Chris Hedges and Noam Chomsky: How the US became an oligarchy that makes war on the middle class

Chris Hedges talks with Noam Chomsky on the state of affairs in America and hope for the future.

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In the first part of a two-part conversation, renowned intellectuals Noam Chomsky and Chris Hedges discuss the shift in the U.S. and U.K. in the late 1970s towards neoliberalism, an ideology that “claims it’s increasing freedom [while] it’s actually increasing tyranny,” among other subjects.

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