Good. Good evening. It's Friday, September 20th. Welcome to a new episode of

system update. Our live nightly show that airs every Monday through Friday at

7 PM Eastern exclusively here on

Rumbull the free speech alternative to YouTube tonight.

As I often say on the show one of the purposes of the twice a week

after shows that we do for our local's community is to hear your suggestions from

suggestions from our viewers about future topics we should cover and

future guests we should invite on and without doubt the person whom our viewers

have most frequently and vocally demanded that we speak

to is the former New York Times reporter turned independent media powerhouse Chris Hedges.

Why haven't you put Chris Hedges on?

What is Chris Hedges coming on?

What can we do to help you get Chris Hedges on?

And we've been helpfully hectored for months this way

by our loyal viewers.

Now the reality is that I am a long time fan of Chris Hedges' work.

I was reading it even before I entered journalism and both he and we have been trying for

months to find a time where he can come on. The stars finally align this week and we sat down

with him for a full hour just a

couple days ago in a wide-ranging discussion about wars past and present,

bipartisan foreign policy dogma, corporate media repression, state propaganda, the 2024 election, and so much more.

There are really very few people in Western journalism who understand the Middle East

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