So that that’s very frightening when you essentially are with?-and there’s no discussion of this among the public?-you are powering these subterranean unseen private security entities and giving them in essence police power and yet, they are never identified. Seventy percent of US intelligence of our 16 intelligence agencies is actually carried out by companies like Booz Allen Hamilton, where Snowden worked. We know that corporations have privatized the gathering of intelligence, that there is a fusion down near Wall Street of these corporate and public policing entities. They were, they may have used former NYPD or FBI, but they were all the internal security of Goldman Sachs itself. I was arrested during the Occupy movement with several activists in front of Goldman Sachs but the people who actually came out and were involved in our removal weren’t NYPD. People would actually be invited onto private land, and I think one of the things that’s most frightening, and we saw this with North Dakota, this fusion of State Security with these amorphous private mercenaries or security outfits. They were doing that when they were building the southern leg of the XL. Lee Camp: Right, and what do you make of Amy Goodman of Democracy Now being charged with trespassing for simply reporting on it?Ĭhris Hedges: Well, they’ve been doing that up-and-down pipelines. So the actual figures or entities that are pulling the strings are nowhere near North Dakota. And so you have a corporate system that purports to pay fealty to electoral politics, the Constitution, the iconography and language of American patriotism, and yet internally has seized all of the levers of power to render the citizen impotent. And by that he means it’s not classical totalitarianism?-it doesn’t find its expression through a demagogue or a charismatic leader?-but through the anonymity of the corporate state. There probably not even in the Dakotas.Ĭhris Hedges: Yeah, that’s very much, I think, what Wolin elucidates in his last book, Democracy Incorporated and he argues that we live in, he calls it, inverted totalitarianism. Is it fair to view those dogs as kind of the teeth of the corporate state while the actual rulers, the decision-makers, the ones calling those shots, they’re nowhere to be seen. The big banks are our funding the pipeline.
With the case of the recent Dakota access pipeline protest, you know, there was the private security firm alongside the militarized police using dogs and pepper spray to protect basically the investment of the big banks.
No, actually first I’d like to ask you, you’ve talked before about Sheldon Wolin’s idea that we live in corporate totalitarianism ruled by the anonymous corporate state. I hope that’s okay.Ĭhris Hedges: Yeah, that’s the primary focus of my work. Lee Camp: I have a lot of questions but most of them revolve around Brad Pitt Angelina Jolie’s divorce. It’s a harsh and hurtful critique and that’s why I want to respond to it.īut first here’s my talk earlier today with Chris Hedges. I talked with Chris earlier today while we did each other’s nails.Īnd in the second half of the show, I want to address the complaint that I don’t criticize Donald Trump enough.
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You filed a lawsuit against the Obama administration in 2012 challenging the National Defense Authorization Act, which allows our government to indefinitely detain people without a trial or charges, including journalists. He doesn’t just write about these tough topics, he also walks the walk. His latest book, Wages of Rebellion, explains why revolt is a moral imperative. On the show today I talk with Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author who also hosts the show On Contact here on RT America. Lee Camp: Welcome to Redacted Tonight VIP.
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