The best part of Chris is that he uses simple and straightforward language. Even my cat is nodding in agreement when Chris makes a point.

Really powerful and astounding oratory. It's the preacher, the journalist and the political dissident all rolled into the polymath genius of one man

It can't collaps soon enough!!! It took all joy and quallity of life away all over the world spreading fear, death, utter sadnes and what not!!!

*_”Jesus didn't come to make us rich.”_* Nailed it. Chris just summed up everything wrong with the American Christian right.

For some reason I keep coming back to this presentation. I saw parts of it a few weeks ago and have returned. Wisdom and good history do not age... We need hundreds of more voices such as Mr. Hedges'. I am grateful that UKposts has come along, for a desperately needed respite from sickening corporate media. Be well.

The Question Never Asked - Is The Purpose Of Society To Nurture And Support Its Citizens Or To Make Millionaires And Billionaires Richer?

Same as every empire in history.They grow and they fall.All eyes are to the east to China and that is the next chapter in history.Very honest and true speech.

(50 m in) Mr. Hedges describes exactly why the French Revolution of 1789 occurred. People wanted to eat and live. King Louis XVI happened to be well-loved. He was not a bad egg himself. So in 1789 he was offered his life and the crown if he would simply stop extorting and starving his population and simply start listening to their grievances. But he was so far removed from reality, and his advisers were so adamant to keep the old ways of extracting the last penny from people for the benefit of the nobles and the king, that he refused. So they beheaded him and all of his fellow extortionists. Wait a minute, it is like I'm talking about the current American government but got the times and titles mixed up!

Chris feels like the kind of guy that would engage any person who had a genuine question, he is very approachable and yet so incredibly intelligent.

Incredible. I never ever tire of listening to this man. I will definitely be listening to this a few more times.

I love Chris Hedges, I often quote him to my progressive friends - who don't listen to him. One point of relevance I often hear him skirt though, is the unreasonable explanation, dispossession, afforded many former union workers who are attracted to hate groups. The fact is, many of these people vote conservative, they loved and still love Reagan and do so because both conservatives and Reagan were seen as stomping down Blacks and other Non-Whites, making a way for their livelihoods. What they never counted on was the Conservative spirit turning on them, which it has, yet they still cling to it.

I don't think there's anyone on earth more qualified to bring clarity to what's wrong with our country than Chris Hedges. His life experience is so vast and varied that, combined with his super human communication skills, is like a beam of light shining through the darkness. The importance of what he brings to the table is incalculable. He's a true National Treasure, a totally rare and unique individual.

What a tonic listening to this man is. I only wish I could articulate myself like he does and have the clarity of mind.

Luckily he doesn't call to action, otherwise he might be ... Oh, wait. He actually does. Hope he lives long and prosper!

I would love for Chris Hedges to come to the University of Regina to deliver a lecture. I would attend in a heartbeat.

Chris Hedges is amazing, speaks the truth and is very intelligent, he speaks for the love of his country..

The fact that over 25k people have viewed this in approximately 1wk gives me hope. I know the views are not in the millions, but we are listening and changing. I did not know of Hedges before Bernie Sanders. Now I follow him. There is hope because of him and others. But, we need millions instead of thousands who listen. Hope.

I've been saying this stuff since Trump won the election. Of course, Chris Hedges says it much more eloquently (and cleaner) than I do, but though I was shocked at first when I found out Trump was our president, the more I thought about it, the more I realized, "you know, he's perfect for us." How can the culture that gave us The Jersey Shore have anyone else in its highest office?

"Mainstream Liberals are Hypocrites" you said it Mr Chris. Give them the UN-diluted Truth.

A brave American professor who dares to speak out the truth. Receive mine respect from china.

With "real" journalists like Chris Hedges ,Glenn Greenwald, Jeremy Scahill, James Risen and Julian Assange there is still some hope for this world.

I love Chris' dead-pan stare, you can hear people start to stutter when they meet it.

Chris Hedges makes sense to me. He appears to me to be honest, intelligent and straight to the point. Thank You Chris!

