I’m taking your questions on the 2024 election on my YouTube channel and on my X. Make sure to submit your questions on the stream to get a chance at me answering them. Thanks for your support! Thank you for reading The Chris Hedges Report.
If only... sad to say I think she’s genuinely a good person so she will have little chance against the others...they work together on all sides..people like her are thrown in so it look like a genuine thing anyone can go for...when it’s not...which is why only the two chosen doofuses are allowed to debate and are pushed out into other countries... we see zero about Jill here , they even hardly mention Kennedy...even though a Kennedy is literally our USA representative here in Australia 💁🏻♀️
I have no clue how to listen to this live but I look forward to viewing the results when they are posted. Chris has done so much to educate us about the plight of the Palestinians. In January 2024, I read The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. It wasn't in the library. I had to purchase it on Amazon. A stunning example of narrative history and academic rigor! G. Smyth
Hello Mr Hedges, I hope you are safe re your travel to Gaza. I look fw to reading. Further to your comments that between Biden and Harris on Palestine it is likely to be only a difference of rhetoric not action, would you say the proviso is if enough direct action from the American people is placed on Harris to stop the arms sales. for eg, and to what extent can 'dissident' journalists and writers help bring change?
Always great to hear from you, Chris. The world can really use your steeped wisdom and absolute commitment to speaking truth to power. Elated to hear you are relaunching the Chris Hedges Report on Wednesday. I will be listening…
I thought of a question during the course of the webcast, but it was ending right as the question occurred to me.
I might try to ask it if another Q&A session comes up in the future, but will also post it here:
It seems that labor unions are one of the few things open to us with respect to exercising the power of the majority against that of the oligarchy.
What are the chances of that in the face of the fact that (as I think Noam Chomsky noted) the right has so effectively discredited labor unions in the view of the American Public?
And at the same time, popular media has essentially been put under the constraints of corporately-approved content. (Although it is possible to disseminate dissenting opinion in platforms such as substack, the numbers of those reached is limited.)
I think that there is hope in the fact that millenials and particular post-millenial generations are questioning capitalism, given the stark difficulties that that they are facing that give lie to the American Dream.
I wonder what thoughts Chris might have with respect to what is likely to be a significant amount of social unrest at some point in the near future.
Essentially, what will it take to break through the shell of decades of very sophisticated and effective opinion management?
What might it take to make them more receptive to seeing the reality of the situation, and how might this process be aided?
I don't see necessary and sufficient conditions, or the awareness and perspective on the greater part of the American public to effect a mass movement of social action, and in particular union/labor movements, but I hope that these factors will grow in the coming near future.
Haha... what is to question...are we to question if the powers behind the puppets will disappear and elections and elected will become valid and not figure head puppets to distract and divide people while creating wars and pushing propaganda ?
I think I know the answers to it already... nothing will change... the war agenda while ignoring citizens shall continue no matter who is in or out...
thank god Julian Assange is free... I am Australian... I no longer care so much as I don’t need to know who to harass anymore ... haha... there is some peace in my heart now... elections do not change this world agenda the mad people are pushing upon the rest of us all
I am 76 grew up a ten minutes walk from where Kamala grew up corner Cote Ste Catherine and Cote des Neige in a city occupied in 1775 by Ben Franklin and his American Army. Her mother was a public intellectual who taught at McGill and in our ghetto we competed on merit not bank accounts. The old money was so inbred they were all looney tunes. We were all rich. We had great healthcare, great schools and great welfare and at Westmount High on Sherbrooke next to Temple Emmanuel Tamala or Kamala, Maria or Camellia or Tiger Lily is just another leader to educate as it was in 1980 or when Leonard Cohen led the Country band and first danced the Tennessee Waltz. My wife was born in the Heart of Darkness Vanderbilt Hospital in Confederate occupied America.
Everybody loves Kamala's old neighbourhood. Westmount High School is not an embarrassment it is a testament to All men are created equal. Quebec says healthcare education and welfare and free and independent media are foundational in a secular humanist liberal democracy.
In Quebec Bill21 exclaims race, gender and religion are essentially human fiction.
Our ACLU's (CCLU) opposition to Bill 21 allowed us to end our 40 year membership and sponsorship of the ACLU.
