Thank You for all you Do! Your Courage to Speak Truth to Power is appreciated immensely by the Muslim Community!
'Israel' & its Death is guaranteed. It's pursuit of Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing LIVE has made this inevitable. As a Global Pariah, it is only a matter of time till the Noose tightens & the Beast is starved to Death!
Yes, I thank you so much too, Chris, for your courage and for tirelessly speaking truth to Power. This talk does my heart good and I feel grateful to be part of your community.
I am especially touched by the personal stories you share from your own experience, as painful as that must be. It made me happy to hear that you are studying more Arabic. It brought to mind my own dear Palestinian friend for just a short while, Salam Khalili, who was a journalist, peace activist and artist arrested after the 1967 Nakba in 1973 for writing the truth, and imprisoned and tortured for 7 years until freed by the efforts of Amnesty Int. He and his Israeli wife and two children ended up in California near where I live. He died early from his wounds. But before that he showed me his paintings of his experiences and was just beginning to teach me Arabic calligraphy. I am a calligrapher, artist and trauma therapist among other things, and to me Arabic is the most beautiful written language in the whole world, where each of its 28 letters reflects the phases of the moon. One can feel that flow in their script. The Arabs are deeply connected to the natural world and to all of the rhythms of Heaven and Earth by nature, which makes this genocide and destruction of all life in Gaza and increasingly in the West Bank all the more terrible.
I wanted to share this site that shows a few of Salam's many paintings of the endless destruction he lived through. He was such a beautiful soul, dedicated to peace until the day of his death and beyond:
I hope you get to see this post, and I thank you again. It is so important that the personal stories be told that make what we see from far away more real, more heartfelt, because through their lived stories and images we know and feel in our blood and bones that we are of course one intertwined human family and that what happens to them is happening to us, in us, as well.
What a privilege to be here at this time to listen to Chris. His words move me in all directions, in a contradiction of feelings - the despair and pain of the reality, the feeling of impotence, and the marvel at his poetic way of telling the most atrocious events. There is beauty on his words and this makes the message so much more powerful
Yes. I have no idea how he does it. He refuses to let the horror make him recoil and interfere with his ability to put it all into words. It's a talent, for sure.
I'd better press this issue because you can bet the ranch Hedges has not and will not identify with any programs that might raise funds for Gaza support ... he should have been one of the first to mention Anera.org, but he hasn't said a word! ... Hedges will no longer directly confront Israel because it is so closely connected to the DS ...
I question how much you really know about his man, Elisabeth!
Chris you are a great man. Thank you for this wonderful speech, which had me in tears. As an aging American I thought we as a civilization had overcome our genocidal nature. How naive of me. I pray for Gaza everyday and it sickens me that my government and many of my countrymen support this horrendous genocide.
Vote NO on Genocide Joe is in everything I write and not far from my lips at any moment. This Attempted Genocide by joe lowercase biden can not go unpunished. I will never again vote for the lesser of two evils. EVIL must go and that is the Monopoly party. Stein 24 West 24 or better yet Stein/West 24
The biggest recipient of US foreign aid in the last 50 years has been Israel. To the tune of $350 billion. That is precisely the amount calculated to be required to end world hunger - see the Guardian.
Even so this is a tiny fraction of what it has cost the US to support unblinkingly the international racist-apartheid scofflaw that is Israel. Much of that is incalculable but surely it includes much if not all of-the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries, devastated by the US and its allies. The position of the Israel lobby has been uniform and predictable . Kill, maim and destroy. Memorable among these war crimes has been the killing of 500 k Iraqi women and children “worth it” to the hideous Madeleine Albright and her sidekick Hillary C. (We came we saw, he died).
But by far the biggest expenditure was the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan where the uninvited thugs stayed 20 years claiming to be searching for Bin laden who of course wasn’t there. But giving them an opportunity to bomb weddings and commit savage war crimes along with their Australian mini- me wannabe Oz allies, who unsuccessfully tried to cover them up.
So what does Afghanistan have to do with Israel? Everything. The WesterN MSM has tried very hard to suppress it . but BinLaden explained his terrorist acts in a public letter entitled Letter to America published by the Guardian but in no American papers that I could find. He makes it explicit that the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel and its schoolyard bully protector was behind it. Indeed there is nothing to contradict this.
Cost of Afghanistan? $3 trillion! At least another trillion for aid if Intel , American troops and arms are included , this plus the cost of the other invasions must bring the total into the $5 trillion range.
So for ten million Israelis, this comes to $500k or half a million per Israeli Jew , dwarfing the personal worth of the average American. Just for Israel! I’m reluctant to put a dollar figure on the million plus deaths from the invaded countries, not to mention the deaths of American and allied soldiers.
So what of this was ever it to a vote? Nothing but 24/7 propaganda. That’s why not one American in a hundred is aware of these data.
A detailed accounting must be in front of the American voter for the coming election.
Wow, hard to like that but.............. ha. I wrote a story about the Great, great, great Grandson of Maximilien Robespierre and what happens to those 1% via a Cryo Guillotine ha. The French had a very good idea needed every generation or so.
Leech no, ungrateful yes. So much so israel rubbed our faces in the murder having mike lowercase pence sign a bomb and the Genocide continues. Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
The enormity of the current genocide in Gaza is enough to stop the beating of my heart. And yet the beat slowly proceeds. Hearing Chris’ deeply moving speech here provides rare sustenance for me to join in solidarity with our brothers and sisters across the world and speak loudly in one voice “Cease Fire Now”, “Free Palestine Now”.
All the people who have been regularly criticizing Chris Hedges with bogus claims on Substack are part of a deep state propaganda campaign organized by a US government agency or the Israel lobby to discredit him to his followers.
I don’t agree. A man with his level of intellect and life experience while living in a country with obvious, serious problems, problems which themselves have major moral dimensions, such as man might reasonably be expected to address them occasionally while diverting his attention from a small, far-away conflict.
This is a reasonable criticism, but genocide is such a heinous act that it seems appropriate to spend most of your time and attention in stopping it especially if your country is a co conspirator. Every day hundreds of people are being murdered through bombing, starvation and disease. In addition many people are suffering. What do you think of the young women who lost both legs and a hand amputated without pain killers.? Do you think it would have been appropriate during the Nazi against the Jews to spend most of your time and effort to save them?
Thank you , Chris! Your courage and your intellect, and your eloquence, coupled with your unparalleled first hand experience, make you one-in-a-million. I wish we had a million of you.
No matter how many weapons they wield, no matter how many people they kill, ethno-states, theocracies and monarchies are of the past. They are on the wrong side of history.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind....Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
Just read on X, someone suggested to combine the 'campaigns' of the outsiders (Ms Stein, Mr West, Ms Williamson) to break this stupid and deadly (for us) race Trump/Biden ... (as a non citizen I would love to see this!)
Chris Hedges you are a treasure. Your insights, and analysis are so welcome in trying to understand the underlying reasons for the barbaric treatment of civilians in Gaza, and the US involvement in these atrocities. Sending you all the best .
