Chris Hedges
Pulitzer winner on corporate-state power, civil liberties, and dissent.
Chris Hedges is a journalist and author who spent fifteen years as a foreign correspondent for The New York Times and shared the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting. He has written more than a dozen books, including War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning and American Fascists. As of 2026 he publishes The Chris Hedges Report, a weekly Substack column and podcast with a large paid readership.
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During my speaking tour in Australia, I was scheduled to give an address at the National Press Club which was cancelled. It was titled “The Betrayal of Palestinian Journalists,” and called out the Western press for its amplification of Israeli lies. While there, I spent an
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The National Press Club of Australia recently cancelled my scheduled speaking event, which would have covered the Western betrayal of Palestinian journalists. The NPC claimed that my cancellation had nothing to do with "pressure from anyone outside the board, either directly or https://t.co/d4vi0AeVzU
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The strongest case
American institutions—media, parties, courts, corporations—have been captured by concentrated corporate power, and only sustained moral witness and civil resistance can confront the resulting erosion of civil liberties and slide toward authoritarianism.
And against
Critics find his prophetic, catastrophist register sweeping and hard to falsify, note that a 2014 New Republic investigation credibly documented plagiarism and fabrication in his magazine work, and argue his 'both parties are the same' framing flattens real distinctions.
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Hedges was the lead named plaintiff in Hedges v. Obama (filed 2012), a First and Fifth Amendment challenge to the NDAA's indefinite-detention provision. A federal district court permanently enjoined the provision in 2012; the Second Circuit reversed on standing grounds in 2013, and the Supreme Court denied certiorari in April 2014. [source]