It is now my great pleasure to introduce our guest tonight, chris hedges. Hes a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist who has reported on wars and insurgencies in central the persian gulf and the balkans. He became, the New York Times middle east bureau chief in 1991, and then the Balkan Bureau chief for the times in 1995. And because war is our topic tonight, its worth saying that chris has been held captive, has experienced the full force of war firsthand. What maybe fewer people know is that he is also an ordained presbyterian minister who, for many years now has been teaching inmates in new jersey prisons and who works tirelessly, tirelessly on behalf of those inmates in and when they are released released. His recent book, our class and transformation in an american prison, which you can see in the back there, comes out of that experience. Chris is the author of, many other bestselling and often prescient books. These include american fascists, the christian right and the war on ameri
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