Chris Hedges - Changing Attitudes on Iraq
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Channel: FORA.tv · 2008 · News & Politics
Complete video at: http://fora.tv/2008/08/07/Chris_Hedges_The_Ten_Commandments_in_America Author and journalist Chris Hedges recalls criticism of his opposition to the Iraq war during the fall of 2002, an opinion he claims led to his dismissal from a job as a war correspondent for the New York Times. ----- At the Chautauqua Institution's 2008 season, Chris Hedges, a journalist and author specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society, discusses his book Losing Moses on the Freeway: The Ten Commandments in America. Chris Hedges is a journalist and author, specializing in American and Middle Eastern politics and society. He has written for Foreign Affairs, Granta, Harpers, Mother Jones, National Geographic and The New York Review of Books. He is the author of War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning - a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. His other books are What Every Person Should Know About War and Losing Moses on the Freeway: The 10 Commandments in America.
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