A brilliant and wide-ranging talk. Journalist-prophet CHRIS HEDGES discusses the pacification of the exploited citizenry by the corporate media ... the fraud at the heart of the national economy ... Wall Street's destruction of the U.S.'s manufacturing sector ... "Brand Obama" ... the perfidy of Obama and of other "courtiers" to the real power ... the failure of the Left to challenge Obama's Bush-ist policies ... and the funeral of Michael Jackson. ... (Continued under "Credits.")
Our best hope, Hedges concludes, is a revival in the U.S. of Democratic Socialism.
Hedges spoke in Winnipeg, Alberta, Canada, on October 14, 2009. Original recording courtesy of Ethan Osland and Black Mask Winnipeg. I have edited Hedges 50-minute talk to fit this half-hour radio program. The uncut original recording is available from radio4all.net: http://www.radio4all.net/responder.php/download/36777/41994/58786/?url=http://www.radio4all.net/files/wizardofosland@gmail.com/4038-1-hedgestalk.mp3
New World Notes previously broadcast this installment (as #115) in May 2010
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Music added: Leonard Cohen, from "Democracy"
You can download this installment of New World Notes also from The Internet Archive (www.archive.org). The Program Information page at archive.org is here: https://archive.org/details/NewWorldNotes367-ChrisHedgesOnTheEmpireOfIllusion . To download from that page, right-click on one of the two links ("39.8 MB" or "13.3 MB") under the column heading "VBR MP3." The page also has players for online listening.
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