No question in my mind that Biden should not be in the executive office for another 4 years. Unfortunately, neither should Trump. So what to do. Jilll Stein of the Green Party is running on a platform that works for me. She's a long shot but if folks can't vote for the 2 horrible candidates the DNC and RNP are giving us I think Jill could pull this off. THe Green Party is registered in all 50 states so even though the 2 party system makes it almost impossible for a 3rd party to junmp thru all the hoops the Green Party has successfully done so. Give them a look and you decide.
Chris.....thank you for your compassionate voice where many refuse go. Sociopaths all of them.
Yes, I have voted for her in the past. Chances for winning are minimal but to be green is to love our planet and, in any case, it is a good way to criticize the two rotten political parties.
I will not be voting lesser of two evils ever again. Vote NO on Genocide Joe and sleep well. My hope, everyone who votes for Genocide Joe hears the screams of Palestinian child in their dreams.
I stand with you, I refuse to vote Genocide Joe no matter who. The Monopoly party will do everything to keep her voice from being heard. I love Cornel but after a donation not a word about ballot work. I like Stein/West 24 come out and say it now, build the momentum as traitor bernie did. Genocide bernie who would have thought. Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
Electoral politics at the federal, executive level is currently functionally broken. Look up instant runoff voting and ranked choice voting. It's the only way out of lesser evilism.
I suggest paying attention to your hyper-local politics, tho. Voting, volunteering for good people running, etc can do a lot of good there.
I too will vote for Jill Stein. As Chris Hedges said: a red line has been crossed and so we most not vote for a candidate who has literally been complicit in a genocide. The thing is that I don't think the Democratic leadership realizes yet that they will lose the Presidency to Trump due to this disaster of a foreign policy that has brought shame on our country. Biden won't lose because of third and fourth political parties, or because of Russian or Chinese interference in the election: he will lose because he aided and abetted a genocide.
Chris Hedges has deserted the U.S. working class ...
Even before the Gaza attacks, he abandoned us upon the MAR '20 lockdowns ...
For the past two decades, he gave us every indication that he'd be leading our fight against tyranny in the U.S. when the time came, but exactly the opposite has occurred ... he describes his report here on Substack as "Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society" ... but I just counted 53 posts made here since OCT 7, and only 3 dwelled on topics other than the ISR-Palestinian conflict ... there ARE things going on in the U.S. that may not be as urgent, but in a big picture sense, are much more important to our survival than Gaza ... and there are people out there like Hedges' friend Naomi Wolf, former Phizer exec Karen Kingston and Dr Peter McCullough who are literally risking their lives to expose the truth ...
Hedges has deftly sided with the globalists on the issues of climate change and vax-related bodily autonomy ... he has also called those of us who question the motives of our elected officials members of "the lunatic fringe" and "conspiracy theorists" ... listen to what he says here is his otherwise terrific AMERICAN SADISM speech:
He then brazenly refused to stand with the U.S. working class against the COVID vax mandates and passports ... just watch him dance to avoid a direct answer to a question on mandates and passports during a 2021 Jimmy Dore interview ...
He blew it off by simply saying: "... that was a decision that I made" ...
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! ... the release of this data proved that the COVID vax was not "safe & effective" ... but then, just 30 days later ...
On JAN 1, 2022 ...
Chris Hedges made this comment on the Krystal Kyle & Friends Podcast (Episode #54):
"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 anyway! ... and then about 2m after making that same comment during the interview above, Hedges openly admitted that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ... clearly, this man did not give a hoot about the consequences ...
Compared to what? Hedges is an outstandingly brave and careful cataloguer of the ongoing disgraceful atrocities of the American government. You’re way off base, if you don’t mind me saying.
And I must take great exception to your claim that Hedges is a "outstandingly brave and careful cataloguer" of U.S. atrocities ... much to the contrary ...
Here's a list of issues he has refused to touch:
- Flint MI water crisis
- East Palestine OH derailment
- U.S.- Mexican border crisis
- Damning evidence of Election Fraud in AZ GOV race
- Cause, motives and unaccounted for missing children in Maui "wild fires"
- Biden Administration officials appearing at Davos with WEF figures
- Unconstitutional enforcement of ad hoc COVID policy in NY
- Affects of mandates on U.S. healthcare workers
- Deterioration of business districts in major U.S, cities
- U.S. and Canadian trucker's protests
- Proposed amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty
- Gov't-big tech collusion in illegal mass censorship activities
Please be specific because I firmly believe I have followed him as closely as ANYBODY for the past decade ... he used to be my hero until the March '20 lockdowns ... and then oh boy, did he ever go soft! ... yes, he's done some laudable work, but he gave up on us with the lockdowns ... so please tell me specifically how my viewpoint is off the mark, because I'm prepared to respond with direct verbatim quotes proving his insincerity ... not necessarily to convince you, but to provide more background on his "collapse" for other readers here ...
This morning, I posted this under Chris’s 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse post yesterday.
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Thank you, Chris, I think every Democrat and all school children in America should be required to read what you wrote about Joe Biden, much of which was news to this Independent.
Instead of being in bed with Israel, Biden should be doing all he can to stop the invasion form Mexico. Yet yesterday, the all-wise U.S. Supreme Court ruled Texas had no right to line its southern border with razor wire, after the wall Donald Trump had promised Mexico would pay for, which got Trump elected in 2016, didn’t get paid for by Mexico, and most of it didn’t get built.
If I were president, I would ban American travel to Mexico, money being sent from America to people in Mexico, and Mexican products and services from entering America, until Mexico stops the invasion from it into America.
I would bring the troops home and put them on America’s southern border to repel the invasion as peacefully as possible.
I would put American soldiers, armed to the teeth, in American public lower, middle and high schools, to protect school children from domestic terrorists armed to the teeth with guns protected by the National Rifle Association, gun lovers, and the United States Supreme Court, none of whom ever once considered Amendment 2’s right of the citizens to bear arms is predicated on a well regulated militia to carry those arms.
As for how I would deal with the war in Palestine, which will continue for so long as Israel is there, it’s biblical, I would abandon Israel altogether, and give Israel the choice of stop fighting in Palestine, because it ran out of American ammunition, or use its nukes against its Islamic enemies and make Paelstine uninhabitable, and there is no holy land for Judaism, Christendom and Islam to squabble over.
To attempt to head off that dystopia, I release all of America’s UFO files, hoping that so jangles the thinking, hopes and dreams of every person and government and political party and religion on this planet, that they all put aside their personal squabbles and unite against the sum of their greatest fears, which heretofore they had ignored or not even believed they had.
In that way, Israel’s best friend Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, and their lemmings all get chopped off at the groin.
The Iron Curtain didn’t allow people to leave the Soviet Union and go somewhere else, as well as it kept people from going into the Soviet Union. America doesn’t need any more immigrants, from anywhere, but its southern border is a real problem and has been for a good while, and that’s because Mexico has not been inclined to do anything about it. So, let Mexico trade with other countries, and see how much it misses America dollars, and maybe Mexico will decide to stop the flood through and from it to the America southern border. On the other side of that “fence,” America has many internal troubles, which it needs to give its full attention, and one way to help America do that is stop immigration, and another way is to stop its foreign military excursions. And, the way things are going with the political/religious landscape in America, it looks to me that the time is coming when the US Military will be needed inside of America to try to keep it from going into another civil war. It’s so much easier to hold forth about something awful going on across an ocean than is to roll up the sleeves and deal with bad shit going on inside America.
