Chris Hedges foresees doom

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize winning war correspondent, columnist, human rights activist, and overall brilliantly eloquent speaker and writer. He writes a weekly column at TruthDig. He spent 20 years working as chief war correspondent for the New York Times, including a long stint as bureau chief in the Middle East, only to be fired in 2003 for his vocal opposition to the Iraq invasion. His assessments of the US political environment being an inverse totalitarian state of corporate control, and of illiterate Americans living in an infantile illusion are quite interesting, albeit disheartening in that finding any solution for the fundamental issues he outlines appears so hopeless.