The The truth hurts. We do have to admit we have a problem before we can work to change it. I just can’t believe how many people are not against war in every form⁉️
The US is not perfect. Yet, here we are yet again barely a century from the first European Great War... with #3 looming. And again we have the American political military complex itching to pull us into the conflict when the majority of us imperfect Americans want nothing of it.
None of the crimes you detail have been covered up. We all saw the pictures of Abu Ghraib. We all knew about the torture, and the civilians being murdered in drone strikes, there were popular movies made about these atrocities. It is true that there was no political will to prosecute these crimes, but Americans knew about them. They weren't covered up. No one was silenced. Neither were our past sins during WWII forgotten, Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima are well known. The people didn't care and couldn't be made to care.
You need to look in the mirror Mr. Hedges because the failure is the Left's, the Left has failed to mount any kind of popular political opposition to our sclerotic two-party system that maintains this awful status quo and plays with Armageddon like it's a game. When the Left replaced class warfare with identarian politics decades ago they left the playing field. There is no more Left, just a bunch of naive Journalists controlling the MSM and virtue signaling hysterics on twitter. The Republicans represent the 1%, and the Democrats and their identarian left wing represent the top 20% (I made six figures and got three stimulus checks). The rest of the country has been abandoned. Angry and desperate they were easy pickings for a populist like Trump because there was no one else. Sanders was quickly shot down but the identarians. There was no populist movement to unite the working class because the left was too busy dividing them up by race and gender. It would be an uphill climb to convince the abandoned Americans to trust Leftist policies but when you tell them they are evil, and America is racist you make it harder than scaling Everest to convince them of anything.
And that is why the hypocrites who want to prosecute Putin for war crimes while ignoring our own are still in power.
The genesis of our current compounding cluster of hypocrisy, warped values empowering warped governance by warped people, profiting from imbalances being created, begins with the warped, unfree market we were all born into. Prohibition of the world’s most useful, globally-distributed organic agricultural resource, federally recognized as a “strategic resource” (EO 13603, etc) has enriched & empowered the hypocrites. It could only be thus. Enriching traitors to our Mother Earth, we all fund the war on Nature at the gas pump. Biofuels production has been blocked by more than eight decades of fundamentally destabilizing atrocities inflicted on entire global sub-cultures in the name of a vicious international “drug war” against a federally recognized “strategic” “herb bearing seed.”
Disrespect of Nature encompasses two evolutionary mistakes. First, it seems obvious to point out that it’s unwise to harm the integrated systems of the Natural Order. Secondly, it is equally unwise to attribute positive economic value to toxic fuels and other “Gaiacidal” Earth-killing resources, industries & practices; when there is a perfectly suited, uniquely “Gaiatherapeutic” Earth-healing agricultural energy & industrial feedstock & complete nutrition alternative, that’s globally available.
What’s needed very soon is a global polar shift in values from “illegal” to essential and a truly free market to steer clear of our violently extinctionistic trajectory.
Cannabis is the only crop that produces complete nutrition and clean energy from the same organic harvest; as it replenishes Earth’s atmosphere with aerosol terpenes that shield the Earth from increasing solar UVB radiation. If you’re not growing hemp in your region then you’re food & energy insecure. Whatever you depend upon for those things now may not be available very soon for a variety of reasons.
I have no illusions about my country anymore and I’m glad my eyes have been opened even if it’s a hard truth to accept. Thank you for your courage and commitment to exposing the lies we have been fed and the corruption of our government. We can’t change anything as long as we believe the propaganda fed to us by mainstream media and our politicians. Our golden calf is our weapons of mass destruction and death. There seems to be no lack of worshippers for these weapons and what they can do. I don’t see this as ending well for us or the world.
I always appreciate Chris Hedges analysis and now the voicing of his offering by the Mrs. Great idea. Looking forward to more from this fine team. Thank you.
Would like Ms. Wong to narrate Glenn Greenwald, too. Wonderful. She'd be good on PBS. Sorry, I use this as background while I work, so high standard narration is important to me. Nothing new on the content. Thumbs-up in agreement.
One thing we are very good, perhaps excellent, at is hypocrisy.
The The truth hurts. We do have to admit we have a problem before we can work to change it. I just can’t believe how many people are not against war in every form⁉️
Excellent narrator and extremely well written. Thank you Chris
Huge fan of you Chris. I have purchased all your kindle books and audible programs.
Compelling essay.
