The coterie of neocons and liberal interventionists who orchestrated two decades of military fiascos in the Middle East and who have never been held to account are now stoking a war with Russia.
You can always leave a message at your nearby gas pump with a message that says, these gas prices courtesy of NATO. Heard the idea, thought it was good. Can always direct readers as well to a news source that isn’t pro-war. Extinction Rebellion and Animal Rebellion in the UK is having a massive street protest right now demanding their government end this fossil fuel madness. We should be doing the same here in the States and rising up against these powers that are funding these wars, polluting the air and water, destroying ecosystems while we have people homeless and hungry. EXTINCTIONREBELLION.US #Endfossilfilth#Willnotbebystanders
People are utterly dumbed down. They have been trained by the infantile crap on our media fed to them 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to see nothing, hear nothing and have lost all ability of critical thought.They truly are the proles of George Orwells 1984. The level of lies and anti Russian propaganda we are subjected to currently is beyond anything I witnessed during the Soviet cold war. Humanity is too stupid to exist, and soon will not. Such a pity all the wonderful creatures that have evolved along with us will go as well. Mankind can conceive no greater crime.
The one word mention of Iran deserves more attention. Precious few Americans understand that the CIA along with the Brits overthrew Irans' democratically elected Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 to maintain British control of Iran's petroleum. We installed the son of the deposed Shah as our stooge and stole billions of dollars of Iranian money from the worlds financial system. Heck, our men leading the charge was Eisenhower and the Dulles boys. Our point man in Iran was Kermit Roosevelt. Ever since the Iranians took their country back in 79 the US has demonized them. Please note their overthrow of the American Imperialism was bloodless. Finally we got an international treaty and the stupid Trump unilaterally destroyed it. I have been to Iran and the people are well educated, informed and congenial. But our media and those in Chris' article have a need to keep Iran as the villains in order to make their apartheid and hegemony appear acceptable.
I've been trying to figure out why these ghouls are not terrified at even just the remotest prospect of nuclear war and then I came across a book entitled, Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save I Itself - While the Rest of Us Die. Raven Rock, PA is just one of several Continuity of Government (COG) shelters. I'm willing to bet everyone mentioned in this article has a place at one of these, along with some of their families, as well as a lot of the tv news personalities, like Ali Velshi, calling for the "direct involvement" of NATO in the Ukraine War and, of course, a whole bunch of billionaires and rich campaign contributors. They're just insane enough to believe that a nuclear war can be limited, managed etc.
I'm glad you are on Substack, and I hope you do well, but I have to disagree with your statement "Putin like everyone else they target only understands force." Putin waited over 8 years to finally decide that his only answer was to attempt to "denazify" Ukraine and even then he signaled repeatedly that he might attack unless the US and NATO started to respond to his very reasonable request - i.e. that the US and NATO stop threatening Russia with war by encircling his country with nuclear armed missles and playing war games obviously aimed at Russia on the borders of his country. Your article never so much as mentions the word NAZI which is a very important word these days when talking about Ukraine because the government and the military and the police departments of Ukraine are headed by Nazis and I'm quite sure you know that, so why don't you at least mention it? Or are you following the rest of our MSM that also never says even one word about Nazis? You as a 20 year war reporter must have some idea what Russia went through in WWII even though you weren't there, because you know what war looks like. So the fact that Russia lost 27 MILLION people fighting the Nazis and America can count its losses in the thousands NOT MILLIONS says something important about how Russia feels about Nazis. Surely you can understand that? I don't think this Ukraine war is a good idea, but I certainly do understand how it came about, and the real reason it is happening is because the US planned it that way. Biden and company could have stopped it at any point,but they refused to do it. At each step Putin paused hoping Blinkin/Biden et al would wake up and tell Zelensky to start obeying the treaty he agreed to. Zelensky is our puppet and will do what he is told, but we haven't told him to end this war, so he continues to tell outrageous lies (I wonder who writes his speeches for him, and thinks up all these things?) to work up even more hate and chaos.