You bring up another point. I certainly agree that stopping foreign military excursions would be a good thing. However, the creation of that military in the first place causes a problem that's been evident for over 2,000 years. The problem of the 'returning military'.
First, you train youngsters to follow orders and hate 'the other' so that they can more easily kill fellow humans. Next you set them loose on 'others' halfway around the world. But, when they return home, you reap the results of your ill-conceived plan. The result (as Greece and Rome found out) is that your 'republic' often becomes a dictatorship, and that leads to the same distinctly authoritarian division between those that take and those that give orders. This submerges any vestige of an egalitarian (democratic) ethic. Such a situation created the American Revolution (among a few others). The 'United States' were States that found common cause against the authoritarian British Crown. That's what made 'America', not hatred of 'the Other'. The hate-filled Pilgrims made cause with the peace-loving Quakers.
Never served in the military, and was spared by what seemed a miracle at the time from being drafted during the Vietnam war. That any country feels it needs a military, or uses its military against another country, speaks to the devolution of humanity, in my opinion. Yet most countries, including America, have a military, so I say put it to use defending America from the southern invasion, defending children in public schools, and defending America from insurrection.
In a different sense, I am very much a soldier, and I have fought many battles in many wars, but the weapons were, and remain, words spoken and written. The chain of command I serve is vast beyond human comprehension, and although some religions think or believe they have a grasp on it, it is unfathomable and cannot be comprehended in human ways, but its workings can be seen at times and acknowledged.
I have participated in many public forums or places: churches, government meetings, face to face, and in many online forums. Sometimes I receive a like or attaboy, but mostly slings and arrows.
If you are not familiar with it, I suggest you read THE SPEAR OF DESTINY, by Trevor Ravenscroft, which is about Hiter and his inner circle, how they became so powerful, and some people with special abilities who opposed them and reported to the Allied Command.
Humanity is really messed up. Palestine is really messed up. America is really messed up. Just about every placer is really messed up, while some places are less messed up.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama, which once was one of the seats of white supremacy in America,but today Birmingham is a blue city surrounded by seas or red.
I’m 81 years old an I don’t figure I will be around long enough to sere America end up like Great Britain, Rome, Greece and the Persian Empire. But I think that is where America is headed and I see no way to avoid it, which leaves for each person living in America to do the next right thing, so to speak.
A Court far above any human court observes all of those proceedings, and in that Court we all are on trial. .
A troll? ... so I'm just here for the hell of it, right?
Please tell me, what is your definition of a "troll"?
I'm an independent progressive just like Hedges once was ...
And having followed him so closely for the past decade with great admiration, it was impossible not notice a polar sift in his commitment to the U.S. working class since the lockdowns ... he has broken several key promises to us since then and really I'm pissed-off about another self-centered millionaire's decision to abandon the people who gave him a career ...
Only hindsight proved you right. Many people I knew early on thought we didn't go far enough. The CDC making the mistake many in science do, a guess is not a fact of science. What should have happened, everyone over the age of 80 and anyone over 60 in poor health should have been protected with those options. Deaths would have been a few percent of what they were. Closing down countries a tragic mistake. We will most likely find out about abusing the vaccine as well, my guess.
The explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release was more than sufficient reason to NOT endorse the COVID vax ... Hedges bowed to power here at the expense of the U.S. working class ... over 1200 people died and 34k incurred vax-related injuries, all in the first 10 weeks of Phizer's trial period ... and then exactly 30 days later, Hedges told Krystal & Kyle the pandemic and mutations could not be curtailed until "everyone gets vaccinated" ... both livelihoods and lives hung in the balance of his comment, and Hedges obviously did not give a hoot about the consequences ... this was real betrayal of our trust in him ...
What the USA does in Gaza is the key to it's survival. The construct of Epstein, his funders, and his focus will eventually shock both USA and Israel. It's likely the ultimate Pandoras Box.
But I ask you, what would be wrong with Hedges alternating his commentary between the plight of the Palestinians and how this conflict is specifically affecting the U.S. working class? ... Wouldn't such an approach make more sense?
Americans are profoundly uneducated. There in lies the problem. 80%of the population thinks there were only two buildings that fell on 9/11. The obvious significance escapes them. Now, most couldn't find Israel or Gaza on a map, nor do they care!
The public have been systematically dis-educated ever since, after the first baby boomers graduated from American universities as the best-educated generation the world had ever seen, and enough of them started asking the right questions, to scare the bejesus out of the ownership class. The oligarchs been on the warpath ever since, to have micro-control of what can and cannot be taught at all levels. What we see today is the result.
And if you haven't already done so, you might ask yourself why Hedges is doing this? ... Why is he reluctant to make hard connections between war funding and it's specific affects on the U.S. working class ... I've made the point here many times in recent weeks that the the unemployed, divorced mother of 4 never gives a thought to Assange, Gaza or CIA corruption - and Hedges knows it! ... Hedges is just another cynical speculator in the independent media business ... and his cult members continue to all fall in line here like clapping seals begging for Hedges to spoon-feed them their weekly dose of darkness.
Your solution is? Perhaps you should further explain the solution. Perhaps funding the homeless, unemployed mothers, the elderly, might be a better idea than terrorizing the world with 850 foreign military bases, aircraft carriers, misfiles, bombs and nuclear weapons. Hedges has tried to educate people for years, it's hopeless. Your turn, do better, enlighten the world , especially the tyrants! Start here please....
Yes, a great start. Unfortunately I would bet they would install those additional bases here in the u.s. ,build many more Cop Cities. I like the no standing army in the Constitution : ) Smart Racist People they were on a number of issues.
I know what the solution is and I agree with your suggestions ...
So please tell me, why would you not expect Hedges to makes these connections? ... why are you inclined to give him a pass? ... I have made the point here several times that Hedges commentary would be greatly appreciated by "we the people" here in the U.S. if he routinely made these connections ... but no, we are no longer on his radar, not since the lockdowns ...
I really do NOT know, why you are still here ... I am certainly no cult member and I am MOST DEFINITELY appalled at the situation in the 'wonderful' USA (poverty everywhere, infrastructure crumbling ... the LIST IS ENDLESS - what do you want Mr Hedges to do? He suggested many times OUR OPTIONS - as long as there are NOT MILLIONS in EVERY CITY on the streets NOTHING will change or happen, the good citizens will get 4 more years of 2 disgusting grandpa's)
Hedges has given up on us, so here's what I want to see him do:
1) Rather than making two posts per week on Gaza here on Substack, I'd like to see him alternate his commentary by devoting one per week on the Gaza genocide and another regular weekly piece on the SPECIFIC areas of suffering by the U.S. working class ... I trust you notice, he hasn't had much to say about the plight of the U.S. working class since the lockdowns, and virtually nothing since OCT 7th.
2) If he chooses to ignore us, then I challenge him to establish a Gaza support fund ... he has 60k SUBs here on Substack, most which I'm willing to bet have never even heard of Anera.org ... such a project would turn the growing public awareness into badly needed financial support ... gosh, has he even mentioned anera.org?
3) Start to cover the affects of COVID tyranny on the U.S. working class on a regular basis ...
