{"id":264660,"date":"2024-06-17T12:02:36","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T11:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/?p=264660"},"modified":"2024-06-17T04:46:06","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T03:46:06","slug":"neros-guests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/2024\/06\/neros-guests\/","title":{"rendered":"Nero&#8217;s Guests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>16 Jun 2024 <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig\u2019s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza. He calls for a permanent ceasefire, the establishment of a full and independent Palestinian state and backs the Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions campaign against the apartheid state of Israel.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Chris Hedges: Nero&#039;s Guests\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/cjgFyvxv1QA?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize\u2013winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for\u00a0<\/em>The New York Times<em>,\u00a0where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for\u00a0<\/em>The Dallas Morning News,\u00a0The Christian Science Monitor, <em>and<\/em> NPR<em>. He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated <\/em>RT America<em> show\u00a0<\/em>On Contact<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>Join the<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><i><b> <\/b><\/i><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>BDS-BOYCOTT, DIVESTMENT, SANCTIONS <\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><i><b>campaign<\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\"> to protest the Israeli barbaric siege of Gaza, illegal occupation of the Palestine nation\u2019s territory, the apartheid wall, its inhuman and degrading treatment of the Palestinian people, and the more than 7,000 Palestinian men, women, elderly and children arbitrarily locked up in Israeli prisons.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DON&#8217;T BUY<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>PRODUCTS WHOSE<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>BARCODE<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b> STARTS WITH<\/b><\/span><\/span> <span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>729<\/b><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: large;\">, which indicates that it is produced in Israel. <\/span><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>DO YOUR PART! MAKE A DIFFERENCE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"western\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\"><b>7 2 9: BOYCOTT FOR JUSTICE!<\/b><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>16 Jun 2024 &#8211; I gave this talk in Blackburn, England during a campaign event for my friend Craig Murray who is running for parliament. Like George Galloway, who was recently elected to parliament, Craig\u2019s central campaign issue is the genocide in Gaza.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[928,392,87,865,88,2414,427,639],"class_list":["post-264660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-short-video-clips","tag-bds-boycott-divestment-sanctions","tag-elections","tag-gaza","tag-genocide","tag-israel","tag-israeli-apartheid","tag-palestine","tag-uk"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264660","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264660"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264660\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":264662,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264660\/revisions\/264662"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.transcend.org\/tms\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}