Chris Hedges: "We Live in a Time of Radical Evil!"

[MenOfLetters]

A prophetic voice.

[telebob]

A great speech. Hedges needs to be heeded.

[Realitycleans]

Chris has such a great mind...what has happened to men of honor, of morality and a sense of justice?? What a President he would make!!

[Icix1]

Just like the fascism of old, failure to stand up for what is right and good will be the death of our country. 

[Medvetz63]

@Icix1,

Fascism, Nazism, Comunism, Capitalism were all born in Europe, and that is why the first knee jerk reaction from White Americans always leans towards those nefarious ideologies, because THAT'S what is in their genes.

That is why the U.S. Constitution has NEVER been applied equally to all Americans, only to those with money & the privlegde money buys. America is a monstrosity that deserves to die if humanity is to have any chance at survival.

[thomaserossi]

Hedges is a dipshit. He's indoctrinated beyond stupid. It takes a real intellectual to be wrong 100% of the time and just continue plodding along.

And Chomsky knows less about economics than a 5 year old.

[pwestify]

@thomaserossi And you back that up with.... yeah, nothing just your dumb ass opinion. You want to attack Chomsky, attack the facts he states, cause that's basically all he fucking does. Attacking Chomsky is like attacking reality. Wait, maybe your a tea party fucking idiot, that would explain.

[chuck3377]

It truly is a time of radical evil, pure decpetion, and the poor uneducated chemically dumbed down freedumb monkeys cannot understand they are acutally worshipping satan.

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

-except he is a better speaker than Chomsky

[PtAltmVansanTarr]

Hedges = new Chomsky

[poosta7]

What happened?? Hedges is right...we voted for Obama and all we got was bush with a banjo....a corporate house boy.

[funkyflights]

Man I like this guy....

[Cthulu54]

Who remembers the U.S.S. Liberty.

[jabrown45100]

Great and eloquent words. It is not only someone who knows what problems are going on that can guide us, but when he use metaphors like JFK, to bring in a lot of good sense.

[Fiercefist]

Everybody wants to fight against American Imperialism now that Obama's in office, when in fact you all have invested in it in the first place! You can't complain about Obama when the majority of you all are the main source of the problem in the first place. You're your own worst enemy because your focus on Obama instead of changing yourselves. When he's gone, it's just gonna be the same ol shit because this country was built on blood, slavery, and hypocrisy way before he got here.

[workergirls]

Unite against U.S. imperialism!

[Horse237]

David Horowitz has called Ron Paul and his supporters anti-Semites because he wants to stop the wars, pull our troops out of most of the 135 nations where we have troops. and cutting the budget by hundreds of billions of dollars.

For this he was called an anti-Semite. If the Democrats have no credible anti-war candidate, please consider voting for him. This assumes we have a functioning country in 2012.

If he is assassinated, his death could spark a hopefully peaceful revolution.

[claudelebel55]

Go for it Chris .... go for it.

Unfortunately, Obama is a let down.

[landlogger]

Two: Your false treasures excitement may last a day or so and then once again your empty, without real true meaning and fufillment. Be honest here, Then off you go again seeking for something to finally fill your heart. How the hell can we rest easy with ourselves when all around us true evil is playing out with our permission. Doing nothing for others is making us complicit in the horror that war is. Lets throw ourselves into stopping these crimes first . In the end that is what will count.

[landlogger]

Part one: Thank you Chris Hedges. How refreshing to hear truth which is a rare thing these days. Once again a holocaust and genocide becomes something acceptable and it is OK to just not notice How long will be stay OK with the slaughter of children. parents. all beings. Like insane and ignorant creatures we rush around Xmas shopping while our governments committ murder on a daily basis. Even as you got that Xmas day whatever it is you just have to have a baby is being killed or maimed.

[hornetobiker]

Somebody please kill the "that's right" heckler. Does it think he's speaking to it specifically? Or do they think those around them are hanging on their verdict of the statements verasity?

[petrus4]

I do not claim to understand why islandmuffin believes what he does, but I am not going to call him scum. Does anyone really think that by calling anyone else scum, you make that person more likely or willing to listen to what you are saying?

[ourladyofhismercy]

As one of the foremost enlightened and courageous journalists and activists of truth, peace and justice, Chris Hedges is on the frontline in leading THE NEW RESISTANCE MOVEMENT of non co-operation in America today - Read him and be informed.

[Tippersnore]

If the US doesn't shift the economy off of a war, armaments, and fossil fuel footing and develop long-term economic and geo-political strategies, then this recession-like wealth disparate reality will persist for years.

[dicaprio20us]

" Allah is the Light of the heavens and the earth. The Parable of His Light is as if there were a Niche and within it a Lamp: the Lamp enclosed in Glass: the glass as it were a brilliant star: Lit from a blessed Tree, an Olive, neither of the east nor of the west, whose oil is well-nigh luminous, though fire scarce touched it: Light upon Light! Allah doth guide whom He will to His Light: Allah doth set forth Parables for men: and Allah doth know all things." quran

[dicaprio20us]

allah akbar !!!!!!! may GOd bless you chris hedges!!!! i am muslim and he speaks the truth!!!!!!

[islandmuffin]

We are seeing clear evidence proving why Obama has factually become the most divisive President in modern history: Because of Obama’s precipitous falling popularity, the NAACP has begun attacking average Americans who do not agree with the socialist agenda of the Democratic Party. By making pejoratively false “racist” accusations, the immoral left in this country hopes to stamp out civil debate.

[plainPLAIDplain]

@islandmuffin Obama, like most politicians, is a corporate puppet. Throwing around terms like 'Marxist' is absurd. These guys do the PR work for the biggest Capitalists in the world. They don't care about immigration because it continues to drive the cost of labor down. Clinton allowed for the biggest media monopoly in history. Communist? Hardly. Old-School Reaganism. Look at how Obama glad-handed BP by leaving them in charge of the Gulf situtaion.

[islandmuffin]

We know the worst evils which mankind has ever had to endure were inflicted by bad governments.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

"There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." - John Adams

[islandmuffin]

@plainPLAIDplain Government collusion creates monopoly. Government corruption creates fascism with corporate / government hybrids. The solution is the separation of business from state, like the separation of church from state. The solution is free market capitalism.

Obama is the biggest fascist in US history, with how he is enslaving ALL the markets, increasing government collusion, corruption and market interference.

Liberate our markets to free our minds and our citizens!

[bapyou]

@islandmuffin God you're a fucking asshole. I loath fucks like you. Until my last breath I'll loath fucks like you. You are the scum of the Earth. the SCUM of the Earth. I"d enjoy bashing your fucking head in just for the fucking fun of it. SCUM of the Earth. SCUM of the Earth.

[islandmuffin]

@bapyou You are a stereotypical hate-filled left-winger, just like all the others that share your world view. Hopefully, Americans will come to know Obama shares your anti-American world view and vote the racial-Marxist moral-relativist out of office. The more we hear left-wingers speak their irrational immoral thoughts, the more Americans will reject your dogma. Please keep stating liberal views.

When leftwing dogma is confronted, liberals nearly ALWAYS resort to threats of violence ...

[bapyou]

@islandmuffin "You are a stereotypical hate-filled left-winger"

And you, you worthless pile of horseshit, are typical hypocrite right-wing scum.

You are a Christian ... yet you are pro-war. In other words: A HYPOCRITE.

And nice of you to express admiratrion for Martin Luther King. Most right-wingers don't have a motherfucking clue that Martin Luther King called the United States the "greatest threat to peace on Earth that's ever existed in history."

Again: SCUM is what you are.

[islandmuffin]

@bapyou “Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization, they hate Christianity, they hate white males, they hate rationality. The reasons that leftists give for hating the West, etc. clearly do not correspond with their real motives. They SAY they hate the West because it is warlike, imperialistic, sexist, ethnocentric and so forth,…

[islandmuffin]

@bapyou … but where these same faults appear in socialist countries or in primitive cultures, the leftist finds excuses for them, or at best he GRUDGINGLY admits that they exist; whereas he ENTHUSIASTICALLY points out (and often greatly exaggerates) these faults where they appear in Western civilization. Thus it is clear that these faults are not the leftist's real motive for hating America and the West. He hates America and the West because they are strong and successful.”

[islandmuffin]

@bapyou "Leftism is totalitarian force. Wherever leftism is in a position of power it tends to invade every private corner and force every thought into a leftist mold. In part this is because of the quasi-religious character of leftism; everything contrary to leftists beliefs represents Sin. More impor tantly, leftism is a totalitarian force because of the leftists' drive for power...."

