In May 2013 I resigned from PEN America over the appointment of former State Department official Suzanne Nossel. A decade later, PEN America has become a propaganda arm of the state.
OMG, this disgrace is another example of total collapse:
"Nossel stands for none of these ideals. She is a former corporate lawyer, listed as a “contributor” to the Federalist Society, who worked for McKinsey & Company and as vice president of U.S. business development for Bertelsmann"
I fly in much smaller circles, but I've fought EXACTLY the same corruption of the environmental community. I once spent my soul there, but am sickened by the corporate and democratic sycophants who now "lead" the organizations I worked for.
The USA was still-born the day it began. It was founded on death and destruction and will continue it megalomaniac murderous mayhem until it kills us all. The co-opting of Pen America is just another nail in the coffin. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut: So it goes.
Thank you so much for writing this! I did not know. I encouraged my young fledgling granddaughter to join them 10 years ago because of all those members I respected (sounds like most now gone from PEN). I will forward this to her.
I'm wondering how someone the likes of Nossel can fool so many smart intelligent people - at PEN, at Amnesty, etc.? She must be one of the growing number of very smooth, very convincing charismatic narcissistic sociopaths this country is producing in all fields in these convoluted and morally stunted times. When such people target you, their cunning and utter (appearance of) belief in whatever they are saying sound completely convincing. (maybe she has wealth and certainly potential donor connections as well.) I think of the sorcerer Saruman (Trump, Biden, et al) speaking from his tower, his voice impossible to resist, but the trees of the forest warning that his mind was made of "metal and wheels" (CEO in modern parlance) from long study of the arts of his enemies in the Empire of Sauron.
I'm surprised she (as PEN) didn't say: "“our 'thoughts and prayers are with' the suffering endured by so many Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The systematic tools of seduction, control and overreach into all areas of the arts, writing, educational institutions, media, by this Military Industrial Colonial Empire are truly frightening. I'm reminded of my Palestinian friend, Salam Khalili, a journalist and artist in East Jerusalem who wrote and painted what he saw, for which he was arrested right after the 1967 six day war and tortured in prison for 7 years (freed by Amnesty and later dying young from of his wounds). He said that for years the IDF would break into artists/writers homes in the middle of the night and confiscate and burn all of their art, printing presses, and also that for many years artists were not even allowed to use red, black, white or green paint!
We need to take what has happened to PEN, the media, and the book banning now taking place very seriously - for the future, for Life on Mother Earth and especially as empowered responses, like the letter to PEN you describe, to the martyrdom of our brothers and sisters in Gaza. Countless people around the world are waking up because of the Palestinians! This has never happened before on this scale.
This a disgrace, a disgrace which sums up the true state of the arts in amerika's dying empire.
I normally am at pains to condemn all zionists be they xtians or jews for their enabling of a blatant genocide which has been apparent to anyone who cares to properly examine the ersatz state of israel's political structure for the past 70 years; however this time I m forced to ask the question.
Given that the vast majority of amerikan zionists are xtians, why is that only jewish amerikans occupy leadership positions in those organisations which zionists' israeli masters deem most appropriate for infiltration? We have seen this time and time again in media, culture especially film & TV and government eg the state department whose higher echelons are chocka with jewish zionists occupying senior positions.
I do not believe I have any racist intent in asking this question, rather it is the zionist's mistrust of gentiles, even those who support them which encourages the ersatz state's leaders to a strategy where only followers of their religion are deemed to be trustworthy enough to take up a role they otherwise deem "too important" to entrust to a gentile, lest that gentile have a change of heart.
This is ironic given the number of jews all over this planet who sickened by the ersatz state's murderous regime are eschewing the heresy that is zionism in favour of a more traditional view of their belief.
All this stupid strategy has succeeded in doing is to arouse the ire of those prone to xenophobia into believing amerika is being subjected to some great jewish conspiracy, thereby increasing anti-semitism. I know very well that this was a strategy oft used by hasbarites who, following instructiions have polluted many blogs with rank judeophobia in the hope that decent people will tar all posts to the blog as being blatantly 'ant-semitic' (their code word for judeophobia).
