Arnold Buckley
  Chris Hedges books rock ass and when you combine one with the visual great artwork of a Joe Sacco you have the basis of a great progressive book. Hedges and Sacco pretty much look at ruined communities of a marketplace without constraints and how they can basically discard certain communities fr from the gated communities and high ritzy skyscrapers of the American free-trade empire. the Book Days of Destruction Days Of Revolt cover five areas that lie in decay and misfortune thanks in part to Americas growing appetite for allowing tremendous inequality and lack of opportunity to be distributed more equally and way from the coastal elite cities dependent on foreign trade. Hedges and Sacco come out with this graphics book that details the despair from coal mining degraded communities in the South to old rust belt manufacturing cities in the North where both regions have been deluged by those running the economy sucking the life out of these regions so they can have and corrupt more. The decline of America through these conglomerates and the corporate decisions and battles that have been fought with labor is a large chunk of informative essays and research this book delivers in telling the story to the new generation. hedges informs the reader of the contamination of the soil and water from coal and other manufacturing companies and how the coal companies are running people out of their family generational communities. The exploitation of migrant farm works in Immokalee, Florida is brilliantly illustrated in this book as this is one of many agricultural communities that basically have slave labor returning to these desolate remote areas of America that receive little press coverage. The degradation of the modern American Indians in the Pea Ridge Indian reservation shows how little has changed for conditions of the original inhabitants in the years following the loss of their independence in the West. The ook ends with optimistic and the role of the Occupy movement in organizing and awakening the younger population of the problems and filthy conditions inequality enforces of those with lower-incomes and opportunities and the realization that this process is not by accident from those of wealth and prestige who look forward to expanding declining conditions for the masses while their standard of living and accumulation of wealth increases dramatically. The benefits from this transition and corruption of our democratic principles through bought politicians while serving their interests first and foremost has and always will be the goal of the rich in the Western world and China..