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Fran's avatar

I don't like Trump, especially now, and never voted for him. During his first term in office I didn't like the lies the democrats spewed and thought it would have been nice had they not pushed the lie of Russia-gate, and tried to get along with Putin, Trump wanted that, and had they followed in his footsteps perhaps hundreds of thousands of Ukrainians would not be dead. I don't like such black and white perspectives of people. I recognize Trump is doing things that I highly condemn during his second term. Maybe if we got rid of AIPAC and those with a neocon slant on things we wouldn't be fighting a war in Iran which has been on Israel's agenda for decades, but also lets not forget the democrats got us 100 percent behind Israel and her genocide. I question whether the US had much of a choice considering the choke hold Israel and it's lobby have on us. I don't remember his first term in office as being this crazy. Also lets not ignore or forget who set the stage for what is going on now, that is the wars and carnage implemented by Bush/Cheney, Obama, and Biden. None of them deserve a pass and many are dead on a world wide level because they were America's presidents, and all were willing to pursue an agenda that is not in our interest at all.

Ron Janzen's avatar

Hegseth personifies the shallow, twisted, self-serving gospel of wealth, power, and privilege that is the American evangelical right. I can almost take Trumps obvious manipulation of the evangelicals better than Hegseth’s dangerous and total ignorance.

Linda Snider's avatar

Wow! All of your “take down” comments on Chris Hedges, make me think maybe I’ve gotten onto the wrong “comments” section here. Do you get paid for this?

Linda

Robert McCormick's avatar

Petitions and legislative initiatives and referendums are the only way to break the control of oligarchs over Congress. We have to make the US a “government of the people by the people for the people.”

Alexis de Toqueville, who was sent by the French government in 1831 to study American democracy. In the second volume of Democracy in America, in the chapter “How Aristocracy May Be Engendered by Manufactures,” he described how industry creates a new kind of aristocracy — rich owners commanding workers in strict dependence, like “born to obey” and “born to command.” He called it a gate through which inequality could return and said friends of democracy should keep a sharp eye on it.

Bburke83's avatar

you've been saying it for years

Douglas Carlson's avatar

Yes, of course ...

And Hedges' cult of clapping seals will just say "gimme more!"

Cary Birdsall's avatar

The most critical point I see here is what I call the Bill Clinton move to the right and the selling of what should be protection of the worker to the avarice of wealth. Now we seem to have only the streets in which to rally. As always people have the power only when we grasp it; when we refuse to comply in advance. Thank you Chris and Eunice for speaking the words.

The Outlaw's avatar

Is China a Communist country? The CCP? Of corse not--they engage in State Capitalism aka Fascism same as Russia does. Have all the embalmed and displayed corpses of Vladimir Lenin they want, they still engage in State Capitalism as does The United States.

How does Klaus Schwab describe Agenda 21/Agenda 2030--aka Communitarianism which implies Global Communism? Stakeholder Capitalism is actually Fascism or fake Collectivism. Are they all actors? Of course they are-employed by The City of London. They all do. Will Vlad attack "Israel"? Duh, of course not. They all have the same employer who hold their stolen wealth in Swiss Banks. During WWII, how many Castles in England were bombed by Hitler? That'd be None. Liverpool and other working class areas were. "But he dropped a big bomb OUTSIDE the iron fence at Windsor Castle. We was scared by such a big hole over there.". Did he bomb The City of London? Not even close.

Switzerland? Recall The Gothard Tunnel opening ceremony? Flat out Satanism--on Global display.

Those are the ones in charge along, generally in Western Europe, with mostly and generally what I'll describe as Castle Dwellers and/or Central Banksters--focus on them.

The Outlaw's avatar

This is reminds me of the supposed Collapse of The Soviet Union, "New Lies For Old"-Anatoliy Golitsyn authored this book and detailed how the Soviet Oligarchs looted the nation and either took or fake "Privatized" State owned assets aka Corporation Nation visits The Soviet Union. The most concerning, or should I say Frightening is the "Privatization" of our water, electricity and telecommunication pathways and others.

