Chris Hedges

Looks at the appeal of war, arguing that the ideas of combat are noble and glorious, providing a purpose for living for some people.

War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Empire of Illusion and an American Book Award-winning cartoonist present a scathing graphic report on the crises facing America's poor as reflected in the city of Camden, New Jersey, tracing its descent from an industrial giant to a region torn by unemployment, open-air drug markets and budget cuts.

Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt

Includes information on abortion, Antichrist, apocalyptic violence, Bible, religious broadcasting media, George W. Bush, Christian Right, Christians, conversion process, converts, creationism, democracy, Democratic Party, dominionism, education system, el

The Christian Right and the War On America

American Fascists

The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle

Empire of Illusion

Chris Hedges’s profound and provocative examination of America in crisis is “an exceedingly…provocative book, certain to arouse controversy, but offering a point of view that needs to be heard” (Booklist), about how bitter hopelessness and malaise have resulted in a culture of sadism and hate. America, says Pulitzer Prize­–winning reporter Chris Hedges, is convulsed by an array of pathologies that have arisen out of profound hopelessness, a bitter despair, and a civil society that has ceased to function. The opioid crisis; the retreat into gambling to cope with economic distress; the pornification of culture; the rise of magical thinking; the celebration of sadism, hate, and plagues of suicides are the physical manifestations of a society that is being ravaged by corporate pillage and a failed democracy. As our society unravels, we also face global upheaval caused by catastrophic climate change. All these ills presage a frightening reconfiguration of the nation and the planet. Donald Trump rode this disenchantment to power. In his “forceful and direct” (Publishers Weekly) America: The Farewell Tour, Hedges argues that neither political party, now captured by corporate power, addresses the systemic problem. Until our corporate coup d’état is reversed these diseases will grow and ravage the country. “With a trademark blend of…sharply observed detail, Hedges writes a requiem for the American dream” (Kirkus Reviews) and seeks to jolt us out of our complacency while there is still time.

America: The Farewell Tour

The liberal class plays a vital role in a democracy. It gives moral legitimacy to the state. It makes limited forms of dissent and incremental change possible. The liberal class posits itself as the conscience of the nation. It permits us, through its appeal to public virtues and the public good, to define ourselves as a good and noble people. Most importantly, on behalf of the power elite the liberal class serves as bulwarks against radical movements by offering a safety valve for popular frustrations and discontentment by discrediting those who talk of profound structural change. Once this class loses its social and political role then the delicate fabric of a democracy breaks down and the liberal class, along with the values it espouses, becomes an object of ridicule and hatred. The door that has been opened to proto-fascists has been opened by a bankrupt liberalism The Death of the Liberal Class examines the failure of the liberal class to confront the rise of the corporate state and the consequences of a liberalism that has become profoundly bankrupted. Hedges argues there are five pillars of the liberal establishment – the press, liberal religious institutions, labor unions, universities and the Democratic Party— and that each of these institutions, more concerned with status and privilege than justice and progress, sold out the constituents they represented. In doing so, the liberal class has become irrelevant to society at large and ultimately the corporate power elite they once served.

Death of the Liberal Class

Wages of Rebellion

I Don't Believe in Atheists

"Hedges offers his unvarnished views on topics rarely aired by the corporate media, including the hopeless corruption of our political system and the urgent need for a third-party rebellion; the difficulty of challenging the prevailing story lines of the Washington elite and the Israeli government; the disturbing parallels between current US conditions and the collapse of Balkans society into fascist violence during the 1990s; the criminalization of poverty; how many of the best and brightest in black America are siphoned from school to prison; and how the pornography industry reflects the most dehumanizing qualities of global capitalism"--Jacket sleeve.

Unspeakable

A veteran war correspondent shares examples from his personal life and career to discuss how specific American social groups can benefit from an adherence to the Ten Commandments.

The 10 Commandments in America

Losing Moses on the Freeway

Un genocidio annunciato 

America's War Against Iraqi Civilians

Collateral Damage

Greatest Evil Is War

Acclaimed New York Times journalist and author Chris Hedges offers a critical -- and fascinating -- lesson in the dangerous realities of our age: a stark look at the effects of war on combatants. Utterly lacking in rhetoric or dogma, this manual relies instead on bare fact, frank description, and a spare question-and-answer format. Hedges allows U.S. military documentation of the brutalizing physical and psychological consequences of combat to speak for itself. Hedges poses dozens of questions that young soldiers might ask about combat, and then answers them by quoting from medical and psychological studies. • What are my chances of being wounded or killed if we go to war? • What does it feel like to get shot? • What do artillery shells do to you? • What is the most painful way to get wounded? • Will I be afraid? • What could happen to me in a nuclear attack? • What does it feel like to kill someone? • Can I withstand torture? • What are the long-term consequences of combat stress? • What will happen to my body after I die? This profound and devastating portrayal of the horrors to which we subject our armed forces stands as a ringing indictment of the glorification of war and the concealment of its barbarity.

