**With intimate and harrowing portraits of the human consequences of oppression, occupation, and violence experienced in Palestine today, Pulitzer-prize-winning journalist Chris Hedges issues a call to action urging us to bear witness and engage with the ongoing humanitarian crisis.Hedges wrote the first section of the book when he was in Ramallah in July 2024, and he draws from his experience doing extensive reporting from the Middle East, including Gaza, for the New York Time...

**Now with a new preface for the paperback edition by the author, an unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our finest war correspondents.Drawn from experience and interviews by Pulitzer-prize-winner Chris Hedges, a devastating look the hidden costs of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and nations.**“A remarkable record of reporting and analysis. . . A contribution of great significance in these troubled times.” —No...

Der US-amerikanische Journalist und Pulitzer-Preisträger Chris Hedges legt mit "Eine angekündigte Katastrophe" eine umfassende Dokumentation der jüngsten Ereignisse im Gazastreifen und im Westjordanland vor. Auf Grundlage zahlreicher Augenzeugenberichte und eigener Erfahrungen als langjähriger Kriegsberichterstatter in der Region zeichnet Hedges ein präzises Bild der israelischen Militärpolitik und ihrer Auswirkungen auf die palästinensische Bevölkerung. Ob und was sich für diese nach dem ...

From a bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a scathing polemic against the spectacle-obsessed culture that has taken over American life.**“A trenchantly argued critique of the near-destruction of the American Dream by unfettered capitalism.” —**Philadelphia InquirerAn instant bestseller, Chris Hedges’s Empire of Illusion is one of the most striking and unsettling explorations of illusion and fantasy in...

From a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist and bestselling author, an unflinching and close-up look at war: its intoxicating allure, its gruesome realities, and the grander truths it exposes about humanity**“A brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book . . . Abounds with Hedges’ harrowing and terribly moving eyewitness accounts.” —**The New York TimesFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction

**A harrowing record of the atrocities of the Iraq War, as told through the haunting testimonials of US soldiers who witnessed—and in some cases, were complicit in—the horrors of civilian life there“The best account so far of what Hedges calls the ‘vast enterprise of industrial slaughter unleashed in Iraq.’” —HuffPost**In this devastating exposé of a military occupation gone awry, Pulitzer Prize–winner Chris Hedges and Emmy Award–winning journalist Laila Al-Arian r...

Durante décadas, la clase liberal ha sido un mecanismo de defensa contra los peores excesos del poder. Posibilitaba formas limitadas de disidencia y cambio, y servía como baluarte contra los movimientos más radicales, ofreciendo una válvula de escape para la frustración y el descontento popular, y desacreditando a quienes planteaban un cambio estructural profundo. Sin embargo, una vez perdido su papel social y político, la clase liberal y sus valores se han convertido en objeto de burla y ...

Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Chris Hedges makes a forceful case that liberal institutions have failed Americans by ceding power to self-serving and elitist corporations**“Uncompromising. . . . Hedges indicts the press, the Church, the arts, labor unions, universities, and the Democratic Party for failing to protect the middle and lower classes.” —**The New YorkerHistory has shown time and time again that when the liberal class...

Chris Hedges on the most taboo topics in America, with David Talbot. Chris Hedges has been telling truth to (and against) power since his earliest days as a radical journalist. He is an intellectual bomb thrower, who continues to confront American empire in the most incisive, challenging ways. The kinds of insights he provides into the deeply troubled state of our democracy cannot be found anywhere else. Like many of our most important thinkers, he has been relegated to the margins because...

A Genocide Foretold confronts the stark realities of life under siege in Gaza and the heroic effort ordinary Palestinians are waging to resist and survive. Weaving together personal stories, historical context, and unflinching journalism, Chris Hedges provides an intimate portrait of systemic oppression, occupation, and violence. The book includes chapters on:● What life is like in Gaza City and Ramallah in the midst of approaching bombs and gunfire.● The history o...

**A searing and provocative critique of American empire and modern warfare from a Pulitzer Prize–winning war correspondent, and one of the leading moral voices of our age“Here, Hedges shows why his journalism won awards, as he takes us to places few dare to go.” —Kirkus**The World As It Is collects the best of Hedges’s essays originally published by Truthdig, the Webby Award–winning progressive news website. Hedges draws on two decades of experience report...

Revolutions come in waves and cycles. We are again riding the crest of a revolutionary epic, much like 1848 or 1917, from the Arab Spring to movements against austerity in Greece to the Occupy movement. In Wages of Rebellion, Chris Hedges—who has chronicled the malaise and sickness of a society in terminal moral decline in his books Empire of Illusion and Death of the Liberal Class—investigates what social and psychological factors cause revolution, rebellion, an...