4) If and when he decides to comment on other issues, I'd like to see him abandon his divisive rhetoric on the supposed danger posed by TRUMP-MAGA types and directly confront the real enemy - the World Economic Forum, and call-out the perpetrators by name ...
5) This would be huge ... I'd like to see Hedges do regular interviews with level-headed red-voice types like JD Rucker, Mike Adams and big name populists voices like Tucker Carlson.
6) Write a new book that describes a model for rebuilding American Society after the coming economic collapse ...
7) Jump into the conversation on the amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty ... with the WHO's agenda being a bit wobbly lately, the timing would be perfect ...
8) Let him engage in some true acts of leadership for the first time since he directly confronted Obama in 2012 on the amendments to SECTION 1021 of the NDAA. That was an awesome piece of badly needed activism, that was Hedges at his best!
And now, you are free to bury me with excuses on why just "can't" do any of these ...
My criticism is that since October 10th the tenor and the headlines of his pieces fulminate against Israel and their ‘genocide’ without a shred of balance and behaving as if he has never seen worse--and I believe he has. If not then let me call his attention to the report from the UN that states Yemeni deaths from the US (sorry--he is an American) enabled and armed Saudis at 377,000. This slaughter puts Gaza on Page 3 of the newspaper news.
His headlined prediction of the ‘death’ of Israel is pure Jew baiting besides having been predicted countless times.
Once a good man, Hedges now practices the not-so fine art of pseudo-journalistic voyeurism ... he seeks to make us feel the jolt of catastrophe, to empathize with victims without incurring any direct pain ourselves ... and he has now done this for well over 3 months without a "time-out" ... although Hedges is still terrific and painting pictures, he clearly no longer has the stomach to get his hands dirty with the U.S. working class.
Do we have to agree with everything a person believes or every action. We have had this debate before. Stopping Genocide is EVERYTHING! Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
But you miss my point ... for the past two decades, Hedges has urged us to directly confront tyranny - even when things look bleak! ... but when the lockdowns were declared, he tucked his tail between his legs and left town ... ya see, you can't even disagree with someone who refuses to take a stand with us ...
Covid-19 ii a bio-weapon, it got loose before Red China could create the vaccine, having both would have given Red China huge leverage over humanity. So, God, or something, set the bio-weapon loose to keep Red China from becoming that dominant? Then, along came a New York Hassidic Jew family practice physician, Vladimir Putin, who designed an early stage infection cure: hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azithromycin, which he field tested on his own patients, to keep them out of hospitals and alive, and it worked. Hydrozychlorine had one use, which was to transport zinc into body cells, where Covid-!9 took up residence. The virus could not replicate well in a zinc environment. Azithromycin was for secondary infections. A 5 day treatment course, very inexpensive, administered at the onset of symptoms, worked. It did not work if a patient was showing advanced symptoms.
Dr. Zelenio he wrote a letter to President Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows about the cure, and Sean Hannity interviewed Dr. Zelenko on his FOX show, and on Television Trump told America it might be a miracle cure, and the FDA gave emergency approval for using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, then Biden, the Democrats, CDC and Dr. Fauci, NIH, WHO, Lancet, the medical industrial complex and the liberal news media when haywire against hydroxychloroquine, which had been used for decades to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The FDA rescinded is approval for hydroxychloroquine, and Trump initiated Operation Warp Speed, instead of getting himself a new FDA director who would reinstate Zenelko’s cure, which a lot of American doctors were giving their patients and getting the same results that Zelenko had gotten.
Trump could have saved America and the world from Red China’s bioweapon. That was his reason for being elected in 2016, if you factor in God. In that sense, Trump was sent by God. All the other theories of Trump being sent by God are pure horseshit. Now, Americans face the grim possibility of voting either for Biden or for Trump, who told Israel he is their best friend. Or voting for a third-party candidate. Or not voting.
Chris Hedges knows that scenario very well. Hedges knows America may end up in its 2nd civil war. And that is why I say Hedges should wind up his coverage of the war in Gaza and turn his attention to what is going on inside his own country’s boundaries. Meanwhile Hedges is making splendid earning$ from subscriber$, including us, bashing Israel, and giving Hamas a pass. Would Hedges make the same splendid earning$ bashing Trump and Biden and their lemmings? Would Hedges get death threats if he started bashing Trump and Biden and their cults? Will the U.S.Supreme Court receive death threats if it rules Amendment 14, Section 3 of the United States Constitution bars Trump from holding public office? Or if that Court rules Trump, and no president, has total immunity to criminal prosecution for acted performed when president?
Looks to me America is fucked with Biden or Trump in the White House, but Biden and his lemmings dont remind me of Adolph Hitler and his lemmings, Look at film footage and photos of the Charlottesville protest, MAGA rallies, and the January 6 insurrection, and you will see oceans of white people. In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur - the thing speaks for itself. A picture is worth a thousand words. The South is rising again, and Donald Trump is its Imperial Wizard.
Thank you Chris Hedges for your, strong. compassionate, courageous, voice in supporting the Palestinian people in order to stop their repression and the genocide in Gaza.
Thank you for sharing this message by Chris Hedges, as well as your own, in support of the peace and freedom of the Palestinian people. I wish I were there with you, but I am grateful for the opportunity to join with you online.
Thank You for all you Do! Your Courage to Speak Truth to Power is appreciated immensely by the Muslim Community!
'Israel' & its Death is guaranteed. It's pursuit of Genocide & Ethnic Cleansing LIVE has made this inevitable. As a Global Pariah, it is only a matter of time till the Noose tightens & the Beast is starved to Death!
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Thank You Kindly to everyone!
Yes, I thank you so much too, Chris, for your courage and for tirelessly speaking truth to Power. This talk does my heart good and I feel grateful to be part of your community.
I am especially touched by the personal stories you share from your own experience, as painful as that must be. It made me happy to hear that you are studying more Arabic. It brought to mind my own dear Palestinian friend for just a short while, Salam Khalili, who was a journalist, peace activist and artist arrested after the 1967 Nakba in 1973 for writing the truth, and imprisoned and tortured for 7 years until freed by the efforts of Amnesty Int. He and his Israeli wife and two children ended up in California near where I live. He died early from his wounds. But before that he showed me his paintings of his experiences and was just beginning to teach me Arabic calligraphy. I am a calligrapher, artist and trauma therapist among other things, and to me Arabic is the most beautiful written language in the whole world, where each of its 28 letters reflects the phases of the moon. One can feel that flow in their script. The Arabs are deeply connected to the natural world and to all of the rhythms of Heaven and Earth by nature, which makes this genocide and destruction of all life in Gaza and increasingly in the West Bank all the more terrible.
I wanted to share this site that shows a few of Salam's many paintings of the endless destruction he lived through. He was such a beautiful soul, dedicated to peace until the day of his death and beyond:
https://www.arteidolia.com/the-paintings-of-salam-khalili/
I hope you get to see this post, and I thank you again. It is so important that the personal stories be told that make what we see from far away more real, more heartfelt, because through their lived stories and images we know and feel in our blood and bones that we are of course one intertwined human family and that what happens to them is happening to us, in us, as well.
Liana, thank you for this beautiful comment.
I would add, appreciated by more and more people from around the world.
Much love and many hugs. Free Palestine will never again be far from my lips again.
