Third World America - Chris Hedges

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In this lecture, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges will examine how America has devolved, economically and politically, into a Third World country and the role that inverted totalitarianism plays in consolidating the control of rapacious elites over our political and economic systems. He will also discuss the implications of the current arrangement for the world and what are the steps necessary for the masses of people in this country to begin to push back.

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@AdeleCaskey 11 лет назад

We need more people like Chis Hedges who truly understands this system and how corrupt it is. He also CARES about LIFE and Others welfare- which Corporate Economics does Not. They only care about their own self interest. Not common interest.

@vagelissevastakis7417 11 лет назад

I wish i was an American to be proud of this Man.Any how his light reaches every one who can listens.God bless your deep devotion on moral integrity of policies and social justice for your countrymen and so!

@TheGodlessGuitarist 12 лет назад

"I feel there are still people with the spirit and courage of Malcolm X" There always have been and there always are, but the establishment media hides them and lies about them

@bealtainecottage 11 лет назад

Chris Hedges is a rare breed in these dark times, for he possesses integrity, wisdom and courage.

@fairdose 11 лет назад

My guess is that Hedges will be Chomsky's intellectual and moral heir after he passes on. Both are deeply motivated by moral outrage and use their considerable intellectual capacity, erudition and eloquence to make very valid points with staggering emotional efficacy and impact.

@DanaDodd 11 лет назад

Thank you for sharing this. Much of which I have said myself. UNITED FOR CHANGE!!

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

6 years ago and one agreement. Shame on us.

@empirestrikesback7732 5 лет назад

NOW that's what I call a Man of Courage and Integrity. We need many many more people like Chris Hedges to bring peace and prosperity in this violent, racist, greedy world. PEACE is the True power of man kind.

@atlant80 11 лет назад

I am a socialist, and I agree with you that there absolutely are strains of socialism that lead to dictatorship (Bolshevism, "scientific" socialism, utopian socialism, etc). These are called "socialism from above" ideas, and usually involve massive centralized state apparati. However, I am a Marxist anarcho-socialist, which is socialism-from-below, and focuses on direct democratic control by the people of all meaningful facets of public life. I think Hedges falls within that same tradition.

@trilobright 11 лет назад

I don't think I've ever agreed with any speech as much as I agree with this.

@gigiinparis 11 лет назад

Thank you Hedges for giving words to the voiceless!!!!!!!!!

@hermanhuerta2237 5 лет назад

My support and warm hand shake to a brave and true Human being that You are Chris.

@Cabronosidad 11 лет назад

Love this guy's mind.

@atlant80 11 лет назад

I'm a socialist, and I'll answer: Because I hold the right of the people to govern themselves as the chief virtue, the greatest good, the end to strive for. A people governing itself as a society, working for the benefit of that society. That is all that socialism is: the people governing themselves for their own benefit (as opposed to the benefit of capital, which is inherently corrupting and undemocratic). That is the chief principle of socialism, the rest are just details.

@PochoNews 3 года назад

IMHO Socialism doesn't work. Absolute power corrupts absolutely. Those few in charge will try to stay in charge. Not everyone has the same social responsibility as you. I wont even get in to the piety problems. There's no perfect system

@AxmedBahjad 9 лет назад

The Empire will sink the ship and everyone in it.

@Famalang 12 лет назад

Any time I read or hear this man speak, I feel there are still people with the spirit and courage of Malcolm X. He is among the voice of reason, wisdom and compassion of our time. In this confusing terrain of disinformation and decadence, Mr. Hedges lives and see above the sound bites and constantly attempts to expose the fiction, hate and down right jingoism of the 1% in authority. Coroporatiion, the market and democracy are almost synonymus, and anything outside that is the dangerous enemy.

@JosephSkues43 11 лет назад

Thank you Chris Hedges. You bring back hope and sanity to start us returning to America's potentials.

@blammers 5 лет назад

Powerfully prophetic.

@marthacmd 11 лет назад

thank you, again, Mr. Hedges for your honesty and hard work

@daneiladams 11 лет назад

Love u chris, our my hero

@jadeedens7755 5 лет назад

Circa 2019, I'm saddened that clicking Like on this video still leaves it with 1k likes. The truth is right here

@NWKBricks1 11 лет назад

Thanks for uploading this very compelling video.

