Chris Hedges (They’re Destroying The Country!)

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Russell Brand

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🗓️ 23 February 2023

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Russell chats to Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, Chris Hedges. Chris spent nearly two decades as a correspondent reporting from more than 50 countries. He spent 15 years at the New York Times, before teaching in the New Jersey prison system. He's also had an entire series of work wiped from YouTube for his association with Russia Today. In this conversation Russell and Chris talk about the reasons behind why we always seem to be in a permanent state of war, the profiteering from the military war machine and censorship in todays' media. For access to watch guest interviews, join weekly meditations and see an exclusive show... become a member of the Stay Free Community: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to COMMUNITY Festival 2023 - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0	Hello there, you awakening wonders. Thanks for joining me for Stay Free with Russell Brand.
0:04.7	Wherever you're watching this, you can only see the whole show exclusively on Rumble.
0:08.9	After 10 minutes, we click over exclusive so that free speech can flow,
0:13.4	because today we're talking to Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges.
0:17.7	Chris spent nearly two decades as a correspondent reporting in over 50 countries,
0:21.5	15 years at the New York Times in the good old days of journalism. He has personally
0:26.2	been subject to censorship with YouTube wiping out an entire series of his shows, I believe,
0:31.8	because it was on Russia today, but included conversations with such right-wing fascists as
0:36.9	Edward Snowden and Slavoszhech.
0:39.7	Today we're going to be talking about the perpetual state of war, the conflict between
0:43.9	Ukraine and is it a proxy war? When did it actually begin? We'll be talking about the
0:48.0	escalation of conflict between Western nations and China. The impossibility of alliances outside of centralized
0:57.0	establishment politics and when the liberal left went wrong. Stay free with Russell Brand.
1:04.0	See it first on Rumble. Thanks for joining us, Chris. It's lovely to talk to you again.
1:08.0	Thanks, Russell. Chris, we get straight into this new permanent war state that we appear to be living in.
1:15.9	It felt like during the 60s when there was a Vietnam conflict and the Korea wars,
1:21.3	this was a period that had been committed to history,
1:24.8	that there was no appetite to see American bodies returning home posthumously.
1:32.3	But since then, it seems that America has been continually engaged in conflict
1:37.5	and is the repackaging of these conflicts that has changed, the marketing of these wars.
1:43.2	Why is it that there is a necessity, whether
1:45.2	it's Afghanistan, Ukraine or a potential forthcoming Taiwan-oriented conflict between the US and
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