What a privilege to be here at this time to listen to Chris. His words move me in all directions, in a contradiction of feelings - the despair and pain of the reality, the feeling of impotence, and the marvel at his poetic way of telling the most atrocious events. There is beauty on his words and this makes the message so much more powerful
Yes. I have no idea how he does it. He refuses to let the horror make him recoil and interfere with his ability to put it all into words. It's a talent, for sure.
I nominate Chris Hedges to establish a GAZA SUPPORT FUND ...
He has 60k subscribers here on Substack ... many of whom would promptly chip in, including me!
This idea fits like a glove!
Not necessary, just give whatever you can to ANERA https://www.anera.org/
And one more thing Elisabeth ...
I'd better press this issue because you can bet the ranch Hedges has not and will not identify with any programs that might raise funds for Gaza support ... he should have been one of the first to mention Anera.org, but he hasn't said a word! ... Hedges will no longer directly confront Israel because it is so closely connected to the DS ...
I question how much you really know about his man, Elisabeth!
Very necessary Elisabeth ...
Simply because most of Hedges' followers have never even heard of Anera.org ...
Chris you are a great man. Thank you for this wonderful speech, which had me in tears. As an aging American I thought we as a civilization had overcome our genocidal nature. How naive of me. I pray for Gaza everyday and it sickens me that my government and many of my countrymen support this horrendous genocide.
Vote NO on Genocide Joe is in everything I write and not far from my lips at any moment. This Attempted Genocide by joe lowercase biden can not go unpunished. I will never again vote for the lesser of two evils. EVIL must go and that is the Monopoly party. Stein 24 West 24 or better yet Stein/West 24
Chris I hope you read this
The biggest recipient of US foreign aid in the last 50 years has been Israel. To the tune of $350 billion. That is precisely the amount calculated to be required to end world hunger - see the Guardian.
Even so this is a tiny fraction of what it has cost the US to support unblinkingly the international racist-apartheid scofflaw that is Israel. Much of that is incalculable but surely it includes much if not all of-the invasions of Iraq, Libya, Syria and other countries, devastated by the US and its allies. The position of the Israel lobby has been uniform and predictable . Kill, maim and destroy. Memorable among these war crimes has been the killing of 500 k Iraqi women and children “worth it” to the hideous Madeleine Albright and her sidekick Hillary C. (We came we saw, he died).
But by far the biggest expenditure was the invasion and occupation of Afghanistan where the uninvited thugs stayed 20 years claiming to be searching for Bin laden who of course wasn’t there. But giving them an opportunity to bomb weddings and commit savage war crimes along with their Australian mini- me wannabe Oz allies, who unsuccessfully tried to cover them up.
So what does Afghanistan have to do with Israel? Everything. The WesterN MSM has tried very hard to suppress it . but BinLaden explained his terrorist acts in a public letter entitled Letter to America published by the Guardian but in no American papers that I could find. He makes it explicit that the treatment of the Palestinians by Israel and its schoolyard bully protector was behind it. Indeed there is nothing to contradict this.
Cost of Afghanistan? $3 trillion! At least another trillion for aid if Intel , American troops and arms are included , this plus the cost of the other invasions must bring the total into the $5 trillion range.
So for ten million Israelis, this comes to $500k or half a million per Israeli Jew , dwarfing the personal worth of the average American. Just for Israel! I’m reluctant to put a dollar figure on the million plus deaths from the invaded countries, not to mention the deaths of American and allied soldiers.
So what of this was ever it to a vote? Nothing but 24/7 propaganda. That’s why not one American in a hundred is aware of these data.
A detailed accounting must be in front of the American voter for the coming election.
Median worth of the average American is $191.000. Average worth is highly skewed by the 1% ers is ~a million.
Wow, hard to like that but.............. ha. I wrote a story about the Great, great, great Grandson of Maximilien Robespierre and what happens to those 1% via a Cryo Guillotine ha. The French had a very good idea needed every generation or so.
I don't recall seeing Israel helping USA in Afghanistan?
Israel is an ungrateful leech?
Leech no, ungrateful yes. So much so israel rubbed our faces in the murder having mike lowercase pence sign a bomb and the Genocide continues. Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
Yes and well documented. One of the reasons that base was struck in Iraq the other day. Same people.
The enormity of the current genocide in Gaza is enough to stop the beating of my heart. And yet the beat slowly proceeds. Hearing Chris’ deeply moving speech here provides rare sustenance for me to join in solidarity with our brothers and sisters across the world and speak loudly in one voice “Cease Fire Now”, “Free Palestine Now”.
I am praying with my feet as long as I can keep going.
Thanks Chris.
All the people who have been regularly criticizing Chris Hedges with bogus claims on Substack are part of a deep state propaganda campaign organized by a US government agency or the Israel lobby to discredit him to his followers.
I don’t agree. A man with his level of intellect and life experience while living in a country with obvious, serious problems, problems which themselves have major moral dimensions, such as man might reasonably be expected to address them occasionally while diverting his attention from a small, far-away conflict.
This is a reasonable criticism, but genocide is such a heinous act that it seems appropriate to spend most of your time and attention in stopping it especially if your country is a co conspirator. Every day hundreds of people are being murdered through bombing, starvation and disease. In addition many people are suffering. What do you think of the young women who lost both legs and a hand amputated without pain killers.? Do you think it would have been appropriate during the Nazi against the Jews to spend most of your time and effort to save them?
Thank you , Chris! Your courage and your intellect, and your eloquence, coupled with your unparalleled first hand experience, make you one-in-a-million. I wish we had a million of you.
No matter how many weapons they wield, no matter how many people they kill, ethno-states, theocracies and monarchies are of the past. They are on the wrong side of history.
We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, and that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
Jefferson got that right. Herzl got it wrong.
Jefferson got a few things right.
"But the consequences of this enormous inequality producing so much misery to the bulk of mankind, legislators cannot invent too many devices for subdividing property, only taking care to let their subdivisions go hand in hand with the natural affections of the human mind....Another means of silently lessening the inequality of property is to exempt all from taxation below a certain point, and to tax the higher portions of property in geometrical progression as they rise."
https://press-pubs.uchicago.edu/founders/documents/v1ch15s32.html
Thank you~! You are a better scholar than I! I can only semi-quote a couple of words here and there...
You are right, Chris has that voice that is so powerful in speeches.
Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
Just read on X, someone suggested to combine the 'campaigns' of the outsiders (Ms Stein, Mr West, Ms Williamson) to break this stupid and deadly (for us) race Trump/Biden ... (as a non citizen I would love to see this!)
That guy never met a war he didn't like.
relevant and timely review of the conflict by someone who possesses the history to summarize the
facts into common acceptance. mr. hedges is to be commended for what he does and his contribution to finding the answers.
Chris Hedges you are a treasure. Your insights, and analysis are so welcome in trying to understand the underlying reasons for the barbaric treatment of civilians in Gaza, and the US involvement in these atrocities. Sending you all the best .
Arlene Dunkelbarger
Yes. His understanding of the historical record is fantastic.
