Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire

Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt was interviewed by Laura Flanders of GritTV. Wake up, America! We are living in days of inverted corporate totalitarianism: Resist. Right now the sacrifice is high in West Virginia but the corporations' fracking and drilling is poisoning our water, killing our fish, destroying all of US.

Rev. Lawson on Today's Economic Crisis

Laura Flanders of GritTV and Firedog Lake did an excellent interview of Civil Rights great Rev. James Lawson at the March on Wall Street this past Saturday. He contends that there is a link between plantation capitalism and our current economic crisis.

Laura Flanders Radio Nation bloggers Unite!

This is a special note to fellow bloggers, that a group of the Air America Radio weekend Laura Flanders' show bloggers still continue to blog together, thanks to MaggiesBoy, at his special RadioNation site. When he's not doing his BlueRootsRadio show, Johnson is blogging with us. Today, MB was in abstentia but YBNurmal was there, as was Nightbird, as was Smnoll and KateAnne. We miss our fellow Laura bloggers. Find us there most Sundays, 1-2 pm (Eastern time). Then onwards to blogging at the Sam Seder Show. Seder you all later!