@CobinRain 11 лет назад

unchecked capitalism leads to the rise of a vastly rich class who in turn have the wealth and power to control governments..interests who make money out of war. Or environmental degradation. Interests, as he is saying, that are not in the best interests of their country, their fellow citizens or the planet. For this reason alone, civilised countries used to use tax to keep the wealthy from getting too powerful and laws to restrain them. Who now restrains Monsanto, for example? And their GMOs?

@definemaybe1 10 лет назад

Good Info I dont care who he's talking to

@randy109 11 лет назад

I can't believe that Guantanamo is STILL open. Even an "enemy combatant" should be told why he is being held and given some opportunity to explain himself. People call Obama a Liberal and a Leftist but he is so Corporate that he doesn't want to rock the boat or change the status quo. As an American and a middle aged Republican I almost cry when I see where our once great country is headed. Our Police have become militarized and the Patriot Act has vaporized our Civil Rights. What next??

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Randy. You are thinking like a liberal. Be careful we might get you. You say exactly what I have been saying. Also is the constitution still working for us or is it that looser Patriot Act. Guess I m no patriot.

@Meade556 11 лет назад

When tax receipts are below 2007 levels we have a revenue problem, as long as all the Bush tax cuts remain in effect we have a revenue problem, and above all we have an employment problem, not a spending problem.

@PoetlaureateNFDL 11 лет назад

Chris is worth listening to.

@jerrysamuels8716 6 лет назад

If this country had any brains Chris Hedges would be on a short list for President.

@19battlehill 11 лет назад

You r very dilusional when it comes to big business, have u seen Walmart they r the ultimate in bi g bus, welcome to Walmart nation with a few very wealthy and everyone working for six bucks an hour, wake up please

@vengencemonger 11 лет назад

Why aren't christian preachers spreading this message to their flocks?

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Whoever said they were Christan?

@CaminarFisico 11 лет назад

Great video, thanks, a solution must be implemented, one where all have equally. We must change inside and outside. Equal money for all, and self forgiveness will change the world.

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Aired carioca. You said it all. Exactly what we need but ( there is always a but) can you imagine this happening in the states? Other places, yes but it would take generations of education to happen here. People here just don t get it..

@CrucialSpeaks 5 лет назад

Why can't we ever elect someone like this?

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

They wouldn't t want to put up with the petty ( and I mean petty) bullshit

@steppenwolf3252 3 года назад

Let corporations make a little less profit. How much do they need? We'll take over and be able to pay thousands more with benefits etc. Plenty to go round and if they disagree then let us take over the biz.

@Avery7098 11 лет назад

We all need to see what is here and stand for WORLD EQUALITY!

@kennegun 11 лет назад

"Chris why dont you ask the muslims" - Ask all 1 billion + muslims individually? "why, when they move into a new country do not assimilate into the culture" - Like the european "colonizers" did when they encountered other civilizations? "they try to over time take over that country" - Like the europeans did to North America, Central and South America,Australia, and attempted in Asia, Mid East Africa? "non muslim are allowed" - Mr. Stoltz please snap out of your delusion.

@not2tees 11 лет назад

He has more than courage, which he surely personifies. He has what neither Senior nor Junior Bush had a shred of: vision. A vision of integrity and depth, psychological and political depth, a moral compass that points to the true and real.

@gha23ify 11 лет назад

Yes,but limits even in large scale have been broken. The last time this happened all hell broke loose - two world wars,and eugenics.

@thehighvoltage2000 11 лет назад

The corporations are the lawmakers.. that's the whole point.

@adamabramowitz9 11 лет назад

I agree with him on everything except one: god. It's all a bunch of bullshit.

@Pertemba40 11 лет назад

Chris is as always so eloquent in explaining our current state of affairs, we are literally heading towards a dystopia. Watch a very good documentary based on his latest book, it's on VIMEO: "OBEY".

@larrysmith2636 6 лет назад

"worse than george w. bush." now that's a legacy. have a nice day?

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Larry Smith. He has yet to mention the involvement with 9/11. He needs absolute proof. But bush( the whole family) was a bastard. He is now getting a pass because of the moron but we can t forget.

