In this presentation based on his book, "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning," Chris Hedges explores the culture of war and its potent, lethal addictive nature. Hedges has been a
Foreign War Correspondent with New York Times since 1990. He is a
member of New York Times team that won 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global terrorism. Formerly with Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio, Hedges has a B. A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He is also the author of "What Every Person Should Know about War. "
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In this presentation based on his book, "War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning," Chris Hedges explores the culture of war and its potent, lethal addictive nature. Hedges has been a Foreign War Correspondent with New York Times since 1990. He is a member of New York Times team that won 2002 Pulitzer Prize for coverage of global terrorism. Formerly with Dallas Morning News, Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio, Hedges has a B. A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard University. He is also the author of "What Every Person Should Know about War. "
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Reflections on War
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Chris Hedges' Speech to AFSC's Annual Public Gathering
Nov. 6, 2004
Paul Lacey introduces Mary Ellen McNish and audience
Mary Ellen introduces Chris Hedges, the speaker.
We have a very distinguished journalist with us this afternoon, Chris Hedges. He's going to bring us provocative messages about war and how people respond to it. Your program has a list of some of his accomplishments as a journalist and as a writer, but I want to tell you about some of the things that are not listed there.
His father was a Presbyterian minister who fought in World War II; after that he became a pacifist. Both parents were social activists involved in the anti-war and civil rights and gay rights movement. Chris has said in interviews that when he was a boy he saw the cost to his father...
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Timing and Cues
Introduction
The Rise of American Fascism
War Coverage
American's Isolation / Arrogance
Ancient Athens
U.S. as Pariah
Muslim World / Terrorism
The Seduction of War
War is the Pornography of Violence
Comradeship vs Friendship
Popular Images of War
War in El Salvador
War is an Addiction
An Ambush in El Salvador
A Photographer in El Salvador
Eros vs Thanatos
Psychiatric Costs of War
Yugoslavia
Breaking Free of War
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Review of Chris Hedges: War is a Force that Gives Us Meaning
This talk is a powerful antidote to the sanitized image of war presented by governments and many media outlets. Chris Hedges offers his considerable experience on several front lines, to explain the addictive nature of war. In the process he attempts to understand his own streak of self destructiveness which kept him going back for more.
His insight into the dark nature of comradeship is surprising and yet strangely recognizable.
This is a very simple technical production; just one man talking. The tone can at times be sermon-like but the message is so compelling, it makes for great radio. The kind where you come away feeling as if you've run a marathon or forgotten to breathe.