In Abby Martin's new film, 'Earth's Greatest Enemy,' she exposes how the US military has unleashed death, devastation and more pollution than any other institution in the world on the global populace.
AFAICT, most Canadians are all for the American Empire, just with a few more Pride and Ukrainian flags and some heartwarming self-serving and outrageously hypocritical human rights talk.
Yes....but there is real opposition in Canada to the militarized road Carney is putting us on..........and I expect a lot more is growing as Amerikkka demonstrates how useless her Lockheed Martin paraphernalia actually is.
Too big not to fail.......is the correct slogan....and the Iranians seem to have figured it out. Their navy is destroyed, their airforce is destroyed...hahahahaha.
They need neither. Drones and speed boats and tiny underwater subs capable of planting bombs on a BIG ships backside...........and a military that is distributed...across all their jurisdictions...with full autonomy to defend their part of the country.
All Amerikkka seems to be able to muster is Pete Hegseth, Witless and Cushyneer.
What I'm coming to love about the American military is how stupid they are...lol. From what I hear, Iranians are actually hoping for a ground invasion. God help your young boys and girls who got sucked into the military.
Surely by now you have learned that nobody of influence and authority cares what the people think or like or want.
Witness the Trucker Protests. We can argue whether the goals of the protests were noble or not, and the methods used to suppress them were admittedly illegal, but the methods worked.
The methods weren't illegal.......they were extreme, but most Canadians supported them at the time. The thing was to shut down the clown show, without loss of life.....going in as if it was a mere street protest could have resulted in the mess Americans watched on Jan 6...........these truckers weren't truckers for the most part. They were Maple Maga........funded to a large extent by Amerikkan right wing billionaires........
And as you likely know better than I.........these dolts saw themselves as 'patriots' saving the country from vaccines.........so a large force was necessary.
Particularly since our conservative government in Ontario wasn't willing or able to lift a finger........infiltrated by the right wing crazies as they were.
What the courts ruled after the fact didn't change the fact the convoy was shut down.......peacefully.......by the use of a military force large enough to be able to do it.......peacefully.
Martin skillfully ties the planet-devouring behavior of the US military to the global systems of capitalism and imperialism it was built to uphold. The viewer is left with a crystal clear picture of the ways ecocide, militarism and capitalism are inseparably intertwined, and an understanding that meaningfully opposing any of these malignancies necessarily entails opposing them all. The liberal fiction that one can be pro-environment while also supporting the US military is forcefully exposed for the absurdity that it is. Caitlin Johnstone wrote that.
This film is a work of art, brilliant teaching, and yet thoroughly entertaining:
Caitlin Johnstone writes, "It's a jarring film with extremely dark subject matter, but it also manages to be a work of transcendent beauty and optimism. A deep love of humans and all of earth's creatures shines through in shot after shot, while slick editing and an inspired soundtrack allow the movie to zip along at a lively and entertaining pace. Martin concludes with a galvanizing call to use our outrage to loosen the empire's already weakening grip on humanity's collective consciousness, because our entire world depends on it."
You coulda just said " The single biggest user of gasoline, whose main mission is protecting the supply of gasoline." Everyone understands dystopian spirals....
Is there a problem with referring to our own supporters of genocide, like Chuck Schumer and too many others in Congress, as the equivalent of current-day Nazis? I’m asking this seriously. Instead, all I see in the legacy and too much of the alternative media is references to them as “moderates” and “centrists.” This intentional or lazy mislabeling goes a long way in explaining why we have supported and continue to support a genocide with our tax dollars. I appreciate Ms. Martin’s passion as well as her work. We need to inject much more passion into these subjects. Too often, passion is dismissed as emotionalism or a lack of reason. But in the case of a genocide, the lack of passion in addressing it, including accurately labeling its supporters and holding them to account, is a symptom of mental illness, apparently more contagious than the flu. I look forward to watching Ms. Martin’s film.
Most cling to the VACANT CENTRE......but placate themselves by saying its the 'centre left' or the 'centre right'............getting out of that circle, that spotlight of western certainties and occlusions, is dangerous.
What's worse, even your friends, relatives and comrades in arms may dismiss you as 'going too far'.
Born into a democratic socialist family, I've been amazed for a few decades now how successfully the vacant neoliberal centre managed to demonize socialism. For my money, the only political system with a clear idea of what needs doing and how to do it.
To the extent that the rulers keep us shilling for 'moderation', they have us where they want us. Because from that moderate centre, only the fashions will alter, only the superficial trappings will change.
Crying is good for body and soul......even at 80, I don't have the pinched, shut down look of many half my age. Tears are the price we pay for Loving....in today's world, I cry often.
When America bombed that junior high in Tehran, OMG....I have two 12 year old 'cousin twins'.......I cried more than once......imagining what losing them would do to our family, imagining the utter loss that community was going through........are going through still.
God Damn Trump..........and if there is a god, she will.
It is heartbreaking. For the past three years I have a kind of a recurrent dream that horrifies me. They are about children in Gaza, mostly. In some of the dreams they get saved. The brain tells exactly how I feel
That Amerikkka has funded that genocide and so many have stayed quiet, for going on 4 years......says something awful about the emotional/spiritual life of many Americans..........and it is beyond chilling.
I hope a prominent politician can find a way to frame repurposing the firms of the military industrial complex to build the machines to fight climate change or rebuild our infrastructure as a positive. As an engineer myself, I know this actually would not be so hard to turn many of these companies toward such tasks if desired. The thing that gives me hope (some days) is that the military is already a giant make-work program.
The Department of Defense just awarded a 77 billion dollar contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton CT. for 14 submarines. One is to be the most lethal machine on earth.
The entire political class and media unanimously cheer it on as economic growth and national security.
In this culture, economic growth, technology and patriotism are the rule of dominance.
Pack your bags we're going to the South China Sea to war with China, a country that committed the forgivable sin of beating the USA at their own game of capitalism.
I'm reading the book of my favorite philosopher "THE ECONOMICS OF THE FUTURE " by Boris Kriger, where he proposes a parallel economy to replace the present and it seems to me that we are about to replace the fossil industry. The following are quotations from this book:
"Every attempt to reform a system at the structural level has produced one of two outcomes: absorption or explosion. Either the reform is absorbed by the system, metabolized into a new form of the old problem — as campaign finance reform is absorbed by new forms of legalized bribery, as environmental regulation is absorbed by carbon offset markets that permit pollution for a fee — or the reform triggers a crisis that produces the very catastrophe it was meant to prevent. The French Revolution began as a reform movement. It ended with the Terror. The Arab Spring began as a democratic awakening. It ended with civil wars and military coups. The reformers were not wrong about the problems. They were wrong about the method."
"The only transitions that have ever worked without catastrophe are those that did not attempt to reform the old system at all. They built something new alongside it. The old system continued to operate, losing relevance gradually, until it was no longer the primary structure and could be abandoned without crisis. This is the model. Not revolution, not reform, but parallel construction. Build the new system inside the shell of the old. Let it grow. Let it attract people by being better, simpler, more rational. Do not fight the old system; that only makes it stronger, gives it an enemy to rally against, justifies its worst impulses. Do not reform it; that only feeds it, gives it new language to describe old problems. Simply build the alternative, and wait. The old system will reach the wall on its own — it always does, because the engine of absurdity has no brakes. When it does, the alternative will be there."
