This psychotic, genocidal madman feels that he can bomb just about any country without suffering any political or personal consequences because this is the precedent that the men who occupied the White House before have left him.
Yes. It didn't start with Trump.........he's just the culmination of American foreign policy....where hatred of our trumped up enemies, ignorance of the written word, and massive gutting of individual conscience always leads.
Stupid violence that shoots itself, and its children, in the foot.
Chris is always so good with words, as this clip once again demonstrates. I love the sentence where he calls Trump Caligula-like, hastening the decline of the Empire.
This should be compulsory viewing for all who consider themselves 'democrats'........we've gone just about as far down the warmongering rabbit hole as it is possible to go. The ICE prisons being built all over Amerikkka are waiting to relieve us of our consciences in the near future, IF funding Greater Israel's obscene fantasies is a bigger necessity in the country than Peace in our Time.
The Jews suffered a massive GENOCIDE at the hands of the GESTAPO who held their activities to be justified, In addition the Jews suffered from anti-semetism movements all round the world. All of which they held to be hugely UNJUST & WE AGREED. This has been the basis for our support for Israel over the last few decades.
Today Israel is committing a GENOCIDE agaist its neigbors & one that they hold to be jusified; while we STRONGLY DISAGREE.
Our only problem is where can 6 million Jews go if they get kicked out of the area called Israel? As these are people who have suffered from persecution for much of history this question has no easy answer. It seems whatever Western Imperialism does; it cannot get everything right
Your historical justification for western imperialism, (albeit in decline) giving Zionists Palestinian land is partly historically valid.........but only partly.
The crime against Judaism occurred in Europe. The right thing to do would have been to restore property stolen in Europe. Instead, the west behaved in a fashion I've come to see as typical:
We're a land thieving culture. Colonialism is about the theft of land and the destruction of indigenous populations....it worked for us in the Americas, and the fact there was little open land left to steal was irrelevant to the upper class men running things at the end of WWII.
So Britain gave Palestine to the Jews and kept stolen Jewish property in western Europe in white Christian hands...Islamic people had to pay the price of a hatred they didn't share. Jewish people have lived peacefully in places like Iran and Lebanon for centuries.
However, if you do the history of Palestine, that theft had begun before WWII..........try to catch the movie PALESTINE 36....its a literary masterpiece apart from the horrific history it tells. Britain controlled Palestine and in the thirties, it was supporting Jewish land theft and using its military to force Palestinians from their villages.
Britain saw the military advantages of having a Zionist state in the oil rich Middle East. America has agreed with that political/economic proxy force. And we the people, have been gulled by our latter day support for the Jewish people, while remaining ignorant of the fact that Zionists are as religiously fanatic as the Christians who support them.
Greater Israel has always been Zionism's secret plan for the Middle East, as Jews in Jerusalem have always been seen as a necessary condition of the Second Coming.
Folks who can believe that kind of metaphysical none sense shouldn't be in charge of the world...........but it looks like in Amerikkka, they now are in the saddle.
Finally, our emotional support for Jews because of what Hitler did should not have allowed us to 1. play the sheep and goats either-or fallacy and imagine Palestinians were terrorists and the likes of Neten yahoo......or his predessesors, were godly men.
2. Conflate Zionism with Judaism, that's like conflating Nazism with Christianity....ITS STUPID.
3. Fall for a war against Terrorists where we built Weapons of Mass Destruction, sold/gave them to Israel, and then concocted and sold the diversion lie that it was Saddam Hussein who had them.
I KNOW THIS IS A LONG REPLY......BUT EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ANYTHING....WITHOUT COMPLETE HISTORICAL TRUTH....IS ALWAYS A SCAM. As a very high IQ emotional woman, it horrifies and disgusts me. The current population of Israel are mostly indifferent to the scorched earth policy we've helped them employ in Gaza, now the West Bank and south Lebanon. Were I Jewish, I'd be in the forefront of calling it out.........because its a fascistic end game.
Thanks. I'm a retired English teacher.......put a high value on doing all your homework, and that means listening/getting informed, about all sides of an issue. A piece of paper has two sides.........the real world has multiple perspectives.
What our Masters don't want us to realize....a living planet is diverse, complex, with many more roads forward than just the 'king's highway'.
