When I listen to Chris Hedges, all of a sudden I feel like I'm transported back to Paris or Vienna in the early 1900's, when ideas, conversation, intellect, and civility were celebrated, instead of ridiculed, called unAmerican, dismissed as 'Woke,' or even spoke about by 'enemies of the people.' Chris Hedges isn't afraid to mention Karl Marx, or Gandhi, or Patrick Henry, or even Malcolm X in the same sentence. Chris Hedges knows that the 'proletariat' have been dumbed-down, fed a diet of violence, sex, phony religion, racism, classism, Zionism, militarism, and anti-Islam enculturation and indoctrination over the course of their lives. The eagerness in which everyone is so eager for war, reminds me of Pre-World War One.

Chris Hedges is certainly no ordinary man,willing to risk his life speaking truth against those who deceive and engage in conflicts and wars massacring innocent civilians and their children.Can righteousness prevail on it's time for ,at present,it's difficult to comprehend how all this injustice can be stopped.

You are a tireless servant Chris Hedges, thanks for this incredibly important work

I love chris hedges!

Materialism,greed,ignorance is killing humanity.

Chris Hedges is so brave to speak the complete truth about our society and our world today! I admire this man so much! Let us all open our ears and our minds and take in this truth and knowledge of our dire situation at this time. Blessings on all who understand.

What makes us human are people like Chris!

War is a force! A must watch Chris Hedges.

Invariably, at the end of his presentations some one in the audience asks, "Why the gloom and doom?" or "Is there any hope? or "Why can't you give us a plan?" or something like that. Suddenly, in 2020, they stop doing that.

Thank you Chris hedges, I have been woke in the last 2 years of trump. Quick story talking with my 15 yr old daughter about going to a trade school or what is after high school she replied “mom I really don’t want to talk about this right now the climate is done we have 17 months before it’s over, so I would really like to spend the time with the ppl I love and live for moment” as she was sobbing the entire time. I don’t know where she got her figured but the moment shook me, imagine being the generation of no hope and as a parent I had no answers, besides let’s go protest and resist.

No one so powerfully elucidates the realities of our failing democracy and Empire in such a hauntingly accurate way. His sage examinations validate what so many of us witness and feel in a manner few achieve. I am always honored to hear him speak.

He's a fellow vegan! ❤️ To me that is similarly important to socialism

Mr. Hedges is a truly remarkable and brilliant man that should be part of the mainstream media and should be recognized for his insights and how to fix humankind.

I just love the knowledge and sanity of this guy as he is speaking truth to power!!

Corporate power does recognize that the police are a weak link.. This is the basis of (“Toys for Cops”) The common practice of the military giving local and city police gifts of guns, hardware and ammunition.. This forges a bond of loyalty between police and the military and drives a wedge between police and the communities they serve...

“Possessed by a vision” something in them makes it impossible to compromise: capacity to live in truth when you face despotic power.

If only so called Christian leaders can be like Chris Hedges the world would have being better place, this lovely man Eventhough he is a wise man and strong believer yet he can maneuver and knows the problems of having loyalty to religion or a country but just pure human being.

A brilliant and prescient analysis of the terminal state the Disunited States is in. It almost seems unreal, but it is very real for an increasingly large number of people... It's almost an Orwellian trap where you are not aware of being trapped, and therefore can't conceive of an exit, or escape.A self imposed slavery, you can't imagine an alternative. Thank you Chris.

when the democratic party moves to the right - it pushes the right wing party farther to the right - it becomes insane - Chris hedges.

Excellent. Thanks for your kindness and effort.

Chris Hedges is a national treasure!

5:30 intro skip service

Pine Ridge, SD has THE lowest life expectancy for men at 48 years of age (and I presume women) as Haiti's is 61.3 for men and 65.7 for women.

Speaking truth to Power. If only our Client Media did the same.

Excellent talk, thank you

Mr Hedges, thanks

When can we tear it down?

Thank u Mr Chris Hedges, i am disciplinaire principale and honest man, struggle made mi seen the theater of lies i have lost my brothers and sisters for to be honest what they dont like to hear the truth, now i am 59 years old and had a stroke and paralize my right side of my body, but i live positief with my lady angel and two childeren boy and girl and i am happy with the little what whe have, in this mad world with no fear, fight for the good things in live, live honest and die honest,, i love all humankind,my love regards, Mr Chris Hedges is speciaal,!! real human!!!

