True. What do you think about Dr. Thomas Sowell?

Mama ain't raise no fool dawg. Homeboy could see into the future! Future....future.....future.....future......future....future.... *echo with gradually decreasing volume*

Ikr

Thank you for making the date clear

@@barackthecomposer6642 Smart man worth listening too !

His notion of faith is not at all the boilerplate Xian response at all. Faith is actually not even the bible verse idea of: 'Faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things unseen ' no it is more about trust, or acceptance of the good in strangers to not be suspicious of them and be fear driven to the point of shying away from them.

Your words resonate powerfully with my feelings. 🌹

Listen to the talk with Alex Epstein who demolishes him! Love Alex Epstein! Many YT videos with Alex.

And why is college tuition so high? Because students are made to take out loans. And the loans are backed by the government. So your clever colleges can jack up tuition as high as they please.

So often revolutionaries become the new tyrants. Once they taste power and control. And the liberals and radicals can be the most intolerant of any on the scene. They have their agenda and methods as evil as the state which needs these rebels to make into scapegoats. Which is exactly what Hitler did to the Jews. Scapegoats to blame. As happened in our time with the Spanish Inquisition. The globalists no longer need migrant farm workers because of robotazition on the factory farms. They don't need the migrant farm workers. Therefore the Spanish are made into criminals and put into Concentration Camps. ONLY IN AMERICA

A fantasy....you will be a victim of humanity, which is greedy, violent and sadistic.

That is part of the reason. Let's not forget that under Clinton, they changed the laws and now student debt cannot be discharged in bankruptcy.

@@footlicker6585you sound vaccinated.

He's great on inequality but his apocalyptic stuff makes him look like an idiot

Light and truth is such a rarity.

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100%

Agree

I'll tell you what we're being prepared for: the dehumanization of the poor lost souls who supported Trump and were ready to risk their livelihoods and their lives for him. The next time, they will be greeted with force.

Trump wasn't the cause, Trump was the sign of the cause. Don't not threaten use of force unless you understand the consequences. History is full of examples, and they are stained with blood of millions.

I rebelled against that culture and now I have been ostracized, blacklisted and living a tortured life as a targeted individual! I wish I had listened to this 9 years ago because this how long I have fought to survive corporate America jobs only to end up just as he described it! 😢

Yes. Toxic positivity wears away at you as much as despair. It's exhausting to be forced to be agreeable constantly - especially about our own disenfranchisement.

Hedges has finally come out of the closet, as far as defending Capitalism. He also claims to be a Socialist, yet hates every Socialist state ever to exist. He claims to want revolution, yet condemns those working toward revolution. He just wants to sell more books.

GREAT question.

Me too

Sure man,let's smoke a joint and go to Woodstock

Might be too late.

You do not grasp meaningful usage of that metaphor, but it is true that cap. brings those two negatives

yes thank you

'One must imagine Sisyphus happy.'

A lot is wrong in the world. He's just telling it like it is. No use putting your head in the sand. By acknowledgement hopefully he would be in the process of seeking solutions. I find AWAKE Magazine presents problems and yet always addresses solutions to what it presents. Try reading it

We know what to do. We have enough info, we have the technology. Switch to renewable energy on a massive scale, fund conservation efforts, deploy electrified mass transit on a large scale to reduce the need for cars, remodel our cities to be walkable or bikeable to reduce the need for cars some more. Switch as much as we can to a plant-based diet to reduce the amount of land dedicated to growing animal fodder so we can re-grow the native ecosystems. Work to shield the most vulnerable costal cities, by concrete walls and mangrove floodlands. Shit, turn New York into New Venice if we must. Stop with the for-profit construction and focus on essential construction. Encourage local community agriculture, invest in permaculture projects, standardize electrical grids across countries and continents to enable power distribution in case of shortfalls. We've had proof-of-concepts on all of these. This has been done already, in places. Work with other nations no matter how much we dislike them. It's possible if we think about doing this not in terms of cost in money, but in terms of cost if we don't do it.

