Children died under Clinton's sanctions alone. That was twenty years ago.By now in 2012 many more dead civilians. These are facts.America kills to protect the worlds oil tradeing in the dollar and for its failing Corporate Empire. Educate yourself. Look @JOHN PERKINS on u tube or john pilger.Historical fact is not swayed by blathering ignorance and mass media crap about American heroes. The rest of the world knows Americans are War Criminals.
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"
"We will either find our way out of this mess by embracing an uncompromising democratic socialism ....... or we will continue to be fleeced and impoverished by our bankrupt elite and shackled and chained by our surveillance state." ~ Chris Hedges
I thought this guy might have had something worth hearing. He's just another white male sycophant who tells minorities what they want to hear in order to be praised as virtuous and enlightened.
attempting to be praised as virtuous and enlightened may not be such a bad thing to have as one's motivation if actual enlightenment is not available to one at the moment. Then again I don't really believe that you are judging him on the content of his thoughts just through your own bigoted views about white males and how in your view none of them would possibly be authentically virtuous or enlightened.
@Jombalonotool You are missing the point.This guy doesn't care about minorities. He just wants to be praised. Hook him up to a lie detector and ask him if he really believes in the equality of the races and he will not pass the test. As for white males I believe that whites would be much better off by ourselves. So does this guy only he wont admit it. It's more fun to suck up to minorities and get a pat on the back.Pathetic.
@vitaemecha I understand your anger. I realize that you are scared to admit your homosexuality but you must. You need to stop the hate. Stop the antisemitism. Stop the homophobia. Once you admit that you are gay you will feel so much better.Your racism can be controlled.There are professional people out there that can help you. You have no self esteem. You need to realize that your race can do things too! Just because whites have done so much is no reason to be jealous. Stop the hate!
@FluxCapacitor2008 The big money is backing all of the candidates we will ever hear about. Big money owns both parties and the media, the politicians, and the justice system
He talked about Taliban controlling everything and loss of war by usa..!!! That is strange. How can you loose the war against basicaly unarmed people of Iraq. Unbelivable of what he said. Taliban is simply CIA
Great interview. This guy was incredibly well informed and spoken.
I do agree with the top poster as well. If we want to see the permanent end of these problems then we need to get at the root core of what has been causing them for hundreds of years. Obviously if speculators were hung 300 years ago and they're back at it again, then the problem is still there. Our monetary economic system is whats causing these problems.
There is no way any of us can control what the Elite guided politicians do, so we must each as individuals behave responsibly, and not fall for any of the disharmonies or rebellions the Elite wilfully foment, but which of course they will not be 'responsible' for !
RT has become a tool of the Russo-American Elite !
Nature demands balance, this system will eat itself and do away with an unlawfull violation of the laws physics, this cannot nor will it ever suceed in enslaving the human race for the benefit of a few.
Every civilization that has embraced slavery as a method of economic function has commited itself to self destruction.
This guy still thinks the corrupt political process is the answer. The only hope is the coming hyperinflation. In effect, the loss of confidence in government paper will deplete central power substantially. How does government then compensate "the help" or the muscle...the enforcers of its policies as paper money depreciates to nothing? With gold? Food? Fuel? There's much less tangible wealth relative to the money counterfeiting which it creates today to wield its seemingly limitless power.
@pouyan12 your inability or reluctance to see the overlapping goals is making it very easy for the corporate goons to single you out and focus discredit campaigns.
The same thing goes for michael moore, Zeithgeist, Venus,OWS and all others...an inability or reluctance to cooperate diminishes your combined strength...all the while
corporations form super-pacts with religion, military and jewish lobby groups to exert incredible political influence.You need to do the same!
Science and technology has made a WORLD of plenty in harmony a reality, however the dominant minority interest has created the MARKET MECHANISM OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY and THE WAGE SLAVERY of the working men and women for the abstract process of capital accumulation and concentration. If you can not comprehend these few words then your life journey is utter waste . A democratic majority political movement to transcend the dehumanising power structrues of the ruling elite.
It doesn't matter if he's connected to a corp...if we live in America we're all connected to a corporation; until the system changes that's the only way to survive; until we change the system by not 'buying' (pun intended) into the system. Black Friday was a perfect example of unconscious consumerism...I'm sure the corporations are laughing all the way their 'their' banks.
What corporation published his book? Does he own a corporation? Does he own stock in a corporation in any form? Then, can we really trust what he says?
We live in Facism right now. Corporate Oligarchy!! We all need to join to vore Ron Paul the only true man to fix are country!!!! Kill NAFTA, The FED!!!
@matute11 You're not listening...Ron Paul can't get us out of this...our Presidents are pawns. We need to use our buying power (by not buying...or very selective buying) to change this system. Everything we buy supports this system. Become more conscious about what you buy...do your homework, buy American and support those small companies that support jobs here at home.
Ron Paul WILL change many things. He CAN bring the American troops home and end the craziness going on in the world right now. He said he will bring the Americans home from so many countries and military bases all over the world. Those money will be used for us here, in the USA. This is only one thing among many, many others he is committed to do.
Just a heads up, this is Russia TV news. ALL NEWS HAS A BIAS. Hedges knows what he is talking about, but our vote still counts, and we need to retake our democratic institutions.
And to address the title: there IS a way to vote against the banks in America. There are two Republican presidential candidates (coincidentally, both are libertarian) and several third party options to vote for. People just have to vote for them, but won't out of fear, ignorance or because they are masochists.
I want a government of the people for the people by the people...not the strangulation grip that is on us! this came about from greed--greedy humans with already too much..JOBS=manufacturing as clean as possible..good pays....listen to what he is saying...tea party..do you know what that was originally?? heavy taxation on the common people..
Guy can't even distinguish between corporatism/fascism and free markets. Radical and deluded anti-capitalists like this guy will be the useful idiots, who fall for the plans of corporatists to "save" America. It will be the New Deal all over again. These are the same people who called Charles Lindbergh an anti-semitic nazi, instead of a non-interventionist.
@socamaestro Meaningless drivel? That would be exactly what I call Chris Hedges accusing the free market of being responsible for all the current turmoil, calling free markets a "con game". We haven't had anything close to a free market in our lifetimes, let alone the past few decades. Hedges and many of his supporters don't know the difference between corporatism and capitalism. People like him are trying to turn the Occupy movements into a socialist movement.
Remove all those "-isms" and the "ad hominems" and what do we have? THE FEW EXPLOITING THE MANY... as old as the hills.
The difference now is that the masses are much more aware of the disparity, much more informed, and much less susceptible to brqainwashing, disinformation and conditioning
@socamaestro There wasn't a single ad hominem in that last comment. If you want me to remove the "-isms", kindly ask Chris Hedges to do the same. He obviously started it by blaming an -ism, which ironically isn't even the real cause of the depression/impending bankruptcy. The rest of your comment doesn't address anything I've said. I also seem to sense you don't mind Chris Hedges and others trying to turn this into a socialist (mind the -ism!) movement.
Strip the comments of all the LABELS, and the issue/concern under discussion is clear; HAVES vs HAVE-NOTS
You're implying that a "socialist movement" is a BAD THING. I beg to differ.
