This is the full video of the event I did on March 21 at Princeton University with Professor Finkelstein on the genocide in Gaza. The live stream feed was cut, apparently by Zionists in the hall.
I just sent this message to Linda Thomas-Greenfield referring to what she said when China and Russia vetoed the US resolution for a cease fire at the UN because it was ambiguous:
Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “So, let’s be honest: For all the fiery rhetoric, we all know that Russia and China are not doing anything diplomatically to advance a lasting peace or to meaningfully contribute to the humanitarian response effort.”
"and I say to you: let's be honest, Linda, you are helping the genocide of the Palestinians with your continues vetoing of a cease fire. I understand that you built your career following orders but we hoped that after your retirement you had the moral character to act in your own for the betterment of humanity. What a tragedy."
Great event. Thanks to both of you. Professor Finkelstein opened my eyes on several things like when comparing the genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust and the current genocide of the Palestinian people, he said that the current one is even worst because Hitler could do it in the shadow of the war and be unnoticed but the present holocaust of the Palestinians has been perpetrated in the open and with no excuses from Israel.
Subject matter aside. Praise to all who keep struggling for justice in Palestine.
Yet, I was very disappointed. I was hoping to hear also Mr. Hedges. Unfortunately, most of the session was taken by Mr. Finkelstein who also arrived 45 minutes late. Justice or fairness should reign, and dialogue and conversation should prevail also on the stage among intellectuals who advocate for these supreme values.
What angers and offends me is how Palestinians are dehumanized by Israel. Bibi the Butcher is on a tear, loving every Arab death. His claim to "eradicate" Hamas is a pipe dream, a thought supported by many who are far wiser and better informed than I am. Netanyahu and his Likud Party place a human value of life on Israelis while reducing the Palestinian life-value to zero.
A "heal the world discussion and analysis" - I wish we could have more of these instead of military interventions. The law can justify many ills and it can be used as a force for good. The spirit of the law vs. the letter of the law really came out here. Thanks to both Hedges and Finkelstein. And to the young people who use this to take the next steps to make the world a better place.
Yes, the Gaza genocide demands urgent attention, but ...
Can we as Chris Hedges' followers do more than merely read and comment? ... and can Hedges do more than relentlessly recount the gruesome details month after month?
YES!
Hedges could go the extra mile ... he could drop the names of several GAZA support orgs ... he could list them at the top of each of his posts here on Substack and we can then respond accordingly ... Substack reports that Hedges now has 85k SUBs here ... why has he never once mentioned any of these support orgs since OCT 7? ... if Hedges is uncomfortable with mentioning these organizations by name, why not just encourage us to Google "gaza palestinian refugee support organizations" ...
And wouldn't it make more sense for Hedges to alternate his posts between ASSANGE/GAZA and those issues that now threaten our freedoms and privacy here in America? ... why hasn't he written a single piece here on the relentless invasion of illegal immigrants and the scary amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty? ... Like GAZA, these are now urgent issues ... why does Chris Hedges continue to ignore developments here in the U.S.? ...
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 ...
Here's an excerpt from the intro to his March 8th 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! ... yes, we are in fact in the midst of a climate crisis, but Hedges continues to push a hoax on us, the easily disproven notion that global warming actually poses an existential threat to our species ...
Why was 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 reported 7,000 cattle had 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? ...
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 has now brazenly hidden behind ASSANGE and Gaza for the past 6 months ... his predictable decision to once again leave us all hangin' here with no hope on GAZA has become his trademark ... Chris Hedges is deliberately misdirecting our attention here ...
His relentless recounting of the horrors of the Gaza genocide for the past 6 months has passed the point of diminishing marginal returns for the marginalized millions in HIS U.S. working class ...
I now count over 70 pieces he has posted here since OCT 7, with only 8 addressing issues OTHER THAN the Gaza genocide, none of which really strike at the heart of the problems now facing Americans ... 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 ...
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DIVISIVENESS
Hedges is deceptively divisive and he obviously has no problem with it ...
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 listen him equivocate and 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: He temporarily suspended his principles because things just got too hot in his kitchen.
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 Amendments to the W.H.O.'s International Pandemic Treaty here on Substack ... Hedges should be front and center on this ... in tough times like these, why won't he even mention this topic? ... WTF is his problem?
I don’t think the first amendment obliges you to comment, PITA. It’s the Che Guevara in everyone that you need to draw out of Hedges to get what you want from him. Meanwhile you could start sewing the uniforms, send them to me and I‘ll clap like a seal if I think they have the properties required to sell as vintage revolutionary memorabilia after the overthrow of the regime. Alternatively you could overthrow the regime by merely voting for the Mango Mussolini, and take an earlier revenge on everyone.