NASA is a Prime example of this practice as Elon Musk pretends he runs and owns SpaceX--he surely does not nor does he control and own Twitter? Of course not. Shareholders do--thats what Stakeholders imply as Klaus Schwab blurted out. Everything has been Monetized--"Surveillance Capitalism" is another prime example of this practice. There was once on the You Tubes to the right under "Recommended Viewing" about 10 or 15 years ago a young, loosely hair curled man looking particularly Jewish about "Surveillance Capitalism". I searched high and low for this young man and he turned out to be a Rothschild. Lynn DeRothschild echoed the same supposedly from The Vatican who now took possession of The Vaticans massive Gold holdings. The Rothschilds aka Crown, Inc., Crown Corporate, The British Crown, now own that gold, not The Vatican.

Mr. Hedges, I would ask you to somewhat alter your target of Mr. Trump or add an additional target. Mr. Trump as I deemed in 2015, is a Chaos Change Agent. I would ask that the additional focus should be on this Change that Trump is either moving us towards or attempting to Block this change, whatever it be.

If we view Iran and it's leadership of fake hard line Islamists who are actually employees of The City of London and not of the fine Persian people, many who have surely and sadly been killed, Mr. Trump is an Ac-Tor, and a member of The Screen Actors Guild. "Israel" or Occupied Palestine, more accurately, is merely an extended arm of The City of London.

The Target is The City of London and NOT Persia, in my many years of Observed opinion.

May God Bless and Protect you and yours and I thank you for your brilliant work.

Douglas Carlson's avatar

The question is this: should a once good man like Hedges be allowed to brazenly take sides against "his working class" and his avid followers without criticism? 

I say NO, he must be called out for betraying his many implicit promises to be there to fight "the good fight" with us when the time comes ... And when that time came with the lockdowns, he deserted us ... Hedges and sweet talkin' Tulsi actually have much in common ... they both made a name for themselves by denouncing imperialism, but both scurried back into the wood pile when things got dicey to avoid offending the imperialists.

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This man just loves to juice his storylines, In no particular order: 

1) Shortly after the OCT 7, 2023 attacks, he assured us that "Netanyahu is finished!" - that was 30 months ago! 

2) In an interview with John Valiant, author of FIRE WEATHER, Hedges said the Ft McMurray,tar sands fires "will soon render the planet uninhabitable." But of course, he failed to give us a timeline - that was 25 months ago! 

3) Shortly after OCT 7th, he said "Gaza is unlike anything we have ever seen", when he had to know better, as 377k had been killed in Yemen between 2015-2022 by a Saudi-led coalition. 

4) In a 2021 interview, he boasted that he told indigenous pipeline protesters to "park your cars in their path, remove the engines and walk away", but he didn't even comment on the Canadian Truckers Convoy until a March 2022 interview with JD, one month after the protests actually ended. 

5) In his otherwise terrific 2021 AMERICAN SADISM speech, he went out of context to conflate those of us who question the motive and tactics of elected officials with Q-ANON types by referring to us "members of the lunatic fringe who traffic in conspiracy theories" 

6) In an amazingly tepid response in a SEPT 21, 2021 interview on USEFUL IDIOTS, when asked to comment on the untested, illegal and unconstitutional jab, he said: "it's a tough decision I guess, do you force people to get vaccinated?" ... 

7) After preaching direct confrontation to tyranny for the past 20+ years, In an AUG 27, 2021 interview with JD he refused to stand with us against the mandates and passports as he sheepishly blew it off: "that was just a decision that I made." 

8) After a 2014 interview he was asked to comment on 9/11 and said: "I don't want to get into conspiracy theories ... Bush was probably just asleep at the wheel" 

9) And the big one: In a JAN 1, 2022 interview on the KK&F podcast and exactly 30 days AFTER the FDA FOIA release revealed 1,.223 deaths and 25k verified injuries in the first 12 weeks of Fzr's trial, he took sides against our best interests and said: "I don't think we can stop the pandemic and the mutations until EVERYONE GET VACCINATED." 

This man does not give a hoot about us, he's just like the elites in this regard.

I've got more and I've got the receipts and links ... all ya gotta do is ask.