[bapyou]

@islandmuffin

Hey kiddie! Now you're cutting and pasting text from a bog called greensboring (dot) com! Nice going! Neat trick! Cut & paste, cut & paste.

Does this mean your mind is completely and utterly devoid of all original thought?

Apparently that is what it does mean!

Stupid fucking dope.

But then, what other kind of dopes are there except right-wing dopes?

End of story, stupid dope.

[bapyou]

@islandmuffin "“Leftists tend to hate anything that has an image of being strong, good and successful. They hate America, they hate Western civilization."

Hardly, you ass-fool. There are many good Christians (real Christians, not moron pro-war Christians who are in reality fascist) whom I admire. Daniel and Philip Berrigan for one. And the many expositors of liberation theology in the Catholic Church, who want the church to return to its original focus on the poor and the oppressed.

[islandmuffin]

Furthermore, Obama’s political strategy is to racially polarize the USA by rallying his black base who are tacitly used to demonize hundreds of millions of white Americans for opposing government’s seizure of the healthcare sector of our economy; And at the same time, Obama has been pandering for the Latino vote while opposing (actually in-your-face suing) the 70% of Americans who support the rule-of law for immigration and anything else. Obama has divided us by race.

[islandmuffin]

Additionally, Obama (Our President?!) uses the derogatory term “tea baggers” to describe those of us who support minimal government. Has an American president ever been cruder, viler and less civil to his constituents?

When the President appears to condone the NAACP’s racial name-calling, actively opposes the American people, and continues to act as our least civil participant in the national debate, how can he unite America?

[ancientwisdom2012]

see the film "Esoteric Agenda" and "Kymatica"

[haramou]

why could he not be the president???? super great thinker/mind!

[islandmuffin]

Because of the immeasurable economic and personal destruction that Obama’s record deficit spending has wrought upon the American people (for both the near and long-term), and his all out assault on the free market engine that created our nation’s prosperity that has benefited all of humanity, Obama has failed so thoroughly and completely that Hillary Clinton will get the Democratic nomination for President in 2012.

[aerobique]

@ islandmuffin

"fascism is a left wing ideology"

whaa? :D  textbook example for "indoctrination to the bones."

Whatever. The ultimate enemy is simply: FEAR and IGNORANCE (typical for

"rightwing"/ fascism btw)

And thats the concept that forms (and need) "corporations"...to raise their "power" what lowers their "fear", thats based on ... "ignorance". Some call it naive.

imo

[Strefanash]

we live iin an age of radical evil?

IF we understand evil then we know that EVERY age is one of radical evil

[islandmuffin]

Jefferson Quotes:

A wise and frugal government, which shall leave men free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - this is the sum of good government.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

[islandmuffin]

Why are Sharpton, Farrakhan, Malcolm X, Jackson, Wright, Khalid al-Mansour, Obama and other Racial Marxists vicious anti-Semites?

Racial Marxists use race and gender as proxies for the victimization class to promote economic envy, class warfare and racial hatred in order to facilitate their progressive redistribution schemes.

Because oppressed Jews do well economically and are relatively well educated, their vicious hate-filled "racial Marxist" dogma has been proven to be as false.

[plainPLAIDplain]

@islandmuffin

All oppressed people use the same rhetoric. There's a long history of Leftist, even Marxist, people of Jewish descent. Many leftist jewish intellectuals were early targets of the holocaust. Leon Trotsky was of jewish descent. It's racist to assume that everyone of jewish descent is religious and capitalist...or supporters of Israeli foreign policy as well.

[islandmuffin]

@plainPLAIDplain You believe that making Trotsky a “victim,” makes him more correct: That absolute fallacy is central to your overriding false dogma.

The problem is progressives “sanctify the victim.” To a left-winger the victim is holy. To be a victim is the highest status a liberal can have.

But when you sanction victims, you create more victims. And victims are just as likely to be incorrect as correct.

[islandmuffin]

@plainPLAIDplain Of course, I support the Jewish state, all moral always people do!

Like Nobel Peace Prize laureate, MLK, we consider ALL anti-Zionists to be Anti-Semites, without exception. But MLK and I are morally decent; however, others - like most progressives - are filled with hatred cause by left-wing class warfare and demonizing the bourgeoisie. The greedy are demonized before they are murdered.

