Part 2: Truthdig editor in chief Robert Scheer and Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges discuss how data-collection began as a commercial enterprise that was eventually co-opted by the state.

https://youtu.be/nrZ5MXegW9Y

REST OF THE SERIES

 Part 1 of 7

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges interviews Truthdig’s editor in chief Robert Scheer about his latest book “They Know Everything About You: How Data-Collecting Corporations and Snooping Government Agencies Are Destroying Democracy”

 https://youtu.be/Q5y-ok3l27k

Part 3 of 7

Pulitzer prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges and Truthdig editor in chief Robert Scheer continue their discussion about surveillance, corporate power, and the national security state

Part 4 of 7

A debate emerges between Bob Scheer and Chris Hedges on whether the state can reform its own surveillance practices and whether it can be held accountable by appealing to constitutional principles

Part 5 of 7

Chris Hedges and Robert Scheer discuss the Founding Fathers, FBI surveillance of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the persecution of Chelsea Manning in this sweeping conversation.

Part 6 of 7

Chris Hedges and Bob Scheer discuss the centrality of violence to U.S. American culture.

https://youtu.be/TG8FJdqdd5U

Part 7 of 7

More: Chris Hedges and Bob Scheer discuss the centrality of violence to U.S. American culture.

https://youtu.be/AzW6uRTTKxE