If socialism means equality, brotherhood, human respect, fairness in sharing of the planet's resources, and the whole benefitting all the parts, then I support it
So would any rartional person freed from brainwashing, disinformation, media manipulation and societal conditioning.
@socamaestro I'm complaining that this guy is trying to turn it into strictly a socialist movement. I don't see why I am not allowed to speak my mind about this, without being labeled as an irrational, brainwashed disinformant. I have long abandoned watching and reading old media, so nothing is less true. There are plenty of free market advocates in the Occupy movements, as there are social libertarians, anarchists, anarcho-capitalists.
@socamaestro You, this man, and other socialists are trying to speak for the 99%, when you obviously aren't the 99%. And no, if you've been following the depression since 2008, you can hardly say that it's about "haves versus have-nots". SOME rich people have, together with government, abused the system that they have long ago put into place. This favoritism is called corporatism, and is a part of a fascist economy. Lots of rich people have suffered the consequences, and will suffer them.
I reject the "socialist" label It does not define me. My statement was that "IF socialism means equality, brotherhood, human respect, fairness in sharing of the planet's resources, and the whole benefitting all the parts, then I SUPPORT it". You don't know me, so you can't speak fo me or infer that I'm trying to speak for anyone, whether they be in the arbitrary 1% 10% or 99% categories. The bottom line: the have-nots everywhere are tired of playing a subservient (chattel) role.
@socamaestro I'm calling you a socialist, because you make this into a class war by repeating that it's about 'haves versus have-nots'.
It's not. If you can't admit that loads of rich people are not part of this fascist scheme between big business and government, and have made their fortunes through hard work, and are suffering the same inflation and high taxes we are, then you are, in essence, a socialist. It's not an insult, it's a rejection of you and Chris Hedges blaming the free market.
@socamaestro Well, finally there is something I can agree with. Greed and gluttony are two things I cannot stand. But what I've been saying the whole time is that I disagree with Hedges (and his supporters) blaming the free market for these things. We would see less greed and gluttony in a free market, as it results in the failure of the capitalist, and of the business and everyone on its payroll. The capitalist can be one person, a group of people or all the employees in the business (co-op).
With greed and gluttony comes the insane quest for power and the control of others (by force, by economics or by propaganda)
No individual can take credit for or be blamed for the natural course of events unfolding globally as we near the 2012 turning-point in mankind's history.
The masses are instinctively rising up against the rich RULING classes.
You call it a "socialist movement", I call it a global uprising, triggered by a shift in consciousness.. No "ism" need apply...
@socamaestro I definitely agree with your last two comments. I still don't agree with Hedges (and his supporters and similar public figures) blaming the free market for all of this and trying to turn this into an anti-capitalist movement. I'm not the one calling this a socialist movement: I know it's not a socialist movement. Hedges, however, seems to think it is, which is why I don't like him. That's what I've been saying all along. I just wrongly figured you were blaming the free market too.
@peyoteugly See, now you're doing it. It's not THE rich. Most rich people are not in bed with government, and thus are not corporatists who keep fucking over all people who are not corporatists. When you finally get that, you will realise that the only people waging class war are the government and those who buy the government. Everyone else is prey. Then you will also understand that the free market is not to blame for all of this. In a free market, these monopolies would not exist.
@sheepOG we probably agree more than we disagree. you're absolutely right that in a truly free market, monopolies wouldn't exist, and there would be no such thing as 'too big to fail'.
@peyoteugly Well, I'm glad to hear that. I just tend to react quite vehemently to people employing the term "the rich" (or similar generalisations), as if they are one cohesive group. ;-)
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this guy is dumb ass. really putting down the tea party to make ows look good. ows are people who are doing drugs, protesting for a reason more than half of them don't even know why.
this guy is a boss. He had an interview on CBC and one of the reporters attempted to verbally disparage him and got owned and now might actually lose their job or face disciplinary action for being a douchebag.
Why is the Occupy movement so bent on tearing apart the Tea Party? Why couldn't both the Occupy and Tea Party just encourage each other, since the real culprits of economic dislocation are ultimately banksters, and then also politicians who did not keep reckless financial institutions in check. Corporations can exploit, but mostly only economically, but governments can destroy you without even noticing.
The overall theme is that the little guy is exploited by the powerful. Many of us can subscribe to that sentiment, including me. What I cannot understand is why blast the Tea Party. Their message is Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, No More Bailouts, Reduce Intrusive Gov't and Taxes. In contrast, this guy says all they care about is harming minorities and furtherance of corporative power. What? Is he delusional? I mistrust Occupy more than the Tea Party crowd.
They blast the tea party because if they had their way, we would have HUGE government, their preferred banker stooges looting the ones they hate, and welfare checks for trannies and pedophiles. These folks are only riding the wave of discontent to try to bring more of the same. They are the liberal media indoctrinate. Much to "intellectual" to learn. Their own worst enemy. I support the surface message. The masked intent is despicable.
This guy doesn't mention the Federal Reserve ONCE. You want to hold Wall Street accountable? You want to prevent the US from financing illegal and unsustainable wars? You want to quit propping up the super rich and stop stealing from the poor and the middle class?
I liked to one comment that he made about not knowing where this protest movement will go. I live in Ottawa, Canada and there is an occupy Ottawa protest that has just been set up that clearly has leaders who are under cover police officers. Very shortly after it began the self appointed leaders started to collect information on a form about the protestors. It was to be used just incase they were arrested. Thankfull there was an outcry and those people said they will distroy the forms.
@bdubatdi you are so right. He did a speech called "Calling all Rebels", I saw it on Link Tv. It was a very stirring speech, if you have not seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I believe the speech was done in 2009 or 10, he called for open revolt. I can only imagine how good he must be feeling now. I saw him getting arrested in New York a couple few weeks ago, he talks the talk, and he WALKS THE WALK!!
@Koof11 agreed, though there are certain elements within the tea party that represent the things he said. Just as there are certain anarchist types in the Occupy movements
Hedges, like the Thomas More character in A Man For All Seasons, is one upon who the light of truth shines. Being a mere male, I have to add: that Alyona is something to see and watch, and her intelligence just adds to the inspiration.
The real movement (The one that will serve the people) is to move towards a FREE society. STOP spending their money. Stop paying. World wide strike until NOTHING is done. NO money changes hands.
Join The Free World Charter .org
Stab that beast right in it's stole wallet with the dagger of FREE!
1 thousand likes and 23 dislikes?? How can anyone with a brain not like this?? Wait. that's it: 23 people without brains had enough of one to push a button (click a mouse)...ok...
@Realitycleans "How can anyone with a brain not like this??" Well, if you have to ask you are blinded by your leftist religion. The fascists, racists, bigots and homophobes, gun toting culture of violence he refers to are people with morals who want to keep their families safe from people like him and the spike in violent crime caused by the lefts favorite pets, "undocumented workers" another candy coated phrase for "ILLEGAL ALIEN" . Maybe you PC hypocrites haven't noticed yet. WE need jobs
You're upset that illegal immigrants are 'taking your job's?
The culture your defending with it's unlivable minimum wage is the reason why some one form another country could come in and 'take' your job.
