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The Agenda welcomes Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges, who over the past decade and a half has made his name as a columnist, activist and author. He’s been a vociferous public critic of presidents on both sides of the American political spectrum, and his latest book, ‘America, the Farewell Tour,’ is nothing short of a full-throated throttling of the political, social, and cultural state of his country.
38 Comments on "The Collapse of the American Empire?"
Cloggie on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 2:41 pm
That video was the final straw that broke the back of the resident camel named Davy. It gave him a heart attack.
MASTERMIND on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 2:49 pm
Clogg
The entire global economy is going to collapse when the oil shortage hits..
Sleepwalking Into The Next Oil Crisis
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rrapier/2018/03/23/is-the-world-sleepwalking-into-an-oil-crisis/#509edc8b44cf
Plantagenet on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 4:39 pm
A very boring video. Not recommended. Cheers!
Anonymouse1 on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 6:15 pm
You are very boring Plantretard. Not recommended. Cheerio Moron!
fmr-paultard on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 6:45 pm
very sad, this only gives ammunication to anontard to attack supertad. i’m a tard and a former paultard. i do basic tard research . you hear people compare collapses to roman empire but they refers to barbarian germanic tribes attacking and sacking rome. this is because the worldview of white conquerors must be maintained.
in reality the sacking of constantinople mirrors that of conditions in usa almost exactly. this is very recent and record keeping was unmatched. perhaps supremetard no longer bless america . there’s historical precedence
https://youtu.be/ASGvE_A3wB0?t=9673
but one also remembers hedges is just a tard who peddles his wares to other tards. he was very active around 2008/2012 and a major force for emergencence of the paultards, myself included. there’s nothing new here if you look at it from another perspective
makati1 on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 6:49 pm
A perfect 30 minute picture of the US today, which started in the early 70s, as I have always mentioned. He pretty much sees what I do as America’s future. Are you prepared?
makati1 on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 6:53 pm
TARD, or is it TURD? Trying to put down the messenger is only a form of denial. I see his vision of today’s America, and its future, to be very accurate. But, I view it from outside the US MSM Iron Curtain. Maybe you drink too much of that government Koolaid? It appears so.
Bloomer on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 8:21 pm
Tax cuts that aren’t paid for on top of a already ballooning deficit. Climate Apocalypse around the bend and the doomsday clock is at one minute to midnight before nuclear armageddon breaks lose.
I went for a walk in the mountains today and breath in some fresh air. Screw the future.
Fact Checker on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 9:58 pm
“his country” ? Hedges is Canadian isn’t he ?
Fact Checker on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 10:05 pm
Sorry. He’s as American as Apple Pie.
makati1 on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 10:46 pm
“…the next economic disaster will be more substantial than all the bubbles of the past 100 years combined, and the intent on the part of the banking elites is to obtain complete global centralization of all assets and resources.”
http://www.alt-market.com/articles/3525-how-the-trade-war-helps-hide-central-bank-sabotage-of-the-economy
As I have been saying, the collapse of the American economy is deliberate. The above quote tells you why. A One World Government requires that no country has the power/resources to challenge it. That is also why Russia is now the “enemy” of the Us (the elite). It has all those unrecovered resources.
How will it be done?
1) The trade war provides cover for de-dollarization:…
2) The trade war provides a rationale for dumping US Treasuries:…
3) The trade war provides cover for inflation:…
4) The trade war provides cover for a renewed market crash:…
5) The trade war provides cover for the demonetization of conservative ideals:…
And you thought Trump was on your side? LMAO He’s on the winning side and it isn’t you. Dollars are soon to be Charmin. Are you prepared?
Cloggie on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 10:49 pm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Hedges
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer… his most recent book: “America: The Farewell Tour” (2018).
https://www.amazon.com/America-Farewell-Tour-Chris-Hedges/dp/150115267X/ref=sr_1_1
Hedges is a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig. He is also a host for the television program On Contact on RT….. He has described himself as a socialist and more specifically as a Christian anarchist,….. Christopher Lynn Hedges was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the son of Thelma Louise (née Prince) and the Rev. Thomas Havard Hedges, a Presbyterian minister….. Hedges worked for 15 years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times….. Hedges was an early critic of the Iraq War…. In the 2008 United States presidential campaign, Hedges was a speech writer for candidate Ralph Nader.