I was never prouder of my Quebec than when it said the Pope was persona non grata in Quebec until he apologized for millennia of brutality and barbarism.
I learned how to write in my fifties at the University of Chicago where my brilliant wife understood most of the University could not compete with me intellectually but I am magic. I am me and in Quebec we call it Autisme and it is real and I have a department devoted to my service.
In Quebec Public Service is service not American servitude. I was eligible and I could afford a lawyer but Immigration Chicago made me feel like a piece of shit and most of them could hardly read or write in simple English. It wasn’t their fault someone told them they were competent once upon a time in America. They served in your military and my wife administered the American School where military came when they needed bodies not minds.
We love America but we are liberals. We can’t bring back the past until time travel isn’t science fiction. Texas freed its slaves in 1828 before the American invasion and occupation. We need refugees but this isn’t the tropics, and we grow orchids and pineapples in the North in winter with energy from falling water. We outlawed fossil fuels in 2030 and our government is CONSERVATIVE. And Joan of Arc has been replaced by Greta Thuneberg. I was born under the Padlock Law 1937-1957 that said I was less than human under Christian understanding. Kamala was in a High School that was command central in our revolution for English speaking Quebec. Here near occupied Quebec in Quebec not Vermont I know history. Daniel Webster and the British screwed Quebec because Quebec was Catholic and Catholics were as bad as Jews.
Didn’t they teach you American history and the Intolerable Acts. The fifth and final intolerable act was the Quebec Act of 1773 which gave Catholics EQUAL RIGHTS. The Monarchy had no rights only privileges under the Toleration Act of 1689 which ended the British Civil War and began the American Civil War. It was the bloodiest war in English history pitting Roundhead against Cavalier.
Cromwell led the Catholic genocides in Scotland and Ireland before becoming Lord and Protector and it was Protestant against extreme Protestant during the bloodiest war in English history. There is no such things as race , gender and religion in Quebec Society after two generations since Kamala graduated from Westmount High School. Kamala is America’s Messiah at Westmount High School which is the epitome of URBAN CONSERVATIVE CULTURE.
There is no PATRIARCHY in Montreal. I suspect Prime Minister Legault is the last Quebec patriarch.I was born a male Jew and I will die me. I have my own beliefs and my own life experiences and I am a grateful old man for every new day. I can’t change the past but every new day is an adventure and exploration. My wife is 86 and still studying philosophy and music, in music is philosophy. My wife has fallen in love with Baroque and she can no longer type 300 words a second. She reads and our PUBLIC library is in Vermont and Covid filled our walls with bookshelves and real books.. She studied French at the University of Chicago before her High School Class graduated.
I know the neighbourhood in which KIamala grew up. It is the America Jefferson believed in when he wrote: The American Bible: The Ethic and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
Jefferson was an evolutionary botanist. He had no religion.
Thank you thank thank you. I am going have to live another 76 years and he knew how to write from his heart and it took me 70 years to learn how to enjoy writing. Orwell taught me writing but it took my wife's entire faculty of education to teach me how to write. I read Orwell's why I write over 65 years ago.
I spent 70 years looking for an ego . Eureka I found one.
Thanks to Autisme Quebec I am who I am. Autism is real in Quebec but race, gender and religion are fantasy. My wife and I are secular humanists by belief and Jewish by tradition and disposition.
. She was born in Nashville's Vanderbilt Heart of Darkness Hospital in Confederate occupied America and we ended up retiring in Quebec. We hit the trifecta.
We were lucky I had little to do with my great fortune.
We studied the Book of Job in English Protestant Public School in Kamala's neighbourhood where we put the plural u in words where they have no purpose other than confusing illegal immigrants from America.
I love Chomsky but there is nobody I would trust more than Kamala Harris in Washington's highest office. She witnessed a real democratic revolution 45 years ago. There was no Civil War We went from a colony of a colony to 21st century Quebec within 21st century Canada.
If you love diversity Kamala's High School is what every loving great grandparent wants for the future.
What explains the prevalence of right-wing thinking within the North American working class? What are the main obstacles to workers here taking a more left-wing understanding of things? Are there more obstacles to forming a left-wing view here than elsewhere in the world?
