Chris Hedges
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Information Clearing House 21 October 2013: Chris Hedges: Are We Living in a Police State?
21 October 2013 — Information Clearing House Engineering Consent For More Wars U.S. Military Investing Heavily in Africa By Shashank Bengali The Pentagon has begun a burst of spending in Africa, investing in air facilities, flight services, telecommunications and electrical upgrades as the U.S. military deepens its footprint in a region with a rising threat of “Islamist Continue reading
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ICH 16 August 2013: Murdering the Wretched of the Earth – Chris Hedges
16 August 2013 — Information Clearing House The Muslim Brotherhood’s Silent Martyrs Lie Soaked In Blood By Robert Fisk Some had chosen to see the dead – that ultimate statement – in all their reality. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article35876.htm Continue reading
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ICH 18 July 2013: This Is A ‘Black Day’ for Liberty – Chris Hedges
18 July 2013 — Information Clearing House Kerry to Present Plan for Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations “Peace” Talks to Resume Based on 1967 Lines, recognition of Israel as Jewish State By Barak Ravid and Jack Khoury Negotiations on borders will be based on the 1967 lines, with land swaps – taking into account the current reality in the West Continue reading
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The Judicial Lynching of Bradley Manning By Chris Hedges
The military trial of Bradley Manning is a judicial lynching. The government has effectively muzzled the defense team. The Army private first class is not permitted to argue that he had a moral and legal obligation under international law to make public the war crimes he uncovered. The documents that detail the crimes, torture and… Continue reading
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ColdType Issue 74: Chris Hedges’ The Shame of America’s Gulags / Loretta Napoleoni / Danny Schechter…
24 May 2013 — Coldtype.net The latest issue of ColdType is now on line at http://coldtype.netThis month’s Cover Story, Chris Hedges’ The Shame of America’s Gulags, provides a disturbing insight into conditions inside the most secure prisons in the United States. It’s chilling reading from a country that lays claim to being the freest and most humane in Continue reading
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Rise Up or Die By Chris Hedges
Joe Sacco and I spent two years reporting from the poorest pockets of the United States for our book “Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt.” We went into our nation’s impoverished “sacrifice zones”—the first areas forced to kneel before the dictates of the marketplace—to show what happens when unfettered corporate capitalism and ceaseless economic expansion… Continue reading
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Video: Chris Hedges: Monitoring of AP Phones a "Terrifying" Step in State Assault on Press Freedom
The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges joins us to discuss what could mark the most significant government intrusion on freedom of the press in decades. The Justice Department has acknowledged seizing the work, home and cellphone records used by almost 100 reporters and editors at the Associated Press. The phones targeted included the general AP… Continue reading
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ICH 13 May 2013: Chris Hedges: Murder Is Our National Sport
13 May 2013 — Information Clearing House Syria Endgame Approaching Fast By Shamus Cooke Syrian government forces have scored significant battlefield victories over the rebels, and this has provoked a mixture of war provocations and peace offers from the U.S. and its anti-Assad allies. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34922.htm Continue reading
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ICH 6 May 2013: Chris Hedges : The Death of Truth
6 May 2013 — Information Clearing House UN Investigator ‘Stupefied by Syrian Opposition Sarin Use’ Video It’s the rebels, not President Bashar Assad’s forces, who have used chemical weapons. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34842.htm Continue reading
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Bradley Manning / Wikileaks Newslinks 6 May 2013
6 May 2013 — williambowles.info Listen: Chris Hedges Interviews Julian AssangeTruthdigIn these audio excerpts from their extended conversation in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London, Chris Hedges asks Julian Assange about legal strategy and the WikiLeaks founder’s thoughts on Pfc. Bradley Manning. For much more, including an in-depth …http://www.truthdig.com/avbooth/item/listen_chris_hedges_interviews_julian_assange_20130505/ Continue reading
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Black Agenda Report 25 April 2013: op 10 Things We'll Have After Obama, Everyday Terror
25 April 2013 — Black Agenda Report This week in Black Agenda Report The Obama Legacy, Pt 1 of Many: Top Ten Things Black America Will Have To Show For 8 Years of President Obama by BAR managing editor Bruce A. Dixon When Barack Obama leaves the White House in January 2017, what will black Continue reading
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ICH 26 March 2013: Chris Hedges: The Day TV News Died
26 March 2013 — Information Clearing House Jihadists, Not Assad, Apparently Behind Reported Chemical Attack In Syria By Anshel Pfeffer The explosion claimed the lives of Syrian Armed Forces soldiers who are apparently loyal to Assad, and the Syrian government was quick to demand an international investigation of the incident. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article34403.htm Continue reading
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Media Lens: Forever Groundhog Day For Climate? A Tale Of Ice, Smokescreens And Rebellion By David Cromwell
A spectacular event captured on film in a new documentary, ‘Chasing Ice’, depicts the stark impact of global warming on the Arctic. The stunning sequence shows the largest glacier calving event ever filmed. An on-screen graphic emphasises the huge scale of the ice collapse: Continue reading
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ICH 4-5 February 2013: Noam Chomsky, Chris Hedges, Paul Craig Roberts, Glenn Greenwald and Many More
5 February 2013 — Information Clearing House Israel Plans Attack To Create And Occupy 10 Mile “Buffer Zone” Inside Syria Uzi Mahnaimi, Tel Aviv The plan envisages two Israeli infantry brigades and a tank battalion being based at outposts in Syrian territory. The current border, which is not internationally recognised, was redrawn after the 1973 Continue reading
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ICH 3 December 2012: Chris Hedges: Katrina, All Over Again
3 December 2012 — Information Clearing House Syria WMD Claim Is False By Moon Of Alabama If the Wired writers, had even some basic knowledge about ammunition engineering they would not fall for such a stupid claim some anonymous official makes. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33215.htm Continue reading
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ICH 26 November 2012: Chris Hedges: Stand Still for the Apocalypse
26 November 2012 — Information Clearing House Mashaal: I Accept a Palestinian State on ’67 Borders By JPOST.COM STAFF Hamas leader says he’ll move to a peaceful path contingent on the “end of the occupation” and Palestinian statehood. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33150.htm Continue reading
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ICH 20 August 2012: Chris Hedges: War in the Shadows
20 August 2012 — Information Clearing House The War in the Shadows By Chris Hedges There are hundreds of millions of people who have a tragic intimacy with the twisted and brutal soul of American imperialism. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article32231.htm Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 July 2012: Pilot Sings As He Kills Afghan – Video
6 July 2012 — Information Clearing House U.S. Helicopter Blasts Afghan Man to Pieces… As The Pilot Sings ‘Bye, Bye Miss American Pie’ Video It is the horrific moment an Afghan man is blown apart by a US missile. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article31780.htm Continue reading
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Video: Chris Hedges and David Zucchino On War Reporting
War correspondents Chris Hedges and David Zucchino, a 1973 graduate of the UNC journalism school, had a discussion with UNC J-school students on Feb. 13, 2012, in Carroll Hall. Hedges spoke later that evening as part of the PlayMakers Repertory Company’s Vision Series. Continue reading
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