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In reply to the discussion: Weekend Economists Repent! The End Is Here! July 20-22, 2012 [View all]xchrom
(108,903 posts)60. Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of profit
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Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits
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BILL MOYERS: Here we are, barely halfway through the summer, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have stepped up their cage match, each attacking the other, throwing insults and accusations back and forth like folding chairs hurled across the wrestling ring.
Governor Romney pummels away at the economy; President Obama pummels away at Mr. Romneywhen he was or wasnt at his company Bain Capital, his tax returns and his offshore accounts. All the while, as they bob and weave their way through this quadrennial competition, punching wildly, the real story of whats happening to ordinary people as capitalism runs amok is largely ignored by each of them. But not in this book Days of Destruction, Days of Revoltan unusual account of poverty and desolation across contemporary America. Its a collaboration between graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco, and my guest on this weeks broadcast, Chris Hedges.
CHRIS HEDGES: All of the true correctives to American democracy came through movements that never achieved formal political power.
BILL MOYERS: This is just the latest battle cry from Hedges, who, angry at what he sees in the world, expresses his outrage in thoughtful prose that never fails to inform and provoke. As a correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times, he covered wars in North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle Eastleaving the paper after a reprimand for publicly denouncing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
Bill Moyers and Chris Hedges: How Whole Regions of America Have Been Destroyed in the Name of Quarterly Profits
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BILL MOYERS: Here we are, barely halfway through the summer, and Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have stepped up their cage match, each attacking the other, throwing insults and accusations back and forth like folding chairs hurled across the wrestling ring.
Governor Romney pummels away at the economy; President Obama pummels away at Mr. Romneywhen he was or wasnt at his company Bain Capital, his tax returns and his offshore accounts. All the while, as they bob and weave their way through this quadrennial competition, punching wildly, the real story of whats happening to ordinary people as capitalism runs amok is largely ignored by each of them. But not in this book Days of Destruction, Days of Revoltan unusual account of poverty and desolation across contemporary America. Its a collaboration between graphic artist and journalist Joe Sacco, and my guest on this weeks broadcast, Chris Hedges.
CHRIS HEDGES: All of the true correctives to American democracy came through movements that never achieved formal political power.
BILL MOYERS: This is just the latest battle cry from Hedges, who, angry at what he sees in the world, expresses his outrage in thoughtful prose that never fails to inform and provoke. As a correspondent and bureau chief for The New York Times, he covered wars in North Africa, the Balkans and the Middle Eastleaving the paper after a reprimand for publicly denouncing the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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