http://www.truthdig.com/chris_hedges Truthdig, a Web magazine that provides expert in-depth coverage of current affairs as well as a variety of thoughtful, provocative content assembled from a progressive point of view. Editor, Robert Scheer. Publisher, Zuade Kaufman. en editor@truthdig.com Copyright 2009 2009-12-07T08:47:25+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/ http://www.truthdig.com/images/rss_feed_promo.gif http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/liberals_are_useless_20091206/ afghanistan, barack obama, bush, chris hedges, congress, corruption, economy, government, health, health care, hedges, iraq, israel, law, liberals, mccain, military, money, obama, politics, ralph nader, republican, socialism, torture, war, white house, Chris Hedges' Columns

The gravest danger we face as a nation is not from the far right, although it may well inherit power, but from a bankrupt liberal class that has lost the will to fight and the moral courage to stand up for what it espouses.

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]]> 2009-12-07T08:47:25+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/addicted_to_nonsense_20091129/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/addicted_to_nonsense_20091129/ afghanistan, art, barack obama, book, chris hedges, culture, democracy, economy, hedges, history, house, iraq, journalism, media, money, news, obama, oprah, security, sports, tiger woods, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

Will Tiger Woods finally talk to the police? Who will replace Oprah? We stand on the cusp of one of the most seismic events in human history and our obsessions revolve around the trivial and the absurd.

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]]> 2009-11-30T08:54:16+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/refuse_allegiance_to_coal_20091123/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/refuse_allegiance_to_coal_20091123/ activism, barack obama, chris hedges, civil disobedience, climate, climate crisis, coal, congress, copenhagen, democracy, economy, election, environment, global warming, hedges, history, money, obama, politics, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

There are some 614 coal-fired power plants in the United States, and it is up to us to shut them down. No one in the White House will do it. No one in Congress will do it. And no one at the coming U.N. climate change conference in Copenhagen will do it.

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]]> 2009-11-23T12:40:22+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091116_the_new_state_solution/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091116_the_new_state_solution/ 1967, afghanistan, arafat, chris hedges, gaza, hamas, hedges, independence, iraq, israel, jerusalem, mahmoud abbas, middle east, military, obama, palestinians, security, two-state solution, war, west bank, Chris Hedges' Columns

The collapse of the Palestinian Authority, the result of Israel’s 42-year refusal to implement a two-state solution, leaves the Palestinians no option but to unilaterally declare an independent state.

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]]> 2009-11-16T12:17:44+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091109_afghanistans_sham_army/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091109_afghanistans_sham_army/ afghanistan, ana, army, chris hedges, corruption, hedges, military, security, taliban, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

American military commanders measure progress by the swelling size of the Afghan army, although the force is said to be poorly trained, sympathetic to the Taliban and the scourge of local populations.

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]]> 2009-11-09T11:09:03+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091102_opium_rape_and_the_american_way/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091102_opium_rape_and_the_american_way/ afghanistan, book, bush, chris hedges, corruption, democracy, drugs, election, government, hamid karzai, hedges, law, malalai joya, military, money, obama, opium, rape, security, terrorism, war, women, Chris Hedges' Columns

The warlords we champion in Afghanistan are as venal, as opposed to the rights of women and basic democratic freedoms, and as heavily involved in opium trafficking as the Taliban.

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]]> 2009-11-02T11:02:23+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091026_war_is_a_hate_crime/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091026_war_is_a_hate_crime/ afghanistan, chris hedges, congress, democrats, gay, hate crime, hedges, iraq, lgbt, military, money, obama, pentagon, politics, war, Chris Hedges' Columns

The first major federal civil rights law protecting lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, passed last week, was attached to a measure funding ongoing military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

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]]> 2009-10-26T09:59:34+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091019_a_reality_check_from_the_brink_of_extinction/ carbon emissions, chris hedges, climate change, derrick jensen, environmentalism, global warming, industrial capitalism, kyoto protocol, wounded knee, Chris Hedges' Columns

The oil and natural gas industry, the coal industry, arms and weapons manufacturers, industrial farms, deforestation industries, the automotive industry and chemical plants will not willingly accept their own extinction. They are indifferent to the looming human catastrophe.

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]]> 2009-10-19T07:24:07+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091011_the_victims_of_pornography/ http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/20091011_the_victims_of_pornography/ avn, book, chris hedges, culture, empire of illusion, hedges, las vegas, love, pornography, religion, sex, Book Excerpt

Pornography does not promote sex. It promotes masturbation. It promotes the solitary auto-arousal that precludes intimacy and love. Pornography is about getting yourself off at someone else’s expense.

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]]> 2009-10-12T05:48:28+00:00 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_celebrating_slaughter_war_and_collective_amnesia/ http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20091005_celebrating_slaughter_war_and_collective_amnesia/ afghanistan, book, bush, democracy, hedges, history, holocaust, iraq, korea, museum, vietnam, war, wwii, Chris Hedges' Columns

War memorials and museums are temples to the god of war. They sanitize the savage instruments of death that turn young soldiers and Marines into killers, and small villages in Vietnam or Afghanistan or Iraq into hellish bonfires.

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