Chris Hedges' lecture on 'The Collapse of the American Empire' was my first encounter with his work, and it couldn't have come at a more pivotal moment for me. His ability to articulate complex issues with such clarity and depth is truly commendable. Today, his words gave me the strength to continue living with purpose. After 9/11, the world felt like it was unraveling, but this speech provided invaluable insights and a renewed perspective. Thank you, Mr. Hedges, for shedding light on crucial matters and giving me hope when it was needed most.

FIX THIS: poor parenting, lousy public schools, lack of discipline, lack of love for life, Fatherless families and for god sake, when you get behind the wheel focus on your driving and nothing else. spread out and go with the flow.

“No matter how hard Evil tries, it can never quite match up to the power of Good, because Evil is ultimately self-destructive. Evil may set out to corrupt others, but in the process corrupts itself.” ― John Connolly,

When you start seeing Military Parades then you know it's nearly the end.

Damn can not believe I only discovered this man now. Sad it seems we have moved closer to what this man predicts. The train seems almost impossible to stop.

We have only one party in America; The Corporate Party. Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a great American, maybe the greatest American we have seen since MLK.

The near future looks quite bleak! Decaying capitalism and decaying environment are a one two punch which may destroy this country if not the planet .

Chris was on fire!

Chris Hedges; Richard Wolff; Guy McPherson; Peter Wadhams Paul Beckwith are my info regarding the soon collapse.

This man's wisdom always brings tears to my eyes… I'm not sure if it's out of a sense of hope or fear or both… I am however thankful for his clarity and sincerity

I like Chris, he looks like the kinda guy who mows his lawns himself.

Checkout Morris Berman if like Chris hedges

Do you mean all this time they have been saying what we misinterpreted as let us pray they meant "Let us prey"?

3:18 intro skip service.

Much respect to Chris hedges from Kenya. The same system exists here , and other countries in Africa. It's a system created by your system, using a few select politicians to milk the country's resources, with the select politrickians stealing their share. Come and talk in African universities.

Chris, you honest, wonderful, intelligent and courageous man. Thank for all the work you do and for putting yourself out there.

"your job is to maintain the system, not to question it".........epic quote. I admire this guy.

Unbelievable!!I quit a good paying job in jails for the same reason Chris mentions @34:28 and it is true. Actually,I was chased out by the same people I was working with. There were only a couple of ex military guys who agreed with me,but they learned how to keep their mouths shut. Dear God!!

It’s great that the event wasn’t cut short. So many QA sessions are truncated.

Corruption and weakness abounds, the money is gone.

I am pleased I discovered Mr Hedges. In fact I am stunned and it takes a lot for me to be stunned. Suddenly things have fallen into place. Things I suspected are no longer a conspiracy theory, they are facts.

All these years that I have lived in Europe and Australasia we have been bombarded with Hollywood movies where the American hero comes to save the world. Isn't it funny that the US is the most likely, and willing nation to run this world over a cliff. This reminds me of the Germans who, when Hitler came along, largely believed he was father Christmas when in truth he was the gas man.

The best part of her speech was the acknowledgement.

Great presentation...

Yes - Chris Starts With The Powell Memo - So Much Stems From That Document.

The problem with America today is the Greed of the very few.

Wow! thanks for all the imfo.

This reporting is great, May not be long before these voices are no longer available to us. It is going to get worse before it gets better.

Anyone watching this again in June2020 and thinking is Chris Hedges a prophet?

Please help educate the masses: pass this video to everyone you know to save our democracy and give your children a chance to be free.

Good job Chris. We're all rooting for you.

Finally someone referencing and applying Durkheims work to modern day America! I like this man

Outstanding!

Basically, we are all stuffed... free Julian Assange.

excellent analysis and delivery...

Very good

Wealth creates wealth. When the top 10% owning 90% of the country, the nation is doomed to fail, a matter of time. Whoever allows such social development would face the same consequences, whether a democracy or non-democracy. Income disparity that's right, is the main culprit. Make adjustment, the sooner the better.