Why would an employer chose to pay more money to a citizen when I can get the same or better work for less elsewhere? If you don't like it then lobby your government to increase the mandatory minimum wage, so there's no benefit to hiring undocumented workers over citizens.
Well, as is typical of these protesters, you only got it half right. In no way do I support this current system, right or left. But the protesters, with their system provided "education" assume that the marxist indoctrination foisted upon them by the same system they protest holds the answer. The religious zealousness with which they cling to that same supposition will eventually ensure we get more Bush/Obama style government. They wont admit their president is exactly like Bush
that's not true, you've obviously not been to a protest. I've been to the one in Seattle twice, and let me tell you, there is no shortage of people who don't think that Obama is doing a good job. And also, you're using a straw man fallacy of logic because essentially nobody there is a Marxist.
Don't make assumptions when you haven't actually been informed.
Well when libtard Hedges calls our second amendment rights "a gun toting culture of violence" and proclaims his sympathy for ILLEGAL immigrants and homosexuals as if these things are great achievements for society, then he outs himself as an anti-American communist and his priorities are malignant. What this fool fails to realize is that if Americans were not armed, the powers that be would have the protesters shot. Cameras or not. But he can't stay on topic about the banks
what are you even talking about? None of what you're saying makes sense, but if I do understand it:
1)none of the protesters are armed
2)near where I live, there are apple orchards paying 120-150 dollars a day. NOBODY is taking the job, illegal immigrants or not. Illegal immigrants are taking nobody's job, they're just taking A job that nobody wants to do anyway.
@NeebsLucas11 Wrong again, liberal. Show me the add for a job that pays 120-150 a day and I will get 500 unemployed Americans who would gladly fill the position. And how would you know if the protesters are armed or not? You Don't. Moreover, I said "if Americans were not armed" AMERICANS. Do you think our citizens would sit idly by while the govt stooges shoot unarmed citizens? If you do, then you are mistaken. Again
This is clearly important to you, enough that you should have a deep explanation as to why. So instead of insulting my intelligence just explain your thought process to me about how it's anti-American. To make this clear: I don't think you have much of a thought process behind your comments. I think you can identify things you like and don't like because of what's been implanted in you, but you don't know why. Prove me wrong.
@josemartinez090 he clearly marked the point that there are no candidates worth voting for as the result of electing someone new brings no change in what is being done.
"government is the central committee of the ruling class" guess who said that? In any case it is true. Obama and Biden, Kantor and Boehner, reid and mcconnel. they are just clowns and figureheads who do what they are told by Rockefellors, Duponts, Kochs and Buffets, that's why wall street was bailed out yet not ordinary people. They really don't care about you any more than the money you represent to them
@zoxovox agreed. I just read Hitchens essay: America the Banana Republic from Vanity Fair which will have to serve as a surrogate to his voice on this topic while he, hopefully, recovers. for those interested, google it and check it out. it is worthy of your time.
Wow . . . I'm def. going to head to Barnes & Noble this weekend and pick up this dude's book - he's bloody brilliant and really knows his shit. I loved how he articulately noted the difference between the protests happening today on OWS and those from an earlier era.
this guy is missing 1 major point. The Government serves the needs of the 1%. Obama gave the CEO of GE a government post. (The same GE that donated millions to Obamas campaign, the same GE that received waivers from Obamas new factory clean air regulations, the same GE that built the coolant systems that failed in the Japanese nuclear reactors, the same coolant system that was deemed unsafe by the atomic energy commission and removed from all US reactors)
@Laceandbutton Youtube isn't letting me post links, but I will email the links to you if you leave me your email. otherwise look up Obamas relationship with GE CEO Jeff Immelt yourself.( Immelt sits as chair of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council)) easy to verify. Look up GE Mark 1 Nuclear reactor (it was the reactor itself not the coolant system as I put in my original comment) to find verification of that claim.
@Laceandbutton as far as the waiver claim that comes from a SF Examiner article titled Obama issues global warming rules in January, gives GE an exemption in February
By: Timothy P. Carney | 02/02/11. Open Secrets has GE's 2008 donations to Obama's presidential campaign clocking in at $499,130 putting the company in Obama's top 20 donators. Other big donors include Goldman Sachs ($994,795), Citigroup ($701,290), and UBS AG ($543,219).
At this point, Chris Hedges is giving Noam Chomsky a run for his money on who really has the last 50 years in his head. I especially love the analysis of the difference between the 60's and now. This time, labor is on our side. We need many more intellectuals like this. Good on you, Chris Hedges. Also, Alyona is really nice to look at. Thanks RT!
I was a tea partier (before they got co-opted like she said) , now I am an Occupier (but I am seeing them getting co-opted by the left). I think the root frustrations behind both movements are the same. The Government and the big conglomerates are owned by the top tier elitists and they are the 1%.
@OGstonerD you seemed to have missed the point. I will try to explain myself better. My ideology has remained constant. The government is no longer representing the people but instead represents the mega conglomerates that finance the politicians campaigns. If someone made that statement 2 years ago they would be considered a member of the tea party. If that same person made that same claim today, they would be considered a member of the Occupy protesters.
If you read your history, you will come to realize that the government has always been the representative and protector of the wealthy. It took much struggle, violence and death to get the rights that most of us now enjoy.
Revolution is coming. The times of warmongering and corporate/government corruption is coming to an end. Weather it is through peaceful protest of today, or violent resistance of tomorrow... Revolution is coming.
I think most of the 99% is externalizing the issues when they need to be internalizing the issues.
When push comes to shove, if the 99% of the world united in respectful tolerance of one another, stopped buying into pop culture, pop media, pop fashion, grew their own food, rebuilt community and partially returned to natures cycles you wouldn't need a bank, or a government the same way humans originally didn't need it.
It is, what it was, what it will be. The people are simply not clever enough to shut down the corruption and treason by dishonest (special interest owned) politicians, the banksters, the billionaire owned news media and the Wall Street Gangsters. They are too busy watching Hollywood filth, commercial advertising (lies/deception) and all the other diversions that enrich the money grubbers. Hit the bums in their money bags. Stop using cable and satellite television and don't buy Chinese products.
The problems are not the politicians. GE, Goldman Sachs & Wallmart fund the politicians with wives that suit them. The politicians never have to change their wives for money for the system to end up where it is today, because only politicians with the "right" wives have the money needed to pay for the airtime and son on, and the big corporations like CNN, MSNBC and FOX support candidates that support them. It's rely very simple and obvious if you think outside the box.
Yeah we're not communists who have nationalized the banks... excpet OBama tried... yet, he's an absymal failure at everything he does... so he failed.
Please keep the propaganda coming RT. State-funded Government owned media is the best.
Once again all I have to say to our friends over the water, is keep up the pressure, Government should be about all people, not just the elite. Democracy belongs to the people, not to Banks, Stock Markets or conglomerates!
This is not about the rights and wrongs of politics on whatever side of the fence you happen to be, this is about fighting and preserving a basic right to work, earn and not be stolen from by the greedy and the corrupt!
