CHRIS HEDGES on Deflating the Ruling Elite through Civil Disobedience [ENCORE] /271

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🗓️ 2 February 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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This week we are rebroadcasting our interview with Chris Hedges, originally aired in June of 2019. All too often our conversations around the consolidation of wealth and power in America blindly fixate on the politics of the Right and Trump as the anti-hero archetype. We must deepen our analyses and rethink our movements beyond the two-party divide in order to truly understand and hold accountable the socio-political and economic forces that have brought us to such a crisis. This week, we speak with journalist and author Chris Hedges who guides us through the history and inner workings of neoliberalism, the rise of corporate capitalism, and our descent into fascism. Chris Hedges is a Truthdig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times best-selling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New Jersey state prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written 12 books and writes a weekly column for the website Truthdig and hosts a show, “On Contact,” on RT America. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. Music by Charlie Parr. Visit our website at forthewild.world for the full episode description, references, and action points.Support the show

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0:47.6	Welcome to For the Wild Podcast. I'm Iyana Young. This week we are re-broadcasting our
0:53.3	interview with Chris Hedges, originally aired in June of 2019. We hope you enjoy this special
1:00.0	encore episode. Finally in the end it's not, or it's about more than winning. It's about finding
1:12.4	a life of meaning. It's about personal empowerment. It's about a public declaration that we will not
1:18.8	live according to the dominant lie. It is a message to the elites that you do not own us.
1:25.4	It's about defending our dignity, our self-respect, our agency. It's about freeing ourselves from fear.
1:35.8	Today we are speaking with Chris Hedges. Chris is a truth dig columnist, a Pulitzer Prize-winning
1:43.4	and New York Times bestselling author, a professor in the college degree program offered to New
1:49.1	Jersey State Prisoners by Rutgers University, and an ordained Presbyterian minister. He has written
1:55.8	12 books including the New York Times bestseller, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-authored
2:02.1	with the cartoonist Joe Sacco. His book War is a Force that gives us meaning was a finalist for
2:08.3	the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies.
2:15.2	He writes a weekly column for the website Truth Dig and Host a Show on Contact on RT America.
2:22.0	Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East,
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