No one is arguing "climate change doesn't exist", in fact the climate is in constant flux. The argument is about the validity of unsubstantiated claims that manmade CO2 is the main cause. Mr. Hedges betrays a certain ignorance of this issue with such a broad statement.
Newsweek recently had on its cover, "We are all Socialists Now". The liberal class is not dead, Hedges is smart, rather educated, but unaware of the current reality.
@pretorious700 Hedges has been an unofficial leader of the Occupy Movement, so he knows there is a global movement for the 99%, and yes it's still alive. Even Laurence O'Donnell showed the Newsweek cover on his show, the Last Word. I listen very carefully.
Lets elect Chris Hedges president, we need an alternative to Barack Obama and the republican nominee. Americans elect is putting the winner of the ballot in every state, please educate yourself about this movement on Americans Elect's website. But also, join the facebook group I just started so we can pool our energies and come up with a plan to get him elected! Facebook search "Chris Hedges for President Americans Elect"
This guy just destroyed America in 14 minutes 40 seconds. You can imagine some pompous backward christian American waving his flag supporting and saluting the troops drop his flag, invert his dick, piss himself crying. Lmaooo
Unite .together with Our Friends here and everywhere.. We r showering Divine Love and Blessings from our ~♥~-s 2 all beautiful Islands of Japan and Our Beloved Earth and Humanity ♥ safely shifting 2 The Golden Crystal Age~Happiness 2 All~Oneness Love and Light Infinite~ Thank U Beloved Mighty I Am Presence-s ♥ Heaven and Earth United Us~as We R accepting this divine ~Gifts~ of I AM~Oneness Love Light Supreme Infinite~The Light of God that Never Fails~in all its forms~We R Forever Flowering.
Go Chris! get them all! he's probably the best president / counselor the US or ANY government will never have. Truth hurts too much and he's too smart to join.
i just fear some tea party recycling...or not ...methane in Siberia anyways 50-100 more years and we'll be gone or few at least
@chiefshaver goes to show you how dumbed down american voters are. it's true and i've known since 2004 that conservatives believed 7 out of 10 american voters are stupid, dumb, illerate, can be easily fooled, and believe anything they're told. they're laughing behind your backs and funny Wall Street and their allies showers the working class of america with the middle finger and you clowns suck up to them. did you all know they call social security welfare to working lowlife?
This guy is one of the most intelligent people I have ever heard. He was quoting Dostoyevsky, Freud.... making references to the Theater of the Absurd! I'm an actor and very few people within this industry even know what that is. He's is brilliant.
@Davis54pa I use to have access, but when I started to call him out for his total blackout of the protests that were going on in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan I was blocked. Alex always talks about other news outlets not reporting stories, so I called him out when he did the same thing.
What you need is a third-party not a revolution. In Canada here we are seeing a surge from our third party and it may take power. Elect Ron Paul as an Independent.
@augerrusty The situation cannot be solved politically. The big picture is huge. The whole world, not just the United States, is pushing deeper and deeper into some of the most depraved corporatism the world has ever seen. The world is overrun with a deep and deliberate evil. Corruption, waste, and incompetence are the rule while reason, intelligence, and virtue are beaten down into struggling embers. Democracy has failed, The People have failed. A revolution is all that can restore them.
If you were going to undermine a movement aiming at true reform, you would have a credible speaker such as this one, derail his own argument with just such a set of comments. Maybe we should just stay the course toward reform or revolution instead of investing in a guy who could become demigogue such as this man? Evidence that here he is in the public media, instead of where the real players are, buried deep in anonymity acting in the field.
Liked, favorited, and subscribed.... And then, in the last 30 seconds, he loses me by being pro-palestine anti-israel, and anti-gun. Just a Noam Chomsky parrot. Oh well.
@RookofIvory If you were going to undermine a movement aiming at true reform, you would have a credible speaker such as this one, derail his own argument with just such a set of comments. Maybe we should just stay the course toward reform or revolution instead of investing in a guy who could become demigogue such as this man?
