Premium Only Content

Chris Hedges | The HORRIFIC State of the American Empire
Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Presbyterian minister, author and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour (2018). Obey, a documentary by British filmmaker Temujin Doran, is based on his book Death of the Liberal Class.
Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East (he is fluent in Arabic), and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005) serving as the paper's Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief during the war 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. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University.
Hedges, who wrote a weekly column for the progressive news website Truthdig for 14 years, was fired along with all of the editorial staff in March 2020. Hedges and the staff had gone on strike earlier in the month to protest the publisher's attempt to fire the Editor-in-Chief Robert Scheer, demand an end to a series of unfair labor practices and the right to form a union. He hosts the Emmy-nominated program On Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network.
Hedges has also taught college credit courses for several years in New Jersey prisons as part of the B.A. program offered by Rutgers University. He has described himself as a socialist, specifically an anarchist, identifying with Dorothy Day in particular.
-From Wikipedia
Orignal Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GxSN4ip_F6M
Please subscribe to and support Media Sanctuary.
-
0:07
Canals in Upstate NY
3 years agoEmpire State Trail
195 -
0:01
bubamost
3 years agoEmpire State
51 -
LIVE
VapinGamers
2 hours agoCOD Black Ops 6 with Abnerdagreat, Gunnin and Runnin! - !rumbot
68 watching -
1:53:32
Glenn Greenwald
3 hours agoWhy Did Zohran Win in NYC? Plus: Gazan Pulitzer Prize Winner Mosab Abu Toha on the Latest Atrocities | SYSTEM UPDATE SHOW #476
145K44 -
DVR
RiftTV/Slightly Offensive
6 hours agoCrowder Takes SHOT at Candace, “Panicans” OBLITERATED? | The Rift | Guests: Hodge Twins
20.9K7 -
LIVE
Spartan
2 hours agoPro Halo Player | Sens Crisis Grind | Ranked Arena, Probably SWTOR at some point
88 watching -
EnDuEnDo
2 hours ago🚨Variety Stream 🎮 Push to 600 Followers 🚀 Chill Vibes 😎 Content Creator for @SelfMadeGGs & @SMKAcademy
62 -
DVR
Playback Request Live
4 hours agoMillennial Meltdown: 2000s Pop Hits & Tabloid Twists
1441 -
LIVE
Melonie Mac
3 hours agoGo Boom Live Ep 52!
161 watching -
1:04:22
BonginoReport
4 hours agoNYC Chooses Socialist Mayoral Candidate - Nightly Scroll w/ Hayley Caronia (Ep.77) - 06/25/2025
130K66