Chris Hedges
Former Truthdig ColumnistChris Hedges was a former weekly columnist at Truthdig (2006-2020) and a former foreign correspondent at The New York Times (1990-2005). He was responsible for co-writing one of the 10 stories that earned a...
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The Road Map to Despotism
Feb 12, 2007 Despite spending an estimated $80 million, the government was unable to prove that Dr. Sami Al-Arian was a terrorist, yet he remains in prison and his sentence will probably be extended. Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges warns that the abusive imprisonment of this nonviolent Palestinian dissenter does not bode well for the rest of us.Hedges on Christian Fascism
Feb 9, 2007 If you'd like a video supplement to the Truthdig interview with controversial author Chris Hedges, check out Hedges' recent appearance on the Canadian talk show "The Hour."‘The Colbert Report’: Chris Hedges
Feb 8, 2007 Feb. 8, 2007 Chris Hedges tells Stephen why members of the Christian right are American fascists and why his views of Christianity prove that he was home-schooled.
Chris Hedges: The Christian Right’s War on America
Feb 6, 2007 Robert Scheer and James Harris speak with Chris Hedges, the veteran journalist and author of the new book "American Fascists," about the threat of the radical Christian movement, and about how getting it right on Iraq ended his relationship with The New York Times.
Christianists on the March
Jan 29, 2007 The Harvard seminary graduate, veteran foreign correspondent and author of "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America", warns that the Christian Right is the most dangerous mass movement in American history.
Chris Hedges: War of Shadows
Jan 15, 2007 A longtime observer of insurgencies, violence and war, the reporter writes that the presidential plan to send more troops to Iraq is a mistake of catastrophic proportions that is likely to rival the most stupid and brutal blunders he's seen.
Chris Hedges: America’s Holy Warriors
Jan 1, 2007 The former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief warns that the radical Christian right is coming dangerously close to its goal of co-opting the country's military and law enforcement.
Worse Than Apartheid
Dec 19, 2006 The N.Y. Times' former Middle East bureau chief, writing about Israel's unrelenting attack on the Gaza Strip, argues: "It is a sad commentary on the gutlessness of the American press and timidity of the Democratic opposition that most Americans are not aware of the catastrophic humanitarian crisis they bear so much responsibility in creating." Above: Water mixes with blood in a street of a northern Gaza Strip town after an Israeli tank shelling in November.
Chris Hedges: George Bush’s America
Dec 4, 2006 The show trial of Sami Al-Arian speaks to the government's persecution of Muslims after 9/11, and the perils of dissent in a world gone mad with terror.
Chris Hedges: Bring Down That Wall
Nov 20, 2006 If we allow Israel to complete its massive $2-billion project to ring Palestinians in militarized, pod-like encampments in Gaza and the West Bank, we will condemn Israel and the Palestinians to endless cycles of violence that could ultimately doom the Jewish state.Chris Hedges: Bush and Israel, Midwives to Radical Islam
Nov 6, 2006 The former New York Times Mideast bureau chief argues that America's failure in Iraq and Israel's humiliation in Lebanon have emboldened and empowered those in the Arab world who seek to topple U.S.-backed regimes in the Middle East and cripple the Jewish state.