In a March 2009 column, Hedges warned that human over-population and mass species extinction are serious problems, and that any measures to save the ecosystem will be futile unless we cut population growth…. On November 11, 2014, Hedges published an article explaining why he and his family have become vegan…. In a December 15, 2014, article, Hedges compared the actions of ISIS today to the way Israel’s founding fathers acted in the late 1940s…. 2016…Trump presidency, which he characterizes as “proto-fascist”.
In June 2014, Christopher Ketcham accused Hedges of plagiarism in an article published in The New Republic.[62][63][64] Ketcham claims that Hedges plagiarized many writers over his career, including Matt Katz, Naomi Klein, Neil Postman, Ernest Hemingway, along with Ketcham’s wife: Petra Bartosiewicz.
makati1 on Tue, 18th Sep 2018 10:58 pm
“In America Today, the Government Does Whatever It Wants ”
“That was when they suspended the Constitution. They said it would be temporary. There wasn’t even any rioting in the streets. People stayed home at night, watching television, looking for some direction. There wasn’t even an enemy you could put your finger on.”—Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid’s Tale
https://www.rutherford.org/publications_resources/john_whiteheads_commentary/suspending_the_constitution_in_america_today_the_government_does_whatever_it_wants
That easily describes today’s America. Nuff said.
print baby print on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 1:01 am
I had a hope before Switzerland referendum . I was hoping they will vote for the restriction of income of ceo-s. They are civilized nation. Unfortunately humans support greed and there is no hope for us. The story is finished this are all empty stories . We all know the truth but we have chosen to live in a lie , maybe it is the only way who knows?
Nuestro Ejército del Pueblo--NEP on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 5:45 am
When I speak to presentaions in my country about the evils of the American empire I show them the statements of this web site from President Donald Trump supporters. I say, first remember we are shit people from a shit hole country according to the words of the American President Trump and his supporters. Does Trump and his American supporters give a damn for us? These evil and greedy people only wish to steal our natural resources. This is all they want. The Americans send their child molestors to our country to prey on our children.
We hope and pray the American devils kill each other in civil war and get out and keep out of our country. These are bad, greed, selfish monsters. They choose the worst Devil Trump to run their country.
MASTERMIND on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 6:33 am
Mak
Great quote from a great book..
fmr-paultard on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 6:43 am
aswang u have weird fetishes about collapse of supertards america. when i told u you try so hard you hate me – the messenger. i have tons of bfs without moving across the pond. you try too hard you scrawny little twerp. you hate everything so it’s ok u hate america.
u hate ur family the same way i hated my mom like mollyneux told us to do when i was a paultad.
collpase is your game, america is your target. but when i told you phils is failed state u refuse to acknowledge. wiki says extrajudicial killing and power sharing are signs of failed state. i, a tard and former paultard, alone raised this point. phils share power with muslims but this doesn’t solve anything because they attacks all over phils. u know who else shared powa with muslims and failed? thailand to the malaya muslims. phils R dumb and the lack of supertards scare me.
no suicide shower plese. i enjoy supertards america thanks!
fmr-paultard on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 8:34 am
hedges is annoiintedtard all benefits of supertards (pbuh) without awesome burdens associated with it. he’s also beyond reproach. any disagreement wit hhim draw fires from tards such as aswang. best leave him roam free to peddle his warez and fleece the tards
Darrell Cloud on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 8:49 am
It is very apparent that Hedges like the rest of us is trapped in his personal echo chamber. His assertion that Brietbart is mascaraing as news while CNN’s Anderson Cooper stands in a ditch to show the world how bad the flooding is during a hurricane demonstrates his skewed view of journalism. He apparently fails to realize that the purpose of the media is to attract ears and eyes to sell an advertisement; that is what finances the medium. If it bleeds it leads. Nothing has changed in the business of journalism since the days of Pulitzer and Hearst when they launched American Imperialism with their yellow journalism that pushed us into the Spanish American War.
I agree with Hedges’ position on corporate capitalism which is nothing more than a permutation of the trusts that controlled the country in the late 19th century. American foreign policy and domestic policy has been all about business for the last century and a half. We the people and our respective states have been on this roller coaster ride since the Civil War. There is no end to this wild ride until these corporations go broke. The collapse of the world corporations is inevitable as the push and pull for resources intensifies. The resulting chaos will at some point interdict supply chains, forcing economies to become local. Picking the timing of that collapse is impossible.
His assumption that government can somehow moderate this collapse is just that, an assumption.