The politicians betrayed democracy, they seem to forget that once elected they have a WHOLE country to run and that goes for this side of the water too. Instead they almost played solely to the Elite, in doing so, they have failed their whole country.
These are bad times, sadly our politicians through their own naivety or utter stupidity are making matters much worse for ordinary people. You cannot throw public money at this problem, it will bankrupt us all!
I have a couple of questions. Is the 1% the teaparty, koch, and all those bankers and backwoods southerners??? If so, it kind of resignates. Im from SC by the way where there's no jobs. Not that i dont have one.
@Mr7digit i would say the tea party (and most backwood southerners) are full of confused 99%ers who either wish they were the 1% or hope to be the 1% or can't do the math to even understand what 1% is. put it this way MOST AMERICANS are 99%...
Spiny Norman was also a hedgehog.
Tsnore 1 day ago
This pompous ass has no clue about the original Ron Paul tea party movement. He talks out of both sides of his mouth.
pretorious700 3 days ago
500.000
Children died under Clinton's sanctions alone. That was twenty years ago.By now in 2012 many more dead civilians. These are facts.America kills to protect the worlds oil tradeing in the dollar and for its failing Corporate Empire. Educate yourself. Look @JOHN PERKINS on u tube or john pilger.Historical fact is not swayed by blathering ignorance and mass media crap about American heroes. The rest of the world knows Americans are War Criminals.
conantdog 1 week ago
Vote. HEDGES!
conantdog 1 week ago
Love Chris Hedges! One of the few people with a little courage, integrity, clarity, cool creaminess etc...
hamnose 4 weeks ago
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Dissidentsdissent 1 month ago
How about a pony based economy?
deathbyzza420 1 month ago
who was crispus attucks?
Steadno 1 month ago
9:57 ,1.2 millions Iraqis were killed in the Iraq?! How is that not genocide?
1Pantikian 1 month ago
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"We will either find our way out of this mess by embracing an uncompromising democratic socialism ....... or we will continue to be fleeced and impoverished by our bankrupt elite and shackled and chained by our surveillance state." ~ Chris Hedges
Dec 29, 2008
From "Why I Am a Socialist"
By Chris Hedges
BustyerUniongoon 1 month ago
I thought this guy might have had something worth hearing. He's just another white male sycophant who tells minorities what they want to hear in order to be praised as virtuous and enlightened.
draghollow 1 month ago
@draghollow
attempting to be praised as virtuous and enlightened may not be such a bad thing to have as one's motivation if actual enlightenment is not available to one at the moment. Then again I don't really believe that you are judging him on the content of his thoughts just through your own bigoted views about white males and how in your view none of them would possibly be authentically virtuous or enlightened.
Jombalonotool 1 month ago
@Jombalonotool You are missing the point.This guy doesn't care about minorities. He just wants to be praised. Hook him up to a lie detector and ask him if he really believes in the equality of the races and he will not pass the test. As for white males I believe that whites would be much better off by ourselves. So does this guy only he wont admit it. It's more fun to suck up to minorities and get a pat on the back.Pathetic.
draghollow 1 month ago
@draghollow racist prick
vitaemecha 1 month ago
@vitaemecha I understand your anger. I realize that you are scared to admit your homosexuality but you must. You need to stop the hate. Stop the antisemitism. Stop the homophobia. Once you admit that you are gay you will feel so much better.Your racism can be controlled.There are professional people out there that can help you. You have no self esteem. You need to realize that your race can do things too! Just because whites have done so much is no reason to be jealous. Stop the hate!
draghollow 1 month ago
Occupy the Vote
It's simple vote against the money.
Step 1: Whoever big money is backing (Banks, wall street investors multinational corporation and so on) Vote for the other guy.
Turn the system on its head, the one with the most money loses!!!
Just think how this will send chills down the lobbyist backs.
Cutting out the greed is the only way the Middle class can grow.
FluxCapacitor2008 2 months ago
@FluxCapacitor2008 The big money is backing all of the candidates we will ever hear about. Big money owns both parties and the media, the politicians, and the justice system
Uncle99B 2 months ago 4
He talked about Taliban controlling everything and loss of war by usa..!!! That is strange. How can you loose the war against basicaly unarmed people of Iraq. Unbelivable of what he said. Taliban is simply CIA
Lapiova 2 months ago
Alas, jasonb527 is probably right...
Schweik2 2 months ago
@Schweik2 Whuuuu?
HoGraz 2 months ago
99% of the people don't understand 50% of what he said.
jasonb527 2 months ago 3
Great interview. This guy was incredibly well informed and spoken.
I do agree with the top poster as well. If we want to see the permanent end of these problems then we need to get at the root core of what has been causing them for hundreds of years. Obviously if speculators were hung 300 years ago and they're back at it again, then the problem is still there. Our monetary economic system is whats causing these problems.
Its time to move on to a Resource Based Economy.
IHighLikePlane 2 months ago 9
sexy, sexy newsreporter! it's all part of their games!!!!
MegaEliades 2 months ago
There is no way any of us can control what the Elite guided politicians do, so we must each as individuals behave responsibly, and not fall for any of the disharmonies or rebellions the Elite wilfully foment, but which of course they will not be 'responsible' for !
RT has become a tool of the Russo-American Elite !
z1zaz 2 months ago
Nature demands balance, this system will eat itself and do away with an unlawfull violation of the laws physics, this cannot nor will it ever suceed in enslaving the human race for the benefit of a few.
Every civilization that has embraced slavery as a method of economic function has commited itself to self destruction.
Gantzer1 2 months ago 2
This guy still thinks the corrupt political process is the answer. The only hope is the coming hyperinflation. In effect, the loss of confidence in government paper will deplete central power substantially. How does government then compensate "the help" or the muscle...the enforcers of its policies as paper money depreciates to nothing? With gold? Food? Fuel? There's much less tangible wealth relative to the money counterfeiting which it creates today to wield its seemingly limitless power.
freaklemon 2 months ago
dEFINITELY NEED A RESOURCE BASED ECONOMY.
Somuchclass 2 months ago
like many others, he states a lot of problems, but doesn't even mention the root of all of the problems: the monetary system.
he fails to mention the only viable solution: a resource based economy.
watch zeitgeist addendum and look into the venus project.
pouyan12 2 months ago
@pouyan12 your inability or reluctance to see the overlapping goals is making it very easy for the corporate goons to single you out and focus discredit campaigns.
The same thing goes for michael moore, Zeithgeist, Venus,OWS and all others...an inability or reluctance to cooperate diminishes your combined strength...all the while
corporations form super-pacts with religion, military and jewish lobby groups to exert incredible political influence.You need to do the same!
syntaxed2 1 week ago
The system isn't broken, the situation is exactly the result of this very system
MrrGrave 2 months ago 5
We need to stop voting for people and start voting for ideas!!
Vote for a resource based economy!!
QuantumoftheOpera 2 months ago 45
@QuantumoftheOpera So true
Theicemonkeyjr 2 months ago
Science and technology has made a WORLD of plenty in harmony a reality, however the dominant minority interest has created the MARKET MECHANISM OF ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY and THE WAGE SLAVERY of the working men and women for the abstract process of capital accumulation and concentration. If you can not comprehend these few words then your life journey is utter waste . A democratic majority political movement to transcend the dehumanising power structrues of the ruling elite.
arzoyan 2 months ago 8
@QuantumoftheOpera Good point lol :P
petterthowsen92 2 months ago
@QuantumoftheOpera
Sound money is a resource based economy!
