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Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author & activist. Tweets by @SeanJKerrigan .

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Check out Chris' latest book, The Greatest Evil is War. You can order it here:
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You can write a letter of support to Julian Assange at: Julian Assange Prisoner A9379AY HMP Belmarsh Western Way London SE28 OEB UK
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"The smart way to keep people passive and obedient is to strictly limit the spectrum of acceptable opinion, but allow very lively debate within that spectrum." —Noam Chomsky
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Chris speaks with @jimmy_dore on the future of internet censorship. "The response of the Democratic Party is very, very disturbing... This is only going to get worse and everything they are doing is pouring gasoline on the fire."
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It is not easy, and I speak from personal experience, to walk away from a staff job at a major media platform and the benefits that come with it. Glenn Greenwald, censored by The Intercept, resigned because his readers are more important that his career. - Chris Hedges
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"Happy Birthday Julian! We won't stop fighting for your release. May you go home to your family soon." -- Chris Hedges
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I was informed today according to FCC rules I can't run for federal office & and have a national TV show. Therefore, I won't run for the seat in the 12th District of NJ. I entered the race to bring up issues I care about, but this is not worth losing an important media platform.
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Steven Donziger,the human rights lawyer @SDonziger , is being held in federal prison because of his work to force Chevron to clean up the Amazon. Send letters of support to: Steven Donziger Register No: 87103-054 Federal Correctional Institution Pembroke Station Danbury, CT 06811
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The two ruling party's latest assault to cripple third parties is the HR1 bill. It would quintuple the amount of money third party presidential candidates will be required to raise for federal matching funds and lift limits on dark money.
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Democrats are selling HR 1 as a "voting rights" bill, but they aren't telling you about a little-known poison pill designed to further restrict voter choice by suppressing independent candidates & parties Tell Congress: don't let HR1 attack voter choice!
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. @JulianAssange 's life is in danger. In violation of his fundamental human rights, the Ecuadoran government has transformed his asylum in its London embassy into a form of brutal incarceration.
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It is not easy, and I speak from personal experience, to walk away from a staff job at a major media platform and the benefits that come with it. Glenn Greenwald, censored by The Intercept, resigned because his readers are more important than his career. - Chris Hedges
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—Noam Chomsky
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As progressive sites diminish, and as it seems nearly certain I will not be publishing again on Truthdig, it is imperative that we support the few independent sites such as Popular Resistance that remain free from oligarchic and corporate control. — Chris
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Chris Hedges and Dr. Cornel West on America's existential crisis.
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Chris Hedges and Matt Taibbi examine how the press and the major tech platforms function as a propaganda and censorship bureau on behalf of the Democratic Party and the Biden campaign.
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. @jimmy_dore : "They think if they can just cancel them off enough social media apps, they'll all go away." CH: "That's it. It's the inability on their own part to accept their own complicity. There's no contrition, no self reflection, no self-criticism, and no remorse."
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13 years ago, two Reuters' employees were fired upon & killed by the US Army, who later tried to cover it up. It was the focus of the now-infamous video leaked by @xychelsea and released by @Wikileaks . Chris spoke w/ then Baghdad Bureau Chief Dean Yates:
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From 2015:
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Chris on the cliches of war:
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Daniel Hale, who exposed the huge number of civilians killed by drones, is in federal prison. You can write him at: Daniel Everette Hale 26069-075 USP Marion P.O. Box 1000 Marion, Illinois 62959 Use plain white paper, no cards, with black or blue ink, handwritten or printed.
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"Fox does just what CNN does, what MSNBC does, they sell hate, Orwell's two minutes of hate. That's all they do, and they make a lot of money off it."
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—Noam Chomsky
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I entered the race to challenge the corruption of the Democratic Party, especially the Democratic Party machine in New Jersey, one of the worst in the nation.
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—Chris Hedges
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Chris Hedges: Biden and the Democrats appear ready to surrender to the plutocrats and ensure political paralysis and the rise of a Christianized fascism built around a competent demagogue.
