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By Marybeth Hamilton
By Eliza Griswold
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AP/John Minchillo
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By Chris Hedges — In January I sued President Barack Obama for authorizing the military to detain U.S. citizens indefinitely. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest, in short, just declared the law unconstitutional.
Posted on Sep 17, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The ceaseless expansion of economic exploitation, the engine of global capitalism, has come to an end. Let’s not revive it.
Posted on Sep 10, 2012
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AP/Biswaranjan Rout
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By Chris Hedges — The giddy, money-drenched, choreographed carnival in Tampa and the one coming up in Charlotte divert us from the real world—the one steadily collapsing around us.
Posted on Sep 3, 2012
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Book cover from McSweeney's
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By Chris Hedges — In Dave Eggers’ “A Hologram for the King,” an ordinary man comes to realize that managers like him who made outsourcing possible will be discarded as human refuse now that the globalization process is complete, left to wander like ghosts among the ruins.
Posted on Aug 27, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — There are now many thousands of clandestine operatives, nearly all of them armed and equipped with a license to kidnap, torture and kill, working overseas or domestically with little or no oversight and virtually no transparency.
Posted on Aug 20, 2012
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Photo by CTJ71081 (CC-BY)
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By Chris Hedges — The very name of the law itself—the Homeland Battlefield Bill—suggests the totalitarian credo of endless war waged against enemies within “the homeland” as well as those abroad.
Posted on Aug 13, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — On this day in 1945 the United States demonstrated that it was as morally bankrupt as the Nazi machine it had recently vanquished and the Soviet regime with which it was allied.
Posted on Aug 6, 2012
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Chris Hedges stopped by NPR on Thursday to discuss his new book, “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,” with “Talk of the Nation” host Neal Conan. Click below to listen to the interview.
Posted on Aug 3, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Fraternities, sororities and football, along with other outsized athletic programs, have decimated most major American universities.
Posted on Jul 30, 2012
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — The greatest crimes of human history are made possible by the most colorless human beings.
Posted on Jul 23, 2012
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In one of the most pointed, sweeping and personal public conversations about Chris Hedges’ life and work yet, Bill Moyers speaks with the journalist after the release of “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt,” the book Hedges co-authored with fellow reporter and artist Joe Sacco.
Posted on Jul 22, 2012
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Chris Hedges will be a guest on this weekend’s episode of “Moyers & Company.” During his interview with Bill Moyers, Hedges will discuss America’s “sacrifice zones,” pockets of the U.S. that are mired in poverty and trapped in endless cycles of helplessness and despair because of the capitalistic greed that plagues this country.
Posted on Jul 17, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — There are still bullets in the ground where working people in the 1920s staged the largest armed insurrection in the United States since the Civil War.
Posted on Jul 16, 2012
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markusram (CC BY-ND 2.0)
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By Chris Hedges, Boston Review —
War is always about betrayal—betrayal of the young by the old, of idealists by cynics, and of soldiers and Marines by politicians.
Posted on Jul 13, 2012
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Catch Robert Scheer, Chris Hedges and Dennis Kucinich’s speeches from the 2012 Truthdig Retreat in Santa Fe on Link TV all month. Check your local listings for airtimes, and check back with Truthdig for the complete footage.
Posted on Jul 12, 2012
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AP/Michael Probst
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By Chris Hedges — If universities think a Milton Friedman or a Friedrich Hayek is more important than a Virginia Woolf or an Anton Chekhov, then we become barbarians.
Posted on Jul 9, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — There are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy Horse.
Posted on Jul 2, 2012
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A collection of distinguished voices on the left—journalists, activists and organizers, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges—sued the Obama administration over the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act. In interviews that occurred during or after the March court hearing, they spoke to the deep, grim causes of the deterioration of Western societies.
Posted on Jun 27, 2012
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truthdig.com / lapressclub.org
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In awarding him the organization’s top prize for online writers, the judges offered high praise for Hedges, calling him “Champion of the 99%—mortal enemy of the 1%. This former war correspondent turns out weekly columns packed with insightful and biting opinion.”
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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Joe Sacco
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By Chris Hedges — The men and women in despair who rise up against the corporate onslaught don’t do it to save themselves. They do it because it is right.
Posted on Jun 25, 2012
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Photo by Paul Weiksel, Rights reserved
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By Chris Hedges — In every conflict, insurgency, uprising and revolution I have covered as a foreign correspondent, the power elite used periods of dormancy, lulls and setbacks to write off the opposition.
Posted on Jun 18, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — Daniel Berrigan, undaunted at 92 and full of the fire that makes him one of this nation’s most courageous voices, says there is one place where those who care about justice need to be—in the streets.
Posted on Jun 10, 2012
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"Democracy Now!"
