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Chris Hedges

Chris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, a New York Times bestselling author, an activist, a Presbyterian minister, a university teacher, and a television host. He has authored 11 books, including "Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt" co-authored with Joe Sacco, and "America: The Farewell Tour". Another notable work, "War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning" was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and has sold over 400,000 copies. He writes a weekly column for Truthdig and hosts the TV show âOn Contactâ on RT.

Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in various regions including Central America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans, contributing to more than 50 countries during his tenure with The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times. As part of a New York Times team, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism and received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in the same year.

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Chris Hedges

I KNOW YOU. I met you in the dense canopies in the war in El Salvador. It was there that I first heard the single, high-pitched crack of the sniper bullet. Distinct. Ominous. A sound that spreads terror. I saw you at work in Basra in Iraq and of course Gaza, where on a fall afternoon at the Netzarim Junction, you shot dead a young man a few feet away from me. We carried his limp body up the road. I lived with you in Sarajevo during the war. You were only a few hundred yards away, perched in high rises that looked down on the city. I witnessed your daily carnage.

You targeted me, too. You struck down colleagues and friends. I was in your sights traveling from northern Albania into Kosovo. Three shots. That crisp crack, too familiar.

I know how you talk. The black humor. “Pint-sized terrorists” you say of the children you kill. You are proud of your skills. It gives you cachet. You cradle your weapon as if it is an extension of your body. You admire its despicable beauty. This is who you are. A killer.

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Chris Hedges

Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than 50 countries during his work for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, for which he was a foreign correspondent for 15 years.

Hedges was part of a New York Times team of reporters awarded a Pulitzer Prize in 2002 for coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. Hedges speaks Arabic, French and Spanish and studied classics, including ancient Greek and Latin, at Harvard University.

Hedges has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton University and the University of Toronto. He currently teaches a class through Princeton University at a state prison in New Jersey where half of the students are Princeton undergraduates and half are prisoners.

Hedges began his career reporting on the Falkland War from Argentina for National