@theresewalters1696 4 года назад

Didn't think it was possible while Bush was in office.

@josebaburgo 11 лет назад

i listen whenever i can to chris hedges. i think he´s doing a great job. but it is disturbing to me to watch him among the followers of a religion which does not admit dissension.

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Alamyer. From what I have personally gathered he isn yet into his religion as he most likely was when he was young. I could be wrong I hope I m not

@pinkpearl1967 11 лет назад

"The Century of the Self" - a documentary on RU-vid.

@bryanleovy1881 6 лет назад

pink pearl yes enjoyed it have you read or watched "Manufacturing Consent "

@jtatsiue 11 лет назад

I wholeheartedly agree!

@mikeoli 11 лет назад

your understanding of history those who influence events and those who are show pieces is limited so watch T.V and enjoy the propaganda

@janeself9827 5 лет назад

Horror coming

@ShaktipatSeer2 11 лет назад

Yeah!! He totally hypnotized us with his common sense! Der da derrr

@sertorrhenclegane 11 лет назад

That's beside the point. I've never trusted people in groups cause it's always one bad comment away from turning into a riot. I trust a person but not people.

@Mike9201984 11 лет назад

Good point!

@Meade556 11 лет назад

Except that no one is proposing take all of the top 1% income or their assets, not even a majority. A 5% rate hike, limiting some deductions and a new millionaires' rate is not taking all.

@robinhoodstfrancis Год назад

I am grateful for Hedges' courage and intelligence. However, he's been too focused on mere protest. The co-op business movement is the focus needed, with Fannie Lou Hamer's Farm Co-op a fine bookmark for Rev MLK's Montgomery boycott, Malcolm X's Islamic roots in economic self-reliance, and the Afro-Am Fed of S Co-ops, member of the US ncba dor co-ops with the US Fed of Worker Co-ops and more.

@atlant80 11 лет назад

All that is meant by "work for the benefit of society" is that instead of working for the benefit of the capitalists, who appropriate the vast majority of the value of the labor in the form of profit, workers make that surplus value. Further, work will be organized for social needs rather than the needs of profit, and will almost certainly mean less labor. One of those systems is clearly more "human" than the other. Capitalism is far more dehumanizing, and gives people less autonomy and agency

@ludvigborga3676 3 года назад

Reporter: "Chris, people say it's very depressing to hear you talk about how bad things are." Chris: "Well, I'm not making this up."

@PochoNews 3 года назад

He's a barker. Doin his best to sell us his wears. Twists truth with conjecture and bullshit just like a salesmen does or politician/author/reverend/priest.

@jtatsiue 11 лет назад

That's a pretty blanket sweep, excoriation of, not merely governmental policy, but of the very institution of government itself. My view is decidedly more balanced. My statement was that the market is influenced by forces outside itself, not really a controversial statement, you mentioned an individual, kudos, my post dealt with macroeconomics, individual success stories notwithstanding.

@jtatsiue 11 лет назад

Market forces aren't the only factors determining economic outcomes, government policy shapes the market, we've never had a pure laissez faire economy, government sponsored, wealth-building programs have aided and abetted the asset accumulation enjoyed by the 1% throughout US history. Since 80% of US private wealth is derived from inheritance and not through earnings or savings, it's clear that government assisted fortunes have helped create a plutocratic elite, not a meritocratic one.

@Meade556 11 лет назад

Actually the US Government through its policies made this entire thing we see around us possible, if you cannot see that you need to read more history. Property rights are not necessarily conducive to economic growth, it can help, but there are countries with strong property rights that have weaker growth than those without. Second there is no overspending, except on the Military, our federal government is appallingly paltry. Finally we're in a depression the government needs to spend.

@anazarian 11 лет назад

One way to turn this philosophical perspective upside down is as follows: Either we succeed in our ability to outgrow and outsmart the physical limits of our Earth and its finite resources, or we face a certain demise at our failure to do so. So, in a way, either you believe in humanity and civilization, which has been a natural result, or don't. Are you an optimist or a pessimist?

