So wait, how does this make him a rebel? The Government, Corporations, Media, and general normie consensus all fight and hate fascists, lol. He has the backing of the entire system, this doesn't make him a rebel. He hits all of the same old tired liberal talking points, unfortunately for Chris, he is outdated and people no longer care about his rhetoric. It is no different from the Democrats of the 90's. This is just an old boomer virtue signaling about his "activism" days, wow such wow. Nothing more than an empty puff piece, to fan the balls of a cuckold journalist who effectively toed the neoliberal line long enough to get somewhat noticed.. "If everybody in power doesn't dislike you, then you are probably not doing your job", then why Chris does seemingly everyone in power love and support you? By his own logic we are left to conclude, that Chris is neither a rebel nor a "freedom fighter"; for the very system he claims to oppose at every turn supports his "rebellious journalism". 10/10 for the mental masturbation tho.
@Troll Trollsen How in the world does "Fuck Off" make me sad? I won't ever understand the tribal aspect. There is no need to bring them into this. Who told you?
+Derrick Wade Really considering how awful RU-vid under google has become I'm actually surprised that its even up hear. I guess there's a certain amount of tracking that they can do on VICE so its ok for them to make money. All the other sites like "Storm Clouds Building" have been stopped from monetizing their videos despite no vulger content. Google is just another tool for the heroine peddling CIA FBI cowards.
He nailed me with "declasse intellectual". My upper middle class roots are out of sync with the physical reality of precious little opportunity for my children's generation. Make no mistake, corporate America, we know what is happening to us!
ennui1812 I don't know where you got that , but that's like a perfect rap verse right there: /My upper middle class roots /Are out or sync /With the physical reality /Of precious little opportunity /For future generations /Make no mistake U.S. /The corporate America /Is out to get us !
***** salon sometimes and try to follow people you know are good like this guy hedges,jeremy shcahill,glenn greenwald,naomi klein etc etc....there are some good journalists out there democracy now amy goodman but you have to take everything with a grain of salt and know that good people can get it wrong too through no fault of their own
+legendray2008 "those of us of who care about the truth" well, in that case the conversation around truth goes on without you, hedger. this dude is a monotheist charlatan minister. he's al sharpton with an education. he wandered around MENA trying to get a vibe and whilst never asking the difficult questions. of course he never would because he denies the link between belief and behavior. dude lacks basic integrity and intellectual honest around the biggest question of all - the crippling and gravely retarded ideology called faith ,that has put a veto on relations between peoples. like Al Sharpon, he lives in the prison of his parents abject slave desires. Chris hedges? sell short!
Yes I almost sub than seen this was so old of à video and was vice .. making the guy reporter at start of video who asked if for hedge he really felt journalistes tell news in their bent ways of perspectives and is to sell what they belive and want to vent on basically.. And on vice of all places ..the reporter tried to look shock that journalisme could ever be defined as so ..because you know ..vice is so alt right and conservative at times its just so obvious.. yes this was sarcasme about them always reporting news with a dem supporting perspectives and liberal bias vibe checking all constantly when pick what to report on and how to frame it..not that you needed the sarcasme explanation as all know of vice bias and sold out long ago ..a shame if they stuck to actually just doing documentaires to prove their ideology and case instead of ended up just another saying what other médias and gov desires like rest of news Chanels on our old TV networks.. lol they all start off new, hip , truth tellers, hard hitting news, than when they make bank they sell off as gained to much power of influence to not hijack towards narratives that work in gov favor not truth or better for citizens ..when they mention politics and so forth now so clear today .. RIP vice
He's suppressed for a reason. Why let the lemmings attempt to learn about their decaying cage even we can just keep them asleep with bread and circuses.
The reason why Chris Hedges is not heard more is that he has nothing interesting to say. He's not Christopher Hitchens by any means. He's just a preacher.
Totally agree. Those who are unfamiliar with him should make the effort to find one of the many interviews of him where he talks about how he became who he is.
