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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Professor Norman Finkelstein on how woke culture and identity politics are used to perpetuate the class warfare waged by corporations and ruling oligarchs.
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The Chris Hedges Report Podcast with Professor Norman Finkelstein on how woke culture and identity politics are used to perpetuate the class warfare waged by corporations and ruling oligarchs.
Norman Finkelstein is one of my heroes. In 2018 Brattleboro Common Sense sponsored his talk with Lakota Elder Alex White Plume on genocide in Gaza and on the reservation. He is a true example of a righteous man.
It’s comedy that these trans activists and anarchy punks think they are ‘radical’ but actually are the ‘shock troops’ like the nazis. This is a class war. Trans activists and antifa are doing the bidding of the wealthy elites.
I was disappointed the interview didn't go longer. I don't often hear Professor Finkelstein and it was enlightening to listen to him. I hope he is featured again.
Well thought out perspective from Norman. I remember when Obama got elected with his "hope and change" talking point propaganda. His election speech gave me a tear in my eye. I thought it wasn't long ago that black men weren't even welcomed in the White house through the front door. He made a quick change and didn't even let the left whether black or white in the backdoor! Almost immediately his spokesman said something like "the professional left will never be satisfied". Meaning people like Jesse Jackson or others who fought for civil rights in the sixties. He surrounded himself with Wall Street cohorts and War pigs like Hillary a Goldwater Girl in her youth and Rahm Emanuel etc.. But I didn't know about Jeffery Goldberg or as Obama calls him "Jeff". I will get the book and learn more about this war criminal and Zionist apologist. Now we have old Joe the Dixie Crat surrounded by the same like minded Russophobe cohorts and unquestioning supporters of Israel like blinkety Blinken and Victoria Neuland. Bernie was thrown under the bus twice by the same Neo Liberal power elite liars with the help of another black politician from the south Jim Clyburn. What a joke!
Class struggle is important, incredibly so, and so is defending the rights of oppressed groups. It's not either or.
I could not agree more with Prof. Finkelstein. Like Chris, he is genuine hero with the moral courage to take on bloodthirsty monsters here and abroad.
The thing I try to remember about the far left and far right groups, like antifa and proud boys, etc, is that they are all well infiltrated and managed by federal law enforcement.
Why do the interviews so short? You barely scratch the surface of someone’s views in such a short time.