He clearly is at war with himself when in prior articles he laments the growth of populations while in this piece; he pushes the government programs that hire single women to have children. Nobody wants children to starve right up and until the point that they have to push their own child away from the table so that they can give a morsel to the mob at the door.
He despises the rise of populism, nationalism and racism in one breath while in the next he points out that the real unemployment rate is around 17% and that the greatest rate of suicide is among white males because there is no place for them in the current system. There is no place for them because of the never ending war on straight white males. That reality coupled with the push of international corporations to offshore production in slave labor camps in China has left Middle America destitute. That reality has caused Middle America to embrace populism.
In a sort of backhanded way, Hedges touts multiculturalism as some kind of nostrum while seeing no problem with immigrants competing for contracting welfare and jobs with Middle America. He points to the rise in opioid abuse as a symptom of the collapse of Middle America and ties that abuse to the loss of jobs. Yet somehow, he fails to see how immigration adds stress to an already failing dynamic.
He voices his personal lamentations over the history of American genocide and slavery, while to my knowledge, he has failed to pay any sizable reparations to the ancestors of either of these terrors. If he is so guilt ridden because of acts that he has never witnessed, performed by people he has never met, then let him go to the Seminole Nation and surrender all his worldly goods. At that point, I will view him as some kind of reincarnation of St. Francis of Assisi. Till then, he is nothing more than a virtue signaling twit.
Government cannot solve the problem of resource depletion and the collapse of empire. What government can do is determine who eats and who starves. Key to that determination is the disarming of the population. It is rather difficult to raid the larders of an armed populace. It is even more difficult to load them up on trains and ship them to concentration camps.
Look to your own security and look to your own supplies. Government is not your friend.
makati1 on Wed, 19th Sep 2018 7:15 pm
“Look to your own security and look to your own supplies. Government is not your friend.”
So true, Darrell, so true.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:20 am
The new Global GDP PPP 2017 pecking order.
Countries with GDP PPP > $50k
US, Germany, Holland, Norway, Switzerland, Ireland, KSA
That’s it.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e2/Countries_by_GDP_%28PPP%29_per_capita_in_2017.png
After the implosion of the US empire and evaporation of $ reserve currency, the old 2000 year old pecking order is going to be restored.
Now where did I leave my hand-rolled Cuban cigars…
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:23 am
Overlooked Sweden and Iceland
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 8:48 am
Salzburg, the day after… Chequers as dead as a dodo:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6186339/Theresa-warns-willing-force-No-Deal-Brexit-unless-EU-leaders-compromise-eight-weeks.html
‘It won’t work’: EU chief Donald Tusk torpedoes May’s Chequers plan saying it would ‘undermine the single market’ despite her plea for compromise at Salzburg summit
This could very well be the end of May and a new PM Raab, a sort of British Sarkozy, who will immediately set up very special relations with the US:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6188133/PM-faces-mounting-Tory-mutiny-Chequers-blueprint-Brexit-former-ally-brands-deluded.html
PM faces mounting Tory mutiny as former ally brands her ‘deluded’ and says her Chequers plan for Brexit is ‘dead as a dodo’
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 10:31 am
Even der Spiegel admits that the Brexit negotiations are going nowhere:
http://www.spiegel.de/politik/ausland/brexit-donald-tusk-erteilt-theresa-mays-plaenen-eine-absage-a-1229205.html
Neither the UK nor EU want delays or 2nd referendums. A no deal situation is almost certain.
The whole concept of negotiation is wrong. Brexit = Brexit, out = out.
Predictable way forward… the EU must realize it has all the cards. Where in 1918 the British could get Germany on its knees via a naval blockade, killing nearly 1 million Germans, in a war Britain masterminded, this time around continental Europe can do the reverse, without killing anybody btw.
EU should demand: already agreed upon divorce bill of 39 billion + pick and choose:
WTO – outsider
“Canada” – some privileges
“Norway” – paying member Common Market, with total access
Meanwhile close the borders for all transport (tunnel, shipping, flying) and wait for a white flag to be raised over the Isles.
If closet Remainer May falls and somebody like Raab is her successor, expect no deal to prevail and total isolation to follow, effectively the break-up of the West and end of US empire.
Not bad for the loss of merely 39 billion, that can be compensated somewhat with Gibraltar and perhaps even Scotland, not to mention several HQs, resettling in the EU (Royal Dutch Shell, jay!)
