The Chris Hedges Report: America's dangerous leaders with Andrew Bacevich 

I am under the impression Russia cited the same UN Articles that NATO, EUCOM, and EU cited in justifying their actions to wrest Kosovo from Serbia in 1999.

When a perpetrator is not held accountable for monstrous crimes past how can they ever moderate or correct their behavior , especially when their co conspirators are brainwashed into righteous duplicity ? Sadly , for Democracy America is a clear and present danger to humanity . 🇷🇺💲🇨🇳

..." by the Political Military Industry Congressional Rulers ( PMICR), NOT the peon citizen, the dazed Sheeple.

Plus civil rights in America.

@@sandraelrod5108 What about it elaborate please.

Reports I don't know if verified that 'ISIS affiliates are now fighting with the Ukraine forces.

THANK YOU

Very well said J Z. Thanks for commenting.

Yes. He is so historically correct. Then off the rails on Ukraine. Very strange.

Do you know how many neo-nazis are in Ukraine? How much influence they have? What % of the population they make up? Because I don't, and it would be interesting to know.

@@joedoks320 We're doomed to repeat history, regardless. For it is the well-educated in power who KNOW their history, who manipulate the strings.

Cute you think Americans are capable of critical thought

Unfortunately about 70 percent r still in the dark n only rely on the rumour mongering mainstream media for their info

@@yaoliang1580 Welcome to Idiocracy, but without the happy ending like in the movie by the same name..

​@@qjtvaddict Education critic John Taylor Gatto argued that the purpose of the American Public School System is to "dumb down" American children, and not to truly educate them. Gatto believed that the function of Public School Education is to produce Robots for the Corporate Business World, workers who are smart enough to do their jobs, but not smart enough to ask "inconvenient" questions about their jobs. Gatto saw including Critical Thinking into the Public School Curriculum as a threat to the Capitalist social status quo. Today, common American Citizens capable of Critical Thinking are a National Security Threat and it can possibly get them thrown into prison with no charges under The Patriot Act.

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Porshenko , the former Ukrainian pro nato leader , has admitted back in June this year that the Minsk agreement was just a cover for Ukraine to build up and train their military. They never stuck to the agreement.

I doubt that most USA Citizens realize that the Ukraine/Russa tragedy is another Proxy War, created by the US Administration.

@@Push-Pull wasn’t porshenko overthrown?

What about the deafening silence of the majority of the UN ? 🇷🇺💲🇨🇳

I loved the topic being discussed and the book sounds great. Im glad it came out before Ukraine because his take is a bit whack espevially when considering his #2 statement that other nations INCLUDING the US to provide the wherewithal (weapons) to a civil war that the CIA instigated beginning in 2014, but honestly even decades before. Yall should look into operation gladio and how it ended up in Ukraine after WWII. Anyways, seeing as he had Vietnam perspective onthe brain ao much of the interview, i am surprised he doesnt see the parallel's in the sense of the CIA genocidal meddling but also because je just got done talking about being the indespenable nation concept! How about we stop dispensing weapons to war zones we create! He is a smart old guy cause he is right. This world police shit was INGRAINED IN US. Look at it! A more honest version may not be more possible than thia gentleman from that generation.

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Absolutely. That hit the nail on the head!

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Who could avoid war? US/NATO certainly. But after eight years of bombing, 14,000 deaths and the imminent final massacre of the Donbas people, to say that "Putin could avoid war" is beyond my grasp of reality. This seemed to me a concession by the author to the common sense formatted by the mainstream media.

I don't think they wanted to avoid it, they've been provoking Russia for decades

Really? I thought it was bedbugs.

A very accurate description of the rogue US regime indeed.

If you analyze the Russia Ukraine ''war'' based on facts about these countries you find this can't be a war

@ Chester..... You're glossing over much of what Bachevich said about that situation. Listen again, if you want to be intellectually honest here. And 'philo betto', your remark is just unhinged.

Yeah. This guy is messed up. Hedges is not totally correct about some issues, but he does have a lot of good material.