I just sent this message to Linda Thomas-Greenfield referring to what she said when China and Russia vetoed the US resolution for a cease fire at the UN because it was ambiguous:
Linda Thomas-Greenfield: “So, let’s be honest: For all the fiery rhetoric, we all know that Russia and China are not doing anything diplomatically to advance a lasting peace or to meaningfully contribute to the humanitarian response effort.”
"and I say to you: let's be honest, Linda, you are helping the genocide of the Palestinians with your continues vetoing of a cease fire. I understand that you built your career following orders but we hoped that after your retirement you had the moral character to act in your own for the betterment of humanity. What a tragedy."
Great event. Thanks to both of you. Professor Finkelstein opened my eyes on several things like when comparing the genocide of the Jews during the Holocaust and the current genocide of the Palestinian people, he said that the current one is even worst because Hitler could do it in the shadow of the war and be unnoticed but the present holocaust of the Palestinians has been perpetrated in the open and with no excuses from Israel.
Note to organizers--might need a hall monitor for the next time.
Glad it was recorded.
Subject matter aside. Praise to all who keep struggling for justice in Palestine.
Yet, I was very disappointed. I was hoping to hear also Mr. Hedges. Unfortunately, most of the session was taken by Mr. Finkelstein who also arrived 45 minutes late. Justice or fairness should reign, and dialogue and conversation should prevail also on the stage among intellectuals who advocate for these supreme values.
Thank you Chris
What angers and offends me is how Palestinians are dehumanized by Israel. Bibi the Butcher is on a tear, loving every Arab death. His claim to "eradicate" Hamas is a pipe dream, a thought supported by many who are far wiser and better informed than I am. Netanyahu and his Likud Party place a human value of life on Israelis while reducing the Palestinian life-value to zero.
Thanks!
Thank you for posting..I was listening and could not figure out what happened.
A "heal the world discussion and analysis" - I wish we could have more of these instead of military interventions. The law can justify many ills and it can be used as a force for good. The spirit of the law vs. the letter of the law really came out here. Thanks to both Hedges and Finkelstein. And to the young people who use this to take the next steps to make the world a better place.
Yes, the Gaza genocide demands urgent attention, but ...
Can we as Chris Hedges' followers do more than merely read and comment? ... and can Hedges do more than relentlessly recount the gruesome details month after month?
YES!
Hedges could go the extra mile ... he could drop the names of several GAZA support orgs ... he could list them at the top of each of his posts here on Substack and we can then respond accordingly ... Substack reports that Hedges now has 85k SUBs here ... why has he never once mentioned any of these support orgs since OCT 7? ... if Hedges is uncomfortable with mentioning these organizations by name, why not just encourage us to Google "gaza palestinian refugee support organizations" ...
And wouldn't it make more sense for Hedges to alternate his posts between ASSANGE/GAZA and those issues that now threaten our freedoms and privacy here in America? ... why hasn't he written a single piece here on the relentless invasion of illegal immigrants and the scary amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty? ... Like GAZA, these are now urgent issues ... why does Chris Hedges continue to ignore developments here in the U.S.? ...
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 ...
Here's an excerpt from the intro to his March 8th 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! ... yes, we are in fact in the midst of a climate crisis, but Hedges continues to push a hoax on us, the easily disproven notion that global warming actually poses an existential threat to our species ...
Why was 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 reported 7,000 cattle had 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? ...
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 has now brazenly hidden behind ASSANGE and Gaza for the past 6 months ... his predictable decision to once again leave us all hangin' here with no hope on GAZA has become his trademark ... Chris Hedges is deliberately misdirecting our attention here ...
His relentless recounting of the horrors of the Gaza genocide for the past 6 months has passed the point of diminishing marginal returns for the marginalized millions in HIS U.S. working class ...
I now count over 70 pieces he has posted here since OCT 7, with only 8 addressing issues OTHER THAN the Gaza genocide, none of which really strike at the heart of the problems now facing Americans ... 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 ...
------------------
DIVISIVENESS
Hedges is deceptively divisive and he obviously has no problem with it ...
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."
------------------
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 listen him equivocate and 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: He temporarily suspended his principles because things just got too hot in his kitchen.
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 Amendments to the W.H.O.'s International Pandemic Treaty here on Substack ... Hedges should be front and center on this ... in tough times like these, why won't he even mention this topic? ... WTF is his problem?
Fantastic exchange. I’d love to be able to listen to “chats” like this every day. Great stuff. Great speakers.
I don’t think the first amendment obliges you to comment, PITA. It’s the Che Guevara in everyone that you need to draw out of Hedges to get what you want from him. Meanwhile you could start sewing the uniforms, send them to me and I‘ll clap like a seal if I think they have the properties required to sell as vintage revolutionary memorabilia after the overthrow of the regime. Alternatively you could overthrow the regime by merely voting for the Mango Mussolini, and take an earlier revenge on everyone.
Thank you for sharing this. I missed a lot on the day it was live.
Politics is a dirty business for 'some people'.