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Chris Hedges’ Endgame Strategy – Why the revolution must start in America

by Chris Hedges
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Dandelion Salad
June 17, 2011

Updated: June 23, 2011 added video of entire article.

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The unrest in the Middle East, the convulsions in Ivory Coast, the hunger sweeping across failed states such as Somalia, the freak weather patterns and the systematic unraveling of the American empire do not signal a lurch towards freedom and democracy but the catastrophic breakdown of globalization.

The world as we know it is coming to an end. And what will follow will not be pleasant or easy.

The bankrupt corporate power elite, who continue to serve the dead ideas of unfettered corporate capitalism, globalization, profligate consumption and an economy dependent on fossil fuels, as well as endless war, have proven incapable of radically shifting course or responding to our altered reality. They react to the great unraveling by pretending it is not happening. They are desperately trying to maintain a doomed system of corporate capitalism. And the worse it gets the more they embrace, and seek to make us embrace, magical thinking. Dozens of members of Congress in the United States have announced that climate change does not exist and evolution is a hoax. They chant the mantra that the marketplace should determine human behavior, even as the unfettered and unregulated marketplace threw the global economy into a seizure and evaporated some $40 trillion in worldwide wealth. The corporate media retreats as swiftly from reality into endless mini-dramas revolving around celebrities or long discussions about the inane comments of a Donald Trump or a Sarah Palin. The real world – the one imploding in our faces – is ignored.

The deadly convergence of environmental and economic catastrophe is not coincidental. Corporations turn everything, from human beings to the natural world, into commodities they ruthlessly exploit until exhaustion or death. The race of doom is now between environmental collapse and global economic collapse. Which will get us first? Or will they get us at the same time?

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via Chris Hedges’s Endgame Strategy | Adbusters Culturejammer Headquarters

Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.

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[DS added the video.]

Note: replaced video July 29, 2013

Kingdom Comes Jun 30, 2012

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Chris Hedges: Why the Global Revolution Must Begin in America

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6 thoughts on “Chris Hedges’ Endgame Strategy – Why the revolution must start in America”

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  5. We need to unite and become a civilization that works for the planet, but the true unity of humanity can be expressed ONLY by allowing the freedom of our thought under the banner of cooperation; and only this will save us as a species.

    After all, we have the ability to develop our consciousness that lies latent in us from the beginning. We need to activate the part of our brain, not now utilized, to trigger both psychic and biological terms.

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