Articles by Chris Hedges – Truthdig
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Confronting the Culture of Death
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
28 Jan 2019
21 Jan 2019 – We must face down the corporate capitalism that is destroying humanity and the ecosystem itself. Salvation is in resistance. Chris Hedges, an ordained Presbyterian minister, gave this sermon Jan. 20 at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia, in Canada.
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Conjuring Up the Next Depression
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
17 Sep 2018
10 Sep 2018 – This manufactured financial tsunami will transform the United States, already a failed democracy, into an authoritarian police state. Life will become very cheap, especially for the vulnerable—undocumented workers, Muslims, poor people of color, girls and women, anti-capitalist and anti-imperialist critics branded as agents of foreign powers—who will be demonized and persecuted for the collapse. The elites, in a desperate bid to cling to their unchecked power and obscene wealth, will disembowel what is left of the United States.
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Saying Goodbye to Planet Earth
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
27 Aug 2018
19 Aug 2018 – Climate change is not simply an environmental problem—it is a planetary transition. We will survive only if we rapidly evolve to create new forms of civilization.
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The War on Assange Is a War on Press Freedom
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
23 Jul 2018
15 Jul 2018 – The arrest of the WikiLeaks founder, which appears near, would be the first domino to fall. Afterward, thousands of publishers, editors and reporters in the U.S. would be in peril.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
16 Jul 2018
8 Jul 2018 – Racial diversity in the hands of the ruling elites—political and corporate—is a tool for preserving white privilege, wealth and power.
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Killing Gaza
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
14 May 2018
“Killing Gaza” will be released Tuesday 15 May, to coincide with what Palestinians call Nakba Day—“nakba” means catastrophe in Arabic—commemorating the 70th anniversary of the forced removal of some 750,000 Palestinians in 1948 by the Haganah, Jewish paramilitary forces, from their homes in modern-day Israel. The release of the documentary also coincides with the Trump administration’s opening of the new U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem.
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The Campaign to Exterminate Muslims
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
16 Apr 2018
8 Apr 2018 – The Israeli massacre of Palestinians is a prelude to a dystopian, neocolonial world where global elites, hoarding wealth and controlling the mechanisms of power, resort to bloodshed to keep the oppressed at bay. What Israel is doing to Palestinians in the open-air prison that is Gaza, subject to repeated murderous assaults by the Israeli war machine, will be done to desperate climate refugees and citizens who rise up to protest the pillage by global oligarchs. Those who resist will be branded as terrorists. The global elites have a plan for the future. It is visible in the killing fields of Gaza.
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Building the Iron Wall
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
2 Apr 2018
18 Mar 2018 – The ominous assault on the final redoubts of a free press, through an attempt to brand dissidents, independent journalists and critics of corporate power and imperialism as agents of a foreign power, has begun. Those who challenge the dominant corporate narrative already struggle on the margins of the media landscape. The handful of independent websites and news outlets are the few platforms left that examine corporate power and empire, the curtailment of our civil liberties, lethal police violence and the ecocide carried out by the fossil fuel and animal agriculture industries, as well as cover the war crimes committed by Israel and the U.S. military in the Middle East.
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Thought Police for the 21st Century
Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
5 Feb 2018
The abolition of net neutrality and the use of algorithms by Facebook, Google, YouTube and Twitter to divert readers and viewers from progressive, left-wing and anti-war sites, along with demonizing as foreign agents the journalists who expose the crimes of corporate capitalism and imperialism, have given the corporate state the power to destroy freedom of speech.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
24 Apr 2017
Talk That Chris Hedges Gave on 17 April 2017 at Princeton University – In the conflicts I covered as a reporter in Latin America, Africa, the Middle East and the Balkans, I encountered singular individuals of varying creeds, religions, races and nationalities who majestically rose up to defy the oppressor on behalf of the oppressed. Some of them are dead. Some of them are forgotten. Most of them are unknown.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
18 May 2015
“Freedom demands the destruction of the security and surveillance organs and the disempowering of the millions of informants who work for the state.” Are we living in a time bomb where informants keep a populace in a state of fear?
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
30 Mar 2015
Global capitalism seeks to erase our stories and our histories. Its systems of mass communication, which peddle a fake intimacy with manufactured celebrities and a false sense of belonging within a mercenary consumer culture, shut out our voices, hopes and dreams. Salacious gossip about the elites and entertainers, lurid tales of violence and inane trivia replace in national discourse the actual and the real.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
3 Nov 2014
There is more truth about American journalism in the film “Kill the Messenger,” which chronicles the mainstream media’s discrediting of the work of the investigative journalist Gary Webb, than there is in the movie “All the President’s Men,” which celebrates the exploits of the reporters who uncovered the Watergate scandal.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
14 Oct 2013
In dying empires like our own, the people glorify idiotic leaders and blissfully ignore the looming collapse.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
17 Jun 2013
With a “Nuremberg defense” and other key avenues blocked by the judge in his trial, the Army private has been left with little option but to beg for mercy from the court. The erosion of judicial protection for those who expose state crimes is a dire development.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
13 May 2013
Lynne Stewart, in the vindictive and hysterical world of the war on terror, is one of its martyrs. A 73-year-old lawyer who spent her life defending the poor, the marginalized and the despised, including blind cleric Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, she fell afoul of the state apparatus because she dared to demand justice rather than acquiesce to state sponsored witch hunts.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
27 Aug 2012
… It exposed the cynicism of undercover operatives on all sides, men and women who lie and deceive for a living, who betray relationships, including between each other, who steal and who carry out murder. One knows them immediately. Their ideological allegiances do not matter. They have the faraway eyes of the disconnected, along with nebulous histories and suspicious and vague associations. They can be personable, even charming, but they are also invariably vain, dishonest and sinister. They cannot be trusted. It does not matter what side they are on.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
28 May 2012
The sentencing of Dharun Ravi for the hateful abuse that may have driven his gay roommate at Rutgers, Tyler Clementi, to commit suicide, or Barack Obama’s public acceptance of gay marriage, prevents many of us from seeing that life for gays, lesbians, bisexuals and transgender people is getting worse—much worse.
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Chris Hedges – Truthdig,
5 Feb 2010
The symbiotic relationship between the press and the power elite worked for nearly a century. It worked as long as our power elite, no matter how ruthless or insensitive, was competent. But once our power elite became incompetent and morally bankrupt, the press, along with the power elite, lost its final vestige of credibility. The […]
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