"No one has ever rendered this terrible state of affairs better than Joe Sacco," says Chris Hedges, the Old Testament Prophet of Journalism, of the "inventor" of graphic novel journalism. Sacco joins Hedges on this episode of the Chris Hedges Report to revisit his graphic novel in the midst of the current iteration of the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. — Read the rest
Banx sends us American Psychosis, a 15-minute short in which "Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, author and activist Chris Hedges (previously) discusses modern day consumerism, totalitarian corporate power and living in a culture dominated by pervasive illusion."
John Cusack, actor, filmmaker, and board member of journalism advocacy group Freedom of the Press Foundation, on the ethics of civil disobedience in whistleblowing.
In 2010, Pulitzer Prize winning reporter Chris Hedges and comix artist/journalist Joe Sacco travelled through towns in America where real people's towns, homes, and lives are destroyed to benefit corporate bottom lines. The resulting book documenting these "sacrifice zones" is Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt. — Read the rest
Culture critic Mark Dery has written a good ol' fashioned rant about "'evangelical' atheists" like Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens. Although delighted by their strategy, Dery is disappointed in their seeming ignorance about American evangelical Christianity on more than a surface level. — Read the rest
Iraq war veterans talk about they saw and experienced during the war in an extensive feature published in the July 30 issue of The Nation.
Link, edited by Laila Al-Arian and Chris Hedges.
Article is related to a forthcoming title from Nation Books: Collateral Damage: America's War Against Iraqi Civilians . — Read the rest
Chris Hedges, the former New York Times Mideast Bureau chief, has written an article for Truthdig about the Christian right's infiltration into US military and law enforcement. He is writing a book called American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America. — Read the rest