Thank you for all you do....

1:06:49 😮 James Luther Adams. I didn’t know about him! Next: Concentric circles, building sustainable, ethical life.

Best introduction of all time!!

When I listen to You I am so encouraged to stand up as well i have a method that can and will free many people of jail. and foster care and police brutality and you have brought tears to my eyes

my god, he could have given this lecture this past week. june 2020 as george floyd protests continue . we needed him to run for congress but can't have his on contact show as well.

11:00 Hedges says "spectacle society" but I've NEVER heard him say anything about Situationists existing. Ken Knabb wrote "the Joy of Revolution" in 1997, 88 pages that radically changed this young leftists worldview. Necessary.

Starts at 5:30

Amazing talk

Very interesting. Thank you for this video.

In these situations people always go what can we do its hopeless. BULLSH!T!! We have always had the power! We are what feeds these corporations! Our money we spend is what makes their power viable! If we banded together against a corporation we did not agree with and collectively quit buying their crap POOF!! Corporation disappears! But we are divided, leaderless and distracted by bread and circus!

Does anyone know the name of the German author to whom Hedges referred near the end? Thanks

Blessed are the meek for they shall inherit the Earth, a polluted and contaminated desolate wasteland

1:12: Very prescient of Hedges. Too bad the resistance never grew. If it happens now, the battle will be that much more difficult.

44:00 a (successful) modern revolution is GLOBAL in scope: the human chain reaction must spread faster than the repression can close in. -Ken Knabb

Thank God, another adult in the room!

"The House of the Dead" by Dostoyevsky. Pardon few hours before execution for planning to assassination of the Tsar. Escape latter to write some of his best novels.

5:50 skip intro - not that it was bad ❤️

I think we can gage our success a a species, by how many Chris Hedges we have in the world.

This is from about 2015 yes?

I HOPE CHRIS HEDGES WILL SEE THIS. This video goes back to 2019, so who will still read the comments? I tend to avoid long videos as I have to fit them into my day. Once I fell asleep at my computer and the videos just go oin from one to the next. I woke up to the miracle of an eloquen poetic speech by a man who knows everything, so I love him as I do Rosa Luixemburg. Another interesting figure in the past is John Ruskin. He decided at about the same time as Marx that he had to investigate the ecomnomics underlying the arts. Like Marx, he made mince meat of the established economists. Ruskin accepted capitalism but added that its only function should be to produce human riches and that if it multiplied itself for its own sake we were in the shit - the last word is mine.

Chris Hedges triggers the right people 👍

He says it 5 years ago and now it happening. 100%

Yes. Agree. But what will we do? I have long thought that we need a revolution. How can we influence the disenfranchised to pay attention to what is happening? When so many have already been forced into hand to mouth lives, unable to save $400 for emergencies, when there is no real public television and radio, when celebrity is the only thing that grabs the attention of these folks, how can we help to make change?

55:08?

Chris Hedges should be a guest on banned.video and infowars.com

The tide is turning and quickly on both sides. Their mistake was to not take any air out of this tire as their greed wouldn't allow it. Now all is on the line. I can only have hope in the good of the people of this country it will bring a reckoning that will bring sanity to the center.

"Power concedes nothing without a demand"......

Absolute Truth Be Told.

for those interested: 1:13:32: Klaus Theweleit, Male Fantasies. orig. 1977, engl. 1987.

As main stream CIA psy op viral television programming entraps billions of innocent sheep 🐑 with global deception.

how do you eradicate "the manipulation of despair"; which of your books describes the depravity of pornography ?

Chris I'm ready , dallas tx, let me know

Chris Hedges: God bless you!! You tell the truth. You give me a fighting spirit.

Spend it or loose it yesss. True benevolence ❤️ funding eachother not for profit. Prisons and illness as a product is pure criminal 🤕🤪 I was raised Unitarian

Kropotkin wrote about prisons in Russia, France and Turkey.

Spot on!

