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Video: Chris Hedges — “Fascism in the Age of Trump”
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Journalist, author and war correspondent Chris Hedges spoke at The Sanctuary for Independent Media in Troy NY on November 10, 2017 on fascism and empire in the age of Trump. Chris Hedges is author of twelve books, including War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. A quote from the book was used as the opening title quotation in the critically-acclaimed and Academy Award-winning 2009 film, The Hurt Locker: “The rush of battle is often a potent and lethal addiction, for war is a drug.” Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years. Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and The University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey.
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Or this link: https://mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/2017/12/06/only-an-independent-judiciary-and-free-press-are-preventing-the-usa-going-down-the-path-of-a-dictatorship/
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Obama was warning about the rise of fascism in a recent speech in Chicago and, with Trump as POTUS, this is something that will have to be continuously monitored, particularly given his deliberate and provocative attacks on the judiciary and media. I have written in more detail on these issues here:
https://wordpress.com/post/mankindsdegradationofplanetearth.com/1785
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