"Petroleum is not a commodity. It is a time capsule. It contains, in chemical form, the work of eons...The parallel economy does not ban petroleum. It renders it unnecessary, not through prohibition but through substitution: solar energy that arrives daily, wind energy that is endlessly renewed, geothermal energy that taps the heat of the planet itself. These are not inferior sources. They are contemporary sources — sunlight that falls today, not sunlight that fell in the Jurassic. The difference is the difference between spending one’s salary and spending one’s savings. One is sustainable. The other is a countdown. We are burning the archive. The question is not whether we will stop. The archive will stop us, by running out. The question is whether we will have built the alternative before the last page turns to ash."
thank you for these quotes and reminders. who knows if we'll be quick enough to keep the insatiably greedy from burning the last page? soon there won't be any books left anyway, given the speed at which AI "replaces" them. caitlin johnstone recently wrote about "AI companies [that] are now bulk-buying rare and out-of-print books and then destroying them after scanning their contents".
my country's minister of economy and energy works fervently to push back on alternative energies, and benefit fossil fuel industries. my country's head of state - a multi-millionaire - wants to turn our military into europe's largest [w./o. using any of his money, of course]. so ... we're up against quite a bunch of hard-headed hardliners while working on building the alternatives.
what shall we replace monstrous data centers with that are now spreading like mushrooms, using gigantic quantities of coal, gas, water? the good old campfire we'll gather around, storytelling? instead of sending billions of AI-generated kid-, cat-, and dog videos around the globe daily?
Julia, I think the most urgent thing to do is to vote out of power the politicians that have been bought by the industries that benefit with the wars, the fossil energy and excessive waste by AI. Soon we will have our general elections and I hope the people who care for their children will act. Perhaps AI companies could be created or the current ones converted into democratic cooperatives that prioritise the good of the commune and not of the few ones who own them. There are already technologies that use AI datacenters with much less waste of electricity and water. Some chinese companies are taking advantage of them. But AI, in my opinion, is already very beneficial to science particularly medicine. I also hope that enough physical books will be preserved after being digitised, in libraries and museums as we have done with sumerian clay tablets or the Maya and Aztec codices for the enjoyment and wander of future generations. But as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin the jesuit priest and paleontologist found that the arrow of evolutionary progress points from the simple to the most complex organisms guiding our own species toward... well better explained by Boris Kriger in his book "THE ABSOLUTE BEHIND THE ABSOLUTE: ECKHART AND THE OLDEST ERROR IN METAPHYSICS"
" Measurable results. Teilhard is now everywhere, and almost nobody who uses his ideas knows their source. The noosphere — his term for the layer of thought enveloping the planet — has been adopted, without attribution, as a standard description of the internet. The idea that technology is driving the species toward a convergent, unified, higher-order consciousness is a commonplace of the technological literature; it is Teilhard, and it is often cited as Teilhard by the more literate members of that movement, who regard him as a prophet. The Omega Point has been explicitly appropriated by the transhumanist tradition, sometimes with the theology intact, more often with it stripped out and the arrow left in place. So the measurable result is this: the Jesuit whose books were banned by the Holy Office in the 1920s supplied the working eschatology of Silicon Valley in the 2020s. His censors were wrong about how to handle him and right about what he was. And the thing that neither they nor he could see, and that is the whole burden of this book, is that the objection is not to the arrow. Complexity may well increase. Consciousness may well be spreading. The objection is to the belief that at the end of a scale of increasing anything, one arrives at the Absolute — that Omega is on the same axis as the process leading to it, only further along. It is not. There is no amount of complexity that is God. And a man who spent his life measuring the increase of complexity in the fossil record was, of all people, the least equipped to notice."
Yes. Which is why we solarized in 2009.........and again in 2017, when we'd elected a democratic socialist government that offered a 30% rebate. In this way we learned that solar had become 1/4 of the cost of our original panels, and was 3 times as efficient per panel.
Since then we've solarized our daughter's house, our son's house, bought an EV in 2019 for ourselves and a second hand one for our son two years ago. Last summer the heat pump went in, right now we're getting estimates for our son, our son-in-law, and our daughter so all their homes can be liveable in the summers we can all see coming.
We don't fly, we back country camp.....or stay home and preserve the fruit we grow. We buy local from a farmer friend....and we have electric bikes as well to take us about town.
EVERYTHING EVERYONE OF US DOES, AND STOPS DOING, NOW........IS PART OF THAT PARALLEL SYSTEM YOU DESCRIBE. IT IS GROWING...but it needs all of our investment...and for everyone, there is something you can do to get off fossil gas, abandon fossil fools.........and sign on to the green clean sustainable world none of us will live to see......except in our dreams of our own grandchildren.......old and surrounded by the same bright faces of the future we work to secure now.
I live now for them.......my great great grandchildren.
Smedley Butler famously described his military career by calling himself a "gangster for capitalism in his book "War is a Racket": “And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
Aunty AI just told me:
"According to OpenSecrets Historical Tracking, the fossil fuel sector has consistently been one of the most reliable "red" industries in the United States: Since 1990: More than two-thirds of all industry campaign cash has gone to Republicans. Lifetime Spending: Since 1989, the industry has spent over $1.6 billion in total political donations to shape U.S. policy. Lobbying Overhead: On top of campaign donations, the fossil fuel sector spent an additional $154 million directly lobbying Congress on energy and climate policy during the 2023–2024 period."
Elections are coming and we better choose the least bribed politician of any party
The military is bad........but the oligarchs and obscenely rich capitalists who support the killing machine are the real monsters. None of their sons or daughters are sent to the slaughter. You can be sure of that.
Agreed. Trump himself didn't go to any of our wars. Following is another query I made to Aunty AI:
Campaign Contributions Overview Scale of Spending: During recent election cycles, defense sector employees and PACs contributed approximately $50 million in 2020 and around $34.8 million in 2022.Bipartisan Distribution: Funds are distributed across the political spectrum. For instance, in the 2020 cycle, contributions were split with $21.7 million going to Republicans and $25.4 million to Democrats. Targeted Giving: Lawmakers sitting on influential committees—such as the House and Senate Armed Services Committees—frequently receive millions in campaign support prior to key votes on expanding the defense budget.“The analysis in this report shows that, in the current election cycle, the military-industrial complex gave $10.2 million to members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee prior to their votes this June to increase overall defense spending for FY 23,” according to Public Citizen. Lobbying and Broader Influence Lobbying Expenditures: Beyond direct campaign contributions, the military industry spends heavily on lobbying. According to tracking by OpenSecrets, the industry routinely spends over $100 million annually, reaching $139 million in 2023 alone. The "Revolving Door": Hundreds of former high-ranking government officials, military leaders, and Pentagon personnel transition into defense contractor roles or lobbying positions, creating deep structural ties between private manufacturers and policymaking bodies.
This is why Ms. Abby Martin tells in this report that capitalism has its own army.