No question in my mind that Biden should not be in the executive office for another 4 years. Unfortunately, neither should Trump. So what to do. Jilll Stein of the Green Party is running on a platform that works for me. She's a long shot but if folks can't vote for the 2 horrible candidates the DNC and RNP are giving us I think Jill could pull this off. THe Green Party is registered in all 50 states so even though the 2 party system makes it almost impossible for a 3rd party to junmp thru all the hoops the Green Party has successfully done so. Give them a look and you decide.
Chris.....thank you for your compassionate voice where many refuse go. Sociopaths all of them.
Yes, I have voted for her in the past. Chances for winning are minimal but to be green is to love our planet and, in any case, it is a good way to criticize the two rotten political parties.
I will not be voting lesser of two evils ever again. Vote NO on Genocide Joe and sleep well. My hope, everyone who votes for Genocide Joe hears the screams of Palestinian child in their dreams.
I stand with you, I refuse to vote Genocide Joe no matter who. The Monopoly party will do everything to keep her voice from being heard. I love Cornel but after a donation not a word about ballot work. I like Stein/West 24 come out and say it now, build the momentum as traitor bernie did. Genocide bernie who would have thought. Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
Electoral politics at the federal, executive level is currently functionally broken. Look up instant runoff voting and ranked choice voting. It's the only way out of lesser evilism.
I suggest paying attention to your hyper-local politics, tho. Voting, volunteering for good people running, etc can do a lot of good there.
I too will vote for Jill Stein. As Chris Hedges said: a red line has been crossed and so we most not vote for a candidate who has literally been complicit in a genocide. The thing is that I don't think the Democratic leadership realizes yet that they will lose the Presidency to Trump due to this disaster of a foreign policy that has brought shame on our country. Biden won't lose because of third and fourth political parties, or because of Russian or Chinese interference in the election: he will lose because he aided and abetted a genocide.
Chris Hedges has deserted the U.S. working class ...
Even before the Gaza attacks, he abandoned us upon the MAR '20 lockdowns ...
For the past two decades, he gave us every indication that he'd be leading our fight against tyranny in the U.S. when the time came, but exactly the opposite has occurred ... he describes his report here on Substack as "Covering US foreign policy, economic realities, and civil liberties in American society" ... but I just counted 53 posts made here since OCT 7, and only 3 dwelled on topics other than the ISR-Palestinian conflict ... there ARE things going on in the U.S. that may not be as urgent, but in a big picture sense, are much more important to our survival than Gaza ... and there are people out there like Hedges' friend Naomi Wolf, former Phizer exec Karen Kingston and Dr Peter McCullough who are literally risking their lives to expose the truth ...
Hedges has deftly sided with the globalists on the issues of climate change and vax-related bodily autonomy ... he has also called those of us who question the motives of our elected officials members of "the lunatic fringe" and "conspiracy theorists" ... listen to what he says here is his otherwise terrific AMERICAN SADISM speech:
Go to the 44:32 mark:
https://scheerpost.com/2021/06/29/chris-hedges-speaks-on-american-sadism/
He then brazenly refused to stand with the U.S. working class against the COVID vax mandates and passports ... just watch him dance to avoid a direct answer to a question on mandates and passports during a 2021 Jimmy Dore interview ...
He blew it off by simply saying: "... that was a decision that I made" ...
Go to the 8:12 mark:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NusQH0pnX7Y
And then, 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! ... the release of this data proved that the COVID vax was not "safe & effective" ... 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 anyway! ... and then about 2m after making that same comment during the interview above, Hedges openly admitted that he "does not trust Moderna or Phizer" ... clearly, this man did not give a hoot about the consequences ...
Thx for nothin' Chris
Compared to what? Hedges is an outstandingly brave and careful cataloguer of the ongoing disgraceful atrocities of the American government. You’re way off base, if you don’t mind me saying.
Read your comment a second time ...
And I must take great exception to your claim that Hedges is a "outstandingly brave and careful cataloguer" of U.S. atrocities ... much to the contrary ...
Here's a list of issues he has refused to touch:
- Flint MI water crisis
- East Palestine OH derailment
- U.S.- Mexican border crisis
- Damning evidence of Election Fraud in AZ GOV race
- Cause, motives and unaccounted for missing children in Maui "wild fires"
- Biden Administration officials appearing at Davos with WEF figures
- Unconstitutional enforcement of ad hoc COVID policy in NY
- Affects of mandates on U.S. healthcare workers
- Deterioration of business districts in major U.S, cities
- U.S. and Canadian trucker's protests
- Proposed amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty
- Gov't-big tech collusion in illegal mass censorship activities
- Bill Gates' acquisition of U.S. farmland
- Debanking of Dr Joseph Mercola
- SCOTUS ruling in Texas-Mexican border dispute
I could go ... Hedges is just a cherry-picker ...
Way off base in what way? ... How? ...
Please be specific because I firmly believe I have followed him as closely as ANYBODY for the past decade ... he used to be my hero until the March '20 lockdowns ... and then oh boy, did he ever go soft! ... yes, he's done some laudable work, but he gave up on us with the lockdowns ... so please tell me specifically how my viewpoint is off the mark, because I'm prepared to respond with direct verbatim quotes proving his insincerity ... not necessarily to convince you, but to provide more background on his "collapse" for other readers here ...
This morning, I posted this under Chris’s 4 Horsemen of the Apocalypse post yesterday.
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Thank you, Chris, I think every Democrat and all school children in America should be required to read what you wrote about Joe Biden, much of which was news to this Independent.
Instead of being in bed with Israel, Biden should be doing all he can to stop the invasion form Mexico. Yet yesterday, the all-wise U.S. Supreme Court ruled Texas had no right to line its southern border with razor wire, after the wall Donald Trump had promised Mexico would pay for, which got Trump elected in 2016, didn’t get paid for by Mexico, and most of it didn’t get built.
If I were president, I would ban American travel to Mexico, money being sent from America to people in Mexico, and Mexican products and services from entering America, until Mexico stops the invasion from it into America.
I would bring the troops home and put them on America’s southern border to repel the invasion as peacefully as possible.
I would put American soldiers, armed to the teeth, in American public lower, middle and high schools, to protect school children from domestic terrorists armed to the teeth with guns protected by the National Rifle Association, gun lovers, and the United States Supreme Court, none of whom ever once considered Amendment 2’s right of the citizens to bear arms is predicated on a well regulated militia to carry those arms.
As for how I would deal with the war in Palestine, which will continue for so long as Israel is there, it’s biblical, I would abandon Israel altogether, and give Israel the choice of stop fighting in Palestine, because it ran out of American ammunition, or use its nukes against its Islamic enemies and make Paelstine uninhabitable, and there is no holy land for Judaism, Christendom and Islam to squabble over.
To attempt to head off that dystopia, I release all of America’s UFO files, hoping that so jangles the thinking, hopes and dreams of every person and government and political party and religion on this planet, that they all put aside their personal squabbles and unite against the sum of their greatest fears, which heretofore they had ignored or not even believed they had.
In that way, Israel’s best friend Donald Trump, and Joe Biden, and their lemmings all get chopped off at the groin.
Kinda sounds like you want an 'Iron Curtain'. How American.
