The Looming Collapse of the American Empire

The Looming Collapse of the American Empire

By Chris Hedges

(Transcript of Chris Hedges’ presentation at the University of Missouri-Columbia, February 17, 2009. Hedges is currently a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans, and was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the coverage of global terrorism.)

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