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Christopher Lynn Hedges – amerykański dziennikarz, pisarz i korespondent wojenny. Jest specjalistą od polityki i społeczeństw Bliskiego Wschodu. Obecnie powiązany z telewizją Russia Today.

Hedges urodził się w Saint-Johnsbury w stanie Vermont. Jest synem prezbiteriańskiego pastora. Otrzymał dyplom z literatury angielskiej na Colgate University. Spędził niemal 20 lat pracując jako korespondent zagraniczny głównie w Ameryce Środkowej, Afryce, na Bałkanach i Bliskim Wschodzie. Pisał sprawozdania z ponad 50 krajów na całym świecie, przez 15 lat był korespondentem wojennym dla New York Times. Był członkiem zespołu reporterów gazety New York Times, który otrzymał w roku 2002 Nagrodę Pulitzera za relacje nt. globalnego terroryzmu. Również w 2002 roku otrzymał nagrodę od Amnesty International za działalność na rzecz praw człowieka. Wykładał na Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University oraz Toronto University.

Jest żonaty z kanadyjską aktorką Eunice Wong, mają dwoje dzieci. Hedges ma również dwoje dzieci z poprzedniego małżeństwa. Zna język arabski, francuski, hiszpański. Studiował Łacinę i klasyczną Grekę w Harvard University.

Określa siebie jako socjalistę, a dokładniej jako chrześcijańskiego anarchistę identyfikującego się w szczególności z poglądami działaczki katolickiej Dorothy Day. Wikipedia  

✵ 18. Wrzesień 1956   •   Natępne imiona کریس هجز, クリス・ヘッジズ
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Chris Hedges słynne cytaty

„Wszystkie realne ulepszenia amerykańskiej demokracji nie pochodziły bowiem od szeroko rozumianej elity, one przyszły z dołu. Partia Wolności, walcząca z niewolnictwem, sufrażystki, ruch robotniczy, ruch na rzecz praw obywatelskich – żaden z tych ruchów nigdy nie zajmował formalnie pozycji władzy.”

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fragment przemówienia z 18 marca 2012 r.
Źródło: Siła prawdy, przeł. M. Sutowski, krytykapolityczna.pl, 22 marca 2012 http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Opinie/HedgesSilaprawdy/menuid-1.html

„Siła prawdy i siła miłości  – nie tej sentymentalnej, lecz tej o której mówił Martin Luther King  – to siła, którą posiada ruch Occupy Wall Street, i która tak bardzo przeraża państwo. Wierzę, że z tą siłą – jeśli w niej wytrwamy  –  pokonamy ich.”

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fragment przemówienia z 18 marca 2012 r.
Źródło: Siła prawdy, przeł. M. Sutowski, krytykapolityczna.pl, 22 marca 2012 http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Opinie/HedgesSilaprawdy/menuid-1.html

„Machina propagandowa wykorzysta każdy akt przemocy, aby odstraszyć od ruchu ludzi środka i usprawiedliwić brutalną represję ze strony policji. Nie wolno nigdy lekceważyć siły dobra przyciągającego inne dobro.”

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fragment przemówienia z 18 marca 2012 r.
Źródło: Siła prawdy, przeł. M. Sutowski, krytykapolityczna.pl, 22 marca 2012 http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Opinie/HedgesSilaprawdy/menuid-1.html

„Chodzi tu o same filary systemu – przegniłego i skorumpowanego. Członkowie elity wiedzą doskonale, jak bardzo władza jest skorumpowana, wierzcie mi, wiedzą to lepiej, niż ktokolwiek w tej sali. I wiedzą też o tym ci policjanci, którzy za 37 dolarów za godzinę pracują jako ochroniarze Goldman Sachs, i codziennie oglądają tych facetów w garniturach za 8 tysięcy dolarów, którzy mijają ich, jakby byli powietrzem. Siła, którą my posiadamy, dochodzi do głosu poprzez przejrzystość, poprzez prawdziwą demokrację, poprzez konsensus i przez regułę non-violence.”

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fragment przemówienia z 18 marca 2012 r. na LeftForum w Nowym Jorku.
Źródło: Siła prawdy, przeł. M. Sutowski, krytykapolityczna.pl, 22 marca 2012 http://www.krytykapolityczna.pl/Opinie/HedgesSilaprawdy/menuid-1.html

Chris Hedges: Cytaty po angielsku

“Kevin Kruse in his book One Nation Under God: How Corporate America Invented Christian America details how industrialists in the 1930s and 1940s poured money and resources into an effort to silence the social witness of the mainstream church, which was home to many radicals, socialists and proponents of the New Deal. These corporatists promoted and funded a brand of Christianity—which is today dominant—that conflates faith with free enterprise and American exceptionalism. The rich are rich, this creed goes, not because they are greedy or privileged, not because they use their power to their own advantage, not because they oppress the poor and the vulnerable, but because they are blessed. And if we have enough faith, this heretical form of Christianity claims, God will bless the rest of us too. It is an inversion of the central message of the Gospel. You don’t need to spend three years at Harvard Divinity School as I did to figure that out.”

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"The Suicide of the Liberal Church", January 24, 2016 http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/the_suicide_of_the_liberal_church_20160124

“Those who meekly obey laws and rules imposed from the outside—including religious laws—are not moral human beings. The fulfillment of an imposed law is morally neutral. The truly educated make their own wills serve the higher call of justice, empathy and reason.”

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“Why the United States Is Destroying Its Education System” (2011)

“If you read the writings of anthropologists, there are studies about how civilizations break down; and we are certainly following that pattern. Unfortunately, there’s nothing within human nature to argue that we won’t go down the ways other civilizations have gone down. The difference is now, of course, that when we go down, the whole planet is going to go with us.”

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as interviewed by Elias Isquith, salon.com http://www.salon.com/2015/06/04/we_are_in_a_revolutionary_moment_chris_hedges_explains_why_an_uprising_is_coming_%E2%80%94_and_soon/

“There is no way within the system to defy the demands of Wall Street, the fossil fuel industry or war profiteers. The only route left to us, as Aristotle knew, is revolt.”

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“They have built a vision of America that is radically — and a vision of this — and latched onto a religious movement or awakening that is radically different from previous awakenings...This one is very, very different. It is about taking control of secular society.”

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The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement, (May 2005)

“If you look at the ideology that pervades this movement, and the term we use for it is dominionism... And dominionists believe that they have been tasked by God to create the Christian society through violence... essentially an ideology of exclusion and of hatred. It is a totalitarian ideology. It is not religious in any way. These people quote, as they did at this convention, selectively and with gross distortions from the Gospels.”

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The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement, (May 2005)

“I have a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, which is what you get if you are going to be a minister, although I was not ordained. For me, this is not a religious movement. It’s a political movement.”

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The Christian Right and the Rising Power of the Evangelical Political Movement, (May 2005)

“Contrary to the bunk we’re told, the United States didn’t land on Normandy and defeat Nazi Germany. The defeat of Nazi Germany was done primarily by the Soviet army.”

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"Manufacturing War With Russia" (2019)

“It is used to demonize domestic critics and alternative media outlets as agents of a foreign power. It is used to paper over the Democratic Party’s betrayal of the working class and the party’s subservience to corporate power. It is used to discredit détente between the world’s two largest nuclear powers. It is used to justify both the curtailment of civil liberties in the United States and U.S. interventions overseas—including in countries such as Syria and Venezuela.”

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"Manufacturing War With Russia" (2019)

“Delacroix was right. It is the struggle that matters. Not the outcome. I was where I should have been that Saturday in front of the Paris Opera House. Yes, our cries were not heard.”

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“The great writers—Marcel Proust, Anton Chekhov, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Max Weber, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and others—knew that thought is subversive. They challenged and critiqued the dominant narrative, assumptions and structures that buttress power. They freed us. They did not cater to the latest fashion of the academy or popular culture. They did not seek adulation. They did not build pathetic monuments to themselves. They elucidated difficult and hard truths. They served humanity. They lifted up voices the power elites seek to discredit, marginalize or crush.”

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"The Intellectuals We Abandon", TruthDig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-intellectuals-we-abandon/page/2/ (3 September 2016)

“WikiLeaks and Assange have done more to expose the dark machinations and crimes of the American Empire than any other news organization. Assange, in addition to exposing atrocities and crimes committed by the United States military in our endless wars and revealing the inner workings of the Clinton campaign, made public the hacking tools used by the CIA and the National Security Agency, their surveillance programs and their interference in foreign elections…And WikiLeaks worked swiftly to save Edward Snowden, who exposed the wholesale surveillance of the American public by the government, from extradition to the United States by helping him flee from Hong Kong to Moscow…”

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"Crucifying Julian Assange" (2018)

“Most Americans – regardless of whether they were once on the left or right – have become politically disempowered and economically insecure. Nowadays it’s the boardwalk versus private jets on their way to the Hamptons.”