The Iron Curtain didn’t allow people to leave the Soviet Union and go somewhere else, as well as it kept people from going into the Soviet Union. America doesn’t need any more immigrants, from anywhere, but its southern border is a real problem and has been for a good while, and that’s because Mexico has not been inclined to do anything about it. So, let Mexico trade with other countries, and see how much it misses America dollars, and maybe Mexico will decide to stop the flood through and from it to the America southern border. On the other side of that “fence,” America has many internal troubles, which it needs to give its full attention, and one way to help America do that is stop immigration, and another way is to stop its foreign military excursions. And, the way things are going with the political/religious landscape in America, it looks to me that the time is coming when the US Military will be needed inside of America to try to keep it from going into another civil war. It’s so much easier to hold forth about something awful going on across an ocean than is to roll up the sleeves and deal with bad shit going on inside America.
You bring up another point. I certainly agree that stopping foreign military excursions would be a good thing. However, the creation of that military in the first place causes a problem that's been evident for over 2,000 years. The problem of the 'returning military'.
First, you train youngsters to follow orders and hate 'the other' so that they can more easily kill fellow humans. Next you set them loose on 'others' halfway around the world. But, when they return home, you reap the results of your ill-conceived plan. The result (as Greece and Rome found out) is that your 'republic' often becomes a dictatorship, and that leads to the same distinctly authoritarian division between those that take and those that give orders. This submerges any vestige of an egalitarian (democratic) ethic. Such a situation created the American Revolution (among a few others). The 'United States' were States that found common cause against the authoritarian British Crown. That's what made 'America', not hatred of 'the Other'. The hate-filled Pilgrims made cause with the peace-loving Quakers.
Are you, perhaps, a former military minion?
Never served in the military, and was spared by what seemed a miracle at the time from being drafted during the Vietnam war. That any country feels it needs a military, or uses its military against another country, speaks to the devolution of humanity, in my opinion. Yet most countries, including America, have a military, so I say put it to use defending America from the southern invasion, defending children in public schools, and defending America from insurrection.
In a different sense, I am very much a soldier, and I have fought many battles in many wars, but the weapons were, and remain, words spoken and written. The chain of command I serve is vast beyond human comprehension, and although some religions think or believe they have a grasp on it, it is unfathomable and cannot be comprehended in human ways, but its workings can be seen at times and acknowledged.
I have participated in many public forums or places: churches, government meetings, face to face, and in many online forums. Sometimes I receive a like or attaboy, but mostly slings and arrows.
If you are not familiar with it, I suggest you read THE SPEAR OF DESTINY, by Trevor Ravenscroft, which is about Hiter and his inner circle, how they became so powerful, and some people with special abilities who opposed them and reported to the Allied Command.
Humanity is really messed up. Palestine is really messed up. America is really messed up. Just about every placer is really messed up, while some places are less messed up.
I live in Birmingham, Alabama, which once was one of the seats of white supremacy in America,but today Birmingham is a blue city surrounded by seas or red.
I’m 81 years old an I don’t figure I will be around long enough to sere America end up like Great Britain, Rome, Greece and the Persian Empire. But I think that is where America is headed and I see no way to avoid it, which leaves for each person living in America to do the next right thing, so to speak.
A Court far above any human court observes all of those proceedings, and in that Court we all are on trial. .
The iron curtain was Anti-NATO now it's a Neutron curtain.
Right? Heh.
"Chris Hedges has deserted the U.S. working class"
I've lived in or near the poverty line my entire adult life. You're a troll, not a contrarian.
A troll? ... so I'm just here for the hell of it, right?
Please tell me, what is your definition of a "troll"?
I'm an independent progressive just like Hedges once was ...
And having followed him so closely for the past decade with great admiration, it was impossible not notice a polar sift in his commitment to the U.S. working class since the lockdowns ... he has broken several key promises to us since then and really I'm pissed-off about another self-centered millionaire's decision to abandon the people who gave him a career ...
Only hindsight proved you right. Many people I knew early on thought we didn't go far enough. The CDC making the mistake many in science do, a guess is not a fact of science. What should have happened, everyone over the age of 80 and anyone over 60 in poor health should have been protected with those options. Deaths would have been a few percent of what they were. Closing down countries a tragic mistake. We will most likely find out about abusing the vaccine as well, my guess.
No, no, no Landru ...
The explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release was more than sufficient reason to NOT endorse the COVID vax ... Hedges bowed to power here at the expense of the U.S. working class ... over 1200 people died and 34k incurred vax-related injuries, all in the first 10 weeks of Phizer's trial period ... and then exactly 30 days later, Hedges told Krystal & Kyle the pandemic and mutations could not be curtailed until "everyone gets vaccinated" ... both livelihoods and lives hung in the balance of his comment, and Hedges obviously did not give a hoot about the consequences ... this was real betrayal of our trust in him ...
What the USA does in Gaza is the key to it's survival. The construct of Epstein, his funders, and his focus will eventually shock both USA and Israel. It's likely the ultimate Pandoras Box.
Yes Bob, this is true ...
But I ask you, what would be wrong with Hedges alternating his commentary between the plight of the Palestinians and how this conflict is specifically affecting the U.S. working class? ... Wouldn't such an approach make more sense?
Americans are profoundly uneducated. There in lies the problem. 80%of the population thinks there were only two buildings that fell on 9/11. The obvious significance escapes them. Now, most couldn't find Israel or Gaza on a map, nor do they care!
The public have been systematically dis-educated ever since, after the first baby boomers graduated from American universities as the best-educated generation the world had ever seen, and enough of them started asking the right questions, to scare the bejesus out of the ownership class. The oligarchs been on the warpath ever since, to have micro-control of what can and cannot be taught at all levels. What we see today is the result.
Yes Bob ...
And if you haven't already done so, you might ask yourself why Hedges is doing this? ... Why is he reluctant to make hard connections between war funding and it's specific affects on the U.S. working class ... I've made the point here many times in recent weeks that the the unemployed, divorced mother of 4 never gives a thought to Assange, Gaza or CIA corruption - and Hedges knows it! ... Hedges is just another cynical speculator in the independent media business ... and his cult members continue to all fall in line here like clapping seals begging for Hedges to spoon-feed them their weekly dose of darkness.
Your solution is? Perhaps you should further explain the solution. Perhaps funding the homeless, unemployed mothers, the elderly, might be a better idea than terrorizing the world with 850 foreign military bases, aircraft carriers, misfiles, bombs and nuclear weapons. Hedges has tried to educate people for years, it's hopeless. Your turn, do better, enlighten the world , especially the tyrants! Start here please....
Yes, a great start. Unfortunately I would bet they would install those additional bases here in the u.s. ,build many more Cop Cities. I like the no standing army in the Constitution : ) Smart Racist People they were on a number of issues.
Yes Bob ... thanks for making my point ...
I know what the solution is and I agree with your suggestions ...
So please tell me, why would you not expect Hedges to makes these connections? ... why are you inclined to give him a pass? ... I have made the point here several times that Hedges commentary would be greatly appreciated by "we the people" here in the U.S. if he routinely made these connections ... but no, we are no longer on his radar, not since the lockdowns ...
