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Most revealing pandemic report thus far:
XRTV Interview: Chris Hedges on Coronavirus, Climate and What Next?
He tells us Covid-19 is the apocalypse, or rather its most obvious part, and he warns us it will cause "profound social dislocation" and confirms what most of us already suspect – that the pandemic’s Neoliberal-inflicted consequences are already proving unimaginably worse than our murderously self-protective Capitalist overlords will ever dare admit.
He tells us Covid-19 is the apocalypse, or rather its most obvious part, and he warns us it will cause "profound social dislocation" and confirms what most of us already suspect – that the pandemic’s Neoliberal-inflicted consequences are already proving unimaginably worse than our murderously self-protective Capitalist overlords will ever dare admit.
Hedges' remarks begin at time-point 2:52.
I write and post the following report on his interview by this British TV channel both because of what he bravely reveals and because he remains – often at great cost to himself – one of the western world's most credible journalists.
That’s why he was purged from The New York Times and internationally blacklisted by all the world's Capitalist media many years ago.
Given that NYT is regarded as the U.S. national "newspaper of record" – given too the plutocrat-owned USian Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine is in fact and function the high-tech, for-profit copy of Josef Goebbels’ infamous Reich Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda -- Hedges’ ouster from its editorial staff was obviously quasi-official retaliation.
More specifically it was Ruling Class vengeance for his defiance of obey-or-else orders to silence his ever-more-outspoken humanitarian opposition to Capitalism, Neoliberal or otherwise, and to stop protesting the ecogenocidal dynamics – present-day slavery included – by which every form of Capitalism whether of fundamentalist Wall Street or revisionist Beijing ever-more-violently extracts its ever-deadlier profits.
Since his purge by the Mainstream Media Propaganda Machine (MMPM) canceled forever his "working press" immunity, Hedges has been jailed at a number of labor and environmental protests.
Though he has long defined himself as a "socialist," he still maintains "I am not a Marxist." Yet in the response that begins at time-point 26:12 on the video tape he now adds a pivotal qualification:
"But [...] I do think Marxist analysis of capitalism [...] is correct." Just as Marx reveals and as Engels proves with vast collections of irrefutable data, he continues, Capitalism "commodifies everything" including human beings, then exploits its human, societal and environmental victims until they collapse or die of exhaustion.
Hedges
correctly notes the Capitalists long ago proved their genocidal
white-supremacist racism by their extermination of First Nations peoples
and by their deliberate perpetuation of its murderous imperialism even
unto the allegedly post-colonial period.
"Imperialism,” he adds, is the expression of white supremacy beyond the borders of empire."
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