DowellForPASenate 1 month ago
It doesn't matter if he's connected to a corp...if we live in America we're all connected to a corporation; until the system changes that's the only way to survive; until we change the system by not 'buying' (pun intended) into the system. Black Friday was a perfect example of unconscious consumerism...I'm sure the corporations are laughing all the way their 'their' banks.
llnmrgn 2 months ago 2
What corporation published his book? Does he own a corporation? Does he own stock in a corporation in any form? Then, can we really trust what he says?
bwdraper 2 months ago
@bwdraper Yep, you sure can, just take a look around and you'll see that everything that he says is spot on.
Cheyemos 2 months ago
We live in Facism right now. Corporate Oligarchy!! We all need to join to vore Ron Paul the only true man to fix are country!!!! Kill NAFTA, The FED!!!
matute11 2 months ago
@matute11 You're not listening...Ron Paul can't get us out of this...our Presidents are pawns. We need to use our buying power (by not buying...or very selective buying) to change this system. Everything we buy supports this system. Become more conscious about what you buy...do your homework, buy American and support those small companies that support jobs here at home.
llnmrgn 2 months ago
@llnmrgn
Ron Paul WILL change many things. He CAN bring the American troops home and end the craziness going on in the world right now. He said he will bring the Americans home from so many countries and military bases all over the world. Those money will be used for us here, in the USA. This is only one thing among many, many others he is committed to do.
Vote Ron Paul !!!!
gigiontube 2 months ago
@gigiontube Yeah but he can't change the monetary system, resource based ecnomy.
TheMidwestsk8ter 2 months ago
Elect Ron Paul 2012 or we are doomed. He is sincere, End The Fed!!! He will hand the USA a kleenex.
matute11 2 months ago
Darn good thing he's a good enough writer to get a Pulitzer because he can't speak.
The "civil disobedience" of the Occupy punks is a laugh. I don't think anyone wants the Right to get truly fed up ....
Same old media paranoia. Assumes no tradition of professionalism and ethics. Balderdash.
Smitty150 3 months ago
More good stuff!
3877michael 3 months ago
Just a heads up, this is Russia TV news. ALL NEWS HAS A BIAS. Hedges knows what he is talking about, but our vote still counts, and we need to retake our democratic institutions.
DrStrangel0ve2 3 months ago in playlist Liked
Chris Hedges for President!
daraneal 3 months ago
CORPORATE AMERICA. CORPORATE NEWS MEDIA.OLIGARCHY
comptonproduction 3 months ago
And to address the title: there IS a way to vote against the banks in America. There are two Republican presidential candidates (coincidentally, both are libertarian) and several third party options to vote for. People just have to vote for them, but won't out of fear, ignorance or because they are masochists.
sheepOG 3 months ago 2
The question is will a Winston Churchill rise up out of this or an Adolf Hitler.
ZacharySchroeder 4 months ago
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What a load of crap
revenaught 4 months ago
i found this video easy to masturbate to
sklyrovka 4 months ago in playlist Liked
@chickadillydee greedy humans? How dare you call them human they are filthy money hungry pigs. There is a difference.
SAMMARTINO68 4 months ago
I want a government of the people for the people by the people...not the strangulation grip that is on us! this came about from greed--greedy humans with already too much..JOBS=manufacturing as clean as possible..good pays....listen to what he is saying...tea party..do you know what that was originally?? heavy taxation on the common people..
chickadillydee 4 months ago
Guy can't even distinguish between corporatism/fascism and free markets. Radical and deluded anti-capitalists like this guy will be the useful idiots, who fall for the plans of corporatists to "save" America. It will be the New Deal all over again. These are the same people who called Charles Lindbergh an anti-semitic nazi, instead of a non-interventionist.
sheepOG 4 months ago
@sheepOG
What on EARTH are you trying to say?
Your comments sound like incoherent babbling to me. Meaningless ad hominem drivel.
socamaestro 4 months ago
@socamaestro Meaningless drivel? That would be exactly what I call Chris Hedges accusing the free market of being responsible for all the current turmoil, calling free markets a "con game". We haven't had anything close to a free market in our lifetimes, let alone the past few decades. Hedges and many of his supporters don't know the difference between corporatism and capitalism. People like him are trying to turn the Occupy movements into a socialist movement.
sheepOG 3 months ago 2
@sheepOG
Remove all those "-isms" and the "ad hominems" and what do we have? THE FEW EXPLOITING THE MANY... as old as the hills.
The difference now is that the masses are much more aware of the disparity, much more informed, and much less susceptible to brqainwashing, disinformation and conditioning
The party's OVER...
socamaestro 3 months ago
@socamaestro There wasn't a single ad hominem in that last comment. If you want me to remove the "-isms", kindly ask Chris Hedges to do the same. He obviously started it by blaming an -ism, which ironically isn't even the real cause of the depression/impending bankruptcy. The rest of your comment doesn't address anything I've said. I also seem to sense you don't mind Chris Hedges and others trying to turn this into a socialist (mind the -ism!) movement.
sheepOG 3 months ago 2
@sheepOG
Strip the comments of all the LABELS, and the issue/concern under discussion is clear; HAVES vs HAVE-NOTS
You're implying that a "socialist movement" is a BAD THING. I beg to differ.
If socialism means equality, brotherhood, human respect, fairness in sharing of the planet's resources, and the whole benefitting all the parts, then I support it
So would any rartional person freed from brainwashing, disinformation, media manipulation and societal conditioning.
socamaestro 3 months ago
@socamaestro I'm complaining that this guy is trying to turn it into strictly a socialist movement. I don't see why I am not allowed to speak my mind about this, without being labeled as an irrational, brainwashed disinformant. I have long abandoned watching and reading old media, so nothing is less true. There are plenty of free market advocates in the Occupy movements, as there are social libertarians, anarchists, anarcho-capitalists.
sheepOG 3 months ago 3
@socamaestro You, this man, and other socialists are trying to speak for the 99%, when you obviously aren't the 99%. And no, if you've been following the depression since 2008, you can hardly say that it's about "haves versus have-nots". SOME rich people have, together with government, abused the system that they have long ago put into place. This favoritism is called corporatism, and is a part of a fascist economy. Lots of rich people have suffered the consequences, and will suffer them.
sheepOG 3 months ago 3
@sheepOG
I reject the "socialist" label It does not define me. My statement was that "IF socialism means equality, brotherhood, human respect, fairness in sharing of the planet's resources, and the whole benefitting all the parts, then I SUPPORT it". You don't know me, so you can't speak fo me or infer that I'm trying to speak for anyone, whether they be in the arbitrary 1% 10% or 99% categories. The bottom line: the have-nots everywhere are tired of playing a subservient (chattel) role.
socamaestro 3 months ago
@socamaestro I'm calling you a socialist, because you make this into a class war by repeating that it's about 'haves versus have-nots'.