@@gswovoka6286 Indeed, when he recounts the fall of Yugoslavia and the Stasi state with the wall it's downright chilling when you line up the parallels...
It is time to destroy the corporations,the Capitalist system it is killing you,in slaving,you raping you, stealing from you, improvish you,will you rise up to destroy your slave masters or will you be exterminated by your slave masters. Will be turn ground into food for the rich?Regulate, control,oppress, your slave masters.
He keeps saying he has “seen societies fall“ -sounds to me like he has seen one society, Yugoslavia - which was a 45 year train wreck by the time it came apart in the 1990s
I stopped watching Vice News a few month ago when I saw Obama being plastered all over their site. The interviewer at the time didn't even have the testicular fortitude to ask him any serious questions. That's exactly what Hedges pointed out towards the end of this video and that is if you get to comfortable in bed with the enemy then he will eventually call the shots. Hedges was very careful to answer that last question, but I believe that he seamlessly warned VICE about their direction.
yes, sir. That's exactly what I sensed in Mr Hedges ' final words of this interview and yes, I was equally shocked and disappointed by the Obama interview. I thought it was an awful move from Vice. Naive and pretentious and the potential beginning of a slippery slope... I also dislike the fact that Eddie Moretti can sit 52 min with Cody Wilson and we get served 16 min with Chris Hedges hosted by a kid who scoffs when he says revolution is America's last hope... In my opinion we will lose Vice eventually, it's just a question of time. That Obama move is not the kind of thing you ever recover or come back from. Vice will end up becoming a liberal propaganda tool to harness the youth, heat up LGBT activists and SJW with begger mentality, no longer a greety raw independent media of truth.
Hedges is brilliant in his description of the pathology of the super rich, as well. One of the true voices of rebellion in this age, as so many are corrupted by money and access.
Where do you people get the idea that you are the enemies of the super rich. The super rich are your buddies 65% of their votes & 70% of their contributions go to leftists. BLM & antifa are largely funded by the super rich . Hellyweird & Soros are 2 obvious examples but far from the only ones.
+THOMAS CARNACKI they're two liberals interviewing each other, you can smell the sense of superiority and ego in the room, even though both are nobobies
I had the opportunity to sit down with Chris back in 2013. He told me that he is not a journalist or a rebel for the purpose of making the world a better place, but because he sees it as a "moral imperative."
+Shiloh Silverman "those of us of who care about the truth" well, in that case the conversation around truth goes on without you, hedger. this dude is a monotheist charlatan minister. he's al sharpton with an education. he wandered around MENA trying to get a vibe and whilst never asking the difficult questions. of course he never would because he denies the link between belief and behavior. dude lacks basic integrity and intellectual honest around the biggest question of all - the crippling and gravely retarded ideology called faith ,that has put a veto on relations between peoples. like Al Sharpon, he lives in the prison of his parents abject slave desires. Chris hedges? sell short!
ANY RU-vid Channel that has Chris Hedges on I will instantly subscribe to and click the bell. Chris Hedges is an absolute HERO and one of the last clear representatives of integrity and the need for it on this earth.
Remember this interview was four year ago and VICE as seen changed ownership and leadership. VICE is now domestic propagana in private ownership by Rubert Murdodch (FOX news) Ratheon and other M.I.C. corporations. Some more information on VICE ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-kYzSHiqZyAc.html
people can have it all 'up there', but if they can't articulate themselves accurately or make themselves interesting to listen to then their knowledge loses its effectively. This guy is easy to listen to and gets his point across through simplification. sign of a true intellect
VICE could position themselves as our generations MTV, but way bigger and more important. They should (if they have any balls) put things on their network from Peter Joseph (Zeitgeist the movie), Jacques Fresco, Cornell West, more Chris, Robert Reich, Richard Wolfe, etc...
