21

    Thanks Chris for the Truth. and no matter how much it hurts to hear you have told the truth . ❤️❤️ 🙏

  • @paulshreenan7871
    @paulshreenan7871 2 года назад +30

    Incredible interview here . Amazing work Chris. And what an incisive guest! I'm blown away.

  • @conditionalchoice
    @conditionalchoice Год назад +8

    Chris Hedges is a real journalist...but he is also a real listener. He has opinions but understands that other people might have opinions to. That is why his audience are faithful to his programme ... and his guests.

  • @jamesmullins6681
    @jamesmullins6681 2 года назад +130

    As was once said after the Viet Nam war: "Once we lost Walter Cronkite, we lost the war." It was because of the war correspondent's reporting (then and after) that the US military took it upon themselves to limit the availability of reporters in the field of action. The truthful commentary along with the staggering visuals (Morely Schaeffer watching the US Marines burning down a village and the occupants crying) made the reporter's job exceedingly easy: There was no need to proselytize, convince, or lie. It was all out there in open.

    • @nash984954
      @nash984954 2 года назад +8

      And why I opposed the war, burning the village was criminal. Oliver' Stone Movie was true to reality, Platoon was really good as a movie to watch.

    • @NeoFreshair
      @NeoFreshair 2 года назад

      But media nowadays are owned by the rich whom are bribed to push for agendas whether it's vaccines, or freedom to Ukraine to sell more arms, or climate change to fool western societies to accept higher energy and food prices and to protect the planet!
      I'm not denying climate change, but I'm against politicians, the rich and scientists hypocrisy when they can enjoy flying in private jets or wasting food or clothes or buy multiple luxury vehicles and wasting heating on empty large mansions!!!
      I hate when the corrupt politicians or media or scientists try to lecture the public especially the poor who always pay the price regardless!!!

    • @michelangeloc.4265
      @michelangeloc.4265 2 года назад

      You killed over one million of innocent in Vietnam.....and you still have "veteran's day".......call it assassin's day, is better.

    • @annaredding
      @annaredding 2 года назад +3

      @@nash984954 And do you oppose American support for Ukraine?

    • @Ebani
      @Ebani 2 года назад

      @@annaredding That's a moot point, real problem is USA dragging the rest of Europe's economy into an artificial inflation. Dumb masses will freeze to death thanks to some unknown group of ppl which controls most western governments.

  • @zincminus3793
    @zincminus3793 2 года назад +32

    Oh, and of course thanks Chris for all your efforts, professionalism and honesty!

  • @angelesjuarez644
    @angelesjuarez644 2 года назад +47

    How is that others journalists from outside the USA are in Ukraine and are reporting what is really happening. But those reports are not seen in USA.

    • @User-bruser891
      @User-bruser891 2 года назад

      Because independent journalists that have been reporting from the front lines in Donbas for the last 8 years, are all banned from western media. Some even have been prosecuted - Alina Lips in Germany for example among others. There is no such thing as free speech in the west anymore. That’s the “western democratic values” that everyone is so proud of here in the west.

    • @kirstinstrand6292
      @kirstinstrand6292 2 года назад +11

      A logical question; are you unaware of the concept of hiding the truth?

    • @kateoneal4215
      @kateoneal4215 2 года назад +9

      You'd appreciate the three THE DURAN sites. RUclips.

    • @vaska1999
      @vaska1999 2 года назад +6

      Independent journalists, mainly. Very (but very) few European ones have reported from anywhere in Donbass.

    • @desperatelyseekingrealnews
      @desperatelyseekingrealnews 2 года назад +2

      Have a guess.

  • @dcasteaux9181
    @dcasteaux9181 Год назад +1

    Chris Hedges doing what the BBC’s ‘Panorama’ programme should be doing.

  • @zarni000
    @zarni000 2 года назад +29

    I recently had an argument with a friend (likely former friend now) about the nature of the war. After I pointed out all his misconceptions he started yelling at me " why don't you go live in Russia! We don't want you here!".
    I then concluded we are pretty much in a fascist state situation.

    • @la7dfa
      @la7dfa 2 года назад +1

      So what is the nature of the Russian invasion? A peacekeeping force saving Russian-speaking people? Who is next, Moldavia, Baltics, Georgia?