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Chris Hedges' electrifying take down of Biden AND Trump at The People's Party Convention on Sunday.
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It was never about winning, but raising public awareness and building popular opposition to the ruling political elites that will not be successful in the limited span of one election cycle, but must begin to take root.
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Chris Hedges on the coming revolt against the ruling elites in American society.
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Hedges responds to #Maddow : "They are spinning as quickly as they can to salvage their credibility... It reminds me of what happened after it became clear there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq."
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Robert Fisk, a friend and colleague who we recently lost, was one of the finest journalists of his generation. He was not only a fearless and talented reporter, but a lyrical and beautiful writer. I will miss him and his reporting. - Chris Hedges
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—Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States
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Check out Chris' latest book, Our Class: Trauma and Transformation in an American Prison. You can purchase it at this link:
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—Henry David Thoreau
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In Chris' latest column, he writes that the public displays of solidarity with protesters are just smoke and mirrors, a pantomime of faux anguish and empathy by bankrupt ruling elites.
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Senior editors and contributors at @Truthdig announced a work stoppage to protest unfair labor conditions and the attempt by the publisher to remove the Editor-in-Chief and co-owner of the site Robert Scheer.
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"It is with profound sadness that I learned today that my friend Glen Ford, founder of Black Agenda Report, has passed away. He was one of the radical voices I most respected and admired. This is one of several interviews I did with Glen." Chris Hedges
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Hedges: "The Republican Party thought they were manipulating—to use Lenin's term—the 'useful idiots'... but in the end, its the useful idiots who would take over, and that's whats happening."
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Edward Snowden, Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges spent the hour with Amy Goodman on Democracy Now discussing NSA Leaks, Assange & Protecting a Free Internet.
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Chris Hedges interviews Noam Chomsky on the state of the American empire.
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Chris Hedges speaks with Steven Donziger, the environmental attorney who helped win a multibillion-dollar judgment against Chevron over contamination from oil drilling in Ecuador, about the corporate seizure of the U.S. judiciary and its consequences.
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Matt Taibbi talks with Chris Hedges about the deep decay within the American press and its consequences.
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—Tacitus
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We lost Kevin Zeese last night, a wise, courageous and visionary organizer, writer and activist. He along with his partner, Dr. Margaret Flowers, exemplify what it means to live the moral life. He was a fierce light of truth, compassion and justice.
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Thanks to the Chris Hedges Reddit page for this:
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Award-winning journalist Chris Hedges endorses Free Assange demonstrations in Australia: @WSWS_Updates @AssangeMrs
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Here is the link to watch Professor Norman Finkelstein and myself discuss the genocide in Gaza today at 4:30 pm EST at Princeton University.
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"There is more power in socially organized masses on the march than there is in guns in the hands of a few desperate men. Our enemies would prefer to deal with a small armed group rather than with a huge, unarmed but resolute mass of people." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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Julian Assange is a courageous journalist. He has been victimized because he exposed the real crimes of imperialism. The conspiracy against Julian must be stopped. His defense is the cutting edge of the fight against gov. suppression of the most fundamental democratic rights.
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"The issue before us is death..." Chris Hedges gaves a sermon at Christ Church Cathedral in Victoria, British Columbia on January 20th, 2019.
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Chris Hedges interviewed in Salon on the New Great Depression: "These days are the good times, as compared to what is coming next."
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Chris Hedges on Democracy Now explains why banning Donald Trump from social media is a dangerous form of censorship and will come back to haunt us.
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—James Hillman
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Israel is carrying out a campaign to make Gaza uninhabitable. This campaign includes destroying all of Gaza’s hospitals.
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Dr. Cornel West and Chris Hedges discuss America's existential crisis.
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Neil Postman on what cultural death looks like:
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From Glenn Ford in 2015, @blkagendareport :
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Chris Hedges is now on Substack where he will have a weekly column, podcast, and show. Subscribe here:
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