What Every Person Should Know About War

"Chris Hedges's powerful memoir of his year of teaching inmates in a maximum-security New Jersey prison takes readers into the lives of men who were all but destined to become incarcerated because of their impoverished and dangerous childhoods and shows why criminal justice reform is so essential"--

Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison

Our Class

A powerfully moving book that “could make graspable why today’s prisons are contemporary slave plantations” (Alice Walker, author of The Color Purple), giving voice to the poorest among us and laying bare the cruelty of a penal system that too often defines their lives. Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges has taught courses in drama, literature, philosophy, and history since 2013 in the college degree program offered by Rutgers University at East Jersey State Prison and other New Jersey prisons. In his first class at East Jersey State Prison, where students read and discussed plays by Amiri Baraka and August Wilson, among others, his class set out to write a play of their own. In writing the play, Caged, which would run for a month in 2018 to sold-out audiences at The Passage Theatre in Trenton, New Jersey, and later be published, students gave words to the grief and suffering they and their families have endured, as well as to their hopes and dreams. The class’s artistic and personal discovery, as well as transformation, is chronicled in heartbreaking detail in Our Class. This “magnificent” (Cornel West, author of Race Matters) book gives a human face and a voice to those our society too often demonizes and abandons. It exposes the terrible crucible and injustice of America’s penal system and the struggle by those trapped within its embrace to live lives of dignity, meaning, and purpose.

Joe Sacco

With illustrations by award-winning comic artist Joe Sacco, Chris Hedges portrays a suffering nation on the cusp of widespread revolt and addresses Occupy Wall Street in his first book since the international protests began. In the tradition of Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Hedges and Sacco travel to the depressed pockets of the United States to report on recession-era America. What they find in Camden, New Jersey, the devastated coalmines of West Virginia, on the Lakota reservation in South Dakota, and in undocumented farmworker colonies in California is a thriving neofeudalism. With extraordinary on-the-ground reportage and illustration, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt provides a terrifying glimpse of a future for America and the nations that follow her lead--a future that will be avoided with nothing short of revolution.

Ernst Wolff

John Pilger

Eugen Drewermann

Kees van der Pijl

Wolfgang Jung

Hannes Hofbauer

Ullrich Mies

Nicolas J.S. Davies

Tilo Gräser

Annette Groth

Vladimir P. Kozin

Mohssen Massarrat

Jochen Scholz

Aktham Suliman

Rainer Rupp

Westliche Staatsführungen und Finanzorganisationen sind mit einem zunehmenden Glaubwürdigkeitsverlust konfrontiert. Die Friedenshoffnung nach dem Zerfall der Sowjetunion und der Auflösung des Warschauer Paktes ist längst im Kampfgeschrei der NATO zerstoben. Der Wirtschaftskrise des Jahres 2008 folgte keine vernünftige Umkehr, vielmehr ein noch offensiveres Expansionsstreben. Das Diktum von der "westlichen Wertegemeinschaft" ist zum Synonym für eine aggressive Weltherrschaft geworden. Wer sich dieser nicht unterordnet, wird mit Drohungen und Krieg überzogen. "Der Tiefe Staat schlägt zu" knüpft an das Buch "Fassadendemokratie und Tiefer Staat" aus dem Jahr 2017 an. Der Band zeigt auf, wie sich die autoritären Strukturen hinter den parlamentarischen Kulissen verfestigen und sich die tatsächliche Macht im Tiefen Staat manifestiert. Herrschaftseliten und Systemmedien revitalisieren das alte Feindbild Russland und bereiten die Menschen auf bevorstehende Kriege vor. Parallel dazu rüstet die westliche Militärallianz beispiellos auf. Die Strategie der Spannung im Inneren sorgt für eine lähmende Angststarre. In einzelnen Kapiteln verfolgen die AutorInnen die seit dem NATO-Krieg gegen Jugoslawien 1999 immer breiter werdende Blutspur, mit der der "freie Westen" die Welt überzieht. Sie beschäftigen sich mit Krieg als integralem Bestandteil von Kapitalismus, dem von Washington und Brüssel/Berlin betriebenen planmäßigen Aufbau eines neuen Ost-West-Konfliktes, staatsterroristischen Aktivitäten, der NATO-Ost-Eroberung, dem Kriegsgeschehen im Nahen Osten, einer den Konzernen hörigen Europäischen Union und der gefährlichen Konfrontation mit der aufstrebenden Wirtschaftsmacht China.

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