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Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.

In 2009 the Los Angeles Press Club honored the original columns that Hedges writes for Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year and granting him the Best Online Column award for his Truthdig essay “Party to Murder,” about the December 2008-January 2009 Israeli assault on Gaza.

Hedges is a senior fellow at the Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has written nine books, including “Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle” (2009), “I Don’t Believe in Atheists” (2008) and the best-selling “American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America” (2008). His book “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Hedges, who holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, is fluent in Arabic and also speaks French, Spanish, Greek and Latin. 




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2010

02/08 The Terror-Industrial Complex

02/01 The Creed of Objectivity Killed the News

01/24 Democracy in America Is a Useful Fiction

01/17 Turning King’s Dream Into a Nightmare

01/10 Wall Street Will Be Back for More

01/04 The Pictures of War You Aren’t Supposed to See

2009

12/28 One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists

12/21 Nader’s Utopia: The World According to Ralph

12/13 Gravel’s Lament: Fighting Another Dumb War

12/07 Liberals Are Useless

11/30 Addicted to Nonsense

11/23 Refuse Allegiance to Coal

11/16 The New State Solution

11/09 Afghanistan’s Sham Army

11/02 Opium, Rape and the American Way

10/26 War Is a Hate Crime

10/18 A Reality Check From the Brink of Extinction

10/11 The Victims of Pornography

10/05 Celebrating Slaughter: War and Collective Amnesia

09/28 The War on Language

09/20 Globalization Goes Bankrupt

09/14 Stop Begging Obama and Get Mad

09/06 Food Is Power and the Powerful Are Poisoning Us

08/31 Go to Pittsburgh, Young Man, and Defy Your Empire

08/24 This Isn’t Reform, It’s Robbery

08/14 Chris Hedges on Alex S. Jones’ ‘Losing the News’

08/10 Nader Was Right: Liberals Are Going Nowhere With Obama

08/03 So Much for the Promised Land

07/27 Happiness Consultants Won’t Stop a Depression

07/20 War Without Purpose

07/13 The Man in the Mirror

07/06 The Crooks Get Cash While the Poor Get Screwed

06/29 The Truth Alone Will Not Set You Free

06/22 Iran Had a Democracy Before We Took It Away

06/14 The American Empire Is Bankrupt

06/08 Hold Your Applause

06/01 War Is Sin

05/25 ‘Clean’ Energy and Poisoned Water

05/18 The Disease of Permanent War

05/10 Becoming What We Seek to Destroy

05/03 Buying Brand Obama

04/27 Obama Has Missed His Moment

04/20 Where’s Rev. Wright When You Need Him?

04/13 Israel’s Racist in Chief

04/06 Resist or Become Serfs

03/30 Obstruction of Justice

03/23 America Is in Need of a Moral Bailout

03/16 The False Idol of Unfettered Capitalism

03/08 We Are Breeding Ourselves to Extinction

03/02 It’s Obama’s War Now

02/23 A Choice Between Peace and Peril

02/16 Bad News From America’s Top Spy

02/09 What Price Hollywood?

02/02 It’s Not Going to Be OK

01/26 With Gaza, Journalists Fail Again

01/19 Peace Is in the Eye of the Beholder

01/12 The Language of Death

01/02 Lost in the Rubble

2008

12/29 Party to Murder

12/29 Why I Am a Socialist

12/22 Man Is a Cruel Animal

12/15 Israel’s ‘Crime Against Humanity’

12/08 The Best and the Brightest Led America Off a Cliff

12/01 Confronting the Terrorist Within

11/24 Starving for Change

11/17 America’s Wars of Self-Destruction

11/10 America the Illiterate

11/03 Only Nader Is Right on the Issues

10/26 Populism Arising—but Will It Be the Killer Kind?

10/20 The Idiots Who Rule America

10/13 America’s Political Cannibalism

10/05 Dennis Kucinich on the Democrats’ Bailout Betrayal

09/28 Fueling the Fire of Real Change

09/21 Fleecing What’s Left of the Treasury

09/14 For Palin, It’s a (Christian) Man’s World

09/08 Tyranny on Display at the Republican Convention

08/31 Curb Your Enthusiasm for Obama

08/25 Pouring Gas on the Afghanistan Bonfire

08/09 What’s Sex Got to Do With It?

08/04 A War of Self-Destruction

07/21 Bad Days for Newsrooms—and Democracy

07/07 Surviving the Fourth of July

06/23 The Hedonists of Power

06/08 The Iran Trap

05/31 The Corporate State and the Subversion of Democracy

05/26 Vermont Leads the Way for Progressives

05/11 Render Unto Darwin That Which Is Darwin’s

04/28 Hope for Corporate America

04/21 The Left Has Lost Its Way

04/07 On Secular Fundamentalism

03/23 A Conscientious Objection

03/10 The World as It Is

03/07 Dr. Al-Arian’s Third Strike

02/25 The Calm Before the Conflagration

02/11 The War Against Tolerance

01/21 The Lessons of Violence

01/13 The End of the Road for George W. Bush

01/07 One True Voice on the Trail

01/06 A Conversation With Dennis Kucinich

2007

12/23 The Evangelical Rebellion

               

               
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