Ukraine started waging war on it's own Russian speaking population in 2014

NO. It started in 2014, with Ukrainians breaking every agreement in the Minsk accord and murdering ethnic Russian in a total genocidal way in the Donbas. FFS!

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Amen and to shut down the truth hurt enough people so the pain is worst than the vile wicked truth of death to anyone who pushes against the grain of sinister evil. Its like the murderer who caught the bus with blood on their hands looking out the back window at the dead bodies on the ground saying now they are one of us! They will quickly assimilate and fall in line behind evil that people have accepted as necessary. How twisted are the minds savoring power and calling a steal a victory. God has His people in his 👋 🙏 🙌 ❤️Never diminish God because the enemy tries to force you to doubt! They fear faith in God as a threat because He is and what they hope to be they are not and never will be all knowing rulers with absolute power!

Wow! Your analogy is as beautiful as a sunset...I love it.

I call it "national narcissism"... that inability to connect the dots between ones own behaviour, and negative outcomes, leaving oneself powerless to avoid causing or contribute to the causing of those negative outcomes. With the person narcissist, this inability for self analysis is due to emotional trauma from childhood punishments from authority figures (parents, teachers etc). With national narcissism, it is our information system itself that it unable to give the required information to allow self analysis... we can't connect the dots to our own behaviour, because we are lied to about what our own behaviour actually is, or our behaviour is completely covered up. Of course Russia's invasion was unprovoked and unreasonable, because we aren't told what we have been doing to cause them to have reason to need to respond to our behaviour. That means that as nations, we are narcissistic.

the U.S simply wants to return the manufacturing base they outsourced to China due to the greed of their corporate CEO's & share holders, in which they payed regressed wages & enjoyed laxed environmental laws, in this event the total destruction of Europe will occur, as is happening as I type, yet the effect this AGENDA will have is isolating the WEST, causing AFRICA to join BRICS & creating a bi-polar world the 5 EYES nations, vs the rest of the world & the rest of the world will win...so stack up on gold, silver, seed & prepare to pivot, bcz the U.S ELITES got this one wrong, sure the U.S has alot of weapons (BLACK PROJECTS) up it's sleave but it's losing the PUBLIC OPINION WAR & this is why its rigging the elections with such ferocity inorder to keep the DEMOCRATS (backed by the DEEPSTATE in power) FETTERMAN will be the next PRESIDENT in 2024, they want puppets & he is the best they can get, not as gd as BIDEN, but he'll do...they wont get to a nuclear war, no ELITE wants that, they have money to spend & lives to live, but they will continue to fight China & Russia irrespective, bcz this makes them rich...all wars are a racket...so they will prolong it, just as they did in Afghanistan & Iraq....but eventually bcz AFRICA will be the lynchpin that joins CHINA/RUSSIA, these 2 will win, bcz AFRICA has always been the catalyst.... ALWAYS...!!! AMERICA has some serious military toys that they will deploy when the time is right, DARPA is way ahead in this area & this is the only thing CHINA/RUSSIA fear, they've been pumping trillions into their research & development for way longer than CHINA & hence CHINA'S hesitancy in taking over TAIWAN...& RUSSIA'S hesitancy in UKRAINE...FACT..

Great analogy - thanks!

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Imagine STILL believing the US has honorable intentions after literally raining down terror across the globe pretending it’s humanitarian. The millions of dead and displaced in its wake of PIRACY is truly heartbreaking. Ukraine is just another failed state on a very long list.

Very well put, about as concise as possible. And Ukraine had racist Nazis before Hitler and they are worse. Allen Dulles and the CIA have supported them against Russia so the proxy war continues, but with our current delusional leaders it’s a real chance we’ll all die.

We want the whole world to be just like the us and can't stand people having a different view that us so start a war to force them to agree with us.

you have fallen victim to propaganda

@@philobetto5106 You are astute in your inaccuracy. Furthermore, from your comment, I can tell that you are a sufferer of cognitive dissonance.

@@Musa-hj8vf Yeah I smoked some cognitive I couldn't afford dissonance 'so Yo! wat up wit dat...

