The Rot Within the American System
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The Intercept
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2018
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
Journalist Chris Hedges has spent the past 15 years trying to ring the alarm about the dangers of the U.S. political system and the impact of a corporate and financial coup d’etat that happened long ago. He talks about the growing power of “Christian fascists,” predicts a major financial crash and offers ideas on how to fight back.
In 1923, a year after Mussolini took power in Italy, one radical and visionary woman saw his rise for what it was and warned of the grave dangers the world would face if fascism spread. Her name was Clara Zetkin. Acclaimed writer and actor Deborah Eisenberg performs a selection of Zetkin's writing, which was recently published as a book, “Fighting Fascism: How to Struggle and How to Win.”
Also, new music from the incredible visual artist and musician Lonnie Holley who is out with a new album called "MITH."
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| 0:00.0 | America. Lots of room and people. All kinds of people, people from different countries |
| 0:08.9 | with different religions, different colored skin. They can live together and work together |
| 0:14.0 | and build America together because they're free, free to vote. But there are guys who |
| 0:19.7 | stay up nights figuring out how to take that away from them. |
| 0:24.4 | As we speak, Democrats are openly encouraging millions of illegal aliens to violate our laws |
| 0:31.1 | and break into our country and they want to sign them up for free welfare, free healthcare, |
| 0:38.1 | free education and of course the right to vote, the right to vote. |
| 0:43.9 | I've heard this kind of talk before but I never expected to get it in America. What about |
| 0:48.6 | those other people? In this country we have no other people. We are American people. All |
| 0:54.2 | of us. There's something going on, but there's something going on. But I think there's |
| 0:59.2 | something going on. And there is something going on out there, and I think you |
| 1:03.2 | know what I mean. |
| 1:05.3 | There's something going on. There's something that's very interesting that's |
| 1:10.1 | happening. They're is something going on this year. There's something going on. |
| 1:15.3 | There's something going on. There's something going on Karl기는. There's something going |
| 1:20.6 | on. There's something going on that's really incredible in this country. |
| 1:50.6 | This is intercepted. |
| 1:57.6 | I'm Jeremy Skehel coming to you from the offices of the intercept in New York City. |
| 2:11.1 | This is episode 73 of Intercepted. |
| 2:18.1 | You get to vote in what I believe will be the most important election of our lifetimes. |
| 2:27.1 | This is one of the most important elections of our time. |
| 2:32.1 | Politicians love to tell us that whatever election happens to be the next one is the most |
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