New World Notes - Chris Hedges on the Empire of Illusion

This week on New World Notes: radio program #367, March 17, 2015, from 12:00 to 12:30 p.m. (and on Wednesday from 8:30 to 9:00 p.m.), host Kenneth Dowst excerpts a brilliant and wide-ranging talk by journalist-prophet Chris Hedges

In this talk, 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 President 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.

Hedges concludes that our best hope is a revival in the U.S. of Democratic Socialism.

Music added: Leonard Cohen, from "Democracy"

New World Notes previously broadcast this installment (as #115) in May 2010.

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 without charge: you'll find a link to it on our Web page for this installment.

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