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DESCRIPTION:Please join KPFA Radio at The First Congregational Church of Berkeley on 
 Monday, September 26th at 7:00pm when we welcome Pulitzer-prize winning 
 author Chris Hedges in celebration of the release of his most recent book, 
 The Greatest Evil is War. This live, in-person event will be hosted by 
 Project Censored’s Mickey Huff.\n\n“Hedges delivers a blistering 
 condemnation of war in all forms and for all reasons…this spiky treatise 
 deserves to be reckoned with.” Publisher’s Weekly\n\n“Chris Hedges 
 has compiled a remarkable record of reporting and analysis. This is a 
 contribution of great significance in these troubled times.” Noam 
 Chomsky\n\nAn unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by 
 one of our finest war correspondents, this book looks at the hidden costs 
 of war, what it does to individuals, families, communities and 
 nations.\n\nIn fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his 
 clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or 
 through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal 
 encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely 
 wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the 
 Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported 
 from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet 
 Union.\n\nIn 2002 he published War Is a Force that Gives Us Meaning, which 
 the Los Angeles Times described as “the best kind of war journalism… 
 bitterly poetic and ruthlessly philosophical” and the New York Times 
 called “a brilliant, thoughtful, timely, and unsettling book.” In the 
 twenty years since, Hedges has not wanted to write another book on the 
 subject of war—until now, with the outbreak of war in Ukraine. It is 
 important again to be reminded who are the victors of the spoils of war and 
 of other unerring truths, not only in this war but in all modern wars, 
 where civilians are always the main victims, and the tools and methods of 
 war are capable of so much destruction it boggles the mind. This book is an 
 unflinching indictment of the horror and obscenity of war by one of our 
 finest war correspondents.\n\nChris Hedges is a Pulitzer Prize–winning 
 journalist who was a foreign correspondent and bureau chief in the Middle 
 East and the Balkans for fifteen years for The New York Times. He 
 previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian 
 Science Monitor, and NPR. Hedges, who holds a Master of Divinity from 
 Harvard University, is the author of numerous books, and was a National 
 Book Critics Circle finalist for War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning. He 
 has taught at Columbia University, New York University, Princeton 
 University, and the University of Toronto.\n\nMickey Huff is the director 
 of Project Censored and president of the nonprofit Media Freedom 
 Foundation. To date, he has co-edited 14 editions of the Project’s 
 yearbook, including most recently Project Censored’s State of the Free 
 Press (2022), with Andy Lee Roth. He is co-author with Nolan Higdon, of 
 Unites States of Distraction: Media Manipulation in Post-Truth America (and 
 what we can do about it) (City Lights, 2019) and Let’s Agree to Disagree: 
 A Critical Thinking Guide to Communication, Conflict Management, and 
 Critical Media Literacy (Routledge, 2022). He is the executive producer and 
 host of The Project Censored Show on KPFA/Pacifica Radio and a professor of 
 social science, history, and journalism.\n\nEVENT DETAILS:\n\nMonday 
 September 26th at 7:00pm\n\nChris Hedges in conversation with Mickey Huff 
 book release of The Greatest Evil is War\n\nLOCATION: The First 
 Congregational Church of Berkeley 2330 Durant Ave, Berkeley, CA 
 94704\n\nTICKETS: $20.00 in advance / $25.00 at the door (students and 
 veterans with ID will be admitted FREE (advance ticket required)).\n\nMEDIA 
 CONTACT: Kevin Hunsanger, KPFA Radio: kevinh@kpfa.org 510-684-3401.\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/08/18851934.php
SUMMARY:Chris Hedges: The Greatest Evil is War
LOCATION:First Congregational Church of Berkeley\n2330 Durant Avenue, Berkeley, CA 
 94704
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2022/09/08/18851934.php
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