Chris Hedges On Ukraine, Russia, NATO & Why We Shouldn't Arm Ukraine

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Katie Halper

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🗓️ 1 March 2022

⏱️ 24 minutes

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For the full discussion, extra content & to help make this program possible, please join us on Patreon at: https://www.patreon.com/thekatiehalpershow Direct link to this full discussion: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770 Pulitzer Prize–winning Journalist Chris Hedges talks about Russia, Ukraine, Nato expansion and his experience on the ground reporting from Eastern Europe during the fall of the Soviet Union. Then Phyllis Bennis, of the Institute of Policy Studies, talks about what needs to happen next. Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America show On Contact. Link to Chris' article on Russia/ Ukraine “Chronicle of a War Foretold” at Sheer Post - https://scheerpost.com/2022/02/24/hedges-the-chronicle-of-a-war-foretold/ Included in the full discussion at: https://www.patreon.com/posts/chris-hedges-on-63210770, along with the rest of the discussion with Chris Hedges, Katie also speaks with Phyllis Bennis. Phyllis Bennis is a fellow of the Institute for Policy Studies, where she directs the New Internationalism project. Her books include Before & After: US Foreign Policy and the War on Terror. In 2001 she helped found the U.S. Campaign for Palestinian Rights, and now serves on the national board of Jewish Voice for Peace. Her latest piece on Ukraine appears in Foreign Policy in Focus. Link to Phyllis' latest piece: https://fpif.org/putins-invasion-of-ukraine-is-illegal-and-wrong-respond-with-diplomacy-not-war/

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0:40.6	Hello everyone, hello and welcome to The Katie Helper Show. We are so excited to be here tonight.
0:46.5	We have an amazing show. We have two amazing guests. We have Chris Hedges joining us and then we
0:51.9	also will have Phyllis Benis joining us and they have two recent pieces that are both just
0:57.2	excellent pieces about what's happening now in Russia and Ukraine and how we got here and also
1:03.4	what is to be done, so to speak, moving forward. Chris Hedges just, everyone probably knows this,
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1:34.0	with Yasha Levine, the Soviet American immigrant writer who talks about Russia, Ukraine,
1:39.4	NATO, the as of battalion, the neo-Nazi battalion, and I actually recorded that with him Wednesday
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