Q. Do you think there is any merit to Trump advance this purported defense of the American working class?
A. No, these people are con artists and they are no friend of the American working class at all. So no, you know I think that there are figures who have bought into these criticisms of the deep state or criticism of the working class but we know from four years of trump - you know where their interests lie. Trump responds to the highest bidder and the working class can't compete.
The fake Left and Right in America are two sides of the same neo-liberal Capitalist class coin - neither care about the working class (they both pretend to). Don't fall for their propaganda (on both sides).
@Chan Chokaski you do have a point . Both sides use the working class to gain more power but it’s generally the right that creates jobs through capital investments whereas the left grows government.
If RFK had a different attitude toward Israel/Palestine, I'd consider giving him a vote. His attitude his very disturbing, and it confirmed to me that I believe he is controlled opposition.
I am glad for this review. I’ve been concerned since the p2025 unveiling last year that it might be implemented. There is nothing among the corporatist Dems that inspires resistance. Each Trump sentencing has been postponed. There is essentially no help. Striking? I live week to week on my wages. How long could a strike last? Let’s call that a major leap of faith and sacrifice.
Jill Stein for POTUS 2024.
If only... sad to say I think she’s genuinely a good person so she will have little chance against the others...they work together on all sides..people like her are thrown in so it look like a genuine thing anyone can go for...when it’s not...which is why only the two chosen doofuses are allowed to debate and are pushed out into other countries... we see zero about Jill here , they even hardly mention Kennedy...even though a Kennedy is literally our USA representative here in Australia 💁🏻♀️
I have no clue how to listen to this live but I look forward to viewing the results when they are posted. Chris has done so much to educate us about the plight of the Palestinians. In January 2024, I read The Hundred Years' War on Palestine by Rashid Khalidi. It wasn't in the library. I had to purchase it on Amazon. A stunning example of narrative history and academic rigor! G. Smyth
Press play on the picture in the article ☝️☝️👍👍
Looking forward to resumption of your show.
Hello Mr Hedges, I hope you are safe re your travel to Gaza. I look fw to reading. Further to your comments that between Biden and Harris on Palestine it is likely to be only a difference of rhetoric not action, would you say the proviso is if enough direct action from the American people is placed on Harris to stop the arms sales. for eg, and to what extent can 'dissident' journalists and writers help bring change?
Also, does whether it is Harris or Trump matter, and can it save the Palestinians from the final stage of this genocide, if the 14 Palestinian factions that have signed the very recent china-brokered "national unity" deal to establish Palestinian control over Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, can unify on shared ground - such as wanting strength in solidarity, end of occupation and illegal settlements, wanting refugees right of return and release of political prisoners, as discussed in the interview with Palestinian human rights lawyer Diana Buttu - she refers to cautious hope necessitated by the alternative being that if the Palestinian factions do not meaningfully unify the genocide will be completed: https://aljazeera.com/podcasts/2024/7/29/the-take-why-a-china-brokered-deal-is-uniting-palestinians#:~:text=Fourteen%20Palestinian%20parties%2C%20including%20Fatah,to%20maintain%20control%20over%20Gaza.&text=It%20has%20been%20hailed%20as,the%20cause%20of%20Palestinian%20liberation%E2%80%9D.
Thank you for the information and the link.
Always great to hear from you, Chris. The world can really use your steeped wisdom and absolute commitment to speaking truth to power. Elated to hear you are relaunching the Chris Hedges Report on Wednesday. I will be listening…
I thought of a question during the course of the webcast, but it was ending right as the question occurred to me.
I might try to ask it if another Q&A session comes up in the future, but will also post it here:
It seems that labor unions are one of the few things open to us with respect to exercising the power of the majority against that of the oligarchy.
What are the chances of that in the face of the fact that (as I think Noam Chomsky noted) the right has so effectively discredited labor unions in the view of the American Public?
And at the same time, popular media has essentially been put under the constraints of corporately-approved content. (Although it is possible to disseminate dissenting opinion in platforms such as substack, the numbers of those reached is limited.)
I think that there is hope in the fact that millenials and particular post-millenial generations are questioning capitalism, given the stark difficulties that that they are facing that give lie to the American Dream.
