Category: Chris Hedges

By Chris Hedges   U.S. District Judge Leonie M. Brinkema is scheduled to issue a ruling in the Eastern District of Virginia at the end of April in a case that will…

By Chris Hedges   This is the text of a talk by Chris Hedges that will be read at gatherings called by The World Can’t Wait in New York’s Union Square, Los…

By Chris Hedges, from truthdig.com The lobbyists and corporate lawyers, the heads of financial firms and the crooks who control Wall Street, all those who spent the last three decades assuring us…

By Chris Hedges St. Paul is a window into our future. It is a future where, as one protester told me by phone, “people have been pepper-gassed, thrown on the ground by…

By Chris Hedges An attack on Iran, which Israeli and Bush administration officials appear set to carry out if Iranian uranium enrichment is not halted, would ignite a regional war in the…

By Chris Hedges Washington has become Versailles. We are ruled, entertained and informed by courtiers. The popular media are courtiers. The Democrats, like the Republicans, are courtiers. Our pundits and experts are…

By Chris Hedges The failure by Barack Obama to chart another course in the Middle East, to defy the Israel lobby and to denounce the Bush administration’s inexorable march toward a conflict…

by Chris Hedges, Truthdig.com The United States is funding and in many cases arming the three ethnic factions in Iraq-the Kurds, the Shiites and the Sunni Arabs. These factions rule over partitioned…

By Chris Hedges Walid Shoebat, Kamal Saleem and Zachariah Anani are the three stooges of the Christian right. These self-described former Muslim terrorists are regularly trotted out at Christian colleges-a few days…

By Chris Hedges September 25, 2007, Judson Memorial Church, New York City War with Iran — a war that would unleash an apocalyptic scenario in the Middle East — appears increasingly likely…