I was just informed by Max Alvarez, the Editor-in-Chief at The Real News, that they will no longer run my show. The reason for the cancellation, he said, is that my critiques of Biden, especially for the genocide in Gaza, jeopardizes his nonprofit status. My last show with Dennis Kucinich, who is ru...
Hedges is a Christian Socialist, his idea of a Socialist revolution is for a whole lot of martyrs to die lol, very Idealist. I remember he did a panel on Lenin, during a LeftForum panel, with others including Richard Wolff, the majority of Panelist were positive about Lenin and the Russian Revolution, but Hedges was absolutely on Lenin and the Russian Revolution.
Hedges can be a clown, I first came aware of him during the Occupy movement, he wrote a very lib article about "violence/antifa" destroying the occupy movement. The funniest part of the article was that he equated swearing at cops a form of violence lol.
What kind of Christian Socialist? The liberal ones? these are known to definitely be idealistic pacifists. (sorry im from brazil i lack a lot of knowledge about american politics)
It's going to be wild to see all of the draconian laws being passed in the US to make it illegal to criticise the state and they'll still be banging on about how much more "free" they are than all those "authoritarian countries."
Fun fact as a reminder: liberals, Biden leading the way to hell, absolutely could have had their imperialist cake and eaten it too. All they had to do really was declare on October 8th something like "blah blah horrible day for Israel blah blah we understand they will retaliate on some select targets that we've reviewed with them in Gaza. However: we've made it extremely clear this is to be only a handful of targets taken out after which a deal will be made with Hamas to release prisoners held in Israel for those kidnapped. The US will work with the UN to ensure there is no retaliation upon the innocents of Gaza and Bibi has agreed to immediately begin prosecution against those who have made genocidal statements in the wake of yesterday's events." They could probably do some shit like that, maybe agree to restrict less shit into Gaza, and be "back to normal" in a week or two.
But Biden fed into this bullshit from the jump. I'll never forget when he came out after Oct 7 and just blatantly lied about the already proven lie about beheaded babies. I mean he's always been a piece of shit, etc. but when he said that it was just confirmation of the worst fears about Israeli retaliation. That the US would not force them to restrain at all and in fact was practically encouraging the genocide as if the US had been attacked.
Biden and his advisors very easily could've had their dead babies, just less of them, and they could've maintained the siege on Gaza, maybe less restrictive than before. But instead of yelling heel at the dog they just took the collar off and let the dog run free for 7 months now.
I don't know how Trump would've handled things, but I want to cope and feel like his authoritarian tendencies would mean he'd absolutely not let the likes of Bibi or his ministers cuck the president of the US like they've done to Biden at every possible chance. He doesn't give a shit about Israel, so it'd be easier for him to just be like "excuse me, Bibi. I'm the boss. You're fired. Stop bombing."
I dunno. What I do know is the entire blob is doing some shit that we here all knew was coming one day, but I thought it would be "next time" like they'd pass these Nazi laws in between Israel's genocides. They're just openly doing it, right now, when even liberals, when they're sobbing themselves to sleep after hate-masturbating to the idea of being able to talk shit about a POTUS again next year, can see the most obvious shit ever. Even conservatives cannot deny this truth. The US is just scraping away the first amendment (already dead a while ago, but assuming this Nazi shit fully becomes law, and why would anyone think otherwise when they just broke the law to ban an app a couple weeks ago). The fifth has been a coffin full of nails... like someone shot a machine nail gun at the coffin labeled "5th"... since the couple years after 9/11 when the Patriot Act passed (which was inconceivable at the time, I remember. We all "knew" it would be fully struck down. Just like we all knew Bush would go to prison... at least Cheney!.....) and it's such a joke now that no one even bothers pointing that of fucking course they're spying on protestors. Not IOF spies (yeah them too I guess) but just straight up US three letter agents spying on US citizens engaging in fully legal protest. The liberals told us that stopped decades ago...! You got "uh, why the fuck isn't this dumbass in jail already?" Mayor dipshit Adams sending in a train of KKK motherfuckers to club teenagers on the head and then talk about KHAMAS locks on doors.
All of that... for a foreign shithole which they could've still protected from itself but for one old man and (presumably, because the POTUS is always controlled it seems) his team of "advisors" begging for, DEMANDING the burnt flesh of babies just one more time before he dies.
The last 7 months, and especially the last couple weeks feel like one of those weeks Lenin talked about because it feels like we went from some level of hell Oct 6 to on the threshold of Tom Cotton (triggering the NSA algo right there) personally swooping in from helicopter to tear gas my entire house and then canoe me after finding out I said Israel is an apartheid state- all within an instant. We all knew this was precarious, this was coming, etc. but, well, it came. Didn't even give a warning. Just came everywhere. Tough to predict where this heads. I think it's going very very badly for Zionism, but, apparently those in charge are determined to make sure everyone goes down the drain with SS Israel as it sinks under its own hubris... maybe the US is the Titanic and Israel is the iceberg. We'll all be joining those billionaire submersible (remember that?) dumbasses in Poseidon's realm soon, perhaps.
It's honestly fucking incredible how much he rides for Israel. I admit to knowing he was shit on Israel before he was elected, but I didn't truly understand how evil he was on the topic until that beheaded babies speech. I cannot emphasize enough how much of a personal "oh... fuck..." glimpse of the future I got when he said that shit. I really really really despise him. I hate Trump too, but Biden in the last 7 months has made me become almost religious but in a pure hatred type of way. Just to hope there's a hell for him to burn in. I didn't think I could despise a politician more than I did Dick Cheney or Rumsfeld or Obama or Hillary... and then Biden came back in with some kind of resurrected corpse of Rumsfeld and called it Kirby. Blood magic.
Man fuck every warrior bullshit artist. The US is literally making laws to stop citizens from speaking out against the state and libs pretend their party isnt fascist too
I used to watch The Real News regularly. It was ran by Paul Jay, a Leftist and Anti-Zionist, he even did a whole interview series with Finkelstein about his life and struggles, it's good watch and pretty funny concerning Finkelstein's Maoist period. Criticisms of US-Israel and the Dems was a regular on TheRealNews. They even had a former long time Black Panther Party inmate as a producer when he was released: