Joe Bageant

Driving on the Bones of God

You and I may get smoked, but the fat cats will dine on peacock tongues

By Joe Bageant

It is 7 am, already hot as hell and another code red day. I am cresting Mount Weather on Route 7 Virginia and into the face of a blood red sun behind a pink sticky haze that makes commuting so ghostlike here during the dog days of August. The code red is an atmospheric pollution rating, not a Homeland Security alert. It means the air is not safe to breathe unless you have to.

An Interview with Joe Bageant

Interview by Andrew P of EnergyGrid, based in the UK

You have probably read one of Bageant's articles, but who exactly is Joe Bageant? We interview him on his life, his work and his newly found internet cult status.

I was first contacted by Joe Bageant back in April this year, when he sent me, out of the blue, his article "Sleepwalking to Fallujah." That article was written in a way that only a top writer can, and soon afterwards, more pieces followed. From his work and some email exchanges, I realized that Bageant is an extraordinary man as well as a very gifted writer, with a unique take on the American political situation that ensures the huge popularity of his articles and his growing internet cult status.