Lays out why poverty persists in the face of rising spending on means-tested programs.

https://youtu.be/WCyCfNnXGOE?feature=shared

#WorkerRights #Poverty #America #Racism #ChrisHedges #MatthewDesmond #Exploitation #GigEconomy #WealthInequality

15 books to get to know me

- #UnderstandingMedia by #MarshallMcluhan
- #ExpandedCinema by #GeneYoungblood
- #TheMythofSisyphus by #AlbertCamus
- #NakedLunch by #WilliamSBurroughs
- #ParableSeries by #OctaviaEButler
- #OntheRoad by #JackKerouac
- #MondoUtah by #TrentHarris
- #YouCan'tWin by #JackBlack (no, not that one)
- #MobyDick by #HermanMelville
- #PeopleoftheAbyss by #JackLondon
- #SpurtofBlood by #AntoninArtaud
- #ShockDoctrine by #NaomiKlein
-anything by #Samuel Beckett
-random #HughNibley article
-anything by #ChrisHedges

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key - not just to wipe out the Tories but, crucially, to #StopStarmer

https://skwawkbox.org/2023/08/13/new-grassroots-stop-starmer-group-launches-with-video/

In their book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt”, @ChrisLynnHedges (#ChrisHedges) & Joe #Saco portray “inverted totalitarianism” as a system where corporations have corrupted & subverted democracy and where economics bests politics. Every natural resource and living being is commodified and exploited by large corporations to the point of collapse as excess consumerism and sensationalism lull and manipulate the citizenry into surrendering their liberties and their participation in government.

In #Britain, inverted totalitarianism is being played out before our eyes as never before because the elites don’t care any more if we, the poles, know what they are doing to us!

The utterly corrupt @conservatives (#Tories) are bought and paid for by #Putin’s #Russia, #Xi’s #China, #binSalman & other assorted oligarchs & despots.

The @UKLabour (#Labour) Party under #KeirStarmer is ‘in hoc’ to the #TrilateralCommission. Also, #Starmer has deliberately lost/ ejected so many of its former ~600k members (and their membership subs) that they’ve had to go, cap in hand, seeking donations from assorted corporate interests who will obviously want their ‘pound of flesh’ should #Labour come to power!

Our first-past-the-post electoral system is designed to entrench the inverted totalitarian system that is our so-called democracy! Nothing will change if #Labour replaces the Tories in the 2024 #GeneralElection - as is currently predicted to happen by a landslide!

Imo, at #UK #Election24:

1. #Tories *must* be destroyed electorally! This looks like a distinct possibility as they have do royally f#cked up pretty much everything! Nothing works in Britain anymore!
2. #Labour u/ ‘Sir’ Keir #KidStarver *cannot* be allowed to gain a #Blair-style landslide majority! #Starmer would use this almost unbridled power to unleash a torrent of illiberal policies on the country
3. Hence we must somehow elect a powerful #Left presence in Parliament to oppose his #NeoLiberal & authoritarian instincts
4. Well-informed, we’ll-organised tactical voting will be key

https://tactical.vote/all/

Mintieron sobre #Afganistán e #Irak y ahora mienten sobre #Ucrania.
Por #ChrisHedges en @rebelion
#rebelionORG
.../...
Los belicistas conocían las posibles consecuencias de la ampliación de la OTAN. Sin embargo, la guerra es su única vocación, incluso si conduce a un holocausto nuclear con Rusia o China.
La industria bélica, y no Putin, es nuestro enemigo más peligroso.
https://rebelion.org/mintieron-sobre-afganistan-e-irak-y-ahora-mienten-sobre-ucrania/

According to Chris Hedges, Green Party has had to pay over a million dollars in legal fees to defend their right to ballot access. That's a lot of money for a small, grassroots party with no corporate backing. Make no mistake: the Democrat party is vicious and will sue and litigate against the Green Party every step of the way. They blame the Green Party for Hillary Clinton's loss to Trump since Green Party exceeded the margin of Trump's victory in some key states. Yet democrats have also not lifted a finger to fight for Ranked Choice Voting nor Star Voting and indeed have often fought against it. Nor do many Dems acknowledge many GP voters would not have voted for Clinton under any circumstance.

At this point, I think the Green Party has only secured ballot access in about 20 states. In the best case scenario, GP might be able to secure 20 more. Every state has different laws and hurdles to jump thru, and many of them are ruled by aggressively hostile Democrats, the very same ones who put their finger on the scale to try to keep progressives within their own party from winning.

It's a long, sad, expensive journey. But democracy is worth fighting for.