I always learn more than I could ever find elsewhere and feel ridiculous how much I’ve participated in the collective support around Ukraine. Not that the ppl don’t deserve our support but so do the Russian ppl. We’ve all been duped by the world’s powerhouse machine of politicians seeking personal gains. Ultimately the betrayal and frustrations leave us all wondering what can be done
You had to have followed the aggressions of NATO....a supposed 'defensive' alliance.....and have paid some attention to the details of the Maidan coup of 2014....to follow the CIA role in it all............Americans have looked away from a lot of murder in other people's countries....can't wait to see how you all react if Trump goes into poor little bullied Cuba.
I’m not sure if you are scolding me or agreeing with me. I’ve been fully absorbed in the usa’s “antics” for quite awhile. None of it is acceptable is my point let alone nato or the lack of international “law” or intervention. That’s all.
I'm Canadian, so both agreeing, and a bit exasperated.........but Canadians as well had a knee jerk first reaction of support for Ukraine. That was mainly because they weren't paying attention to all the NATO and CIA games being played in Ukraine even before 2014....
I guess I'm just a bit saddened and sick of how quickly we've been taught to jump on the Russiaphobe bandwagon........mainly because doing any homework before we beat the wardrums isn't commonplace in the west.
Same with the Iran war........folks still talk about the evil Iranian regime and I wonder???? What would you call the genocidal state of Israel??? The double standards and quick rush to judgement is something we need to own........if we want it to change going forward. We have relatives in Cuba...having a very hard time just now.
How many Americans know any details of the 30+years of sanctions they've endured??? How many care???
My thoughts are with you and your family in Cuba. It’s just stunning how the US uses countries without thought or any ounce of expertise or humanity. The Empire may be falling albeit slowly, but the real harm to human beings is ignored and all but minimized despite the slow death of this system. I’ve hated my government ever since “the war in terror”, Obama’s compliance with and expansion of the surveillance state and drone strikes, and the continuation of Guantanamo. Chris hedges has an excellent interview with a British journalist who has written about the
military industrial complex and the need for a “Russian enemy” to justify the killing machine and all its wealth. I’ll forward to you. In the meantime sending strength and compassion to your current situation if unknowns. Thx
Thank you........I know many Americans are not on the warmonger side. Our son in law is going home mid June to try and put some solar panels on his mom's house........not even enough electricity currently to keep food from spoiling in the frige.
Very worried about how he'll get home.....hopefully before that dope in the white house does something terribly mean........and stupid.
For me, the contrast between all that Hedges knows, and all that Dore is struggling to internalize was wonderful.........Dore acting as a proxy for most Americans, Hedges as a mouth piece for the few who've been paying attention all along.
This was a great interview, and Jimmy Dore had comments that I thought were very insightful, although very brief. One of them was that he simply said that in China, the government is above capital and in the United States capital is above government, which means government reform in the United States is going to be very difficult and tricky. What a good listening session, Chris! Thank you.
The comfort of wealth is not an EXCLUSIVE privilege of the European race. Wealth needs to be more equitably shared with everybody. Everybody includes Americas poor. To hell with earning it; show me just how Americas current crop of billionaires; actually, EARNED their money?
Mr. Hedges,I had dear friends who were Native to Palestine. Born in Bethlehem. They surely had major issues from the Occupiers, however, her Daddy sat me down and told me--They were/are Orthodox Catholic btw. He told he if they weren't Muslim-they were not allowed to attend school or have a job. He is passed now but he was not a Liar.
and these wars are for what? Routes & Resources---From The Panama Canal to The Straight of Hormuz--Who's in Panama now? The U.S., Russia, China and Israel. China is building bridges there and being knocked down. The Straight of Malacha is next. The New Belt & Road Initiative war.
The (late-he certainly is) BB's folks will turn to Russia as their new $ugar Daddy as they will assuredly continue to lose U.S. support. Thats primarily where they're from anyway. Ben Gurion, all the way up. Europe wants Russia's $75 trillion in natural resources under Rothschild's who are in Switzerland, the fake neutral country. Team effort as Bidens folks "immigrated" Soldiers. The Crown wants their Colony back and as a Native to these lands, we've seen it before. It's interesting to note The EU was hatched in Switzerland yet they're not a part of The EU.
This psychotic, genocidal madman feels that he can bomb just about any country without suffering any political or personal consequences because this is the precedent that the men who occupied the White House before have left him.
Yes. It didn't start with Trump.........he's just the culmination of American foreign policy....where hatred of our trumped up enemies, ignorance of the written word, and massive gutting of individual conscience always leads.
