06-01-2010, 04:27 PM
Journalist Chris Hedges discusses his recent book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” at the New School in New York.
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing appears regularly in Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, among other publications.
Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. His writing appears regularly in Foreign Affairs, Harper’s, the New York Review of Books, Mother Jones, among other publications.
"Let me issue and control a nation's money and I care not who writes the laws. - Mayer Rothschild
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass
"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience! People are obedient in the face of poverty, starvation, stupidity, war, and cruelty. Our problem is that grand thieves are running the country. That's our problem!" - Howard Zinn
"If there is no struggle there is no progress. Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and never will" - Frederick Douglass