{"id":23680,"date":"2013-02-09T21:38:00","date_gmt":"2013-02-09T21:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/radiofree.asia\/?guid=e923d5f0c39e2f7c1e720cd0710faea8"},"modified":"2013-02-09T21:38:00","modified_gmt":"2013-02-09T21:38:00","slug":"clearing-the-fog-with-chris-hedges-and-cliff-durand-on-challenges-to-democracy-in-a-globalized-corporate-state","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2013\/02\/09\/clearing-the-fog-with-chris-hedges-and-cliff-durand-on-challenges-to-democracy-in-a-globalized-corporate-state\/","title":{"rendered":"Clearing the FOG with Chris Hedges and Cliff DuRand on Challenges to Democracy in a Globalized Corporate State"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges, author of \u201cDays of Destruction, Days of Revolt,\u201d speaks about \"Managed Democracy\" in the US, or what he calls \u201cpolitical theater.\u201d He also discusses \u201cInverted Totalitarianism,\u201d a term first used by Sheldon Wolin who wrote \u201cDemocracy, Inc.\u201d Hedges describes the \u201cSacrifice Zones\u201d that he visited as he wrote his most recent book, \"Day of Destruction, Days of Revolt.\" Hedges writes a weekly column for Truthdig. We then speak with Cliff DuRand, author of \u201cRecreating Democracy in a Globalized State.\u201d DuRand explains capitalism as a Monopoly game that always ends up with gross inequality and collapse of the game. He also explains our current political environment as a \"polyarchy\" that suppresses real democracy in order to maintain control. DuRand\u2019s writing can be found at the Global Justice Center (<a class=\"mx-link\" href=\"http:\/\/globaljusticecenter.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow external\"  style=\"outline: 0px; text-decoration: initial; cursor: pointer; color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\">globaljusticecenter.org<\/a>). For more information, visit\u00a0<a class=\"mx-link\" href=\"http:\/\/clearingthefogradio.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow external\"  style=\"outline: 0px; text-decoration: initial; cursor: pointer; color: #02a0c7; font-weight: bold; text-shadow: white 0px 1px 0px; font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; line-height: 21px;\">ClearingtheFOGRadio.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/clearingthefogradioshow.libsyn.com\/clearing-the-fog-with-chris-hedges-and-cliff-du-rand-on-challenges-to-democracy-in-a-globalized-corporate-state\">Clearing the FOG with co-hosts Margaret Flowers and Kevin Zeese<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Chris Hedges, author of \u201cDays of Destruction, Days of Revolt,\u201d speaks about &#8220;Managed Democracy&#8221; in the US, or what he calls \u201cpolitical theater.\u201d He also discusses \u201cInverted Totalitarianism,\u201d a term first used by Sheldon Wolin who wrote \u201cDemocracy, Inc&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23681,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23680\/revisions\/23681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}