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whatever your politics,

it’s always worth considering Chris Hedges who has written powerfully and persuasivley on why non-violence is the only effective mechanism of protest, of actually changing things for the better https://t.co/l3BBfTkJeB

— curtmills (@CurtMills) June 1, 2020

Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges, Morris Berman, and Dmitry Orlov on The Extraenvironmentalist

Extraenvironmentalist Episode 60: Days of Destruction (hi/lo)

Chris Hedges's Call to Action

Chris Hedges: Rise up or Die




There was another video featuring some speaker against plutocracy but I can't find the link at the moment...

Chris Hedges: "We are witnessing the collapse of globalization"

Someone posted this recently, on FB - an interview from last year:


Also from last year:




And from this year:

A Happy Statist

Community rights vs. states rights vs. federal law by David MacLeod (EB)

I just don’t see local communities making better choices than those made at the state and federal level. This may happen in isolated pockets, but by the same token you could see vast swaths of places overturning the few gains the environmental movement has achieved on the level of federal and state policies and regulations, which is exactly what the Tea Party wants to do.

Because people can do the wrong thing, he is content to concentrate power in the hands of the few, because environmentalists, acting as the conscience of the public, will continue to labor to get them to do the right thing. Who is going to guarantee their continued "success"? We have to put our trust in another elite, in this case certain scientists, because they know through science what natural ecological limits are and such. There is no consideration of what is Constitutional.

Related:
The man without a plan: Romney has no real food and farming platform
Chris Hedges, Globalized Growth Is the Problem, Localism Is the Solution
A Land Without Farmers

GRITtv: Interview with Chris Hedges


Part 2

Book TV: After Wards: Christ Hedges, "Empire of Illusion"

Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion The Cult of Self- Watch more Politics Videos at Vodpod.

Author warns of pageantry's perils
Chris Hedges, who wrote 'Empire of Illusion,' examines America's identity crisis in an age of consumerism and spectacle.

(via Carolyn Baker)

'Vocational America'

"Education in the United States has become vocational. ... Many of the state universities, community colleges and online for-profit universities — that are growing faster than any other university sentiment — have no use for the Humanities, literature, history, philosophy, classics, art. Why? Because the Humanities ask the kind of broad questions of meaning that those systems that prize above all else vocational workers do not want to ask.

"The problem with our vocational system is that it measures and rewards a very narrow kind of intelligence, a kind of analytical intelligence to create legions of systems managers — people who have a drone-like ability to work for very long hours, and (have) a kind of penchant or capacity for manipulation, but don't know how to question assumptions or structures."

This is the criticism made by Gatto and others of American public education at the primary and secondary levels.

Related links:
Transcript: Chris Hedges, “Empire of Illusion”, 21 July 2009
Truthdig - Chris Hedges, Columnist
Addicted to Nonsense