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Jim Pine's avatar

This was to the point, personal and powerful. It is what I admire about you. Please continue to be a beacon of light in these dark times.

Lexine's avatar

Thank you for your testimony, Chris. Bravery will be required going forward. How many of us will actually show up, as you do?

Susan Willis's avatar

The zionists in the United States of Israel are wiping their blood-soaked shoes on the pages of our constitution. Thank you for speaking up against this travesty of legislation promulgated by a foreign nation...at great peril to your own existence.

John D's avatar

Just watched on Youtube, Chris. Great testimony.

It took the genocide in Gaza, with untold deaths yet to come, but finally more people in this country are becoming aware of the collateral damage that the evil state of Israel is causing here in America.

Was wondering who the knucklehead was, banging on the gavel. Useful idiot.

Cheryl's avatar

Keeping the faith, and wrapping the will of our hearts and souls upon this earth. Let no more souls of Gaza taste death and Gods love shine divine light to those in Gaza. Let the will of earths heart be felt and thus delivered I pray with all my heart.

John Ressler's avatar

Thank you, Chris, for speaking truth to power in the halls of power in Trenton, NJ, my hometown (left there 47-years ago). I have been a reader of your work for over 20-years now - there's NO ONE quite like you - a treasure especially in these dark times.

Vincent Nuzzo's avatar

These people who fetishize the trope's that Israel feeds them. Can they be reasoned with? Certainly not the older generation who hold positions of power. The only way to break them, is to unmake them. By any means necessary.

A H Harry Oussoren's avatar

The IHRA is a racist document aiming to prevent human rights for Palestinians by labelling all criticisms of Israeli policy and war crimes as antisemitic, while accepting anti-palestinian racism as benign. IHRA must be junked.

The Outlaw's avatar

Good on ya Mr. Hedges. Striking a blow to these Supremacist Maniacs! I believe they're missing a gene of Empathy. No other explanation makes sense- "Y'all did this to us" Yeah? What about the wanton Slaughter of The American Indian? Y'all didn't get us all! I stand here testing to that as one. Where's our Museum? None to be found.

David Wood's avatar

Thank you, Chris, for your work.

X K's avatar

Keeping my eyes on the Special Commission on Combatting(their spelling) Antisemitism in Mass. A week ago made a request for their sources of data on antisemitism, took them a week to respond, after some prodding from my state senator and representative.

Their sources? The ADL, and newspaper articles in the Boston Globe which referenced - who else? - the ADL. Then there are the several claims by certain "Jews" - Zionists, actually, I don't care to perpetuate the slurs against the Jews by the Zionists' unwarranted self-identification as such, so they can cloak their atrocities under antisemitism - the several claims made by them, none of which are substantiated or investigated.

There's more, all baseless. What it comes down to, these are dangerous characters, ruthless in working our own government against us, but for the sake of Israel. They don't care what it costs us, so long as they win.

Just who was that rectal orifice banging away while Chris gave testimony, a Zionist let loose from the monkey house to jump up and down, shrieking, flinging feces around to detract from what Chris had to say?

What's this I hear, Acting President of Columbia Claire Shipman is expected to make a formal announcement that the 271-year old university will henceforth be known as Tel Aviv University NYC?

X K's avatar

A related item (what isn't when it comes to Israel?). I had CNN International on in the background today, there are occasions when they actually get it right, their journalists are able to ask (but not press) the right questions. Anyway, today they had State Dept. spokeswoman Tammy Bruce on, to address among other things, a USAID report there was nothing to support UNWRA stealing food supplies in Gaza (an obvious Israeli diversionary hasbara stinkbomb).

It didn't long into her rant that here was another Chatty Cathy pull-string doll, just like Karoline Leavitt at the White House, demonstrating how facile she can be in talking around a direct question to which there is only one logical, incriminating answer. I had to hit the mute button.

Talk about waste, fraud, and abuse in government, that's what her salary amounts to, not only that, but in her deflecting, diminishing the starvation of children. In that regard she and her ilk are a waste of oxygen, her only attribute being that her physical composition is biodegradable - perhaps not even that, maybe her remains would have to be declared hazardous waste.

julia eden's avatar

thank you so very much again, chris hedges! i wonder whether - and wish that - your words and warnings will be heeded at least by some of the ladies and gentlemen you addressed them to! please keep up your invaluable work! i draw much courage from it + am quite sure i'm not alone.

cathy's avatar

Excellent address of the issues tied into this definition

Alan MacDonald's avatar

DEAR ROBERT & CHRIS HEDGES THIS DECEPTION WAS BAKED IN FROM THE 1967 USS ‘LIBERTY’ SLAUGHTER AND LBJ ‘COVER-UP’ AS WAS THE DECEIT OF ‘AIPAC’,

VICTORIA NULAND & ROBERT KAGAN —- OF COURSE THE MORE RECENT PUNCH OF THE TAGE-TEAM OF NUTANYAHU & TRUMP WAS ESSENTIAL TO CHANGE THE COURSE OF WORLD AND AMERICAN HISTORY INTO GLOBAL EMPIRE.

LOVE

OVER

VIOLENT

EMPIRE

(OR AS I LIKE TO DREAM OF CHANGING THE LAST WORD IN THE FIRST LINE OF A FAMOUS SONG)

“IMAGINE THERE’S NO EMPIRE”

Alan MacDonald's avatar

I BELIVE THROUGHOUT THE NEW TESTAMENT OF THE BIBLE, THAT THE ONLY THING WHICH JESUS COULD EVER EVEN BE SLIGHTLY IMAGINED AS BEING ANYTHING VIOLENT, WAS HIS TURNING OVER OF THE MONEY CHANGING TABLES.

WHICH THE TWO MILLENNIA OF:

CRONY

CORPORATE

CAPITALISM

IS CANCER