Antius on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 10:53 am
“Neither the UK nor EU want delays or 2nd referendums. A no deal situation is almost certain.
The whole concept of negotiation is wrong. Brexit = Brexit, out = out.
Predictable way forward… the EU must realize it has all the cards. Where in 1918 the British could get Germany on its knees via a naval blockade, killing nearly 1 million Germans, in a war Britain masterminded, this time around continental Europe can do the reverse, without killing anybody btw.”
Nonsense. The EU is not Europe. Britain is not leaving Europe; it is leaving the EU, which is a political creation that grew out of the EEC. It has grown political aspirations based upon Marxist idealism that are largely inappropriate for its various member states. Hence the growing unrest in Italy, Hungary, Sweden, Germany, etc.
None the less, Cloggie and others are making Brexit into something bigger than it really is. The UK will continue to trade with other European countries and continue to work alongside them on common projects. The political and economic arrangements will be different. Trying to turn this into some kind of schism of the west is ridiculous. Attempting to do so will only hasten the decline of the EU, which is already divided.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 11:11 am
“it is leaving the EU, which is a political creation that grew out of the EEC. It has grown political aspirations based upon Marxist idealism that are largely inappropriate for its various member states.”
That may have been true for the EU when it wad still in the shaddow of the US empire, but that empire is a dead man walking and the new green shoots are anything but Marxist:
https://youtu.be/1jt9MLdg3JQ
The UK can only dream of having such a leader.
Even the Dutch FM was caught saying at a private gathering that he is not aware of any peaceful multicult society:
https://youtu.be/7GsNOKW4xjk
He had to back-paddle, but he was not sacked and did not take back his words, other than saying that he deplored it if somebody was offended.
In other words, things are brewing everywhere in continental Europe, where in contrast in the UK even “populist” Farage promises to increase colored immigration to Britain, after Brexit. The real Marxists are in UK politics, much more than in continental Europe.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630847/More-black-people-allowed-Britain-leave-EU-immigration-non-issue-says-Nigel-Farage.html
Davy on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 11:28 am
Antius, the nedernazi is itching for a 20th century type war between the UK/US and Europe yet he is oblivious of the political. military, and economic connections between all of the above. The guy needs help he is off in the deep end of unreality. He is living in a fantasy world much like his Hero Hitler.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 12:40 pm
Antius, the nedernazi is itching for a 20th century type war between the UK/US and Europe yet he is oblivious of the political. military, and economic connections between all of the above. The guy needs help he is off in the deep end of unreality.
Nowhere did I say I was itching for a war between Anglos and Europe, you lying fool. The only scenario I envision for European troops to operate in North-America is to intervene in a civil war/rebellion, like in 1776, but this time not to bring one party to victory, but to separate the warring hotheads and, a detail really, to finally get rid of you marxists as our overlords.
To THAT result I admit I am itching.
https://goo.gl/images/U5qzzT
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 2:34 pm
It’s official, both Remainers and Brexiteers have declared Chequers dead:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-6186339/Theresa-warns-willing-force-No-Deal-Brexit-unless-EU-leaders-compromise-eight-weeks.html
Good comment:
https://www.newstatesman.com/politics/staggers/2018/09/chequers-was-always-doomed-leavers-can-t-blame-eu-brexit-defeating-itself
It was Xavier Bettel, the prime minister of Luxembourg, who perhaps put it best in 2016: “Before, they were in and they had many opt-outs; now they want to be out with many opt-ins.” The Leavers are merely discovering what was clear all along: there is no cost-free option for the UK – Brexit cannot be delivered in the terms that it was promised. Britain, as the EU has repeatedly stated, can be Norway (high access, low sovereignty) or it can be Canada (low access, high sovereignty). What it cannot achieve is some superior hybrid of both.
Exactly!
Britain, you’re out.
Bye, bye.
WTO is next.
You may return as “Canada” or “Norway”, your choice. We in Europe have good relations with both, so it can’t be that bad, either relationship.
If Britain is really so keen on increasing souvereignty, perhaps Canada is the preferred option.
Again, Britain maybe a European country (white, Christian) but they are not European, as there is a club they have more affinity with and that club is Anglosphere. There is nothing wrong in desiring membership of club B over club A, but is very wrong to remain member of club A with no other intent than to blow it up from within, at the benefit of club B.
