with Chris Hedges
Featured Writer
Dandelion Salad
September 15, 2012
Sep 11, 2012 by lauraflanders
What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, calls “sacrifice zones.” From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by the excesses of capitalism, prefigure our collective future.
Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire [FULL INTERVIEW]
Chris Hedges spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. His latest books are Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, Death of the Liberal Class, and The World as It Is: Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress.
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Below the densely forested slopes of the Appalachian Mountains in southern West Virginia is a layer cake of thin coal seams. To uncover this coal profitably, mining companies engineer large—sometimes very large—surface mines. This time-series of images of a surface mine in Boone County, West Virginia, illustrates why this controversial mining method is also called “mountaintop removal.” […]
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/WorldOfChange/hobet.php
see
The Collision Course Is Set by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges: Hear the 99% Roar
A World of Hillbilly Heroin by Chris Hedges
Moyers and Company: Chris Hedges: Greed’s Path of Destruction
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