In a Feb. 12 column from ScheerPost, Chris Hedges takes on the small-minded political divisions surrounding the Feb. 19 “Rage Against the War Machine” rally in Washington, and calls for people to unite to stop World War III. Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the New York Times, and is the host of a weekly TV program on his Substack site, “The Chris Hedges Report.”
Hedges’s article is ironically titled, “There Are No Permanent Allies, Only Permanent Power.” Evidently, he means to turn the British Empire on its head, as he’s taken Lord Palmerston’s adage that the British Empire has no permanent allies, only permanent interests, to argue that the left and right must ally, at least temporarily, to end the permanent power of the warmongers.
Hedges, listed as a speaker on Feb. 19, then identifies the unifying point: “To those who suffer directly from U.S. and NATO aggression, the demands of the Feb. 19 Rage Against the War Machine rally in Washington are not theoretical issues. For them, it is a matter of life or death. They welcome any ally.”