Hasbara failed in this as many posters were tracked down and their true background exposed. But now that the vast majority of humans in this world are appalled at zionist tyranny & slaughter in Gaza, this is an extremely dangerous activity for people will look at plants like Suzanne Nossel, see that she is a jew and wrongly conclude that the 'jewish conspiracy' theory has substance.
There will be chaos and destruction for all jews, zionist or no, if judeophobia does become as problematic as it was immediately post WW2 when political leaders in amerika & europe decided they could "kill two birds with one stone". So it was planned to force jewish refugees into Palestine rather than provide the safety and security of the leaders' own nations, a respite offered to many nazi war criminals but not their victims, so that the new jewish ersatz state would be USuk's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the heart of the best resource stealing territory on the planet.
Yet it will be the poor strategies of zionists who must also bear the blame if that does in fact occur. Calling us all out as racists for opposing this horror on ordinary decent Palestinians creates "a boy who cried wolf" situation whereby if actual judeophobia does surface in a meaningful way, few will be listening.
Wake up Ms Nossel, consider then comprehend the perilous path you and your bosses are carelessly treading.
There is only one thing to do. To carry on the proud tradition of PEN, form a new group PEN-FFS (PEN For Free Speech) and contact former PEN members to join. A small subscription fee would help kick start it. Of course FFS has a different meaning - but that too.
More and more evidence that the first amendment right to freedom of the press is being shut down and the U.S. media being taken over by the government to control the flow of information to the public at large. The U.S. is quickly heading for a fascist takeover soon, if the voters don't come to their senses, even if Trump doesn't make it out of the RNC gate. The democrats are just as guilty of subverting the media as the GOP. They just hide it better.
I have been doing a series of podcasts on the MAGA movement in the last few weeks and going forward. If anyone is interested, look up The Village Oak Tree on any podcast mobile app and on YouTube under the Crann na beatha channel. The only way to stop this takeover of our government is to be aware of how it's being done and stop them with our votes on election days. Time is running out.
Organizations like PEN advocating for free speech and free discourse should take no sides for political parties, candidates, or in wars, etc. The moment they do, they become mouthpieces for certain viewpoints and shills for certain causes, and such necessities amplifying certain favored voices while silencing others – that is to say, censorship.
An important issue not addressed by Hedges or asked by any of those responding to his excellent essay is how in Hell did this vile harridan ever get the job in the first place. I think its an extremely important article as very little attention, media or otherwise, is being devoted to widespread efforts to suppress free speech by our government or various interest groups, as in this case the Israel Lobby. Once again, i'd be interested in learning about the backstory of her hiring such as identification and description of PEN Board members who secured her selection.
“I may not agree with you but I will defend your right to give your opinion”….. from an episode of All in the Family. Fifty years later and we are following the wrong path! Free speech is being destroyed by Corporate America and all extreme right wing ideologists….. 1984 (George Orwell). The boot of this ideology will soon crush us!
So a bunch of activist writers on the side of hating Israel and by proxy hating Israel Jews, demanded in an open letter that the free-speech organization PEN America release a statement about Palestinian writers killed in Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza and “name their murderer: Israel, a Zionist colonial state funded by the U.S. government.” They say that if PEN does not “take an actual stand against an actual genocide,” the group should disband.
So because PEN does not take their side, they are boycotting it.
Well, not only should they boycott but they should be banned from any and all associations for free speech journalism and just stick to their toxic anti-Israel and anti-Jew activism. We will know them for whom they really are.
NO organization that subscribes to journalist free speech should allow activists, especially those driven by hate, to dictate their principles.
Has anyone here ever heard of this obscure entity called PEN AMERICA?
