INTELLECTUALS SEDUCED BY CORPORATE PROPAGANDA

The above title is also the title of a story in yesterday's Waterloo Region Record. A U.S. journalist by the nema of Chris Hedges was speaking at a conference at Wilfred Laurier University. His message is definitely not a good news meassage. Among his claims are that both universities and the media are being silent as corporations essentially bankrupt the United States. He also advocates non violent civil disobedience as the only hope for citizens such as the recent Occupy movements. Corporations rule the economy and they partly do this via corporate lobbyists essentially writing the legislation which goes to Congress. Mr. Hedges references parents bankrupting themselves trying to pay medical bills for their children as well as six million U.S. citizens who have lost their homes and it is rising. Mr. Hedges also refers to the sad state in investigative journalism being a direct result of old laws being used inappropriately to intimidate journalist. All in all this lecturer is clearly trying to sound the alarm for democracy throughout North America.