@Mike9201984 11 лет назад

I agree it's like he's trying to provoke anger and outrage. Michael Ruppert comes across that way at times and it frustrates me because any distortion of a truth hurts the credibility of everything else that person says. But I believe both men are acting in good faith. You have to keep in mind this guy has probably seen some SERIOUS shit in his time as a journalist. Stuff completely outside the realm of normal experience for your average citizen. What type of an effect would that have on you?

@ishinadish 12 лет назад

But doesn't all capitalism commodify? Isn't that one of the central problems with capitalism? Hedges is not against capitalism per se; he's against corporate capitalism. But isn't this an issue of degree? Hedges is quite modest in his take on capitalism, I think. What does it mean to say that there are various 'versions' of capitalism? Isn't it rather that the different versions (corporate etc) are an attempt to manipulate CAPITALISM writ large? Maybe I'm wrong...I just don't get 'versions'

@patrickdonnelly4792 11 лет назад

A smart, courageous and caring person. One of the few ways he lets himself down is to muddle his ideas with religion, It may be that this is what brought him to where he is but I would suggest he would do better to see how devisive it is. He takes on the likes of Harris and (previously) Hitchens, usually missing the point, as he is blinded by his love of religion.

@ANoisyMindIsEvilDuhh 11 лет назад

Audio in your head is obsolete, really. It really is. Do you know? People can not get much wiser as long as there is audio in the head. People not getting much wiser is dangerous too.

@mzambo666 11 лет назад

well what war isn't aggressive... We need to make drastic changes in the US.... Fact is to me that labor lost and finance took over for a long time now and people are beginning to see it consequences. If the US is not doing well than who is? Sweden is my model..

@RichardShorten 11 лет назад

Corporation want to be treated as 'Persons' under our laws so the solution is both the CEO & CFO must be jailed - for one week - when their companies commit fraud or crimes against humanity. These horrors will stop instantly.

@karmafairy351 3 года назад

22:40 Did anyone else get a chill listening to Chris say that? Guess Trump was what America vomited up.

@huypham-mj7xs 11 лет назад

hey what gonna stop us if we gather and rebel? maybe we will have some reputation and attention. I don't talk about some dozen or hundreds people. I mean thousands of people with the same attitude at the same place. how about that?

@sandymacjones11 11 лет назад

Investigate Desteni Com and Eqafe Org, there is a massive amount of information on the mind on these sites, a number of free downloads as well.

@leealexander3507 3 года назад

My youngest son has refused to father children because of the climate emergency and the potential for nuclear war.

@Meade556 11 лет назад

Actually if you took every penny from the top 1% you could fund the government in its entirety, considering they earn 25% of a 16 trillion economy, that would generate a surplus.

@adamabramowitz9 11 лет назад

No, wrong again, Bob. profits are made by the workers, when they can afford the products they actually make. If no one makes shit for a living, companies can't sell their products.

@davidhutchinson6377 11 лет назад

No....you are wrong. Personal spirituality is a guiding light in one's life. Jesus taught us not to hate. You are referring to the institutions of religion...Hedges touches on the personal walk of faith we all take. You have faith either way you see. That God exists or he doesn't. Either way..it takes faith to believe. He chooses to follow the examples of first and foremost Jesus Christ, Ghandhi, Mother Jones and so so many other leaders of the oppressed.

@asianbodyart 12 лет назад

The Way home or face the Fire by JAH

@brachio1000 5 лет назад

The Chicago teachers' union should stand up for making its students fit to graduate high school.

@gregorycarr2365 10 лет назад

Hedges has a majorly absurdly oversized sense of morality. Pretty awesome dude.

@criztu 10 лет назад

He's clueless. Human communities are ruled by the laws of Evolution. That's Genetics. The only way you can influence Genetic Selection - and thus shape behavior - is through controlling the Environmental Factors, like food and sexual partners. The US is crumbling because of its enormous deficit with Asia. As the Americans get poorer, they grow more dissatisfied. So the oligarchy has to either tighten its grip, or be swept away and lose its privileges. It's not the opposite. It's not because of the oligarchy's tightened grip, do the Americans grow dissatisfied, and as a result do they get poorer, and the US deficit with Asia does increase. I hope you'll understand one day, that this guy is just surfing the wave, proposing juvenile "only solution" - rebellion. Yeah right, look at him all dressed in Red White and Black - looking like a banker or politician, encouraging you to rebel against the bankers and politicians. Let him rebel first, let's see him not keeping his money in a bank account...