I wish that you had written something about that; I have read your pieces and I know that you are strongly against the behavior of our government when it comes to war, so it would be good if you would put your mind to writing the truth about that instead of blaming the victims of our ugly warlike machinations complete with machiavellian plots.
Today like yesterday, I'm angry at the insane media driven focus on Ukraine. It's not that it doesn't matter just that there are close to a half dozen conflicts in Africa where more people are getting butchered, raped and 'displaced' thanks to western greed stoking up wars, sending in arms, just to grab those 'displaced' people's resources. Same, same with Yemen which just like Saudi Arabia has oilfield on land once called useless where Shia people have been living for many generations. Now that the land is valuable USuk is arming and equipping wahabist fanatics to kill the indigenous population & steal the oil. Exactly what has been going on since the beginning of last century in Saudi Arabia.
but I'm even angrier today than I was yesterday. Yesterday morning I woke to the news that a conspiracy of Pakistan's corrupt institutions had taken the US dollars and run a coup against the elected government. It reminded too well of when exactly the same thing happened in Australia when I was living there in 1975.
A mixture of bullying, bribery and blackmail by the US drove the Whitlam government from power, consequently Australia hasn't had an independent sovereign government ever since.
That can be seen in the decision lat year by the Biden regime who decided Australia must pay them another 300 billion for the cost of being oppressed by amerika. The Oz government pulled on their forelocks, kissed Biden arse by throwing out their submarine contract with France and signing up for a deal costing an order of magnitude more, which has no delivery date. Oh and these wonderful weapons platforms will be equipped with current generation cruise missiles incapable of getting past either Russia's or China's self defense systems, yet Australians are told they need the useless white elephants to protect themselves from Russia or China.
I'm angrier today though because I learned this morning that less than 24 hours after Imran Khan's government was corruptly dismissed by amerikan assistant state secretary Donald Liu, that amerika had launched a missile strike on the already suffering poverty stricken people of Afghanistan. Those missiles flew across Pakistan airspace and Imran Khan had refused permission while he was leader.
Not even one day after his unjust dismissal and amerika is back to killing Afghanistan's citizens!
Why? amerika has already seized all of Afghanistan's cash & gold reserves, but not content with that, the Biden crime family is punishing them even more for the crime of embarrassing amerika's military by beating them like a dusty old rug to the point where they had to run out with their tails between their legs.
Apparently it takes too long to starve Afghanistan to death, so they're going back to bombing them 24/7/365.
The folks that own the empire must really like these people; so they keep them swimming while the truth seekers, and truth finders (e.g., Julian Assange) must be made to drown! The owners of the empire must also like the "journalist" Ken Dilanian, who was fired by the LA Times for sending articles to the CIA for vetting prior to publication, and is now an NBC News correspondent covering national security and intelligence. In a world where hiring decisions were not Orwellian, a journalist so disgraced would likely never be hired to again work in journalism, let alone being assigned to cover intelligence, since that's the one area they have proven themselves to be completely compromised. But in this dystopia, the major, mainstream network NBC hired this person to cover that very subject (intelligence)! I would like to wonder how such a thing could happen; but I can't wonder, because I realize that it's for the same reason that all of the imperially-connected ignoramuses mentioned in Chris's article keep swimming.
Just FYI, Charles Krauthammer joined the Silent Majority (in Herodotus’ meaning, not Spiro Agnew’s) a couple years or so ago. Can’t think of too many people I miss less. Mr. Hedges seems to refer to him as if he’s still with us. Great fire-and-brimstone rant re the pimps of war, though. 😊
Krystol, the Kagans, Krauthammer, etc. are weak dorks, who couldn't beat up a paper bag. They live vicariously through U.S. military power because they have to. They also likely have who knows how much stock in military complex companies. Their 50 year old, anachronistic cold war crap is beyond stupid and old. These primitive dorks appear to want to model the U.S. after 1930s Germany, which explains their love of imperialism. The U.S. is no different from Germany in 1939....invading sovereign nations and killing countless civilians because of the 'might is right' moral code.