#GreenParty #GP #ChrisHedges #CornelWest

#Russia #Ukraine #Afghanistan #Iraq #Irak #Jugoslawienkrieg #Briefing 236 #Geopolitik #Geopolitics #ChrisHedges #Lies and #Propaganda #Sanctions #counteroffensive #RussiaUkraineWar #Imperialism #FarRight #DefenceIndustry #ArmsIndustry #Democracy #Fail

"Chris Hedges: Sie haben über Afghanistan gelogen. Sie haben über den Irak gelogen. Und sie lügen über die Ukraine" (Republikation + Leitkommentar) | Briefing 236 | Geopolitik, Ukrainekrieg

https://derwahlberliner.com/2023/07/09/chris-hedges-sie-haben-uber-afghanistan-gelogen-sie-haben-uber-den-irak-gelogen-und-sie-lugen-uber-die-ukraine-republikation-leitkommentar-briefing-236-geopolitik-ukrainekrieg/

"The brutal murder of Tyre Nichols by five Black Memphis police officers should be enough to implode the fantasy that identity politics and diversity will solve the social, economic and political decay that besets the United States. Not only are the former officers Black, but the city’s police department is headed by Cerelyn Davis, a Black woman. None of this helped Nichols, another victim of a modern-day police lynching."

#ChrisHedges, 2023

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/woke-imperialism

🤔

“Does science have the capacity to recognized the sacred?”

Vous avez 1h30; 500 mots maximum.

https://youtu.be/TYB6tHKZ2-0?t=796 #ChrisHedges #RobUrie #capitalism

The saga continues:)

Great interview with #cornelWest on #BadFaith with #BrianaJoyGray #presidentialNomintation #ChrisHedges

I'm legitimately shocked that there is not more excitement about this

https://yewtu.be/watch?v=ZA7v4VoZU4I

https://scheerpost.com/2023/06/11/chris-hedges-requiem-for-our-species/

I wish I could say Chris Hedges is just a doomer, but…well, he is, and he's kind of right, unless we stop shit.

Unless WE stop shit.

#ClimateCatastrophe #climate #ChrisHedges

#ChrisHedges on #Weapons to #Ukraine, #Military Buildup to #China and #Pentagon Spending
https://youtu.be/x1b_2alnGNo

@frankie @Radical_EgoCom a good complement of this diagram is this #ChrisHedges article about Matt Taibbi https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-democratic-partys-crucifixion?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web

#ChrisHedges interviews one of #ExtinctionRebellion's founders who was just released from jail for publicly calling for disruption of London roadways.
https://scheerpost.com/2023/04/23/extinction-rebellions-roger-hallam-its-not-the-climate-its-the-system-the-chris-hedges-report

The Hypocrisy of the Christian Church

This is a talk I gave on April 6 at a protest at Princeton Theological Seminary demanding the removal of hedge fund billionaire Michael Fisch as chair of the seminary's trustee board.

https://open.substack.com/pub/chrishedges/p/the-hypocrisy-of-the-christian-church

#ChrisHedges #Chros #Hedges

The question is, at what point are enough people going to have a breaking point in terms of their own #economic plight? At what point will they say enough is enough? When that happens, is a #TeaParty type enough or [Senator Robert M.] La Follette or #EugeneDebs type enough?”

— The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress by #ChrisHedges
https://a.co/h6b9zsg

#books #bookstodon #quotes #USA #UnitedStates

https://www.thedailybeast.com/im-a-former-russian-tv-anchor-right-wing-media-mimics-russian-media #ChrisHedges hosts a show featuring “dissident voices,” dedicated to the cause of anti-imperialism, yet has failed to even mention Russia’s actual attempted authoritarian land grab of a democracy. #PutinInvasion #PutinsWar #PutinWarCrimes

'“Red Rosa now has vanished too…” Bertolt Brecht wrote of the murdered socialist Rosa Luxemburg. “She told the poor what life is about, And so the rich have rubbed her out.”'

#ChrisHedges #RosaLuxemburg #BertholdBrecht #UkraineWar #MIK

https://www.pressenza.com/2023/02/talk-by-chris-hedges-at-rage-against-the-war-machine-rally-in-washington-d-c/

A good replay of the Rage Against the War Machine protest in Washington #DC today, Feb 19th.

This 1 was mic'd well & has a steady camera.

https://rumble.com/v2a3i10-rage-against-the-war-machine-anti-war-rally-live-news-coverage-.html

Speakers:
#RonPaul
#JimmyDore
#TusliGabbard
#DennisKucinich
#ScottHorton
#AnnWright
#CynthuaMcKinney
#ChrisHedges
#GeraldCelente
#RogerWaters
#DavidSwanson
#DanielMcAdams
#GarlandNixon
#MaxBlumenthal
#KimIversen
#JacksonHinkle

& many more

https://rageagainstwar.com/#Speakers

#RageAgainstWarMachine

#RageAgaintTheWarMachine

@adam @Johncdvorak

It's why they killed Fred Hampton. #ChrisHedges
https://scheerpost.com/2023/02/12/chris-hedges-there-are-no-permanent-allies-only-permanent-power