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 2 года назад

      @@la7dfa hmm. The ukrainian military have been shelling civilians since 2014. Get a clue pkease. Russians did not start it

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 2 года назад +7

      @@la7dfa also my point was the US started this war...not Russia. You would be well suited in naxi Germany. Just let them do the thinking for u. Never check the facts

    • @zarni000
      @zarni000 2 года назад +4

      @@la7dfa where were u when the us invaded lybia, iraq...with no reason whatsoever

    • @HeresMyView
      @HeresMyView 2 года назад

      @@zarni000 , he explained that too about the misconceptions of the war. You are not listening and reading, you're just hearing n living under a rock. Did you get your reliable info from CNN that Moldavia, Baltics and Georgia are next? 😁😁

  • @alvinfirpo6223
    @alvinfirpo6223 Год назад +16

    "to learn who rules over you, simply find out who you are not allowed to criticize" - kevin alfred strom

  • @I.W.Lthomsson
    @I.W.Lthomsson Год назад +6

    It sucks when you realize we are undoubtedly the bad guys.

  • @moeseager8422
    @moeseager8422 2 года назад +6

    As a journalist for U.S. monthlies and weeklies in apartheid South Africa and Occupied Israel -Palestine I did witness mainstream reporters comfortably camped in hotel bars, drinks in hand, simply "reporting" regime feeds, posing as front line correspondents.

  • @dorothyloose1500
    @dorothyloose1500 2 года назад +17

    Very much enjoyed this interview. Have been a big fan of Patrick Lawrence reporting over the years. So true the only reliable truth reporting is with independent media.

  • @drbijubkp
    @drbijubkp 2 года назад +46

    I was in Kuwait during all the conflicts there. I relate to your story. I was 13yrs old and went through the deserts as a refugee until my government picked me and my family up. Please keep up your good reporting. In these difficult times there needs to be truth and proper honest reporting and not a narrative . This whole thing is to prolong the conflict . But at what cost . Why cant the US be a beacon of peace..and not this in the name of democracy which is in fact the will of its people or is it now..

    • @kirstinstrand6292
      @kirstinstrand6292 2 года назад +6

      The US as a Beacon of Peace? Surely you jest!
      You might enjoy real truth telling from a Geopolitical Scholar at the University of Chicago: John Mearsheimer.
      RUclips.

    • @cicero2
      @cicero2 2 года назад

      The war is being brolonged to keep two Christian armies slugging it out. That has always been the aim of the the luciferians. They have destroyed more than a quarter of a billion Christians over the last few centuries. There would have been a 3rd WW had HRC won in 2016, but thankfully Trump prevailed.

    • @小牛-o5f
      @小牛-o5f 2 года назад +14

      @Cynthia DeMario Actually throwing Saddam out proved to be a very bad thing for the People of Iraq.

    • @42Mrgreenman
      @42Mrgreenman 2 года назад +4

      @@小牛-o5f Also, the CIA provided intelligence to Saddam during the Iraq-Iran conflict and looked the other way when he started using chemical weapons. It was the policy of the Reagan administration to ensure that Iraq won that war. A possible cause for the invasion of Kuwait was Iraq's inability to pay back the loans from Kuwait to fund the Iran-Iraq war (~$14bn) and that Kuwait had refused to decrease oil production to their OPEC quota, thus keeping oil prices low that was then seen as an aggressive move to keep Iraq in debt. (Also, the US used untrue propaganda about babies being taken out of incubators in hospital and being thrown on the ground to galvanize the population into being for the invasion) But overall, Saddam kept a lid on the sectarian and familial conflicts in Iraq (His Baath party was secular) that would go on to tear the country apart (With our help) after we eliminated him and created a power vacuum...
      Point being, it's complicated...but I feel that humanity should be smart enough to not have to resort to shooting war of any kind...it seems so simple as many sci-fi stories have described, turn killing war into some kind of sporting competition (Robots, VR, ect.), and poof, the horror is gone...there would still be conflict, for we are a conflicted species, but at least we could get rid of the barbarism...but even that is not so simple as there would have to be a global educational system to educate all people in the possible alternatives via negotiation and the understanding of the circumstances that cause war in the first place...

    • @小牛-o5f
      @小牛-o5f 2 года назад

      @Cynthia DeMario Read the comment of S Crosmun. Yes, Saddam was a brutal dictator. But it's not so easy. He also kept the many factions in Iraq at bay. After Saddam was gone, a completely corrupt puppet regime took over and civil war was the result.

  • @Hoppenoffer
    @Hoppenoffer Год назад +3

    Amnesty International never said one word about the atrocity of the war on drugs and rendered themselves invalid.

  • @normrobichaud1223
    @normrobichaud1223 2 года назад +155

    During the 1sr Iraq war, CNN emerged as the new face of real journalism. As an integral part of the MSM, they have changed. Chris Hedges, Eva Bartlett, Alexander Mercouris & Alex Christoforou are the new faces of real journalism.

    • @16252
      @16252 2 года назад

      The people you mention are a bunch of con artists who take money from Russia, whatever their motivations might be.