[plainPLAIDplain]

@islandmuffin

You assume I care for Trotsky. What do you make of the dissenters in the IDF who've refused deployment to occupied Palestine? The daughter of the ex-chief of mossad recently issued a public statement decrying the treatment of Palestinians and refusing to serve. You're noble for being so patriotic about another country, however, it seems there's a bit of a heated debate going on in Israel about the unchecked use of military force.

[christvbible]

@plainPLAIDplain Yep. The wheels of commonality of existence are ever turning. We can get so carried away with patriotism to a national identity that we create something like an inner vortex of political empowerment in the minds of superegos in uniforms and in business that, like a head of a tornado spout, unleashes military power in all the wrong places.

The lessons Europeans and Americans haven't learnt from WW2 is that excessive focus on nationalism & expansion requires unchecked force.

[NaziswereJews]

@plainPLAIDplain

"Only recently our race has given the world a new prophet, but he has two faces and bears two names; on the one side his name is Rothschild, leader of all capitalists, and on the other Karl Marx, the apostle of those who want to destroy the other." (Blumenthal, Judisk Tidskrift, No. 57, Sweeden, 1929)

[nochance9876]

Americans please do something about this, you are all intelligent people with good educations, why do you keep voting for the same 2 parties?  vote green and put an end to this.

[KhagarBalugrak]

Fascist societies and individuals always pretend, even to themselves, that they are the greatest pinnacles of virtue. They manage to embrace cynicism and delusion simultaneously in a great act of double-think, believing they support justice, and yet also knowing exactly what they are doing and convincing themselves it is either right, or that there is no alternative. But behind all of this is the narcissistic imperative to gratify the self at ANY expense.

[MrTearsintherain]

To support either party isn't wrong, it is insane. To do the same thing again and again and expect a different outcome is, by definition, insane. Does anything change when the party in power changes? Time for REAL CHANGE.

[MarkoKraguljac]

8:02

Moneychangers in the temple?

[MEpianist]

I'd love to see Palin have to sit there and debate him for an hour

[bapyou]

@MEpianist Now you know Sarah Palin and her handlers travel hundreds of miles out of their way to avoid people like Christopher Hedges. They stick with the simple: simple, easily digestable concepts for the simpletons who follow her every word. A first-rate intellect such as Hedges' against a simpleton such as Palin? That would be like pitting your kid brother against George Foreman in his prime. Palin can't even come up with the title of a newspaper or magazine, let alone quote Immanuel Kant.

[nowaynohow26]

@MEpianist I'd almost feel sorry for her..

[dartek14]

Chris you are my hero. You stand alone against the brights and yet you are not getting the air time of a Hitchens. I don't believe a Pundit can stomach you. Your words here are monumental. Please get on at least a Bill Maher or Charlie Rose venue. Admittedly your polemic is shotgun scattered and lethal because of this whom will you call brother. Focus on marginalized complacency the peaceful indifference to the atrocities of the war game.

btw .. can we get a transcript of your speech?

[islandmuffin]

Obma is no different than Mugabe, Chavez, Morales and other modern leftwing ideologues actively destroying liberty, economies and peoples lives today. Obama is the most divisive presidential ideologue in US history. All Obama supporters are either racists, fellow Marxists or too stupid to understand the consequences of his economic policies! We free thinking, rational moral Americans will oppose you like we oppose evil.

[djtanner66]

i think ur way off bud, thumbs down.

[islandmuffin]

@djtanner66 If the government was a public corporation Obama and Congress would have been brought before judges and be locked up and their assets seized for gross negligence and fraud..

Bush managed to accumulate over $700 billion additional debt under his presidency, mainly under a Democratic-run Congress. President Obama and the Democrat-run Congress have managed to come close to five times that in only two years, adding close to $2 trillion additional debt each year!

[TheAwakenedOne]

But the US is very good a killing people, because we breed testosterone. It is in the culture this.thirst for blood that cannot be quenched remotely. More than half the Federal budget goes to this end. We aspire to it from birth with our gladiatorial pursuits that culminates annually with a celebration of the biggest TV event to that grid which we epitomize. A good ole fashioned stoning is in order so that everyone can have a hand in it from now on and then remorse as Paul did over Stephen.