The details only confirm what we all need to know. I've watched American TV talking about how much candidates spent in the F-ing.....PRIMARIES....and it has occurred to me:
HOW DARE A PLUTOCRACY WASTING THAT MUCH MONEY ON WHAT THEY CALL DEMOCRACY, TELL CUBA, OR IRAN, OR ANYBODY AT ALL.....WHAT A DEMOCRACY IS OR HOW TO RUN IT??? No one but Amerikkka has that much cash to WASTE.
Another open secret bleeding pus and bs is the money Amerikkka spends on covert operations in other people's countries. Over 100 attempts on Castro's life...all failed, but if you have murderous operatives in your country gunning for your leaders.....DON'T EXPECT AN OPEN SOCIETY.....there has to be a police presence to defend against the CIA and Mossad.
And secrets must be kept. As they have been kept in Iran.......where not even our Iranian friends, not friends of the Iranian regime, had a clue how prepared they were for this current war.....but they have obviously been preparing.
What's more, they didn't spend 3 million per missile, as Americans do to create that Patriot defence........a system Ted Postal claims has an accuracy less than 5%. We are currently in line to buy the film on the Pentagon.......because we've known for decades you're a military empire.........but even we had no idea how thoroughly those bastards control everything in your country...........
the future we are trying to build has to be free of all death squads.......give those killers behind computers real jobs.......hoeing beets or something worth doing.
The plutocracy has all that money to spend on campaigns because of our incredible system so called trickle down economics that they devised to steal our tax money for their purposes. That is why the true name of that system is trickle up economics. In addition, this is what aunty AI just told me:
Tax Rates and Zero-Tax Years Individual. Zero-Tax Years: High-profile billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros have all successfully reported zero federal income tax in at least one or multiple recent tax years. Low Effective Tax Rates: According to Oxfam America, “the wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. ”Unrealized Gains: Ultra-wealthy individuals derive most of their net worth from stock and asset growth (unrealized gains), which are not taxed as income unless the assets are sold.
Abby is angry when she discusses this, and justifiably so. As we watch and feel the world we know being destroyed, changed completely into an unlivable environment in so many places, it seems to me that most people are unaware of the cause of the most pollution in the world. We talk about it among ourselves, we know about the links to war, imperialism, capitalism, and the causation of this dystopian future which is quickly becoming the present. The problem I think is that the information and urgency of the issue stays among ourselves in a seeming echo chamber. I believe that the way to inform and light a fire under people is through the entertainment medium, mostly film and tv.
It is time for people become angry at the way this planet is being run and unite for positive change.
Sure. Fortunately there are some programs in social media that are doing a great job like domocracynow.org and the intercept which have a large audience and to which occasionally I donate to keep them strong.
Yes, Julia, I like Scahill's reporting. I have not watched TV for decades so I rely on these independent news for my updates. I noticed in your bio that you focus on literature from the global south. I wanted to share some snippets from the book "Colombia: The Land That Remembers: Myths, Spirits, and Stories That Refuse to Die" by Paola Peltier:
"Stories were not entertainment. They were instructions. They explained why the sun rose when it did, why certain lakes demanded silence, why gold was never merely gold. A story could tell you where to plant your crops, when to flee, whom to marry, how to die, and—most importantly—how to return. Because death, in this land, was never an ending. It was a change of address. Long before European ships appeared on the horizon, Colombia was already thick with gods, spirits, monsters, and ancestors who refused to stay quiet. The rivers were inhabited. The forests watched back. The mountains listened. And the people who lived among them understood something that modern history often forgets: that myths are not lies told by the ignorant, but truths told by those who understand that reality has more than one layer."
"The Muisca did not discover gold. They distrusted it. This distinction matters, because nearly everything that followed misunderstood it. High on the Andean plateau, where cold mornings sharpen thought and altitude disciplines excess, the Muisca built a civilization organized not around conquest, but coherence. They were not nomads, nor empire-builders in the later sense. They were architects of balance. Their power lay not in expansion, but in regulation—of resources, behavior, time, and belief."
"To the Muisca, Guatavita was not a location. It was a threshold. Here, the boundary between human order and cosmic order thinned. When a new leader—known as the zipa—assumed power, the event was not celebrated with coronation, but with surrender. The future ruler was stripped of identity, isolation, and excess. He fasted. He was cleansed. He was prepared. Then came the ritual that would echo across continents and centuries, misheard and mistranslated until it became legend. The zipa was covered in gold dust—not to elevate him, but to erase him. His human form disappeared beneath a coating of light. He became a living symbol, not a man. Gold did not adorn him; it consumed him temporarily."
"He was placed on a raft with offerings—emeralds, gold figures, objects shaped with immense skill and care. Not hoarded treasures, but intentional creations. At the center of the lake, the offerings were cast into the water. Then the zipa entered the lake himself. The gold dissolved. The man returned. Power was granted not by possession, but by renunciation. This was El Dorado."
"European obsession with El Dorado was not fueled by ignorance of gold, but by ignorance of restraint. They imagined a place where wealth existed without consequence. The Muisca imagined wealth that demanded disappearance."
"They saw gold without context. Lake Guatavita was dredged repeatedly. Its waters were violated in the search for what was never meant to be recovered. The ritual was destroyed in pursuit of its residue. And yet, the myth survived."
"But the lake still exists. The story still circulates. And El Dorado, stripped of conquest and fantasy, remains one of the most radical political theologies ever enacted. A civilization that taught its leaders, at the moment of ascension, to step into water and give everything back."
julio, this is such a nice excerpt. thank you for making me aware of it! so much wisdom westerners arrogantly prefer to ignore. for lack of time, i’ll just briefly point to 3 statements i find compelling: 1) reality has more than one layer. 2) not conquest, but coherence,. 3) covered in gold dust not to elevate but to erase …
what a stark contrast to #47’s race against the clock to erect his golden ballroom. nothing humble about that. no moderation. and given that i 'owe' you a response to your post re your favorite philosopher, under another one of chris hedges’ contributions: i came across timothy mitchell, prof of middle eastern studies in new york, and his latest book, ‘the alibi of capitalism’. which he presents in a verso books podcast. in his recent work, “the author of ‘carbon democracy’ examines capitalism's method of stealing the future and concealing the theft.“ that’s exactly what happens, and most of our contemporaries still don’t seem alarmed enough …
I think we're going to buy this movie.......it sounds like the clearest kind of 'cutting to the chase' of imperial planet destruction to date.
One example from my own life.........I remember reading about the horrors of the USA using white phosphorus against the Iraqi city of Fallujah...years later we tuned into a movie of that name on line, expecting to get the details.
Instead the movie focused on a group of American GI's trying to take a tower in which 'terrorists' were holed up.........there was a bit on the people too poor to leave the city as the real axis of evil had warned them to do..........then it jumped back to the heroics of the tower........and at the end we learned of the good hearted Americans taking the poor family's son, who'd been injured by the phosphorus attack.........to America for medical help.
It was enough to make one sick.........but the horrors of white phosphorus on human skin???? lightly touched on before we got back to the real issue......American heroism and philanthropy.
ITS ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU PERMANENTLY SICK...which is why I never watch American action movies.....haven't since APOCALYPSE NOW....
Chris Hedges has not had a single word to say about SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA ...
