ok, at popular request of the guy who doesn't realize most articles (and this video) start off with a summary outlining the ensuing points:

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author who worked as a foreign correspondent for 20 years, most of it with the New York Times. Starting in 2002 he began writing books and has published about 1 a year since. He analyzes changes made in the progression (or digression) of the United States democracy.

C-Span interviews 1 author per month for an in-depth and comprehensive review of their collective publications. This is the interview.