@memphisindie Revolution is the only answer. Revolutions ALWAYS come from the left, and the left has been castrated by this anti-gun fascism and political correctness and all the other nanny-state solutions coming from the Women's Corporatist Party, or Democrats for short. He even said that the left had been destroyed in this very interview, and then proceeds to reveal himself as one of the destroyers of it. Bring on the revolution. We can line him up against the wall with all his fascist pals.
@Di0genesus Don't be ignorant. You are ham handedly trying to frame the Israel/Palestine issue in racial terms because you can't produce an argument that would stand on its merit. Israel works on nobel peace prizes and science while the barbarians you call Palestinians are busy mutilating their children and firing from behind the cradle. But this isn't about that, it's about some guy pretending to be a leftist while intentionally and deceitfully keeping the left castrated with anti-gun memetics.
@Di0genesus No, John. You ARE the strawman. You oppose me and make a fool of yourself with pathetic arguments. I don't need to misrepresent them to obliterate you and look good by comparison. Thanks for being such a loser. You're doing a service to society by being a walking talking strawman argument for everyone you meet.
god damn you republicans. i personally think a dog has better understanding of the world than a republican. and im not joking. i literally believe in this.
@Atet8oo7 Yes, most Republicans are either rich and screwing people over OR braindead and getting screwed themselves. Unforunately the Democrats elected are whores for the rich elite and corporations too. I voted and campaigned for BO and I haven't seen ANY of that BS "Change you can believe in." that the liar promised to deliver.
FANTASTIC!! He is telling it like it is--I wish more people would heed these truths! Nothing has to be the way it is--we can change everything. Stop being so docile, so afraid; stop believing the constructs and lies; go out and riot. SMASH the corporatist patriarchy, SMASH the parasitic illusion. Let's use the heartless corporatocrats as fertilizer when we regrow our rainforests!! They are going to kill us all anyway--they are! So get the fuck up and do something about it!
Chris has nailed it! We are slaves to a system that will fail, as people will not ultimately tolerate the crooked banks and politicians that represent the oligarchy.
The TEA party Governor has already dissolved the elected government in Benton Harbor MI. This is the beginning of the destruction of American Democracy. the Putsch is happening NOW by the proto Fascists.
Hedges is one who gets it totally - when will more people awake and really, really take a hard look at the current reality? When will they figure out who is really holding them down? It's sure not teacher's unions and immigrants.
Eventually people will turn away from being sedated by reality fluff or whatever, but will it be too late then?
Alyona I love ya....but you still don't get the full scope of what he's saying. Please Alyona keep wtching over and over until you understand fully. Then look for real examples. You'll find them easily. You may not be happy at first when you know this truth, but it will be the truth.
Just put this in my favorites. I can see why he won a pullitzer prize. RT needs to win an award for this interview. It is some of their best work. It is BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT. Great journalism. This is what television news would look like if honesty were allowed on it.
Outstanding. Bring him back every week. Make him a contributor. Imagine this conversation happening on corporate controlled media. What if truth were allowed on the news?
if this was hyper drive climate change it wud have lot more signs ,not just a yr of flat out....to say this is climate change is to say there is no god...sure climate change is real but it dont match up to anything you try to propose...fact...to dim people to a flop is not right...first earth warming now cooling and anything else you try to makeup.
It has to be in the appropriate domain. It is fast, but this is in -geological- time. No recent science consensus ever indicated earth was "cooling" - there isn't scientific controversy on this. The controversy is strictly political, i.e. taking place in the media only. The media is being used to confuse, mislead, confuse/conflate politics and science, so that people can't tell them apart. In the public's mind, everything become an information conspiracy by whichever party they didn't vote for.
Geological time is a different scale- a much larger scale than is perceived in a human lifespan. Data points are measured in decades - maybe that gives a sense of timescale. Every now & then, you will hear about a "weather event" - hurricane, flood, tornado, etc - and the media will say "could this be related to climate change?" -- and it is science-illiterate stuff like that which essentially strewn throughout media these days. Making the public think incorrectly about how to even look at it.
