Chris Hedges On Police Siding With People

Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief for the paper.

Chris hedges on police siding with people. By comparison police in england and wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016. But there s real hope in the streets. America faces a historic choice ugly corporate tyranny or revolution these are the good times says hedges compared to what may lie ahead. Jimmy dore and chris hedges try to sort out the many reasons why america is in revolt drowning in social injustice and inequality institutionalised violence and corruption and a glaring lack of even essential services like universal healthcare.

Click here to see chris hedges interview writer alex vitale. The interview was edited for length. American cities and entire regions and states and hunreds of millions of americans have been hurt and damaged by capitalism their social fabric. America s social hell america has tens of millions of second class citizens most of whom are poor people of color who have been stripped of basic civil and human rights.