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Chris Hedges: The Walls are Literally Crumbling Around Us

with Peter B. Collins and Sibel Edmonds
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
originally published by Boiling Frogs Post

with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
January 29, 2010

Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges gives us a quick sketch of his latest book “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle”. He discusses the real role of the US media as one of the main culprits in promoting a sense of exceptionalism by disseminating fantasy, and poisoning civil and political discourse with entertainment and trivia. He talks about the spectacle surrounding Barrack Obama’s presidential campaign and his function as a brand just like any other commercial commodity brand advertised and promoted by corporations, the last decade’s coup d’état in slow motion, and much more!

Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has written nine books, including Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, and the best-selling American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. He spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East, and served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. His weekly column is published on Truthdig.

Here is our guest Chris Hedges unplugged!

http://www.boilingfrogspost.com/podpress_trac/web/1597/0/BF.0021.Hedges_20100116.mp3

From the archives:

Chris Hedges: Economics Trumps Politics

Chris Hedges: No Tyranny in History has Crushed the Human Capacity For Love

Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction by Chris Hedges

After Words with Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges: Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Book Excerpt: ‘Empire of Illusion’ by Chris Hedges