This morning the WSWS published an interview carried out by International Editorial Board Chairman David North with Chris Hedges, the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, author, lecturer and former New York Times correspondent. Hedges discussed the anti-Russia campaign, the attack on democratic rights, and the role of the capitalist media.
Among Hedges’ best-known books are War is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, The Death of the Liberal Class, Empire of Illusion: the End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle, Days of Destruction, Days of Revolt, which he co-wrote with the cartoonist Joe Sacco, and Wages of Rebellion: the Moral Imperative of Revolt.In an article published in Truthdig September 17, titled “The Silencing of Dissent,” Hedges referenced the WSWS coverage of Google’s censorship of left-wing sites and warned about the growth of “blacklisting, censorship and slandering dissidents as foreign agents for Russia and purveyors of ‘fake news.’”
Hedges wrote that “the Department of Justice called on RT America and its ‘associates’—which may mean people like me—to register under the Foreign Agent Registration Act. No doubt, the corporate state knows that most of us will not register as foreign agents, meaning we will be banished from the airwaves. This, I expect, is the intent.”
Read the full interview with Hedges here. Share it widely on social media and with your friends and co-workers. Also see today's WSWS perspective, which contains a detailed review of the social and economic basis for the attack on democratic rights and the campaign of Internet censorship.
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The World Socialist Web Site