More importantly, does Hedges' account of PEN's fall from grace here really empower us in any meaningful way? ... are you surprised that something like this could happen? ... I for one, am not ... so please tell me, what's the big deal? ... aren't there urgent issues now facing Hedges' working class? ... and what can the unemployed, divorced mother of four possibly gain from this piece? ... nothing, I suspect ... there are actually many more pressing issues now facing us and Hedges knows it!
Are you aware of the consequences here in the U.S. if the proposed amendments to the W.H.O. pandemic treaty are approved? ... we the people could lose our sovereignty as that guy with the trademark scowl - Tedros, would have the power to declare a global health emergency for the flimsiest of reasons ...
And what about the way the Biden Admin is now orchestrating a rewriting of state habitation law as it applies to "squatters" rights? ... if you live in the wrong state, you could actually return home from a 5-day business trip to not only discover that illegal immigrants have seized your home, but that you as the homeowner, could be arrested on the spot for simply demanding justice ...
I miss the old, pre-pandemic Chris Hedges ... there was a time when he would not have dodged commentary on hard news ... he would have called out the culprits out by name, set the record straight and pointed us in the right direction ... but not anymore ... I know this much: there are one hell of a lot more unemployed and divorced mothers out there than professional writers ... so why does Chris Hedges continue to ignore major hard news developments here in the U.S.?
Here's an excerpt from the intro to his recent interview with author John Valaint: "... if left unchecked, (the excavation of the Fort McMurray tar sands) will SOON render the planet uninhabitable" ...
Oh really? ... how soon Mr. Hedges, WHEN? ... handicap it for us, give us a time window ... you've actually said this many times Mr Hedges, but this old world just keeps on turning! ...
Fear sells, right Mr Hedges?
Why on earth is Hedges diverting our attention to a Canadian fire that occurred 8 years ago while Texas is in the midst of the worst fires in its history?
CBS is reporting that 7,000 cattle have been killed, so we know that figure is probably larger ... this area accounts for nearly 90% of the beef production in the U.S ... the WEF is on record as saying that the global livestock population must be reduced because of its supposed role in global warming ... ya see, TPTB are just trying to save us, right? ... and yes, although we are in fact in the midst of a climate crisis, Hedges continues to push the myth that global warming actually poses an existential risk to our species ...
But he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the proposed tyrannical amendments to the WHO Pandemic Treaty ...
Hedges abandoned the U.S. working class and the U.S. Constitution in an AUG 27, 2021 interview with Jimmy Dore, and he's now brazenly hides behind Gaza for the past 5 months ... his predictable decision to once again leave us all hangin' here with no hope has become his trademark ...
Chris Hedges is deliberately misdirecting our attention here ...
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DIVISIVENESS
Hedges is deceptively divisive and he obviously has no problem with it ...
His relentless recounting of the horrors of the Gaza genocide for the past 5 months has passed the point of diminishing marginal returns for Americans ... I now count over 70 pieces he has posted here since OCT 7, with only 7 addressing issues OTHER THAN the Gaza genocide ... somebody please tell St. Chris he did not tell us anything here we didn't already know here ... we are the people who bought his books, attended the his public signings, smashed THUMBS UP and always commented accordingly ... and we deserve much, much more from this once good man ...
Rather than comment on the ominous threats posed to our freedoms by the WEF and the WHO, he would also have us believe the problem is TRUMP-MAGA ... just listen to the extremely divisive, out-of-context comment he makes here in his otherwise terrific AMERICAN SADISM speech ... listen as he blames the MSM for splitting us into "warring factions" and then demeans those of us who question the motives and tactics of our elected officials as "members of the lunatic fringe and conspiracy theorists" ...
Start at the 43:10 mark and then listen very closely to him at the 44:32 mark:
Many times, Hedges has been quick to point out the problems of our binary reaction to political reporting but once again, he chooses to deftly demonize and conflate law-abiding Christians with fringe MAGA types ...
I happen to believe that 9/11 was an inside job ... so does that make me a member of his lunatic fringe? ... well guess what, Hedges has actually admitted as much ... after a 2014 speech he was asked to comment on 9/11 and insulted our collective intelligence by saying "I don't want to get into conspiracy theories, Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" ...