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"The Enemy Within" (2019)

“Trump’s most unforgivable sin in the eyes of the deep state is his criticism of the empire’s endless wars, even though he lacks the intellectual and organizational skills to oversee a disengagement.”

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"The Enemy Within" (2019)

“Our democracy is not in peril—we do not live in a democracy. The image of our democracy is in peril. The deep state—the generals, bankers, corporatists, lobbyists, intelligence chiefs, government bureaucrats and technocrats—is intent on salvaging the brand. It is hard to trumpet yourself as the world’s guardian of freedom and liberty with Donald Trump blathering on incoherently about himself, inciting racist violence, insulting our traditional allies along with the courts, the press and Congress, tweeting misspelled inanities and impulsively denouncing or sabotaging bipartisan domestic and foreign policy.”

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"The Enemy Within" (2019)

“What is happening to Assange should terrify the press…The silence about the treatment of Assange is not only a betrayal of him but a betrayal of the freedom of the press itself. We will pay dearly for this complicity…. Assange is on his own. Each day is more difficult for him. This is by design. It is up to us to protest. We are his last hope, and the last hope, I fear, for a free press.”

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"Crucifying Julian Assange" (2018)

“The great writers—Marcel Proust, Anton Chekhov, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, Max Weber, Samuel Beckett, George Orwell, W. E. B. Du Bois, James Baldwin and others—knew that thought is subversive. They challenged and critiqued the dominant narrative, assumptions and structures that buttress power. They freed us. They did not cater to the latest fashion of the academy or popular culture. They did not seek adulation. They did not build pathetic monuments to themselves. They elucidated difficult and hard truths. They served humanity. They lifted up voices the power elites seek to discredit, marginalize or crush.”

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The Intellectuals We Abandon, TruthDig, https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-intellectuals-we-abandon/page/2/ (3 September 2016)

“My attitude toward becoming a vegan was similar to Augustine’s attitude toward becoming celibate — “God grant me abstinence, but not yet.””

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But with animal agriculture as the leading cause of species extinction, water pollution, ocean dead zones and habitat destruction, and with the death spiral of the ecosystem ever more pronounced, becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. It is one that my wife — who was the engine behind our family’s shift — and I have made.
"Saving the Planet, One Meal at a Time", Truthdig https://www.truthdig.com/articles/saving-the-planet-one-meal-at-a-time/ (10 November 2014)
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“Most war correspondents, for the first twenty-four hours, think they learn their job from movies until they get shot at.”

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Źródło: On Contact: Business secrets of drug dealing https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_5U3eSPvfMo&t=285s RT America, November 20, 2021

“The belief that we can maintain current levels of consumption, especially of animal products, capitalist expansion, imperial wars, a reliance on fossil fuels and abject subservience to unfettered corporate power, which has solidified the worst income inequality in human history, is not a form of hope but suicidal self-delusion. We are not headed under the policies of the Biden administration and the global ruling elite for the broad sunlit uplands of a new and glorious future, but economic misery, vast climate migrations, waves of new and more virulent pandemics, of which COVID-19 is a mild precursor, along with irreversible ecological systems collapse and frightening forms of societal breakdown, authoritarianism and neofascism.”

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Źródło: The Great Delusion https://scheerpost.com/2020/12/21/chris-hedges-the-great-delusion/. Scheerpost, December 21, 2020

“Democrat or Republican. It does not matter. War is the raison d’état of the state. Extravagant military expenditures are justified in the name of “national security.””

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The nearly $40 billion allocated for Ukraine, most of it going into the hands of weapons manufacturers such as Raytheon Technologies, General Dynamics, Northrop Grumman, BAE Systems, Lockheed Martin, and Boeing, is only the beginning. Military strategists, who say the war will be long and protracted, are talking about infusions of $4 or $5 billion in military aid a month to Ukraine. We face existential threats. But these do not count. The proposed budget for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) in fiscal year 2023 is $10.675 billion. The proposed budget for the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is $11.881 billion. Ukraine alone gets more than double that amount. Pandemics and the climate emergency are afterthoughts. War is all that matters. This is a recipe for collective suicide.
2022, "No Way Out but War" (May 23, 2022)