These people are not nationalists. They are interlopers using America to smite their foes. Way too many carry baggage from Russia and Eastern Europe especially. This Nuland creature has a special 'bond' of hatred with Russia. Americans better wake up and stop heeding people with ulterior motives.
From hero to zero, post WW2 to Vietnam, the United States has become the world's leading trouble maker. Now more concerned with waging war than promoting peace. It's our way or the highway, you are either with us or against us, that is the essence of US foreign policy, described in part by GW Bush in a prelude to war on Iraq. No longer does America deserve the colours Red, White and Blue, only Battleship Grey, the shade denoting the withering presence of perfidious Uncle Sam and his cohorts of destruction and doom.
The US, a country that gave the world much that was good, has squandered it's onetime reputation of a fair and just people to one of murder rape and genocide. Not to mention years of transporting thousand of West Africans a cross the Atlantic to a dehumanised existence in the, brave New world.
If Americans did not swallow hole the delusion of American exceptionalism, their vacuous minds would have no thoughts at all.
it's this rare coherent articulated rage against documented idiocracy and mendacious propaganda....against injustice itself..... that offers...well, ok primitive... but the most satisfaction.....given the nadir of honesty and clarity in mainstream corporate media these blasts of lucidity from Mr. Hedges offer cathartic validation....
So much to digest. Stunning writing . "They once railed against liberal weakness and appeasement. But they swiftly migrated to the Democratic Party rather than support Donald Trump, who showed no desire to start a conflict with Russia and who called the invasion of Iraq a “big, fat mistake.” Besides, as they correctly pointed out, Hillary Clinton was a fellow neocon. And liberals wonder why nearly half the electorate, who revile these arrogant unelected power brokers, as they should, voted for Trump."
You can always leave a message at your nearby gas pump with a message that says, these gas prices courtesy of NATO. Heard the idea, thought it was good. Can always direct readers as well to a news source that isn’t pro-war. Extinction Rebellion and Animal Rebellion in the UK is having a massive street protest right now demanding their government end this fossil fuel madness. We should be doing the same here in the States and rising up against these powers that are funding these wars, polluting the air and water, destroying ecosystems while we have people homeless and hungry. EXTINCTIONREBELLION.US #Endfossilfilth#Willnotbebystanders
People are utterly dumbed down. They have been trained by the infantile crap on our media fed to them 24 hrs a day 7 days a week to see nothing, hear nothing and have lost all ability of critical thought.They truly are the proles of George Orwells 1984. The level of lies and anti Russian propaganda we are subjected to currently is beyond anything I witnessed during the Soviet cold war. Humanity is too stupid to exist, and soon will not. Such a pity all the wonderful creatures that have evolved along with us will go as well. Mankind can conceive no greater crime.
The one word mention of Iran deserves more attention. Precious few Americans understand that the CIA along with the Brits overthrew Irans' democratically elected Dr. Mohammed Mossadegh in 1953 to maintain British control of Iran's petroleum. We installed the son of the deposed Shah as our stooge and stole billions of dollars of Iranian money from the worlds financial system. Heck, our men leading the charge was Eisenhower and the Dulles boys. Our point man in Iran was Kermit Roosevelt. Ever since the Iranians took their country back in 79 the US has demonized them. Please note their overthrow of the American Imperialism was bloodless. Finally we got an international treaty and the stupid Trump unilaterally destroyed it. I have been to Iran and the people are well educated, informed and congenial. But our media and those in Chris' article have a need to keep Iran as the villains in order to make their apartheid and hegemony appear acceptable.
As usual Chris Hedges nailed it! Now I know why Chris has been deplatformed...he speaks truth to power!
