Chris Hedges American Sadism

Please support The Sanctuary for Independent Media For more information and to donate, visit: Author, activist, teacher and dissident Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on June 27, 2021. In this talk Chris speaks about sadism, which he says: Now defines nearly every cultural, social and political experience in the United States. Is expressed in the greed of an oligarchic elite that has seen its wealth increase during the pandemic by 1. 1 trillion while the country has suffered the sharpest rise in its poverty rate in more than 50 years. Is expressed in extrajudicial killings by police in cities such as Minneapolis. Is expressed in our complicity in Israels wholesale killing of unarmed Palestinians, the humanitarian crisis engendered by the war in Yemen and our reigns of terror in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria. Is expressed in the torture in our prisons and black sites. Is expressed in the separa