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Chris Hedges, a senior fellow at The Nation Institute, spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for the paper's coverage of global terrorism and received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. He is the author of the bestselling War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning (2003); his most recent book is Death of the Liberal Class (Nation Books, 2010).

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