I've been trying to figure out why these ghouls are not terrified at even just the remotest prospect of nuclear war and then I came across a book entitled, Raven Rock: The Story of the U.S. Government's Secret Plan to Save I Itself - While the Rest of Us Die. Raven Rock, PA is just one of several Continuity of Government (COG) shelters. I'm willing to bet everyone mentioned in this article has a place at one of these, along with some of their families, as well as a lot of the tv news personalities, like Ali Velshi, calling for the "direct involvement" of NATO in the Ukraine War and, of course, a whole bunch of billionaires and rich campaign contributors. They're just insane enough to believe that a nuclear war can be limited, managed etc.
I'm glad you are on Substack, and I hope you do well, but I have to disagree with your statement "Putin like everyone else they target only understands force." Putin waited over 8 years to finally decide that his only answer was to attempt to "denazify" Ukraine and even then he signaled repeatedly that he might attack unless the US and NATO started to respond to his very reasonable request - i.e. that the US and NATO stop threatening Russia with war by encircling his country with nuclear armed missles and playing war games obviously aimed at Russia on the borders of his country. Your article never so much as mentions the word NAZI which is a very important word these days when talking about Ukraine because the government and the military and the police departments of Ukraine are headed by Nazis and I'm quite sure you know that, so why don't you at least mention it? Or are you following the rest of our MSM that also never says even one word about Nazis? You as a 20 year war reporter must have some idea what Russia went through in WWII even though you weren't there, because you know what war looks like. So the fact that Russia lost 27 MILLION people fighting the Nazis and America can count its losses in the thousands NOT MILLIONS says something important about how Russia feels about Nazis. Surely you can understand that? I don't think this Ukraine war is a good idea, but I certainly do understand how it came about, and the real reason it is happening is because the US planned it that way. Biden and company could have stopped it at any point,but they refused to do it. At each step Putin paused hoping Blinkin/Biden et al would wake up and tell Zelensky to start obeying the treaty he agreed to. Zelensky is our puppet and will do what he is told, but we haven't told him to end this war, so he continues to tell outrageous lies (I wonder who writes his speeches for him, and thinks up all these things?) to work up even more hate and chaos.
I wish that you had written something about that; I have read your pieces and I know that you are strongly against the behavior of our government when it comes to war, so it would be good if you would put your mind to writing the truth about that instead of blaming the victims of our ugly warlike machinations complete with machiavellian plots.
Today like yesterday, I'm angry at the insane media driven focus on Ukraine. It's not that it doesn't matter just that there are close to a half dozen conflicts in Africa where more people are getting butchered, raped and 'displaced' thanks to western greed stoking up wars, sending in arms, just to grab those 'displaced' people's resources. Same, same with Yemen which just like Saudi Arabia has oilfield on land once called useless where Shia people have been living for many generations. Now that the land is valuable USuk is arming and equipping wahabist fanatics to kill the indigenous population & steal the oil. Exactly what has been going on since the beginning of last century in Saudi Arabia.
but I'm even angrier today than I was yesterday. Yesterday morning I woke to the news that a conspiracy of Pakistan's corrupt institutions had taken the US dollars and run a coup against the elected government. It reminded too well of when exactly the same thing happened in Australia when I was living there in 1975.
A mixture of bullying, bribery and blackmail by the US drove the Whitlam government from power, consequently Australia hasn't had an independent sovereign government ever since.
That can be seen in the decision lat year by the Biden regime who decided Australia must pay them another 300 billion for the cost of being oppressed by amerika. The Oz government pulled on their forelocks, kissed Biden arse by throwing out their submarine contract with France and signing up for a deal costing an order of magnitude more, which has no delivery date. Oh and these wonderful weapons platforms will be equipped with current generation cruise missiles incapable of getting past either Russia's or China's self defense systems, yet Australians are told they need the useless white elephants to protect themselves from Russia or China.
I'm angrier today though because I learned this morning that less than 24 hours after Imran Khan's government was corruptly dismissed by amerikan assistant state secretary Donald Liu, that amerika had launched a missile strike on the already suffering poverty stricken people of Afghanistan. Those missiles flew across Pakistan airspace and Imran Khan had refused permission while he was leader.
