And that is an essay on the poison that war is, what it does to societies and individuals. On his first book, “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning”: In Bosnia, I was in Sarajevo for the last year of the war, and finally, Kosovo. I reported on the civil wars in the Sudan and Yemen Algeria Punjab the collapse of the Communist regimes in East Germany, Czechoslovakia and Romania then went to the Gulf War, where I actually went into Kuwait with the US Marines and then was in Basra after the war when the Shi’ites rebelled, until I was taken prisoner by the Iraqi Republican Guard covered the Kurdish rebellion in southeastern Turkey and northern Iraq war. After covering the insurgencies in Central America, I took a sabbatical to study Arabic and then went to Jerusalem, where I covered the first Palestinian uprising, or intifada. I began covering the war in El Salvador, where I spent five years, and was also in Guatemala and Nicaragua.
On his background as a New York Times war correspondent:ĬHRIS HEDGES: I’ve spent most of my life as a war correspondent. Here is some of what Hedges had to say last Thursday evening: The radio station is based on the campus of Humboldt State University here, and its programs are heard by an estimated 25,000 people in Humboldt and neighboring counties.īesides having covered some of the world’s bloodiest war sites in recent years for the Times, Hedges has authored two books that aim to put to rest once and for all the myths and fantasies surrounding war: “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” (2002) and “What Every Person Should Know About War” (2003). Hedges was the featured guest last Thursday on the live weekly radio program “Thursday Night Talk,” hosted by former public defender Jamie Flower, on KHSU-FM.
Speaks on the fallacy of war and the realities of fighting “terrorism”Īrcata, Humboldt County, CA - Veteran New York Times war correspondent and author Chris Hedges has spent his career interviewing people in battlefields around the globe. In the Middle East, New York Times correspondent Chris Hedges As the United States gets increasingly mired in guerrilla wars
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