It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently.

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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.