I really do NOT know, why you are still here ... I am certainly no cult member and I am MOST DEFINITELY appalled at the situation in the 'wonderful' USA (poverty everywhere, infrastructure crumbling ... the LIST IS ENDLESS - what do you want Mr Hedges to do? He suggested many times OUR OPTIONS - as long as there are NOT MILLIONS in EVERY CITY on the streets NOTHING will change or happen, the good citizens will get 4 more years of 2 disgusting grandpa's)
Hedges has given up on us, so here's what I want to see him do:
1) Rather than making two posts per week on Gaza here on Substack, I'd like to see him alternate his commentary by devoting one per week on the Gaza genocide and another regular weekly piece on the SPECIFIC areas of suffering by the U.S. working class ... I trust you notice, he hasn't had much to say about the plight of the U.S. working class since the lockdowns, and virtually nothing since OCT 7th.
2) If he chooses to ignore us, then I challenge him to establish a Gaza support fund ... he has 60k SUBs here on Substack, most which I'm willing to bet have never even heard of Anera.org ... such a project would turn the growing public awareness into badly needed financial support ... gosh, has he even mentioned anera.org?
3) Start to cover the affects of COVID tyranny on the U.S. working class on a regular basis ...
4) If and when he decides to comment on other issues, I'd like to see him abandon his divisive rhetoric on the supposed danger posed by TRUMP-MAGA types and directly confront the real enemy - the World Economic Forum, and call-out the perpetrators by name ...
5) This would be huge ... I'd like to see Hedges do regular interviews with level-headed red-voice types like JD Rucker, Mike Adams and big name populists voices like Tucker Carlson.
6) Write a new book that describes a model for rebuilding American Society after the coming economic collapse ...
7) Jump into the conversation on the amendments to the WHO pandemic treaty ... with the WHO's agenda being a bit wobbly lately, the timing would be perfect ...
8) Let him engage in some true acts of leadership for the first time since he directly confronted Obama in 2012 on the amendments to SECTION 1021 of the NDAA. That was an awesome piece of badly needed activism, that was Hedges at his best!
And now, you are free to bury me with excuses on why just "can't" do any of these ...
My criticism is that since October 10th the tenor and the headlines of his pieces fulminate against Israel and their ‘genocide’ without a shred of balance and behaving as if he has never seen worse--and I believe he has. If not then let me call his attention to the report from the UN that states Yemeni deaths from the US (sorry--he is an American) enabled and armed Saudis at 377,000. This slaughter puts Gaza on Page 3 of the newspaper news.
His headlined prediction of the ‘death’ of Israel is pure Jew baiting besides having been predicted countless times.
Nothing stirs up people like Jews with weapons.
A very potent comment ...
Once a good man, Hedges now practices the not-so fine art of pseudo-journalistic voyeurism ... he seeks to make us feel the jolt of catastrophe, to empathize with victims without incurring any direct pain ourselves ... and he has now done this for well over 3 months without a "time-out" ... although Hedges is still terrific and painting pictures, he clearly no longer has the stomach to get his hands dirty with the U.S. working class.
Do we have to agree with everything a person believes or every action. We have had this debate before. Stopping Genocide is EVERYTHING! Vote NO on Genocide Joe.
But of course! ...
But you miss my point ... for the past two decades, Hedges has urged us to directly confront tyranny - even when things look bleak! ... but when the lockdowns were declared, he tucked his tail between his legs and left town ... ya see, you can't even disagree with someone who refuses to take a stand with us ...
It’s not a personal decision, just as deciding to kill somebody.
I think infecting someone is an assault and should be prosecuted as such.
The U.S. constitution amendments took this into consideration ...
And accordingly advised us to keep our heads ...
The vax is a bio-weapon and it's killing people: 17m worldwide and 600k here in the U.S.
https://drtrozzi.substack.com/p/autopsies-confirm-covid-19-vaccines?utm_source=cross-post&publication_id=1972999&post_id=140964462&utm_campaign=1119676&isFreemail=true&r=df9ln&utm_medium=email
Covid-19 ii a bio-weapon, it got loose before Red China could create the vaccine, having both would have given Red China huge leverage over humanity. So, God, or something, set the bio-weapon loose to keep Red China from becoming that dominant? Then, along came a New York Hassidic Jew family practice physician, Vladimir Putin, who designed an early stage infection cure: hydroxychloroquine, zinc and azithromycin, which he field tested on his own patients, to keep them out of hospitals and alive, and it worked. Hydrozychlorine had one use, which was to transport zinc into body cells, where Covid-!9 took up residence. The virus could not replicate well in a zinc environment. Azithromycin was for secondary infections. A 5 day treatment course, very inexpensive, administered at the onset of symptoms, worked. It did not work if a patient was showing advanced symptoms.
Dr. Zelenio he wrote a letter to President Trump and his chief of staff Mark Meadows about the cure, and Sean Hannity interviewed Dr. Zelenko on his FOX show, and on Television Trump told America it might be a miracle cure, and the FDA gave emergency approval for using hydroxychloroquine to treat Covid-19, then Biden, the Democrats, CDC and Dr. Fauci, NIH, WHO, Lancet, the medical industrial complex and the liberal news media when haywire against hydroxychloroquine, which had been used for decades to treat malaria, lupus and rheumatoid arthritis. The FDA rescinded is approval for hydroxychloroquine, and Trump initiated Operation Warp Speed, instead of getting himself a new FDA director who would reinstate Zenelko’s cure, which a lot of American doctors were giving their patients and getting the same results that Zelenko had gotten.
Trump could have saved America and the world from Red China’s bioweapon. That was his reason for being elected in 2016, if you factor in God. In that sense, Trump was sent by God. All the other theories of Trump being sent by God are pure horseshit. Now, Americans face the grim possibility of voting either for Biden or for Trump, who told Israel he is their best friend. Or voting for a third-party candidate. Or not voting.
Chris Hedges knows that scenario very well. Hedges knows America may end up in its 2nd civil war. And that is why I say Hedges should wind up his coverage of the war in Gaza and turn his attention to what is going on inside his own country’s boundaries. Meanwhile Hedges is making splendid earning$ from subscriber$, including us, bashing Israel, and giving Hamas a pass. Would Hedges make the same splendid earning$ bashing Trump and Biden and their lemmings? Would Hedges get death threats if he started bashing Trump and Biden and their cults? Will the U.S.Supreme Court receive death threats if it rules Amendment 14, Section 3 of the United States Constitution bars Trump from holding public office? Or if that Court rules Trump, and no president, has total immunity to criminal prosecution for acted performed when president?
Looks to me America is fucked with Biden or Trump in the White House, but Biden and his lemmings dont remind me of Adolph Hitler and his lemmings, Look at film footage and photos of the Charlottesville protest, MAGA rallies, and the January 6 insurrection, and you will see oceans of white people. In the law is the doctrine of res ipsa loquitur - the thing speaks for itself. A picture is worth a thousand words. The South is rising again, and Donald Trump is its Imperial Wizard.
Thanks for clarifying the extent of the insanity of your worldview.
You're entirely welcome!
Thank you Chris Hedges for your, strong. compassionate, courageous, voice in supporting the Palestinian people in order to stop their repression and the genocide in Gaza.
Accurate, insightful reporting and fearless, truthful commentary
are the clean fresh air a healthy democracy breathes. Thank you Chris Hedges!
Thank you for sharing this message by Chris Hedges, as well as your own, in support of the peace and freedom of the Palestinian people. I wish I were there with you, but I am grateful for the opportunity to join with you online.