Indeed Chris’ weekly column is one always eagerly anticipated by this reader, being one of the rare sources of dissent beyond the boundaries of ‘acceptable’ or ‘hegemonic’ discourse.  Those who would reprove Hedges as unduly negative perhaps should take different stock of the gravity of certain questions which confront us.  Additionally, they overlook the fundamental optimism about the potential of the underdog in his exhortations to nonviolent civil disobedience.  At the root of Hedges thought is, if I read him correctly, an affirmation that we can live without the ‘system’ and in a manner for more accordant with human dignity.

Keep him away. I love this site and love the politics but I find Hedges as annoying
as the ideologues of the right. He is always so friggin negative and I find him to be
ineffective and counter productive. He should get back on his meds.

Lets hope he touches on a most monumentus event. It’s all comming down to Palestinian statehood whether Israel wants it or not and its taken over 60 years and numerous wars and terror attacks to get here.

Chess pieces are ready.

http://ustogaza.org/passengers-on-the-audacity-of-hope/

On his author’s page Hedges recommends the book ‘The Seventh Million: The Israelis and the Holocaust [Paperback]’, and from the Amazon review we read ...

“Segev concludes with the hope that the lesson of the Holocaust will, in the end, be a humanist one… “

i.e., the book is more of the usual tripe.  For something with a different perspective, I’ll recommend ‘The First Holocaust, Jewish Fund Raising Campaigns with Holocaust Claims During World War I’ by Don Heddesheimer.  An Amazon review of the book that has been deleted read ...

“I guess they would call it ‘Chutzpah’, to publicly use the same big lie twice within the span of twenty or so years.”

I hope he listens to the voices in his head!