Stupid violence that shoots itself, and its children, in the foot.
Thanks to Mr. Trump, Iran is positioned to pay-back what America has dolled-out for decades.
Chris is always so good with words, as this clip once again demonstrates. I love the sentence where he calls Trump Caligula-like, hastening the decline of the Empire.
The Roman Empire in the West had another 400-some years to go following Caligula.
Sure, but they didn’t have the internet.
Or nuclear power.
This should be compulsory viewing for all who consider themselves 'democrats'........we've gone just about as far down the warmongering rabbit hole as it is possible to go. The ICE prisons being built all over Amerikkka are waiting to relieve us of our consciences in the near future, IF funding Greater Israel's obscene fantasies is a bigger necessity in the country than Peace in our Time.
A major wake up call is in order.
The Jews suffered a massive GENOCIDE at the hands of the GESTAPO who held their activities to be justified, In addition the Jews suffered from anti-semetism movements all round the world. All of which they held to be hugely UNJUST & WE AGREED. This has been the basis for our support for Israel over the last few decades.
Today Israel is committing a GENOCIDE agaist its neigbors & one that they hold to be jusified; while we STRONGLY DISAGREE.
Our only problem is where can 6 million Jews go if they get kicked out of the area called Israel? As these are people who have suffered from persecution for much of history this question has no easy answer. It seems whatever Western Imperialism does; it cannot get everything right
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Your historical justification for western imperialism, (albeit in decline) giving Zionists Palestinian land is partly historically valid.........but only partly.
The crime against Judaism occurred in Europe. The right thing to do would have been to restore property stolen in Europe. Instead, the west behaved in a fashion I've come to see as typical:
We're a land thieving culture. Colonialism is about the theft of land and the destruction of indigenous populations....it worked for us in the Americas, and the fact there was little open land left to steal was irrelevant to the upper class men running things at the end of WWII.
So Britain gave Palestine to the Jews and kept stolen Jewish property in western Europe in white Christian hands...Islamic people had to pay the price of a hatred they didn't share. Jewish people have lived peacefully in places like Iran and Lebanon for centuries.
However, if you do the history of Palestine, that theft had begun before WWII..........try to catch the movie PALESTINE 36....its a literary masterpiece apart from the horrific history it tells. Britain controlled Palestine and in the thirties, it was supporting Jewish land theft and using its military to force Palestinians from their villages.
Britain saw the military advantages of having a Zionist state in the oil rich Middle East. America has agreed with that political/economic proxy force. And we the people, have been gulled by our latter day support for the Jewish people, while remaining ignorant of the fact that Zionists are as religiously fanatic as the Christians who support them.
Greater Israel has always been Zionism's secret plan for the Middle East, as Jews in Jerusalem have always been seen as a necessary condition of the Second Coming.
Folks who can believe that kind of metaphysical none sense shouldn't be in charge of the world...........but it looks like in Amerikkka, they now are in the saddle.
Finally, our emotional support for Jews because of what Hitler did should not have allowed us to 1. play the sheep and goats either-or fallacy and imagine Palestinians were terrorists and the likes of Neten yahoo......or his predessesors, were godly men.
2. Conflate Zionism with Judaism, that's like conflating Nazism with Christianity....ITS STUPID.
3. Fall for a war against Terrorists where we built Weapons of Mass Destruction, sold/gave them to Israel, and then concocted and sold the diversion lie that it was Saddam Hussein who had them.
I KNOW THIS IS A LONG REPLY......BUT EMOTIONAL SUPPORT FOR ANYTHING....WITHOUT COMPLETE HISTORICAL TRUTH....IS ALWAYS A SCAM. As a very high IQ emotional woman, it horrifies and disgusts me. The current population of Israel are mostly indifferent to the scorched earth policy we've helped them employ in Gaza, now the West Bank and south Lebanon. Were I Jewish, I'd be in the forefront of calling it out.........because its a fascistic end game.
We justify it at our peril.
Ingamarie brilliant
Thanks. I'm a retired English teacher.......put a high value on doing all your homework, and that means listening/getting informed, about all sides of an issue. A piece of paper has two sides.........the real world has multiple perspectives.
What our Masters don't want us to realize....a living planet is diverse, complex, with many more roads forward than just the 'king's highway'.