Hedges' words do not empower us, his pessimism demoralizes us ...
Here's a few more head-scratching comments that now have even more meaning since the March 2020 lock downs:
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ON THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
He says all the right things here:
“We cannot be paralyzed by fear. We will be stripped, if we do not resist, of our few remaining rights. To resist, while there is still time, is not only the highest form of spirituality but the highest form of patriotism. It is, if you care about what is worth protecting in this country, a moral imperative."
And on another occasion: "The Constitution remains a sacred document."
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ON THE MANDATES & PASSPORTS
But then, after the lock downs ...
He threw us AND the Constitution under the bus with COVID in an interview with Jimmy Dore ... just watch him dance to avoid a direct answer when asked about the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports before sheepishly blowing it off by saying: "that was a decision that I made."
Jimmy: “I’d like to get your thoughts on the vaccine mandates and passports”:
Hedges: “So I got the vaccine … the fact is these things were rolled out without proper vetting, that’s real … but I understand how people are weary about it, because they were turbo-charged … but that was a decision I made to get it … I am quite certain, in the history of pharmaceuticals that they work very hard to bury the negative consequences … that was a decision that I made”
TRANSLATION: things just got too hot in my kitchen, right Chris?
And on USEFUL IDIOTS on SEP 21, 2021
Go to the 1:50 mark ...
Another less-than-passionate, half-hearted response ...
The FDA was compelled by a court ruling to release Phizer's vax trial data that revealed 1,223 post-jab deaths and 34,762 adverse events in the first 10 weeks of its trial ... The FDA attempted to delay the full release of this data for 75 years! ...
This proved that the COVID vax was not "safe & effective"!
"I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ...
Chris Hedges DID NOT have to take sides on this issue ... He could have said it's a personal decision, but no ... most people would never tell another person to "walk the plank" if they knew better, but that's exactly what Hedges did here ... he knew the VAX was rushed to market after only one year (the average is 10 years), he knew about the explosive FDA FOIA release and he had to have seen the many videos of vax-injured people ... but he chose to push the "safe & effective" narrative on us anyway! ... and then about 2m after making that same comment during the interview above, Hedges rubbed our nose in it by openly admitting that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ... livelihoods and lives can hang in the balance of reckless, irresponsible comments like this but clearly, this man did not give a hoot about the consequences.
Of course, Hedges is free to write about any topic he chooses ... but although the 2024 PRES election is 8 months away, we've only got 2 months to stop the WHO from implementing those scary amendments to the pandemic treaty ...
But Hedges won't go there ... ya see, it's just too risky, he's cutting too close to the bone ... this has become his post-pandemic trademark ...
Read about James Roguski and the WHO here on Substack ... Hedges should be front and center on this ... in tough times like these, why can't he stand with us?
OMG, this disgrace is another example of total collapse:
"Nossel stands for none of these ideals. She is a former corporate lawyer, listed as a “contributor” to the Federalist Society, who worked for McKinsey & Company and as vice president of U.S. business development for Bertelsmann"
I fly in much smaller circles, but I've fought EXACTLY the same corruption of the environmental community. I once spent my soul there, but am sickened by the corporate and democratic sycophants who now "lead" the organizations I worked for.
The USA was still-born the day it began. It was founded on death and destruction and will continue it megalomaniac murderous mayhem until it kills us all. The co-opting of Pen America is just another nail in the coffin. In the words of Kurt Vonnegut: So it goes.
Why does this surprise you? The Establishment categorizes its enemies as follows: whom to co-opt, whom to buy off, whom to neutralize, whom to ignore.
Thank you so much for writing this! I did not know. I encouraged my young fledgling granddaughter to join them 10 years ago because of all those members I respected (sounds like most now gone from PEN). I will forward this to her.