USA dropped atomic bombs on a defeated Japan soon after Japanese attempting to negotiate terms of surrender asked what unconditional surrender meant.
The US is not perfect. Yet, here we are yet again barely a century from the first European Great War... with #3 looming. And again we have the American political military complex itching to pull us into the conflict when the majority of us imperfect Americans want nothing of it.
None of the crimes you detail have been covered up. We all saw the pictures of Abu Ghraib. We all knew about the torture, and the civilians being murdered in drone strikes, there were popular movies made about these atrocities. It is true that there was no political will to prosecute these crimes, but Americans knew about them. They weren't covered up. No one was silenced. Neither were our past sins during WWII forgotten, Dresden, Tokyo and Hiroshima are well known. The people didn't care and couldn't be made to care.
You need to look in the mirror Mr. Hedges because the failure is the Left's, the Left has failed to mount any kind of popular political opposition to our sclerotic two-party system that maintains this awful status quo and plays with Armageddon like it's a game. When the Left replaced class warfare with identarian politics decades ago they left the playing field. There is no more Left, just a bunch of naive Journalists controlling the MSM and virtue signaling hysterics on twitter. The Republicans represent the 1%, and the Democrats and their identarian left wing represent the top 20% (I made six figures and got three stimulus checks). The rest of the country has been abandoned. Angry and desperate they were easy pickings for a populist like Trump because there was no one else. Sanders was quickly shot down but the identarians. There was no populist movement to unite the working class because the left was too busy dividing them up by race and gender. It would be an uphill climb to convince the abandoned Americans to trust Leftist policies but when you tell them they are evil, and America is racist you make it harder than scaling Everest to convince them of anything.
And that is why the hypocrites who want to prosecute Putin for war crimes while ignoring our own are still in power.
The genesis of our current compounding cluster of hypocrisy, warped values empowering warped governance by warped people, profiting from imbalances being created, begins with the warped, unfree market we were all born into. Prohibition of the world’s most useful, globally-distributed organic agricultural resource, federally recognized as a “strategic resource” (EO 13603, etc) has enriched & empowered the hypocrites. It could only be thus. Enriching traitors to our Mother Earth, we all fund the war on Nature at the gas pump. Biofuels production has been blocked by more than eight decades of fundamentally destabilizing atrocities inflicted on entire global sub-cultures in the name of a vicious international “drug war” against a federally recognized “strategic” “herb bearing seed.”
Disrespect of Nature encompasses two evolutionary mistakes. First, it seems obvious to point out that it’s unwise to harm the integrated systems of the Natural Order. Secondly, it is equally unwise to attribute positive economic value to toxic fuels and other “Gaiacidal” Earth-killing resources, industries & practices; when there is a perfectly suited, uniquely “Gaiatherapeutic” Earth-healing agricultural energy & industrial feedstock & complete nutrition alternative, that’s globally available.
What’s needed very soon is a global polar shift in values from “illegal” to essential and a truly free market to steer clear of our violently extinctionistic trajectory.
Cannabis is the only crop that produces complete nutrition and clean energy from the same organic harvest; as it replenishes Earth’s atmosphere with aerosol terpenes that shield the Earth from increasing solar UVB radiation. If you’re not growing hemp in your region then you’re food & energy insecure. Whatever you depend upon for those things now may not be available very soon for a variety of reasons.
#Cannabis #hemp #energy #axiology
Nothing but truth
I have no illusions about my country anymore and I’m glad my eyes have been opened even if it’s a hard truth to accept. Thank you for your courage and commitment to exposing the lies we have been fed and the corruption of our government. We can’t change anything as long as we believe the propaganda fed to us by mainstream media and our politicians. Our golden calf is our weapons of mass destruction and death. There seems to be no lack of worshippers for these weapons and what they can do. I don’t see this as ending well for us or the world.
The racial thing is a false narrative.. in this case. Mostly everything else is spot on. We choose to ignore the other wars because their ours.
Robert McNamara — the rare individual who recognized the evil he had perpetrated.
Indisputable.
I always appreciate Chris Hedges analysis and now the voicing of his offering by the Mrs. Great idea. Looking forward to more from this fine team. Thank you.
Robert McNamara — the rare individual who recognized the evil he had perpetrated.
Would like Ms. Wong to narrate Glenn Greenwald, too. Wonderful. She'd be good on PBS. Sorry, I use this as background while I work, so high standard narration is important to me. Nothing new on the content. Thumbs-up in agreement.