I always learn more than I could ever find elsewhere and feel ridiculous how much I’ve participated in the collective support around Ukraine. Not that the ppl don’t deserve our support but so do the Russian ppl. We’ve all been duped by the world’s powerhouse machine of politicians seeking personal gains. Ultimately the betrayal and frustrations leave us all wondering what can be done
You had to have followed the aggressions of NATO....a supposed 'defensive' alliance.....and have paid some attention to the details of the Maidan coup of 2014....to follow the CIA role in it all............Americans have looked away from a lot of murder in other people's countries....can't wait to see how you all react if Trump goes into poor little bullied Cuba.
But count on it. The world is watching.
I’m not sure if you are scolding me or agreeing with me. I’ve been fully absorbed in the usa’s “antics” for quite awhile. None of it is acceptable is my point let alone nato or the lack of international “law” or intervention. That’s all.
I'm Canadian, so both agreeing, and a bit exasperated.........but Canadians as well had a knee jerk first reaction of support for Ukraine. That was mainly because they weren't paying attention to all the NATO and CIA games being played in Ukraine even before 2014....
I guess I'm just a bit saddened and sick of how quickly we've been taught to jump on the Russiaphobe bandwagon........mainly because doing any homework before we beat the wardrums isn't commonplace in the west.
Same with the Iran war........folks still talk about the evil Iranian regime and I wonder???? What would you call the genocidal state of Israel??? The double standards and quick rush to judgement is something we need to own........if we want it to change going forward. We have relatives in Cuba...having a very hard time just now.
How many Americans know any details of the 30+years of sanctions they've endured??? How many care???
My thoughts are with you and your family in Cuba. It’s just stunning how the US uses countries without thought or any ounce of expertise or humanity. The Empire may be falling albeit slowly, but the real harm to human beings is ignored and all but minimized despite the slow death of this system. I’ve hated my government ever since “the war in terror”, Obama’s compliance with and expansion of the surveillance state and drone strikes, and the continuation of Guantanamo. Chris hedges has an excellent interview with a British journalist who has written about the
military industrial complex and the need for a “Russian enemy” to justify the killing machine and all its wealth. I’ll forward to you. In the meantime sending strength and compassion to your current situation if unknowns. Thx
Thank you........I know many Americans are not on the warmonger side. Our son in law is going home mid June to try and put some solar panels on his mom's house........not even enough electricity currently to keep food from spoiling in the frige.
Very worried about how he'll get home.....hopefully before that dope in the white house does something terribly mean........and stupid.
It’s a time of madness like no other. Again sorry this is at your front door.
https://substack.com/@chrishedges/note/p-199540858?r=khorh&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=notes-share-action
This was a great dialogue. Hedges and Dore have an odd but seductive chemistry. More anytime!
For me, the contrast between all that Hedges knows, and all that Dore is struggling to internalize was wonderful.........Dore acting as a proxy for most Americans, Hedges as a mouth piece for the few who've been paying attention all along.
This was a great interview, and Jimmy Dore had comments that I thought were very insightful, although very brief. One of them was that he simply said that in China, the government is above capital and in the United States capital is above government, which means government reform in the United States is going to be very difficult and tricky. What a good listening session, Chris! Thank you.
Thank you. Important information
The comfort of wealth is not an EXCLUSIVE privilege of the European race. Wealth needs to be more equitably shared with everybody. Everybody includes Americas poor. To hell with earning it; show me just how Americas current crop of billionaires; actually, EARNED their money?
Mr. Hedges,I had dear friends who were Native to Palestine. Born in Bethlehem. They surely had major issues from the Occupiers, however, her Daddy sat me down and told me--They were/are Orthodox Catholic btw. He told he if they weren't Muslim-they were not allowed to attend school or have a job. He is passed now but he was not a Liar.
God Bless.
and these wars are for what? Routes & Resources---From The Panama Canal to The Straight of Hormuz--Who's in Panama now? The U.S., Russia, China and Israel. China is building bridges there and being knocked down. The Straight of Malacha is next. The New Belt & Road Initiative war.
The (late-he certainly is) BB's folks will turn to Russia as their new $ugar Daddy as they will assuredly continue to lose U.S. support. Thats primarily where they're from anyway. Ben Gurion, all the way up. Europe wants Russia's $75 trillion in natural resources under Rothschild's who are in Switzerland, the fake neutral country. Team effort as Bidens folks "immigrated" Soldiers. The Crown wants their Colony back and as a Native to these lands, we've seen it before. It's interesting to note The EU was hatched in Switzerland yet they're not a part of The EU.