Below is a link to speech by Chris Hedges given in LA sometime this June:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&v=l7NZN1_cRp4&feature=endscreen
Hedges gives some material and human dimension to the global economic crisis. It starts by pushing his new book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. He and coauthor Joe Sacco(?) visit the poorest areas in the US to talk to people and get their stories, which they tell in the book and illustrate with Sacco's pen drawings. They start on a Lakoda reservation called Pine Ridge...
It's a very moving speech.
CG