Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist who was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief for the paper. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. He is the host of show The Chris Hedges Report.

Chris Hedges: Sociedad del Espectáculo

El espectáculo televisado de las audiencias del 6 de enero no restaurará la democracia ni detendrá el ascenso de la extrema derecha. Las audiencias son una estratagema desesperada de una clase política condenada.

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Por Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges January 6 hearings

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol, whose first of six televised hearings began last Thursday, is spectacle replacing politics. There is nothing substantially new in the accusations. The committee lacks prosecutorial power. No charges have been filed by Attorney

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Chris Hedges: el fetiche de armas de Estados Unidos

No habrá control de armas, no solo por el lobby de las armas y una clase política corrupta, sino porque para muchos estadounidenses blancos la idea de las armas es el único poder que les queda.

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Por Chris Hedges
America Gun Control Feature

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — Guns were a ubiquitous part of my childhood. My grandfather, who had been a master sergeant in the army, had a small arsenal in his house in Mechanic Falls, Maine. He gave me a 2020 bolt action Springfield rifle when I was 7. By the time I was 10, I had graduated to a Winchester lever action 30-30. I moved my

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Chris Hedges: No hay salida más que la guerra

La guerra permanente ha canibalizado al país. Ha creado un pantano social, político y económico. Cada nueva debacle militar es otro clavo en el ataúd de la Pax Americana.

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Por Chris Hedges
War Chris Hedges Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The United States, as the near unanimous vote to provide nearly $40 billion in aid to Ukraine illustrates, is trapped in the death spiral of unchecked militarism. No high speed trains. No universal health care. No viable Covid relief program. No respite from 8.3 percent inflation. No infrastructure programs to

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Chris Hedges: Jesús, la guerra sin fin y el ascenso del fascismo estadounidense

El Partido Demócrata espera frustrar una derrota electoral compitiendo contra la esperada decisión de la Corte Suprema sobre el aborto. Esto es, lamentablemente, todo lo que queda de su capital político.

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Por Chris Hedges
Christian Fascism in America

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Democratic Party – which had 50 years to write Roe v Wade into law with Jimmy Carter, Bill Clinton, and Barack Obama in full control of the White House and Congress at the inception of their presidencies – is banking its electoral strategy around the expected Supreme Court decision to lift the judicial

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Chris Hedges: comisarios estadounidenses

Las plataformas de redes sociales están censurando agresivamente a todos los que desafían la narrativa dominante sobre Ucrania, el gobernante Partido Demócrata, las guerras en el Medio Oriente y el estado corporativo.

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Por Chris Hedges
Ukraine Social media censorship Feature Image

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The ruling class, made up of the traditional elites that run the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, is employing draconian forms of censorship on its right-wing and left-wing critics in a desperate effort to cling to power. The traditional elites were discredited for pushing through a series of corporate

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Chris Hedges: La mentira de la inocencia estadounidense

Nuestra hipocresía sobre los crímenes de guerra hace imposible un mundo basado en reglas, que respete el derecho internacional.

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Por Chris Hedges

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The branding of Vladimir Putin as a war criminal by Joe Biden, who lobbied for the Iraq war and staunchly supported the 20 years of carnage in the Middle East, is one more example of the hypocritical moral posturing sweeping across the United States. It is unclear how anyone would try Putin for war crimes since

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Chris Hedges: bailando el vals hacia Armageddon con los mercaderes de la muerte

Putin le hizo el juego a la industria de la guerra. Les dio a los belicistas lo que querían. Cumplió sus fantasías más salvajes. No habrá impedimentos ahora en la marcha hacia Armagedón.

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Por Chris Hedges
American Empire Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The Cold War, from 1945 to 1989, was a wild Bacchanalia for arms manufacturers, the Pentagon, the CIA, the diplomats who played one country off another on the world’s chessboard, and the global corporations able to loot and pillage by equating predatory capitalism with freedom. In the name of national security,

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