[islandmuffin]

@TheAwakenedOne Soccer is much more Tribal and Effeminate

[SweetSweetWaldo]

I say to people, fascism isn't just something that happened in Europe 70 years ago. Fascism is here today in America -- and this is what it looks like. That good-looking, charismatic young gentleman of color, we won't shoot him this time, we will co-opt him. We will make him our property. Goldstein's book? I wrote it! But we can only keep the proles fat and happy on corn syrup and pornography for so long. America won't go up in a mushroom cloud, it will just grind itself into pieces!

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

Thank you sir - You are great American :)

I salute you with honor.

[zoom1234567]

we arent a international nations . all this globalist crap is the problem with america , we should say the hell with any international laws.. and screw international courts to , not that war is good , but giving up your liberty and bill of rights to treaties would be wrong as well.

[ays1968]

sure fine ok, give up what you will.

but no war for oil, or for israhell.

[MrBigwong]

The country's latest plan: "Cash for Casualties"

[rruppena]

Thank God not all men are sitting in their armchairs letting this holocaust happen in Afghanistan and Pakistan. We could have won hearts and minds by building schools there for girls and would have done much more good! Shut down our network of military bases!!!

[soundmoneyfan]

his language is so gripping. he says he doesn't own a tv because he does not want to use the language that corporations feed us as a nation, he is on another level.

[soundmoneyfan]

Chris Hedges is the man. Even if you don't agree with his leftist solutions, to deny his the truth of his analysis is to deny reality. His analysis is the same as us libertarians. If the country could agree with what the hell is wrong with us we could have a real debate about solutions. Too bad most people think in the terms of Obama vs. Glenn Beck and miss the reality of the fall of our empire. As he has said, we are not mentally ready as a country for the collapse that is coming.

[dvmx]

Chris Hedges= Urgent Conscience

[jperryam]

Chris Hedges tells it like it is. The "good Germans" enabled the Holocaust with their selfish preoccupation and failure to take a stand, and it's all happening again right before our eyes. Mussolini, who introduced fascism, called it a marriage of state and corporate power - exactly what we're experiencing now. And a new Holocaust is well underway in the Middle East, perpetrated with our weapons and tax dollars, while millions turn their heads. This country better wake the hell up. And fast.

[islandmuffin]

Why are all Racial Marxists vicious Anti-Semites?

If oppressed Jews (the most oppressed people in world history) don’t need affirmative action, then their entire racial Marxist ideology is as incorrect as their false Marxist Messiah, Obama.

[jperryam]

Nothing is more vicious than the Israeli government using Judaism as cover for their crimes by screaming "Anti-Semite" at those who seek to shed light on their heinous, decades-long mission of murder and ethnic cleansing in Palestine. And as we’re now witnessing, they have no problem murdering those who only want to help the Palestinians they're oppressing. Also – a quick scroll through my videos will prove Obama is certainly NOT my “messiah.” Try focusing on the truth instead of the politics.

[vomit55]

@jperryam it is a trick, as this good lady says

Ex-Israeli Minister Shulamit Aloni: Calling People Anti Semitic is a Trick to Stifle Criticism

watch?v=jUGVPBO9_cA

[PNACATTACKdotCOM]

@jperryam Great words man :)

[esgatch]

@jperryam

John, it will take a financial collapse and martial law before Americans wake up.

They lost control of their government a long time ago. And when the stark truth of the reality of the '9/11 wars' comes to light, they will be overwhelmed and beg for their government for mercy, but they won't get any...

[hornetobiker]

@jperryam You need to wake up about this so called hollow cost for a start.

[grit123]

Hedges is the man!

Mark your calendars and spread the word.

March 20th DC!

[ghisfrederic]

These illuminaties are becoming rare especes of human being. Hopefully they are minorities by seeing number of people in this video. Traitors to american freedom, burn them all. This guy, if I see him wounded somewhere I can not call the 911, may be I would finishing the job to save health care money; else it would be waste of my time.

[Notjustanothertroll]

Wow I love reading Hedges' books. Empire of illusion and American Facists are two of the best books I have read in the last several years. I just moved to Washington DC a week ago. I walked past this rally at about 3 o'clock and sat on the bench and listened and took it all in. I'm pissed that I missed Hedges speak I didn't know about this rally I just happened to walk up on it. Chris Hedges is one of my favorite authors. So pissed to have missed him.

[oceanbound222]

America is a terrorist organization