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    Unspeakable

    By Chris Hedges and David Talbot

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    Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot.

    The War on Terror is a profitable crusade against convenient enemies. Muslim rage” is an understandable response to US state terror. Rising oligarchy in America has made democracy a sham and turned the electoral process into an increasingly absurd circus. Police violence against minorities is part of a systematic effort to crush social discontent. Proliferating violence against women’s health clinics is part of the war on women’s bodies. Freedom of speech is an illusion, with government agencies and corporate media dictating acceptable boundaries of public discourse. America’s only hope is a revolution to create genuine structures of popular power.

    This kind of insight into America’s deeply troubled current state cannot be found on television, in the pages of leading newspapers, or on Google News. Many of our most important thinkers are relegated to the shadows because their ideas are deemed too radicalor truefor public consumption. Among these intellectual bomb throwers is Chris Hedges, who, after decades on the front lines, continues to confront power in America in the most incisive, challenging ways.

    Hedges’s unfettered conversation with Hot Books editorial director David Talbot founder of Salon and author of New York Times bestseller, The Devil’s Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA and the Rise of America’s Secret Governmentwill be the first in a series for Hot Books called Unspeakable,” featuring some of the most important and censored voices in the world today.
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    PublisherHot Books
    Release dateOct 11, 2016
    ISBN9781510712744
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    Chris Hedges

    Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is host of the Emmy Award­–nominated RT America show On Contact. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University, and the University of Toronto. He has taught college credit courses through Rutgers University in the New Jersey prison system since 2013.

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      It's a strange format for an interview, it tries to keep natural speech patterns in even though it's edited. Beyond the awkward format it's an interesting interview with (despite the burning zeal) coherent, even if not very persuasive, arguments. Critiquing the elites is not very hard, so no kudos for that.