If it becomes law, it opens the door to dark possibilities beyond the mere sharing of our technology assets with ISR. ... Hedges did the same thing to us during the lockdowns ... after preaching direct confrontation to tyranny and fascism the past 20 years, he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... and exactly 30 days after the explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release proved the jab was NOT safe and effective and was also killing people, Hedges said "I don't think we can end the pandemic and the mutations until EVERYONE get vaccinated" (JAN 1, 2022, KK&F podcast, Ep #54, 01-08-46 mark) ... and then, 5 months later on MAY 6, 2022, he shamelessly reminded us that "the constitution remains a sacred document" ... a turncoat since the lockdowns, he now pedals pessimism for clicks.
DC seems to believe that he will show us all how enlightened he is and those of us who read Chris will abandon him and follow DC instead. Once again, he is off topic and rude - he doesn't know better. Best to ignore him.
I post this comment anywhere on the "Net in which SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA is discussed. Clearly, Hedges has no intention of standing with us against SECTION 219.
And you - you're not here to learn, you're just here to be entertained!
Nor are you here to inform.,..Section 219 of the 2027 NDAA????
Means diddlysquat to this Canadian....but seriously Doug??? This gibberish is more important than the utter threat to life on earth that is the Pentagon???
Apparantly they are doing it somewhere in your gulag right now, badgering Fauci about why he didn't admit the virus came from a Chinese lab instead of a wet market........as if the origin of a new virus changes a damn thing about its lethality.
Still spewing this old BS are you Doug?? The vaccine was a success and saved many lives. Up here in Canada, where most of us supported the lockdowns as difficult but necessary, our death toll per capita was way lower then youse Amerikkkans' death toll.
In emergencies, a lot of our privileges, that we've come to see as 'rights' sometimes have to be curtailed..........for the good of all.
I know that 'communistic concept' is hard for many Americans to understand....but it applies in wartime also, where sometimes individual rights have to be curtailed. It was temporary Doug.........and a lot of scientific illiterates mistook the precautionary principle for permanent imprisonment.
You should try reading outside your bubble........and just maybe, learn something about the science of vaccination. It's been with us for well over 100 years......its how we eradicated polio and measles and diphtheria and cholera.
Well before American Anti Vacc nutbars were even born.
I read up a bit on him during Covid....did you know he also worked for Public health during the AIDS crisis? I remember the mean spirits and stupid heads of that time.........yapping on about God's punishment for the sin of homosexuality and other none sensical garbage....
AIDS too was a public health emergency that brought out the anti-science, anti-public health morons. Recently, I read a substack article on a beautiful woman who spent that time sitting with dying men who's family had abandoned them...I cried to imagine her courage and spirit.
My point being, that it isn't an easy job confronting a national health emergency..it takes courage, careful listening to the best science........and most of all: A MIND THAT UNDERSTANDS COMPLEXITY: IN A NEW MEDICAL EMERGENCY, NO ONE HAS ALL THE ANSWERS........but the answers will come from the men and women of science, on the front lines, testing and trying news drugs and other procedures.
Dr Fauci helped manage that crises. Was he always right, always on the money in an instance??? Absolutely not.
But I don't imagine he was so block headed to believe the source of a new killer virus mattered as much as figuring out how to defeat it. Rage-aholics, who hunt not for solutions, but for SOMEONE TO BLAME, have no business imagining that a Public Health official is evil....or wrong...........and their 'common sense' fantasies, pulled out of their own behinds quite often, are the truth.
Unfortunately, that's the rabble Dr. Fauci has to face.....spearheaded by your own Republican Maga blockheads. I pity the man, standing up for Public Health in your increasingly dimwitted Republic.
thank you, abby martin, for your invigorating statement! here's hoping it will inspire many people to transform their passive discomfort and unease into actions for real change before it's too late.
i've stated it elsewhere: the DC in washington has long stood for D.ont C.are, but the current f.lawmakers plus potus are taking their indifference to the plight of anyone but themselves to new highs, i.e. new lows. while so MANY people around them are allowing them to get away with it ALL ... the way to their banks.
i don't exclude my EU country whose head honestly 'thinks' our military should be europe's largest. he, a multi-millionaire, too, is too young ;-) to remember that the country he is now leading - and polluting - has lost not one, but two world wars already.
This is the first time St Chris interviewed Abby Martin since the lockdowns. Why? ... he did appear with her on a panel discussion in 2022, but why did he feel she was not worthy of his time for an interview until now, as Gaza was burning? ...
The man who preached direct confrontation to fascism and tyranny for 20 years, also waited 3 years before interviewing Whitney Webb. ... WHY? ... although WW's book "One Nation Under Blackmail" was published in OCT 2022, Hedges did not feel it was wise to interview her until 2025, and then again last week ... why did he wait so damn long?
And he's still not had a word to say about SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA
Not the same guy since the lockdowns ...
BACKGROUND
In 2022 Hedges actually said "the constitution remains a sacred document" AFTER he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports.
1) But first, here's proof that COVID “vaccines” actually killed people …
Not a word here from Hedges about the illegal and unconstitutional nature of the mandates, passports and the jab ... after preaching direct confrontation to tyranny for the past 20 years, watch him dance and listen to him equivocate before sheepishly blowing it off: “… that was just a decision that I made” ... yup NBD, right Chris?
The explosive FDA FOIA release revealed that Phizer's Vx trial data documented 1,223 deaths and 25,000 medically verified injuries to trial participants in the first 90 days of their trial period.
This proved the Vx was not "safe and effective", but only 30 days later on the K&K podcast, he brazenly took sides when he knew better …
EP 54, Hedges said: "I don't think we can stop the pandemic and mutations until everyone gets vaccinated” without saying a word about the revelations of the FDA FOIA release – not a word!
Krystal, Kyle & Friends, EP 54
1:08:46 mark
krystalkyleandfriends.s…
So stop praising this guy, he doesn't give a hoot about us ...
Ain't it funny how goodthink liberals who affect a most touching concern for the environment ignore this basic fact?
There’s a helluva lot of items in the ignore dossier of the liberal.
Every damn American does for the most part Feral.........and a majority of Canadians as well. All of us propagandized by Hollywood.
AFAICT, most Canadians are all for the American Empire, just with a few more Pride and Ukrainian flags and some heartwarming self-serving and outrageously hypocritical human rights talk.
Yes....but there is real opposition in Canada to the militarized road Carney is putting us on..........and I expect a lot more is growing as Amerikkka demonstrates how useless her Lockheed Martin paraphernalia actually is.
Too big not to fail.......is the correct slogan....and the Iranians seem to have figured it out. Their navy is destroyed, their airforce is destroyed...hahahahaha.
They need neither. Drones and speed boats and tiny underwater subs capable of planting bombs on a BIG ships backside...........and a military that is distributed...across all their jurisdictions...with full autonomy to defend their part of the country.
All Amerikkka seems to be able to muster is Pete Hegseth, Witless and Cushyneer.
What I'm coming to love about the American military is how stupid they are...lol. From what I hear, Iranians are actually hoping for a ground invasion. God help your young boys and girls who got sucked into the military.
Surely by now you have learned that nobody of influence and authority cares what the people think or like or want.