I wonder what thoughts Chris might have with respect to what is likely to be a significant amount of social unrest at some point in the near future.
Essentially, what will it take to break through the shell of decades of very sophisticated and effective opinion management?
What might it take to make them more receptive to seeing the reality of the situation, and how might this process be aided?
I don't see necessary and sufficient conditions, or the awareness and perspective on the greater part of the American public to effect a mass movement of social action, and in particular union/labor movements, but I hope that these factors will grow in the coming near future.
Thank you.
A huge THANK YOU for all that you do
Thank you, Chris!
Thank you Chris.
Thank you for the stream.
Yep strikes
Non violent non conformity... until we see the change we wish to see... not backing down until the job is done‼️
Haha... what is to question...are we to question if the powers behind the puppets will disappear and elections and elected will become valid and not figure head puppets to distract and divide people while creating wars and pushing propaganda ?
I think I know the answers to it already... nothing will change... the war agenda while ignoring citizens shall continue no matter who is in or out...
thank god Julian Assange is free... I am Australian... I no longer care so much as I don’t need to know who to harass anymore ... haha... there is some peace in my heart now... elections do not change this world agenda the mad people are pushing upon the rest of us all
I am 76 grew up a ten minutes walk from where Kamala grew up corner Cote Ste Catherine and Cote des Neige in a city occupied in 1775 by Ben Franklin and his American Army. Her mother was a public intellectual who taught at McGill and in our ghetto we competed on merit not bank accounts. The old money was so inbred they were all looney tunes. We were all rich. We had great healthcare, great schools and great welfare and at Westmount High on Sherbrooke next to Temple Emmanuel Tamala or Kamala, Maria or Camellia or Tiger Lily is just another leader to educate as it was in 1980 or when Leonard Cohen led the Country band and first danced the Tennessee Waltz. My wife was born in the Heart of Darkness Vanderbilt Hospital in Confederate occupied America.
https://westmount.emsb.qc.ca/whs
Everybody loves Kamala's old neighbourhood. Westmount High School is not an embarrassment it is a testament to All men are created equal. Quebec says healthcare education and welfare and free and independent media are foundational in a secular humanist liberal democracy.
In Quebec Bill21 exclaims race, gender and religion are essentially human fiction.
Our ACLU's (CCLU) opposition to Bill 21 allowed us to end our 40 year membership and sponsorship of the ACLU.
I was never prouder of my Quebec than when it said the Pope was persona non grata in Quebec until he apologized for millennia of brutality and barbarism.
I learned how to write in my fifties at the University of Chicago where my brilliant wife understood most of the University could not compete with me intellectually but I am magic. I am me and in Quebec we call it Autisme and it is real and I have a department devoted to my service.
In Quebec Public Service is service not American servitude. I was eligible and I could afford a lawyer but Immigration Chicago made me feel like a piece of shit and most of them could hardly read or write in simple English. It wasn’t their fault someone told them they were competent once upon a time in America. They served in your military and my wife administered the American School where military came when they needed bodies not minds.
We love America but we are liberals. We can’t bring back the past until time travel isn’t science fiction. Texas freed its slaves in 1828 before the American invasion and occupation. We need refugees but this isn’t the tropics, and we grow orchids and pineapples in the North in winter with energy from falling water. We outlawed fossil fuels in 2030 and our government is CONSERVATIVE. And Joan of Arc has been replaced by Greta Thuneberg. I was born under the Padlock Law 1937-1957 that said I was less than human under Christian understanding. Kamala was in a High School that was command central in our revolution for English speaking Quebec. Here near occupied Quebec in Quebec not Vermont I know history. Daniel Webster and the British screwed Quebec because Quebec was Catholic and Catholics were as bad as Jews.
Didn’t they teach you American history and the Intolerable Acts. The fifth and final intolerable act was the Quebec Act of 1773 which gave Catholics EQUAL RIGHTS. The Monarchy had no rights only privileges under the Toleration Act of 1689 which ended the British Civil War and began the American Civil War. It was the bloodiest war in English history pitting Roundhead against Cavalier.