That's the problem: The cult of Consumerism is self-congratulatory.

That's probably because Americans are real sticklers about being told what they should and shouldn't buy. Can't expect to go the the "Land of the Free" and hope to get much ear time trying to dissuade them from buying monster trucks, personal jets or miniguns, its just not the American Way...

Warren Flood As Morris Berman has pointed out, it's not the "American way" unless you're part of a tradition that includes Henry David Thoreau, Mark Twain and others. Berman speaks of a "New Monastic Tradition" which might include eco-villages, intentional communities, off-grid homesteads and lifestyles, etc. In all cases it would involve a more agrarian lifestyle with an emphasis on permaculture, integrated organic gardening and farming, etc.

pukulu Sounds great, now we just need to figure out how to get him a broader audience

You can't elect such a leader in America

Bethlehem, PA. They changed their name to Moravian University two years ago.

@@EvonZundel thanks for the info; do you know why they changed ?

Everything Chris Hedges says, another wealthy white liberal virtue signaling

@@gregsaddie If they are prepared to lie on such a basic point, why should I trust the rest of the presentation? Part of being an adult is learning to prioritize. I'll go and listen to someone being honest thank you.

​@@EkuuleusNorth Found the 🤡 Keep shilling for the fossil fuel industry

Michael Parenti is a good one too

What sources would you recommend for an accurate account? I don't know much about the history of the former soviet republics.

Michael Swartz First of all Czechoslovakia was a Soviet republic. I do not really know any sources. My knowledge does not come from reading about them (especially not in English). I know Chris Hedges is somewhat wrong because I took part in those events.

How so? How is he mistaken I mean.

Michael Swartz 1) Vaclav Klaus, who is mentioned as someone who fought the regime since 1977, did not take part in any activity against the regime. He only joined the opposition in the course of so called Velvet revolution. 2) Jan Palach died in hospital, not at the campus. He set fire to himself in January 1969, which was before new regime was established, so I doubt it was not reported in the media. At the time (1968-69) the Czechoslovak media were probably the freest ever. 3) Jan Palach's remains were moved to another sematary where it was burried. I do not know when. But I am sure it was burried there in 1980s because I lived about 5 km from that sematary at the time. 4) Marta Kubisova was not banned from the media, recording and touring immediately after Warsaw Pact armies invasion. It took another one or two years until the new regime was established. 5) So the Marta's song Chris Hedges mentions was released as a record and huge number of people had the record in spite of the fact that it was 20 years old.

Michael Swartz It is also quite ironic to mention Havel in the speech which is also critical of US military actions. Havel was an enthuasiatic supporter of US military intervention in Iraq, Yugoslavia (he coined the orwellian term "humanitarian bombing"), Afghanistan and Iraq again. He wrote a letter to the US president asking him to invade Libya.

Good ridance

And ironically this is an optimist's speech for what will happen

Don't ask me Sharon Sharon...?

You're actually dumb Learn meteorology, climate science and atmospheric science and you will know how foolish you sound.

You're a nasty piece of work. Please leave your stench-ridden droppings elsewhere

@@johntao6822 And I can see that you are a very well cultured man. XD

@@johntao6822 typical leftist, using jargon and comintern approved insults instead of reasoned debate

THAT is what you got out of Moby Dick.?

@@tabo01 I mostly got interesting facts about XIX century whaling industry out of Moby Dick.

Save time, Captain Ahab is killed by the whale

it's disappointing that people will ignore the issue of environmental degradation because of a hyped-up label like "global warming." it's sort of pathetic, if you consider the fact that Our Very Lives depend on the biodiversity that we are destroying.

I do not disagree that we need to take care of our environment, I just think the entire "manmade global warming" crap is made up. A way to tax and control, and steal even more money from the the people, while a few ultra rich benefit from the deal , because of their investments in various companies that would benefit big time after a carbon tax.

Eddie Konjic most taxes are simply theft. Wesley Snipes is done serving time for refusing to pay taxes...i wish he'd publicly tell Everyone "It Was Worth It"