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.
Cultural barriers and naked corruption have rendered the Afghan National Army completely inept.
Posted on Nov 11, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Bill McKibben believes we must reduce our carbon emissions immediately, or else face disaster. Chris Hedges says that until we defeat corporate power, we can't address anything.
Posted on Oct 24, 2009, Source: Yes! Magazine and TruthDig
War memorials and museums sanitize the instruments of death that turn young soldiers into killers, and small villages in Vietnam or Afghanistan into hellish bonfires.
Posted on Oct 6, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Delegates from the world's wealthiest nations gather this week for G-20, walled off from protesters by a National Guard combat battalion recently returned from Iraq.
Posted on Sep 22, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The health plans rattling around Congress are designed to force you to buy a defective product: Bad private insurance.
Posted on Aug 24, 2009, Source: Truthdig
A culture that cannot distinguish between reality and illusion dies. A visit to a Las Vegas porn convention reveals we are dying now.
Posted on Jul 31, 2009, Source: Nation Books
The confusion of purpose in Afghanistan mirrors the confusion on the ground. We are embroiled in a civil war.
Posted on Jul 21, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The hubbub around Michael Jackson's death was orchestrated by the same corporate forces that drove him insane.
Posted on Jul 16, 2009, Source: Truthdig
If you defraud banks and customers of billions, you get taxpayer money. But if you are poor like Tearyan Brown of Trenton, N.J., you are in trouble.
Posted on Jul 14, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.
Posted on Jun 30, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. It is we who need to be taught.
Posted on Jun 23, 2009, Source: Truthdig
What do words of peace and cooperation mean from us when we torture -- yes, we still torture -- Muslims?
Posted on Jun 9, 2009, Source: Truthdig
A massive natural gas project could pollute fresh water supplies for New York, Philadelphia, Camden and Trenton, and other areas.
Posted on May 26, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation.
Posted on May 19, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The U.S. has killed twice as many Afghan civilians as the Taliban this year and that number is sure to rise.
Posted on May 11, 2009, Source: Truthdig
If we don't stop the rapacious looting of the public treasury, we'll be left with trillions in debts and a robust police state.
Posted on Apr 7, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The trial and imprisonment of the university professor has been capricious, inept and overtly racist every step of the way.
Posted on Mar 30, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Unless we take hold of the reins we will be cursed with a more ruthless form of corporate power wielded through naked repression.
Posted on Mar 28, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Cutting back on fossil fuels, shutting down our coal plants, and building seas of wind turbines, will be useless unless we nip population growth.
Posted on Mar 11, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The Director of National Intelligence argued that Wall Street, rather than Islamic jihad, has produced our most dangerous terrorists.
Posted on Feb 17, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Our celebrity-centered culture plunges us into a moral void. It offers the illusion of immortality and promotes self-love over the common good.
Posted on Feb 12, 2009, Source: Truthdig
The economic crisis could plunge the U.S. into a long period of social instability. Our democracy is in peril; the threat of totalitarianism is real.
Posted on Feb 4, 2009, Source: Truthdig
Israel is using hunger and terror to break a hostile population -- it will pay a huge price down the road.
Posted on Dec 31, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Israel's siege of Gaza rivals the worst crimes carried out at the height of South African apartheid.
Posted on Dec 16, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Don't expect the so-called experts to fix it either. They can't. They are loyal to the decaying political and financial systems that empowered them.
Posted on Dec 9, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The swelling numbers waiting outside homeless shelters and food pantries around the country have grown by at least 30 percent since the summer.
Posted on Nov 27, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Millions of Americans live in a non-reality-based belief system informed by childish cliches - they can barely differentiate between lies and truth.
Posted on Nov 12, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Barack Obama's health care plan coddles the corporations that profit from the misery and illnesses of tens of millions of Americans.
Posted on Sep 2, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Mounting NATO bombing raids and widespread detentions of Afghans are rapidly turning the country into the mirror image of Iraq.
Posted on Aug 27, 2008, Source: Truthdig
A war with Iran would ruin our economy and finally kill off our weakened, anemic democracy.
Posted on Aug 5, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The decline of newspapers is about the rise of the corporate state, the loss of civic and responsibility to inform the public.
Posted on Jul 22, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The new FISA law uses terrorism as a pretext to permit wholesale spying and would seriously cripple our free press.
Posted on Jul 12, 2008, Source: LA Times
Unlike the media's Brokaws and Blitzers, real journalists don't have cozy relationships with the powerful. Real journalists are feared.
Posted on Jun 26, 2008, Source: Truthdig
We have embarked on an occupation that is as damaging to our souls as to our prestige and power and security.
Posted on Jun 6, 2008, Source: Tomdispatch.com
In a dramatic speech, Chris Hedges warns that the nation is on the verge of becoming a full-blown corporate state.
Posted on Jun 3, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Obama’s campaign message, filled with lofty promises of change and hope, is also filled with repeated reassurances to the corporate elite.
Posted on Apr 30, 2008, Source: Truthdig
From demonizing Muslims to believing we can use science for our own moral advancement, the New Atheists preach a dangerous faith.
Posted on Mar 22, 2008, Source: Free Press
Imprisoned Palestinian activist Sami Amin Al-Arian was found not guilty in court, yet seems the victim of a plan to keep him jailed indefinitely.
Posted on Mar 9, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The U.S. is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to pay the salaries of some 600,000 gunmen in the three rival ethnic camps in Iraq.
Posted on Feb 27, 2008, Source: Truthdig
Christian extremists are preaching a war against tolerance to target and persecute all Muslims, including the 6 million who live in the U.S.
Posted on Feb 12, 2008, Source: Truthdig
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