Cromwell led the Catholic genocides in Scotland and Ireland before becoming Lord and Protector and it was Protestant against extreme Protestant during the bloodiest war in English history. There is no such things as race , gender and religion in Quebec Society after two generations since Kamala graduated from Westmount High School. Kamala is America’s Messiah at Westmount High School which is the epitome of URBAN CONSERVATIVE CULTURE.
There is no PATRIARCHY in Montreal. I suspect Prime Minister Legault is the last Quebec patriarch.I was born a male Jew and I will die me. I have my own beliefs and my own life experiences and I am a grateful old man for every new day. I can’t change the past but every new day is an adventure and exploration. My wife is 86 and still studying philosophy and music, in music is philosophy. My wife has fallen in love with Baroque and she can no longer type 300 words a second. She reads and our PUBLIC library is in Vermont and Covid filled our walls with bookshelves and real books.. She studied French at the University of Chicago before her High School Class graduated.
I know the neighbourhood in which KIamala grew up. It is the America Jefferson believed in when he wrote: The American Bible: The Ethic and Morals of Jesus of Nazareth.
Jefferson was an evolutionary botanist. He had no religion.
https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=religion
That was fun.
James Joyce is smiling somewhere.
James Joyce?
Thank you thank thank you. I am going have to live another 76 years and he knew how to write from his heart and it took me 70 years to learn how to enjoy writing. Orwell taught me writing but it took my wife's entire faculty of education to teach me how to write. I read Orwell's why I write over 65 years ago.
Huh? This sounds like a mind dump. I am glad I stepped aside before your ego blew up!
I spent 70 years looking for an ego . Eureka I found one.
Thanks to Autisme Quebec I am who I am. Autism is real in Quebec but race, gender and religion are fantasy. My wife and I are secular humanists by belief and Jewish by tradition and disposition.
. She was born in Nashville's Vanderbilt Heart of Darkness Hospital in Confederate occupied America and we ended up retiring in Quebec. We hit the trifecta.
We were lucky I had little to do with my great fortune.
We studied the Book of Job in English Protestant Public School in Kamala's neighbourhood where we put the plural u in words where they have no purpose other than confusing illegal immigrants from America.
I love Chomsky but there is nobody I would trust more than Kamala Harris in Washington's highest office. She witnessed a real democratic revolution 45 years ago. There was no Civil War We went from a colony of a colony to 21st century Quebec within 21st century Canada.
If you love diversity Kamala's High School is what every loving great grandparent wants for the future.
What explains the prevalence of right-wing thinking within the North American working class? What are the main obstacles to workers here taking a more left-wing understanding of things? Are there more obstacles to forming a left-wing view here than elsewhere in the world?
The left has the megaphone. The right speaks to the working class who work, produce, don’t look to handouts and want to hear the truth!
I guess you didn't listen to Chris Hedges's Q&A.
Listen @24 min mark:
Q. Do you think there is any merit to Trump advance this purported defense of the American working class?
A. No, these people are con artists and they are no friend of the American working class at all. So no, you know I think that there are figures who have bought into these criticisms of the deep state or criticism of the working class but we know from four years of trump - you know where their interests lie. Trump responds to the highest bidder and the working class can't compete.
The fake Left and Right in America are two sides of the same neo-liberal Capitalist class coin - neither care about the working class (they both pretend to). Don't fall for their propaganda (on both sides).
Good job Chang, the right is so virtuous that they don’t mind mooching off blue states. You can lead a horse to water but you can’t make it drink it.
@Chan Chokaski you do have a point . Both sides use the working class to gain more power but it’s generally the right that creates jobs through capital investments whereas the left grows government.
RFK jr is a major factor in this election...his face should be on that cover image...don’t under estimate him or his supporters!!
If RFK had a different attitude toward Israel/Palestine, I'd consider giving him a vote. His attitude his very disturbing, and it confirmed to me that I believe he is controlled opposition.
I am glad for this review. I’ve been concerned since the p2025 unveiling last year that it might be implemented. There is nothing among the corporatist Dems that inspires resistance. Each Trump sentencing has been postponed. There is essentially no help. Striking? I live week to week on my wages. How long could a strike last? Let’s call that a major leap of faith and sacrifice.