Chris Hedges On Police Siding With People

Interview with chris hedges.

Chris hedges on police siding with people. Canada s national observer spoke about it with chris hedges 63 a pulitzer prize winning journalist and author who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the paper s middle east and balkan bureau chiefs. By comparison police in england and wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016. Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief. The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy.

What the roman philosopher cicero called a commonwealth a res publica a public thing or the property of a people has been transformed into an instrument of naked pillage and repression on behalf of a global corporate oligarchy. America faces a historic choice ugly corporate tyranny or revolution these are the good times says hedges compared to what may lie ahead. They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. The myth of human progress and the collapse of complex societies.

13 2013 what every person should know about war first chapter at the new york times. Chris hedges gave this talk tuesday june 11 at an event held in london in support of julian assange. Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief. Click here to see chris hedges interview writer alex vitale.

The cost of resistance the governing elites when truly threatened turn the rule of law into farce. Ask the iraqi parents of sabiha hamed salih aged 15 and ashwaq hamed salih aged 16 who. The audio and transcript of a speech that chris hedges gave in santa monica calif on oct. Chris hedges and jimmy dore join tyrel ventura to discuss a number of pressing topics.

Truthdig january 26 2014. But there s real hope in the streets. They use the state mechanisms of control.