A danger to democracy: author warns of parallels between fascists, America's Christian right.(Chris Hedges)(Interview)

From: National Catholic Reporter | Date: September 21, 2007| Author: | Copyright information

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Chris Hedges is an author and journalist who served as The New York Times Middle East bureau chief and reported from war zones in Latin America, the former Yugoslavia and Iraq. He was part of a team of Times reporters that earned the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for their reporting on global terrorism. NCR reporter Emiliano Huet-Vaughn interviewed Hedges, a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School and a son of a Presbyterian pastor, regarding the topic of his most recent book, the Christian right, its fascist nature and the threat it poses to American democracy ...

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