@@Musa-hj8vf Yo! one, other thing, I ain't down wit dim racial slurs dog, sum of my close friends are stute

He could get a job washing dishes.

Hi Chritine, The dictionary defines Elites as "Aristocrats" . Don't you think its a fitting term for a bunch that deserves to be overthrown again? Perhaps guillotined?

I love you for your comment. The thing is they are as obtuse, morally bankrupt, corrupt, boorish and ignorant as the worse of us.

"Elite" comes from "elect", from Latin... it literally means chosen, selected or elected... not "better"

​@@annoloki yes, but that's not how the word is actually used today.

Ruling class is a better term imo.

Did you mean pawns or actually pee-ons? (...as in those we are about to "pee on")

@@AbeldeBetancourt pawns is appropriate but no I definitely meant pee-ons

@@AbeldeBetancourt a little trickle down economics

They are the looters of our tax money

@Dr. Octogon I believed that any elite watching this would assume that I wasn't talking about you.

The Ukraine war is in part a war of competition by the US against Europe. Bombing of Nordstream gas pipes being a case in point.

u$a's 1% have routinely treated EU as another profit and privatize center. "To be an enemy of America is dangerous, but to be a friend is fatal." Henry Kissinger

It's not like "everybody" in Donbass wanted to be Russian again. And there were original territorial lines of the 'country' Ukraine, stemming back hundreds of years. I doubt most want to be Russian now after witnessing this cruelty perpetrated on them by Putin & Russian soldiers!

@@govindagovindaji4662 Those borders are less than 80 years old. They're a Soviet creation. Historically, the port city of Odessa for example, is much more Russian than it is Ukranian. The same is true for Crimea. Hopefully, Putin will cut off Ukraine's access to the Black sea and make it a landlocked rump-state, much like Belorussia.

@@paulheydarian1281 odessa was founded by russian empress Catherine the great. The first population in that regione descends from the 3 million russian serfs that she transferred to Southern ukraine, before that there were turks and the slavs were sold as slaves from Crimea. South Eastern ukrainians are russian people just like siberians are russian people.

What's left of the American led west will smash itself to pieces as fast as the SCO & BRICS can build and fortify themselves.

Yes, there is truly the regurgitation of American self-delusion at work there.

Yes you are spot on point here.

Bingo!!!!

"Exceptionalism" my ass! It all boils down to the Christianized ideology called "Manifest Destiny" that justified the slaughter of the native population and stealing all their land in the name of their sadist god.

Nice try, Vlad. That Rand article is fake.

spot on Sir! 👍🎯

for david toorchen: You're right Sir. Besides, at that time (when the Second World War took place), the British Empire still existed.

Yes. That was quite the horrendous oversight, was it not?

No. For over a year, May 1940 to June 22, 1941, the USSR was a de facto ally of Germany, at best neutral. Look up the Molotov-Ribbentrop treaty. The USSR joined the war only when Germany broke the treaty and invaded the USSR.

