American journalist, author, commentator and minister
Chris Hedges
Hedges, c. 2007
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Christopher Lynn Hedges (1956-09-18) September 18, 1956 (age 67) St. Johnsbury, Vermont, U.S.
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Colgate University (BA) Harvard University (M.Div)
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Eunice Wong
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Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, author, commentator and Presbyterian minister. He writes a weekly column at Scheerpost and hosts the program The Chris Hedges Report on The Real News Network.
In his early career, Hedges worked as a freelance war correspondent in Central America for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, and Dallas Morning News. Hedges reported for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005,[1] and served as the Times Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the wars in the former Yugoslavia. In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper's coverage of global terrorism.
Hedges produced a weekly column for Truthdig for 14 years until the outlet's hiatus in 2020. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America (2007); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); and Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco.
Since 2022 Hedges had hosted his own topical news commentary program (web series) on The Real News Network, The Chris Hedges Report.[2][non-primary source needed]
^Saltman, Bethany (December 2008). "Moral Combat: Chris Hedges on War, Faith, and Fundamentalism". The Sun: 8. Archived from the original on June 29, 2020. Retrieved June 26, 2020.
^"The Chris Hedges Report". The Real News Network. Retrieved May 2, 2022.
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any substantial coordinated support” for Palestinians. ChrisHedges reports in his The ChrisHedges Report website in March 2024, "In May 2013 I resigned...
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desecrate a place and case studies are needed to probe who gains and loses. ChrisHedges criticized the "Alcatraz narrative as presented by the National Park...
control" over her RT show, as did other American RT journalists like ChrisHedges and Lee Camp. She had earlier refused RT's offer to send her on a tour...
individual's choice. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and leftist activist ChrisHedges echos this sentiment in his 2012 book Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt:...
Gives Us Meaning is a 2002 non-fiction book by journalist ChrisHedges. In the book, Hedges draws on classical literature and his experiences as a war...
2012-04-26. Retrieved 2012-07-09. ChrisHedges (2009-10-07). "The illusion of love". National Post. Retrieved 2009-10-07. ChrisHedges (2009-10-07). "The illusion...
12, 2011, at the Wayback Machine. "ChrisHedges: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic – ChrisHedges". Truthdig.com. Archived from the original...
the Rise of American Fascism By ChrisHedges Archived 2008-05-11 at the Wayback Machine, TheocracyWatch. Hedges, Chris (May 2005). "Feeling the hate with...
2023. Hedges, Chris (April 4, 2013). "ChrisHedges: Why I Resigned from PEN". The Real News Network. Scheer, Peter Z. (April 2, 2013). "ChrisHedges Resigns...
by the encounter. — Ian Frazier, Great Plains In the view of author ChrisHedges, "there are few resistance figures in American history as noble as Crazy...
War on America is a 2007 non-fiction book by the American journalist ChrisHedges. American Fascists profiles the rise of an American Christian right,...
2011. Retrieved April 11, 2011. "ChrisHedges: The Obama Deception: Why Cornel West Went Ballistic – ChrisHedges". Truthdig.com. Archived from the original...
which had failed to control the COVID-19 pandemic. Author and journalist ChrisHedges writes that the global ruling classes are the "architects of social murder"...
Retrieved November 30, 2020. Hedges, Chris (2018). America: The Farewell Tour. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 978-1501152672. ChrisHedges - The American Empire Will...
Village Voice called it a "masterpiece". Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist ChrisHedges called the film "an important exploration of the complex psychology of...
often through locally unwanted land use (LULU). Commentators including ChrisHedges, Joe Sacco, and Steve Lerner have argued that corporate business practices...
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