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The World As It Is - Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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The World As It Is - Dispatches on the Myth of Human Progress (Paperback, 2nd edition)
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Acclaimed journalist and Pulitzer Prize winner Chris Hedges is one
of the great moral voices of our age. He has the rare combination
of decades of experience reporting from conflict zones in Central
America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, and the
erudition one would expect from a student of Christian ethics and
the classics at Harvard University. He prizes the truth over news
and facts. And in the pursuit of truth he has risked his career;
even his life.
"I never sought to be objective," he writes. "How can you be
objective about death squads in El Salvador, massacres in Iraq, or
Serbian sniper fire that gunned down unarmed civilians including
children in Sarajevo? How can you be neutral about the masters and
profiteers of war who lie and dissemble to hide the crimes they
commit and the profits they make? How can you be objective about
human pain? And finally, how can you be objective about those who
are responsible for this suffering?"
"The World As It Is" is a collection of Hedges essays originally
published by Truthdig, the Webby Award-winning progressive news
website. Hedges lyrically and fearlessly dissects the most
controversial issues of the day: America's wars of self-destruction
in Iraq and Afghanistan, the decay of American empire (at home and
abroad), Israel's ghettoization of Palestinians in the West Bank
and Gaza, and the failure of American liberalism. His essays draw
on his extraordinary experiences as a journalist but also his
conviction that the centers of power in America have been seized
and hijacked by corporations, something the American media pays
deference to.
"Because the press is not concerned with distinguishing truth from
news, because it lacks a moral compass, it has become nothing more
than courtiers to the elite, shameless hedonists of power and
absurd court propagandists."
Chris Hedges insists that unless we begin to stand fast around
moral imperatives, ones we cannot abandon and must be willing to
fight the formal systems of power to advance, we will be complicit
in our self-annihilation.
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