I'm wondering how someone the likes of Nossel can fool so many smart intelligent people - at PEN, at Amnesty, etc.? She must be one of the growing number of very smooth, very convincing charismatic narcissistic sociopaths this country is producing in all fields in these convoluted and morally stunted times. When such people target you, their cunning and utter (appearance of) belief in whatever they are saying sound completely convincing. (maybe she has wealth and certainly potential donor connections as well.) I think of the sorcerer Saruman (Trump, Biden, et al) speaking from his tower, his voice impossible to resist, but the trees of the forest warning that his mind was made of "metal and wheels" (CEO in modern parlance) from long study of the arts of his enemies in the Empire of Sauron.
I'm surprised she (as PEN) didn't say: "“our 'thoughts and prayers are with' the suffering endured by so many Palestinian civilians in Gaza.” The systematic tools of seduction, control and overreach into all areas of the arts, writing, educational institutions, media, by this Military Industrial Colonial Empire are truly frightening. I'm reminded of my Palestinian friend, Salam Khalili, a journalist and artist in East Jerusalem who wrote and painted what he saw, for which he was arrested right after the 1967 six day war and tortured in prison for 7 years (freed by Amnesty and later dying young from of his wounds). He said that for years the IDF would break into artists/writers homes in the middle of the night and confiscate and burn all of their art, printing presses, and also that for many years artists were not even allowed to use red, black, white or green paint!
We need to take what has happened to PEN, the media, and the book banning now taking place very seriously - for the future, for Life on Mother Earth and especially as empowered responses, like the letter to PEN you describe, to the martyrdom of our brothers and sisters in Gaza. Countless people around the world are waking up because of the Palestinians! This has never happened before on this scale.
This a disgrace, a disgrace which sums up the true state of the arts in amerika's dying empire.
I normally am at pains to condemn all zionists be they xtians or jews for their enabling of a blatant genocide which has been apparent to anyone who cares to properly examine the ersatz state of israel's political structure for the past 70 years; however this time I m forced to ask the question.
Given that the vast majority of amerikan zionists are xtians, why is that only jewish amerikans occupy leadership positions in those organisations which zionists' israeli masters deem most appropriate for infiltration? We have seen this time and time again in media, culture especially film & TV and government eg the state department whose higher echelons are chocka with jewish zionists occupying senior positions.
I do not believe I have any racist intent in asking this question, rather it is the zionist's mistrust of gentiles, even those who support them which encourages the ersatz state's leaders to a strategy where only followers of their religion are deemed to be trustworthy enough to take up a role they otherwise deem "too important" to entrust to a gentile, lest that gentile have a change of heart.
This is ironic given the number of jews all over this planet who sickened by the ersatz state's murderous regime are eschewing the heresy that is zionism in favour of a more traditional view of their belief.
All this stupid strategy has succeeded in doing is to arouse the ire of those prone to xenophobia into believing amerika is being subjected to some great jewish conspiracy, thereby increasing anti-semitism. I know very well that this was a strategy oft used by hasbarites who, following instructiions have polluted many blogs with rank judeophobia in the hope that decent people will tar all posts to the blog as being blatantly 'ant-semitic' (their code word for judeophobia).
Hasbara failed in this as many posters were tracked down and their true background exposed. But now that the vast majority of humans in this world are appalled at zionist tyranny & slaughter in Gaza, this is an extremely dangerous activity for people will look at plants like Suzanne Nossel, see that she is a jew and wrongly conclude that the 'jewish conspiracy' theory has substance.
There will be chaos and destruction for all jews, zionist or no, if judeophobia does become as problematic as it was immediately post WW2 when political leaders in amerika & europe decided they could "kill two birds with one stone". So it was planned to force jewish refugees into Palestine rather than provide the safety and security of the leaders' own nations, a respite offered to many nazi war criminals but not their victims, so that the new jewish ersatz state would be USuk's unsinkable aircraft carrier in the heart of the best resource stealing territory on the planet.
Yet it will be the poor strategies of zionists who must also bear the blame if that does in fact occur. Calling us all out as racists for opposing this horror on ordinary decent Palestinians creates "a boy who cried wolf" situation whereby if actual judeophobia does surface in a meaningful way, few will be listening.
