Topic: Ukraine and the Politics of Permanent War

Presenter(s): Chris Hedges

John Cobb has recruited this Pulitzer-prize winning journalist, best-selling author, activist, and Presbyterian pastor to shed light on current events in Ukraine by placing it in a broad trajectory of America’s way of being in the world. Chris Hedges was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years for The New York Times, where he served as the Middle East Bureau Chief and Balkan Bureau Chief. He previously worked overseas for The Dallas Morning News, The Christian Science Monitor, and NPR. To sample recent examples of his Solutions Oriented Peace Journalism, see this link to an archive at Transcend Media Services.  He used to be the host of the Emmy Award-nominated RT America showOn Contact.  For an archive of “On Contact” television programs, introducing “dissident voices,” go to this link.  You are invited to learn more about Chris Hedges and to follow his writing at The Chris Hedges Report.

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