Chris Hedges On Police Siding With People

Canada s national observer spoke about it with chris hedges 63 a pulitzer prize winning journalist and author who was a foreign correspondent for 15 years for the new york times where he served as the paper s middle east and balkan bureau chiefs.

Chris hedges on police siding with people.

He previously worked overseas for the dallas morning news the christian science monitor and npr. American cities and entire regions and states and hunreds of millions of americans have been hurt and damaged by capitalism their social fabric. 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. By comparison police in england and wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016.

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. America faces a historic choice ugly corporate tyranny or revolution these are the good times says hedges compared to what may lie ahead. But there s real hope in the streets. Click here to see chris hedges interview writer alex vitale.