    • @italyavenue
      @italyavenue 2 года назад +36

      You must not be aware of the fact that CNN used a set to make it look like they had foreign correspondents on the ground in Iraq. I was a writer and researcher for legacy media for many years. This is well known to us and a point of humor. I’m pretty sure you can still find “behind the scenes” footage from that time on RUclips. It’s really funny, in my opinion. It may be dishonest but it’s nothing compared to the many examples of atrocity propaganda I’ve seen over the years. A totally fictitious news story resulted in more than 1 million children dying in Iraq. We interdicted the chlorine that Iraq needed to treat their drinking water. Mass dysentery ensued. This happened because Americans failed to hold their leadership in government and media accountable. Nothing has changed. If anything, we are more idiotic then ever before, while government has become even more tyrannical.

    • @Hipwood2909
      @Hipwood2909 2 года назад +12

      Check out REDACTED

    • @tomgnyc
      @tomgnyc 2 года назад

      Alex and Alex are great on ukraine but not good on much else from what I've seen. Like having right wing hacks like Tom Luongo and Robert Barnes.

    • @debsrose5001
      @debsrose5001 2 года назад +8

      The New Atlas is also excellent and ofcourse Andrei Martyanov

  • @teardrop720
    @teardrop720 2 года назад +57

    Thank you for pointing out what true journalism should be versus what is avaliable now, i.e., the activists and career "journalists" and media organisations that are acting as propagandists. Its sad that they are flooding the scene, obliterating all unbiased, objective, evidence based, transparent and accountable reporting.

    • @justicar5
      @justicar5 2 года назад

      That's what journalists have always been.....

  • @eliashruska4699
    @eliashruska4699 2 года назад +50

    Excellent report as always. Chris Hedges keep up the important contribution you make to democracy.

    • @hegeliandetective1034
      @hegeliandetective1034 Год назад +2

      --make to mob rule?

    • @otherwiseunarmed4187
      @otherwiseunarmed4187 Год назад

      Chris has found his groove, and manages to maintain a large audience of (largely) unthinking, unambitious uneducated, by pushing a commie 'utopia' that appeals to the "victims of capitalism', which actually threatens 'democracy'... Take it to China

    • @Ketowski
      @Ketowski Год назад +1

      Well put.

    • @johngawrylash7732
      @johngawrylash7732 Год назад

      Russia started this war by moving into Crimea in 2011 , 3 years before the referendum was held in 2014. That's illegal and nobody is saying boo.

  • @Julian-i9n2q
    @Julian-i9n2q Год назад +1

    THIS IS THE SINGLE MOST IMPORTANT VIDEO ABOUT MEDIA DISINFORMATION, PARTICULARLY REGARDING UKRAINIAN WAR

  • @TheTruthlady
    @TheTruthlady 2 года назад +24

    💯 I’ve discussed this with educated, some highly degreed, and for the most part, they believe whatever the mainstream media says even when the story doesn’t add up.

    • @mikearchibald744
      @mikearchibald744 2 года назад +1

      They did a study on this and actually found that less educated people were actually MORE likely to be open minded IF the information actually came from a trusted source. They are much more likely to be skeptical of sources, but thats kind of the opposite of what we are usually told.

    • @donnaleist698
      @donnaleist698 2 года назад

      I'm American and
      Anytime I post the truth, I'm called a Russian troll, Putin lover, disinformation... gaslighting is believed as fact. I get sick to see Ukraine flags and no outrage at the demands/expectations that we must
      Eat/deal with the hardships of the continued Sanctions and spending for Ukraine's sovereignty But Not our own BORDER that's being invaded.
      I have sympathy for innocent people in Ukraine but I keep in mind the crimes against the people in the Donbass, that were overlooked, condoned, ignored or accepted. In that light, these same people seek refuge in other countries and everyone is supposed to treat them as victims and support them and give them special privileges.
      The best part is they must know the truth but they go to host countries and continue to bash Russia and ignore crimes against Donbass and plead for help for Ukraine. I'M FED UP!
      Why no negotiations...
      Is Ukraine blackmailing
      Joe Biden?

    • @mikearchibald744
      @mikearchibald744 2 года назад +2

      @@donnaleist698 those are some pretty nasty views thats why you are probably called out. Ukrainians have little to do with this, certainly the refugges are doing lilttle more than escapting war. The issue is complex but we have little to do with it, invading is hardly the answer to anything, so that should be challenged. But russia is hardly the one doing invading.

    • @TheTruthlady
      @TheTruthlady 2 года назад +1

      @@mikearchibald744 👍 yes and we know that Russia did not blow up their own pipeline 👀

  • @simplica1
    @simplica1 2 года назад +16

    Really glad that this phenomenon of not able to talk about the wrongs of Ukraine is being focused on. This convo is just so cool! Subscribed!