Hedges: ‘Corporations have carried out a coup d’état in my country’

[Playinghardball]

Source: Raw Story
By Stephen C. Webster

In an interview published Monday, taken in Times Square during Saturday’s global day of protests, Pulitzer-winning writer Chris Hedges explained his view of the “Occupy Wall Street” movement and why he’s supporting it.

“I spent 20 years overseas, I’m a war correspondent,” he said. “I came back and realized that corporations have carried out a coup d’état in my country.”

Hedges wrote for The New York Times, The Dallas Morning News and The Christian Science Monitor, and was part of the team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting, for a series of articles examining the terrorist attacks on the United States and profiling the al Qaeda network.

“I covered the street demonstrations that brought down Milošević, I’ve covered both of the Palestinian intifadas, and once movements like this start and articulate a fundamental truth about the society that they live in, and expose the repression, the mendacity, the corruption and the decay of structures of power, then they have a kind of centrifugal force, you never know where they’re going.”

More: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/10/18/hedges-corporations-have-carried-out-a-coup-detat-in-my-country/

[nichomachus]

1. It's about the children

Exactly. How anyone who has kids and grandkids could be against OWS is totally beyond me. Self-destructive idiots.

[hootinholler]

2. We may not know where it's going...

But wherever that is it has to be better than where we are.

[Kingofalldems]

3. Kick and Rec for the 'mock and undermine' crowd

[BlancheSplanchnik]

4. brilliant man!

movements that "articulate a fundamental truth about the society that they live in"--so well put