Sen. Gerald Ortiz y Pino

Senator Gerald Ortiz y Pinon said, "...I resisted because of some of the very reasons that people have said to me we shouldn't be doing this. And I'd like to run down those right now and try to deal with them in some fashion.

NeoCon Project?

The United State has an insatiable appetite for conflict. Since going into Korea in the 1950s, it has been at war with someone or other in some corner of the globe non-stop right up until the present day. This drive is now led by the weapons manufacturers themselves. This is a highly dangerous precedent called 'war corporatism'. It is the door of a new fascism being pushed open. And don't be fooled. Not all fascism looks like Adolf Hitler..."

Amy Goodman

Amy Goodman: "We're talking with Chris Hedges. He's written a book 'American Fascists'. How does this fit into the race for president in 2008." Chris Hedges: "Certainly this movement has tremendous reach within the Republican party. I mean I think we can argue that it all but controls the Republican party at this point. We see it with John McCain who in 2000 called Falwell and Robertson 'agents of intolerence' and is now sort of falling all over himself to court this movement.

Chris Hedges

Amy Goodman: "Why did you write this book?" Chris Hedges: "Anger. I grew up in the church and of course graduated from seminary and I think these people have completely perverted and distorted and manipulated the Christian message into something that is the very antithesis of certainly what Jesus preached in the gospels."