Witness the Trucker Protests. We can argue whether the goals of the protests were noble or not, and the methods used to suppress them were admittedly illegal, but the methods worked.
The methods weren't illegal.......they were extreme, but most Canadians supported them at the time. The thing was to shut down the clown show, without loss of life.....going in as if it was a mere street protest could have resulted in the mess Americans watched on Jan 6...........these truckers weren't truckers for the most part. They were Maple Maga........funded to a large extent by Amerikkan right wing billionaires........
And as you likely know better than I.........these dolts saw themselves as 'patriots' saving the country from vaccines.........so a large force was necessary.
Particularly since our conservative government in Ontario wasn't willing or able to lift a finger........infiltrated by the right wing crazies as they were.
What the courts ruled after the fact didn't change the fact the convoy was shut down.......peacefully.......by the use of a military force large enough to be able to do it.......peacefully.
Whether canadians supported the methods used to suppress the protests has nothing to do with whether they were legal or not. The courts agreed.
Similarly, freedom of speech and assembly also apply to people you don't like a d causes you don't like.
After all, those same methods seen will be applied to you and yours.
Martin skillfully ties the planet-devouring behavior of the US military to the global systems of capitalism and imperialism it was built to uphold. The viewer is left with a crystal clear picture of the ways ecocide, militarism and capitalism are inseparably intertwined, and an understanding that meaningfully opposing any of these malignancies necessarily entails opposing them all. The liberal fiction that one can be pro-environment while also supporting the US military is forcefully exposed for the absurdity that it is. Caitlin Johnstone wrote that.
This film is a work of art, brilliant teaching, and yet thoroughly entertaining:
Caitlin Johnstone writes, "It's a jarring film with extremely dark subject matter, but it also manages to be a work of transcendent beauty and optimism. A deep love of humans and all of earth's creatures shines through in shot after shot, while slick editing and an inspired soundtrack allow the movie to zip along at a lively and entertaining pace. Martin concludes with a galvanizing call to use our outrage to loosen the empire's already weakening grip on humanity's collective consciousness, because our entire world depends on it."
You coulda just said " The single biggest user of gasoline, whose main mission is protecting the supply of gasoline." Everyone understands dystopian spirals....
i never saw the obvious so deftly put in a nutshell. thank you for that!
Great interview. Keep up the good fight Chris and Abby!
Everyone needs to see "Earth's Greatest Enemy".
Is there a problem with referring to our own supporters of genocide, like Chuck Schumer and too many others in Congress, as the equivalent of current-day Nazis? I’m asking this seriously. Instead, all I see in the legacy and too much of the alternative media is references to them as “moderates” and “centrists.” This intentional or lazy mislabeling goes a long way in explaining why we have supported and continue to support a genocide with our tax dollars. I appreciate Ms. Martin’s passion as well as her work. We need to inject much more passion into these subjects. Too often, passion is dismissed as emotionalism or a lack of reason. But in the case of a genocide, the lack of passion in addressing it, including accurately labeling its supporters and holding them to account, is a symptom of mental illness, apparently more contagious than the flu. I look forward to watching Ms. Martin’s film.
Most cling to the VACANT CENTRE......but placate themselves by saying its the 'centre left' or the 'centre right'............getting out of that circle, that spotlight of western certainties and occlusions, is dangerous.
What's worse, even your friends, relatives and comrades in arms may dismiss you as 'going too far'.
Born into a democratic socialist family, I've been amazed for a few decades now how successfully the vacant neoliberal centre managed to demonize socialism. For my money, the only political system with a clear idea of what needs doing and how to do it.
To the extent that the rulers keep us shilling for 'moderation', they have us where they want us. Because from that moderate centre, only the fashions will alter, only the superficial trappings will change.
I have to prepare myself to watch this movie, just like with Palestine 36 and The Voice of Hind Rajab.
Abby Martin continues to do great work.
Crying is good for body and soul......even at 80, I don't have the pinched, shut down look of many half my age. Tears are the price we pay for Loving....in today's world, I cry often.
When America bombed that junior high in Tehran, OMG....I have two 12 year old 'cousin twins'.......I cried more than once......imagining what losing them would do to our family, imagining the utter loss that community was going through........are going through still.
God Damn Trump..........and if there is a god, she will.
It is heartbreaking. For the past three years I have a kind of a recurrent dream that horrifies me. They are about children in Gaza, mostly. In some of the dreams they get saved. The brain tells exactly how I feel
That Amerikkka has funded that genocide and so many have stayed quiet, for going on 4 years......says something awful about the emotional/spiritual life of many Americans..........and it is beyond chilling.
I hope a prominent politician can find a way to frame repurposing the firms of the military industrial complex to build the machines to fight climate change or rebuild our infrastructure as a positive. As an engineer myself, I know this actually would not be so hard to turn many of these companies toward such tasks if desired. The thing that gives me hope (some days) is that the military is already a giant make-work program.
The Department of Defense just awarded a 77 billion dollar contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat Division in Groton CT. for 14 submarines. One is to be the most lethal machine on earth.
The entire political class and media unanimously cheer it on as economic growth and national security.
In this culture, economic growth, technology and patriotism are the rule of dominance.
Pack your bags we're going to the South China Sea to war with China, a country that committed the forgivable sin of beating the USA at their own game of capitalism.
I'm reading the book of my favorite philosopher "THE ECONOMICS OF THE FUTURE " by Boris Kriger, where he proposes a parallel economy to replace the present and it seems to me that we are about to replace the fossil industry. The following are quotations from this book:
"Every attempt to reform a system at the structural level has produced one of two outcomes: absorption or explosion. Either the reform is absorbed by the system, metabolized into a new form of the old problem — as campaign finance reform is absorbed by new forms of legalized bribery, as environmental regulation is absorbed by carbon offset markets that permit pollution for a fee — or the reform triggers a crisis that produces the very catastrophe it was meant to prevent. The French Revolution began as a reform movement. It ended with the Terror. The Arab Spring began as a democratic awakening. It ended with civil wars and military coups. The reformers were not wrong about the problems. They were wrong about the method."
"The only transitions that have ever worked without catastrophe are those that did not attempt to reform the old system at all. They built something new alongside it. The old system continued to operate, losing relevance gradually, until it was no longer the primary structure and could be abandoned without crisis. This is the model. Not revolution, not reform, but parallel construction. Build the new system inside the shell of the old. Let it grow. Let it attract people by being better, simpler, more rational. Do not fight the old system; that only makes it stronger, gives it an enemy to rally against, justifies its worst impulses. Do not reform it; that only feeds it, gives it new language to describe old problems. Simply build the alternative, and wait. The old system will reach the wall on its own — it always does, because the engine of absurdity has no brakes. When it does, the alternative will be there."
