Stories by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter, is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute. He writes a regular column for TruthDig every Monday. His latest book is Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle.
Posted on May 15, 2012, Source: Truthdig
A change of power requires a destruction of corporate domination and a new mechanism of governance to distribute wealth and foster the common good.
Posted on May 14, 2012, Source: Truthdig
When civilizations start to die they go insane. Let the ice sheets in the Arctic melt. Let the temperatures rise. Let the air, soil and water be poisoned. Let the forests die.
Posted on Apr 28, 2012, Source: Truthdig
The emptying of content in political discourse in an age as precarious and volatile as ours will have very dangerous consequences.
Posted on Feb 6, 2012, Source: Truthdig
Black Bloc adherents detest those of us on the organized left and seek, quite consciously, to take away our tools of empowerment.
Posted on Jan 22, 2012, Source: Truthdig
With the latest National Defense Authorization Act, the military can indefinitely detain without trial any U.S. citizen deemed to be a terrorist or an accessory to terrorism.
Posted on Oct 17, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The movement spreading around the United States and the world is simply too big and too radical to be co-opted by political parties or establishment groups.
Posted on Oct 10, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The occupation of Wall Street has formed an alternative community that defies the profit-driven hierarchical structures of corporate capitalism.
Posted on Sep 30, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Either you obstruct the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street or become the passive enabler.
Posted on Sep 5, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Once our seizure of Libyan oil becomes clear it will only ramp up the jihadist hatred for America that has spread like wildfire across the Middle East.
Posted on Aug 29, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The only commodity our state offers is fear.
Posted on Jul 11, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The widening use of militarized police units effectively nullifies the Posse Comitatus Act of 1878, which prohibits the use of the armed forces for civilian policing.
Posted on Jun 27, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The loss of print journalism is impoverishing our civil discourse and leaving us less and less connected to the city, the nation and the world around us.
Posted on Jun 20, 2011, Source: Truthdig
How an environmental advocate faces jail time for peacefully derailing the government's auction of Utah land.
Posted on Jun 13, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The program, renewed by Barack Obama in October, severely isolates the prisoner, cutting them off from family, friends and the outside world.
Posted on May 31, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The rapid and terrifying acceleration of global warming has been confronted by the power elite with self-delusion.
Posted on May 25, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Liberals often prefer comfort and privilege to justice, truth, and confrontation.
Posted on Apr 29, 2011, Source: Truthdig
They will continue to exploit the nation, the global economy and the ecosystem. And they will use their money to hide in gated compounds when it all implodes.
Posted on Apr 18, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Once we demand that a society serve the needs of citizens and the ecosystem that sustains life, rather than the needs of the marketplace, we make hope visible.
Posted on Apr 11, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Unconscious civilizations become totalitarian wastelands.
Posted on Apr 3, 2011, Source: Truthdig
There is no way to vote against the interests of Goldman Sachs. Civil Disobedience is the only tool we have left.
Posted on Mar 21, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Those who die end up in the care of fellow servicemen and women who have to carry out gruesome work while struggling to hold on to their own sanity.
Posted on Mar 14, 2011, Source: Truthdig
If enough of us say "no," if enough of us refuse to cooperate, the despots are in trouble.
Posted on Feb 16, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Philosopher Wendell Berry helped stop the building of the Louisville International Jetport, the damming of the Red River Gorge, and the nuclear power plant on the Ohio River.
Posted on Feb 7, 2011, Source: Truthdig
The corporate state does not have a Politburo. It does not dress its Homeland Security agents in jackboots. There is no raving dictator.
Posted on Jan 10, 2011, Source: Truthdig
Power rests with corporations. And corporations gain very lucrative profits from war.
Posted on Dec 13, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Hope and justice live when people, even in tiny numbers, stand up and fight for them.
Posted on Nov 15, 2010, Source: Truthdig
True intellectual dissent was wiped out long ago. For the most part, universities stand cowardly, silent accomplices of the corporate state, doing corporate bidding.
Posted on Nov 8, 2010, Source: Truthdig
American politics, as the midterm elections demonstrated, have descended into the irrational.
Posted on Oct 18, 2010, Source: Truthdig
The Lynds, a progressive activist couple, have spent their lives among the oppressed.
Posted on Oct 15, 2010, Source: Truthdig
There will be no swastikas this time but seas of red, white and blue flags and Christian crosses. There will be no stiff-armed salutes, but recitations of the Pledge of Allegiance.
Posted on Oct 8, 2010, Source: Truthdig
We do not shake ourselves awake quickly from our electronic hallucinations and defy the elites who are ruining the country and trashing the planet.
Posted on Sep 13, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Don't fear Glenn Beck or Sarah Palin. Fear the underlying corporate power structure
Posted on Sep 11, 2010, Source: Truthdig
The deaths and falling towers became iconographic. The ceremonies of remembrance were skillfully hijacked by the purveyors of war and hatred.
Posted on Sep 9, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Carlos Arredondo never planned on becoming an activist. But when his son came home in a flag-draped casket, he had no choice.
Posted on Aug 9, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Those who send tanks and fighter jets to bomb the concrete hovels in Gaza with families crouching, helpless, inside -- they are the terrorists.
Posted on Jul 5, 2010, Source: Truthdig
It is in solitude, contemplation and a connection with nature that we transcend our frenzied and desperate existence.
Posted on Jun 8, 2010, Source: Truthdig
Tens of millions of Americans, lumped into a diffuse and fractious movement known as the Christian right, are aiming for a theocracy.
Posted on May 10, 2010, Source: Truthdig
As we devolve into a commodity culture, in which celebrity, power and money reign, the older, dimming values of another era are being replaced.
Posted on May 3, 2010, Source: Truthdig
The voices of sanity, the voices of reason, those who have a moral core have little chance now to be heard. Peace has almost no audience.
Posted on Apr 19, 2010, Source: Truthdig
"The mood of the country is frightening. The level of anger, frustration and hatred of institutions is not organized in a constructive way."
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