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Chris Hedges Biography

Chris Hedges is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on September 18, 1956 in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, United States. Award-winning journalist whose work were often centered around American politics and their impact on society. He considered himself as a social democrat.

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Christopher Lynn Hedges was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the son of Thelma Louise (née Prince) and the Rev. Thomas Havard Hedges, a Presbyterian minister. He grew up in rural Schoharie County, New York, southwest of Albany. He graduated in 1975 from the Loomis Chaffee School, a private boarding school in Windsor, Connecticut. He founded an underground newspaper at the school that was banned by the administration and resulted in his being put on probation.

Hedges received his Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Colgate University in 1979. He received a Master of Divinity degree from Harvard University’s Divinity School (where he studied under James Luther Adams) in 1983. He studied Latin and Classical Greek at Harvard and speaks Arabic, French, and Spanish in addition to English.

He got married to Eunice Wong shortly after launching on his professional life as an editor.

NameChris Hedges
First NameChris
Last NameHedges
OccupationJournalist
BirthdaySeptember 18
Birth Year1956
Place of BirthSt. Johnsbury
Home TownVermont
Birth CountryUnited States
Birth SignVirgo
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SpouseEunice Wong
Children(s)Konrad Hedges, Noëlle Hedges, Thomas Hedges

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Hedges wrote two more articles that year that were informed by Chalabi-coached defectors. The second one, claiming that Iraq still held 80 Kuwaitis captured in the 1991 Gulf War in a secret underground prison, was also found to be baseless.

Chris Hedges Net Worth

Chris Hedges is one of the richest Journalist from United States. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Chris Hedges's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He completed his undergraduate studies in Colgate University, where he was awarded the degree of B.A. in English literature. He completed his graduate work conducted by the Harvard Divinity School.

His 2002 novel, “War is a Force That Gives us Meaning,” was a finalist for the highly coveted National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Christopher Lynn Hedges (born September 18, 1956) is an American journalist, Presbyterian minister, and visiting Princeton University lecturer. His books include War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2002), a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction; Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle (2009); Death of the Liberal Class (2010); Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt (2012), written with cartoonist Joe Sacco, which was a New York Times best-seller; Wages of Rebellion: The Moral Imperative of Revolt (2015); and his most recent America: The Farewell Tour (2018).

Net Worth$5 Million
SalaryUnder Review
Source of IncomeJournalist
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HouseLiving in own house.

Three of Hedges’ articles were based upon the stories of Iraqi defectors, who had been furnished to Hedges by the Information Collection Program of the U.S.-funded Iraqi National Congress. The program promoted stories to major media outlets in order to orchestrate U.S. intervention in Iraq in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks. Most significant of his reports in this period was a November 8, 2001, front-page story about two former Iraqi military commanders who claimed to have trained foreign mujahedeen how to hijack planes without using guns. Hedges quoted a man whom he believed to be an Iraqi general: “These Islamic radicals … came from a variety of countries, including Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Algeria, Egypt, and Morocco. We were training these people to attack installations important to the United States”. The two defectors also asserted there was a secret compound in Salman Pak facility where a German scientist was producing biological weapons.

In 2001, Hedges contributed to The New York Times staff entry that received the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for the paper’s coverage of global terrorism. He also received the Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism in 2002. He has taught at Columbia University, New York University, the University of Toronto and Princeton University, where he is a visiting lecturer in African American studies.

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Hedges was a columnist for the progressive news and commentary website Truthdig. He hosts the program On Contact for the RT (formerly Russia Today) television network. Hedges spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, West Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, NPR, Dallas Morning News, and The New York Times, where he was a foreign correspondent for fifteen years (1990–2005).

According to Jack Fairweather in Mother Jones: “The impact of the article … was immediate: Op-eds ran in major papers, and the story was taken to a wider audience through cable-TV talk shows. When Condoleezza Rice, then President George W. Bush’s national security adviser, was asked about the report at a press briefing, she said, ‘I think it surprises no one that Saddam Hussein is engaged in all kinds of activities that are destabilizing.’ ” As late as 2006, according to Fairweather in the same article, conservative magazines including The Weekly Standard and National Review continued to use this article to justify the invasion of Iraq.

Who is Chris Hedges Dating?

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Hedges was an early critic of the Iraq War. In May 2003, he delivered a commencement address at Rockford College in Rockford, Illinois, saying: “We are embarking on an occupation that, if history is any guide, will be as damaging to our souls as it will be to our prestige and power and security.” His speech was received with boos and his microphone was shut off three minutes after he began speaking.

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Chris Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United States. Chris Hedges celebrates birthday on September 18 of every year.

In his December 29, 2008, column for Truthdig, Hedges stated that “[t]he inability to articulate a viable socialism has been our gravest mistake. It will ensure, if this does not soon change, a ruthless totalitarian capitalism”. He elaborated upon this in a 2013 interview with The Real News, claiming that, “the left has been destroyed, especially the radical left, quite consciously in the whole name of anti-communism”, and:

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