The savagery in Iran, Lebanon, and Gaza is the same savagery we face at home.

Those carrying out the genocide, mass slaughter, and unprovoked war are the same people

dismantling our democratic institutions.

The Iranians, Lebanese, and Palestinians know there is no appeasing these monsters.

The global elites believe nothing, they feel nothing, They cannot be trusted. They exhibit the core

traits of all psychopaths. They disdain as weakness the virtues of empathy, honesty, compassion,

and self-sacrifice. They live by the creed of me, me, me.

That's Chris Hedges, and this is Alternative Radio. I'm David Barsamian. This edition of AR

features Chris Hedges on savagery at home and abroad.

A new world order is emerging that is dangerously more wicked and destructive

than its predecessor.

Led by the United States,

it is marked by savagery at home and abroad.

The old order has collapsed, buried under the weight of its contradictions,

mendacities, and hypocrisies. The so-called rules-based international system was never what it was

designed to be, but it had some merit, such as the United Nations and its agencies.

Today, that framework is gone. The U.S. is the imperial hegemon, the global robocop.

Rules, laws, treaties, agreements are all shattered. Washington, with its trillion-dollar military budget,

commands the waves and the skies. Law, UN resolutions, judgments from the International Court

of Justice are for designated enemies. The master and his servants are exempt. Our media, with few exceptions,

are stenographers to power. Language has been hollowed out. For example, we have statesmen and leaders.

Our foes have hardliners and strongmen. We have administrations. They have regimes.

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