Finally some one is finally saying it on the level that I've been writing about for months. Some one is finally seeing the completeness of the corruption that's invaded our system. Where's there is no branch that you can run to to get justice because they have all been corrupted. Nothing is left clean. That's why only revolution can change the course of this evil. It's not going to let it go voluntarily. The spark is coming. Stay unified and keep your focus on the real cause.
No one is arguing "climate change doesn't exist", in fact the climate is in constant flux. The argument is about the validity of unsubstantiated claims that manmade CO2 is the main cause. Mr. Hedges betrays a certain ignorance of this issue with such a broad statement.
pretorious700 4 days ago
@pretorious700 agree.
luc649 3 days ago
Newsweek recently had on its cover, "We are all Socialists Now". The liberal class is not dead, Hedges is smart, rather educated, but unaware of the current reality.
Atomblaster5 1 week ago
@Atomblaster5 Lol, Newsweek? Are you kidding me? Have you been listening at all?
pretorious700 4 days ago
@pretorious700 Hedges has been an unofficial leader of the Occupy Movement, so he knows there is a global movement for the 99%, and yes it's still alive. Even Laurence O'Donnell showed the Newsweek cover on his show, the Last Word. I listen very carefully.
Atomblaster5 4 days ago
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This guy Chris Hedges is one of the few top voices we have in this country and maybe around the world.
RoonGang09 1 week ago
The american dream is called that way because you have to be asleep to believe it, there will be a serious hangover the next morning.
GuiR3X 3 weeks ago
You go Chris Hedges!!
withease9 3 weeks ago
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Lets elect Chris Hedges president, we need an alternative to Barack Obama and the republican nominee. Americans elect is putting the winner of the ballot in every state, please educate yourself about this movement on Americans Elect's website. But also, join the facebook group I just started so we can pool our energies and come up with a plan to get him elected! Facebook search "Chris Hedges for President Americans Elect"
Dissidentsdissent 1 month ago
oh come on, they hate for our freedom. we are free free and we are better than everyone.
glower125 1 month ago
This guy just destroyed America in 14 minutes 40 seconds. You can imagine some pompous backward christian American waving his flag supporting and saluting the troops drop his flag, invert his dick, piss himself crying. Lmaooo
JagjeetMann 1 month ago
WLG would be ashamed of what has become . . . nvm
geeezzzberger 3 months ago in playlist Chris Hedges
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Pretty ridiculous that you have to get real news about America through Youtube. ;)
Ayelis 4 months ago
Who is this man ? Very interesting and brilliant.
ANTIDALLARD 4 months ago
Unite .together with Our Friends here and everywhere.. We r showering Divine Love and Blessings from our ~♥~-s 2 all beautiful Islands of Japan and Our Beloved Earth and Humanity ♥ safely shifting 2 The Golden Crystal Age~Happiness 2 All~Oneness Love and Light Infinite~ Thank U Beloved Mighty I Am Presence-s ♥ Heaven and Earth United Us~as We R accepting this divine ~Gifts~ of I AM~Oneness Love Light Supreme Infinite~The Light of God that Never Fails~in all its forms~We R Forever Flowering.
OnenessNow 4 months ago
@Davis54pa he's al qaeda
GaryNull 6 months ago
@GaryNull You moron
anarchosolar 3 months ago
Celebrating the gun culture? Ok, so Hedges who are afraid of fascism doesnt want people to protect themselves?
dma777able 6 months ago
Go Chris! get them all! he's probably the best president / counselor the US or ANY government will never have. Truth hurts too much and he's too smart to join.
i just fear some tea party recycling...or not ...methane in Siberia anyways 50-100 more years and we'll be gone or few at least
cherapunji 7 months ago
Steven Hawkings is not the smartest man in the world. Chris Hedges is, we ignore him at our peril. Up the revolution!
pissedoffpeacenik 7 months ago
Considering the topic of discussion it sickens me to see a BP ad staring me in the face while I watch this.
chiefshaver 8 months ago
Cat mom hugs baby kitten = 28,739,144 views
Chris Hedges: Corporatist America = 5,469 views
WTF is wrong with this picture?
chiefshaver 8 months ago 15
@chiefshaver goes to show you how dumbed down american voters are. it's true and i've known since 2004 that conservatives believed 7 out of 10 american voters are stupid, dumb, illerate, can be easily fooled, and believe anything they're told. they're laughing behind your backs and funny Wall Street and their allies showers the working class of america with the middle finger and you clowns suck up to them. did you all know they call social security welfare to working lowlife?
cyclonegt1969 7 months ago
@chiefshaver enter Aldous Huxley's A Brave New World.