"Petroleum is not a commodity. It is a time capsule. It contains, in chemical form, the work of eons...The parallel economy does not ban petroleum. It renders it unnecessary, not through prohibition but through substitution: solar energy that arrives daily, wind energy that is endlessly renewed, geothermal energy that taps the heat of the planet itself. These are not inferior sources. They are contemporary sources — sunlight that falls today, not sunlight that fell in the Jurassic. The difference is the difference between spending one’s salary and spending one’s savings. One is sustainable. The other is a countdown. We are burning the archive. The question is not whether we will stop. The archive will stop us, by running out. The question is whether we will have built the alternative before the last page turns to ash."
thank you for these quotes and reminders. who knows if we'll be quick enough to keep the insatiably greedy from burning the last page? soon there won't be any books left anyway, given the speed at which AI "replaces" them. caitlin johnstone recently wrote about "AI companies [that] are now bulk-buying rare and out-of-print books and then destroying them after scanning their contents".
my country's minister of economy and energy works fervently to push back on alternative energies, and benefit fossil fuel industries. my country's head of state - a multi-millionaire - wants to turn our military into europe's largest [w./o. using any of his money, of course]. so ... we're up against quite a bunch of hard-headed hardliners while working on building the alternatives.
what shall we replace monstrous data centers with that are now spreading like mushrooms, using gigantic quantities of coal, gas, water? the good old campfire we'll gather around, storytelling? instead of sending billions of AI-generated kid-, cat-, and dog videos around the globe daily?
Julia, I think the most urgent thing to do is to vote out of power the politicians that have been bought by the industries that benefit with the wars, the fossil energy and excessive waste by AI. Soon we will have our general elections and I hope the people who care for their children will act. Perhaps AI companies could be created or the current ones converted into democratic cooperatives that prioritise the good of the commune and not of the few ones who own them. There are already technologies that use AI datacenters with much less waste of electricity and water. Some chinese companies are taking advantage of them. But AI, in my opinion, is already very beneficial to science particularly medicine. I also hope that enough physical books will be preserved after being digitised, in libraries and museums as we have done with sumerian clay tablets or the Maya and Aztec codices for the enjoyment and wander of future generations. But as Pierre Teilhard de Chardin the jesuit priest and paleontologist found that the arrow of evolutionary progress points from the simple to the most complex organisms guiding our own species toward... well better explained by Boris Kriger in his book "THE ABSOLUTE BEHIND THE ABSOLUTE: ECKHART AND THE OLDEST ERROR IN METAPHYSICS"
" Measurable results. Teilhard is now everywhere, and almost nobody who uses his ideas knows their source. The noosphere — his term for the layer of thought enveloping the planet — has been adopted, without attribution, as a standard description of the internet. The idea that technology is driving the species toward a convergent, unified, higher-order consciousness is a commonplace of the technological literature; it is Teilhard, and it is often cited as Teilhard by the more literate members of that movement, who regard him as a prophet. The Omega Point has been explicitly appropriated by the transhumanist tradition, sometimes with the theology intact, more often with it stripped out and the arrow left in place. So the measurable result is this: the Jesuit whose books were banned by the Holy Office in the 1920s supplied the working eschatology of Silicon Valley in the 2020s. His censors were wrong about how to handle him and right about what he was. And the thing that neither they nor he could see, and that is the whole burden of this book, is that the objection is not to the arrow. Complexity may well increase. Consciousness may well be spreading. The objection is to the belief that at the end of a scale of increasing anything, one arrives at the Absolute — that Omega is on the same axis as the process leading to it, only further along. It is not. There is no amount of complexity that is God. And a man who spent his life measuring the increase of complexity in the fossil record was, of all people, the least equipped to notice."
Yes. Which is why we solarized in 2009.........and again in 2017, when we'd elected a democratic socialist government that offered a 30% rebate. In this way we learned that solar had become 1/4 of the cost of our original panels, and was 3 times as efficient per panel.
Since then we've solarized our daughter's house, our son's house, bought an EV in 2019 for ourselves and a second hand one for our son two years ago. Last summer the heat pump went in, right now we're getting estimates for our son, our son-in-law, and our daughter so all their homes can be liveable in the summers we can all see coming.
We don't fly, we back country camp.....or stay home and preserve the fruit we grow. We buy local from a farmer friend....and we have electric bikes as well to take us about town.
EVERYTHING EVERYONE OF US DOES, AND STOPS DOING, NOW........IS PART OF THAT PARALLEL SYSTEM YOU DESCRIBE. IT IS GROWING...but it needs all of our investment...and for everyone, there is something you can do to get off fossil gas, abandon fossil fools.........and sign on to the green clean sustainable world none of us will live to see......except in our dreams of our own grandchildren.......old and surrounded by the same bright faces of the future we work to secure now.
I live now for them.......my great great grandchildren.
Be well.
Smedley Butler famously described his military career by calling himself a "gangster for capitalism in his book "War is a Racket": “And during that period, I spent most of my time being a high class muscle-man for Big Business, for Wall Street and for the Bankers. In short, I was a racketeer, a gangster for capitalism.”
Aunty AI just told me:
"According to OpenSecrets Historical Tracking, the fossil fuel sector has consistently been one of the most reliable "red" industries in the United States: Since 1990: More than two-thirds of all industry campaign cash has gone to Republicans. Lifetime Spending: Since 1989, the industry has spent over $1.6 billion in total political donations to shape U.S. policy. Lobbying Overhead: On top of campaign donations, the fossil fuel sector spent an additional $154 million directly lobbying Congress on energy and climate policy during the 2023–2024 period."
Elections are coming and we better choose the least bribed politician of any party
The military is bad........but the oligarchs and obscenely rich capitalists who support the killing machine are the real monsters. None of their sons or daughters are sent to the slaughter. You can be sure of that.
Agreed. Trump himself didn't go to any of our wars. Following is another query I made to Aunty AI:
Campaign Contributions Overview Scale of Spending: During recent election cycles, defense sector employees and PACs contributed approximately $50 million in 2020 and around $34.8 million in 2022.Bipartisan Distribution: Funds are distributed across the political spectrum. For instance, in the 2020 cycle, contributions were split with $21.7 million going to Republicans and $25.4 million to Democrats. Targeted Giving: Lawmakers sitting on influential committees—such as the House and Senate Armed Services Committees—frequently receive millions in campaign support prior to key votes on expanding the defense budget.“The analysis in this report shows that, in the current election cycle, the military-industrial complex gave $10.2 million to members of the House and Senate Armed Services Committee prior to their votes this June to increase overall defense spending for FY 23,” according to Public Citizen. Lobbying and Broader Influence Lobbying Expenditures: Beyond direct campaign contributions, the military industry spends heavily on lobbying. According to tracking by OpenSecrets, the industry routinely spends over $100 million annually, reaching $139 million in 2023 alone. The "Revolving Door": Hundreds of former high-ranking government officials, military leaders, and Pentagon personnel transition into defense contractor roles or lobbying positions, creating deep structural ties between private manufacturers and policymaking bodies.
This is why Ms. Abby Martin tells in this report that capitalism has its own army.
The details only confirm what we all need to know. I've watched American TV talking about how much candidates spent in the F-ing.....PRIMARIES....and it has occurred to me:
HOW DARE A PLUTOCRACY WASTING THAT MUCH MONEY ON WHAT THEY CALL DEMOCRACY, TELL CUBA, OR IRAN, OR ANYBODY AT ALL.....WHAT A DEMOCRACY IS OR HOW TO RUN IT??? No one but Amerikkka has that much cash to WASTE.
