{"id":26869,"date":"2017-10-16T06:36:18","date_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26869"},"modified":"2017-10-16T06:36:18","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T11:36:18","slug":"elites-have-no-credibility-left-interview-with-journalist-chris-hedges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=26869","title":{"rendered":"Elites \u2018Have No Credibility Left\u2019: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Elites \u2018Have No Credibility Left\u2019: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges<\/a><\/h3>\n
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Pulitzer Prize winner and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. (Cheryl Biren<\/a>\u00a0\/\u00a0CC BY-NC-ND 2.0<\/span>)<\/small><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n
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On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former\u00a0New York Times<\/em>\u00a0correspondent. Among Hedges\u2019 best-known books are\u00a0War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, The Death of the Liberal Class<\/em>,\u00a0Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt<\/em>, which he co-wrote with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, and\u00a0Wages of Rebellion: the Moral Imperative of Revolt<\/em>.<\/p>\n

In an article published in\u00a0Truthdig<\/em>\u00a0September 17,<\/em>\u00a0titled \u201cThe Silencing of Dissent,\u201d Hedges referenced the WSWS coverage of Google\u2019s censorship of left-wing sites and warned about the growth of \u201cblacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents as foreign agents for Russia and purveyors of \u2018fake news.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Hedges wrote that \u201cthe Department of Justice called on RT America and its \u2018associates\u2019\u2014which may mean people like me\u2014to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act. No doubt, the corporate state knows that most of us will not register as foreign agents, meaning we will be banished from the airwaves. This, I expect, is the intent.\u201d<\/p>\n

North\u2019s interview with Hedges began with a discussion of the significance of the anti-Russia campaign in the media.<\/p>\n

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David North:<\/strong>\u00a0How do you interpret the fixation on Russia and the entire interpretation of the election within the framework of Putin\u2019s manipulation?<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Chris Hedges:<\/strong>\u00a0It\u2019s as ridiculous as Saddam Hussein\u2019s weapons of mass destruction. It is an absolutely unproven allegation that is used to perpetuate a very frightening accusation\u2014critics of corporate capitalism and imperialism are foreign agents for Russia.<\/p>\n

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Elites \u2018Have No Credibility Left\u2019: Interview With Journalist Chris Hedges Pulitzer Prize winner and Truthdig columnist Chris Hedges. (Cheryl Biren\u00a0\/\u00a0CC BY-NC-ND 2.0) On Monday, WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North interviewed Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former\u00a0New York Times\u00a0correspondent. Among Hedges\u2019 best-known books are\u00a0War is a Force That Gives Us […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[9035,2384,259,3520,1921,694,8738,827],"class_list":["post-26869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-liberty","tag-chris-hedges","tag-elite","tag-empire","tag-imperialism","tag-new-york-times","tag-russia","tag-truthdig","tag-united-states"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26870,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26869\/revisions\/26870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}