@EmpressLeana 10 лет назад

criztu "Human communities are ruled by the laws of Evolution." What are you talking about? There's no more genetic selection amongst humans. "The US is crumbling because of its enormous deficit with Asia." The word you're looking for is debt. China and Japan only hold 15% of the US' debt. The US holds 89 cents of foreign debt for every dollar of US debt owned by foreign countries. I didn't even understand your sentence with all the negatives in it. Try getting to grips with reality first

@criztu 10 лет назад

***** Evolution is ever more complex, lol. If you won't be able to raise your kids, and even if you'll be able to raise kids, if they won't be able to raise their own kids, and their kids in turn raise their own kids, and so on, your genes will be eliminated from the genetic pool, eventually. Evolution is a process over thousands of years and millions of individuals... if you think that just because you have antibiotics you've stopped Evolution, you're in deep error... The key word in the relations between the US and Asia, is deficit. No matter what US does, it needs Asia more than Asia needs US. The same thing happened to the Roman Empire, who was losing huge amounts of gold in the trade with Persia. Waging war against Persia was simply suicide, because it made it even more difficult to get the stuff they wanted from them. Same thing happens today with the US. They'd like to annihilate Iran, sure, but that would make it impossible for the US to get the stuff they get now from China, who needs oil from Iran. The only ways for US to end the deficit, is to either lower its wages to levels comparable to China, India and other cheap Asian labor markets, or to bring China India and other to the same level as US. Which would render US powerless to control the global economy through petrodollar. The US will go on the same path as the Roman Empire, only in shorter time span, as the world today spins way faster. Got it? The US doesn't lose jobs because Satan or the Klingon, but because the Americans buy stuff Made in China. If they'd boycott China, they'd have to buy 10 times more expensive stuff Made in US. Chris Hedges' notebook is Made in China. Chris Hedges' clothes are Made in China. Chris Hedges' glasses are Made in China Chris Hedges' website is hosted on a server Made in China. Chris Hedges' interview is recorded with equipment Made in China. Every. Fucking. Thing. Made in China. One has to be crazy to keep producing in Camden, NJ, US, when one can produce the same thing 20 times cheaper, in Shenzhen, Guangdong, China. Camden will become extinct if it won't be able to survive, because that's how the fcuking Evolution works. The Native American Nation who lived before the Europeans in the same spot, have long since gone extinct, and Chris Hedges doesn't fucking care. The Chinese don't fucking care about Chris Hedges and his Nation, either. Don't take this personally, I don't care if you understand Evolution or not.

@vladimir0700 6 лет назад

Gregory Carr: The two sentences of your comment seem contradict each other.

@fradsig 6 лет назад

Hahaha.

@dixiewhistler2178 11 лет назад

chris hedges isn't a leftwinger, he also has condemned wall street/bail outs, bankers. Watch more speeches by Hedges and you'll get it.

@1TheNews 8 лет назад

Chris Hedges' message resonates as truth but don't like his almost catatonic visage.

@westsidegranny6100 4 года назад

Ellie james...yes, I love Chris but I must admit, he scares the shit out of me.

@steppenwolf3252 3 года назад

Don't look

@MercurialStatic 11 лет назад

Yes, much better that to live in a society that values greed above all else...

@christo930 12 лет назад

Check out the "A voice for men" website. You can also check out a channel called johntheother, paulelam and manwomanmyth.

@MyRepresentativeOrg 11 лет назад

Join the full discussion on Facebook. Chris Hedges - Restoring Democracy. Yes we can Improve our Government

@butterflybeatles 11 лет назад

Can we not know on what date this speech was delivered and where? Thank you.

@Mike9201984 11 лет назад

This is an interesting talk. Can anyone explain why the Muslim audience? Are they all Muslim-Americans?

@Lightning96669 11 лет назад

I totally agree Adele

@Mike9201984 11 лет назад

Can you describe what about his speaking technique is hypnotic?

@domingodeanda6113 2 года назад

Nov-25-2021, thanks Chris, you are loved worldwide.

