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No words for how angry it makes me, can’t imagine what you are feeling. Very sorry. Is there a new platform you’ve moved to, or will be moving to, where we can look for regular video posts from you?

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"Challenge the official lie, as I often did, and you will soon become a nonperson on digital media. Julian Assange and Edward Snowden exposed the truth about the criminal inner workings of power. Look where they are now. This censorship is one step removed from Joseph Stalin’s whitewashing of nonpersons such as Leon Trotsky out of official photographs. It is a destruction of our collective memory. "

It is equally infuriating and heartbreaking with the pace of censorship accelerating by the day. When we were first taught the evils of Nazis in grade school what bothered me most was the question of how so many regular people allowed it to happen. The question nagged at me for decades until manufacturing consent concepts helped explain in part.

Now it's palpable and scares the flippin tar out of me to see, once seemingly rational folks turned to sanctimonious, venomous purveyors of the toxic mantras. God bless the truth tellers, every priceless one, may we prevail to forgive them.

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You’re not an outcast Chris, you’ve just found the rest of us.

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On Contact was one of my favorite YouTube shows. Excellent content. Really well done.

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This is how freedom erodes, from within, not by foreign "autocrats."

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I am so sorry Chris. I honestly had no idea how horrible things had become for independent voices in our supposedly "free press" country. May this substack effort be fruitful for you; your voice is so desperately needed.

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The direction we are heading with this is f*cking terrifying. And for most? Lambs to the slaughter. Not a peep.

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Chris - if you haven’t already please systematically download any and all interviews or reposts of your interviews that remain on any YouTube channel.

(There are tools that allow you pull down copies of YouTube videos)

In some cases of course it is too late. But you might be surprised at what lingers because it takes more effort to find and remove.

I would recommend transcribing them and posting them here to the extent you can find them.

Here’s an example of a lingering artifact: https://youtu.be/haWgTWJ72GI

Please make all efforts to preserve your body of work - happy to assist you offline if necessary

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As the great Lakota author Joseph Marshall III says..."Keep going." If you can't fly...run. If you can't run...walk. If you can't walk...crawl. Just keep going! We all need to combat this control by corporations with all we collectively have.

As a combat injured veteran, my government has turned on me and other veterans. I admit that I am now ashamed of my "service." I only served the corporations. I hang my head in shame. But, even being physically, spiritually and morally wounded...I am ready for a new fight. Sign me up to truly serve others.

If you want to see just one example of how the government and military are "eating their own" please go to www.defendourprotectors.com or the "Stop G-RAP Injustice" Facebook page. They have put many good men and women into jail for doing what they thought was right. I am thankful that they turned on me after 28 years of "service." It opened my eyes and got my mouth off of the fire hydrant of propaganda I had been on for so many years. Painful wisdom - but, thankful I have it now.

Chris Hedges is a fellow combat veteran of multiple zones (I was deployed multiple times as well) and has helped me with seeing the truth with clarity. His discussions, books, and clear vision has guided me to a painful...but, better place. I am deeply thankful to Chris Hedges for the new path that I am on. Let us all band together to push back against the injustices of our time. Just by opposing, we can regain some of our value and spirit.

"I see a time of Seven Generations when all the colors of mankind will gather under the Sacred Tree of Life and the whole earth will become One Circle again."

– Crazy Horse

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Chris, I've read several of your books including the one you wrote with Joe Sacco and have viewed many of your YouTube videos. I especially found your interview of Sheldon Wolin to be one of the best and most enlightening I have seen. It led me to read Democracy, Inc. and come to understand how we live in a system he called Inverted Totalitarianism.

By coincidence I read a commentary today about Biden's call for regime change and went to Wikipedia to refresh my memory of the the details Wolin's term and the following was in the heading:

"This article is being considered for deletion in accordance with Wikipedia's deletion policy."

This along with what has happened to you makes me believe we're in a lot of trouble and it's going to get worse.

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Hang on for a few days more, Chris, when i get paid my pension for next month, I will become a subscriber to your substack, like I already am subscribed to Glenns and Matts substacks. I really hope you can find ways to continue doing interviews with authors, I bought a lot of the books you have recommended over the years, which i probably never would have known about, if not for you.

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Mar 28, 2022·edited Apr 2, 2022

Chris, I sent you a message to your Gmail address, but maybe you didn't get it. I have 307 episodes of OnContact in offline video format (MP4). I think this is nearly all episodes, except around 5 that I had trouble finding. I'm happy to work with you or your IT person to make these available to your subscribers and fans. Let me know if I can help.

Edit: I checked, I think there are 6 episodes I'm missing. These are the ones. There's no episode list as far as I know, so I kinda had to use informal methods to estimate and gather video.

OnContact [2016-11-08] Restrained Resistance with Bill Ayers (only on Youtube)

OnContact [2021-04-00] David Talbot, America's Secret Government

https://www.rt.com/podcast/518615-america-secret-government-talbot/

OnContact [2017-01-30] Allan Nairn, American Empire

https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x5highm

OnContact [2018-01-18] Ojore Lutalo & Bonnie Kerness, Solitary Confinement

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=359852464484030

OnContact [2018-06-02] Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, Nature of ISIS

https://www.facebook.com/OnContactRT/videos/411758949293381/

OnContact [2021-03-14] Dwayne Booth, Art, transcendent, transformative, revolutionary (only on Youtube)

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“They don’t gotta burn the books they just remove them” -Rage Against The Machine

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Devastating, but not surprising. Hope some can be found and saved.

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I hope you can move the archive to Rumble.

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They all loved it when conservatives got their lives ended by woke cancel culture , gleefully cheered on the censorship of anyone with a political opinion to the right of Mao ,

and here we are.

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