Chris Hedges Pt. 2 on Media Plus Matt Hits the Biden Campaign Trail | Useful Idiots 

@Elias Leal Yang is a Right wing grifter who is explicitly pushing the Milton Friedman model of UBI. He's more in the camp of fascists like Pinochet than he has anything to do with the emergence of a new Left. God help us all if he gets the nomination. Thank god he won't because he and his campaign are jokes; bad jokes being played on a desperate and precarious working class. My heart goes out to all those who have drank the Yang cool aid. I love all of you because you're my working class comrades but please, I'm begging you please come back to sanity. We need you on the Left and we need you to give Yang the finger and tell him to fuck off

@belleserpente litterally

You "grew up" and you're still a democrat.

"Platitude, platitude, Trump's bad, platitude, platitude, Medicare-for-all would threaten Obamacare, platitude, Trump's really bad..." Sad thing is, several candidates' platforms in this race could be described in that way.

@Ela Lamblin I can't say for sure why Taibbi or Hedges didn't mention 9/11 truther reports, but the reason I personally wouldn't bother mentioning them is that- like the JFK assassination conspiracy theory- it's all kind of irrelevant. Even in a parallel world where the US government was competent enough to execute a complex and massive conspiracy, killing a couple of thousand Americans wouldn't even be the worst thing the US did *that year*, let alone that decade. And you're wrong if you think the US needs any big excuses to kill people abroad; they killed millions in the years before 9/11, and they killed millions thereafter too.

You mention his name on the main politics Reddit and get down voted into oblivion. After that you get a deluge of copy and paste responses of how Chris is a fraud. It's really sad.

@@hulkhogansgianttaint9451 Reddit is controlled opposition

hard to trust someone who pushes religion

@@rmmst49 Hedges does not push religion. He is Presbyterian but that almost never comes up in his writing or lectures. I don't know where you're coming from on this but objectively you are wrong

Rory Saurus do you know what religion is and how it works? Are you sure? He is a minister at a church and he personally teaches from the pulpit? No?

Not just national. I would say international. They are a model of integrity to look up to everywhere in the world. Also, as a foreigner I can say that sometimes it's just too easy to resent the US as a whole for many destabilizing decisions in foreign or economic policy and the consequences they have all over the world. People like Matt, Katie, Chris (and others like Aaron Maté, Max Bluementhal, Lee Camp, Jimmy Dore and many others that don't come to my mind right now) help reminding foreigners like me that most US citizens are as much victims of a grindhouse socio-economic system as everybody else in the world. They help me avoid falling prey to my own worst prejudices. And that's something I'm very grateful for.

Katie counts for three!

Leonardo Facchin As an Australian I couldn’t agree more. We all hope the US can transform itself before it drags everyone else down with it. It’s not looking good though, and this coming election is make or break.

@@invanorm The type of neighborhood Chris is referring to is much like where I live. And you're absolutely right, something has to change, it's gonna get fucking real here.

Mine too. At first I was often like "I can't lose an hour to this, but it looks good", but after a couple of episodes I realized the whole hour is worth it. It is a great pairing, Katie is so scathingly funny, and both are just not putting up with BS.

And he has a call to action. We need to listen and act.

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@@johnsolo1439 "There is hope in the act of resistance." - Chris Hedges

He needs to lay off the sex stuff

It’s hard for me to trust someone that smart who still pushes religion.

Depressing but it's good. =)

@BLAIR M Schirmer I'm not stanning for Hedges (I don't personally know him so I have no connection here) but based on that comment I can tell you haven't read any of his books or listened to any of his lectures. The exact things you say that Hedges overlooks are the subjects of his books and lectures. I don't know if this comment comes from ignorance or bad faith but in either case please stop.

@BLAIR M Schirmer I agree. What a self important pompous ass!!!

@@comradetrashpanda8777 His books put me to sleep. He just drones on and on and on and on and................................on.

@@bassmaster1953 Chris Hedges has chosen to make his home in Princeton, NJ, when so many more deserving sacrifice zones were available to accommodate his homesteading.

Agreed it’s called truth

He talks with the affect of the pulpit, which many have been brainwashed into responding to in a certain way

@@rmmst49 Dude, stop it. You're not being helpful

@Co Ragoo That's equally unhelpful

You mean nothing GOOD will happen.

And let's not forget those scumbags of the left, El Chapo Traphouse.

What about Allan Nairn?

Katie Halper is a damn good journalist as well.

Don't forget Jeremy Scahill and Amy Goodman!!

Or not. He teaches the word of hatred repression and patriarchy, while writing a lefty news column every once in a while.

And I’m talking specifically of his religious work, not his public speaking.

rmmst49 So He’s a Bad Guy Because He’s a man? That’s incredibly prejudiced

@@rmmst49 sounds like a personal issue..

I fight Joe Biden because he's a joke,not fit to be POTUS! This country will be in meltdown should be win.

As a former UPS guy, and member of Teamsters for a Democratic Union (TDU), I liked that too.

MrJojo8675309 sling all the ‘ism’ mud you want petulant child ... Americans have embraced a certain degree of socialism for countless decades now .. thus making your use of any ‘ism’ you utter mute. M4A will also be attacked by countless peons within the country .. we’re prepared for it & ignoring your opinions for the overall greater good of *all* Americans .. I’m 💯 sure you’ll find some corporate sponsored pro capitalist news outlet that’ll see things your way .. they’re like ..everywhere.

MrJojo is CIA

Wait you mean Kylie Jenner should not be my role model???????

@@daysjours Of course they should - whoever the f*uck that is...

@@daysjours DAT'S who she is... "Kylie Kristen Jenner is an American media personality, model, businesswoman, and socialite." A FABULOUS role model !!!!! A quadruple threat !!!

Hippolyte Thelonious Hieronymus Tzu She strikes me as having a rich Internal life , one guided by intellectual pursuits and an overwhelming concern for those less fortunate than her and to whom she dedicates her life. A profoundly spiritual person for whom superficial values have no place.

@@daysjours Sir, you have read my mind. Excelsior!!!...

Tegridy Farms

@@billytheweasel the only integrity that makes sense 😎

You are the best -- thanks for time marker!

That's great for the people that read the comments before watching the video.

(which is most people) :-)

Thanks dude. From Alberta.

Keep the faith, the love, the hard work, loose the rest girl

@@peaceandlove544 - I appreciate the thought, but I just wanted to express...faith is no longer an option...for me. I used to think 'the smart people' had it figured out and I didn't have to worry. Then I realized - they're relying on the slavery mindset of religion to keep the world functioning in the way that benefits them...because that's what capitalism does. But thanks for the well wishes. I do try to lose the rest.

Hi from Russia, dude. Are you suffering somehow after the jail. Cause I am not. And it is not that strict in here. I mean you cannot take a goverment job, but the private companies don't care

You can make a blog about the jail life by the way

@@highpriority4015 - Hi Russian :) Well, I'm not a dude but that's ok. I have lost job opportunities when they do a background check. Companies in 'murica are in lock-step w the gov. N there are more factors involved. I was also sexually assaulted by the cops, tased, pepper-sprayed. They really worked me over. So it's not something I care to re-live by doing a blog about it. Tho I wouldn't mind sharing what got me back to 'normal', especially if it could help someone else. Thanks for the positive feedback :)

it scares me how many people do not know who Noam Chomsky is.

Unfortunately Chomsky is now becoming problematic for a number of people on the left.

@zwiebelblumen Yes! This is so important. I really appreciate Akala, a British public intellectual. He has lots of interviews and talks on RU-vid. He's the first person I thought of when reading your comment.

@zwiebelblumen And Beau of the Fifth Column. He's amazing, teaching and promoting activism. I enjoy his daily videos.

Michael Parenti is better!

She is such an idiot

because she's a waste of oxygen working for a bunch of wastes of inks and windbags like the NYT. the dumber you are and more warmongering you are and get everything wrong the more elevated your career gets at the Times,Post,Wall Street Journal,CNN and so fourth

yesss I have said this for years and I still say it: Barry Weiss is the biggest hack of all time.

@@teddymargoles5829 a statement of truth.. everyone must watch this video if u haven't yet .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jS-sxJFn6O0.html

@@teddymargoles5829spot on! @W Latif she is sooo stupid its amazing how she and bret stephens and much of those wastes of inks and spaces in corporate media get their jobs is beyond me

But.. isn't peace a good thing?

@@lilmoe4364 he's not a pacifist because that implies not using violence in self defense, which Hedges believe people do have the right to do.

We are really, truly, and very sadly fucked.--- "and what rough beast it's time come round at last slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?--W.B. Yeats --The Second Coming

I. Fischer-tree I think they wrote books together.. Or at least one book together.. Did they write manufacturing consent together..? I can’t remember.. 🤔

@@Miriyum1031 Yes. Manufacturing Consent was one. But that idea was Hermans, and hearing Chomsky talk about that book, much more than we think was Hermans. As much credit as Chomsky gets, and most well deserved, I do think it's only fair to give what's due to the late Herman.

I. Fischer-tree Yup, I definitely agree! Thanks for the info! It’s hard to tell who to give credit to on the specifics of that book :) That book should be taught to all!

@@Miriyum1031 yes, they wrote Manufacturing Consent together and The Political Economy of Human Rights, comparing the coverage of Cambodia and East Timor.

There is quite an established pile of 'evidence' that it has been with US a long long time.

@Vic COINTELPRO

Richard Russ ....it IS, indeed, naive. However, no one is suggesting that this is a new phenomena.....The CIA, DIA, FBI and other agencies have always done awful shit...Until,after Kennedy assassination, it was covered up. And, to be fair, look at the bullshit hagiography of people like Kennedy.....the guy almost started ww3 over the "Cuban Missile crisis", got the USA into Vietnam, and was, in some ways a real scumbag, yet his time in office is often referred to as "Camelot".

Prescient comment