{"id":18260,"date":"2016-02-25T15:06:57","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:06:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18260"},"modified":"2016-02-25T15:06:57","modified_gmt":"2016-02-25T20:06:57","slug":"video-days-of-revolt-chris-hedges-and-jill-stein-confront-the-corporate-leviathan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=18260","title":{"rendered":"VIDEO: \u2018Days of Revolt\u2019: Chris Hedges and Jill Stein Confront the \u2018Corporate Leviathan\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/avbooth\/item\/video_days_of_revolt_chris_hedges_and_dr_jill_stein_201602241\" target=\"_blank\">VIDEO: \u2018Days of Revolt\u2019: Chris Hedges and Jill Stein Confront the \u2018Corporate Leviathan\u2019\u00a0<\/a><\/h3>\n<table style=\"height: 280px;\" width=\"374\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\"><span class=\"imgborder\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.truthdig.com\/images\/eartothegrounduploads\/jillsteinhedges_360.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"254\" border=\"0\" \/><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td align=\"right\">\n<p align=\"right\">\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div class=\"entry_body_wrapper\">\n<p>In the first installment of this two-part series for\u00a0<a title=\"teleSUR\" href=\"http:\/\/www.telesurtv.net\/english\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">teleSUR<\/a>\u2018s \u201cDays of Revolt,\u201d host and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein identified the problem: the \u201ccorporate leviathan,\u201d a bought two-party political system. In this episode, they discuss solutions.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s been a lot of chatter this campaign season\u2014much of it from unlikely or untrustworthy sources\u2014about how the economy is rigged. Trying to attack that issue from within the existing framework, however, isn\u2019t going to change anything, according to these two thinkers.<\/p>\n<p>Hedges frames the discussion by asking what the response should be \u201cfor those of us who care about reclaiming our democracy and creating an equitable fair and just society.\u201d Watch the full clip below to see what he and Stein come up with in the way of answers (via\u00a0<a title=\"The Real News Network\" href=\"http:\/\/therealnews.com\/t2\/index.php?option=com_content&amp;task=view&amp;id=31&amp;Itemid=74&amp;jumival=15711\" target=\"_blank\">The Real News Network<\/a>):<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/N4S0cmuL7XY\" width=\"590\" height=\"332\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>VIDEO: \u2018Days of Revolt\u2019: Chris Hedges and Jill Stein Confront the \u2018Corporate Leviathan\u2019\u00a0 In the first installment of this two-part series for\u00a0teleSUR\u2018s \u201cDays of Revolt,\u201d host and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and Green Party presidential candidate Dr. Jill Stein identified the problem: the \u201ccorporate leviathan,\u201d a bought two-party political system. In this episode, they discuss [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9035,12634,12633,12635,8738,12636],"class_list":["post-18260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-corporate-leviathan","tag-jill-stein","tag-rigged-economy","tag-truthdig","tag-us-green-party"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18261,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18260\/revisions\/18261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}