Chris Hedges: Crisis Cults and the Collapse of Industrial Civilization, Part I + Kshama Sawant’s Revolution

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Dandelion Salad

with Chris Hedges

breakingtheset on Feb 6, 2014

Abby Martin features an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, concerning areas of extreme poverty that he refers to as crisis zones, as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies.

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The entire show:

[320] Socialist in Seattle: Kshama Sawant’s Revolution, The Indigenous Fight Against Keystone XL

breakingtheset on Feb 6, 2014

EPISODE BREAKDOWN: On this episode of Breaking the Set, Abby Martin discusses the Lakota Nation’s fight against the Keystone XL pipeline, and their pledge to stop construction of the project through their land. Abby then speaks with Seattle city council member, Kshama Sawant, the first socialist elected to public office in decades, about pre-existing notions about ‘socialism’ and how to beat the two party system in America. BTS wraps up the show with an exclusive interview with Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Chris Hedges, concerning areas of extreme poverty that he refers to as crisis zones, as well as the reasons behind the collapse of complex societies.

Watch the video here.

From the archives:

If There’s Global Warming … Why Is It So Cold?

Socialist Seattle City Councilmember Kshama Sawant Responds to Obama’s State of the Union Address

State of the Unequal Union

Goodnight Gaia by Ed Ciaccio + Stop the Keystone XL Pipeline + State Department’s Fact Sheet

Chris Hedges and Richard Wolff: Capitalism=Cannibalism–The Human Cost is Staggering