TheRealPDizzle 4 months ago
@chiefshaver They SHEEP BRAINWASHED have us outnumbered.
landlogger 2 weeks ago
This guy is one of the most intelligent people I have ever heard. He was quoting Dostoyevsky, Freud.... making references to the Theater of the Absurd! I'm an actor and very few people within this industry even know what that is. He's is brilliant.
guero272727 8 months ago 4
@Davis54pa I use to have access, but when I started to call him out for his total blackout of the protests that were going on in Wisconsin, Ohio, and Michigan I was blocked. Alex always talks about other news outlets not reporting stories, so I called him out when he did the same thing.
Masonsky123 9 months ago
Agree or not with the substance, this was a solid segment.
99sls 9 months ago
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Ron Paul is a fucking idiot. I second this and i add. Libertarians and austrian economy followers are total fucking idiots.
llothar68 10 months ago
Ron Paul is a fucking idiot.
SineFractal 10 months ago 5
What you need is a third-party not a revolution. In Canada here we are seeing a surge from our third party and it may take power. Elect Ron Paul as an Independent.
augerrusty 10 months ago
@augerrusty The situation cannot be solved politically. The big picture is huge. The whole world, not just the United States, is pushing deeper and deeper into some of the most depraved corporatism the world has ever seen. The world is overrun with a deep and deliberate evil. Corruption, waste, and incompetence are the rule while reason, intelligence, and virtue are beaten down into struggling embers. Democracy has failed, The People have failed. A revolution is all that can restore them.
RookofIvory 10 months ago 5
@augerrusty
Ron Paul is a corporate suck up, why would we elect Ron Paul, hes no different from the other parties except more consistent in his fascist leanings
GnomesAmok 9 months ago 8
If you were going to undermine a movement aiming at true reform, you would have a credible speaker such as this one, derail his own argument with just such a set of comments. Maybe we should just stay the course toward reform or revolution instead of investing in a guy who could become demigogue such as this man? Evidence that here he is in the public media, instead of where the real players are, buried deep in anonymity acting in the field.
memphisindie 10 months ago
Liked, favorited, and subscribed.... And then, in the last 30 seconds, he loses me by being pro-palestine anti-israel, and anti-gun. Just a Noam Chomsky parrot. Oh well.
RookofIvory 10 months ago
@RookofIvory If you were going to undermine a movement aiming at true reform, you would have a credible speaker such as this one, derail his own argument with just such a set of comments. Maybe we should just stay the course toward reform or revolution instead of investing in a guy who could become demigogue such as this man?
memphisindie 10 months ago
@memphisindie Revolution is the only answer. Revolutions ALWAYS come from the left, and the left has been castrated by this anti-gun fascism and political correctness and all the other nanny-state solutions coming from the Women's Corporatist Party, or Democrats for short. He even said that the left had been destroyed in this very interview, and then proceeds to reveal himself as one of the destroyers of it. Bring on the revolution. We can line him up against the wall with all his fascist pals.
RookofIvory 10 months ago
@RookofIvory
Waahhh. He likes brown people...WAHHHH!!
Di0genesus 10 months ago
@Di0genesus Don't be ignorant. You are ham handedly trying to frame the Israel/Palestine issue in racial terms because you can't produce an argument that would stand on its merit. Israel works on nobel peace prizes and science while the barbarians you call Palestinians are busy mutilating their children and firing from behind the cradle. But this isn't about that, it's about some guy pretending to be a leftist while intentionally and deceitfully keeping the left castrated with anti-gun memetics.