Rebellion is all about faith>>the Power of Resistance - it has the moral force> faith is the belief good draws towards the good>>>

I have the deepest respect, admiration, for Chris Hedges. As a practicing Presbyterian, like Trump, Chris Hedges advise and take on life must be taken seriously. I have concerns he is a magnet for being played because of his high status amongst academia and the moral majority. I would ask him to reconsider his parroting of Trump’s enemies “Russian collusion,” and pray he never is played as a “useful idiot.” Chris Hedges is a leader in these dark times. Render not evil for evil. Chris is in my prayers. He walks a rough path.

Thanks

Epic stuff

His analysis is based on facts and evidence. He is essentially acting as a Warner. Divine Law states What we Sow so shall we Reap. Too much wrong is done to common mortals and time has come to reverse this process...

Amazing that this interview was two years ago.....it's like it was spelling out what is currently happening this very year 2020

Thanks!

Hedges is OG. He knows his stuff.

Prof, C. Hedges is talking about reality. Empires come and go, it is a fact of human history. Now, it is China and Russia fighting to fill in the vacuum the American Empire is leaving. India has a more complex population with too many sects, religions and languages, therefore, it is not on line behind China and Russia. Oh, gee! I was not fully conscious that there is a new religion labelled as "USA American Christianity.' It explains the current political affairs.

I have followed Hedges for decades and so appreciate the wisdom he shares. ❤

Inspiring talk.

He is describing the underlying causes of the 2020 Minnesota riots!!

Donald Trump's presidency is Circus without the bread.

Brilliant as usual. Thanks Chris Hedges

Chris follows in the footsteps of many a great American writer and political commentator. His voice and words bring to life and texturise the human condition in ways that few can do . He brings both gravitace and soul. However there is a political and philosophical confusion within him. He seeks on the one hand to raise the whole question of necessity by describing the dire nature of our condition, but then gets himself lost on the remedy. Like many such as Chomsky, the inability to achieve a consistency of logic and argument reveals the echo of an 'emotional attachment' to the language and idealism of the very bourgeoise he despises. His straddling of the political spectrum , quoting Lenin and revolution one minute, then reformist keynesianism is to essentially confuse and end the conversation with an 'illusion of a remedy', but one where the philosophical truth is neither clear , and in regards to Vaslav Haval a distortion of a much wider truth. The word 'revolution' can apply to so many things , but it 's essential meaning is within a wider context, otherwise it can mean everything and nothing . Even fascists like Steve Bannon will call for ''revolution.'' Sadly Chris leaves us without a rudder and without a centre , and as such we are all then meat for the forces of reaction . A mere glance of how his heroes have travelled ends with where we are now, so no ''success story'' there I'm afraid . The only voices that really gauged the depth and breadth of the problem . The only voices that truly shout from their graves are Marx Lenin and Trotsky . 'We live' what they portended as the future struggle of humanity if capitalism and its laws of motion were not overthrown, and the world put on a new trajectory. I would encourage viewers to grasp the urgency of our global situation and that of the working classes the world over . Force must be met with force . ''Resist'' , ''reform'' and the politics of ''hope'' are poor bedfellows as history time and again has shown. They are tantamount to capitulation, and those who speak them are leading a merry dance back to where we have come . All ruling classes will not go without a fight , and ''reform'' is a contradiction in terms when it comes to the laws of capital . The bourgeois ''socialist'' like Sanders or Corbyn cannot use the system against itself. Join the Socialist Equality Party , educate and raise the political consciousness of the working class. Capitalism must be ''replaced'' with Socialism. Our children's lives are dependent upon it , and we do not have all the time in the world!!

Some truth, I think, leavened with lots of bunk.

As I see this in 2021 I feel Hedges was actually an optimist

Chris Hedges. The voice of sanity in a mad, crazy world. The way Chris breaks things down and explains things in Laynems terms makes you see what’s going on with clarity. As a non American who’s worked in America in on & off for the least ten years, working for a American company, I’ve never seen the U.S.A and its politics in such a state and so partisan & divided. China must be loving the fact America is tearing itself apart from the inside out. Through my company I could of had the chance to live and work in America full time, sponsored fully funded Green card the lot, then most likely citizenship after a few years. I would of gone maybe even just ten years ago, but now? I don’t see America as a desirable place to live.. and it’s a shame because I love America I think it’s a great country with so much to see and do, but it’s society is falling apart.. so sad, let’s hope there are brighter days ahead for America🙏🏼

This talk has aged well.

