now today we'll speak with chris hedges who says the world as we know it is coming to an end and the revolution must start in america he's going to tell us what he means by that that will are going to details leaked e-mails from h.p. gary ones that are shown to be a massive a surveillance program by the u.s. against the arab world and i'll speak about lol sex latest victim i'll have all that for you and more tonight but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has mixed. well despite everything else that's going on in the world things like i don't know unless wars economic crises rising food prices just to name a few and the corporate mainstream media world everything was dropped today to cover the biggest case and u.s. history i'm kidding of course but honestly by watching their coverage they just might have called you. did your daughter tell you that there was an accident involving the pool just enjoy your sunday school group. no ma'am now even though caylee was. two almost three and you saw her she was a. very compliant. you know she didn't follow your instruction. we'

an economic one he says that the revolution must start in america so earlier i caught up with chris hedges senior fellow at the nation institute columnist and author of his most recent book the world as it is dispatches on the myth of human progress so i first asked him describe for our audience what he meant by the world as we know it's coming to an end. well if we don't stop the corporate assault on the ecosystem and if we don't curb the rapacious appetite of a class of speculators who are once again inflating not only a national but a global economy that will implode so we are going to face a very severe dislocation and there are no impediments certainly none put in place by the systems of governments to ford in any way this relentless assault you only question now is whether. the economic crisis comes first or the environmental one does. now when you say though we have to thwart it what do we really do because you know you conclude this latest piece of yours by saying that we already lost. well. all hope now rests in civil acts of civil disobedience any belief that we can appeal to the

is the end of the world as we know it really coming on the on the show journalist chris hedges tells all about a revolution that will change everything and that he believes will start in the u.s. that's coming up right now on our. hungry for the feast we've got to. the biggest issues get an invoice face to face with the news makers. welcome to the lower show get the real headlines with none of them are saying we're going to live out of washington d.c. now today we'll speak with chris hedges who says the world as we know it is coming to an end and the revolution must start in america he's going to tell us what he means by that that will look into details leaked e-mails from eight to gary ones that are shown to be a massive a surveillance program by the u.s. against the arab world al speak about lol sex latest victim i'll have all that for you and more tonight but first let's take a look at what the mainstream media has missed. while this fight everything else is going on in the world things like i don't know and list wars economic crises rising food prices just to name a few and the c

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. >> i heard there's a new book out by chris hedges, "new york times" reporter, excellent writer. he cuts right to the core. i don't know if it's out yet for this summer. he's a wonderful writer. and right very passionately about the times in which we live. there's also a book i just saw, it's called the good cheeses -- "the good jesus and the scoundrel christ." it's a dark satire. it imagines mary had twins on christmas day. and we never heard about, like, the bad twin. we know about the good twin. this sort of imagines the story of what the other guy did. so, so that sounds -- you know, right up my alley, and as a recovering catholic, i'm looking forward to reading that. >> tell us what you're reading

. >> well, i heard that there's a new book out by chris hedges, new york times reporter, excellent writer. boy, he cuts right to the core, and i just, i just heard about it, so i want to get this. i don't know if it's out yet for the summer. he's a wonderful writer. and writes very passionately about the times, you know, in which we live. um, there's also a book i just saw, it's called "the good jesus and the scoundrel christ." and it sort of, it's a dark satire. it imagines that mary had twins on christmas day. [laughter] and we never heard about, like, the bad twin. wey

. >> well, i heard that there's a new book out by chris hedges, new york time reporter, excellent writer. boy, he can cuts right to the core, and i just heard about it, so i want to get this. i don't know if it's out yet for this summer. he's a wonderful writer. and writes very passionately about the times, you know, in which we live. um, there's also a book i just saw called "the good jesus and the scoundrel christ." and it sort of, it's a dark satire. it imagines that mary had twins on christmas day. [laughter] and we never heard about, like, the bad twin. we only know about the good twin. so this sort of imagines a story of what the other guy did. so, so that sounds -- so that's, you know, right up my alley, you know, as a recovering catholic. i'm looking forward to reading that. >> tell us what you're reading this summer. send us a tweet at booktv. >> long before he put his john hancock on the declaration of independence, he was arguably among, arguably, the wealthiest merchant banker in the america living in an op lent mansion on top of boston's beacon hill with a commanding view of

hedging our bets with them. it's a poisonous relationship. we need each other. we need them to fight al qaeda and they know it. we're caught in these manipulations, half lies -- chris let's look at what you write in your book about something that matters to everybody here and that's how you envision and end to the war in afghanistan. "the tribele code for restoring harmony is how wars end morning horrible man. the vanquished party goes to the house of the enemy and requests forgiveness and peace. they bring a gift of animals. david, that wonderful way of ending family disputes and even murders, i fidelities, that kind thing, how can we utilize that culture to our advantage to get out of that country? >> i'm glad you selected that quote. it's what the book in the end is all about. the way we're going to get out of the mess that we have gotten into is to understand the tribele rituals, the cultural rituals of that part of the world. conflicts always start in the areas of afghanistan and pakistan, but they end with the balance of mutual respect in which the two sides symbolize that their relationship of equality somehow in our secret contacts with the taliban which ar

hedged denials and combative interviews, called a press conference to reverse course. admitting to a long list of lives. apologizing to a long list of people. the congressman refused to resign. "20/20" anchor chris cuomo has the exclusive interview that set this all in motion today. >> reporter: after a week of denial, today, a tearful anthony weiner said he would not resign but admitted he had lied and had, in fact, sent out inappropriate online pictures of himself to six women. wooen e went so far as to admit the name of one of the women. >> was megan broussard one of the women? >> megan broussard was one of the women. >> reporter: 26-year-old megan broussard of texas says she first became acquainted with weiner after seeing this video online and commenting on his facebook page was hot. what does that mean? >> i like to see someone who is passionate about something. >> reporter: broussard says weiner immediately responded to her facebook comment. what she says soon followed was a flirtatious internet relationship including over 100 instant messages and eventually pictures. >> he was eager to hear if i wanted him, or thought he was attractive. that sort of thing. >> reporter: how much of it was