***This is a repost of an early Essential Dissent episode, because the original has gone missing on Radio4All.***
Chris Hedges spoke at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Binghamton, NY on October 24, 2009.
Sponsors: Broome County Peace Action, Binghamton Regional Sustainability Coalition
From the organizers:
Chris Hedges, whose column is published on Truthdig.org every Monday, spent two decades as a foreign reporter covering wars in Latin America, Africa, Europe and the Middle East. He served for eight years as the Middle East bureau chief of The New York Times, where he shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Journalism, for coverage of terrorism. Hedges also received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism.
In 2009 the Los Angeles Press Club honored the original columns that Hedges writes for Truthdig by naming the author the Online Journalist of the Year and granting him the Best Online Column award for his Truthdig essay "Party to Murder," about the December 2008-January 2009 Israeli assault on Gaza.
Hedges is a senior fellow at The Nation Institute and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He has written nine books, including "Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle" (2009), "I Don't Believe in Atheists" (2008) and the best-selling "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America" (2008). His book "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" (2003) was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.Hedges, who holds a B.A. in English literature from Colgate University and a master of divinity degree from Harvard Divinity School, is fluent in Arabic and also speaks French, Spanish, Greek and Latin.
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00:00:00 Chris Hedges (Run time 55:17) 00:55:17 Q&A (24:30) 01:19:47 End
At 01:11:41 I silenced the "ass" portion of "assholes." That was the only naughty word in this audio.
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