It's not. If you can't admit that loads of rich people are not part of this fascist scheme between big business and government, and have made their fortunes through hard work, and are suffering the same inflation and high taxes we are, then you are, in essence, a socialist. It's not an insult, it's a rejection of you and Chris Hedges blaming the free market.
sheepOG 3 months ago
@sheepOG
I reject all labels applied by others,, regardless of intent. Leave that up to me to define myself.
Don't call me any names, and don't try to tell me what I'm thinking or what I'm blaming for the predicament the planet is in.
I am stating that GREED and GLUTTONY are to blame.
socamaestro 3 months ago 2
@socamaestro Well, finally there is something I can agree with. Greed and gluttony are two things I cannot stand. But what I've been saying the whole time is that I disagree with Hedges (and his supporters) blaming the free market for these things. We would see less greed and gluttony in a free market, as it results in the failure of the capitalist, and of the business and everyone on its payroll. The capitalist can be one person, a group of people or all the employees in the business (co-op).
sheepOG 3 months ago 3
@socamaestro What I'm saying is, bluntly, that government and its bailout ways amplify greed and gluttony.
sheepOG 3 months ago 17
@sheepOG
With greed and gluttony comes the insane quest for power and the control of others (by force, by economics or by propaganda)
No individual can take credit for or be blamed for the natural course of events unfolding globally as we near the 2012 turning-point in mankind's history.
The masses are instinctively rising up against the rich RULING classes.
You call it a "socialist movement", I call it a global uprising, triggered by a shift in consciousness.. No "ism" need apply...
socamaestro 3 months ago 3
@socamaestro I definitely agree with your last two comments. I still don't agree with Hedges (and his supporters and similar public figures) blaming the free market for all of this and trying to turn this into an anti-capitalist movement. I'm not the one calling this a socialist movement: I know it's not a socialist movement. Hedges, however, seems to think it is, which is why I don't like him. That's what I've been saying all along. I just wrongly figured you were blaming the free market too.
sheepOG 3 months ago 2
@sheepOG to be fair, the real 'class war' started almost a decade ago.
when the rich are fucking the poor, it's not 'class warfare'. it's 'austerity'.
apparently it's only considered 'class war' when the poor fight back.
peyoteugly 3 months ago
@peyoteugly See, now you're doing it. It's not THE rich. Most rich people are not in bed with government, and thus are not corporatists who keep fucking over all people who are not corporatists. When you finally get that, you will realise that the only people waging class war are the government and those who buy the government. Everyone else is prey. Then you will also understand that the free market is not to blame for all of this. In a free market, these monopolies would not exist.
sheepOG 3 months ago
@sheepOG we probably agree more than we disagree. you're absolutely right that in a truly free market, monopolies wouldn't exist, and there would be no such thing as 'too big to fail'.
peyoteugly 3 months ago
@peyoteugly Well, I'm glad to hear that. I just tend to react quite vehemently to people employing the term "the rich" (or similar generalisations), as if they are one cohesive group. ;-)
sheepOG 3 months ago
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Who is bank rolling your News ? ..... this video struck home in too many ways to ignore. It makes me very scared for the future.
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this guy is dumb ass. really putting down the tea party to make ows look good. ows are people who are doing drugs, protesting for a reason more than half of them don't even know why.
melissa1823 4 months ago
I vote for the Neo Feudalism where we all get to eat cake, but the person who calls for this edict, is not beheaded or taken out of office.
drmarconi 4 months ago
this guy is a boss. He had an interview on CBC and one of the reporters attempted to verbally disparage him and got owned and now might actually lose their job or face disciplinary action for being a douchebag.
N0rthernGamer 4 months ago
He lost me when he said Nader
Dudekunle 4 months ago in playlist Liked
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@Dudekunle No one gives a shit.
macarion 4 months ago
Why is the Occupy movement so bent on tearing apart the Tea Party? Why couldn't both the Occupy and Tea Party just encourage each other, since the real culprits of economic dislocation are ultimately banksters, and then also politicians who did not keep reckless financial institutions in check. Corporations can exploit, but mostly only economically, but governments can destroy you without even noticing.
Flask6 4 months ago
The overall theme is that the little guy is exploited by the powerful. Many of us can subscribe to that sentiment, including me. What I cannot understand is why blast the Tea Party. Their message is Fiscal Responsibility, Constitutionally Limited Government, No More Bailouts, Reduce Intrusive Gov't and Taxes. In contrast, this guy says all they care about is harming minorities and furtherance of corporative power. What? Is he delusional? I mistrust Occupy more than the Tea Party crowd.
Flask6 4 months ago
@Flask6
They blast the tea party because if they had their way, we would have HUGE government, their preferred banker stooges looting the ones they hate, and welfare checks for trannies and pedophiles. These folks are only riding the wave of discontent to try to bring more of the same. They are the liberal media indoctrinate. Much to "intellectual" to learn. Their own worst enemy. I support the surface message. The masked intent is despicable.
ricktoven2 4 months ago
HAHAHHAHAHA! Suck my balls John Wayne!
turokdinosaurhunter6 4 months ago
2:16 - Ass Warfare
mattmcmoots 4 months ago
Hell will fall upon the scum who are the few before we win our independence and can rebuild a new republic for the "PEOPLE"
RoonGang09 4 months ago
26 people are republicans.
Indie9999 4 months ago 2
This guy doesn't mention the Federal Reserve ONCE. You want to hold Wall Street accountable? You want to prevent the US from financing illegal and unsustainable wars? You want to quit propping up the super rich and stop stealing from the poor and the middle class?
End the Fed!
kansascitymizzou 4 months ago
I liked to one comment that he made about not knowing where this protest movement will go. I live in Ottawa, Canada and there is an occupy Ottawa protest that has just been set up that clearly has leaders who are under cover police officers. Very shortly after it began the self appointed leaders started to collect information on a form about the protestors. It was to be used just incase they were arrested. Thankfull there was an outcry and those people said they will distroy the forms.
janescharf 4 months ago
Hedges is a divine rod of justice sent from on high to drop truth on bitches
bdubatdi 4 months ago 45
@bdubatdi Amen brother
Catapult903 4 months ago
@bdubatdi hell yeah!
khepera89 4 months ago
@bdubatdi you are so right. He did a speech called "Calling all Rebels", I saw it on Link Tv. It was a very stirring speech, if you have not seen it yet, I highly recommend it. I believe the speech was done in 2009 or 10, he called for open revolt. I can only imagine how good he must be feeling now. I saw him getting arrested in New York a couple few weeks ago, he talks the talk, and he WALKS THE WALK!!
MrDANNYUNDERWOODky 3 months ago
Hedges is way off base about the tea party.
His vitriolic partisanship is blinding him.
