Con Vs Con: Chris Hedges

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Chris Hedges, Donald Trump, elections, Hilary Clinton, Truthdig

Read this very interesting piece, “Con vs. Con” by my friend Chris Hedges for Truthdig (June 19, 2016).

It is reposted with permission. Please do share.

 

Chris Hedges: The Suicide of the Liberal Church

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Chris Hedges, christianity, church, seminary, Truthdig, Union Theological Seminary

Seminarians gather outside the chapel on the grounds of The General Theological Seminary, after morning prayers, Wednesday, Oct. 1, 2014, in New York. More than two-thirds of the faculty at the seminary, one of the nation’s oldest, most venerable religious institutions that trains ministers of America’s Episcopal Church, say they were fired earlier this week after going on strike to protest their dean’s leadership. (AP Photo/Julie Jacobson)

This is an interesting article by Chris Hedges for truthdig. I am reposting it here with the author’s permission.

 

Paul Tillich wrote that all institutions, including the church, are inherently demonic.Reinhold Niebuhr asserted that no institution could ever achieve the morality of the individual. Institutions, he

A Message From the Dispossessed

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Charlie Hebdo, Chris Hedges, dispossessed, France, poverty, Truthdig

Broken pens were placed in a pool of simulated blood Friday outside the French Consulate in Istanbul in memory of the victims of the shooting at the French satirical newspaper Charlie Hebdo. AP/Emrah Gurel

There have been many articles, blogs and posts about Charlie Hebdo.  Please read this one by my friend Chris Hedges for the TruthDig.

It is reposted here with permission. Please share it.

Chris Hedges: The Crime of Peaceful Protest

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Occupy Wall Street activists Eric Linkser, center left, and Cecily McMillan, far right, take turns shouting information to fellow protesters preparing to return to Zuccotti Park on Nov. 15, 2011. AP/Bebeto Matthews

Here is Chris Hedges’ latest column for TruthDig. It is about Cecily McMillan.  It is reposted here with his permission.

 

NEW YORK—Cecily McMillan, wearing a red dress and high heels, her dark, shoulder-length hair stylishly curled, sat behind a table with her two lawyers Friday morning facing Judge Ronald

Chris Hedges: The Play’s the Thing

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This post comes from Chris Hedges’ column, “The Play’s the Thing” from truthdig.  It was originally posted on December 15, 2013 and it is reposted here with permission.

I began teaching a class of 28 prisoners at a maximum-security prison in New Jersey during the first week of September. My last class meeting was Friday. The

Chris Hedges: Feeding the Flame of Revolt

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Jeremy Hammond in a March 2012 booking photo from the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in Chicago.

This is an important post by Chris Hedges for Truthdig.  I am reposting here with permission.  It was first posted Nov 17, 2013.

NEW YORK—I was in federal court here Friday for the sentencing of Jeremy Hammond to 10 years in prison for hacking into the computers of a private security firm that works on behalf of the government, including the Department of Homeland Security, and corporations such as Dow Chemical. In 2011 Hammond, now 28, released to the website WikiLeaks and Rolling Stone and other publications some 3 million emails from the Texas-based company Strategic Forecasting Inc., or Stratfor.

Chris Hedges on Obama’s Decision to Attack Syria and “Give Congress a Voice”

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Barack Obama, Chemical weapons, Chris Hedges, Syria, Truthout, war

President Barack Obama speaks to reporters about possible U.S. action against Syria during a meeting with the leaders of Latvia, Estonia and Lithuania at the White House in Washington, Aug. 30, 2013. (Photo: Christopher Gregory / The New York Times)

This interview was originally posted on Truthout and it is reposted here with permission.

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Chris Hedges and Paul Jay discuss President Obama’s statement that he has decided to attack Syria and seek authorization from Congress … Even though he says he doesn’t need it.

TRANSCRIPT:

PAUL JAY, SENIOR EDITOR, TRNN: Welcome to The Real News Network. I’m Paul Jay.

Chris Hedges: No Other Way Out

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Afghanistan, Chris Hedges, freedom, Iraq, justice, Op-Ed, Taliban, Truthout, veterans, war, WikiLeaks

This is a repost of Chris Hedges’ original Op-Ed for Truthout.  It was originally posted on Feb 28, 2012 and is reposted here with permission.

I have watched mothers and fathers keening in grief over the frail corpses of their children in hospitals in Gaza and rural villages in El Salvador, Bosnia and Kosovo. The faces of these dead children, their bodies ripped apart by iron fragments or bullets tumbling end over end through their small, delicate frames, appear to me almost daily like faint and sadly familiar ghosts. The frailty and innocence of my own children make these images difficult to bear.

A child a day dies in war-related violence in Afghanistan. Children die in roadside explosions. They die

Social Ethics Network

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Chris Hedges, ethics, Gary Dorrien, Panel, PC USA, Serene Jones, Social Ethics Network, Status of Women, Union Theological Seminary, women's issues

The annual Social Ethics Network [PC (USA)] meeting was held at Union Theological Seminary (NYC), September 27-30, 2012.