Chris Hedges

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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.

Suuri raha valvoo amerikkalaista mediaa, 26.6.2015 (Chris Hedges)

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

Resistance Is the Supreme Act of Faith, Truthdig, 31 December 2018

Banishing Truth, Truthdig, 24 December 2018

Trump, the Quintessential American, Truthdig, 17 December 2018

The Heresy of White Christianity, Truthdig, 10 December 2018

The Film the Israel Lobby Does Not Want You to See, Truthdig, 3 December 2018

Neoliberalism's Dark Path to Fascism, Truthdig, 26 November 2018

The Fate of Julian Assange: Chris Hedges Interviews Consortium News Editor-in-Chief Joe Lauria, RT/Consortium News, 24 November 2018 (video)

Are We About to Face Our Gravest Constitutional Crisis? Truthdig, 19 November 2018