Wake up Ms Nossel, consider then comprehend the perilous path you and your bosses are carelessly treading.
Everything the US touches, it corrupts to the purposes of the empire.
There is only one thing to do. To carry on the proud tradition of PEN, form a new group PEN-FFS (PEN For Free Speech) and contact former PEN members to join. A small subscription fee would help kick start it. Of course FFS has a different meaning - but that too.
More and more evidence that the first amendment right to freedom of the press is being shut down and the U.S. media being taken over by the government to control the flow of information to the public at large. The U.S. is quickly heading for a fascist takeover soon, if the voters don't come to their senses, even if Trump doesn't make it out of the RNC gate. The democrats are just as guilty of subverting the media as the GOP. They just hide it better.
I have been doing a series of podcasts on the MAGA movement in the last few weeks and going forward. If anyone is interested, look up The Village Oak Tree on any podcast mobile app and on YouTube under the Crann na beatha channel. The only way to stop this takeover of our government is to be aware of how it's being done and stop them with our votes on election days. Time is running out.
Yes, I and other co-writers helped expose to Amnesty International that their then Director Suzanne Nossel was the Madeleine Albright warhawk protegee who worked to upend the "Goldstone Report" which got Goldstone himself to recant when his report initially documented Israel's war crimes in an earlier carpet bombing of Gaza. https://consortiumnews.com/2012/06/18/amnestys-shilling-for-us-wars/ and https://went2thebridge.blogspot.com/2012/12/victory-amnesty-usa-head-suzanne-nossel.html
Organizations like PEN advocating for free speech and free discourse should take no sides for political parties, candidates, or in wars, etc. The moment they do, they become mouthpieces for certain viewpoints and shills for certain causes, and such necessities amplifying certain favored voices while silencing others – that is to say, censorship.
what is the best alternative to a failing org like PEN?
An important issue not addressed by Hedges or asked by any of those responding to his excellent essay is how in Hell did this vile harridan ever get the job in the first place. I think its an extremely important article as very little attention, media or otherwise, is being devoted to widespread efforts to suppress free speech by our government or various interest groups, as in this case the Israel Lobby. Once again, i'd be interested in learning about the backstory of her hiring such as identification and description of PEN Board members who secured her selection.
Can you hear a PEN drop?
“I may not agree with you but I will defend your right to give your opinion”….. from an episode of All in the Family. Fifty years later and we are following the wrong path! Free speech is being destroyed by Corporate America and all extreme right wing ideologists….. 1984 (George Orwell). The boot of this ideology will soon crush us!
So a bunch of activist writers on the side of hating Israel and by proxy hating Israel Jews, demanded in an open letter that the free-speech organization PEN America release a statement about Palestinian writers killed in Israel’s counteroffensive in Gaza and “name their murderer: Israel, a Zionist colonial state funded by the U.S. government.” They say that if PEN does not “take an actual stand against an actual genocide,” the group should disband.
So because PEN does not take their side, they are boycotting it.
Well, not only should they boycott but they should be banned from any and all associations for free speech journalism and just stick to their toxic anti-Israel and anti-Jew activism. We will know them for whom they really are.
NO organization that subscribes to journalist free speech should allow activists, especially those driven by hate, to dictate their principles.
Has anyone here ever heard of this obscure entity called PEN AMERICA?
More importantly, does Hedges' account of PEN's fall from grace here really empower us in any meaningful way? ... are you surprised that something like this could happen? ... I for one, am not ... so please tell me, what's the big deal? ... aren't there urgent issues now facing Hedges' working class? ... and what can the unemployed, divorced mother of four possibly gain from this piece? ... nothing, I suspect ... there are actually many more pressing issues now facing us and Hedges knows it!
Are you aware of the consequences here in the U.S. if the proposed amendments to the W.H.O. pandemic treaty are approved? ... we the people could lose our sovereignty as that guy with the trademark scowl - Tedros, would have the power to declare a global health emergency for the flimsiest of reasons ...