De Gaulle was right, they never should have been let in in the first place, nothing but trouble. Way too many opt-outs. Handbagging, decades of insults in tabloids, references to The War based on a pack of lies.
Anglos exist on this planet to serve Jewish interests, meaning: attempting to lay the world at their feet, after which they can be abolished by said Jews through mongrelization. Sadly for the Jews, the Anglos failed to deliver, there is not going to be a planetary Greater Zion. It is all going to fall apart, thank God.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7292434/theresa-may-must-be-aware-the-eu-is-secretly-plotting-to-put-britain-through-its-darkest-hour/
THE SUN SAYS Theresa May must be aware the EU is secretly plotting to put Britain through its ‘darkest hour’
There we go again, the eternal reference to WW2. The only ones shooting themselves in the foot are the British. Nobody asked them to leave, but now that Britain wants to go, the EU shrugs and says: “there is the door”.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/7304007/eu-bitterly-divided-on-whether-to-compromise-with-theresa-may-on-brexit-as-leaders-scrutinise-chequers-plan-without-her-at-crunch-summit/
‘ONLY PLAN ON THE TABLE’ Angry Theresa May fires back at EU leaders after they claim Chequers Brexit plan ‘will NOT work’
No auntie Theresa, there are several other very workable options on the table (WTO, Canada, Norway). You overplayed your hand, we can easily march on without you.
Anonymouse1 on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 2:43 pm
Neder, is the 1,000 year Reich going to be German or Neder? What happened to the last one? Do you feel strong victimhood sentiment?
Antius on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:08 pm
So be it. There will be transition costs, but we will make our own way. Ultimately, we will be better off outside of the authoritarian straight jacket of the EU. Freedom comes at a price.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:09 pm
There was only one 1000 year reich and that was the Roman empire. Guess who destroyed that, hint: not Germans, they metely pushed over a corps.
You only know in hindsight how long a Reich lastet.
The history of the last 5 centuries tought that in a modern Euro-centric world a “top dog” get about a century:
https://goo.gl/images/3eUd8K
But the Euro-centric world no longer exists, again severely damaged by the same parasites who destroyed the Roman empire with their Christianity.
No idea how many years a next top dog will get. Who will be the next one: China? United Europe, Islam?
And no, it won’t be Germany and it certainly won’t be Holland.
I do not feel victimhood, as I unfortunately belong to a nation of (passive) perpetrators. But I do indeed feel a sense of guilt and injustice vs the Germans and that Holland could play a prominent role in the rehabilitation of them.
On top of that, the entire pack of lies are an Anglo-Zionist tool to keep Europeans down, so it is not just compassion with Germans that plays a role here.
And of course fathomless contempt for the ozark liar.
But tell me mouse1, what are your plans for after the breakup of North-America? Joining a black-nationalist group? Become a trucker in Atlanta? Doing a phd on Louis Farakhan? The possibilities are endless!
Antius on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:21 pm
The latest authoritarian ruling from the EU.
https://www.zerohedge.com/news/2018-09-18/new-eu-digital-copyright-law-could-force-online-platforms-ban-memes-across-europe
Of course, the UK government is on it’s own path to 1984. I have never pretend ed to like the UK government. In fact, I wouldn’t piss upon them if they were on fire. But I have at least some hope of changing the situation in Britain. I have no hope of changing a leadership that I don’t elect.
Antius on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:23 pm
The text on this page is screwed once again.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:29 pm
my fault, see post 3:20. The forum software cannot wrap long strings without “-“ signs in it. In this case it cannot handle underscores. It thought the string was short enough, it isn’t, not even on my iPad Pro. Should have used tinyurl. Mea culpa.
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 3:42 pm
“The latest authoritarian ruling from the EU.”
I have no judgment on the law, but would you not agree that currently with the internet around copyright basically doesn’t exist? Where should authors, video producers, musicians get their money from?
Cloggie on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 5:05 pm
The Paul McCartney approach to geopolitics could very well become reality:
https://youtu.be/r0zGVVcsbPg
New poll suggest both support for unified Ireland and Scottish independence if Brexit goes ahead:
https://www.express.co.uk/news/politics/1012455/brexit-news-northern-ireland-irish-border-scotland-independence-latest-poll
Anonymouse1 on Thu, 20th Sep 2018 5:57 pm
Hey exceptionalturd, or DUMBASS if you prefer. Feel free to stop making fake posts using my handle anytime now.
Retard