RookofIvory 10 months ago
@RookofIvory
STRAW MAN FTW!!
Di0genesus 10 months ago
@Di0genesus No, John. You ARE the strawman. You oppose me and make a fool of yourself with pathetic arguments. I don't need to misrepresent them to obliterate you and look good by comparison. Thanks for being such a loser. You're doing a service to society by being a walking talking strawman argument for everyone you meet.
RookofIvory 10 months ago
@RookofIvory
self important much?
Di0genesus 9 months ago
Thank goodness someone is talking about how the focus in the news and politics is that of distraction.
Claironess 10 months ago
@mrunconventional1 To be fair, RT films these shows about America in their DC office.
disbomber 10 months ago 2
One of the best interviews I have seen on RT!
TheGodlessGuitarist 10 months ago 2
this guy knows what he's talking about
burgercide 10 months ago 4
god damn you republicans. i personally think a dog has better understanding of the world than a republican. and im not joking. i literally believe in this.
Atet8oo7 10 months ago 5
@Atet8oo7 Yes, most Republicans are either rich and screwing people over OR braindead and getting screwed themselves. Unforunately the Democrats elected are whores for the rich elite and corporations too. I voted and campaigned for BO and I haven't seen ANY of that BS "Change you can believe in." that the liar promised to deliver.
jerseygrl5 10 months ago 6
subscribed! great show!
GothEmoWC 10 months ago 4
I have a Dream WHAT IF OUR LEADERS HAD INTEGRITY
ARE YOU SICK OF THIS SHIT YET?
A LITTLE REBELLION NOW AND THEN IS A GOOD THING - THOMAS JEFFERSON
2186436 10 months ago 2
FANTASTIC!! He is telling it like it is--I wish more people would heed these truths! Nothing has to be the way it is--we can change everything. Stop being so docile, so afraid; stop believing the constructs and lies; go out and riot. SMASH the corporatist patriarchy, SMASH the parasitic illusion. Let's use the heartless corporatocrats as fertilizer when we regrow our rainforests!! They are going to kill us all anyway--they are! So get the fuck up and do something about it!
quoidanslemondequoi 10 months ago 6
Pretty ridiculous that you have to get real news about America outside of America.
mrunconventional 10 months ago 79
@mrunconventional I agree, albeit very understandable
stychin 4 months ago
Chris has nailed it! We are slaves to a system that will fail, as people will not ultimately tolerate the crooked banks and politicians that represent the oligarchy.
jimidee33 10 months ago 2
Subscribe to TRUTHOUT free e-mail digests to read great articles by Chris Hedges.
jimlaregina 10 months ago
The TEA party Governor has already dissolved the elected government in Benton Harbor MI. This is the beginning of the destruction of American Democracy. the Putsch is happening NOW by the proto Fascists.
enkelin32 10 months ago
Hedges is one who gets it totally - when will more people awake and really, really take a hard look at the current reality? When will they figure out who is really holding them down? It's sure not teacher's unions and immigrants.
Eventually people will turn away from being sedated by reality fluff or whatever, but will it be too late then?
lis437 10 months ago 3
Read Democracy Incorporated, Chris mentioned it. When you finish that, read JFK and the unspeakable.
It will all be clear to you then.
VP40naha 10 months ago
Alyona I love ya....but you still don't get the full scope of what he's saying. Please Alyona keep wtching over and over until you understand fully. Then look for real examples. You'll find them easily. You may not be happy at first when you know this truth, but it will be the truth.
Masonsky123 10 months ago
Mr. Hedges, Always Brilliant.
RBLA818 10 months ago
Just put this in my favorites. I can see why he won a pullitzer prize. RT needs to win an award for this interview. It is some of their best work. It is BRILLIANT BRILLIANT BRILLIANT. Great journalism. This is what television news would look like if honesty were allowed on it.
Cashify 10 months ago
RT should have Chris Hedges on more often!
