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with Chris Hedges
PeaceActionMaine on Jun 19, 2014
Portland, Maine on June 16, 2014 Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Wages of Rebellion
Chris Hedges on Dandelion Salad
Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Richard D. Wolff Respond to Thomas Paine’s Question: What Is To Be Done? by Jill Dalton
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by Jill Dalton
Writer, Dandelion Salad
recoveringarmybrat
June 5, 2014
A Report from the Left Forum (6-1-14) with: Chris Hedges, Dr. Cornel West, and Richard Wolff
Moderated by: Laura Flanders
This seminar was part of the Left Forum’s three day symposium, Reform and/or Revolution: Imagining a World with Transformative Justice, held at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City (May 30 – June 1). The turn out at this conference was their largest to date, which I consider a very good sign. Continue reading
Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Richard D. Wolff: The Anatomy of Revolution: Thomas Paine
Chris Hedges: Occupy Wall Street Protestors VS Cliven Bundy’s Ranch Protesters
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Updated: May 6, 2014
with Chris Hedges
The Big Picture RT on Apr 30, 2014
Chris Hedges, Truthdig, joins Thom Hartmann. The government has treated Occupy Wall Street protestors harsher than its treated actually dangerous people like the militia members who’ve taken over the land surrounding Cliven Bundy’s ranch. Why is that – and what does it say about the state of dissent in America? Continue reading
Chris Hedges: There are No Winners When People Don’t Know the Truth
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with Chris Hedges
RT on Apr 28, 2014
The crisis in Ukraine and the steadily dropping temperature in relations between Moscow and Washington made many talk about a new Cold War; and many others are worried it may turn ‘hot’. But there’s another war going on right now: the information war. US Secretary of State Kerry has already attacked RT, calling it “Putin’s propaganda machine.” But Washington itself uses dubious evidence and fake facts. What is the information war? What methods is America using? Sophie talks to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and veteran correspondent Chris Hedges.
Chris Hedges and Dwayne “Fish” Booth: War Is A Business
with Chris Hedges
LeighaCohen on Apr 25, 2014
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Chris Hedges and Dwayne Booth “Mr. Fish” spoke on April 24, 2014 at the University of Connecticut. This was part of a week long event sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.
The title for today was “War and Its Meaning”. The first 32 minutes of the video Chris Hedges gives an impassionate talk on his personal experiences and political thoughts on this topic. This is then followed by an amazing 25 minute Q&A period where both Chris Hedges and Dwayne Booth respond to several questions asked by the audience and as always what is said is amazingly thought provoking.
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Chris Hedges: The New Global Neo-feudalism Society (Q&A)
with Chris Hedges
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LeighaCohen on Apr 10, 2014
The Q&A questions included: The difficulties in US media to gain funding for progressive films and the films present distribution especially in US Prisons, the history of how the US became the leading country in the world in mass incarceration, the US two tier legal system and society, how the US Democratic system is broken, the decrease and destruction of traditional progressive organizations movements in the US, a blistering attack by Chris Hedges of the Clinton Presidency, how the drug war has had severe negative consequences within the US and also in Mexico and South America, the creation of what Chris Hedges calls a new global neo-feudalism society and the need for the re-creation of progressive mass movements for social change.
Chris Hedges and Eugene Jarecki: The Failed War on Drugs and Its Many Impacts on US Society
Chris Hedges: Our Only Hope Will Come Through Rebellion
with Chris Hedges
strugglevideomedia on Mar 30, 2014
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Chris Hedges speaks on 3/29/2014 at the “One Nation Under Surveillance” civil liberties conference at CCSU in CT. He’s introduced by Mongi Dhaouadi, Executive Director of CAIR-CT. Hedges was one of he plaintiffs in a suit against the government “indefinite detention” policy.
He’s a former Middle East bureau chief of the New York Times
He’s written “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, “What Every Person Should Know About War”, “War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”, and other books.
Why Americans Must Demolish the Political Duopoly and Create a New Progressive Alliance by Thomas Baldwin
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Updated: June 3, 2017
Tom died last Sunday, May 28, 2017. Condolences to all his family and all his friends. He will be missed by many. — Lo
by Thomas Baldwin
Guest Writer, Dandelion Salad
proactvoice
Biloxi, MS
Originally posted Dec. 15, 2013
Revised version, March 24, 2014
A Call to Action!
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.”– Albert Einstein
Duopoly: “preponderant influence or control by two political powers.”
Demolish: “to destroy by breaking apart; to put an end to.”
Corporate fascism (or Corporatism): “the complete merger of corporate and state entities to create a political entity.”
Oxford Union Snowden Debate with Chris Hedges: Moral Courage and Disobedience To Higher Authority Even At The Risk Of Persecution
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with Chris Hedges
replaced video Aug. 27, 2014
LeakSourceTV2 Mar 26, 2014
02/20/2014
The Oxford Union’s 6th debate was a passionate affair, with speeches focusing on whether whistleblowing constitutes treason or a call for justice, and whether Edward Snowden, the now-famous source of the files that revealed the National Security Agency global data-tapping programme, merits the title “hero.”
OxfordUnion on Mar 21, 2014
Chris Hedges Interviews Lynne Stewart: Fight, Fight Never Give Up (Full Video)
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with Chris Hedges
truthdig on Feb 12, 2014
The Truthdig Columnist sits down with the recently-freed civil rights attorney to discuss prison, freedom and the issues raised by her detention.
Chris Hedges interviews Lynne Stewart, Part 1
Chris Hedges: Blind Obedience Works Well on the Battlefield, But Not in a Peacetime Society, Part 2
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with Chris Hedges
breakingtheset on Feb 7, 2014
Abby Martin features Part 2 of her interview with Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges, discussing the unsustainable nature of the economic system, the military mind in solving world problems, and the antidote to defeatism.
Chris Hedges: Crisis Cults and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Part I + Kshama Sawant’s Revolution
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with Chris Hedges
breakingtheset on Feb 6, 2014
Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, concerning areas of extreme poverty that he refers to as crisis zones, as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies.