Beccalotte1021 Well they are owned by Disney, Rupert Murdoch, Discovery Channel. I keep trying to warn people that they are mixing right wing propaganda with liberal content. Ever notice how much geopolitical content gets mixed in? Pay Attention.
indeed vice is falling off again, if they can pull of another interview it would be like Chris handing them a giant stick when they are holding onto the edge of the a mountain cliff
Perhaps the most complete, social development intellect in the Western Hemisphere. If the world didn't have a Chris Hedges, we'd have to invent him. A natural successor to the now incomparable Noam Chomsky. Wade Goodwin, The FAIR Digest, South Africa
love Chris Hedges, he's extremely intelligent and well spoken. it's people like him that will be the beginning of the REAL change that needs to happen in society today.
Best moment: 9:20 - 9:40. Spot on! Interviewer looks totally out of his depth, like he prefers the "happy thoughts" Hedges talks about, including how low his beard should be, and how many roll ups his trouser legs should have. God bless the modern PC, magazine buying, computer game-playing adults of today.
Active Measures - Psychological Warfare - Subversion - Yuri Bezmenov - 40 years ago, he prophetically explained everything going on today in shocking detail.
*"What it Takes to be a Rebel in Modern Times"* *1.* Defend the current government administration from criticism at all costs. *2.* Heavily police 'politically incorrect' speech and protect yourself from dissenting opinions. *3.* Attempt to destroy the career and reputation of anyone that proves you wrong. *4.* Label anyone that disagrees with you a "racist", "bigot", "homophobe" or whatever is trendy. *5.* Indoctrinate as many innocents as possible to help stamp out and silence non-believers.
+theknifesong I am kind of confused.. What you're describing is what the government does to maintain its position of power and authority. So how the hell is that the rebels...? Weird
SupKash I think his post is better summarized thusly: _Damn lib'ral hippie bastards supportin' dat anarchist communist socialist fascist corporatist Obummer and da rest of da PC nazi croud_ Cause, after all, Hedges just loves Obama and the democrats...
I'm at 11:27 and I'm suddenly remembering a Nigerian guy I met in Israel at Ramle Immigration Prison. He was there as a foreign worker who had exceeded his visa, I had been working in Nablus in the West Bank of Palestine at a major university there and got caught at a checkpoint. But we were both about to be deported. 25 of us were on a bus on our way to Ben-Gurion airport when this guy started up singing an impromptu song "Green Peppers for Breakfast", with a big smile. He really cheered me up!
I've Always loved PBS programming (esp. re: the arts, and science.) But I can't help thinking that Some of their corp. donors (e.g., Koch, ADM), Have to have an effect on any journalism that pertains to their "interests" (see: $$$.)
@@rbrinks5 IMO PBS news hour pretty good as getting facts and headlines go. I think some people think it's a propaganda wing of the state because it's not always proclaiming a progressive revolutionary line, but not all news call for propaganda.
Absolutely true. I know it gets tedious to investigate who the board is, ect. I did do this for PBS. I like some of the programs but I consider while watching what their bias is. Also, depending upon what show, I keep in mind their historical shows can be quite inacurate. So, PBS is only one source of part of an entire picture.
+Frank Flores Exclusively resource based economic models - in the general sense of that phrase - are basically veiled communism. The only mechanism to regulate, distribute, or control resources is either a government or corporation; both will be just as hard to control as the current forms of them are now. I did some serious digging on the RBE economic model four or five years ago so I'm not exactly current with my information but ideas like the "Venus Project" are basically pipe dreams which neglect to address or blatantly disregard fundamental operational, philosophical, and ethical problems within the model. In the extreme, RBEs would be an almost neo-feudalism, but with mass surveillance and advanced algorithm technology with robot police.
