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Christopher Lynn " Chris " Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, activist, author, and Presbyterian minister. Hedges is also known as the best-selling author of several books including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002)-a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction - Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009), Death of the Liberal Class (2010), the New York Times best seller, written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), and his most recent Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015).
Hedges is currently a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City, and a contributing author for OpEdNews. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times,where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990-2005).
In 2002, Hedges was part of a group of eight reporters at The New York Times awarded the Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey. He writes a weekly column on Mondays for Truthdig and wrote what The New York Times described as "a call to arms" for the first issue of the Occupied Wall Street Journal, a newspaper associated with the Occupy Wall Street protests in Zuccotti Park, New York City. He has described himself as a socialist.
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My Student Comes Home from Prison, Consortium News, 29 June 2020
On contact: Julian Assange extradition hearing with Marjorie Cohn, RT, 28 June 2020 (video)
On Contact: Planet of the Humans with Jeff Gibbs, RT, 21 June 2020 (video)
Don't Be Fooled. The Corporate Elites Are Gaslighting You Once Again, Common Dreams, 17 June 2020
On Contact: Analysis of George Floyd protests by Glen Ford and Chris Hedges, RT, 14 June 2020 (video)
On Contact: Trump & the ‘permanent lie’ by Mark Green and Chris Hedges, RT, 7 June 2020 (video)
The Treason of the Ruling Class, Scheerpost, 2 June 2020
The Real Looting Of America CNN Won't Show You by Chris Hedges and Jimmy Dore, Information Clearing House, 1 June 2020 (video)
On Contact: Covid-19 & critic of globalization John Ralston Saul, RT, 31 May 2020 (video)
On Contact: Ecosocialism with Victor Wallis, RT, 24 May 2020 (video and transcript)
On Contact: Paris Uprising, May 1968 by Mitch Abidor and Chris Hedges, RT, 17 May 2020 (video)
On Contact - high rates of Combat Veterans Suicides by Chris Hedges, RT/YouTube, 9 May 2020 (video)
Chris Hedges on Biden vs. Trump, Bernie Sanders, Corporate Media, Assange & State of the Left, YouTube/Actvism, 5 May 2020 (video)
On Contact: Colonial war on Palestine with Rashid Khalidi, RT/YouTube, 2 May 2020 (video)
On Contact: The New Republic with D. D. Guttenplan, RT, 26 April 2020 (video)
WATCH: Dan Ellsberg, Chris Hedges, Marjorie Cohn & Aaron Mate on the First Anniversary of Assange's Arrest, Consortium News, 11 April 2020 (video)
Amid the coronavirus crisis, a wealthy publisher shuts down an ‘important progressive media outlet' by Slava Zilber and Chris Hedges, The Canary, 30 March 2020
On Contact: I.F. Stone with D.D. Guttenplan, RT, 28 March 2020 (video)
Chris Hedges on Coronavirus, Climate and What Next? XRTV Interview, 28 March 2020 (video)
The One-Choice Election, Truthdig, 9 March 2020
Class: The Little Word the Elites Want You to Forget, Truthdig, 2 March 2020
ASSANGE EXTRADITION: CN Editor Discusses Hearing with Chris Hedges, Consortium News, 29 February 2020 (video)
The Zionist Colonization of Palestine, Truthdig, 24 February 2020
The New Rules of the Game, Truthdig, 17 February 2020
What Is Happening to Assange Will Happen to the Rest of Us, Truthdig, 10 February 2020
America: Land of Make-Believe, Truthdig, 3 February 2020
The Disaster of Utopian Engineering, Truthdig, 28 January 2020
Chris Hedges calls out Dems lack of moral authority on impeachment, Truthdig, 24 January 2020 (text and video)
How Democracies Die, Truthdig, 13 January 2020
The Miracle of Kindness, According to Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 8 January 2020 (text and video)
War With Iran, Truthdig, 3 January 2020