Another open secret bleeding pus and bs is the money Amerikkka spends on covert operations in other people's countries. Over 100 attempts on Castro's life...all failed, but if you have murderous operatives in your country gunning for your leaders.....DON'T EXPECT AN OPEN SOCIETY.....there has to be a police presence to defend against the CIA and Mossad.
And secrets must be kept. As they have been kept in Iran.......where not even our Iranian friends, not friends of the Iranian regime, had a clue how prepared they were for this current war.....but they have obviously been preparing.
What's more, they didn't spend 3 million per missile, as Americans do to create that Patriot defence........a system Ted Postal claims has an accuracy less than 5%. We are currently in line to buy the film on the Pentagon.......because we've known for decades you're a military empire.........but even we had no idea how thoroughly those bastards control everything in your country...........
the future we are trying to build has to be free of all death squads.......give those killers behind computers real jobs.......hoeing beets or something worth doing.
The plutocracy has all that money to spend on campaigns because of our incredible system so called trickle down economics that they devised to steal our tax money for their purposes. That is why the true name of that system is trickle up economics. In addition, this is what aunty AI just told me:
Tax Rates and Zero-Tax Years Individual. Zero-Tax Years: High-profile billionaires like Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk, Michael Bloomberg, and George Soros have all successfully reported zero federal income tax in at least one or multiple recent tax years. Low Effective Tax Rates: According to Oxfam America, “the wealthiest 400 billionaire families in the U.S. paid an average federal individual tax rate of just 8.2 percent. ”Unrealized Gains: Ultra-wealthy individuals derive most of their net worth from stock and asset growth (unrealized gains), which are not taxed as income unless the assets are sold.
It's why we're going to have to eat the rich, and charge top dollar for the prime cuts.
Neoliberalism was Fascism in expensive suits.........we should have seen that sooner.
I'm allergic to pig meat.
Abby is angry when she discusses this, and justifiably so. As we watch and feel the world we know being destroyed, changed completely into an unlivable environment in so many places, it seems to me that most people are unaware of the cause of the most pollution in the world. We talk about it among ourselves, we know about the links to war, imperialism, capitalism, and the causation of this dystopian future which is quickly becoming the present. The problem I think is that the information and urgency of the issue stays among ourselves in a seeming echo chamber. I believe that the way to inform and light a fire under people is through the entertainment medium, mostly film and tv.
It is time for people become angry at the way this planet is being run and unite for positive change.
Yes. But the TV news are owned by the great polluters and don't allow this information.
Right, that's news stations but films like Abby's are a great way to reach a huge audience.
Sure. Fortunately there are some programs in social media that are doing a great job like domocracynow.org and the intercept which have a large audience and to which occasionally I donate to keep them strong.
have you been to drop site news? at https://www.dropsitenews.com
Yes, Julia, I like Scahill's reporting. I have not watched TV for decades so I rely on these independent news for my updates. I noticed in your bio that you focus on literature from the global south. I wanted to share some snippets from the book "Colombia: The Land That Remembers: Myths, Spirits, and Stories That Refuse to Die" by Paola Peltier:
"Stories were not entertainment. They were instructions. They explained why the sun rose when it did, why certain lakes demanded silence, why gold was never merely gold. A story could tell you where to plant your crops, when to flee, whom to marry, how to die, and—most importantly—how to return. Because death, in this land, was never an ending. It was a change of address. Long before European ships appeared on the horizon, Colombia was already thick with gods, spirits, monsters, and ancestors who refused to stay quiet. The rivers were inhabited. The forests watched back. The mountains listened. And the people who lived among them understood something that modern history often forgets: that myths are not lies told by the ignorant, but truths told by those who understand that reality has more than one layer."
"The Muisca did not discover gold. They distrusted it. This distinction matters, because nearly everything that followed misunderstood it. High on the Andean plateau, where cold mornings sharpen thought and altitude disciplines excess, the Muisca built a civilization organized not around conquest, but coherence. They were not nomads, nor empire-builders in the later sense. They were architects of balance. Their power lay not in expansion, but in regulation—of resources, behavior, time, and belief."
"To the Muisca, Guatavita was not a location. It was a threshold. Here, the boundary between human order and cosmic order thinned. When a new leader—known as the zipa—assumed power, the event was not celebrated with coronation, but with surrender. The future ruler was stripped of identity, isolation, and excess. He fasted. He was cleansed. He was prepared. Then came the ritual that would echo across continents and centuries, misheard and mistranslated until it became legend. The zipa was covered in gold dust—not to elevate him, but to erase him. His human form disappeared beneath a coating of light. He became a living symbol, not a man. Gold did not adorn him; it consumed him temporarily."
"He was placed on a raft with offerings—emeralds, gold figures, objects shaped with immense skill and care. Not hoarded treasures, but intentional creations. At the center of the lake, the offerings were cast into the water. Then the zipa entered the lake himself. The gold dissolved. The man returned. Power was granted not by possession, but by renunciation. This was El Dorado."
"European obsession with El Dorado was not fueled by ignorance of gold, but by ignorance of restraint. They imagined a place where wealth existed without consequence. The Muisca imagined wealth that demanded disappearance."
"They saw gold without context. Lake Guatavita was dredged repeatedly. Its waters were violated in the search for what was never meant to be recovered. The ritual was destroyed in pursuit of its residue. And yet, the myth survived."
"But the lake still exists. The story still circulates. And El Dorado, stripped of conquest and fantasy, remains one of the most radical political theologies ever enacted. A civilization that taught its leaders, at the moment of ascension, to step into water and give everything back."
julio, this is such a nice excerpt. thank you for making me aware of it! so much wisdom westerners arrogantly prefer to ignore. for lack of time, i’ll just briefly point to 3 statements i find compelling: 1) reality has more than one layer. 2) not conquest, but coherence,. 3) covered in gold dust not to elevate but to erase …
what a stark contrast to #47’s race against the clock to erect his golden ballroom. nothing humble about that. no moderation. and given that i 'owe' you a response to your post re your favorite philosopher, under another one of chris hedges’ contributions: i came across timothy mitchell, prof of middle eastern studies in new york, and his latest book, ‘the alibi of capitalism’. which he presents in a verso books podcast. in his recent work, “the author of ‘carbon democracy’ examines capitalism's method of stealing the future and concealing the theft.“ that’s exactly what happens, and most of our contemporaries still don’t seem alarmed enough …
I think we're going to buy this movie.......it sounds like the clearest kind of 'cutting to the chase' of imperial planet destruction to date.
One example from my own life.........I remember reading about the horrors of the USA using white phosphorus against the Iraqi city of Fallujah...years later we tuned into a movie of that name on line, expecting to get the details.
Instead the movie focused on a group of American GI's trying to take a tower in which 'terrorists' were holed up.........there was a bit on the people too poor to leave the city as the real axis of evil had warned them to do..........then it jumped back to the heroics of the tower........and at the end we learned of the good hearted Americans taking the poor family's son, who'd been injured by the phosphorus attack.........to America for medical help.
It was enough to make one sick.........but the horrors of white phosphorus on human skin???? lightly touched on before we got back to the real issue......American heroism and philanthropy.
ITS ENOUGH TO MAKE YOU PERMANENTLY SICK...which is why I never watch American action movies.....haven't since APOCALYPSE NOW....
