No institution helps obscure the crimes of empire and buttress class rule and white supremacy as effectively as the British monarchy.
Author: Chris Hedges
Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist, Presbyterian minister, author, and television host. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent, America: The Farewell Tour (2018).
Stop Pretending US Is a Functioning Democracy
There are no institutions, including the press, an electoral system, the presidency, the or courts, that can be defined as democratic.
The Greatest Evil Is War
Preemptive war, whether in Iraq or Ukraine, is a war crime. It does not matter if the war is launched on the basis of lies and fabrications.
Teaching, Learning While Creating Theater in the U.S. Prisons
Chris Hedges discusses his book “Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison.” “God ‘Caged’ in Jersey,” he declares.
The US Empire’s Slow But Determined Execution of Julian Assange
The journalist and Wikileaks founder committed the greatest sin. He exposed the imperial project as a criminal enterprise.
The Evil We Do Is the Evil We Get
The explosions and collapse of the towers were, to me, intimately familiar. The hijackers spoke to America in the idiom we taught them.