Mr. Orwell’s at the Doorbell…Do we keep Snoozing…or do we Wake Up and Act?

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Pullitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges, in Truthout, urges us to rebel against the forces of greed and ignorance…

› We, the Vast Underclass, Must Rise Up Against Global Mafia – or Die ‹

Excerpts: “A handful of corporate oligarchs around the globe have everything—wealth, power and privilege—and the rest of us struggle as part of a vast underclass, increasingly impoverished and ruthlessly repressed. There is one set of laws and regulations for us; there is another set of laws and regulations for a power elite that functions as a global mafia.”

“More than 100 million Americans—one-third of the population—live in poverty or a category called “near poverty.” Yet the stories of the poor and the near poor, the hardships they endure, are rarely told by a media that is owned by a handful of corporations—Viacom, General Electric, Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp., Clear Channel and Disney. The suffering of the underclass, like the crimes of the power elite, has been rendered invisible.”

Can Truth Survive in this Corporate Dystopia?

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Pullitzer Prize winner, Chris Hedges, interviews Wikileaks founder and hero of humanity, Julian Assange…

› The Death of Truth: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian Assange ‹

Excerpt: “The world has been turned upside down. The pestilence of corporate totalitarianism is spreading rapidly over the earth. The criminals have seized power. It is not, in the end, simply Assange or Manning they want. It is all who dare to defy the official narrative, to expose the big lie of the global corporate state. The persecution of Assange and Manning is the harbinger of what is to come, the rise of a bitter world where criminals in Brooks Brothers suits and gangsters in beribboned military uniforms—propped up by a vast internal and external security apparatus, a compliant press and a morally bankrupt political elite—monitor and crush those who dissent. Writers, artists, actors, journalists, scientists, intellectuals and workers will be forced to obey or thrown into bondage. I fear for Julian Assange. I fear for Bradley Manning. I fear for us all.”