I didn't find this all that useful. In particular the author doesn't seem to care about the difference between the Fed making loans and Congress spending money, or much understanding of the...
I didn't find this all that useful. In particular the author doesn't seem to care about the difference between the Fed making loans and Congress spending money, or much understanding of the Senate's role in blocking more funding.
I'm somewhat hopeful that the Democrats might take the Senate as well as the presidency, and then it's a whole new ballgame.
I also don't see any deep "meaning" to a vote for Biden. If he wins it removes an obstacle. I don't see it creating one since I think he seems quite willing to compromise, for example with Warren on bankruptcy. Also, hiring competent leaders and listening to them would help a lot.
Right, this whole article was just bleak and the only prescription to cure that bleakness was “mass demonstrations but that may not work too so here is some more bleakness”.
Right, this whole article was just bleak and the only prescription to cure that bleakness was “mass demonstrations but that may not work too so here is some more bleakness”.
Well this was depressing. Especially when he started talking about Joe Biden. Even so I am tempted to label this as alarmist. I don't think that society is going to collapse simply because...
Well this was depressing. Especially when he started talking about Joe Biden.
Even so I am tempted to label this as alarmist. I don't think that society is going to collapse simply because everyone always says society is about to collapse and is always wrong. And while I do think that people are crazy if they really think that Trump is as good as gone, thinking we won't even have an election is even more crazy.
And as a side note, "The Truth Report" is the most vainglorious title I have ever heard.
Hedges definitely takes a fire and brimstone approach to social criticism. He spent the Bush years railing against intervention in the middle east. He's been a consistent iconoclast since he...
Hedges definitely takes a fire and brimstone approach to social criticism. He spent the Bush years railing against intervention in the middle east. He's been a consistent iconoclast since he resigned from his position at the New York Times in the early days of the Iraq invasion.
I listened to the discussion, hadn't heard of "The Truth Report" before this interview, the transcript is modified from what was said on the podcast.
I agree that the name of that podcast throws up some red flags. From the host's youtube page, it looks like they had a different program for several years called "The Chauncey DeVega Show" with rather low viewership and they started this new podcast just last year.
I didn't find this all that useful. In particular the author doesn't seem to care about the difference between the Fed making loans and Congress spending money, or much understanding of the Senate's role in blocking more funding.
I'm somewhat hopeful that the Democrats might take the Senate as well as the presidency, and then it's a whole new ballgame.
I also don't see any deep "meaning" to a vote for Biden. If he wins it removes an obstacle. I don't see it creating one since I think he seems quite willing to compromise, for example with Warren on bankruptcy. Also, hiring competent leaders and listening to them would help a lot.
Right, this whole article was just bleak and the only prescription to cure that bleakness was “mass demonstrations but that may not work too so here is some more bleakness”.
Well this was depressing. Especially when he started talking about Joe Biden.
Even so I am tempted to label this as alarmist. I don't think that society is going to collapse simply because everyone always says society is about to collapse and is always wrong. And while I do think that people are crazy if they really think that Trump is as good as gone, thinking we won't even have an election is even more crazy.
And as a side note, "The Truth Report" is the most vainglorious title I have ever heard.
Hedges definitely takes a fire and brimstone approach to social criticism. He spent the Bush years railing against intervention in the middle east. He's been a consistent iconoclast since he resigned from his position at the New York Times in the early days of the Iraq invasion.
I listened to the discussion, hadn't heard of "The Truth Report" before this interview, the transcript is modified from what was said on the podcast.
I agree that the name of that podcast throws up some red flags. From the host's youtube page, it looks like they had a different program for several years called "The Chauncey DeVega Show" with rather low viewership and they started this new podcast just last year.
https://www.youtube.com/user/TheChaunceyDeVega/videos