Yes, true. Moreover, the NATO instructors long before the so called criminal Russian invasion, have been training the Ukrainian military in its NATO camps how to kill the Russian people in the urban war. The Ukraine maybe fooled the West in terms of possibility of the Minsk agreements, but never meant to follow it, because their real intention was to wipe out all the civilians of the Donbass and Lugansk area and attack Russia. The hatred toward Russia has been instilled (last 30 years) in the Ukrainian youth through rewritten historic textbooks, through the media, where the Nazism was justified, and the Soviet victories over the Nazi Germany were condemned. That brought the prohibition of the Russian language, Russian literature, the dismantle of the Russian historic figures, the Soviet Heroes of Ww2, and renaming streets of Kiev and other Ukrainian cities to honor the notorious Ukrainian Nationalists like Bandera and Shushkevigch, whose compatriots and followers tortured, burned alive, murdered millions of the Soviet Jews, Poles, Soviet civilians, communists, etc. in WW2. Moreover, after the coup orchestrated by the US, people like Victoria Nuland, that brought the vicious Ukrainian Nationalist/Neo Nazis to power, and the three regions like Crimea, Donbass and Lugansk, also city of Mariupol and Kherson where many Russian ethnic people lived, decided to have autonomy from Kiev's new puppet regime, the last two got started to be assaulted, bombed, shelled, raped, mutilated by the Ukrainian military since 2014, killing 16 K civilians, many children, etc. People have lived and still live without electricity water and lack of food since that time. Putin many times tried to talk to the Collective West, but to no result. It became known to the Russian government that Ukraine was planning a final assault on Donbass and Lugansk with 200 K army, that were gathered at the border, with the plan of a complete annihilation of the region and then attack on Russia in early March of 2022. Putin decided that millions of civilians of Donbass/Lugansk area had suffered enough. The Russian so called criminal invasion was an act of protecting the lives of the innocent. By the way, during the military operation, the Russian military tried to save the civilians and attacked only the military objects, while the Ukrainian military had shot at the Eastern Ukrainians who tried to leave cities, they shot at the basements where people where hiding, they created torturing chamber mastered after the Gestapo style in Mariiupole, they deliberately used the civilians quarters to put tanks, guns in schools, hospitals and in people homes, because they didn't value these people lives, knowing that they were pro Russian. Finally, Kiev which has good capabilities to create films, created propaganda films, where they staged alleged Russian atrocities, by hiring actors to perform. It is all proven, people who acted in these films came to confess.

And it is truth about 30 military biolabs in Ukraine that worked on prohibited microorganisms and used mosquitos to spread infections. Interesting that in the Western media, the fact that is well known in Ukraine and Russia that Zelensky is a well known drug addict has been absent so far. The recent book by the American woman-journalist said that Zelensky when tried to negotiate peace agreement, was threatened by the Ukrainian Nationalists/Neo Nazis to be hung on the tree and his family murdered. This rumor was circulated for sometime in Ukraine and Russia, more likely it is true, because people who knows Zelensky very well, and people whom one can trust, saying that he is a big time coward, and a selfish man.

Can you identify those who historically worked as Nazi allies? Aren't the Nazis from WW II dead?

LOVED everything you mentioned EXCEPT FOR Jimmy Dore. Dude is a psuedo-intellectual GRIFTER and just because he was absolutely spot on about Ukraine propagandizing the MSM, that doesn't make him an authority on...well...anything. I used to be a Jimmy Dore fan a LONG time ago before i caught on to his act. Avoid him, he's a sell-out attempting to canibalize a right wing audience desperate for confirmation bias from a supposed "lefty." He was an idiot from Day 1, but the day he really lost me was when he argued that Trump winning in 2016 would have zero bearing on the make up of the supreme court. Lol. How wrong can you be? Ouch.

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DONT forget Peace is NOT PROFiTABLE

Would you like to expand on your thoughts? Sounds interesting.

@@jimperdue6166 John Perkins does a very good job of describing CIA efforts to deliver profits that the IMF and World Bank enjoy associating with. He does a better job than I can, but the Rockefeller Bros involvement in Foreign Affairs since being involved in The Eisenhower Administration, indicates they enjoy the ability to associate with complicit Foreign Leaders that accommodate US demands for low cost products. From the financial support that started Hank Kissinger as their Lackey when he assembled the "Prospect for America" that was as abused by Congressmen who appeared to desire to make South Vietnam our Colony, to the appointment of Paul Bremmer as the First Arch Duke of Baghdad, they were involved in Foreign affairs. The Operation Condor that delivered Military Leaders to Georgia for training in the art of oppressing Nations for profits, to hosting the Shah of Iran when He was in town, or getting him into the Mayo Clinic for Cancer treatments, they were involved in providing accommodations that suited Foreign Dignitaries. Even after losing the entire Enchelada in Nam the Chase Manhattan bank branch went to having 5 offices across Vietnam today, The nice folks at the Rockefeller Family Bank who enable a lot of Foreign Trade to become a profit for the Family even after the War was a failure. Like I say Perkins Books explain the effects better than I can over a few cups of Coffee..... The authorized Rockefeller Family Biography does a pretty good job of describing the methods and effects of the Family traditions the US State Department now embrace. The US Government at one time the Business of Standard Oil Company and their practices were condemned by the Government that discouraged Monopoly as a form of exploitation of Consumers, today the concepts that made old JD Rockefeller into the first Billionaire are employed by the US State department. Good luck going down that Rabbit Hole...... Like Alice, it can open your eyes.....

yes this

Leap of logic too far. Hard to follow

@@PKVeteran If you are unaware of the Rockefeller Bros manipulation of Government since WW2, I guess you might be confused? The History of the Family and their investments is revealing.

Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower

Now we can include the Elections Industry in that complex.

@@philobetto5106 Buchanan's a right-wing, christo-fascist devil himself.

Beautifully stated. We all know that Eisenhower warned us against this and yet we all our leaders to persist, continuing to re-elect the same.

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... And keep the slime

for Antonie Scargo: "F**k the EU!" 😉

The algorithm is king. Long live the sacred algorithm!

Aye, the algorithm is yours to make of what you wish... you ever see someone else open youtube, see what the algorithm feeds them, and struggle to not lose some respect for them? hahaha "OMG, you must watch some real crap on here!"

AMERICAN EXCEPTIONALISM,lol the first time I heard that Garbage,I said to myself since they KNEW Bush was to DUMB to pronounce that word they left it for OBOZO.

You can thank the Freemasons. And I don't care if you don't understand what I am saying. Look it up, research for yourself what I mean. You can't stop it, but you can be prepared, sort of. LedHed Pb 207.20 🎶 🎸 🎹

Unless you clicked on a "live" broadcast, the "5 mins ago" refers to when the broadcast ended (not started).

You're respect for Hedges would not be so immense if you paid closer attention to his actions and words since the MAR '20 lockdowns ... I used to love this guy, but not anymore ... he abandoned the working class on all things COVID and refuses to stand with us against the mandates and passports ... He'll talk your leg off about Assange, Snowden and Ukraine, but only to divert your attention away from the larger issues of tyranny that are now knocking on our doors ... Ya see, our friend St. Chris does not want to offend TPTB ... there are plenty of RED and GRAY voice types out there who will not be intimidated, but Chris Hedges is not one of them ...

@@douglascarlson9006 hmm, makes me sad to hear. It seems COVID caused many people to abandon principles of freedom.. in reaction to fear..I guess. I've been learning about Modern Monetary Theory, or MMT, recently, and if accurate (I haven't heard it debunked, very credentialed economists talk about it etc) I think it may be the biggest lie, politically speaking, the public has been sold. If interested, Steve Grumbine over at Real Progressives does a great job of explaining it. Also Professor Stephanie Kelton just released a new book titled "The Deficit Myth." According to MMT, Federal taxes don't fund Federal spending. State taxes fund State spending because States are USERS of the currency, whereas the Federal government is the CREATOR. The reason for taxes is because they're what cause the need for, and thus give value to, our unbacked, fiat currency we know as dollars. You have to pay taxes and you have to pay them in dollars. So no "faith in the dollar " is required, as many people think or fear. Federal taxes are actually deleted, according to MMT. The Federal government can not go broke in it's own currency, and it can fund anything it WANTS to fund..unless the owners of Congress don't want it funded. This is how they can raise the "defense " budget by billions every year without any need to raise taxes or anything else. The "we'll have to raise taxes " is just a fear tactic they use to not fund stuff they don't want to fund. The only restrictions on money creation are the actual resources and the spare capacity within the economy. In other words, if there's work to be done (like fixing our infrastructure), resources and labor to do that work, then money creation/injection isn't inflationary. MMT isn't really a theory, it's just a description of how any fiat currency functions, is given value, etc. The theoretical part has to do with possible applications of MMT, like a Federal job guarantee. The only real criticism of MMT doesn't have to do with its explanation but its possible applications. Wow, that was a lot, but since you took time to try to further inform me, I figured you deserved the same opportunity. Peace.

