People refuse to see that the United States is a poor country, Linh Dinh tells Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges in this episode of “On Contact.” The poet continues, “We only look good because of our military might, but this farce cannot go on forever.”
I am not too optimistic about the future. Too many lies have been told and far too many people believe these lies as truth. In the end, these lies may end up wiping us all off the face of this besieged planet. Resistance to these dangerous lies is already happening worldwide. Voices like Linh Dinh & Chris Hedges are the shards of light that will help us understand what is going on and help fuel our resistance to the suffocating darkness....
