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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 and the Christian Fascists, Truthdig, 23 July 2017
Eugene Debs and the Kingdom of Evil, Truthdig, 16 July 2017
On Contact: Noam Chomsky - Part II, RT/YouTube, 9 July 2017
Eating Our Way to Disease, Truthdig, 9 July 2017
Chomsky to RT: ‘US is racing toward the precipice, while the world is trying to save itself’, RT, 2 July 2017 (video and transcript)
The Battle Over What It Means to Be Female, Truthdig, 2 July 2017
Chris Hedges and Christian Parenti on the Deep-Reaching Ramifications of Climate Change, RT/Truthdig, 24 June 2017 (video)
We Can’t Fight Climate Change if We Keep Lying to Ourselves, Truthdig, 18 June 2017
The Age of Anger, Truthdig, 11 June 2017
Chris Hedges on How to Create Effective Resistance to Fascism, Truthdig, 9 June 2017 (video)
Chris Hedges on the Life of a True Revolutionary, Truthdig, 6 June 2017 (video)
Antonio Gramsci and the Battle Against Fascism, Truthdig, 4 June 2017
The Fragility of Empire with Wallace Shawn, RT, 29 May 2017 (video)
The Artist as Prophet, Truthdig, 28 May 2017
The Death of the Republic, Truthdig, 21 May 2017
Trump Is the Symptom, Not the Disease, Truthdig, 14 May 2017
Going to the Daytime Emmys, Truthdig, 7 May 2017
Chris Hedges and Enrique Martinez Celaya: The Calling of the Artist Is to Bring Forth the Future, RT/Truthdig, 2 May 2017 (video)
Reign of Idiots, Truthdig, 30 April 2017
Terrorizing the Vulnerable, Truthdig, 26 April 2017
‘On Contact With Chris Hedges’: Eugene O’Neill Shatters the American Myth in ‘Electra’, RT/Truthdig, 23 April 2017
The Price of Resistance, Truthdig, 17 April 2017
‘On Contact With Chris Hedges': Putting the War in Syria in Full Context, RT/Truthdig, 16 April 2017 (video)
Chris Hedges and Nikhil Goyal Discuss How to Save the American Education System, RT/Truthdig, 11 April 2017
Chris Hedges Criticizes Mainstream Media’s ‘Cheerleading’ for Syria Strike, Truthdig, 8 April 2017 (video)
The Pandora’s Box of War, Truthdig, 7 April 2017
Chris Hedges and Albert Raboteau on ‘American Prophets' Importance in an Age of Radical Evil, RT/Truthdig, 4 April 2017 (video)
A Nation of the Walking Dead, Truthdig, 2 April 2017
Chris Hedges Resigns From Human Rights Organization PEN, Truthdig, 1 April 2017
How Gambling Has Become America’s Premier Form of Entertainment and Escape by Chris Hedges and Natasha Dow Schüll, RT/Truthdig, 28 March 2017 (video)
The Feuding Kleptocrats, Truthdig, 26 March 2017
Chris Hedges Explains the Importance of ‘Robust’ Public Broadcasting, Truthdig, 25 March 2017 (video)
Chris Hedges and Stephen Kinzer Explore the Birth of American Empire, RT/Truthdig, 20 March 2017 (video)
A Last Chance for Resistance, Truthdig, 19 March 2017
Chris Hedges: The Enemy Is Not Donald Trump or Steve Bannon—It Is Corporate Power, Truthdig, 15 March 2017 (text and video)
Chris Hedges Discusses the ‘Irrevocable Decline of the American Empire' With Poet Linh Dinh, RT/Truthdig, 13 March 2014 (video)
The Dance of Death, Truthdig, 12 March 2017
Donald Trump’s Greatest Allies Are the Liberal Elites, Truthdig, 5 March 2017
Is ‘Christianized Fascism’ the Biggest Threat We Face Under Trump? teleSUR/Truthdig, 28 February 2017 (text and video)
Chris Hedges and Theater Director JoAnne Akalaitis Discuss the State’s Assault on the Arts, RT/Truthdig, 28 February 2017 (video)
The James Luther Adams Lecture, ZNet, 27 February 2017
The Return of American Race Laws, Truthdig, 26 February 2017
ames Baldwin and the Meaning of Whiteness, Truthdig, 19 February 2017
