Description

Drawing on 2 decades of experience as a war reporter and centered on his numerous posts for Truthdig, Chris Hedges provides The Planet Because It Is, a panorama of the American empire athome and abroad, in the coarsening aftereffect of America's War on Terror to the leading lines in the centre East and South Asia and the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict.Underlying his reportage is just a continuous have a problem with the character of war and its influence on human culture. "War is definitely about betrayal," Bushes records. "It's about betrayal of the young by the old, of cynics by idealists, and of troops and Marines by politicians. Culture's institutions, including our spiritual institutions, which form us into citizens, are unveiled."