3:30

Make America Moral Again, dump the trump regime!!!!!!!

just breath taking! great indeed!! i love his phraze,that i myself is often barrowing,"i do not fight with facsist becuse i win,but i fight with facsist because they are facsist!" hope i am correctly writing it here,but it's a whole word of word!

There was an animated cartoon character from the Golden Age of American Animation that reminds me of Chris Hedges. Except for the glasses, it was an anthropomorphic dog created in 1943 by the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer cartoon studio with a droopy face, hence the name 'Droopy'. Droopy Hedges. This is what rich kids look like after spending their parents money on years and years of academia and then discovers they haven't the education to have a real and productive career.

we need FDR now

Get rid of capitalism.

Question: What are your recommendations for daily action or habits that we can do that would bring about positive change?

Chris is a hype beast

The population of America was about 7% of what it is today in 1850! The sheer unprecedented growth of population since the 1850s has been the greatest cause of social upheaval. Couple that with the rise of industrialization and the concentration of populations into urban environments and you don't need communism, capitalism or any other "-ism" to explain the collapse of our former system. The present is nothing like the ancient civilizations of the fertile crescent, Greece, Rome, Byzantium, the Ottoman Turks, Austro-Hungarians, British Empire, the Russian disaster, Nazis or the American Democratic experiment. We stand absolutely unique with a scale dwarfing anything that has come before. Add to the mix our technological abilities and we are truly in terra incognita. No one saw this coming and no one knows how it will evolve. In my opinion, Hedges is a simplistic ideologue who fantasizes a history that never was in order to parallel his, more or less, Marxist ideology. It's ridiculous drivel.

The " WASP Noam Chomsky" LOL

We need to show the politicians as well as corporations that they arent relevant. We need to create systems of true, direct democracy in our own communites. Seperate of what this totalitarian neoliberal capitalist state wants.

Hedges makes some important points but he's an ideologue...a moralist. He's not a careful analyst.

Bible needs no distortion. It is inherently distorted in terms of modern civilization.

All so true - when my wife and I watched television at nine eleven and we looked at each other and said 'the US unfortunately will continue to do all things wrong to deal with that - like they did throughout all of the 1990s already'.(1) And that's exactly what happened - a handfull of young upper middle class Saudi arabian people carried out these attacks on the USA - to make a statement, their statement (of the status of the world under US rule and inside the USA then already) - and the USA reacted by declairing war 'on seven countries in five years' who had nothing to do with nine eleven. Nor the status of the world under US rule. 1 - Norway took the right, the complete opposite approach to deal 'with Breivik' - 'we will not declare war on dark forces inside or far away, arm all of our society against (what?) and give up our civil rights, but stay an open society.' (Very interesting today, a Norwegian helps to destroy western societies in europe in the name of the USA - by creating enemies like Russia through unnecesssary expansion - Ukraine had to be delt with by use of 'Wandel durch Annäherung' - the 'new and successful Chinese method', no what the two Germans did right before 1989.)

And, the machinations between a rising empire (China?) and the declining empire, the West, with the US as the centre state? Will global oligarchs seek conflict or cooperation in pursuit of self interest?

I don't understand how someone can demonize capitalism when Chris participates in it completely. He had a nice suite on. I know he makes more money than the average person. My point is along the lines of he's not talking about his, mine, and everyone else's addiction to this capitlisistc lifestyle. It's like saying he has no responsibility. There are things out of our control (external) and things in our control (internal). If we all decided to stop blaming external problems for our internal issues we could change as a human species. Let's walk the walk and change internally what we could.

LOL, this guy didn't even know the number on an AR-15 in another video that the comments were disabled on. He clearly wont be one that survives after the crash! haha

Who inserted those noises to the video at 46:58 and 47:13 and after, there is somehow always sound problems when these kind of people speak

Great job David, thanks to you guys, your message is always necessary to the world.

He makes some good points, but his narrative is so hardened that I don't think any turn of events could ever make a dent in it.