[Peace] Chris Hedges interview with Jimmy Dore is highly worthwhile

[J.B. Nicholson]

I wrote:
> Coming soon:
> Jimmy Dore interviews Chris Hedges: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sejW3NMzogo is 
> live now and the archived video URL should be available soon and promises to offer 
> some interesting analysis on recent political events including the US bailing out big 
> businesses, why the largest bloc of registered American voters don't vote for POTUS, 
> and whether anyone who voted for the bailout CARES bill (now law) will get voted out 
> of office for doing so without even trying to get a recorded vote.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpa7GR-EyF0 is this video now and it is highly 
recommended. I'm including this interview in my list of recommended videos for News 
from Neptune & AWARE on the Air timeslots also.

This interview offers sharp criticism of the so-called progressive Democrats, 
TruthDig (where Hedges recently went on strike and lost his job), collaborator media, 
and more. It should be clear by now that the US desperately needs Medicare for All 
now despite Democratic party elected officials not calling out Nancy Pelosi (who is 
firmly against Medicare for All guaranteeing no such bill will reach the floor of the 
House), or giving into HMOs by saying capitulation talk like "Let me be clear: I am 
not proposing that we pass Medicare for All in this moment. That fight continues into 
the future." as Sen. Sanders did without identifying why, when "the future" is, or 
what that fight would be. Members of "The Squad" who made choices that did nothing -- 
not nothing effective, but nothing at all -- to stymie or delay adopting the CARES 
Act which is an enormous corporate bailout. But you won't find proper coverage of 
these things in many places nowadays.



Note: https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/ is your friend; this program is useful to 
download videos from all sorts of websites including YouTube. Downloading the video 
means you can play the video at any time on any system, even if YouTube's censorious 
policies kick in. You can use the program to keep up with updates. The program's 
complete source code is available under a free software license, so feel free to run, 
inspect, modify, and share the program. VLC (https://www.videolan.org/) is also a 
highly capable audio/video player that runs on every modern OS.



Videos that challenge the establishment narrative (regardless of effectiveness) have 
a way of disappearing from sites like YouTube. Uploaders compound this problem by 
uploading to only one sharing website (often just YouTube or just Vimeo because those 
sites pay uploaders for popular videos), sometimes even for videos the uploader can't 
or doesn't intend to make money from.

YouTube, like any private publisher, has the right and power to decide what it will 
publish and when. Apparently YouTube still finds it necessary to put a seemingly 
friendly face on their discrimination by claiming the site is keeping people away 
from harm -- YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki[1] said she wanted to stop "misinformation on 
the platform" by banning "[a]nything that would go against World Health Organization 
recommendations [which] would be a violation of our policy". These policies have 
historically been enforced capriciously, allowing establishment-friendly outlets to 
publish lies while silencing smaller independent publishers who also sometimes spread 
lies. CNN's YouTube account is up and running even after it published lies that 
helped foment the Venezuelan coup attempts (like those debunked by The Grayzone 
including one about Venezuelan grocery stores having no food available), or when CNN 
claimed that DPRK/North Korean leader Kim Jong Un's "health is in grave danger [...] 
following a recent surgery" citing an unnamed source (a "US official with direct 
knowledge"). NBC later piled on with a tweet they've since unpublished[2]. South 
Korea, China, and The Pentagon have now dismissed these rumors. But in August 2018 
YouTube participated in a coordinated silencing of Infowars publisher Alex Jones' 
social media accounts with Facebook, Spotify, Apple, and others. This was also 
referenced in the aforementioned Jimmy Dore interview with Chris Hedges.


[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586
[2] See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCk0PVYphRU for more on this.