U.S. Health Care System Is Very Corrupt by Chris Hedges and Margaret Flowers, RT/Information Clearing House, 19 February 2017 (text and video)
Chris Hedges Brilliant Speech America Is Done, YouTube, 15 February 2017 (video)
The Elites Won’t Save Us, Truthdig, 12 February 2017
‘Insane Clown President’ with Matt Taibbi, RT, 12 February 2017 (video)
Make America Ungovernable, Truthdig, 5 February 2017
Revolt Is the Only Barrier to a Fascist America, Truthdig, 22 January 2017
Chris Hedges Speaks at The Women's March in Washington DC, Truthdig, 22 January 2017 (video)
Manning and the Gangster State, Truthdig, 17 January 2017
Chris Hedges on How the ‘Deep State' Will Influence the Trump Presidency, RT/Truthdig, 17 January 2017 (text and video)
Building the Institutions for Revolt, Truthdig, 15 January 2017
‘On Contact With Chris Hedges': What the Intelligence Report About Russian Influence Really Reveals, RT/Truthdig, 15 January 2017 (text and video)
Allegations of Russian Hacking Cover Up Larger Issue: Attacks on Independent Journalism, RT/Truthdig, 14 January 2017 (text and video)
Chris Hedges on Trump's ‘Naked Kleptocracy', RT/Truthdig, 13 January 2017 (video)
Chris Hedges Talks With Michael Gecan About Building Organizations to Empower Ordinary Citizens, RT/Truthdig, 9 January 2017 (video)
When Fear Comes, Truthdig, 8 January 2017
The Real Purpose of the U.S. Government’s Report on Alleged Hacking, Truthdig, 8 January 2017
Defying Donald Trump's Kleptocracy, Truthdig, 1 January 2017
Chris Hedges Explores the New McCarthyism With Historian Ellen Schrecker, RT/Truthdig, 26 December 2016 (video)
Who Should Bernie Voters Support Now? Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order, Democracy Now! 26 December 2016 (video and transcript)
In the Time of Trump, All We Have Is Each Other, Truthdig, 25 December 2016
Chris Hedges: ‘Israeli Weapons Are Tested on Palestinians, Then Sold to the World’, discussion with Rania Khalek, RT/Truthdig, 21 December 2016 (video)
‘Fake News' in America: Homegrown, and Far From New, Truthdig, 18 December 2016
Chris Hedges and Author Philipp Ther on the Neoliberal Destruction of Europe, RT/Truthdig, 11 December 2016 (video)
Demagogue-in-Chief, Truthdig, 11 December 2016
Chris Hedges Discusses Prison Reform With Expert on 1971 Attica Prison Uprising, RT/Truthdig, 6 December 2016
The Mafia State, Truthdig, 4 December 2016
Waiting for the Barbarians, Truthdig, 27 November 2016
Chris Hedges Meets the Resistance at Standing Rock, Truthdig, 26 November 2016 (video)
We Are All Deplorables, Truthdig, 20 November 2016
‘On Contact With Chris Hedges’: One Nation Under Donald Trump, RT/Truthdig, 13 November 2016 (text and video)
It's Worse Than You Think, Truthdig, 11 November 2016
Chris Hedges Recounts His Life as a War Correspondent With The New York Times, Truthdig, 9 November 2016
Chris Hedges: The End of the Election Will Not Mean the End of Public Anger, interview with Sophie Shevardnadze, RT/Truthdig, 7 November (video and transcript)
Defying the Politics of Fear, Truthdig, 6 November 2016
Chris Hedges Fearlessly Tells His Own 'Forbidden' Stories, AlterNet, 3 November 2016
Chris Hedges and Tavis Smiley Discuss Popular Resistance and the Failure of Mainstream Media, Truthdig, 1 November 2016 (text and video)
‘On Contact’: Chris Hedges and Medea Benjamin on the U.S.-Saudi Alliance, RT/Truthdig, 31 October 2016
American Irrationalism, Truthdig, 30 October 2016
‘On Contact': Chris Hedges and Hamza Yusuf Explore the Islamic World, RT/Truthdig, 24 October 2016 (video)
How Power Works, Truthdig, 23 October 2016
