Chris Hedges: “The World As It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dh8V1vSAPUg&feature=related

telling it like it is…

Chris Hedges: “We are witnessing the collapse of globalization”

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z85K5BLXfmM&feature=fvwrel

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Easternpolitics and societies.^[1] His most recent book, written with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, is Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012). The book, a New York Times best seller, shows the consequences of unregulated capitalism by reporting from “sacrifice zones”, the poorest pockets of the United States such as Camden New Jersey and the coal fields of southern West Virginia “that have been offered up for exploitation in the name of profit”.

Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning(2002)—a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction—I Don’t Believe in Atheists (2008) and Death of the Liberal Class (2010).

Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City.^[2]

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