Re: Chris Hedges on fire as he talks in London: "First Assange, Then Us" Archived Message
Posted by dovetailjoint on June 11, 2019, 6:45 pm, in reply to "Chris Hedges on fire as he talks in London: "First Assange, Then Us""
Hedges represents a dying breed, the true Western liberal. It's not as if he's some raving, leftie, demagogue dreaming of 'socialism' that's bound to come, given the trajectory of history. That he sounds so radical does show how far liberals in the media, typified by the truly ghastly Guardian, have moved to the authoritarian right politically and how dangerous this is for public discourse. Freedom of speech is being systematically undermined in the leading western nations; the UK and the US, where dissidents and critics of, especially, our blood-soaked military adventures in the Middle East, have been all but banished from the airwaves.
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