Monday, November 10, 2008

Wow! Essential reading from Chris Hedges

Read this piece by Chris Hedges and despair. What a world we have made for ourselves!

Chris Hedges is one of the wisest people writing today. His books on war are indispensable--because as a 20-year war correspondent he lived on the front lines and saw, heard, felt, and smelled war daily. Despite its frivolous title, his "Losing Moses on the Freeway" is one of the profoundest treatments of morality I can recall reading. Powerful and, again, indispensable.

And he is above all a man of genuine courage. He gave a commencement speech at Rockford College in May, 2003, that came within a hair's breadth of setting off a riot. Why? Because he dared say that war was wrong and disastrous to an American audience enraptured by Bush's glorious war of liberation in Iraq. Would to God we had listened to him then!

Read his piece here:

http://www.truthdig.com/report/item/20081110_america_the_illiterate/

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