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Really interesting podcast. For those who remember Hitchens it’s a reminder of his unique voice. For those who haven’t, it should send them off in search of his books and yes, the scores of YouTube videos of Hitchens in full Hitchens brilliance.

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Aug 22, 2023Liked by Julie Szego

I really enjoyed this. I'll have to get my hands on the book.

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Yes, you can find it on Amazon.

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His stance on God and religion has gone a long way in distracting us from his more damaging work ...

Hitchens sold out with his decision to become a guest expert on FOX to push the the "evil Saddam" narrative ... but Hitchens was at his best in a 2001 interview on C-SPAN, "The Case Against Henry Kissinger" ... and in '87 he broke a story while writing for THE NATION that now stands as my very first shocking political revelation ... in the midst of the IRAN-CONTRA scandal, he identified Oliver North as THE key figure in a covert "GIDO" arrangement with the Contras ... G-I-D-O: "Guns in Drugs out" ... Sen. John Kerry's report later documented an entry in North's diary on July 12, 1985 in which Gen Richard Secord told him "14m to finance arms came from drugs" ... and if not a FOX commentator in the strict sense, he was a regular contributor ... I was not a fly on the wall during his backroom negotiations with FOX but his decision to push the story that Saddam actually posed a material threat to the U.S. was so contrary to his reason-based perspectives, that money had to be an incentive ... it was during this period that he also pushed a false story that tended to minimize the Abu Ghraid abuses, suggesting they were not related to interrogations ... I believe he was corrupted and in this regard, was a real pioneer and ground-breaker ... arguably the first far-left intellectual to sell his thoughts for consumption by TV viewers who preferred to be spoon-fed news and opinion rather than read books and newspapers ... I now tend to compare Hitchens to his modern-day counterpart, Chris Hedges ... Hitchens took the money to push a theory that was eventually discredited ... and by furthering the "evil Saddam" narrative, he essentially did the bidding of the DS by bolstering the case for endless war in the middle east ... and once the lockdowns were declared in 2020, Hedges broke his many implicit promises to be there for the working class and allowed himself to be coerced into selective silence ... he has still not publicly commented on the vax mandates, vax passports or the Canadian and U.S. trucker convoys ... all of which severely impacted or sought redress for the working class ...

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Leftists want to ban people and lack thoughtfulness was the synopsis of this article. To identify as a leftist is to reject objectivity, free speech and liberty. CH was inconsistent and had a big problem with Jewish residents in Judea and samaria, he obsessed about it, not sure if it's his Jewish genealogy or not but distinctly non objective. Wanting to ban Alex Jones is yet another derangement syndrome, most often manifested through irrational obsessions with Netanyahu Trump and Israel.

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Comical that you think George Orwell is a left wing hero Julie, but consistent with your humorous suggestion that you are a “left leaning Zionist” yes I’m also a leftist right winger 🤪😂

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