{"id":13186,"date":"2010-04-13T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13186"},"modified":"2010-04-13T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2010-04-13T10:18:09","slug":"america-the-silence-of-a-nation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13186","title":{"rendered":"America: The Silence of a Nation."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"America: The Silence of a Nation.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MQWUbPN4ooM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=MQWUbPN4ooM&amp;feature=player_embedded#\">26 February 2010<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Excerpts from a speech presented by Chris Hedges<\/p>\n<p>The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel&#8217;s murderous destruction and genocide of the innocent men, women and children of GAZA and the West Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Dedicated to the children of GAZA.<\/p>\n<p>Score: Angels Of The Universe.<br \/>\nSong: b um b um bambal.<br \/>\nComposed By: Sigur Ros &amp; Hilmar Orn Hilmarsson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/australiansforpalestine.com\/must-watch-video-the-silence-of-a-nation\">via Australians for Peace<\/a>:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>THE FULL SPEECH<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=2YA28Pfuvtg&amp;feature=player_embedded\"><br \/>\n<strong>VIDEO PART 1<\/strong><\/a><strong><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=S6xWBp6MjvQ&amp;NR=1\">VIDEO PART 2<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Chris Hedges graduated from seminary at Harvard Divinity School  and was a  foreign correspondent for nearly two decades for the <em>New  York Times<\/em> and other publications. He shared the Pulitzer Prize in  2002. In his  book <em>War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning<\/em> (Public  Affairs, 2002),  Hedges gives an account of the \u201cintoxication\u201d of war,  which he covered  in regions around the world, including El Salvador,  Guatemala,  Nicaragua, Colombia, Israel, Gaza and the West Bank, Iraq,  Bosnia and  Kosovo. His most recent book is <em>Empire of Illusion: The  End of  Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle<\/em> (Nation Books,\u00a02009).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>26 February 2010 Excerpts from a speech presented by Chris Hedges The author spoke at the Revolution Books Town Hall Meeting at Ethical Culture Society on January 13, 2009 condemning Israel and USA complicity in Israel&#8217;s murderous destruction and genocide &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=13186\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-3qG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13186"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13186\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}