Chris Hedges has not had a single word to say about SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA ...
If it becomes law, it opens the door to dark possibilities beyond the mere sharing of our technology assets with ISR. ... Hedges did the same thing to us during the lockdowns ... after preaching direct confrontation to tyranny and fascism the past 20 years, he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports ... and exactly 30 days after the explosive DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release proved the jab was NOT safe and effective and was also killing people, Hedges said "I don't think we can end the pandemic and the mutations until EVERYONE get vaccinated" (JAN 1, 2022, KK&F podcast, Ep #54, 01-08-46 mark) ... and then, 5 months later on MAY 6, 2022, he shamelessly reminded us that "the constitution remains a sacred document" ... a turncoat since the lockdowns, he now pedals pessimism for clicks.
The copy/paste stalker, back to beating the dead horse.
DC seems to believe that he will show us all how enlightened he is and those of us who read Chris will abandon him and follow DC instead. Once again, he is off topic and rude - he doesn't know better. Best to ignore him.
You should be asking Hedges WHY is has not had a word to say about SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA ...
I'm not here for you ...
I post this comment anywhere on the "Net in which SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA is discussed. Clearly, Hedges has no intention of standing with us against SECTION 219.
And you - you're not here to learn, you're just here to be entertained!
You’re not here to learn. Project much? You are entertaining, though, as you channel your inner Eddie Haskell while you whip your horse carcass.
He made that exact reply previously... copied and pasted as well I imagine.
OK
Nor are you here to inform.,..Section 219 of the 2027 NDAA????
Means diddlysquat to this Canadian....but seriously Doug??? This gibberish is more important than the utter threat to life on earth that is the Pentagon???
You're even copying and pasting your replies!
So what?
Apparantly they are doing it somewhere in your gulag right now, badgering Fauci about why he didn't admit the virus came from a Chinese lab instead of a wet market........as if the origin of a new virus changes a damn thing about its lethality.
Still spewing this old BS are you Doug?? The vaccine was a success and saved many lives. Up here in Canada, where most of us supported the lockdowns as difficult but necessary, our death toll per capita was way lower then youse Amerikkkans' death toll.
In emergencies, a lot of our privileges, that we've come to see as 'rights' sometimes have to be curtailed..........for the good of all.
I know that 'communistic concept' is hard for many Americans to understand....but it applies in wartime also, where sometimes individual rights have to be curtailed. It was temporary Doug.........and a lot of scientific illiterates mistook the precautionary principle for permanent imprisonment.
You should try reading outside your bubble........and just maybe, learn something about the science of vaccination. It's been with us for well over 100 years......its how we eradicated polio and measles and diphtheria and cholera.
Well before American Anti Vacc nutbars were even born.
Hey Ingamarie ...
Please tell us, what do you think of Dr. Anthony Fauci?
I read up a bit on him during Covid....did you know he also worked for Public health during the AIDS crisis? I remember the mean spirits and stupid heads of that time.........yapping on about God's punishment for the sin of homosexuality and other none sensical garbage....
AIDS too was a public health emergency that brought out the anti-science, anti-public health morons. Recently, I read a substack article on a beautiful woman who spent that time sitting with dying men who's family had abandoned them...I cried to imagine her courage and spirit.
My point being, that it isn't an easy job confronting a national health emergency..it takes courage, careful listening to the best science........and most of all: A MIND THAT UNDERSTANDS COMPLEXITY: IN A NEW MEDICAL EMERGENCY, NO ONE HAS ALL THE ANSWERS........but the answers will come from the men and women of science, on the front lines, testing and trying news drugs and other procedures.
Dr Fauci helped manage that crises. Was he always right, always on the money in an instance??? Absolutely not.
But I don't imagine he was so block headed to believe the source of a new killer virus mattered as much as figuring out how to defeat it. Rage-aholics, who hunt not for solutions, but for SOMEONE TO BLAME, have no business imagining that a Public Health official is evil....or wrong...........and their 'common sense' fantasies, pulled out of their own behinds quite often, are the truth.
Unfortunately, that's the rabble Dr. Fauci has to face.....spearheaded by your own Republican Maga blockheads. I pity the man, standing up for Public Health in your increasingly dimwitted Republic.
thank you, abby martin, for your invigorating statement! here's hoping it will inspire many people to transform their passive discomfort and unease into actions for real change before it's too late.
i've stated it elsewhere: the DC in washington has long stood for D.ont C.are, but the current f.lawmakers plus potus are taking their indifference to the plight of anyone but themselves to new highs, i.e. new lows. while so MANY people around them are allowing them to get away with it ALL ... the way to their banks.
i don't exclude my EU country whose head honestly 'thinks' our military should be europe's largest. he, a multi-millionaire, too, is too young ;-) to remember that the country he is now leading - and polluting - has lost not one, but two world wars already.
This is the first time St Chris interviewed Abby Martin since the lockdowns. Why? ... he did appear with her on a panel discussion in 2022, but why did he feel she was not worthy of his time for an interview until now, as Gaza was burning? ...
The man who preached direct confrontation to fascism and tyranny for 20 years, also waited 3 years before interviewing Whitney Webb. ... WHY? ... although WW's book "One Nation Under Blackmail" was published in OCT 2022, Hedges did not feel it was wise to interview her until 2025, and then again last week ... why did he wait so damn long?
And he's still not had a word to say about SECTION 219 of the 2027 NDAA
Not the same guy since the lockdowns ...
BACKGROUND
In 2022 Hedges actually said "the constitution remains a sacred document" AFTER he refused to stand with us against the illegal and unconstitutional mandates and passports.
1) But first, here's proof that COVID “vaccines” actually killed people …
medicine.news/2023-12-1…
And recently:
medicine.news/2026-03-2…
2) Jimmy Dore interview, August 21, 2021 …
Not a word here from Hedges about the illegal and unconstitutional nature of the mandates, passports and the jab ... after preaching direct confrontation to tyranny for the past 20 years, watch him dance and listen to him equivocate before sheepishly blowing it off: “… that was just a decision that I made” ... yup NBD, right Chris?
Go to the 8:12 mark
youtube.com/watch?v=Nus…
3) Useful Idiots interview, September 21, 2021 …
“It’s a hard question I guess, do you force people to get the vaccine”
No Chris, it's not a hard question - not at all ...
Go to the 1:53 mark
youtube.com/watch?v=y7Z…
4) DEC 2, 2021 FDA FOIA release ...
The explosive FDA FOIA release revealed that Phizer's Vx trial data documented 1,223 deaths and 25,000 medically verified injuries to trial participants in the first 90 days of their trial period.
medicine.news/2021-12-1…
5) Krystal, Kyle & Friends interview ...
This proved the Vx was not "safe and effective", but only 30 days later on the K&K podcast, he brazenly took sides when he knew better …
EP 54, Hedges said: "I don't think we can stop the pandemic and mutations until everyone gets vaccinated” without saying a word about the revelations of the FDA FOIA release – not a word!
Krystal, Kyle & Friends, EP 54
1:08:46 mark
krystalkyleandfriends.s…
So stop praising this guy, he doesn't give a hoot about us ...
Just your intro to this theme, Chris, was almost too much for me. But I hung in there. Another great, illuminating interview!