Chris Hedges

Unfortunately, local favorite Ri Ra was the one closing this week -- leaving restaurant regulars without a watering hole, and restaurant staff without jobs. The same week Ri Ra closed its doors, newcomer Maidens Brewery & Pub opened theirs near Franklin Street. Maidens manager Chris Hedges has been ...

In a recent episode of "On Contact With Chris Hedges," the host sits down with Kali Akuno, co-founder and co-director of Cooperation Jackson, to discuss the critical moment that the city of Jackson, Miss., is facing. Tracing the history of the city, which as a result of white flight is primarily black, Akuno sets the ...

Chris Hedges explains guns are equated with political power, “Mass culture and most historians do not acknowledge the patterns of violence that have played out over and over since the founding of the nation. This historical amnesia blinds us to the endemic violence that defines our culture and is encoded ...

A makeshift memorial outside Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., where 17 students and faculty were killed. (Gerald Herbert / AP). Donald Trump may have startled Republican lawmakers with his sudden and unexpected support for background checks and other gun control ...

As Chris Hedges recently noted in Truthdig, guns provide millions of capitalism's victims a way to feel powerful in a society that has turned them into marginal and surplus Americans: “The gun culture permits a dispossessed public, sheared of economic and political power, to buy a firearm and revel in ...

Chris Hedges explains guns are equated with political power, “Mass culture and most historians do not acknowledge the patterns of violence that have played out over and over since the founding of the nation. This historical amnesia blinds us to the endemic violence that defines our culture and is encoded ...

It would be a low-budget work, what with much of the research already done. Start with the books: War Made Easy: How Presidents and Pundits Keep Spinning Us to Death by Norman Solomon, David Swanson's War Is a Lie and War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning from Chris Hedges. Each writer has a ...

This trend became blazingly obvious in 2012 with “The Cancer in Occupy” by liberal columnist Chris Hedges. With strong quotes from Jensen, this piece is a vicious attack on anarchists. It's extremely venomous, supported by Jensen in no uncertain terms. By this point he was actively in sync with the ...

Mateo Barrera, 4, originally from El Salvador, with family members at a January news conference in Los Angeles on temporary protected status. The Trump administration is ending special protections for Salvadoran immigrants, an action that could force nearly 200,000 to leave the U.S. (Damian ...

Featured image: A White House protest held by Teens for Gun Reform last week in the wake of the Florida school massacre. (Lorie Shaull / Flickr). The proliferation of guns in American society is not only profitable for gun manufacturers, it fools the disempowered into fetishizing weapons as a guarantor of ...

In a recent talk at The Sanctuary for Independent Media, author, activist, seminarian and former New York Times war correspondent Chris Hedges asserts the U.S. empire is in terminal decline and predicts the unraveling will come quickly. Quoting from Alfred W. McCoy's most recent work, “In the Shadows ...

Architect and activist Carl Anthony explains how architecture functions as a tool of oppression in a new interview with Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. Anthony, whose latest book, "The Earth, the City, and the Hidden Narrative of Race," delves into the history of environmental exploitation and urban ...

Robert is survived by his three children, daughter, Barbara Hedges, of Milo, two sons, Bill Hedges and his wife, Debby, of Nevada, and Brian Hedges and his wife, Liz, of Stockton, six grandchildren, Paula Fleury and husband Chris, Derek Hedges, Chris Hedges, Aaron Hedges, Levi Hamersley and wife, ...

Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges and fellow journalism experts discussed media and the Foreign Agents Registration Act during a recent panel hosted by the Columbia Journalism School and the Harriman Institute. Hedges was joined by Maria Snegovaya, a PhD candidate in the Department of Political ...

Walker Percy in his 1971 dystopian novel “Love in the Ruins” paints a picture of a morally degenerate America consumed by hedonism, wallowing in ignorance, led by kleptocrats and fools, fragmented into warring and often violent cultural extremes and on the cusp of a nuclear war. It is a country cursed by ...

This trend became blazingly obvious in 2012 with “The Cancer in Occupy” by liberal columnist Chris Hedges. With strong quotes from Jensen, this piece is a vicious attack on anarchists. It's extremely venomous, supported by Jensen in no uncertain terms. By this point he was actively in sync with the ...