Chris Hedges vs. Eddie Glaude: Should Progressives Vote for Hillary Clinton or Jill Stein? Democracy Now! 20 October 2016 (video and transcript)
‘On Contact’: Chris Hedges and David Cay Johnston Examine Our ‘Rigged’ Tax System, RT/Truthdig, 18 October 2016 (text and video)
Donald Trump: The Dress Rehearsal for Fascism, Truthdig, 16 October 2016
Chris Hedges: It’s Our Bombs, Not Trump’s Comments, that Fuel Hatred Towards the United States, The Real News, 10 October 2016 (video)
The New Slave Revolt, Truthdig, 9 October 2016
The Empire Strikes Back, Truthdig, 2 October 2016
‘On Contact’: Chris Hedges and Human Rights Activist Miko Peled on the BDS Movement, RT/Truthdig, 26 September 2016 (video)
Police Killings Won’t Stop, Truthdig, 25 September 2016
Chris Hedges and Loretta Napoleoni Analyze the Spread of Jihadism and Refugee Trafficking, RT/Truthdig, 21 September 2016 (video)
Chris Hedges: To Stop Terrorism, End U.S. Occupation of the Middle East, The Real News Network, 19 September 2016 (video and transcript)
The Courtiers and the Tyrants, Truthdig, 18 September 2016
Chris Hedges’ ‘On Contact’: The Cost of Austerity, With Mark Blyth, RT/Truthdig, 12 September 2016 (video)
Fooled Again, Truthdig, 11 September 2016
America the Illiterate: It Cannot Differentiate Between Lies & Truth: Live in Two Americas, The 4th Media, 5 September 2016
‘On Contact' With Chris Hedges: Adam Hochschild and the Moral Impulse to Fight, RT/Truthdig, 5 September 2016
The Intellectuals We Abandon, Truthdig, 4 September 2016
ISIS, The New Israel: How US Foreign Policy Created the Conditions for the Rise of ISIS by Chris Hedges and Sabah Alnasseri, teleSUR/Information Clearing House, 29 August 2016 (video)
‘On Contact’ With Chris Hedges: Halfway to Freedom With Stanley Cohen, RT/Truthdig, 29 August 2016
Chris Hedges Interviews CounterPuncher Rob Urie, CounterPunch, 21 August 2016
Who Should Bernie Voters Support Now? Robert Reich vs. Chris Hedges on Tackling the Neoliberal Order, Democracy Now! 26 July 2016 (video and transcript)
The 1 Percent's Useful Idiots, Truthdig, 26 July 2016
Democratic National Convention Demonstrators Led by Chris Hedges, Cornel West, Truthdig, 25 July 2016 (video)
The New European Fascists, Truthdig, 24 July 2016
Writing as Resistance, Truthdig, 17 July 2016
Legalized Murder and the Politics of Terror, Truthdig, 10 July 2016
‘On Contact' With Chris Hedges: The Exploitation of Women Is Rampant Worldwide, RT/Truthdig, 7 July 2016 (video)
Mumia Abu-Jamal's Fourth of July, Truthdig, 3 July 2016
Chris Hedges Discusses Israeli Occupation With Israeli Journalist Amira Hass, RT/Truthdig, 27 June 2016 (video)
2008 All Over Again, Truthdig, 24 June 2016
Chris Hedges and Kshama Sawant Talk Third-Party Politics, Truthdig, 20 June 2016 (video)
Con vs. Con, Truthdig, 19 June 2016
Capitalism Will Collapse Because Elites ‘Allow Poor to Rot,' Tariq Ali Tells Chris Hedges, RT/Truthdig, 14 June 2016 (video)
We Must Understand Corporate Power to Fight It, Truthdig, 12 June 2016
Chris Hedges and Holocaust Survivor Lola Mozes Revisit Nazi-Occupied Poland, Truthdig, 7 June 2016 (video)
Shut Down the Democratic National Convention, Truthdig, 5 June 2016
Days of Revolt: Th Return of the Radical, Information Clearing House, 3 June 2016 (video)
‘On Contact’: Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins RT America, RT, 2 June 2016 (text and video)
Karl Marx Was Right, Truthdig, 31 May 2016
Lock Up the Men, Evict the Women and Children, Truthdig, 29 May 2016
Chris Hedges on the Legacy of Rosa Luxemburg, Truthdig, 28 May 2016 (video)
Reform or Revolution, Truthdig, 22 May 2016
Democracy in the US is a fraud’: Left Forum debates next steps for Sanders movement, RT, 21 May 2016
Welcome to 1984, Truthdig, 14 May 2016
‘Days of Revolt': Chris Hedges, Israeli Peace Activist Miko Peled Discuss the Devolution of Israel, Truthdig, 10 May 2016 (video)
Ralph Nader and Chris Hedges Breaking Through Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump by Russell Mokhiber, CounterPunch, 10 May 2016
Bearing the Cross, Truthdig, 8 May 2016
'Days of Revolt': Chris Hedges Talks With ‘Cowspiracy' Directors, Truthdig, 3 May 2016 (video)
The Socialist Alternative, Truthdig, 1 May 2016
The Socialist Alternative, Truthdig, 1 May 2016
‘Days of Revolt': Chris Hedges, Josh Fox Examine Humanity in the Face of Climate Change, Truthdig, 19 April 2016 (video)
Revolution Is in the Air, Truthdig, 16 April 2016
The Wages of Sin, Truthdig, 10 April 2016
The Lie of Patriotism, Truthdig, 3 April 2016
The Lies of Neoliberal Economics (or How America Became a Nation of Sharecroppers) by Michael Hudson - Chris Hedges, CounterPunch, 1 April 2016
We All Are Islamic State, Truthdig, 27 March 2016
The Great Ponzi Scheme of the Global Economy by Michael Hudson - Chris Hedges, CounterPunch, 25 March 2016
Hedges: "We Bomb Them, They Bomb Us" by Jessica Desvarieux, The Real News Network, 24 March 2016
Voting With Our Feet, Truthdig, 20 March 2016
The Mexicanization of the United States, Truthdig, 13 March 2016
The Revenge of the Lower Classes and the Rise of American Fascism, Truthdig, 2 March 2016
The Graveyard of the Elites, Truthdig, 28 February 2016
Why I Support Dr. Jill Stein for President, Truthdig, 21 February 2016
‘Days of Revolt': Chris Hedges, Jill Stein Take On the Scam of American Politics, Truthdig, 17 February 2016 (video)
Bernie Sanders' Phantom Movement, Truthdig, 14 February 2016
How One City Is Revolting Against Corporate Takeover by Chris Hedges, AlterNet, 10 February 2016
Flint’s Crisis Is About More Than Water, Truthdig, 7 February 2016
Pity the Children, Truthdig, 31 January 2016
VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt': Chris Hedges, Detroit Activists Describe the Death of the American City, Truthdig, 26 January 2016
The Suicide of the Liberal Church, Truthdig, 24 January 2016
VIDEO: Chris Hedges Explores Veganism as a Moral Choice with Activist Gary Francione, Truthdig, 19 January 2016
The Mirage of Justice, Truthdig, 17 January 2016
The Great Forgetting, Truthdig, 10 January 2016
Chris Hedges On The Fall Of America, Information Clearing House, 7 January 2016 (video)
The American Empire: Murder Inc., Truthdig, 3 January 2016
The Illusion of Freedom, Truthdig, 27 December 2015
The Creeping Villainy of American Politics, Truthdig, 20 December 2015
'Days of Revolt' With Chris Hedges and Vijay Prashad: The Militarism of U.S. Diplomacy, Truthdig, 15 December 2015 (video)
Capitalism's Cult of Human Sacrifice, Truthdig, 13 December 2015
Apocalyptic Capitalism, Truthdig, 6 December 2015
The Age of the Demagogues, Truthdig, 29 November 2015
States of Terror, Truthdig, 22 November 2015
Pray With Your Feet, Truthdig, 15 November 2015
The Most Brazen Corporate Power Grab in American History, Truthdig, 6 November 2015
VIDEO: Chris Hedges and Ralph Nader on Corporate Control, Faux Liberals and Hillary Clinton, Truthdig, 3 November 2015
Sheldon Wolin and Inverted Totalitarianism, Truthdig, 1 November 2015
VIDEO: Chris Hedges Calls Out Corporate America for Exploiting Prison Labor, Truthdig, 28 October 2015
Death by Fracking, Truthdig, 18 October 2015