+Ralph Klien Something to consider when waxing economic... Communism and capitalism differ only slightly, if at all. Current tax rates and the interbreeding of government and corporations in America land the US further on the socialist portion of government spectrum than most "communist" countries. There has not been, in fact, a true communist country to exist (nor has there existed the mythical "free market"). So-called communism/socialism thus far has merely been the control of an entire country's ways and means by a few decision-making elites while the product of the country's economy is "distributed evenly" among the citizen participants. Neither America's oligarchy-hiding-behind-reality-show government, nor any socialist country's here's-what's-left-for-you-slaves-after-elite-plundering system are actually one rigid form of government or another (facets projecting a spectrum). Humans are so black and white in their understanding, yet everything in nature has been found to register more spectrally. When envisioning an ideal economic scene for humanity, I think we have to consider scale first. Smaller organizations are naturally more transparent. Local organizations are naturally more responsive to local people and conditions. Someone in a DC penthouse has none of the practical knowledge or technical experience required to solve even the simplest of problems for a community thousands of miles away in a different climate and market. This is compounded when the communities are all small and unique, yet are bundled in with millions of faceless people in attempts to manage entire countries with blanket programs and extremely inefficient supply chain mock-ups. Things become more convoluted as you gain distance from ground zero. I argue that we should be arranging our governments at community scale, with greater private citizen participation. When you break down food and energy infrastructure, you find that efficiency is born out of localized production and minimal transport. When you look at nearly all human activities, true efficiency (not the distortions offered by the market and its many manipulators) starts with minimizing travel distances. The money system may tell you it is more efficient to use slave labor in China to process poultry raised AND sold in America, but the obvious technological and resource inefficiencies are overlooked because it is CHEAPER to engage in this enormously wasteful and DANGEROUS act. Though the proposed systems you mentioned are, "pipe dreams," they are the first looks into rearranging society to serve all of society, instead just serving high society. Speaking of pipe dreams... Do you think that the first poor Rothschild banker ever dreamed that his actions would enslave the entire world and all its people? Well that pipe dream is the apocalyptic nightmare of today. Nature has a tendency of generating designs that flow more efficiently over time. It is observed to be equilibrating in all things. The creative commons and local food and energy trends are the beginning of a re-routing of flows (which have been bottlenecked into the pools of the elite) which will help the economic system of our world achieve equilibration. Nature flows in interconnected tree-like patterns, and when human activity mimics this, efficiency is found. Generating production at community-scale, as opposed to global-scale, will decentralize control and generate greater income equality and public health wherever locally controlled systems are in place.
I agree and fully understand your many points. I too am an anarchist at heart. The main issue is the state. There will always be unconquerable problems when the state is our God.
I've been reading through Chris Hedges' work for quite some time now, and I will not hesitated to say that his views on society, especially American, are eons ahead of his time. I admire him greatly.
Chris is great. He is spot on with what is going on in this country. It starts with people waking up and realizing that blind partisanship is exactly what is destroying and undercutting any advancement for We the People.
Interviewer is terrified that he’s going to say something stupid sounding, which seems likely, given that he started out by noting Hedges had “seen some dark shit.”
This is 16 minutes and 34 seconds of valuable information. I've learned so much from Chris Hedges. So, it's true! Not everything is what it seems. Watching this taught me to question every information. Not to be paranoid, but to give the benefit of the doubt on important things.
I was involved in Occupy and was in Zucotti on a few occasions, including when it was destroyed. Faced a line of police in riot gear who pushed us back. Before that it was beautiful. The conversations I had. It was a revolution quickly squashed by well....you know.
He is right, we went underground, but we have not forgotten and we will not forget, the people should never be afraid of their government, the government should always fear its people.
Chris is the best🌹👍✌️🇨🇦The only difference between me and Chris he is five years in front of me maybe 10 .If the people find out Chris Hedges trust me the day after is going to get a revolution
I love this guy. I had almost forgotten about him over time and many distractions. I agree it is past time for a revolution. More of the same and in time there will nothing left but a slave camp for multinational corporations. We are the ants and it's time the ants recognized their Constitutional rights and a government for the people. Not for corporations but for the people. Corporations are just fine with me but people are far more important. Corporations have been given the rights of people and that should be in question. Corporations are businesses not people. People have priority over corporations. As gas runs an engine we are the gas that runs the engine and we should be given that respect and honor. The common man is uncommon. I think we may have our priorities out of balance. If the feet are not comfortable and well taken care of the whole body including the head will suffer.
