The corporations that profit from permanent war need us to be afraid. Fear stops us from objecting to government spending on a bloated military. Fear means we will not ask unpleasant questions of those in power. Fear permits the government to operate in secret. Fear means we are willing to give up our rights and liberties for promises of security. The imposition of fear ensures that the corporations that wrecked the country cannot be challenged. Fear keeps us penned in like livestock.

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His newspaper The New York Times criticized his statements and issued him a formal reprimand for "public remarks that could undermine public trust in the paper's impartiality.

He spent nearly two decades as a foreign correspondent in Central America the Middle East Africa and the Balkans. Chris Hedges is currently a senior fellow at The Nation Institute in New York City. He has taught at Columbia University New York University Princeton University and The University of Toronto.