Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, and war correspondent specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and societies. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).
Glenn Greenwald Tells RT His Biden Administration Predictions America, Joe Biden says, “is back.” Beyond the sloganeering, journalist Glenn Greenwald reckons that means “militarism, imperialism, and corporatism,” he told RT’s Chris Hedges. Glenn Greenwald…
However inequitable its bias, capitalist democracy at least offered the possibility of incremental and piecemeal reform. Now it is a corpse. Well, it’s over. Not the election. The capitalist democracy. However biased it was towards…
Hedges takes a close look at the array of pathologies that have arisen out of a profound malaise of hopelessness. Follow on Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/actdottv Julianna welcomes back Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and best-selling author, Chris Hedges,…
The enraged, polarized segments of the population are rapidly consolidating as the political center disintegrates. The tinder that could soon ignite widespread violent conflagrations throughout the United States lies ominously stacked around us. Millions of…
Produced by Democracy At Work [S10 E34] The Declining Empire With Chris Hedges **Economic Update is a @Democracy At Work production. We make it a point to provide the show free of ads….
This is Kabir’s America. It is our America. And our shame. NEWARK, N.J. — Robert “Kabir” Luma was 18 when he found himself in the wrong car with the wrong people. He would pay for…
They have destroyed our capitalist democracy and replaced it with a mafia state. … American billionaires have gotten $434 billion richer since the pandemic. The ruling elites no longer have legitimacy. They have destroyed our…
There is only one choice in this election. The consolidation of oligarchic power under Donald Trump or the consolidation of oligarchic power under Joe Biden. The oligarchs, with Trump or Biden, will win again. We…
Aristotle, Niccolò Machiavelli, Alexis de Tocqueville, Adam Smith and Karl Marx grounded their philosophies in the understanding that there is a natural antagonism between the rich and the rest of us. The interests of the…
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is not the product of ancient ethnic hatreds. It is the tragic clash between two peoples with claims to the same land. It is a manufactured conflict, the outcome of a 100-year-old…
