Scahill gave the keynote at Chicago Area Peace Action's 35th Annual Dinner celebration. He talks about his up bringing and how that led to his social and political awareness. He speaks about his path to journalism, after dropping out of college, that led him to a homeless shelter, Johna House and Democracy Now, where he apprenticed, and the value of non formalized learning. He lays out the role of corporations in overthrowing our political process in a bloodless coup, and the ignorance of the Washington political and media elites with regard to Foreign Policy, unless chaos and failed State are the intended goal.