{"id":4477,"date":"2012-09-12T06:26:01","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T11:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4477"},"modified":"2018-08-16T15:50:13","modified_gmt":"2018-08-16T20:50:13","slug":"chris-hedges-the-absurdity-of-american-empire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/?p=4477","title":{"rendered":"Chris Hedges: The Absurdity of American Empire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>from<a href=\"http:\/\/www.grittv.org\/\"> GRITtv with Laura Flanders<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe width=\"450\" height=\"253\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J_dkEgNGpzY?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of <em>Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt<\/em>, calls &#8220;sacrifice zones.&#8221; From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by the excesses of capitalism, prefigure our collective future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from GRITtv with Laura Flanders What happens when you force communities, families and entire ecosystems to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace? You get what Chris Hedges, co-author with Joe Sacco of Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, calls &#8220;sacrifice zones.&#8221; From Appalachia to North Dakota to Camden, New Jersey, these zones, ravaged by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[79],"tags":[1652,942,527,1644,1645,1364,1651,1653,923,1650],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4477"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4479,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4477\/revisions\/4479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.progressivefox.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}