Stories by Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges, a Pulitzer prize-winning reporter, is a Senior Fellow at the Nation Institute. His latest book is Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians.
Progressives must embrace emotion and passion to counter the force of corporate propaganda.
Posted on Jun 30, 2009
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
What do words of peace and cooperation mean from us when we torture -- yes, we still torture -- Muslims?
Posted on Jun 9, 2009
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The Director of National Intelligence argued that Wall Street, rather than Islamic jihad, has produced our most dangerous terrorists.
Posted on Feb 17, 2009
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
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
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
Israel's siege of Gaza rivals the worst crimes carried out at the height of South African apartheid.
Posted on Dec 16, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
A war with Iran would ruin our economy and finally kill off our weakened, anemic democracy.
Posted on Aug 5, 2008
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
The U.S., the only country with the power to intervene, has become an accessory to murder.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008
The resilient 2008 candidate attacks the "inside game between competing corporate interests" in U.S. politics.
Posted on Jan 19, 2008
With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.
Posted on Jan 15, 2008
I will not pay my income tax if Bush and Cheney go to war with Iran.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007
When military command is the voice of reason in a debate about a new war, you know our democracy is in trouble.
Posted on Nov 13, 2007
Jewish-American teenagers can sign up for an eight-week training course run by the Israel Defense Forces where they fire weapons, live in military barracks and saunter around in an Israeli military uniform.
Posted on Oct 17, 2007
Bill Clinton has written a new book about charity, a "fitting subject" for a president who betrayed the poor and led his party into the arms of corporate America.
Posted on Sep 18, 2007
With a series of airstrikes aimed at 1,200 targets, the Pentagon reportedly has plans to destroy Iran's military capability in three days. But then what?
Posted on Sep 4, 2007
The sad truth about Iraq in the near future is that it will get much, much worse, whether American troops stay or leave.
Posted on Aug 7, 2007
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