Koof11 4 months ago
@Koof11 agreed, though there are certain elements within the tea party that represent the things he said. Just as there are certain anarchist types in the Occupy movements
kansascitymizzou 4 months ago
undocumented workers? he meant illegal workers that take US jobs? Fucking moron liberal spotted
agrielaios 4 months ago in playlist Liked
"Beyond doubt, truth has a relation to falsehood as light to darkness." ~ Leonardo da Vinci
TubingWithMyGnomies 4 months ago
Hedges, like the Thomas More character in A Man For All Seasons, is one upon who the light of truth shines. Being a mere male, I have to add: that Alyona is something to see and watch, and her intelligence just adds to the inspiration.
not2tees 4 months ago
There is NO free market ....Its a myth
damnright4 4 months ago 2
@damnright4 As long as governments exist in the world there can, by definition, be no 'free market'.
uwiwithanuzi 4 months ago
FUCK THEIR MONEY! Let them bastards keep it ALL!
The real movement (The one that will serve the people) is to move towards a FREE society. STOP spending their money. Stop paying. World wide strike until NOTHING is done. NO money changes hands.
Join The Free World Charter .org
Stab that beast right in it's stole wallet with the dagger of FREE!
a2zhandi 4 months ago
Mr. Hedges: Excellent analysis and terrific presentation!!
Realitycleans 4 months ago 2
1 thousand likes and 23 dislikes?? How can anyone with a brain not like this?? Wait. that's it: 23 people without brains had enough of one to push a button (click a mouse)...ok...
Realitycleans 4 months ago
@Realitycleans "How can anyone with a brain not like this??" Well, if you have to ask you are blinded by your leftist religion. The fascists, racists, bigots and homophobes, gun toting culture of violence he refers to are people with morals who want to keep their families safe from people like him and the spike in violent crime caused by the lefts favorite pets, "undocumented workers" another candy coated phrase for "ILLEGAL ALIEN" . Maybe you PC hypocrites haven't noticed yet. WE need jobs
ricktoven2 4 months ago
@ricktoven2
You're upset that illegal immigrants are 'taking your job's?
The culture your defending with it's unlivable minimum wage is the reason why some one form another country could come in and 'take' your job.
Why would an employer chose to pay more money to a citizen when I can get the same or better work for less elsewhere? If you don't like it then lobby your government to increase the mandatory minimum wage, so there's no benefit to hiring undocumented workers over citizens.
dreans11 4 months ago
@dreans11
Well, as is typical of these protesters, you only got it half right. In no way do I support this current system, right or left. But the protesters, with their system provided "education" assume that the marxist indoctrination foisted upon them by the same system they protest holds the answer. The religious zealousness with which they cling to that same supposition will eventually ensure we get more Bush/Obama style government. They wont admit their president is exactly like Bush
ricktoven2 4 months ago
@ricktoven2
that's not true, you've obviously not been to a protest. I've been to the one in Seattle twice, and let me tell you, there is no shortage of people who don't think that Obama is doing a good job. And also, you're using a straw man fallacy of logic because essentially nobody there is a Marxist.
Don't make assumptions when you haven't actually been informed.
NeebsLucas11 4 months ago
@NeebsLucas11
Well when libtard Hedges calls our second amendment rights "a gun toting culture of violence" and proclaims his sympathy for ILLEGAL immigrants and homosexuals as if these things are great achievements for society, then he outs himself as an anti-American communist and his priorities are malignant. What this fool fails to realize is that if Americans were not armed, the powers that be would have the protesters shot. Cameras or not. But he can't stay on topic about the banks
ricktoven2 4 months ago
@ricktoven2
what are you even talking about? None of what you're saying makes sense, but if I do understand it:
1)none of the protesters are armed
2)near where I live, there are apple orchards paying 120-150 dollars a day. NOBODY is taking the job, illegal immigrants or not. Illegal immigrants are taking nobody's job, they're just taking A job that nobody wants to do anyway.
NeebsLucas11 4 months ago
@NeebsLucas11 Wrong again, liberal. Show me the add for a job that pays 120-150 a day and I will get 500 unemployed Americans who would gladly fill the position. And how would you know if the protesters are armed or not? You Don't. Moreover, I said "if Americans were not armed" AMERICANS. Do you think our citizens would sit idly by while the govt stooges shoot unarmed citizens? If you do, then you are mistaken. Again
ricktoven2 4 months ago
100% true...and it's US against THEM....freedom against tyranny, democracy against fascism...and we MUST stand up and fight!!!
Realitycleans 4 months ago
Not to distract from the important issues being discussed here, but...damn, she's hot!
dvorak20012000 4 months ago 3
@8:32 - SPECULATORS WERE HUNG!!!
Yes indeed. Personally, I prefer the GUILLOTINE!
Time to start getting busy.
TheV4vigilante 4 months ago 3
The irony is that this clip is from fake news that promotes liberal lunacy. This man is just a well spoken anti American a-hole.
BILLBRASSKY22 4 months ago
@BILLBRASSKY22
Anti-American in what way? Back that up or shut your mouth.
rmtaks 4 months ago in playlist Liked
@rmtaks Are you too stupid to get that pal? Go pound sand punk.
BILLBRASSKY22 3 months ago
@BILLBRASSKY22
This is clearly important to you, enough that you should have a deep explanation as to why. So instead of insulting my intelligence just explain your thought process to me about how it's anti-American. To make this clear: I don't think you have much of a thought process behind your comments. I think you can identify things you like and don't like because of what's been implanted in you, but you don't know why. Prove me wrong.
rmtaks 3 months ago
BRILLIANT!
tsti72 4 months ago
Fucking ridiculous how people still think life revolves around money.
Phoenix10388 4 months ago
@Phoenix10388 If people believe it then it is so. The world does revolve around money at this time.
USAPropaganda 4 months ago
I luv how you expose corrupted A-HOLES, but can you please talk abt candidates worth voting for.
josemartinez090 4 months ago
@josemartinez090 he clearly marked the point that there are no candidates worth voting for as the result of electing someone new brings no change in what is being done.
Myerz9 4 months ago
"government is the central committee of the ruling class" guess who said that? In any case it is true. Obama and Biden, Kantor and Boehner, reid and mcconnel. they are just clowns and figureheads who do what they are told by Rockefellors, Duponts, Kochs and Buffets, that's why wall street was bailed out yet not ordinary people. They really don't care about you any more than the money you represent to them
hoagyandslim 4 months ago
4 trillion poured down a rat hole. Huge comment.
MysticPotato68 4 months ago
Hallmarks of a fascist organization.
MysticPotato68 4 months ago
My goodness I wish Hitchen's was in full health at a time like this! What a shame.
zoxovox 4 months ago 3
@zoxovox agreed. I just read Hitchens essay: America the Banana Republic from Vanity Fair which will have to serve as a surrogate to his voice on this topic while he, hopefully, recovers. for those interested, google it and check it out. it is worthy of your time.
33kalen33 4 months ago
Look up the definition of a "failed state" and decide for yourself.
nekedemus 4 months ago
Wow . . . I'm def. going to head to Barnes & Noble this weekend and pick up this dude's book - he's bloody brilliant and really knows his shit. I loved how he articulately noted the difference between the protests happening today on OWS and those from an earlier era.
JaegerandRoar 4 months ago 4
this guy is missing 1 major point. The Government serves the needs of the 1%. Obama gave the CEO of GE a government post. (The same GE that donated millions to Obamas campaign, the same GE that received waivers from Obamas new factory clean air regulations, the same GE that built the coolant systems that failed in the Japanese nuclear reactors, the same coolant system that was deemed unsafe by the atomic energy commission and removed from all US reactors)
gasslight 4 months ago
@gasslight How about sharing your sources for these claims.