Onward, Christian Fascists, Truthdig, 30 December 2019
The Impeachment's Moral Hypocrisy, Truthdig, 23 December 2019
Gaza - 70 Years Of Genocide by Norman Finkelstein and Chris Hedges, YouTube, 22 December 2019 (video)
Hope Lies in the Streets, Truthdig, 15 December 2019
The Great American Shakedown, Truthdig, 9 December 2019
Chris Hedges: Electoralism Won’t Save Us by Abby Martin, Truthdig, 2 December 2019
The New 'Black Codes', Truthdig, 2 December 2019
The End of the Rule of Law, Truthdig, 25 November 2019
How to Save the Planet and Ourselves, Truthdig, 18 November 2019
Death by Oligarchy, Truthdig, 11 November 2019
The Enemy Within, Truthdig, 4 November 2019
Saying Goodbye to Sam, Truthdig, 28 October 2019
Pity the Kurds, Truthdig, 21 October 2019
The Age of Radical Evil, Truthdig, 14 October 2019
Time to Rebel, Truthdig, 7 October 2019
To Impeach or Not to Impeach? Chris Hedges & John Bonifaz Debate What Congress Should Do Next, Democracy Now! 1 October 2019 (video and transcript)
The Problem With Impeachment, Truthdig, 26 September 2019
Saving the Planet Means Overthrowing the Ruling Elites, Truthdig, 23 September 2019
Our Invisible Government, Truthdig, 16 September 2019
The Capitalists Are Afraid, Truthdig, 9 September 2019
Former NYT Middle East Bureau Chief Rips Disgraceful Lying at NYTimes - 'It's Not Journalism', RT/Russia Insider, 8 September 2019 (video)
NYT Moral Crusade Masquerading as Journalism, RT/Information Claring House, 4 September 2019 (video)
The Last Act of the Human Comedy, Truthdig, 2 September 2019
The Curse of Moral Purity, Truthdig, 26 August 2019
The World According to George Galloway, Truthdig, 19 August 2019
Fear vs. Fear, Truthdig, 12 August 2019
The Artist as Prophet, Truthdig, 5 August 2019
The Great Flood, Truthdig, 29 July 2019
War, Memory and Gettysburg, Truthdig, 8 July 2019
The Dilemma of Vladimir Lenin, Truthdig, 1 July 2019
Burning Down the Future, Truthdig, 24 June 2019
The Coming Show Trial of Julian Assange, Truthdig, 17 June 2019
The Thought Police Are Coming, Truthdig, 11 June 2019
Manufacturing War With Russia, Truthdig, 3 June 2019
War with Russie? by Chris Hedges and Stephn F. Cohen, RT/Information Clearing House, 2 June 2019 (video)
The Mass Media Is Poisoning Us With Hate, Truthdig, 27 May 2019
America's Reproductive Slaves, Truthdig, 20 May 2019
Integrity Forged in Cages, Truthdig, 13 May 2019
The Rot of American Journalism Runs Deep by Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi, RT/Truthdig, 9 May 2019 (video)
Creeping Toward Tyranny, Truthdig, 6 May 2019
The Last Battle, Truthdig, 29 April 2019
The 'Russiagate' Conspiracy Theorists Just Can't Let Go by Chris Hedges and Aaron Maté, RT/Truthdig, 22 April 2019 (video)
First Julian Assange, Then Us, Truthdig, 16 April 2019
On Contact: Assange with Vijay Prashad, RT/YouTube, 15 April 2019 (video)
The Martyrdom of Julian Assange, Truthdig, 11 April 2019
Reckoning With Failure in the War on Terror, Truthdig, 8 April 2019
Only the Struggle Matters, Truthdig, 1 April 2019
Mueller Report Ends a Shameful Period for the Press, Truthdig, 25 March 2019
Guns and Liberty, Truthdig, 25 March 2019
Manning and the New Inquisition, Truthdig, 18 March 2019
Israel's Stranglehold on American Politics, Truthdig, 10 March 2019
Giving the Bomb to Saudi Arabia’s Dr. Strangelove, Truthdig, 3 March 2019
Extinction Rebellion, Truthdig, 24 February 2019
Trump's Withdrawal From the Iran Nuclear Deal Invites Disaster by Scott Ritter and Chris Hedges, RT/Truthdig, 18 February 2019 (video)
Worshipping the Electronic Image, Truthdig, 17 February 2019
Peter Jackson’s Cartoon War, Truthdig, 11 February 2019
Goodbye to the Dollar, Truthdig, 4 February 2019
How Israel lobby fakes campus anti-Semitism by Ali Abunimah, Max Blumenthal and Chris Hedges, RT/The Electronic Intifada, 3 February 2019 (video and text)
The World to Come, Truthdig, 28 January 2019
Confronting the Culture of Death, Truthdig, 21 January 2019
The 'Private Governments' That Subjugate U.S. Workers, Truthdig, 14 January 2019
The Election Circus Begins, Truthdig, 7 January 2019