And what about the way the Biden Admin is now orchestrating a rewriting of state habitation law as it applies to "squatters" rights? ... if you live in the wrong state, you could actually return home from a 5-day business trip to not only discover that illegal immigrants have seized your home, but that you as the homeowner, could be arrested on the spot for simply demanding justice ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M8RyxQ2bPhE
I miss the old, pre-pandemic Chris Hedges ... there was a time when he would not have dodged commentary on hard news ... he would have called out the culprits out by name, set the record straight and pointed us in the right direction ... but not anymore ... I know this much: there are one hell of a lot more unemployed and divorced mothers out there than professional writers ... so why does Chris Hedges continue to ignore major hard news developments here in the U.S.?
Here's an excerpt from the intro to his recent interview with author John Valaint: "... if left unchecked, (the excavation of the Fort McMurray tar sands) will SOON render the planet uninhabitable" ...
Oh really? ... how soon Mr. Hedges, WHEN? ... handicap it for us, give us a time window ... you've actually said this many times Mr Hedges, but this old world just keeps on turning! ...
Fear sells, right Mr Hedges?
Why on earth is Hedges diverting our attention to a Canadian fire that occurred 8 years ago while Texas is in the midst of the worst fires in its history?
GO HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pz9gvdvWmU&t=334s
CBS is reporting that 7,000 cattle have been killed, so we know that figure is probably larger ... this area accounts for nearly 90% of the beef production in the U.S ... the WEF is on record as saying that the global livestock population must be reduced because of its supposed role in global warming ... ya see, TPTB are just trying to save us, right? ... and yes, although we are in fact in the midst of a climate crisis, Hedges continues to push the myth that global warming actually poses an existential risk to our species ...
10 Reasons Global Warming is a hoax ...
https://www.naturalnews.com/2023-06-27-top-10-reasons-climate-change-is-a-complete-hoax-ponzi-scheme.html
This one is even better ...
https://eartheclipse.com/environment/climate-change/10-reasons-climate-change-is-hoax.html
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BACKGROUND
Chris Hedges has deserted the U.S. working class! ...
HEDGES: "Let us stand up and resist so future generations will at least say ‘they tried.’ We cannot do this alone ... together we have a chance" ...
https://scheerpost.com/2022/04/11/hedges-the-pimps-of-war/
But he has refused to comment on THE GREAT RESET, The World Economic Forum and the proposed tyrannical amendments to the WHO Pandemic Treaty ...
Hedges abandoned the U.S. working class and the U.S. Constitution in an AUG 27, 2021 interview with Jimmy Dore, and he's now brazenly hides behind Gaza for the past 5 months ... his predictable decision to once again leave us all hangin' here with no hope has become his trademark ...
Chris Hedges is deliberately misdirecting our attention here ...
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DIVISIVENESS
Hedges is deceptively divisive and he obviously has no problem with it ...
His relentless recounting of the horrors of the Gaza genocide for the past 5 months has passed the point of diminishing marginal returns for Americans ... I now count over 70 pieces he has posted here since OCT 7, with only 7 addressing issues OTHER THAN the Gaza genocide ... somebody please tell St. Chris he did not tell us anything here we didn't already know here ... we are the people who bought his books, attended the his public signings, smashed THUMBS UP and always commented accordingly ... and we deserve much, much more from this once good man ...
Rather than comment on the ominous threats posed to our freedoms by the WEF and the WHO, he would also have us believe the problem is TRUMP-MAGA ... just listen to the extremely divisive, out-of-context comment he makes here in his otherwise terrific AMERICAN SADISM speech ... listen as he blames the MSM for splitting us into "warring factions" and then demeans those of us who question the motives and tactics of our elected officials as "members of the lunatic fringe and conspiracy theorists" ...
Start at the 43:10 mark and then listen very closely to him at the 44:32 mark:
https://scheerpost.com/2021/06/29/chris-hedges-speaks-on-american-sadism/
Many times, Hedges has been quick to point out the problems of our binary reaction to political reporting but once again, he chooses to deftly demonize and conflate law-abiding Christians with fringe MAGA types ...