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A federal judge on Wednesday said that her earlier ruling on the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act applied to everyone, not just the plaintiffs in the case. She made the clarification in upholding a preliminary injunction that would block the military from indefinitely detaining American citizens it accused of supporting terrorists. Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges (above) is among the plaintiffs.
Posted on Jun 8, 2012
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Photo by (CC-BY-ND)
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By Chris Hedges — Those of us who care about a civil society, and who abhor violence, should begin to replicate what is happening in Quebec. Their fight is our fight.
Posted on Jun 3, 2012
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By Chris Hedges — In most of America, life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.
Posted on May 28, 2012
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AP/Mary Altaffer
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By Chris Hedges — We hoped we could draw attention to the injustice of the law. None of us thought we would win. But every once in a while the gods smile on the damned.
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James Cridland (CC BY 2.0)
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A decade of war on terror has created a culture of deference in which U.S. officials may restrict American civil liberties in the name of national security. This Wednesday, U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest bravely challenged that culture.
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Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, a plaintiff in the lawsuit against the U.S. government over a provision in the 2012 National Defense Authorization Act that could enable the indefinite detention of American citizens, spoke with “Democracy Now!” alongside attorney Bruce Afran about a federal judge’s decision on Wednesday to block that provision.
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AP/Mary Altaffer
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A federal judge Wednesday issued an injunction against a National Defense Authorization Act provision that grants the military the right to detain anyone it suspects of involvement in terrorism. U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest ruled in favor of a group of plaintiffs, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges, who filed a lawsuit against the legislation within weeks of President Obama signing it.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — We have been, like nations on the periphery of empire, colonized.
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AP/Stephanie Keith
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By Chris Hedges — Retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard was arrested for the second time as part of the Occupy protests. His moral and intellectual courage stands in stark contrast with the timidity of nearly all clergy and congregants in all of our major religious institutions.
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“It’s all the same crisis,” says the Truthdig columnist, “which is the collapse of globalization. It doesn’t work anymore.”
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AP/Mahesh Kumar A.
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By Chris Hedges — The World Health Organization calculates that one in four people in the United States suffers from chronic anxiety, a mood disorder or depression—which seems to me to be a normal reaction to our march toward collective suicide.
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AP/Francois Mori
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By Chris Hedges — I went to Lille in northern France to attend a rally held by the socialist candidate Francois Hollande. I could, with a few alterations, have been at a football rally in Amarillo, Texas.
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YouTube/NCPCF2010
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It’s safe to assume that Big Brother would still have prevailed over Winston Smith had the ill-fated protagonist of George Orwell’s dystopian novel “1984” been helped by public defender Stephen Downs. But we have reason to believe that Downs, who represents Muslim activists in trials that amount to little more than terrorist witch hunts, would not have backed down.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Another Muslim activist has gone to prison as a result of the government’s criminalization of what people say and believe.
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AP/J. David Ake
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By Chris Hedges — There is no substantial difference between Obamacare and Romneycare. There is no substantial difference between Obama and Romney.
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Truthdig’s Chris Hedges and Kevin Zeese of Occupy DC spoke in Washington in early April to call on Occupiers everywhere to grow the movement through the use of nonviolent tactics.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Our 16 national intelligence agencies and army of private contractors justify their existence by turning even the mundane into a potential threat. And by the time they finish, the nation will be a gulag.
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The “Religion for Atheists” author tells Chris Hedges there’s a lot secular society can learn from religious institutions and traditions and he argues for a “neo-religious vision of using culture as scripture.”
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AP / John Minchillo
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By Chris Hedges — I spent four hours in a third-floor conference room at 86 Chambers St. in Manhattan on Friday as I underwent a government deposition.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — We kill children nearly every day in Afghanistan. We do not usually kill them outside the structure of a military unit.
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AP / Patrick Semansky
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By Chris Hedges — The Supreme Court is expected to uphold the use of the Espionage Act of 1917 to punish those who expose war crimes and state lies.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — AIPAC does not speak for Jews or for Israel. It is a mouthpiece for right-wing ideologues and defense contractors.
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Illustration by Mr. Fish
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By Chris Hedges — Love, the defining and most glorious element in human life, reminds us of why we have been created for our brief sojourns on the planet.
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Fashionistas are a funny lot, sometimes unintentionally so, and often given to talking about the rag trade and all things stylish in highfalutin’ terms. Here we have some from that set—and a couple of outliers, including Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges—holding forth about the nuanced relationship between fashion and OWS.
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AP / Evan Vucci
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By Chris Hedges — There is a recipe for breaking popular movements. I watched it play out over five years in the war in El Salvador. I now see these familiar patterns in the assault against the Occupy movement.
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