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Chris Hedges: NDAA: All These Laws Are Being Put Through By Design

by Chris Hedges
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February 6, 2013

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Atiq Zabinski· Feb 4, 2013

Chris Hedges speaks at the People’s Recovery Summit organized by Occupy Sandy. The Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew, Brooklyn, NY, February 2, 2013.

Text of speech at Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage by Chris Hedges (transcript).

Recorded from the audience by three videographers. Audio and image quality improve after the first few minutes, please bear with it at the beginning.

[Q&A starts at 27:50.]

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.

see

Breaking the Chains of Debt Peonage by Chris Hedges (transcript)

Daniel Ellsberg: NDAA Indefinite Detention Provision is Part of Systematic Assault on Constitution + Kill List Exposed

Frontline: The Untouchables

Welcome to the Network of Global Corporate Control: Meet the Global Corporate “Supra-Government”, Part 1 by Andrew Gavin Marshall

Chris Hedges: They Seek To Subjugate Us All

John Perkins: Corporate Assassins Determine World Order

Michael Hudson: 2013 – the stage is set

15 thoughts on “Chris Hedges: NDAA: All These Laws Are Being Put Through By Design”

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  12. Here Hedges, nails it on the head, these laws are for a reason, we are all terrorists and drone targets. For example, from the Philly Occupy FOIA papers:

    The only people included in the unredacted portions of the intelligence reports from US Park Ranger Layla Schade to her superiors are Tim Kyle, Kenneth Lipp, Dustin Slaughter and Joanne Michele, who reported live from the NATO protests.
     
    We believe those preparing National Gathering intelligence intended to draw a connection between alleged plans for violence in Chicago with activists and journalists involved in the National Gathering in order to justify requests for increased dedication of law enforcement…

    http://phillydeclaration.org/2013/02/05/national-park-police-documents-reveal-flimsy-intelligence-gathering-disregard-for-civil-liberties/

    People should report the above names to Anonymous, please?

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