I happen to believe that 9/11 was an inside job ... so does that make me a member of his lunatic fringe? ... well guess what, Hedges has actually admitted as much ... after a 2014 speech he was asked to comment on 9/11 and insulted our collective intelligence by saying "I don't want to get into conspiracy theories, Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" ...
Hedges' words do not empower us, his pessimism demoralizes us ...
Here's a few more head-scratching comments that now have even more meaning since the March 2020 lock downs:
------------------
ON THE U.S. CONSTITUTION
He says all the right things here:
“We cannot be paralyzed by fear. We will be stripped, if we do not resist, of our few remaining rights. To resist, while there is still time, is not only the highest form of spirituality but the highest form of patriotism. It is, if you care about what is worth protecting in this country, a moral imperative."
And on another occasion: "The Constitution remains a sacred document."
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ON THE MANDATES & PASSPORTS
But then, after the lock downs ...
He threw us AND the Constitution under the bus with COVID in an interview with Jimmy Dore ... just watch him dance to avoid a direct answer when asked about the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports before sheepishly blowing it off by saying: "that was a decision that I made."
AUG 27, 2021 ...
Go to the 8:12 mark ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusQH0pnX7Y&t=509s
Jimmy: “I’d like to get your thoughts on the vaccine mandates and passports”:
Hedges: “So I got the vaccine … the fact is these things were rolled out without proper vetting, that’s real … but I understand how people are weary about it, because they were turbo-charged … but that was a decision I made to get it … I am quite certain, in the history of pharmaceuticals that they work very hard to bury the negative consequences … that was a decision that I made”
TRANSLATION: things just got too hot in my kitchen, right Chris?
And on USEFUL IDIOTS on SEP 21, 2021
Go to the 1:50 mark ...
Another less-than-passionate, half-hearted response ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y7ZGT8raQS8
“It’s a hard question, I guess”
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ON THE COVID VAX
On DEC 2, 2021 ...
The FDA was compelled by a court ruling to release Phizer's vax trial data that revealed 1,223 post-jab deaths and 34,762 adverse events in the first 10 weeks of its trial ... The FDA attempted to delay the full release of this data for 75 years! ...
This proved that the COVID vax was not "safe & effective"!
https://yandex.com/search/?text=FDA+FOIA+release+1223+deaths+phizer+covid+vaccine+december+2%2C+2021&lr=21504&search_source=yacom_desktop_common
But then, just 30 days later ...
On JAN 1, 2022 ...
Chris Hedges made this comment on the Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (Episode #54):
Go to the 1:08:47 mark:
https://krystalkyleandfriends.substack.com/p/episode-54-audio-chris-hedges#details
"I don't think we're going to stop the pandemic and mutations until everybody gets vaccinated" ...
Chris Hedges DID NOT have to take sides on this issue ... He could have said it's a personal decision, but no ... most people would never tell another person to "walk the plank" if they knew better, but that's exactly what Hedges did here ... he knew the VAX was rushed to market after only one year (the average is 10 years), he knew about the explosive FDA FOIA release and he had to have seen the many videos of vax-injured people ... but he chose to push the "safe & effective" narrative on us anyway! ... and then about 2m after making that same comment during the interview above, Hedges rubbed our nose in it by openly admitting that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ... livelihoods and lives can hang in the balance of reckless, irresponsible comments like this but clearly, this man did not give a hoot about the consequences.
Of course, Hedges is free to write about any topic he chooses ... but although the 2024 PRES election is 8 months away, we've only got 2 months to stop the WHO from implementing those scary amendments to the pandemic treaty ...
But Hedges won't go there ... ya see, it's just too risky, he's cutting too close to the bone ... this has become his post-pandemic trademark ...
Read about James Roguski and the WHO here on Substack ... Hedges should be front and center on this ... in tough times like these, why can't he stand with us?