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on What It Truly Means to Be a Socialist, Truthdig, 18 October 2015
‘A Pipeline Straight to Jail', Truthdig, 11 October 2015
Local Resistance Can Overthrow Our Political Masters, Truthdig, 4 October 2015
VIDEO: ‘Days of Revolt' With Chris Hedges: ISIS, the New Israel, Truthdig, 1 October 2015
State Terror Against People of Color by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 28 September 2015
Chris Hedges on Pope Francis: ‘He Has Not Stood Up and Offered an Alternative', Truthdig, 25 September 2015 (video)
Israel's War on Children, Information Clearing House, 24 September 2015 (video and transcript)
What It Means to Be a Socialist, Truthdig, 20 September 2015
Where Is Our Jeremy Corbyn? Truthdig, 13 September 2015
VIDEO: Chris Hedges on the Big Lie of Neoliberalism and the Very Real Threat of a President Trump, Truthdig, 13 September 2015
The Invisible Empire: The Making of Global Capitalism by Leo Panitch, Chris Hedges, Information Clearing House, 10 September 2015 (video by teleSUR)
The Real Enemy Is Within, Truthdig, 6 September 2015
The Great Unraveling, Truthdig, 30 August 2015
Eulogy for a Friend, Truthdig, 23 August 2015
Amnesty International: Protecting the ‘Human Rights' of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers, Truthdig, 16 August 2015
Evoking the Wrath of Nature, Truthdig, 9 August 2015
A Haven From the Animal Holocaust, Truthdig, 2 August 2015
Why I Support the BDS Movement Against Israel, Truthdig, 26 July 2015
My Teacher, Truthdig, 19 July 2015
We Are All Greeks Now, Truthdig, 12 July 2015
In Extreme Times, ‘Liberals Are a Dead Force' (Part 1 of 3) by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 9 July 2015 (video and transcript)
Corporate Capitalism Is the Foundation of Police Brutality and the Prison State by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 5 July 2015
Great "CrossTalk" on New Cold War With Chris Hedges and Vladimir Golstein, RT/Russia Insider, 3 July 2015 (video)
Chris Hedges Wins L.A. Press Club's Top Award for Activism Journalism, Truthdig, 29 June 2015
The Lonely American, Truthdig, 28 June 2015
America's Slave Empire, Truthdig, 21 June 2015
America's Electoral Farce, Truthdig, 16 June 2015
Wages of Rebellion, Information Clearing House, 14 June 2015 (video)
Chris Hedges on Tavis Smiley: Change Will Come Through Organizations of Mass Resistance , 14 June 2014 (video)
Thou Shalt Not Kill, Truthdig, 7 June 2015
VIDEO: Chris Hedges: ‘A Look at What It Takes to Rebel', Truthdig, 1 June 2015
Karl Marx Was Right, Truthdig, 31 May 2015
Our Mania for Hope Is a Curse, Truthdig, 24 May 2015
The Pathology of the Rich White Family, Truthdig, 17 May 2015
A Nation of Snitches, Truthdig, 10 May 2015
Make the Rich Panic, Truthdig, 3 May 2015
Rise of the New Black Radicals, Truthdig, 26 April 2015
For Nader, Defiance Is a Way of Life, Truthdig, 12 April 2015
"We Specialize In Illegal Wars", RT/Information Clearing House, 8 April 2015 (video)
Boycott, Divest and Sanction Corporations That Feed on Prisons, Truthdig, 5 April 2015
No One Is Free Until All Are Free, Truthdig, 29 March 2015
The Most Dangerous Woman in America, Truthdig, 15 March 2015
The Whoredom of the Left, Truthdig, 8 March 2015
We Kill Our Revolutionaries, Truthdig, 22 February 2015
‘Pornography Is What the End of the World Looks Like', Truthdig, 15 February 2015
Malcolm X Was Right About America by Chris Hedges, Truthdig, 1 February 2015
Killing Ragheads for Jesus, Truthdig, 25 January 2015
All Forms of Life Are Sacred, Truthdig, 4 January 2015