01-07-2012, 10:24 AM
(This post was last modified: 01-07-2012, 01:17 PM by Peter Lemkin.)
Its long - but worth EVERY MOMENT of it! Chris Hedges is hardly with equal, IMHO! I've just listened to this 3 hour feast for the third time and found new nuggets. Hedges has only one small blind spot...but so small I care not to even discuss it here...it is, in the end, not important. his morality - his bravery - his willingness to speak truth to power is so rare and his analysis so clear. Listen. Take notes on the other thinkers. movers and shakers, as well as the books he mentions. Were this a Nation of 'Hedges' we'd not be in the dire, 'near-the-apocalypse' position we are now in.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass