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Transcript Exclusive Chris Hedges Interview; The Template for Harvesting America, Sacrifice Zones and Blood

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This is part one of a two part transcript that's over 5000 words. 

In this interview, Chris Hedges talks about the template being used to harvest America-- at the expense of the middle class, the sacrifice zones feeling the most pain, and the blood price we've paid for the rights they are trying to take away. 

Thanks to ON volunteer Don Caldarazzo    for help with the transcription process. 

Rob Kall:  And welcome to the Rob Kall Bottom Up Radio Show (WNJC 1360 AM), sponsored by OpEdNews.com out of Washington Township, NJ, reaching metro Philly and South Jersey, and online of course on iTunes, look for Rob Kall, for this, and other ones.

 

Tonight my guest is one of my favorite, if not my favorite progressive author, Chris Hedges. He's got a new book out that he co-authors with Joe Sacco: Days of Destruction-Days of Revolt. Chris Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, in the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.  He is part of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He writes a weekly original column, Truthdig. He was written for Harper's Magazine, the New Statesman, and New York Review of Books.

 

Rob Kall: Welcome to the show Chris, again.

 

Chris Hedges: Thank you.


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Rob Kall: This is a wonderful book that you've written. It's unusual, it's different, because of the many kind of comic book illustrations by Joe Sacco - that really gets you thinking in seeing the pictures of the destruction that you've described in 80% of this book.  Most of this book is describing just how America has already fallen into third world status. It's worse than third-world status, though, and I want you to talk about that, but I want to start with a quote from the book, which you put in the end under the chapter, "Days of Revolt."  You say, "There are no excuses left: either you join the revolt, or you stand on the wrong side of History. You either obstruct through civil disobedience (the only way left to us) the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil. You either taste, feel, and smell the intoxication of freedom and revolt, or sink into the miasma of despair and apathy. You are either a rebel or a slave."

Let's start with that. This is how you're thinking lately?

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