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: Las monarcas pertenecen al basurero de la historia

Ninguna institución ayuda a oscurecer los crímenes del imperio y respalda el dominio de clase y la supremacía blanca con tanta eficacia como la monarquía británica.

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Chris Hedges: Monarchs Belong in the Dustbin of History Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The fawning adulation of Queen Elizabeth in the United States, which fought a revolution to get rid of the monarchy, and in Great Britain, is in direct proportion to the fear gripping a discredited, incompetent and corrupt global ruling elite. The global oligarchs are not sure the next generation of royal

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Chris Hedges: Let’s Stop Pretending America Is a Functioning Democracy

A functioning democracy could easily dispatch Donald Trump and his doppelgängers. A failed democracy and bankrupt liberalism assures their ascendancy.

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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — There is a fatal disconnect between a political system that promises democratic equality and freedom while carrying out socioeconomic injustices that result in grotesque income inequality and political stagnation. Decades in the making, this disconnect has extinguished American democracy. The steady stripping

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Chris Hedges: No somos la primera civilización en colapsar, pero probablemente seremos los últimos

Los restos arqueológicos de civilizaciones pasadas, incluidos los del complejo de montículos del templo prehistórico de Cahokia en Illinois, son recordatorios aleccionadores de nuestro destino.

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Por Chris Hedges

CAHOKIA MOUNDS, Illinois (Scheerpost) -  I am standing atop a 100-foot-high temple mound, the largest known earthwork in the Americas built by prehistoric peoples. The temperatures, in the high 80s, along with the oppressive humidity, have emptied the park of all but a handful of visitors. My shirt is matted with sweat. I look out from the

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Chris Hedges: OTAN, la alianza militar más peligrosa del planeta

La expansión masiva de la OTAN, no solo en Europa central y oriental, sino también en Oriente Medio, América Latina, África y Asia, presagia una guerra sin fin y un posible holocausto nuclear.

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NATO Feature photo

PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY (Scheerpost) — The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), and the arms industry that depends on it for billions in profits, has become the most aggressive and dangerous military alliance on the planet. Created in 1949 to thwart Soviet expansion into Eastern and Central Europe, it has evolved into a global war machine in

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Chris Hedges: El triunfo de la muerte

La clase dominante mundial está cimentando un mundo en el que gobiernan sin rendir cuentas, estamos reducidos a la servidumbre, la crisis climática se acelera y la muerte masiva se normaliza.

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Por Chris Hedges

It is hard to be sanguine about the future. The breakdown of the ecosystem is well documented. So is the refusal of the global ruling elite to pursue measures that might mitigate the devastation. We accelerate the extraction of fossil fuels, wallow in profligate consumption, including our consumption of livestock, and make new wars as if we are

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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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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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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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