This is a very special podcast featuring internationally recognized journalist and author Chris Hedges. Chris Hedges gave a major address in Orono, Maine on the 3rd of April as the 2007 John M. Rezendes Visiting Scholar in Ethics at the University of Maine Honors College.
Before discussing his seminal book, War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, Chris Hedges reminded the audience of our responsibilities as citizens to hold our own government accountable to domestic and international law with respect to its relations with the State of Iran.
According to the handbill distributed to the large April 3, 2007 audience in Corbett Hall on the University of Maine campus, Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for nearly 20 years, working as the bureau chief in the Middle East and the Balkans, as well as in other assignments, for The New York Times from 1990 to 2005. He previously worked for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and National Public Radio. Chris was a member of the New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism, and he received the 2002 Amnesty international Global Award for Human Rights Journalism, he is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and his latest book, American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America, was published this year.
Professor Burt Hatlen of the University of Maine Department of English introduces the speaker, calling War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning a book that is “a useful tonic for an America that had in many ways gone mad.”
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