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.
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
The U.S., the only country with the power to intervene, has become an accessory to murder.
Posted on Jan 23, 2008, Source: Truthdig
The resilient 2008 candidate attacks the "inside game between competing corporate interests" in U.S. politics.
Posted on Jan 19, 2008, Source: Philadelphia Inquirer
With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.
Posted on Jan 15, 2008, Source: The Nation
I will not pay my income tax if Bush and Cheney go to war with Iran.
Posted on Nov 27, 2007, Source: The Nation
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, Source: Truthdig
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, Source: Truthdig
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, Source: Truthdig
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, Source: Truthdig
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, Source: Truthdig
After four years of war, American Marines and soldiers have become socialized to atrocity. The war in Iraq is now primarily about murder. There is very little killing.
Posted on Jul 27, 2007, Source: Adbusters
Interviews with 50 Iraq war veterans reveal disturbing patterns of behavior by US troops in Iraq against innocent civilians -- brutal acts that often go unreported and almost always go unpunished.
Posted on Jul 13, 2007, Source: The Nation
The former New York Times Mideast bureau chief warns that America’s foreign policy, particularly under the Bush administration, has been subverted by an aggressive and dangerous Israeli agenda that could launch a nightmarish regional war.
Posted on Jul 6, 2007, Source: Truthdig
After four years of war, our troops in Iraq have become acclimated to atrocity. The rage that soldiers feel after a roadside bomb explodes is one that is easily directed over time to innocent civilians -- a short psychological leap, but a massive moral one.
Posted on Jun 19, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Israel captured and occupied the Gaza Strip and the West Bank 40 years ago this week. Over that time, Israel's image has shifted from that of an open society set amid a sea of despotic regimes to that of an international pariah.
Posted on Jun 5, 2007, Source: Truthdig
The war against abortion has nothing to do with the protection of life. It is a war against an open society -- a cover for assaults against sexual pleasure and personal choice.
Posted on May 19, 2007, Source: Truthdig
A look at the cult-like recruiting tactics of the Christian right, including the manipulative and highly successful practice of "love bombing."
Posted on Apr 24, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Members of the radical Christian End Times movement are being taught to believe that America is ruled by evil, clandestine organizations disguised as liberal groups. As a result, the fearful are hoping for the end.
Posted on Apr 10, 2007, Source: Truthdig
From California to Florida, a string of Creation "Science" museums are springing up across the country as part of the Christian Right's attempt to rewrite the past and make it conform to the Bible.
Posted on Mar 28, 2007, Source: Truthdig
As the Christian right works hard to make gays and lesbians second-class citizens, society needs to make a stand -- or else the same tactics will soon be used against other "social deviants."
Posted on Mar 19, 2007, Source: Truthdig
We must attend to growing social and economic inequities in order to stop the most dangerous mass movement in American history -- or face a future of fascism under the guise of Christian values.
Posted on Feb 8, 2007, Source: Truthdig
Millions of Americans live trapped in soulless exurbs which lack any kind of community, leaving them feeling isolated and vulnerable. Without alternatives for their social despair, they flock to demagogues promising revenge and a mythical utopia.
Posted on Jan 19, 2007, Source: AlterNet
The radical Christian Right is coming dangerously close to its goal of taking over the country’s military and law enforcement.
Posted on Jan 4, 2007, Source: Truthdig
There's nothing outrageous or bigoted about Jimmy Carter's book arguing that Palestinians are victims of apartheid, as critics are claiming. If anything, Carter mutes his case.
Posted on Dec 23, 2006, Source: The Nation
Victimized by outrageous attempts in U.S. courts to tie him to terrorists groups, Sami Al-Arian, a tenured Palestinian professor who was fired from the University of South Florida, has spent many months in prison even after a jury failed to convict him.
Posted on Dec 6, 2006, Source: Truthdig
The Christian right sees an apocalyptic nuclear war with Iran as a vision set forth in the Bible. Bush himself may be a believer, too.
Posted on Oct 10, 2006, Source: Truthdig
Israel's security wall has ripped a mortal gash in the lives of Palestinians living in its shadow.
Posted on Aug 1, 2006, Source: Truthdig
With Israeli and Hezbollah leaders giving no signs of backing down, the bloodshed now engulfing the Mideast will only get worse.
Posted on Jul 19, 2006, Source: Truthdig
What happens when a committed environmentalist is appointed environmental commissioner in one of the most polluted, corrupt states in the nation? All politics break loose.
Posted on Jan 5, 2004, Source: OnEarth Magazine
Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist Chris Hedges talks about the Rockford College graduation address that got him booed off stage.
Posted on May 22, 2003, Source: Democracy Now!
The patriotic blather on television news is part of a long and sad media tradition of glorifying war.
Posted on Apr 17, 2003, Source: The Nation
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