Chris Hedges - World News, War, Obama, Economy, Middle East etc...
Hour 1 - 3
* The Corporate Rape of America: Why corporations can be held accountable for many of today’s issues including our national debt
* Israel and Palestine: Hedges offers personal interviews with innocent Palestinians who have fallen victim to Israeli violence and isolation
* The Middle East: Looking at the wars in Egypt, Afghanistan, Iran, and Iraq
* The Decay of American Empire, at home and abroad, and the Failure of American Liberalism
Chris Hedges, whose column is published Mondays on Truthdig, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.
Hedges was part of the team of reporters at The New York Times awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. The Los Angeles Press Club honored Hedges’ original columns in Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year in 2009, and granted him the Best Online Column award in 2010 for his Truthdig essay “One Day We’ll All Be Terrorists.”
Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and has taught at Columbia University, New York University and Princeton University. He currently teaches inmates at a correctional facility in New Jersey.
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