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DESCRIPTION:Pulitzer Prize-winner Chris Hedges writes a hugely influential weekly 
 column for the progressive news site Truthdig. In it he discusses many of 
 the most urgent issues of our times—including our imperial wars in the 
 Middle East, the problems of peace in\nIsrael and Palestine, and the abject 
 failure of American liberalism in the face of the corporate takeover of the 
 American government. This collection of essays, The World As It Is, draws 
 on the unique experiences of a deeply educated individual –a student of 
 Christian ethics and the classics at Harvard - who has spent nearly twenty 
 years as a foreign correspondent in the most troubled areas of Central 
 America, the Middle East, Africa, and the Balkans.\n\nChris Hedges is a 
 fellow of The Nation Institute. He spent fifteen years reporting for the 
 New York Times. He is the author of War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, 
 American Fascists, Empire of Illusion, I Don’t Believe in Atheists, and 
 Death of the Liberal Class. Currently he writes for Harper’s, The New 
 York Review of Books, Granta and Mother Jones- as well as Truthdig.\n\nHe 
 insists that unless we begin to stand fast around moral imperatives, ones 
 we cannot abandon while remaining willing to fight the formal systems of 
 power, we will be complicit in our self-annihilation.  “As the centers of 
 American power were seized and hijacked by corporations, the media 
 continued to pay deference to systems of power that could no longer be 
 considered honest or democratic. The media treat criminals on Wall Street 
 as responsible members of the ruling class. They treat the criminals in the 
 White House and the Pentagon as statesmen.”\n\n$12 advance tickets: 
 800-838-3006 \nor Pegasus Books (3 locations), Mrs. Dalloway’s, Moe’s 
 Books, Walden Pond, DIESEL, A Bookstore, and Modern Times  ($15 door)   
 KPFA benefit\nInformation: www.kpfa.org/events    KPFA benefit\n\n\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/24/18675519.php
SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: The World As It Is: Dispatches On the Myth of Human Progress
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2345 Channing Way, Berkeley
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2011/03/24/18675519.php
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