Xenda 10 months ago
There has to be more people out there who think that Chris Hedges is totally correct, that seems like our only hope now.
starkweather444 10 months ago
hedges uses such large SAT-type words, can hardly understand him. he's like speaking very advanced or sumthin...
mrzack888 10 months ago
The only thing sadder than the truth he speaks is that some people have the delusion the right wing is actually going to help them.
NotJoe101 10 months ago
ROFL "self identified liberals like Obama" HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
DrQuijano 10 months ago
Outstanding. Bring him back every week. Make him a contributor. Imagine this conversation happening on corporate controlled media. What if truth were allowed on the news?
Cashify 10 months ago 6
great interview, hedges is brilliant in his assessments. we need a spark, we need a catalyst, we need the truth to prevail.
tomitstube 10 months ago 2
Such a good interview . . . had to watch it twice!
PropheciesofWar 10 months ago
@PropheciesofWar Me too!
starkweather444 10 months ago
I've been officially blocked by the Alex Jones Channel.
Masonsky123 10 months ago 47
@Masonsky123 LOL cause you were exposing the Kochtopus skeleton in his closet
MadXMax187 10 months ago
@Masonsky123 LOL In that case, I gotta friend you! He blocked my old account, hadn`t been over there with this one tho.
NotJoe101 10 months ago
@Masonsky123 me 2.
mrzack888 10 months ago
@Masonsky123 Same here.
bulldogger 10 months ago
@Masonsky123 hahaha why?
adam16webb 10 months ago
@adam16webb Why what? I can't realy answer that.
Masonsky123 10 months ago
@Masonsky123 xD
RattleheadAnthony 9 months ago
@Masonsky123
Why out of curiousity
3soccerstars 5 months ago
@Masonsky123 Yes !!! I had the same thing happen to me with the laughably transparent Stefan Molyneux !! So many shills so little time !
mlmr11 4 months ago
@Masonsky123
Good job champ
Redfingers 2 months ago
@Masonsky123 You are better off . Don,t waste your intellect on a kneejerk reactionary like Alex Jones.
KearaJay 2 months ago
@Masonsky123 - Just open another account.
PepLacy 1 month ago
if this was hyper drive climate change it wud have lot more signs ,not just a yr of flat out....to say this is climate change is to say there is no god...sure climate change is real but it dont match up to anything you try to propose...fact...to dim people to a flop is not right...first earth warming now cooling and anything else you try to makeup.
SweeterThanKisses 10 months ago
It has to be in the appropriate domain. It is fast, but this is in -geological- time. No recent science consensus ever indicated earth was "cooling" - there isn't scientific controversy on this. The controversy is strictly political, i.e. taking place in the media only. The media is being used to confuse, mislead, confuse/conflate politics and science, so that people can't tell them apart. In the public's mind, everything become an information conspiracy by whichever party they didn't vote for.
abyssquick 10 months ago
Geological time is a different scale- a much larger scale than is perceived in a human lifespan. Data points are measured in decades - maybe that gives a sense of timescale. Every now & then, you will hear about a "weather event" - hurricane, flood, tornado, etc - and the media will say "could this be related to climate change?" -- and it is science-illiterate stuff like that which essentially strewn throughout media these days. Making the public think incorrectly about how to even look at it.
abyssquick 10 months ago
The ones to blame: Wall streeters, Banksters, Corporations, and corrupted politicians.
Masonsky123 10 months ago
Chris Hedges is the best liberal writer out there period, he totally gets it.
starkweather444 10 months ago
Finally some one is finally saying it on the level that I've been writing about for months. Some one is finally seeing the completeness of the corruption that's invaded our system. Where's there is no branch that you can run to to get justice because they have all been corrupted. Nothing is left clean. That's why only revolution can change the course of this evil. It's not going to let it go voluntarily. The spark is coming. Stay unified and keep your focus on the real cause.
Masonsky123 10 months ago 3
Great show !!! More Hedges !!!
rickbar123 10 months ago
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marcomariaz26 10 months ago
Money is growing in wall street and hidden banks.
TheSailingFish 10 months ago