Hedges: ‘Corporations have carried out a coup d’état in my country’

[Donnachaidh]

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/18/hedges-corporations-have-carried-out-a-coup-detat-in-my-country/#.Tp3iuaasi7k.facebook

In an interview published Monday, taken in Times Square during Saturday’s global day of protests, Pulitzer-winning writer Chris Hedges explained his view of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and why he’s supporting it.

“I spent 20 years overseas, I’m a war correspondent,” he said. “I came back and realized that corporations have carried out a coup d’état in my country.”

Hedges wrote for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Christian Science Monitor, and was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for a series of articles examining the terrorist attacks on the United States and profiling the al Qaeda network.

“I covered the street demonstrations that brought down Milošević, I’ve covered both of the Palestinian intifadas, and once movements like this start and articulate a fundamental truth about the society that they live in, and expose the repression, the mendacity, the corruption and the decay of structures of power, then they have a kind of centrifugal force, you never know where they’re going.”

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[RegieRocker]

1. Exact emundo.

[closeupready]

2. It's certainly a different tone now, people talking rather explicitly about the corruption of our

democracy, and the obscenity of that. If people are now talking about it, they've been thinking about it. So that puts the actors involved in that scandalousness on the defensive. Which means, of course, that OWS is winning.

[pscot]

4. OWS is making some headway

but we're a long way from winning. We have really seen any organized pushback yet, but it will come.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

3. With the help of Roberts and the other conservatives on the Supreme Court

That's why it's so vitally important to support Obama in the coming election which will probably involve the appointment of new justices in the next President's term. I can't bear to think of what would happen to this country if Romney gets to pick replacements on the court.

[Vincardog]

5. What evidence do we have the BO won't disappoint on this issue too?

[spanone]

6. k&r...