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

[Karen Aram]

I’m listening to it now on my tablet. It’s absolutely the best podcast/interview ever, most informative connecting the dots, and covering almost everything. If one is to only listen/watch one political discussion this year, this is it.



> On Apr 25, 2020, at 13:46, J.B. Nicholson via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> [1] https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-52388586
> [2] See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MCk0PVYphRU for more on this.
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