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Chris Hedges On US Imperialism, Zionism & The Rise Of Fascism In The US

by Labor Video Project
WorkWeek interviews Chris Hedges about imperialism, Zionism and the growth of fascist and rightwing forces.
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Journalist and writer Chris Hedges is interviewed about US imperialism in Latin America, Iraq and the role of Israel and Zionism.

He also discusses the growth of fascism and
fundamentalism in the United States and the lack of a mass organized political alternative outside the Democratic Party.

Hedges also discussed the attacks on journalists including the continued incarceration of Julian Assange by the UK government.
This interview was done on 5/18/21 by WorkWeek host Steve Zeltzer.

WorkWeek
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Labor Video Project
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§Chris Hedges Spoke About The Treatment & Jailing Of Assange
by Labor Video Project
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Chris Hedges talked about the attacks and murders of journalists around the world and the continued imprisonment of Julian Assange by the British government violating their own laws.
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by Science Means Knowledge
Many thanks for yet another excellent video interview with a public figure. Chris Hedges is certainly very literate but he has not done his homework on some important issues.

1. The US government is the Israel lobby. Israel has been an American settler colony and military base since its inception in 1948 to protect US oil profits in the Middle East and all other profits around the world. Those parties, such as Peace & Freedom Party and the Green Party, that do not accept corporate contributions are not bothered by the wealthy Zionists as they are not bothered by any other corporate contributors and thus can speak truth to power.

2. East Germany, as with the rest of the socialist world, was overthrown by the CIA and its so-called "color revolutions." These "mass protests" were all staged. As soon as the people of East Germany had to confront the West German government daily in a united Germany, they realized they had been lied to. Fortunately, because Germany has had socialized medicine since 1883, and because Germany is a staging point to attempt to attack Russia, Germany's life expectancy and infant mortality statistics remain excellent. US imperialism could not afford the capitalist catastrophe in Germany it allowed under Boris Yeltsin in Russia, only allowing such a disaster so as to weaken the former Soviet Union.

3. It is now almost 20 years since the 9/11/01 Inside Job, the American Reichstag Fire, perpetrated for the same reason: To make war abroad to maximize the profits of the oil companies and munitions makers and to perpetrate fascism at home to build a base to support such wars. Perhaps because Hedges is a Presbyterian minister he thinks he can ignore the obvious science of the 9/11 Inside Job. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges

Since Chris Hedges is so well known as a voice of peace, and this willful ignorance is still all too common, the facts of the 9/11 Inside Job, in very brief form, are stated here:

NO AIR DEFENSE means it was an inside job, and if you need more, CONTROLLED DEMOLITION of the 110-story Twin Towers and 47-story Building 7, which Building 7 was not hit by a plane, are further evidence of an inside job, all perpetrated by the US military with the planes under remote control guided by the military; THERE WERE NO HIJACKERS on those planes and 9 OF THE SO-CALLED HIJACKERS WERE ALIVE ON 9/12/01. One demolition substance used was nanothermite, only used by the military. In the dust of the World Trade Center Towers was found thermite, a military incendiary substance, was created by SCP Partners, a Mossad-run private equity company concerned with “security,” which had in its portfolio a company called Megallurg Holdings, Inc. capable of producing and applying an advanced form of super-thermite. This company was run by former Israel Prime Minister and Defense Minister Ehud Barak. Israel is part of the American military machine and so it is no surprise that Barak was involved in the 9/11 Inside Job. Bombs were exploding in the many basements of the buildings that were demolished. The buildings were shut down many times before 9/11/01, including the weekend before, clearly to plant the bombs and demolition explosives. The entire World Trade Center was run by a security outfit led by Marvin Bush, a brother of the then president, and Wirt Walker, III, a cousin of same. The Pentagon was hit by construction explosives on the side that was under construction that housed bookkeepers about to reveal the till-tapping, as well as by either a small military plane or a military missile. The hole in the ground in Pennsylvania had no bodies, said the coroner; the plane that supposedly crashed there landed at the Cleveland airport. The CIA doubles were incompetent pilots and drunken womanizers, clearly not religious, and obviously not capable of the extraordinary maneuver over the Pentagon or flying huge heavy planes, which planes were at least half empty, and thus their flights would normally have been cancelled as being not profitable. There is much more evidence that 9/11 was an Inside Job, all perpetrated by the US ruling class and carried out by the US military under the direction of Bush, Cheney, Rumsfield, Rice and Giuliani.

We must always ask WHO BENEFITS? Only the US capitalist class had the MOTIVE, MEANS AND OPPORTUNITY to carry out this heinous crime, killing some 3,000 people instantly, and only the US capitalist class benefited from the 9/11 Inside Job. The government’s anti-science conspiracy theory must be rejected as we reject Nazi Germany’s lies about who perpetrated the Reichstag Fire. With the Communist bogeyman gone as of the 1991 demise of the Soviet Union perpetrated by the CIA, the ruling class had to come up with a new excuse for their profitable war machine. They spent 10 years perfecting drone planes and imported their puppet Israel’s scapegoating of Muslims, all with the help of Israelis. There was NO ATTACK FROM OUTSIDE THE UNITED STATES; THIS WAS AN INSIDE JOB, AN AMERICAN REICHSTAG FIRE.

Chris Hedges and all other who claim to be for peace need to view the videos,
http://loosechange911.com/

10 Disturbing 9/11 Facts: 6 minutes at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cnht6NCDtJI

AND READ THE WEBSITE OF THE SCIENTISTS:
Architects & Engineers for 9/11 Truth at
https://www.ae911truth.org/

It also helps to brush up on high school science at:
http://911speakout.org/ (physics tutorial)

For all investigative reporters and anyone else, please go to
http://www.911truth.org/911-truth-statement/
Its excellent investigative questions are:
1. Why were standard operating procedures for dealing with hijacked airliners not followed that day?
2. Why were the extensive missile batteries and air defenses reportedly deployed around the Pentagon not activated during the attack?
3. Why did the Secret Service allow Bush to complete his elementary school visit, apparently unconcerned about his safety or that of the schoolchildren?
4. Why hasn’t a single person been fired, penalized, or reprimanded for the gross incompetence we witnessed that day?
5. Why haven’t authorities in the U.S. and abroad published the results of multiple investigations into trading that strongly suggested foreknowledge of specific details of the 9/11 attacks, resulting in tens of millions of dollars of traceable gains?
6. Why has Sibel Edmonds, a former FBI translator who claims to have knowledge of advance warnings, been publicly silenced with a gag order requested by Attorney General Ashcroft and granted by a Bush-appointed judge?
7. How could Flight 77, which reportedly hit the Pentagon, have flown back towards Washington D.C. for 40 minutes without being detected by the FAA’s radar or the even superior radar possessed by the US military?
8. How were the FBI and CIA able to release the names and photos of the alleged hijackers within hours, as well as to visit houses, restaurants, and flight schools they were known to frequent?
9. What happened to the over 20 documented warnings given our government by 14 foreign intelligence agencies or heads of state?
10. Why did the Bush administration cover up the fact that the head of the Pakistani intelligence agency was in Washington the week of 9/11 and reportedly had $100,000 wired to Mohamed Atta, considered the ringleader of the hijackers?
11. Why did the 911 Commission fail to address most of the questions posed by the families of the victims, in addition to almost all of the questions posed here?
12. Why was Philip Zelikow chosen to be the Executive Director of the ostensibly independent 911 Commission although he had co-authored a book with Condoleezza Rice?



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