Empire of Illusion, The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Chris Hedges speech on the pacification of the increasingly-suppressed citizenry by the mass media, the lies and fraud at the heart of the national economy, Wall Street's destruction of the U.S.'s manufacturing sector, "Brand Obama," the perfidy of Obama and other "courtiers" to the real power, the failure of the Left to challenge Obama's Bush-ist policies, and the funeral of Michael Jackson. Our best hope, Hedges concludes, is a revival of Democratic Socialism in the U.S.