Chris Hedges On Police Siding With People

But there s real hope in the streets.

Chris hedges on police siding with people.

America faces a historic choice ugly corporate tyranny or revolution these are the good times says hedges compared to what may lie ahead. 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. American cities and entire regions and states and hunreds of millions of americans have been hurt and damaged by capitalism their social fabric. 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.

He previously worked overseas for the dallas morning news the christian science monitor and npr. The interview was edited for length. Chris hedges is a pulitzer prize winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for the new york times where he served as the middle east bureau chief and balkan bureau chief for the paper. By comparison police in england and wales killed 62 people in the 27 years between the start of 1990 and the end of 2016.