@@douglascarlson9006 Have you read "The Premonition"? It gives an account of people working behind the scenes regarding the pandemic. The 6 week "stay at home order" back in March 2020 essentially was too late, the virus was already wide spread. If you do a little research on how public health officials deal with disease outbreaks, your perception of what happened over the last 2+ years might make more sense. I don't blame you for being critical of the CDC and how they handled things. Mistakes were made.

@@jimperdue6166 Did you read my comment or merely glance at it ... I said nothing about the CDC - nothing .... My comment was critical of Hedges ... many, many times he has urged to resist tyranny, but now that tyranny is in our face, he's MIA ... If I ever ran into Chris Hedges in the parking lot you can bet the ranch I'd have a few choice words for him ... he does not respect you and he is using you ...

I can't hear to wait his perspective.

Exactly

Understandable,that’s the US and NATO portfolio Russia had breached that red line and they are throwing tantrums

His resignation and suicide?

Are Putin's gangsters any better than the ones that NATO sponsors? I'd have asked Putin to give a pass to the people in his country who really don't like his style. I mean like maybe promise without his fingers crossed not to beat them up or poison them. The we could have gone from there and seen whether we needed a war.

"When people tell me that Putin’s invasion of Ukraine was an illegal criminal act I want to ask them, given the problems he was facing in that situation, what action would you have recommended instead?" Um, I don't know, maybe... not invading?

Yes. He probably was afraid to speak the truth, he needed to protect his job by saying this "mantra". The US, CIA, NATO have done so much efforts in Ukraine since the fall of the USSR to sparkle the anti-Russian sentiments to the point of hatred by reanimating and supporting the notoriously criminal movement, the Ukrainian Ultra-Nationalism, the followers and admirers of such historic figures, condemned by history, WW2 war criminals, mass murderers as Bandera and Shushkevich. The final contribution to that was the 2014 coup, that brought these thugs to power in Kiev and started all this horrific mess. Putin's huge mistake was not to deal with them right away, before they brainwashed masses and masses of people, esp. young people in Ukraine. Falsification of the history books, school textbooks were phenomenal, such dark fairy tails, a complete work of sick fiction, that had completely screwed young people's head. The all indoctrination of the people of Ukraine is very much resembles of the Nazi Germany of 1930s. Additional push to this critical situation was Zelensky's speech where he mentioned the intent to acquire a nuclear weapon somehow, and use it against Russia.

I think you mean 2014, but yeah. I still watched the rest though. Being horribly wrong on one part doesn't mean he won't have good insights elsewhere.

The ordinary American is so exhausted after struggling to barely make ends meet, that even if he has the time he doesn't have the energy to read up by himself. That's one of the reasons that mass-media has been so effective at manufacturing consent for a build-up to war with both Russia and China. And agreed.

Pat Buchanan on Suicide of a Superpower

You mean interview~? He does do some good documentaries, though, too.

The point of my comment was that Bacevich stated a cause and effect that runs contrary to geopolitical reality, both past and present. NATO/US has been pushing Putin further and further, into a corner that inevitably forced his hand and his only option. Since this grave misconception could have resulted in a nuclear exchange, I think its important to set the record straight.

Or Douglas MacGregor. Or Scott Ritter. Or many, many others. But Hedges is on the "Putin Bad" bandwagon, so you won't see any of them here.

@@lewstherintelamon1377 I'd love to see a video of his reasoning while confronting the history of US State Department meddling including alliances with NAZIs to overthrow elected Presidents, the slaughters in the Donbas of ethnic Russians, broken promises not to expand NATO and on it goes. I'm sorry and surprised if he blames Russia for this war.

@@lewstherintelamon1377 I just went and had a quick look and I'm not getting the impression at all the Hedges is on the "Putin is bad bandwagon". Can you tell me where you got that idea ?

Yup. Also, word on the street is the British were thinking of ending slavery as early as 1776. Coincidence that Jefferson and Washington and co decided to split from the empire around that time? I think not.