Mussolini coined the word fascism in 1917 as "reactionary corporatism"

Important lessons for all rebels

ugh. In Q&A, he's saying that he doesn't think anyone left or right would be in any way tolerant of the corporate looting that occurred in '08... Here we are... We've been looted again

Our closest analog to Jeremiah today

starts at 5:43

Mr. Hedges has a real moral viewpoint, and that is to be applauded. But his analysis of class in American society is of the most banal and vulgar kind. It is based more on attitude than on a real consideration of the historically contingent circumstances on which America is based. You can't slap European realities wholesale onto American political development, nor European programs onto American systems of governance. You can't slap European Green environmentalism on top of a class analysis and think all the pieces are going to meld. The needs of the average working person don't necessarily mix with the concerns of bourgeois intellectuals. In the end, his prescriptions involve a mass adoption of radical ideology, rather than the incremental evolution of society in all of its sectors into a greater consciousness of our commonality, into a greater recognition that democracy is the best methodology around which to structure society. Lefties in the US are sadly drawn to the revolutionary romanticism of the early Marx, to the simplistic division of all politics into good and evil, heroes and demons. That's why they burn out so quickly and sell themselves to the marketplace, soothing their hurts with material pursuits. Even Michael Harrington ended up with a more consensus building, incremental approach to progressive reform. Change through the evolutionary process of small pressures, through the public choosing change rather than that forced from above. Democracy arrives when people learn how to do it.

43:08 “revolutions are fundamentally non-violent. When the soldiers join the people. No will to support a propped up regime.” Thank you. 46:24 longer state refuses to address fixing, the more radicalized the affected people become. 49:26 100billion on surveillance supports corporate strength. Power is consuming itself.

If u are a Conservative and think he is picking on u stick around he will get to the left as well. No one running afoul escapes the wrath of this compassionate man.

A question was once asked on the net about who you considered as a hero - I think they meant in the political world. I wrote that I didn't have one but that If I had to name a hero, it would be Chris Hedges. I have a heroine in the past; Rosa Luxemburg. I would have folloewed her unto death; her integrity was incorruptible. I'm glad Hedges mentioned her.

Things are going to shit because soon somethings gotta give; wether its the collapse of the ecosystems,economy and/or war within the next 9 years life as we know it will end and chaos will follow

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over but expecting different results!

Everything has changed. This Administration can and will deport whoever they wish. AND We have now become shuttered to the world With another temple of humanity crumbling We shall now, at the behest of Our highly corrupt, Majical Supreme Court We, are whisked away to the Good ‘ol Days of pre-enlightenment. The Imperial presidency has begun to flower❗️

HOMELAND over all us!

👍🏼✊🏼✌🏼

I believe he speaking to now where it is already too late

Chris Hedges is sounding the alarm back in 2015 and nobody listened. Society is now derailing like a slow motion train wreck and most are still sitting on the sidelines like frogs waiting to boil. Sad in retrospect. Bleak in prospect

Why people don’t do this is unthinkable

I cried at the story at 57.00

War suck,s. We can all agree.

49:05 too bad we couldn’t force the banks to just break even.

And the idiocy continues...

This time around there ain't no FDR to save the rich...

When TV is full of hacks, shills, and liars, screaming the most ridiculous bullshit at the top of their lungs, and a voice like Chris Hedges is ignored. Fucking tragic.

I 💘 you my brother .

Chris hedged

Amen but what’s the plan Sam??

the video starts at five minutes and 30 seconds, you can thank me later

I thought that Chris was going to talk about the revolting nature of all religions so sad

Pen ✒️ is Mightier than Sword ⚔️🗡️⚔️. 🔏. 👁️☯️👁️

"In the end, I don't fight fascists because I will win. I fight fascists because I don't like fascism."

I wonder if I'm the only viewer that also is a Daily Wire subscriber... but I never got smarter by listening to anyone I agree with. one similarity I get from this that I've often heard as well by Tim Pool.... we Americans think we're somehow immune to political collapse. Normalcy Bias is the anesthesia that'll keep us under until we wake up in the middle of open heart surgery.

49:03 Even non-Marxists agree, ya gotta read Marx.

Vision must exist as common sense justice. Rape 💉, murder and oppression, particularly for 💰 of any other soul, begs immediate imprisonment. To be tried within the ICC. Guilty until proven innocent. Free Julian Assange

Follow the money 💰. Ask which crypto ponzi scheme International cartel of bilderberg bankers 💰 bribe your generals, presidents and industry CEOs to enslave vaccinated 💉 sheep 🐑? W02020060606

Wait, my favorite line, Chris shreds Sam Harris. That, I have to watch.

January 15, 2020 agreement between China Xi and USA Trump? i expect is illegal and may contain viral 💉 UN WHO content.