Laceandbutton 4 months ago
@Laceandbutton Youtube isn't letting me post links, but I will email the links to you if you leave me your email. otherwise look up Obamas relationship with GE CEO Jeff Immelt yourself.( Immelt sits as chair of the President's Council on Jobs and Competitiveness (Jobs Council)) easy to verify. Look up GE Mark 1 Nuclear reactor (it was the reactor itself not the coolant system as I put in my original comment) to find verification of that claim.
gasslight 4 months ago
@Laceandbutton as far as the waiver claim that comes from a SF Examiner article titled Obama issues global warming rules in January, gives GE an exemption in February
By: Timothy P. Carney | 02/02/11. Open Secrets has GE's 2008 donations to Obama's presidential campaign clocking in at $499,130 putting the company in Obama's top 20 donators. Other big donors include Goldman Sachs ($994,795), Citigroup ($701,290), and UBS AG ($543,219).
gasslight 4 months ago
At this point, Chris Hedges is giving Noam Chomsky a run for his money on who really has the last 50 years in his head. I especially love the analysis of the difference between the 60's and now. This time, labor is on our side. We need many more intellectuals like this. Good on you, Chris Hedges. Also, Alyona is really nice to look at. Thanks RT!
kristeraxel 4 months ago 4
I was a tea partier (before they got co-opted like she said) , now I am an Occupier (but I am seeing them getting co-opted by the left). I think the root frustrations behind both movements are the same. The Government and the big conglomerates are owned by the top tier elitists and they are the 1%.
gasslight 4 months ago 3
@gasslight Please keep us all informed on what label you will give yourself next week.... We're on pins & needles.
OGstonerD 4 months ago
@OGstonerD you seemed to have missed the point. I will try to explain myself better. My ideology has remained constant. The government is no longer representing the people but instead represents the mega conglomerates that finance the politicians campaigns. If someone made that statement 2 years ago they would be considered a member of the tea party. If that same person made that same claim today, they would be considered a member of the Occupy protesters.
gasslight 4 months ago
Amazing interview packed full with great information :) Thx RT for giving him the right questions and the time to answer them the right way.
Mooxiepoo 4 months ago
If you read your history, you will come to realize that the government has always been the representative and protector of the wealthy. It took much struggle, violence and death to get the rights that most of us now enjoy.
Read the history of your country people!
rwillhite1956 4 months ago
Great interview. Spot on
beerandbanjo 4 months ago
This guy is insane!
roncouden 4 months ago
Fantastic. Thanks, Chris Hedges and Alyona.
SPKaa 4 months ago 9
2:15 Ass warfare
MackandAlex 4 months ago
BRILLIANT commentary.
antigen4 4 months ago
Dead wrong. He's either a liar or ignorant. I had hoped he had something smart to say.
jimmyjoe0007 4 months ago
Any one else chuckle at the Ass Warfare sign in the background?
mayhembrando 4 months ago
Revolution is coming. The times of warmongering and corporate/government corruption is coming to an end. Weather it is through peaceful protest of today, or violent resistance of tomorrow... Revolution is coming.
And you can quote me on that.
EV1LDC4Teggy 4 months ago
Chris Hedges - Genius.
Here is my $0.02 (adjust for inflation of course)
I think most of the 99% is externalizing the issues when they need to be internalizing the issues.
When push comes to shove, if the 99% of the world united in respectful tolerance of one another, stopped buying into pop culture, pop media, pop fashion, grew their own food, rebuilt community and partially returned to natures cycles you wouldn't need a bank, or a government the same way humans originally didn't need it.
enticed2zeitgeist 4 months ago 2
18 people don't like how max'd out their credit cards are.
gundamwang 4 months ago
@gundamwang Those 18 people either work for the corrupt corporations in question, the government, or the fed.
EV1LDC4Teggy 4 months ago
"we poured the 4 trillion dollars in a rat hole..."
GreggyBoi1989 4 months ago
It is, what it was, what it will be. The people are simply not clever enough to shut down the corruption and treason by dishonest (special interest owned) politicians, the banksters, the billionaire owned news media and the Wall Street Gangsters. They are too busy watching Hollywood filth, commercial advertising (lies/deception) and all the other diversions that enrich the money grubbers. Hit the bums in their money bags. Stop using cable and satellite television and don't buy Chinese products.
veniceit1 4 months ago 2
The problems are not the politicians. GE, Goldman Sachs & Wallmart fund the politicians with wives that suit them. The politicians never have to change their wives for money for the system to end up where it is today, because only politicians with the "right" wives have the money needed to pay for the airtime and son on, and the big corporations like CNN, MSNBC and FOX support candidates that support them. It's rely very simple and obvious if you think outside the box.
infiniteinfiniteinfi 4 months ago
This idiot is just another corporate schill! Why else would he conviniently ignore Ron Paul when he talked about the Tea Party.
Shonenut213 4 months ago
The "banks" are the JEW, and their willling Golem Goy. There's lots of ways to get rid of them....
ThusSpakeDenise 4 months ago
@ThusSpakeDenise nazi
stacybythe 4 months ago
@stacybythe Judenraus.
ThusSpakeDenise 4 months ago
Yeah we're not communists who have nationalized the banks... excpet OBama tried... yet, he's an absymal failure at everything he does... so he failed.
Please keep the propaganda coming RT. State-funded Government owned media is the best.
wReCktangle 4 months ago
Once again all I have to say to our friends over the water, is keep up the pressure, Government should be about all people, not just the elite. Democracy belongs to the people, not to Banks, Stock Markets or conglomerates!
This is not about the rights and wrongs of politics on whatever side of the fence you happen to be, this is about fighting and preserving a basic right to work, earn and not be stolen from by the greedy and the corrupt!
Sliepnir2006 4 months ago 2
The politicians betrayed democracy, they seem to forget that once elected they have a WHOLE country to run and that goes for this side of the water too. Instead they almost played solely to the Elite, in doing so, they have failed their whole country.
These are bad times, sadly our politicians through their own naivety or utter stupidity are making matters much worse for ordinary people. You cannot throw public money at this problem, it will bankrupt us all!
The Markets must be stopped!
Sliepnir2006 4 months ago
Good news!!!! OWS has promised no more money in Govt. We will free ourselves from taxes! They are promising this!
dude4gold 4 months ago
not only an intelligent and attractive presenter, but an intelligent guest. lucid, erudite and knowledgeable. and it was on russia today. go figure
cheomire 4 months ago
Chris Hedges for President!
DjDedan 4 months ago 2
I have a couple of questions. Is the 1% the teaparty, koch, and all those bankers and backwoods southerners??? If so, it kind of resignates. Im from SC by the way where there's no jobs. Not that i dont have one.
Mr7digit 4 months ago
@Mr7digit i would say the tea party (and most backwood southerners) are full of confused 99%ers who either wish they were the 1% or hope to be the 1% or can't do the math to even understand what 1% is. put it this way MOST AMERICANS are 99%...
DjDedan 4 months ago