@ChickpeatheTortie 10 лет назад

Its always been a world of masters and serfs - it has just got worse.

@Rickwmc 9 лет назад

***** Very apt observation. No less an author than George Orwell said as much. Society always stratifies into the High, the Middle and the Low (with a slave group at the bottom). He said that no matter what social upheaval occurs this three-tiered system always restores itself like some kind of gyroscope.

@ChickpeatheTortie 9 лет назад

Hi Spartaculus it not often that I hear that phrase 'very apt observation' thought it was too good to be true and it is - its not meant for me but :- The three tiers will always exist at it is the 'pyramid of manipulation' - it has to exist in order for the pyramid to remain standing. :-)

@ChickpeatheTortie 9 лет назад

Thomas Paine Yeah I know how you feel :-/

@jleawandajjohnson4511 5 лет назад

I'm listening. Thank you.

@adamabramowitz9 11 лет назад

It was only a few months ago. I remember when the ruling was overturned.

@bufallobiff 11 лет назад

You had me right up until you described the Patriot movement as "proto-fascist" and then compared them to the Christian right. One is a group that believes in following the constitution and the other is a group doing all they can to bring about their alleged Armageddon ..... I find it comforting knowing that there is a Patriot movement in all its' configurations.....not unlike your "Occupy" movement

@Waterflux 10 лет назад

The nature of capitalism is such that it drives investors to seek maximum returns on investment at minimum cost. The problem is that capitalism is strongly conformist; everyone tries to do the same with predictable result -- economic collapse. Capitalism should have been a failed experiment a long time ago, except for the fact that the government has been providing the role of the emergency room and keep it from going kaput at taxpayers' expense. In particular, without the nanny state provided by the government, corporate capitalism cannot go on.

@sertorrhenclegane 11 лет назад

That's well and good, but you can't trust people in councils anymore than you trust a banker. On top of that, the United States is too big to be a democratic society that's why it's a representative republic. Though, it's not so much anymore.

@brmillgr 11 лет назад

Kinda sounds like your under main stream media hypnosis

@DBEdwards 5 лет назад

I respect Hedges but what the hell is he doing cow towing to Muslims?

@steppenwolf3252 3 года назад

He's living with them. Who's kowtowing to anyone? REspect and humanity man

@mrbillsrecords 11 лет назад

Mikeoli, Out of all the genius commenters on this thread, you are the smartest. You've got it all figured out. Sincerely, Glenn Beck

@jamescreek1319 4 года назад

Doug E lol nice comeback

@Meade556 11 лет назад

Hardly, schools, roads, sewers, railways, colleges, the financial system as we know it, America as an economically powerful country, America as a place where people want to be, would not be possible without our government, ever since the Republic it has been involved in promoting and creating markets. As it should be, what the hell else would we be paying it for? Decoration?

@steppenwolf3252 3 года назад

Not in Camden or Appalachia man

@arfived4 11 лет назад

I love libertarians. No matter utopian I'm accused of being, no matter how unrealistic, I'm safe in the knowledge that there's always someone worse.

@steppenwolf3252 3 года назад

He's not a libertarian. He's Chris. Why must you label all humans? Makes you feel more secure I guess, huh? Open your heart and mind. It's bliss

@arfived4 3 года назад

@@steppenwolf3252 You do realise that these are seven year old replies, which have lost their context when they changed the reply system, don't you? I would point out who I was responding to, but I can't remember, because it was seven years ago. It certainly wasn't Chris Hedges. Libertarians are still idiots, however.

@daneiladams 11 лет назад

Ndaa obamass

@craiggardner5525 Год назад

An insult to the 3rd world.

@Ambushofblacks 4 года назад

Great speech. However I kept thinking to myself that sign-language interrupter must be having a hard time signing words like neo-liberalism, fascism, goldman sachz etc...lol

@colinshaw3776 5 лет назад

It is not a matter of adding something,nor humanising for justice and solutions,this merely only resets the start button back to the beginning of the same human catastrophes as before because nothing which originally set things into motion has, fundamentally changed. The original culprit the human nature must repeat history continuously until a sincere and spiritualy new nature appears and lives through us,from a much higher intelligent natural state.it can and must be done or all else is in vain.