“War destroys all systems that sustain and nurture life–familial, economic, cultural, political, environmental, and social,” Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges writes. “Once war begins, no one, even those nominally in charge of waging war, can guess what will happen, how the war will develop, how it can drive armies and nations towards suicidal folly.” In this urgent, unscheduled segment of The Marc Steiner Show, Marc talks with Hedges about the path that led to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and about his firsthand experience with the horrific, inhumane reality of war.
Chris Hedges is the former Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, a Pulitzer Prize winner, and a columnist at ScheerPost. He formerly hosted the program Days of Revolt, produced by TRNN, and is the author of several books, including America: The Farewell Tour, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America, and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning.
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The invasion a crime of self defense
What is the alternative ?
15 years of warning
I don’t suppose the coup had anything to do with it 😂😂😂
I realise that I maybe in a political minority and that the majority of the electorate in Western style democracy but still astounds me that the voting public largely support government policy and believe the rhetoric spewed out from a heavily biased media that supports white supremacy and increasing expansion of Western economic power. Am I correct? Or, is the media so effective that the only view is white is right or West is the Best? I'm a Christian by faith and cannot support the phobia towards the Third World. I find the electorate, the government and the media repugnant in the extreme, it runs contrary to all ethics and moral sense. I appreciate the risks that people like Chris Hedges and Abby Martin are taking in voicing an alternative point of understanding. I maybe naive but I was raised to seek truth at all costs. I want to relocate to Russia as prejudice towards Slavs is growing and if my life be taken I want to die in Russia which is my homeland. Das Va Danya comrades.
Never tire of listening to what Chris Hedges has to say.
Hedges is a fine journalist. His reminder of the fact that Russia was double crossed is an uncomfortable truth as is the role of the military industrial complex in the failure to disband NATO and the present conflict in the Ukraine.
Ukraine is Russia and Russia is Ukraine.
The artificial division between them is created by the enemies of Russia.
Prayers for peace
"A conspiracy to turn America into a Christian nation." – EMPIRE OF ILLUSION
America was literally dedicated to Christianity, which is why the Pledge of Allegiance has "under God," and the Constitution has Rights "granted to you by your Creator."
Fascism was a pro-pagan anti-christian spiritual way of life, yet y'all are going to give a platform to a man that doesn't even know what Fascism is.
It's literally Pagan Socialism, as defined by both Benito Mussolini, and Adolf Hitler… the literal founders of Fascism.
War violates the Commandment, "Thou shalt not kill." If any man professes to be pro-war, he's in violation of this basic principle.
Started off as a good non biased debate but as usual turned into a anti Russian narrative
to refer to the situation i Ukraine as a war crime, suggests the speaker of statement, misses the history of this…
Zionists killed first. They r the global enemy. They do not fet mourned
FALSE STATEMENT: “Once war begins, no one, even those nominally in charge of waging war, can guess what will happen, how the war will develop, how it can drive armies and nations towards suicidal folly.” The Banksters Profit from all sides. The Banksters loan the government and military industry money, the profits they make they invest in medical supplies to profit more… Once the war is over, the banksters buy up whole destroyed cities for pennies on the dollar – what is the going price of a pile of rubble and dead bodies ? Then the banksters invest in the reconstruction, and flip the properties for even more profits. Our suffering is their riches. All Wars are Banksters Wars. Bankers + Gangsters = Banksters. Predatory Institutions.
King and country, freedom cry
God and glory do or die
Propaganda, spin and lie
Who are you fighting for
You do the shooting, they do the looting
You do the killing, they do the drilling
You do the dying, they do the lying
All the way to the bank, you can hear them crying
Sell the arms, suppress the truth
Create the fear, invent the proof
Wave the flag, don't tell the youth
Who they are fighting for
Weapons dealing, profiteering
Country stealing, ethnic cleaning
Asset stripping, oil dripping
Architects of war.
Wars never just happen they are planned, History has proven this
4:45 Only one of the three companies Chris Hedges mentioned has increased in value since the start of Russias invasion Lockheed Martin and it has not doubled in value, Raytheon has not increased significantly same goes for Boeing. I agree with a lot of what Chris Hedges says but not a whole lot when it comes to defense.
Corruption and profiteering is part of it, but the other part is ideological and the way in which domestic politics (re russia hysteria) has hijacked foreign policy and it's extremely dangerous.
Mark Steiner is an insufferable champagne socialist it's hard to take him seriously.
"U.S.A feeding the war machine". Exactly as you said Mr Hedges.
Russia would not have attacked had it not been for US audacity overtaking Ukraine and supportung Neo-Nazis in banning Russian language and killing 14,500 of them in Donbas.
Ukraine was a willing candidate to be a USEFUL IDIOT, as US calls them. And US takes full advantage of it for their own interests. Military industry is a lucrative business, after all. The real goal was to break up Russia and loot resource rich Siberia.
That's why US didn't want friendship with Russia, because you can't do that to a friend. Even criminals the likes of US don't do that. But even then they can turn it around and attack, once they cook up a sob story how they have to attack for humanitarian reasons to justufy their crime.
Trust criminals.
US is a criminal/terrorist establishment. Full stop.
No shit.
It should be illegal to sell weapons for profit.
You would think having discovered the propaganda surrounding Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan, Syria and Libya people in the US would be more open to the rational analysis. We are a headline nation and most of the population is content to be told what to think and when to think it.