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 you are a foolish woke revisionist

@@feynmanschwingere_mc2270 Gerald Horne speaks on that very thing: Prof Gerald Horne Detailed Exposé on 1776 Counter-revolution ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C71DIrOmkBM.html Gerald Horne on Haitian Revolution ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-r-jXJM-xXt8.html Dr. Leslie Alexander Fear of the Black Republic: U.S.-Haitian Relations in the Aftermath of the Haitian Revolution ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1bc9XJTXHqE.html

@Dr. Octogon Typical whataboutism. Hitler murdered 6 - 10 million people. You: "So? Stalin killed twice that number." When you have a real point, let me know. Also, last point: slavery and racism are both subsumed under the superstructure that is capitalism. Capitalism is the real disease. AMERICA is still engaging in Slavery. We just call it the Prison Industrial Complex now. Check out the Netflix Documentary "The 13th," it will open your eyes.

America tried 3 times to assimilate canada, including by benedict arnold when he was a hero to the usa.

Willful ignorance

Academia is quite the walled garden.

Naaaa, I doubt the most of them have much of a voice prior to their retirement. But more thank likely, there's probably plenty of group think.

It works this way everywhere. People make their bags and then transition to whistleblowers while making a brand new bag. Two sides of the same coin.

You listened. What can you, or me, do to make changes? I think the subject has to do with the State Dept., the Pentagon, the White House. What do you think a Colonel can do? What kind of influence would he or she have?

It's the military what are they going to change? Colonels jump out of their seats when a General arrives and salute and say yes sir, yes sir, . Just like a private to a captain.

I prefer that serving senior officers keep their personal views to themselves. irrespective of whether I agree with them or not.

PAR and Rattling The Bars both are still good, honest conversations on RNN. I'm still astounded that they managed to land Mr. Hedges.

Hedges is one of those intellectuals who claims to oppose Not Z ism, while also opposing those fighting it.

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That video was an absolute disgrace.

No kidding. That was awful.

Nonesense post

@@thorinbane Yes your is none sense post seems like you like being a outlaw !...

Remove power, not people.

The 1% use violence. We need to build for peace AND recognize that any violence from the left is IN RESPONSE to defend ourselves. Turn the state and media's narrative "liberals need to control their 'antifa radicals' " back on the state stating that antifa only shows up IN RESPONSE TO state and state protected vigilante violence.

@@Brianbeesandbikes I agree but we need to find a large majority of people who believe that to make it happen.

I think it's a highway, at this point.

You make a good argument here. Thanks

Yours is a trenchant commentary. I was a little surprised to hear AB's exalted exceptionalism " fluff" coming towards the end of a thoughtful conversation. "Bizarre " was my reaction as well. Seems like the guest is a bit too entrenched in the collective myth of a superior western civilization- he didn't quite compare the Western civilization to a beautiful garden, but speaking of finding their "exhaltation" again after centuries of brutal colonialism was disturbing.

@@yvonneyork1263 I had to look up 'trenchant". New word for me. Wonderful!

The famous Alcoholic

I stopped at the 21 minute mark. I heard enough of this "exceptional" bs. But reading the comments I see it gets worse.

I think there has been some variation on this in every place I've worked at.

@@erikhai1 Exactly! That is my point.

You'd do better to listen to Scott Ritter and Douglas MacGregor.

US does have a mission statement: to overthrow any challengers to world dominance. They’ll focus on Russia first, but the big challenge will come in dealing with China.

We have one. It's called the United States' Constitution.

Yes, people don't know that 27million Russians died fighting Nazis? Now they do it alone. Respect.

@@lynnebarnes3840 You are aware that the Soviet Union no longer exists right? And that the current Russian government is a far right Neo-fascist regime? If you're a supporter of the Soviet Union it makes no sense for you also to support modern Russian Imperialism (imperialism as defined by Lenin). I'm sure you already knew these things though lets make sure they appear on the forum. Welcome to WW3, this time every country is fascist.

@@danishaffer934 of course I am they are an oligarchy, just like the US. More stable though.

@@danishaffer934 US are also imperialists and terrorists and fascist, government and big business working together to screw the citizenry.

Stalin initially partnered with Hitler, even invaded Poland. Murderous Stalin was NOT trustworthy.