Articles by Chris Hedge
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THE WAR ON LANGUAGE
Chris Hedges,
3 Oct 2009
There is a scene in “Othello” when the Moor is so consumed by jealousy and rage that he loses the eloquence and poetry that make him the most articulate man in Venice. He turns to the audience, shortly before he murders Desdemona, and sputters, “Goats and monkeys!” Othello fell prey to wild self-delusion and unchecked […]
→ read full articleWITH GLOBAL CAPITALISM EXPOSED AS A SHAM, ALL THE GLOBAL ELITE HAVE IS PURE FORCE
Chris Hedges,
22 Sep 2009
Delegates from the world’s wealthiest nations gather this week for G-20, walled off from protesters by a National Guard combat battalion recently returned from Iraq.The rage of the disposed is fracturing the country, dividing it into camps that are unmoored from the political mainstream. Movements are building on the ends of the political spectrum that […]
→ read full articleIRAN HAD A DEMOCRACY BEFORE WE TOOK IT AWAY
Chris Hedges,
22 Jun 2009
Iranians do not need or want us to teach them about liberty and representative government. They have long embodied this struggle. It is we who need to be taught. It was Washington that orchestrated the 1953 coup to topple Iran’s democratically elected government, the first in the Middle East, and install the compliant shah in […]
→ read full articleTHE DISEASE OF PERMANENT WAR
Chris Hedges,
19 May 2009
The embrace by any society of permanent war is a parasite that devours the heart and soul of a nation. Permanent war extinguishes liberal, democratic movements. It turns culture into nationalist cant. It degrades and corrupts education and the media, and wrecks the economy. The liberal, democratic forces, tasked with maintaining an open society, become […]
→ read full articleWHO ARE THE REAL PSYCHOPATHS IN AFGHANISTAN?
Chris Hedges,
13 May 2009
The U.S. has killed twice as many Afghan civilians as the Taliban this year and that number is sure to rise. The bodies of dozens, perhaps well over a hundred, women, children and men, their corpses blown into bits of human flesh by iron fragmentation bombs dropped by U.S. warplanes in a village in the […]
→ read full articleMAN IS A CRUEL ANIMAL
Chris Hedges,
23 Dec 2008
It was Joseph Conrad I thought of when I read an article in The Nation magazine this month about white vigilante groups that rose up out of the chaos of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans to terrorize and murder blacks. It was Conrad I thought of when I saw the ominous statements by authorities, […]
→ read full articleCONFRONTING THE TERRORIST WITHIN
Chris Hedges,
2 Dec 2008
The Hindu-Muslim communal violence that led to the attacks in Mumbai, as well as the warnings that the New York City transit system may have been targeted by al-Qaida, are one form of terrorism. There are other forms. The wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, when viewed from the receiving end, are state-sponsored acts of terrorism. […]
→ read full articleAMERICA’S WARS OF SELF-DESTRUCTION
Chris Hedges,
17 Nov 2008
War is a poison. It is a poison that nations and groups must at times ingest to ensure their survival. But, like any poison, it can kill you just as surely as the disease it is meant to eradicate. The poison of war courses unchecked through the body politic of the United States. We […]
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