YouTube VIDEO - 30 Jul 2012 - click aqui .
"Como as corporações destruíram a democracia americana".
Chris Hedges, Pulitzer Prize.
Some highlights:
- “Brand Obama is about being happy consumers.”
- “In a sound bite society, reality no longer matters.”
- Reagan magically cut unemployment figures by two percent by adding, for the first time, America’s military to the numbers counted as employed, while Clinton cut it again by eliminating the longer-term unemployed.
- We are a state which, by definition, is fascist — “run by and on behalf of corporations.”
- As unemployment reaches Great Depression levels, restraints on police powers are lifted to ensure control over a restive people, “to seize internal control. . .which is control us.”
- He also cited the late Sen. Frank Church’s admonition that increased surveillance powers granted to police would eliminate any remaining vestiges of privacy.