The Christian Right

Apropos of my last message alerting you to Sunday's upcoming Bill Moyers Public Television rebroadcast about the mission of Pat Robertson's Regent University, I note here a recently published book authored by  Chris Hedges titled, "American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War on America". (See below for biographical information on the author.) He articulates an unusual view of the far right Christian radical leadership and paints a very scary scenario.

He wrote an article 15 November 2004 titled "The Christian Right and the Rise of American Fascism". No major publication would print it at that time. He included it in his book and on a CSPAN2 Book TV presentation (2/21/07) he reads excerpts. You can either read the entire article or watch the excerpt video of the CSPAN telecast (6 min.) by clicking on one or the other links above.

He was interviewed April 6, 2007 by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now. The video for this interview is in 3 segments, each about ten minutes long:

Chris Hedges Segment 1

Chris Hedges Segment 2

Chris Hedges Segment 3

About the author, I quote from a Wikipedia article on him:

Christopher Hedges: Hedges was born in St. Johnsbury, Vermont, the son of a Presbyterian minister, the Rev. Thomas Hedges. He graduated from the Loomis Chaffee School in Windsor, Connecticut in 1975. He has a B.A. in English Literature from Colgate University and a Master of Divinity from Harvard Divinity School, where he studied under James Luther Adams.

Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City and a Lecturer in the Council of the Humanities and the Anschutz Distinguished Fellow at Princeton University. He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America, the Middle East, Africa and the Balkans. He has reported from more than fifty countries, and has worked for The Christian Science Monitor, National Public Radio, The Dallas Morning News and The New York Times, where he spent fifteen years.

Hedges was part of The New York Times team that won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism for the paper's coverage of global terrorism. He received the 2002 Amnesty International Global Award for Human Rights Journalism. 

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Michael
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Ye shall know the truth and
the truth shall set you free.
The Bible
John 8:32

Bill Moyers Journal, May 13, 2007

I know that it will be Mother's day but if you did not see it Friday night, you can not miss seeing this program on Sunday:

SHOW TITLE:          Bill Moyers Journal
SYNOPSIS:               The mission of Pat Robertson's Regent University; Nick Gillespie, editor in chief of Reason magazine; Marilyn Young, author Iraq and the Lessons of Vietnam: Or, How Not to Learn From the Past
CHANNEL:         13 [WNET]
DATE / TIME:     Sunday, May 13: 7:00-8:00PM

If you can not be there to see it, record it and watch it later. The part about Regent University is chilling and Marilyn Young and Bill Moyers discuss the war in Iraq vis-a-vis the Vietnam war.

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Michael
My Blog: http://myweb-blog.blogspot.com

        First Amendment to the Constitution
"Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or
abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press, or the
right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition
the Government for a redress of grievances."