Not even one day after his unjust dismissal and amerika is back to killing Afghanistan's citizens!
Why? amerika has already seized all of Afghanistan's cash & gold reserves, but not content with that, the Biden crime family is punishing them even more for the crime of embarrassing amerika's military by beating them like a dusty old rug to the point where they had to run out with their tails between their legs.
Apparently it takes too long to starve Afghanistan to death, so they're going back to bombing them 24/7/365.
The folks that own the empire must really like these people; so they keep them swimming while the truth seekers, and truth finders (e.g., Julian Assange) must be made to drown! The owners of the empire must also like the "journalist" Ken Dilanian, who was fired by the LA Times for sending articles to the CIA for vetting prior to publication, and is now an NBC News correspondent covering national security and intelligence. In a world where hiring decisions were not Orwellian, a journalist so disgraced would likely never be hired to again work in journalism, let alone being assigned to cover intelligence, since that's the one area they have proven themselves to be completely compromised. But in this dystopia, the major, mainstream network NBC hired this person to cover that very subject (intelligence)! I would like to wonder how such a thing could happen; but I can't wonder, because I realize that it's for the same reason that all of the imperially-connected ignoramuses mentioned in Chris's article keep swimming.
Just FYI, Charles Krauthammer joined the Silent Majority (in Herodotus’ meaning, not Spiro Agnew’s) a couple years or so ago. Can’t think of too many people I miss less. Mr. Hedges seems to refer to him as if he’s still with us. Great fire-and-brimstone rant re the pimps of war, though. 😊
Krystol, the Kagans, Krauthammer, etc. are weak dorks, who couldn't beat up a paper bag. They live vicariously through U.S. military power because they have to. They also likely have who knows how much stock in military complex companies. Their 50 year old, anachronistic cold war crap is beyond stupid and old. These primitive dorks appear to want to model the U.S. after 1930s Germany, which explains their love of imperialism. The U.S. is no different from Germany in 1939....invading sovereign nations and killing countless civilians because of the 'might is right' moral code.
These people are not nationalists. They are interlopers using America to smite their foes. Way too many carry baggage from Russia and Eastern Europe especially. This Nuland creature has a special 'bond' of hatred with Russia. Americans better wake up and stop heeding people with ulterior motives.
From hero to zero, post WW2 to Vietnam, the United States has become the world's leading trouble maker. Now more concerned with waging war than promoting peace. It's our way or the highway, you are either with us or against us, that is the essence of US foreign policy, described in part by GW Bush in a prelude to war on Iraq. No longer does America deserve the colours Red, White and Blue, only Battleship Grey, the shade denoting the withering presence of perfidious Uncle Sam and his cohorts of destruction and doom.
The US, a country that gave the world much that was good, has squandered it's onetime reputation of a fair and just people to one of murder rape and genocide. Not to mention years of transporting thousand of West Africans a cross the Atlantic to a dehumanised existence in the, brave New world.
If Americans did not swallow hole the delusion of American exceptionalism, their vacuous minds would have no thoughts at all.
it's this rare coherent articulated rage against documented idiocracy and mendacious propaganda....against injustice itself..... that offers...well, ok primitive... but the most satisfaction.....given the nadir of honesty and clarity in mainstream corporate media these blasts of lucidity from Mr. Hedges offer cathartic validation....
Don't forget, as the white world always will, the US overthrow of Jean Bastiste Aristide in Haiti.
So much to digest. Stunning writing . "They once railed against liberal weakness and appeasement. But they swiftly migrated to the Democratic Party rather than support Donald Trump, who showed no desire to start a conflict with Russia and who called the invasion of Iraq a “big, fat mistake.” Besides, as they correctly pointed out, Hillary Clinton was a fellow neocon. And liberals wonder why nearly half the electorate, who revile these arrogant unelected power brokers, as they should, voted for Trump."
they're not really nationalists. same asshats exporting america everywhere via bombs destroy american industry and import chinese crap